iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

we should bring back the "one computer per household" rule, along with the phrase "i'm going on the computer"

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Count Draugula @artd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the abolitionist's dilemma

venn diagram
left
some people need their ass beat
right
punishment does not transform people
middle
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/10/2026

One thing all New Yorkers can agree on? It’s time to get your flu shot! Go to nyc.gov/healthmap to find all the free locations.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026

this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid

senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

FUCK ICE. Pay us back.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22/09/2026

Rachel is in need of support and really gave her whole heart to paying people’s rent this year, so let’s make sure we take care of her, please!

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

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The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This new tool, the Carbon Impacts Tracer, which translates carbon emissions into real-world climate impacts like heat exposure and coral bleaching, looks super useful. ➡️ carbonimpactstracer.com

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New tool directly links carbon emissions to amount of environmental and economic damage caused

Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight different factors, including lost food production

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A post that’s so eye-opening because this is exactly what liberals will say is GOP distraction tactics, almost as a parody— and here it really is what Gaetz is saying unironically as his GOP message.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22/09/2026

This is the country that four decades of "personal responsibility" politics have wrought.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fun fact I would die for Ms Rachel

3 comments ms Rachel left on her subway takes IG video:

1. Retire racist nursery rhymes and kids songs
2. Free Palestine
3. Pie for all kittens

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I cannot say this enough. If you are currently doing life-affirming work and organizing in your communities, keep doing that work. People who are working their asses off keep reaching out to me asking what more they should do. YOU ARE DOING IT.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

imagine if the WH press corp had banded together 18 fucking months ago

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026

i need to know what happened

sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"

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mad cat @madcatsaysacab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's 2026 for gods sake HOW have we not invented packaging that's both simple to open AND earth-friendly??? Surely we can figure this out people?!! Why doesn't AI solve THIS instead of, idk, writing music??? Ynow, just like, the most human thing possible!!! GAHHHHhhhhh

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran is proof you can be worth hundreds of millions of dollars — and still be an indentured servant to wealthy supremacists.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

HOLY SHIT - Tapper plays Johnson footage of GOP candidate Brandon Herrera describing moms as "cum trophies," mentions he called Nazi machine guns "the original ghetto blasters," & asks Johnson how he can support him. Mike says "he has run a very effective campaign ... that was his persona online"

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

To ppl suggesting Stanford as an "independent Anthropic & OpenAI auditor" “The membrane between academia and industry...is practically nonexistent at Stanford, a school so entangled with tech that it can be hard to tell where the university ends and the businesses begin” nymag.com/intelligence...

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You Are Not a Parrot

And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 12/09/2026

I thought I knew what depression was, but then I walked into a Kroger after three weeks in Europe

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yes to the shift in power. You also see consultants moving to new companies, other roles, etc. Similar to the pivot in the right wing influencer space. They’re preparing for the end of Trump but they won’t be going away unless we make them.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Pause talk coming from the tech barons (which is not new, they've played this tune before) sounds to me like hedging for a shift in power after the midterms more than anything else. We should regulate them, but they should not be rehabilitated.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 12/09/2026

Hot girls don’t use plastic but legends eat directly over the sink.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 11/09/2026

talarico saga tells me that the democrats are utterly helpless and beholden to the right-wing media circle. which tells me that any of their governance will inevitably 100% shift to the right under its pressure

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

anyway something that still bothers me is how the people who are/were loudest about Never Forgetting are often people who actively hate New York City and New Yorkers and spend the other 364 days of the year fighting against everything the city stands for

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is so real. The shit people would say to my white mother was so heinous that she cut off multiple friendships within days of the attacks. A lot of people asking if my dad knew the hijackers or about The Plan. Oh, and my mom thought he’d died in the towers while being asked all of this.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"You do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate," he said. "I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them."

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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/09/2026

As someone who has been covering transgender rights for years, let me be clear about something: When you see capitulation over sports, know that it NEVER stops at sports. And in fact, Turek illustrated this just yesterday when he embraced a federal ban on funding for all trans care.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10/09/2026

My favorite doorknobs are the ones the New York City public schools installed at the turn of the 20th century. You can still occasionally find one on eBay!

A brass doorknob with the all-caps lettering "PUBLIC SCHOOL—CITY OF NEW YORK," surrounded by a swirling motif that looks rather like leaves.

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