iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Those arguing for mass-adoption of AI art always seem intent on proving the wrong thing; that AI tech will change beyond all recognition. They seem less inclined to prove their argument's much wilder claim; that human nature, and all previous modes of taste, emotion and investment, will change too.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

oh, did Claude invent an algorithm to recommend music based on the music you like is it different from what Spotify and Pandora and every other streaming music app has already been doing is it worth the absolutely ludicrous amount of money they spent developing it

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merritt @merrittk.com · 30/09/2026

we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Martin J Gilbert @madiguana.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My 9 games #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/a16...

My 9 games: Dungeon Master, Elite, The Secret of Monkey Island, Doom, Half Life 2, Empire - Total War, Skyrim, Lord of the Rings Online, Baldur's Gate 3

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One from the archives In 1984 Dunnes shop worker Mary Manning refused to handle South African goods & was backed by her shop steward, Karen Gearon. Both were suspended. 9 colleagues came out in support. The strike lasted 3yrs & forced the Irish govt to ban the import of all SA goods. All heroes

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

video games as a whole make hundreds of billions of dollars a year and apparently somehow nobody can make any money on them or pay anyone to make them

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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x

The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026

my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h...

After the dressing down — which ended up having the crowd in tears, of laughter and joy, the agent writes — Emanuel recalls, “Seating Larry at the same table as Elon Musk: Not my best decision.”
As soon as the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star sees the Tesla mogul,”he starts cursing, yelling, saying things many people would like to say to Elon” about the SpaceX’s leader’s politics.
David was “right up in Elon’s face, before the dinner starts,” and, guests had to separate them.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026

New Study Shows That Bones Are Incredibly Cool

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 27/05/2023

ROBIN: the batmobile won’t start BATMAN: check the battery ROBIN: what’s a tery

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 18/09/2026

Scientists have discovered a new species of wild cat for the first time in more than a century. The Tilcayo tiger cat, a small feline with a spotted, leopard-like coat, was identified in the mountainous Yungas region near the Bolivian capital La Paz jrnl.ie/7166373

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Excitement as scientists discover first new species of wild cat in a century

The cat is the first new feline discovered since the Uruguayan pampas cat in 1923.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

some chud interviewing for patel’s FBI: “if anything the goat fucked *me*”

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Martin J Gilbert @madiguana.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." Desmond Tutu www.brainyquote.com/quotes/desmo...

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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice,..." - Desmond Tutu quotes from BrainyQuote.com

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 22/10/2024

According to too many, there is white and then there is political there is male and then there is political there is capitalism and then there is political there is straight and then there is political there is cis and then there is political there is non-disabled and then there is political

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

Ms. Rachel post:
"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026

So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reminder: The US President says anything that pops into his head and intends none of it.

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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Who are the new citizenship rules actually benefitting? Why are the right questions not being asked? We have seen a decrease of 30% in international protection applicants since 2024. So why are anti-immigration narratives thriving?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here

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Martin J Gilbert @madiguana.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My "I'm always being real" t-shirt is inviting a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A lot of people asking me how this isn't the New InfoWars and guess what maybe it is?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Guys, I can't stress this enough: We had nothing to do with this. Tucker's team cut this up like this. They are 100% serious. These people really are this stupid.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Obviously this is a hilarious and obvious lie but it's instructive in that Trump knows he's supposed to care about this thing, and manifestly does not and cannot care about it, and so he has to put himself into the story just to make it something he can talk about. He almost died that day!

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 08/09/2026

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Martin J Gilbert @madiguana.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Tell me you don't understand insurance without saying you don't understand insurance. FML

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Irish political parties in power looking at attempts by governments around the world to appease the far right absolutely not working

But it might work for us meme from Arrested Development

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.
Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

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Martin J Gilbert @madiguana.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Absolutely - the best books and movies have great characters and an inciting incident. Everything that happens after that is because THOSE characters react THAT way to THAT incident. All you need are the characters and the incident and the plot should follow. (Easier said than done, though...)

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

[Benoit Blanc during a Reacher Christmas episode crossover] Listen, son, I myself am of the conviction that violence is the crude weapon of an incurious mind, but I will admit that my gigantic friend here makes the most convincing argument I've yet heard on the virtues of expediency through force.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"There is no way to know how many crimes have not been committed because the chance of escaping unpunished had shrunk in a society now more ready to listen to women & girls, who had gained more rights in the legal system." In other words, victory was often what did not happen, which is hard to see.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/09/2026

Smoke Alarm Sick Of Being Yelled At For Doing Its Job theonion.com/smoke-alarm-sick-of-be…

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Crazy to think that we're now as far from the show Band of Brothers as the show was from the WW2 events it portrayed. I mean it's not true, that's why it's crazy to think it

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here

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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document

The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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