iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Mr. Completely @brokensymmetry.art · 30/09/2026

Basic ass answer to a good bait prompt but the Dead going from baroque late 60s psychedelia to foundational half-acoustic roots rock with angelic harmonies is a canonical example Miles Davis did this, what, 5 times? 7? Herbie did it multiple times too, Coltrane as well, etc

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

systematically muting every word in the lexicon for all known languages and, finally, using niche microblogging website correctly

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In an alternate universe this song is beloved as an end-of-episode end-credits Sopranos needle drop. Great song. music.apple.com/us/album/blu...

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Blue by The Jayhawks on Apple Music

Song · 1995 · Duration 3:09

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 22/09/2026

What? A young knave, and begging? Is there not wars?

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have been informed that it was not clear that this post was a joke instead of a sincere fun fact so I am issuing a correction: the below is untrue. I made it up.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026

Every time I look online I see dumb shit that sucks

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hope you’re celebrating the big September 21 music anniversary today: 54 years ago, the Grateful Dead played one of their finest shows, at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, culminating in an hour-long Dark Star > Morning Dew sequence as powerful as any music I’ve heard. music.apple.com/us/album/dar...

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Dark Star (Live) by Grateful Dead on Apple Music

Song · 2005 · Duration 37:08

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

employer side counsel sending work emails on Labor Day is praxis (derogatory)

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

54 years ago today (8/27/72): one of the great Dead shows ever played, and an important turning point in the history of probiotic yogurt and natural food in the US. music.apple.com/us/album/bir...

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Bird Song (Live At Veneta, OR, 8/27/72) by Grateful Dead on Apple Music

Song · 2013 · Duration 13:16

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

this sequence starting here thru Sing Me Back Home, man. just out of this world stuff. one of those moments when everything just slides into place perfectly for an hour. music.apple.com/us/album/dar...

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Dark Star (Bickershaw Festival, Wigan, England 5/7/1972) by Grateful Dead on Apple Music

Song · 2011 · Duration 19:49

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Jacob Evans @vumpire.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The prologue of every Stephen King novel published between 1975 and 1988: Under thy shadow by the piers I waited Only in darkness is thy shadow clear. The City’s fiery parcels all undone, Already snow submerges an iron year...--Hart Crane We've got the biggest balls of them all --AC/DC

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

As is my custom, I climbed some more mountains this summer and wrote a little photoblog about it. And I only brought up the Grateful Dead where thematically relevant. postmaff.com/maff-colorad...

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Maff Colorado 2026: Fire on the Mountains - Post Maff

Long distance runner, what you standing there for?

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nothing against the Appalachians and Ozarks which are wonderful in their own ways I’m sure, but in my bones I do not consider you a mountain if you do not break treeline. If there are trees on top of you you are a hill, to me.

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I think this has to be the current answer

Photo of El Diente Peak (left) and its connecting ridge to Wilson Peak, with a lone hiker visible on an exposed section of the ridge underneath dark clouds.

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

per last fm, the Cure have finally been dethroned as my most-listened artist. It’s an obviously incomplete data set (missing an easy 1000+ GD listens on Relisten, Play Dead, and CD) but pretty wild to see a lifetime of listening matched by an 8 month deep dive that is still in the relative shallows

Screenshot of last fm listening data, showing the Grateful Dead with 3,124 listens and the Cure with 3,106

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Checked in on the 2019 …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead album and it’s pretty good! Kinda straightforward for them but they’ve always been able to land hooks amidst the noise. “Don’t Look Down” could have been a minor 90s grunge radio hit (complimentary) music.apple.com/us/album/don...

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Don't Look Down by ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead on Apple Music

Song · 2019 · Duration 4:44

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Had a blast climbing Mt. Lindsey’s NW Ridge this week, except for the hike to the ridge which was a slog and the hike down which was a death march and the part where I stayed too high on the ridge and had to do a sketchy downclimb off a spire to get to the crux, which was very fun climbing

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

our society either values human life or it does not. now obviously it does not and probably never has. i strongly suggest we rethink that. urgently

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Before this year, when I resolved to make a serious effort with the Grateful Dead, the answer would have been either them or REM. Now it’s just REM. I respect the craft but man…I just don’t see what there is to like about them. They don’t Do anything!

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Brian A. Anderson @thebanderson.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Sitrep from the full run. From a 1969 rehearsal, but could really be from any show the band played in that era too.

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Really bizarre by the San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office here. Guy breaks ankle BASE jumping, calls for help, he & paramedics agree he can hike out with assistance, declines expensive helicopter & hikes out, then Sheriff blasts him for declining helicopter www.denvergazette.com/outtherecolo...

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BASE jumper fires back after denial of medical transport was described as “profound lack of respect”

In recent days, a story related to the rescue of a BASE jumper in the Telluride area has gone viral online, with the San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office stating that the rescue subject’s decision to ca...

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Pause de hidratación

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Hard to think of a more fitting way for Mitch to go out than as a partisan football in a procedural maneuver to avoid the democratic process

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/07/2026

"buddy, you're about to find out why americans don't have healthcare" i smirk right before slipping and falling 10,000 feet off a mountain to an excruciatingly painful death

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

very conflicted about how to handle identity verification requests for websites I use regularly so I guess it's nice of @bsky.app to take the decision of whether to verify out of my hands. anyway see ya later I guess

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

came across the picture tonight of Uncompahgre Peak at sunrise four years ago. today if you stood at the top and looked west you’d see an 8,000 acre wildfire burning near Ouray. special places.

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

the Dead clear this without blinking if you like them and don’t come close if you don’t; the interesting angle for them is in which individual years of their career do they clear this. I think all of 68-74 are in, 77 is a lock, 76, 78, and 79 are probable, and that’s as far as my knowledge goes

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Christopher Hooks @hooks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

For the July issue of Harper’s, I tried to work through my feelings about the United States at this particular moment by surveying the America 250/Freedom 250 industrial complex and otherwise driving around the Keystone State: harpers.org/archive/2026...

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Happy Fucking Birthday, by Christopher Hooks

An exhausted America turns two hundred and fifty

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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 25/06/2026

thinking about professor calculus

various depictions of tin-tin's professor calculus, a funny little scienceman

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Once, capitalism promised that companies would compete to sell you a quality product at a fair price. Then that largely ended and you had to choose either a quality product or a fair price. Now, companies resent and are dismantling the obligation to sell you a product to get your money

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I want to be just rich enough I never have to hear an Outlook notification sound ever again

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

despite not being a great studio or albums band, it’s an insane flex by the Dead to put out an album with Ripple and Brokedown Palace back to back—two of the all-time death/farewell ballads—and then you learn Robert Hunter wrote them on the same day. Sometimes magic is real.

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

got a particularly egregious marketing email from an SEO company bragging about astroturfing reddit comments to get cited by LLMs, pointing to its success on behalf of an AI music generation platform. having a hard time thinking of a more depressing trajectory for the internet than this

Screenshot of a SEO firm landing page talking about “turning Reddit conversations into AI citations” on behalf of an AI music generation platform and two other dumb brands

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ceej @ceej.online · 12/01/2026

hey, quick question: what’s it gonna take

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Planning this year’s peakbagging trip, I was going through pics from a couple years ago from one of the climbs I bailed on that I may try again this year. This pic stands out, for both obvious and less obvious reasons that become clearer when you zoom in on the bottom right…

Kilpacker Basin looking at El Diente Peak and a waterfall, with three alpacas hanging out in a field in the foreground

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

i have absolutely fucking had it with 100% of all of this shit. gambling websites, lies, cryptocurrency, rampant corruption, lies, deep fakes, lies, plagiarism, devaluation of expertise, lies, bile, abuse, violence, bombs, genocides, lies, plutocrats, oligarchs, and lies. fucking enough. rules time

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Enjoying this show, which was 50 years ago tonight. Breezy first set, nice balance of energetic and laidback. live.gd/4ccGuf6

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Grateful Dead - 6-9-1976 Boston Music Hall Boston, MA

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Emily "Eeek!" Meo @emilyemeo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

anyway, here's a bass cover of the Mario Circuit music from Mario Kart 8. shout out to @mwgewehr.bsky.social as always for patiently shepherding me through it

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