iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“It is good to see the people of Earth celebrate my good friend, Captain James Kirk on this social media platform. I must remember to wish Jim a pleasant Kirkmas.”

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A New Color (1/5🧵)

Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.”

Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.

Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.”

Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2026

john roberts, basically: "trump can lawlessly destroy the white house and build a new installation with unauthorized taxpayer dollars, as a treat"

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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

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re:publica @re-publica.com · 23/07/2026

The internet is no longer the place it used to be. Cory Doctorow calls this “enshittification”. At #rp26, @doctorow.pluralistic.net described the failures of the digital economy. “We have to bring this ethic of solidarity back before we can get anything done“. 🎦 youtu.be/KhINQgPMVSI

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

when the cdc didn't care and the federal government attacked them, remember that taco bell stood with the people

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Kevin Hell-iott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It's important to do what's Sam's doing here and parsing the law & Constitution, but we must keep in view the forest: This is a huge advance in the US's transition into a presidential dictatorship. It gives the dictator effective authority to cancel laws by firing those tasked with enforcing them.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Have not seen it pointed out enough that the Trump admin's targeting of the Smithsonian is being influenced by David Barton, the debunked amateur historian and Christian nationalist activist who has spent decades peddling claims that church-state separation is a myth.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It is the dawn of a new era. Hear our battle anthem. Welcome to the new InfoWars.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

He creates his own reality & expects us to believe it. The FELON's FANTASY: Meanwhile, back on EARTH 1:

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

That's right, friends! STARLOG is back and I'm the editor-in-chief. We have so much good stuff for you in our first issue, coming this November!! Science! Sci-fi! Fantastic weirdness! Plus you can subscribe now to our podcast hosted by @jhoffman.bsky.social and @da7e.com!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

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talk show ghost @talkshowghost.com · 23/06/2026

fun fact: they found the original digital master tapes of all the Reboot episodes that we previously only had in VHS quality, refurbished the extremely rare and expensive tape machines required to play the masters, and are currently uploading them to youtube for free in 1080p! youtu.be/inKdUICLmXY

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ReBoot - S01E01 - The Tearing (HD)

YouTube video by Mainframe Studios

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

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Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People

An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 17/06/2026

Much better! If Stayin' Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century : youtu.be/3zGf7_YL70M?...

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If Stayin' Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century

YouTube video by Jonasquin

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🌈Wally ~ Meditating in her Cave🌈 @wallyaurora.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this??? In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It's an objective fact that Elon Musk is a mass murderer. He intentionally caused the deaths of millions of people. There's no caveats to this, no alternative explanations, no defenses, no missing context; that was the sole reason for doing what he did.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

We can hear this, from our house in DC. Back in the Carter era, I was (politely) reprimanded, for "disrespect to the office" when I wore blue jeans when called in to work late on a Saturday night, for revisions to a Monday a.m. speech. Now, Nero and Caligula.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/06/2026

i really, truly, find this offensive

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

National Park Service has open comment page, for Albert Speer Memorial Arch that is next on MAGA wish list You can make comments here: parkplanning.nps.gov/documentsOpe... That page has lots of "before and after" illustrations. Below, before/after view from near JFK/RFK grave site in Arlington

View toward the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, from Arlington.

Giant Albert Speer-style arch blocking view of Lincoln Memorial.

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

this story should be national news during pride month and instead barely anyone knows about it

A lawsuit challenging Idaho’s transgender bathroom ban in K-12 public schools could end soon, after a group at Boise High School suing over the law dropped the case.

The move came after a transgender student who was part of Boise High School’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance died by suicide, and another stopped attending the school, the group’s lawyers wrote in a legal agreement reached Wednesday requesting the case be dismissed.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Thread. Don't care if it's Congress or the new President taking the lead, it's gotta get done.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Pay attention to trade publications like Oil Price as the war drags on: “The world oil system will start to experience ‘operational stress’ in June — the point at which … price volatility becomes extreme, rationing begins in the most exposed markets, and the margin for error drops to near zero”

The Countdown to a Major Oil Price Surge Has Begun
By Kurt Cobb - Jun 08, 2026, 11:00 AM CDT
• Commercial oil inventories are being drawn down at an unusually rapid pace to compensate for supply losses linked to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
• The world could soon approach operational inventory thresholds where supply chains become stressed, volatility rises, and fuel shortages emerge.
• Markets remain overly optimistic about a quick resolution, leaving oil prices vulnerable to a sharp upward repricing.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

To be clear: the lower court said the map intentionally discriminates against black people in violation of the *constitution* (not just the VRA) and the MAGA Majority of SCOTUS is saying "that's ok now."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/06/2026

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Google's place in the platform world has always been its emphasis on the open internet. Search is definitionally that. Their approach to the ad business the same. Took me a while to get that their approach to incorporating AI in search has been a decisive move away from open Int towrd walled garden.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

it's going to be a tough negotiation between two of Trump's cronies over how many billions of tax payer dollars to give Trump.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/05/2026

All right, this just came across my radar, and it is *brilliant*. You won't find a better or more compact explanation for [waves hands] all of this. This is the skeleton key.

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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Late drop of a big story tonight—the research team that jailbroke AI safety standards with weaponized poems have published their Adversarial Humanities Benchmark, broadening their research through cyberpunk attack-fiction and ADVERSARIAL HERMENEUTICS:

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🔥 Incredible footage of Ukrainian Yak-52 crews in action. Pilots of the 11th Separate Army Aviation Brigade “Kherson” clear the skies of Russian drones.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I’m not crying, you’re crying 😭 -First mission to the moon in 53 years -Farthest mission ever -A historic crew -Nutella in space! In a world where so much feels overwhelming—we needed this reminder of our humanity. The universe is bigger than any one of us and we are in this together. #ArtemisII 🚀

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

It feels surreal knowing I could be running the war better than the government, as could you, a randomly selected person from the Walmart parking lot, or my stuffed sloth.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

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Kevin 👽 @astro-kevin.com · 01/04/2026

Artemis is a hopeful reminder that government can be a good thing if we staff it with passionate, skilled, and honorable people.

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