iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 8h

Wittgenstein lecturer who's just really good at his subject: I don't know whether I play by the rules

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 7h

I remember when there was hot debate within DSA about this kind of thing, and even the advocates for the anti-Zionist resolutions went out of their way to claim that this wasn't what they wanted to happen.

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Sandy B. @nebulousmenace.bsky.social · 7h

I'm pro-trans rights for a fairly simple reason: I'm not an asshole. There are minor personal conveniences (Sandy is not usually a he/him name, pronouns good) but that's the main one.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 8h

another day at the gender factory, hope it won't all be just gender

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Dark Hi And Lois @darkhiandlois.bsky.social · 19h

Hi is contemptuous of Thirsty, his neighbor and only friend, who in turn is both deluded and overly embroiled in the toxic aspects of today's digital culture. Podcasts, fie. 4/10 QDUs

Thirsty, sitting in an outdoor chair with a microphone on a stand: I'm starting my own podcast.
Hi, resting concerned face: What will you talk about?

Thirsty: How to be good neighbor.
We see he is sitting next to another outdoor chair on his scruffy unmowed lawn. Hi narrows his eyes with a "can you believe this?" look.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 19h

this kinda stat happens because back in the day, expansion teams had to toil in their father-in-law's vineyards for seven years before they were allowed to have a winning record, and there were only three playoff games a year

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 21h

this is the one where the narrator's condescending boyfriend does an awful job explaining modus tollens. never before have I so strongly wished to enter a fictional universe and steal someone's girl

'I hate it,' I said to Roger, of the p's and q's, the following weekend. We were lying on the grass on Port Meadow watching sailing boats weaving between the ducks.
'I'll explain it to you,' Roger said. On the back of his William Byrd, which he had in his pocket, he wrote, 'If p then q. Not q ... so not p.'
'If all bread were sliced bread,' Roger said, 'we would have no need of a bread knife, right?'
'Except if you spread jam with the bread knife,' I said. A thing he always did. Roger ignored me.
'We cannot do without the bread knife, so not all bread is sliced. Okay?'
'Okay,' I said.
'You are required to express this as 'If p then q. Not q therefore not p,' because symbols are more use to you than the specific examples of the bread and bread knife.'

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

only today did I notice that Bart has no pants

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unbelievable. Except totally believable. We utterly fail at elite accountability in 🇺🇸, & elite universities have been at the forefront of that since Iran-Contra, repeatedly offering sinecures to the authoritarians. It's why all the things keep happening time & again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever want to be ridiculed by academics, make some really silly assertion right to their faces and make sure you do so in a way that suggests you really, really mean it.

By John M. Kainer
September 25, 2026
If you want to send a group of sociologists into an uproar, tell them a group disparity is the result of individual choice. Take your pick of groups and issues. Try telling a room full of sociologists that women are underrepresented in STEM because they prefer people to ideas, or that intergenerational poverty persists because the poor make bad decisions with money. You will likely be shut down before you reach the end of your sentence. The conviction that structural accounts offer the best and fullest explanation for human behavior is central to sociology as a discipline.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 02/10/2026

You can't have democracy in a two-party system in which one party is captured by white-nationalist authoritarians.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

survey: does one of these hands look more fucked up than the other?

The hand of an old man covered in discolored cracked makeup

The hand of an old man not covered in discolored cracked makeup

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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a frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe @supermathskid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

time to take a big sip of coffee and check my rearview mirror

A photo of my rearview mirror, showing the car behind me carrying a passenger from the ghoul dimension

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

UNDECLARED was what I was going to say

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal.

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Dark Hi And Lois @darkhiandlois.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the bitter complaints of... Gen X. sorry this is a Gen X complaint. zoomers don't care. Gen X doesn't really care either. We don't care about *anything*. 4/10 QDUs really I cannot express how much we, and zoomers, do not care about "the greatest generation"

Chip and Jerry walking along cynically among falling leaves.

Chip: There was the "Greatest Generation."
Jerry: And the "Baby Boomers."

Chip: All we get is a letter of the alphabet.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

if you've been wondering how thin the commitment to the cultural is as an. 'alternative' to explicit racism of the more clearly segregationist sort, consider the implications of "the mere fact of us being able to notice" that someone is of South Asian heritage as ruling our assimilation

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

everything really did go to shit when Andrew McCutchen stopped being an All-Star

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Editors of the Chronicle quite enthusiastic about the Trumpian project of destroying American higher ed

post from me a couple months ago: "Like do you think the industry mags for other sectors that Trump is trying to destroy with tariffs and political attacks are publishing a stream of “we deserve this for being so awful” boo-hoo thinkpieces? Of course they fucking aren’t! No clue why anyone would read the Chronicle."

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"BRITAIN BECOMES DUMP FOR THE NAXI EXILES. Scores of Jews and other exiles are being smuggled into England in small foreign ships, for £25 a time." Daily Mirror, 1938. Sound familiar?

Headline: Britain becomes dump for the Nazi exiles

SCORES of Jews and other exiles, abandoning their homes in the Nazi terror, are being smuggled into England by the captains of small foreign ships who slink inside the three-mile limit at night and put ashore their human cargoes for £25 a time.
This smuggling, once sporadic, is now a racket earning thousands of pounds weekly for captains of French, Dutch and Belgian trawlers.
It was exposed entirely at Hove, yesterday when two foreign seamen were gaoled for smuggling a German in at Shoreham harbour last Monday.
Britain's immigration officers are helpless. They know that Hitler is dumping his unwanted people here. They cannot stop other Mid-European Governments seizing on Britain's lethargy to lower their own unemployment figures.
Every day refugee Spaniards, Jews, Ger mans and Austrians are slipping into Britain Employment agencies are inundated by fran-tic appeals from foreigners who, scared by European unrest, want British security.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

looking for other videos of Walk Or Die on YouTube, I found that there is apparetnly a Roblox game by that name. no. boo. wrong. this is the real deal, a walking simulator from 2010, before walking simulators were called that jordanmagnuson.itch.io/walk-of-die

jordanmagnuson.itch.io

Walk of Die by Jordan Magnuson

A hardcore walking simulator

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Really shouldn't be a hard choice Mark!

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

zei squirrel has always been bad but this is very yikes [assuming the screenshots are real]

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

reminded of this classic and decided to try for a world record youtu.be/cF1KaGzTwoo?...

youtu.be

walk or die speedrun any%

YouTube video by Matt Weiner

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Dark Hi And Lois @darkhiandlois.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lois is worn down by the demands of her children. Also Ditto doesn't let Dawg lick his face. 5/10 QDUs

Dot, angry, holding a pillow: You put Ditto's pillow on my bed!
Lois: What difference does it make?

Dot, really angry: I don't want to lie on his spit and drool.
Ditto, angry: Says the girl who lets Dawg lick her face.
Lois stares glumly.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

again, it's shocking but abundantly clear that the President of the United States is a grave personal threat to the rights & liberties of an innocent American

Dismissal without prejudice thus would endanger Mr. Hearn in a manner that few,
if any, Superior Court defendants have faced. Should the Court dismiss this case in a fashion that allows the government to reinitiate prosecution in the future, the Court would be exposing him to the risk that, due to pressure from the President of the United States apparently motivated at least in part by Mr. Hearn’s political views, he would again be charged with a crime that prosecutors have determined he did not commit. These risks must weigh heavily in the assessment of whether to dismiss this case without prejudice.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/10/2026

The Yuddite/rationalist primary defense mechanism is spurting out a big ink-cloud of thesaurus and number-laden complete nonsense, and then demanding that you waste your time "debating" them over it. The good news is that this trick is easily defeated by simply refusing to play the Debate Me game.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Alito's holding in Glossip was literally that it is legal for the state to torture people to death in direct violation of the Constitution unless the defendant could identify a more humane execution method. Sadistic and illogical even by his dismal standards, and this is the result

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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The music that suits my personal emotional needs the best was made by Duke Ellington in 1938 without his knowing or caring anything about me or my needs whatsoever

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Dark Hi And Lois @darkhiandlois.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

0/10 QDUs for cute Trixie strip and WE DO NOT TALK about how she has been abandoned on the lawn again

Trixie in front of a blue sky with the sun peeking out from behind a cloud: The sky is blue...

Trixie on a green lawn: The grass is green...

Trixie looking at multicolored falling leaves around her: And lots of color in between.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

crylaughing at the thought of Mike Tomlin getting home after a long day of listening to Aaron Rodgers and just straight up dissociating for five hours in Minecraft

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

having run across this again, I think I'm understanding some things better now: Schlenker (the author) is saying that context determines whether "S knows that p" has the assertive content "S believes that p" while presupposing p, or something more doi.org/10.1007/s110...

doi.org

Client Challenge

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am once again asking why the hell this happens

Cite this article

Schlenker, P. Maximize Presupposition and Gricean reasoning. Nat Lang Semantics 20, 391–429 (2012). https://doi-org.ezproxy.uvm.edu/10.1007/s11050-012-9085-2

(the URL for the article contains a proxy that makes the user log in as a UVM affiliate, which makes it useless for anyone who is not a UVM affiliate, which is not something you want in a citation)

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this seems like an incredible list of best players for a 2021 playoff team

A row of headshots of baseball players wearing hats of various teams

Lance Lynn (Cardinals hat), Carlos Rodon (Yankees hat), Tim Anderson (Angels hat), Lucas Giolito (Red Sox hat), Yoan Moncada (Angels hat), Luis Robert Jr. (Mets hat), Yasmani Grandal (Pirates hat), Dylan Cease (Blue Jays hat), Jose Abreu (Astros hat), Liam Hendriks (Twins hat), Leury Garcia (Braves hat), Adam Engel (White Sox hat)

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lotta people defended this fucking guy to me in 2020 and all of you are suckers and losers.

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Adina M. Yoffie @adinayoffie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seems extremely bad, actually. As an early modernist by training, I can stay with confidence that I really don’t want random people on the internet talking about Simon of Trent. That’s never been good for the Jews and never will be.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this is a very funny way for the trending topics bot to describe the discussion here. I guess technically the Hindenburg "floated"

Trending

1. Schmitt floated as Vance 2028 VP

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In case people are not fully across the Fairford story: What appears to have happened is that five men from London went to a small country village in the middle of the night to siphon fuel for resale. In small country villages, people notice things, especially at 1am. A farmer called the police.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

John Sladek: I created the song "Customized Tragedy" as a cautionary tale AI bros: At long last we have created "Customized Tragedy" from the beloved sci-fi classic [which is called "The Happy Breed" because Sladek didn't think he needed to *explicitly* say this was bad]

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Dark Hi And Lois @darkhiandlois.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thirsty acknowledges Irma's domestic labor as complementary to his own work, and the Thurstons have a healthy financial arrangment that allows her to restrain his profligacy? haha j/k he is very resentful. 9/10 QDUs

Thirsty, in a brown jacket: Irma has my paycheck depositied directly into her account.

Thirst, walking along with his hands in his pockets alongside Hi, who is carrying a briefcase and wearing a long jacket: I'm the breadwinner, but she makes all the sandwiches.

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