iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22h

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

TIL "She sells seashells by the seashore" is (likely) about Mary Anning. Despite transforming the science of paleontology, she had no official capacity as a scientist and sold seashells to make ends meet as men profited off her discoveries monetarily and professionally. youtube.com/shorts/2B8Iw...

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The Real Origins Behind This Famous Tongue Twister

YouTube video by Today I Learned Science

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saturn Rises Behind A World of Haze - From Ian Regan - flic.kr/p/2fpiy2Z

The Saturn image—captured on May 4, 2005—was created using raw monochrome images taken with the Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera (WAC) via red, green and blue filters. Assembly by Val Klavans.

The Titan image—captured on March 31, 2005—was created in a manner similar to that of the Saturn composite. Assembly by Val Klavans.

These two color composites were merged in Paint Shop Pro 9, using a special 'mask' layer, created by Ian Regan and Val Klavans.

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Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Ian Regan / Val Klavans

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026

People always mix up Jonathan Swift and his sister Taylor

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Teri 🏳️‍⚧️ @silentlyclicking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

GM Bluesky! I should be getting a cold front next week which means more shooting for me! How do we feel about dragonflies? Here is a handheld in flight shot from yesterday. #Canon #Photography #ECK #Bugsky

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Free tomatoes - Road 29 and Highway 113 in Davis CA

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Joshua Wallace @wildwallacephoto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Northwestern Gartersnake along the Oregon Coast. It's always such a treat to see snakes on the beach

A red striped Gartersnake on a rocky beach along the Oregon Coast

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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a ted talk i give guys ten years older than many of you goes that in this weird ass sham age of 50 year old mfs switch up over night there's not even societal pressure to creep into the crypt the same person you've always been and you leaving a lot of the good kind of fun on the table in the mindset

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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

little friend spider on our rose bush just rolled up into a ball to avoid us and became a sporb

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hobbies are how we fight the Darkness

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

California is weaning itself off fossil gas, fast. Gas-fired electricity generation in California fell by 26% in the first half of 2026, as utility-scale solar, batteries and the new SunZia wind project feed power in via a dedicated transmission line. buff.ly/QWQoLPc #ShareGoodNewsToo

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How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate News

Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A drawing from this evening. Something that might be a bird in flight. I never know, when I start, what I’m going to draw (and sometimes, when I get done, I still don’t). But I very often wind up drawing bird-like things.

Art. Black and white ink pen drawing, made of abstract shapes ands lines, that might look like a bird with a long, sharp beak flapping a wing above its head in mid-flight. The bird needs a name, so will call him Ruthanos. He has a long, sharp beak that looks perfect for spearing fish or hamsters. His wing spreads it above his head, and his leg trails behind him like a dingo chasing a kangaroo (never getting closer, never getting farther). He is dynamic, in the way of a toddler before the first bite of ice cream: on the very cliff’s edge of kinetic catalogs.

God speed, Ruthanos. It’s gonna be a ride.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Call me by your name? You'll have to, you're so old you'll have forgotten mine! Ohohohohoho!"

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 16/11/2025

Got a couple dozen crows flying in front of a rainbow, best one was when it was faint, so really had to edit. Not sure if I missed the mark. Edited / original 🪶

A super vibrant rainbow behind a crow in flight

An uncropped version of the same picture where you can hardly see the rainbow

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026

My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛

a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings down

two crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish sky

a crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extended

a crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

OMG I've just realised what Google's AI search interference model is: An automated mansplainer. Think about it: Unsolicited ✅ Confident ✅ Frequently wrong ✅

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I got to hold a one month baby today and so that should hold me over for a few months. Always willing to hold a new human, if anyone is looking.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Teri 🏳️‍⚧️ @silentlyclicking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a fairly old one and I honestly forgot about it but I love that you can see the green feathers properly. #Canon #Birds #Photography #ECK

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Teri 🏳️‍⚧️ @silentlyclicking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For #birdoftheday I figured being called the least all your life can’t be fun, and this is as #borb as they get. I including them in that tag too! They always fit for #brown #Canon #Birds #photography #ECK

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Mika Rantanen @mikarantane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Radar image of Tuesday's mass crane migration. A 100 km long line of migrating cranes was clearly visible on weather radar. It is estimated that around 10,000 (?) cranes were involved in that formation. The highest count observed was 26,000 migrating cranes on that day in Kangasala (near Tampere).

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Brian Galle @bdgesq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Was...was I just ricrolled by a statistics bot?

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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Coyte seen in rural Davis (a few days ago) jonathaneisen.smugmug.com/Nature-Pics/...

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2026_09_13 Coyote in Rural Davis - Jonathan Eisen

Biologist and Professor at UC Davis.

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Another look at a Common Nighthawk performing its aerial acrobatics in pursuit of flying insects at dusk. Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada August 2026 📷 #birds #CONI #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

A medium sized brown mottled bird with white bands near the ends of its wings is flying past from right to left with wings outstretched in front of out of focus green trees.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dust Storm on Mars, Amazonis Planitia - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2r8EuS9

Check out the video sequence here: flic.kr/p/2r8KW9d

Download the full size image here: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54564338572/sizes/o/ See license below.

Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

Image created processing data from: psa.esa.int
Mission: ESA Mars Express
North is approx on the top left side
Instrument: HRSC
Orbit: 25411
Time: 2024-02-16T14:43:18.832
Filters:
HP411_0000_ND4
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Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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

In Maryland, just fifty miles from DC, a sheriff has targeted and attacked local immigrants for over twenty years. The harm to those communities is breathtaking. a NEW must-read, just weeks from his latest reelection race... (in a county that Harris won over Trump).

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“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts

Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And today in adorable -- Allen's Hummingbird - seen in Laguna Beach a few days ago. #birds

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Virginia Rail in a cattail marsh from 5/2026. A mix of #LightAndShadows #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #ECK

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The thing for me about Star Wars is that despite all the fantasy elements, it looked real. It was a universe that felt like it worked. The moment it lost me was when we saw Star Destroyers and TIE Fighters in atmosphere. I didn't believe it any more.

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A response to Kian Sadeghi's plans

Microbiomes are rapidly getting smarter.

Now, humanity can too.

Today, Microbiome Intelligence Inc. is announcing Eugene, our newest set of microbiome optimization models.

Eugene’s microbiome intelligence model can optimize embryo microbiomes for 15 IQ points — nearly a standard deviation.

The models were trained on 10,000,000,000+ people, validated across 200,000+ twins, and used more than 8 million genetic markers.

In Smart Gut, Gali Ton proposed microbiome optimization as a key way for humanity to keep pace with rapidly advancing microbiomes.

Gali Ton's vision is no longer theoretical.

Microbiome optimization, like AI, has followed a scaling law: as datasets have grown, so have model capabilities. This trend will continue.

Parents across the world now have the choice to substantially improve their child’s microbiome.

And the next generation can choose to do the same.

Microbiomes are no longer the only trait that will compound.

Humanity can now direct its own microbiome optimization.

Screen Capture of Tweet from Kian Sadeghi with the following text:

Now, humanity can too.

Today,
@nucleusgenomics
is announcing Vitruvian, our newest set of genetic optimization models.

Vitruvian’s intelligence model can optimize embryo DNA for 14 IQ points — nearly a standard deviation.

The models were trained on 1,000,000+ people, validated across 40,000+ siblings, and used more than 7 million genetic markers.

In Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom proposed genetic optimization as a key way for humanity to keep pace with rapidly advancing AI.

Bostrom’s vision is no longer theoretical.

Genetic optimization, like AI, has followed a scaling law: as datasets have grown, so have model capabilities. This trend will continue.

Parents across the world now have the choice to substantially increase their child’s intelligence.

And the next generation can choose to do the same.

AI is no longer the only intelligence that will compound.

Humanity can now direct its own evolution.

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Common merganser. Tahoe City, CA. #birds

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reposting this for those who weren’t here the first time around. (and because I quite like this photo)

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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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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yup, even upside down, head off bed. (Your dogs are lovely.)

A red fawn greyhound, upside down, with his head on the rug next to his bed.

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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Seriously though, both of mine have been more into dangling their head off things. My theory is that they like the head rush.

Beautimous black and white greyhound is lying on a couch with her head draped onto a step next to it

Grey greyhound is on a dog bed all except her head which is on the floor

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Judge John Hodgman @judgejohnhodgman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What happens to someone when they're deported? Judge @hodgman.bsky.social and Bailiff @jessethorn.bsky.social share their visit to Tijuana & how it affected their understanding of the good work done by the people at @alotrolado-org.bsky.social. If you feel moved, please donate at: www.alotrolado.org

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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Apparently AI is not coming for the geographer’s jobs

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Chris Van Hollen deserves credit.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Jupiter - PJ25-24 - Detail - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2ivZQdX

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

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