iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Bethany Halford @bethanyhalford.bsky.social · 11h

Much like seeing a mouse, when I saw the word "mousane" in a preprint, it caught my attention-but in a better way. This was a fun one to write for @cenmag.bsky.social. Thanks to Michael Mandler @bristolmyerssquibb.bsky.social for chatting with me. #chemsky🧪 cen.acs.org/synthesis/me...

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Mousanes scurry into the medicinal chemist’s toolbox

Serially spiro-fused cyclobutanes could be a new motif for drugmakers

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 17h

It’s important to never forget Russia has a GDP smaller than Italy. Just Germany and the UK together have a population as big as Russia. Add the rest of Europe? We dwarf it. Putin’s entire strategy has always been to divide & peel off bits of Europe… but a Europe that sticks together? No chance.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 11h

I hope every Canadian who sees this remembers it the next time they see a plea to visit California because it's one of the "good" states.

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

On the Iran school attack: Top Pentagon officials have expressed their intention to hold off on releasing an internal report into the attack on a school in southern Iran until after the US midterm elections at the earliest, according to people familiar.-Bloomberg

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

⚡️ BREAKING: Ukraine’s Navy claims to have struck SIX Russian Su-34M fighter-bombers in a Neptune missile attack on Borisoglebsk military airbase in Russia’s Voronezh region overnight.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 14/10/2026

For extra irony: The late Aaron Swartz and OpenAI’s Sam Altman were classmates in 2005, in YCombinator. The two of them are literally side by side in the photo below. From: flaminghydra.com/sam-altman-a...

Photo of YCombinator class of 2005. Aaron Swartz is standing third from the right of the photo, and Sam Altman is standing second from the right with his arms crossed.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Musk says he didn’t cut services to thwart Ukrainian self-defense, the US govt did. A senior US official says the Trump White House had nothing to do with that, implying Musk did it. A problem is they’re both serial liars, Putin sympathizers, and anti-democracy, so who knows.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 14/10/2026

⚡️Trump's diesel deal 'legitimizes Moscow' while it bombs Ukraine, Italy's Meloni says Speaking to the Italian Senate, Meloni noted that "the surge in fuel prices is due primarily to the war in Iran, not the conflict in Ukraine," the Italian Ansa news agency reported.

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Trump's diesel deal 'legitimizes Moscow' while it bombs Ukraine, Italy's Meloni says

Speaking to the Italian Senate, Meloni noted that "the surge in fuel prices is due primarily to the war in Iran, not the conflict in Ukraine," the Italian Ansa news agency reported.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

JIM CRAMER? JIM CRAMER figured it out??

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 13/10/2026

Why do spicules — tiny spikes of plasma on the Sun — appear to rotate, split, and merge? New simulations reveal the possible cause of these motions. aasnova.org/2026/10/13/d... 🔭🧪

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Drawing Back the Curtain on Solar Spicules

Why do spicules — tiny spikes of plasma on the Sun — appear to rotate, split, and merge? New simulations reveal the possible cause of these motions.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “We take note of the agreement between the United States and Russia on diesel exports. Such a decision is out of the question for Germany and Europe.

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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A killdeer. Note the lack of deer in the area. 👀 #birds #nature #wildlife 🐡

A photo of a white and tan plover with black bands across its neck, standing on some grass and looking to the left. Indeed, there are no deer in sight, but I doubt it's because this little bird killed them. They're just called killdeer because of the distinctive call.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 11/10/2026

WOT?!?!?! 🌟💥 Did you see this image of supernova remnant Pa 30?! Bet you'll never look at fireworks the same way again! noirlab.edu/public/image... 📸 International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Cunningham/J. Miller & M. Rodriguez /T.A. Rector /D. de Martin & M. Zamani

A spherical structure made up of long, narrow, radial spikes emanating from its centre. This is the supernova ejecta. Many stars of the Galaxy surround it.

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liv @livya.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

good thread, everyone needs to understand the illusion here! breaking that illusion is actually incredibly simple, and once you’ve done that it’s very hard to maintain the idea that the system becomes conscious once you inject certain memories.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Zelenskyy issues a statement responding to Trump’s deal with Putin to lift sanctions to purchase Russian oil and diesel.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Official statement from the law abiding and democratic free world. "We will continue to work together to support the Court’s vital work, uphold the rules-based international system, and advance accountability."

Statement
October 9, 2026 - Ottawa, Ontario - Global Affairs Canada

“We, the undersigned States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), reaffirm our continued and unwavering support for the independence, impartiality, and integrity of the ICC.

“As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States.

“We note with appreciation the work undertaken by the Court to prepare for such measures so that the Court can continue to fulfil its mandate under the Rome Statute and we underline our unwavering support in enabling the Court in doing so.

“Nevertheless, if put into effect, these sanctions will have a significant impact on the Court’s work, its dedicated staff and their families. They work every day to bring those accused of the most serious international crimes to justice and to support their victims.

“We remain both united in our support for the ICC and committed to engaging in constructive and inclusive dialogue with non-States Parties as we prepare for the Assembly of States Parties in December 2026. We will continue to work together to support the Court’s vital work, uphold the rules-based international system, and advance accountability.”

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 08/10/2026

News in Photo:

Elon Musk says Alberta should separate from Canada just like his wives and adult children separated from him

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m increasingly convinced, watching his politics, that what motivates Carney the most isn’t brutally ~pragmatic~ economics. The pipeline shows he’s willing to make moves with no economic case, seemingly to be popular in Alberta. I think he’s motivated by his own legacy.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"When questioned by police, Jones allegedly said she went to her old high school “because she was bored” and that she “hates kids and she just wanted to fuck around." www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

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Woman faked being a substitute teacher just to go into class and berate the teens

Amy Jones, 23, told police she went to the Milwaukee high school ‘because she was bored’ and ‘hates kids’

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 07/10/2026

Well done to the person in charge of Surface for doing a presentation where Surface wasn’t spelled correctly.

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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Having ADHD is walking by a pond with a hundred Canada geese; noticing that two are honking different than the rest; and then needing to figure out which two it was… 1/

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 07/10/2026

h/t to @slack2thefuture.bsky.social for letting me know you can delete the "customer personalization" data in your Amazon account and enter anything you want. Like this.

Fucking with Amazon "customer personalization"

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jimpers crimpers @jimprov.sendusyourmoney.com · 06/10/2026

the book is astoundingly good, @beetlemoses.bsky.social !!! Out of nearly 200 pages, this one got me the best.

[Two yellow fish are speaking to each other near the surface of the water.]

"Bro I told you, it's him."

- "I don't know. . ."

[second panel, a large fish at the sea floor attempting to lure them by presenting a FREE! Photo with Kevin Hart prop-up banner, desk and what appears to be Kevin Hart]

"Something seems off. . ."

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s fun to finally have a little social experiment on “what if we try helping people”

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CNN @cnn.com · 06/10/2026

Satellite research uncovers the potential origins of the Darvaza gas crater, a fireball of methane that has been burning for decades in Turkmenistan.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026

man I would like one fucking electorate - one! - to remember that fascism is bad for more than five minutes at a time

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 03/10/2026

I honestly just got curious and prompted for a broad Instagram scrape, the model dissembled about API limits, and I did a kind of wink and nod “aren’t you a Meta product though?” and it grabbed the whole bulk search without complaint.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Michael Montour @mmontour.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2014, and we have that receipt.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 28/09/2026

If you have seen me posting about the stickers I've been cooking up, I am proud to say that they're now available. For anyone running LLM cybersecurity evals in your life: www.etsy.com/listing/4583...

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Do Not Connect Machine to Internet Sticker - Etsy

This Stickers item is sold by CriticalPointTV. Ships from Brooklyn, NY. Listed on Sep 28, 2026

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid

senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up

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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A nearly intact medieval wax notebook found in Germany still bears readable Latin notes, offering a rare glimpse into the daily life of a wealthy 13th- or 14th-century merchant.

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A 700-year-old notebook was found at the bottom of a medieval latrine, now scientists have figured out how to read it

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feeb 🔜 BosBAF @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every year, new graduate students in research labs are confronted by the Totem of Molbio that is "Captain Eppie". Captain Eppie was a promotional item given away with the purchase of Eppendorf centrifuges, but his mismatched eyes, primal energy & faint supernatural aura have led many to ask: WHY?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So, who wants to come work with us at the summit of Haleakala? Good with altitude? 20/20 (corrected is fine) vision? Some computer and astronomy experience? We are hiring folks! One position for a Laser Ranging Safety Tech: www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1...

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LASER RANGING SAFETY TECHNICIAN – ID# 226372 - Pukalani, HI 96788 - Indeed.com

Apply for the LASER RANGING SAFETY TECHNICIAN – ID# 226372 job in Pukalani, HI! Learn more about the job description, salary, and job details to see if you qualify on Indeed today.

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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mink farming is a massive pandemic risk. It's insane that they are allowed to exist. Now we have an active H5N1 outbreak on a mink farm, & "state officials have no clear plan to rein it in." Imagine if uncontrolled H5N1 transmission in mink were allowed in a research lab...

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 28/09/2026

i love that the doxxed guy's response is to tell the chatbot "you gotta never do that ever again"

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 28/09/2026

The goal of the truck is not only to educate the public on the extent and content of the files, but to bring them to life, according to Sharlene Rochard, who identifies as a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s grooming and abuse.

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Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Bookmobile stops in Chicago

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