iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s…

Beware the
alibi of photocopies ! Photocopies are indis-
pensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap: as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is, before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

Maximum @mooncattothemax.bsky.social · 4h

Holy shit I got Juliette Has A Gun as a freebie years ago before I knew I was trans, maybe ipsy boxes have prophetic powers

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

do you or have you worked at a place like this? what’s been your experience of it? how are mandates enforced? get in touch privately, securely, and anonymously (if that’s your preference) via signal (nathangrayson.666) or proton mail (aftermathdotsite@proton.me). my DMs are also open

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Maximum @mooncattothemax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wearing cat ears in public itself isn’t that embarrassing it’s the fact that I keep readjusting them. I can’t look like a weirdo in cat ears AND insecure about the cat ears that’s too much

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Lola Sebastian @lola.nebula.tv · 05/10/2026

public, free to read, not paywalled, not grifting - i posted this to my Patreon because i use it as my blog.

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Maggie Mae Fish 🐟 @maggiemaefish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I also believe in restorative justice but I don't think that means you get to become a pillar of a community and garner an audience and an income that relies solely on everyone including yourself staying silent about your actions. In the VIDEO GAME SPHERE no less.

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This sucks for many reasons. But I think it's worth emphasizing how selfish and duplicitous it is to go work with a public-facing, community-focused media org like MinnMax without disclosing this part of your past to them. (MinnMax confirmed to me they were not told.) Please support them if you can

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 01/10/2026

This story has been updated to include Geller's response confirming the allegations.

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Cheradenine Zakalwe (2nd Edition) @moralconstraints.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Too many people are convinced they've been Pervert Nostradamus the whole time and need to brag about it

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Maximum @mooncattothemax.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I pray the survivor of Gellar’s misconduct has a good support system and hope their privacy remains intact

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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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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This point, from my recent interview with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for TNR, is so crucial. Trans people are desperate for relief from the relentless Republican attacks impacting all of us. When Democrats move right, they signal relief may not be coming, and that engenders a lot of despair.

And so for Democrats to say, They have a point on some of this, it is engendering a lot of hopelessness and a lot of fear in the trans community, because we have been just trying to hold on, hoping that this time would end and we would be able to get back to where we were five years, six years ago. And what Democrats are signaling is, like, No, we’re going to keep things as they are, and maybe even make them worse.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great system, no notes www.propublica.org/article/scho...

Voucher programs and the private schools they increasingly fund have proliferated across the country. Yet those schools often reject children with disabilities — the very kids who were used to help sell early voucher programs to lawmakers and the public - for having needs that are too costly, complex or disruptive. That leaves those children with few options beyond the public schools. And as public schools lose enrollment as a result of more and more
voucher use, they lose resources that would benefit children who remain, including those with disabilities.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/09/2026

Some Dems are running away from trans people. Abdul El-Sayed, Dem Senate Candidate in Michigan, is running towards them. When asked, he fully and unequivocally support trans youth care as a matter between parents, patients, and doctors. Subscribe to support our journalism.

erininthemorning.com

"The Decision Ought To Be Between A Patient And Their Doctor," Says Michigan Senate Candidate El-Sayed On Trans Care

Even conservatives “agree that the decision about healthcare ought to be between a person and their provider,” El-Sayed said.

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william_ leonard @williamleonard.net · 04/04/2026

if only v'ehxness route was longer... 😔 #hndr_FA

V'EHXNESS: "i must say, this 'RE-CREATION ROOM' might be my favourite! —so many colourful THRONES to choose from~"
TSUBASA: "i... i'm glad...?"
EVA: "silence, coward."
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V'EHXNESS: "and what are all those ceremonial weapons for...?"
EVA: "the invaders play bouts of ROCK 'n' ROLL with them."
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V'EHXNESS: "hoh! one of their MUSICAL WARGAMES? —we shall see how thoroughly we 'OUTROLL' them!!"
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("the gerogerigegege" - the gerogerigegege, 'moenai hai')

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reposting this because

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Don Gato 🐱🐈‍⬛🐶🐺🌈🐯 @dongato-1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus Cat 😹😹😹😹😹😹

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Maximum @mooncattothemax.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Has anyone found a way to read the comments on NYT pieces without subscribing? Help a snarky bitch out 🙏

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

why did i get the substance abuse autism

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Karen “the good kind” @kpsinging.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ok I admit… this made me laugh out loud

If your girl:
-drinks a lot of water
-causes drama
-remembers everything

That’s not your girl, that’s a data center

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

data4democracy.substack.com

Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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👻Horror🎃Hog💀 @psycosilver.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"The more complex a magic system, the funnier it is when someone pulls out a gun."

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Maximum @mooncattothemax.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’m refusing to look at anything related to FE Fortune’s Weave bc every bit of information pushes me one inch closer to buying a switch two and I don’t need it I don’t need it I don’t need it I don

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Out of mana but not out of options

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I hate this timeline & that I had to write this essay. I hate AI companies & LLMs & the randos who are now using "AI detectors" (also AI!) to smear authors they dislike: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-em-dashes... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-em-dash...

juliaserano.medium.com

On em-dashes and “AI detectors”

and the many reasons why I don’t and won’t use LLMs

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Maximum @mooncattothemax.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Driving me crazy how kimchi is being promoted as a living food for health wacks. If the price of kimchi at my favorite Korean grocer goes up I will walk off a looney tunes cliff

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I had such an incredible time at the @graphicmedicine.bsky.social conference in Baltimore with @sarahpeitzmeier.bsky.social! We gave a taught a workshop I'm really proud of and got to hear so many other inspiring speakers :D I left wanting to work and read even more graphic medicine comics!

co-authors Sarah Peitzmeier and Maia Kobabe pose in front of a slide with a motif of clouds, smiling and holding a copy of their book Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding

A messy stack of books including copies of Gender Queer: A Memoir, Opting Out, Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding and the Annotated Gender Queer

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

404media.co

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Not sure why this is news, it's called a lunch break

"Ross Douthat Leaves New York Times for 60 Minutes"

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

we let a man get a trillion dollars and now we gotta make Moon Negligence Law

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Maximum @mooncattothemax.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It really fuckin blows as an Asian American who grew up watching Avatar specifically because the Korean side of my family really vibed with it

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 27/07/2026

Stop talking to me, Google search aftermath.site/google-search-...

A google search bar with the words "please leave me alone"

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

gonna say it again: ChatGPT & other LLMs use em-dashes BECAUSE ACTUAL WRITERS OFTEN USE EM-DASHES AND THESE DEVICES HAVE BEEN TRAINED ON OUR STOLEN WORK!

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It's so funny that he made him look like he did moments before he got shot??? Like sculpting Steve Irwin petting a sting ray or some shit.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

AOC on a movie that made her cry PabloReports: When’s the last time a piece of art—film, music, whatever—made you cry? AOC: Okay, let me go with the worst time one made me cry. I was on an airplane watching… what is that movie? The one about aliens with a linguist? Arrival. With Amy Adams.

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Maximum @mooncattothemax.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

If democrats want to focus on kitchen table issues then they should start here, I practically bitch about this every time I sit down to eat

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aj @ lltbp-brained @morphogenetic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

we need to do something about kotaro uchikoshi

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Maximum @mooncattothemax.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is the most asinine part of the article imo. Some of those marine buddies probably have sexually assaulted people! And you’re reinforcing the exact sentiment that makes it hard for survivors to speak out in the first place!

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IDPH | Illinois Department of Public Health @idph.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

explosive diarrhea-causing parasites being destroyed when you cook produce to at least 158°F

static.klipy.com

Elmo Excited in Fuego

ALT: Elmo Excited in Fuego

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