iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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CDRE Fool Mental Jackass VI @uncle6.org · 9m

Bettridge's Law of Headlines is undefeated

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10m

I do worry a TINY bit that this is how we got JK Rowling long before she went fully mask-off TERF, she was the darling of liberal Twitter for her sassy Trump dunks and that is 100% the reason she got so high on her own supply that she began sincerely believing she was a necessary voice in politics

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · 15h

...I still have to promote it, so:

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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 4h

this is like having the cookout in a sundown town

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28m

It helps to understand that JCO loves being at the top of the publishing hierarchy and will happily have shit publishing takes punching down.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 32m

Ah I see the JCO coin flip has landed on "no" today

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 2h

everything Threads has implemented with "Black Threads" is an idea that was implement On Here first. the only difference is you have to do work to build an audience on Blacksky instead of having your stuff served to an audience and a lot of Black Excellence types ain't about building shit.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 2h

what Threads offers former Black Twitter users is a facsimile of a thing that died five years ago that operates at the behest of white supremacists in a polite, frictionless way, it allows Black users to pretend Meta envisions them as equal parts of a community while Threads steals Blacksky's ideas.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 2h

an article that talks about Bluesky without the acknowledgment that Black users and trans users helped this place find an audience and that Blacksky was created in response to the belligerence and violence of angry white former Twitter users gentrifying the place is an article not worth reading

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Shivvy 🎃 @shivvy.blacksky.app · 5m

period

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 15m

OTP does not mean One Time Password, not on this here internet

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 27m

Scrolled past a video saying that you never want to dress better than your boss/direct report, and I'm wondering... what if they wear polyblend??

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1981 / 1986 News @40yearsago.bsky.social · 4h

[September 30th, 1986] Actor and singer Don Johnson releases his debut studio album "Heartbeat"

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 20m

They sure don't! They don't even know there's an HRT shortage going on. Millennial women are 40 now. We are done.

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 23m

Currently I do comms for a Christian peacemaking nonprofit. The FB and IG comments I get in response to posts about gun-violence activism would psychologically destroy most people.

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 39m

Just taking this opportunity to drag my enemy again, because he is so, so bad at his job and fundamentally too emotionally fragile for this kind of work. bsky.app/profile/mizz...

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 8h

Chat, is it good when a site's head of trust and safety uses an automated system to block half the users?

Screenshot of Aaron Rodericks, Bluesky's head of trust and safety, saying "Automated block actions on my account so that I can stay unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In my lane. Focused. Flourishing. TBH it was well overdue.

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1h

Struck by the similarities between this week's movie subject, THE NICE GUYS, and NEAGLEY, the hottest new show on Prime. Both narratives allow their female leads to use access to them as a position of power– and the response to their boundaries surprised me

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Silver Screen Sleuths: NEAGLEY (2026), THE NICE GUYS (2016), and Feminine Access

NEAGLEY works an interesting new angle on "access" to a beautiful Woman of Color– and her power.

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Elizabeth @thejawnoftime.bsky.social · 1h

NO WAY I LOVE THE PHILLIES BUT I ALSO ABSOLUTELY DESPISE THEM

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Bill Hanstock @sundownmotel.bsky.social · 1h

IF YOU'RE AN ATLANTA PITCHER IN LINE TO SERVE TATERS STAY IN LINE

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 1h

I try not to agree with men about stuff, but this guy is right about grilled cheese. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8E4fH29/

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Butter Vs. Mayo Toasted Grilled Cheese #grilledcheese #mayo #butter #fyp #foryou

TikTok video by Cody Tries Stuff

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 2h

I honestly think this is a better use of Democratic resources and attention than impeaching Trump again. Take down his dangerous baby man flunkies starting with Pete.

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 2h

this is genuinely the most pathetic shit I've ever seen

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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 28/09/2026

Scene staff reporter Eli Motycka was removed from the guest list for Peter Thiel's Nashville Antichrist lectures — and he's not the only journalist who was. 🧵

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Anishinabek Nation @anishinabeknation.bsky.social · 6h

(1/2) TW: Readers may be triggered by the recount of Indian Residential Schools. To access a 24h National Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419. September 30th recognizes both #OrangeShirtDay & #NationalDayForTruthAndReconciliation.

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Anishinabek Nation @anishinabeknation.bsky.social · 6h

(2/2) The day honours the Survivors & the children who never returned home from the Indian Residential Schools. We encourage everyone to wear orange & take the time to listen, learn, & reflect on the colonial history & the intergenerational impacts on Indigenous communities. #StrengthenOurNations

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 4h

"The reality is that there are no silly culture wars happening in America. There are equality wars and justice wars and fairness wars. Democrats should try to win those wars—and the elections that involve them." 💯

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Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 7h

This Thursday @musicculture504.bsky.social is holding its 14th anniversary fundraiser at Nola Brewing featuring performance by George Porter Jr, John Boutte, Corey Henry and more! For years MACCNO has been a vocal advocate for culture bearers in New Orleans and a vital www.nola.com/gambit/music...

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Music & Culture Coalition of New Orleans to hold anniversary benefit show Oct. 1 at Nola Brewing

The Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans will celebrate it’s 14th year Oct. 1 with a benefit show at Nola Brewing featuring performances from the Keiko Komaki Trio, George

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 4h

It's the 1 YEAR HAUNTIVERSARY of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC! Happy birthday, dear book! Open your Halloween hearts & let us in! A deeply heartfelt book uncovering real history, wild spectral accounts & how it all intersects with Gothic literature! A Bram Stoker Award Nominee! Please share! #BookSky

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𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔥 ℭ𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔶 𝔅𝔲𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔱 @shadowham.bsky.social · 17h

embrace the healing power of night spaghetti

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Scott Keenan 🏈🍔🚛 @scottkeenan724.bsky.social · 3h

Playoff baseball is HILARIOUS when your team isn't involved

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 3h

broke: "culture wars" woke: "fuckin curtain-twitcher weirdos needing told to *sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up*"

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 3h

“Hobby miners who want to go locate claims, play miner on the weekend, leave disturbance and pollution in their wake, that really damages the monument resources,” said Steve Bloch, an attorney for the environmental nonprofit.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 3h

Every AI generated event poster is incredibly ugly, but I do think it's interesting that that LLMs have essentially created a house style for flyers, especially one so maximalist and ugly and in contravention of of all convention and best practices established in graphic design over centuries.

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Julie (unprofessional) @juliebalt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Alt text - Post by user omgsidewalks reads "you CANNOT rage against the machine if you're asking it to summarise your emails for you"

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 3h

a good example: Publishers Weekly's top 10 bestselling novels from 100 years ago. i'd say only Loos and Ferber survive now, and then mostly via the movies/plays made from their novels (which are fading, too)

The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
The Hounds of Spring by Sylvia Thompson
Beau Sabreur by P. C. Wren
The Silver Spoons by John Galsworthy
Beau Geste by P. C. Wren
Show Boat by Edna Ferber
After Noon by Susan Ertz
The Blue Window by Temple Bailey

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 8h

Said this before, but you could write an interesting book on the books/films/music that were huge in their time but rapidly disappeared from any collective knowledge. Only hardly anyone would read it, because they wouldn't recognise them.

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 9h

This is undoubtedly true and I think a lot of companies have bet heavily on IP on the mistaken understanding that there are "forever" characters or acts, when they're subject to quite rapid decay.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3h

I love the tech industry and their cool new product: fraud

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 6h

A lot of AI maximalists fundamentally miss why people do things. It’s not merely about accomplishing tasks but having meaningful experiences, which is undermined when a computer is generating and consuming the experience and then just informing or consulting us.

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 3h

@jaybeans.bsky.social and I just realized we're not sad, nothing is especially wrong in our little family, we're just overwhelmed by making ends meet because our insurance is $2000/month and one bag of groceries costs $130 and Beans works 60 hours a week but is only paid for 40.

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Dr. Amy Nusbaum @amynusbaum.bsky.social · 5h

Reminder that Neil deGrasse Tyson isn't a funny science communicator, he's a predator.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 4h

The only ones who ever want to “pick your plan” are the ones who have minions who do all their paperwork FOR them. Regular people do not want to spend hours of their time agonizing over what plan will leave them the least fucked, especially when it’s just a matter of DEGREES of fucked

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 3h

Red-40 is not banned in Europe. RED 40 IS NOT BANNED IN EUROPE

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 3h

Having a pet should not be a luxury and we gotta figure out how to deal with the skyrocketing costs of running veterinary practices; the long arm of PE; and wages not keeping pace with costs of living.

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How Are Artists Affording Pet Care?

From $1,600 dental bills to $16,000 emergency procedures, artists and culture workers weigh in on the rising cost of caring for their closest companions.

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 6h

In recent years, the National Park Service has led an effort to restore the ballfield at the Manzanar National Historic Site in California. On October 17, a grand opening event will be held there with a baseball doubleheader between Japanese American teams. sabr.org/baseball-at-...

Dan Kwong stands behind home plate as teams line up for the National Anthem before the second game of the doubleheader played at Manzanar’s newly restored baseball field on October 26, 2024. (Courtesy of Dan Kwong, photograph by Aaron Rapoport)

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 4h

A friend of mine is about to face a custody battle and needs a good lawyer in New York (city) — any recommendations? DM me if it’s easier to do that

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Ash @ashrowan.design · 4h

related reading (I later discovered that the hashtag was supposed to be #LivingInMyGenes lol oops)— bsky.app/profile/ashr...

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