iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 07/09/2026

just a glimpse into my dark reality

Text from a classic PSA-themed meme format reads "I actually would download a car"

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/06/2026

I am so sick of Big Tech bullshit. if you want to move fast and break things, start with your own bones

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

When I assign analysis, I am not trying to extract a polished product; I am trying to put the student’s mind through resistance in order to make it stronger. Offloading the struggle to a chatbot does not “free students up for higher-order work.” It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I do always enjoy it when a Duplass Brother appears though. Why not, chuck one in. Was it Mark or Jay? That's like asking which Chuckle is Paul and which is Barry. It's irrelevant. To me. And to you.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Always good to have your response to a consultation immediately ready to go. Suggests you've definitely engaged with the results of the consultation and that the entire thing wasn't a waste of time.

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Brookie @brookie.blog · 17/05/2026

share a love letter on loveletter.pics letters are automatically REDACTED so you can share them privately no account needed choose additional words to redact read and be moved don’t have any love letters? write one to me and post it 🙇‍♀️❤️🌟 don’t be shy, share the love !!

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Scott Riley @scott.is · 12/05/2026

wes streeting claps when the carwash is finished

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Apologizing to Sid Meier for my previous claims that Axeman units defeating jets in combat was "unrealistic"

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 26/04/2026

Every "founder mode" essay is a man realising he's difficult to work for and deciding to publish an 8,000 word manifesto about why that actually makes him a Very Special Boy

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/04/2026

Apropos of nothing, just something I think about a lot: During the worst pandemic in a century, lots of people told a bunch of outrageous lies that caused much, much more death. It was one of the more grotesque moral crimes I've ever witnessed & zero (0) of those involved faced any consequences.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

not even software works like software otherwise all those software engineering practices would produce good software, which they demonstrably do not

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 07/11/2025

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

Hand written sign at shop reading

“WE HAVE”

“CHICKEN”
“NOODLE”
“SOUP”

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

this is the most meta thing i've ever seen

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 26/03/2026

The government don't need to build every software system in-house, but it does need enough employees who are good enough at building software that they can tell good contracts from bad, and hold contractors accountable

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 25/09/2024

We all laughed at Apple Maps for having errors, but Google Maps now straight up lies to you… for pennies. I’ve switched.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Love your work, @propublica.org! But, there's no ProPublica journalism without journalists! Pay your workers 21st century level salaries + benefits. With $98 million stashed in the bank, you can afford it! ProPublica takes in $18 million/year more in donations than expenses! @propublicaguild.org

Fiscal Year Ending Dec. 2024
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Filed on Nov. 14, 2025
Primary tax return for a nonprofit's activities, finances, and governance

Revenue $64,268,632

Expenses Net Income Net Assets
$45,741,720 $18,526,912 $98,057,409

Notable Sources of Revenue Percent of Total Revenue

Contributions $61,189,839 95.2%
Program Services $191,906 0.3%

Investment Income $2,074,199 13.2%

Bond Proceeds $0
Royalties $365,819 10.6%
Rental Property Income $0
Net Fundraising $0
Sales of Assets -$1,240
Net Inventory Sales $0
Other Revenue $448,109 | 0.7%

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Nick Clegg unveiled a portrait of himself at the National Liberal Club yesterday and it's hard to tell which one looks less like Nick Clegg, the portrait of Nick Clegg or the actual Nick Clegg

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Mpinney @mpinney.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I never, ever, want to open a link using an in-app browser btw

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I think it's probably fine to put the chatbot that not even Walmart trusts inside the largest nuclear armed military on earth to the tune of about $200M, after all we all have universal single payer healthcare, free higher education, and a robust UBI

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Our agreement with the Department of War

Details on OpenAI’s contract with the Department of War, outlining safety red lines, legal protections, and how AI systems will be deployed in classified environments.

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 18/03/2026

word of advice? drop the "the". just "Immense, Predictable, Laughable Failure". it's cleaner

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 18/03/2026

A sample slide from my lecture yesterday. Should have added fun - but I did say "fun" out loud.

Screeshot of powerpoint slide.
How Do We Resist?
We resist not just by retreating, but by creating:
- Love, curiosity, daydreaming
- Civic practices and reflective attention
These cannot be monetised easily.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 17/03/2026

D...did Marc just leak his system prompt?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Many predictions about AI are simply wishful thinking. "Now that AI is here, designers will have more time to focus on quality." Really? Is that what you see happening? Is that the trend, is that where the incentive structure is leading us?

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 14/03/2026

Youtube thumbnails from ancient times

a YouTube thumbnail saying 'ee-nasir gets copper complaint' with a red circle and red arrow, and the big face from the quoted post

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Mpinney @mpinney.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

“You’re right! I shouldn’t assume tables exist.” I had this exact conversation with an Oxford philosophy grad many years ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...

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Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I've even come across a case where a guy completely f*cked an economy by pursuing counterproductive austerity policies only to be got rid of and then given a whole bunch of really lucrative jobs in the financial sector.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 13/03/2026

All we did was give stupid people faster access to other stupid people and now we act surprised when the stupidity compounds

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I'm trying to think who this idiocy is for, who would say: I wasn't going to vote Labour but now they've blocked a clearly exceptionally bright Sudanese woman from doing a postgraduate course in computational biology at Cambridge, I'm all in? www.ft.com/content/4493...

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‘The law changed around me’: top Sudanese students blocked from UK universities by visa ban

[FREE TO READ] High-achieving applicants’ educational plans derailed by ‘emergency visa brake’

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Dr. Gabagool and the Salami of Secrets @jimpjorps.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

this is what it feels like to post on bluesky

the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This is one of my favorite comics we've made.

1 Me: He froze like a deer in the headlights.
2 Deer: Okay tough guy, what would you do?
Me: It’s just an expression.
3 Deer: No, no, no. You’re standing there, suddenly all you see is a blinding light. What’s your plan? I want to hear it.
4 Me, frowning: I would freeze.
Deer: I fucking thought so.

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Mpinney @mpinney.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

It doesn’t matter which side of the box you open medication, it will always be the side with the little leaflet thingy

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Chad @kitation.co.uk · 04/03/2026

Every single individual who has been fined for copyright infringement should be given a refund now that we live in a world where that’s fine actually

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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Hello friends. 002 from Haus Von Kirschnell – our digital scrapbook – is live! Allow us to regale you with some tales of winter, fawn over our wonderful friends, food, and discovered sounds. With a guest section by my good friend @mpinney.bsky.social. vonkirschnell.haus/season-in-re...

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Haus von Kirschnell

From the desks of Emily & Konnaire: A season in review

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 04/03/2026

The most unhinged thing about modern life is that we've normalised paying $200 a month for the gym and $300 a month for wellness "supplements" but if someone charges $5 for a newsletter they wrote with their actual brain people act like they've been mugged at knifepoint

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Thinking through something over my morning reading. I know the Discourse now is to debate the applicability of the term “extraction” to everything. I think it works for a variety of reasons & am glad to keep it. BUT sometimes what authors want to call extraction is just good old fashioned extortion.

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frank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

this quote post is part of a vital thread of all the trans people I have met (bearing in mind we shoal together so that's loads), the one (1) detransitioner detransitioned because their family & friends rejected them, & they held huge sorrow about this. I feel so sad every time I think of them.

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Mpinney @mpinney.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Looking for something to read over lunch? I've written some words on what I think happened to the internet and why we should use AI to overthrow the billionaires. www.wehavethemegapixels.com/writing/Brea...

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Breathe Right and You'll Change Everything

The web we were promised, the web we got, and our brief opportunity to build the web we deserve.

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Keith @minguseyes.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 18/05/2025

“i pretty much never leave my house ha ha” because you’re scared the ghost of your young wife will kill you? because contact with outside air could aggravate your frail complexion? have some gall, some panache — make something of your withering

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