iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think this new shirt design is an important statement in these trying times, and may heal the world roryblank.bigcartel.com

A cute drawing of a tiger wearing a little hat and trousers and a shirt, fishing on a small island, with text saying "I don't actually have to do anything at all
I am perfectly contended living without purpose"

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

First D&D event night I coordinated for the shop has amazing. This mini got a “oh fuck you, DM” moment when it was put on the map.

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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

VERY important paper! This study detected SARS-CoV-2 in the air of common areas of 4 big US airports. SARS-CoV-2 detected in 98% of samples through the year. Influenza A was found during flu season. That’s why you want to wear an N95 respirator in an airport! And all indoor public spaces all year!

journals.plos.org

Multimodal genomic surveillance for respiratory pathogens at four U.S. international airports: A comparison of air, wastewater, clinical, and national surveillance data

Early detection of outbreaks and emerging pathogens is critical for public health and global biosecurity. Airports, as major international travel hubs with dense, enclosed populations, are high-risk s...

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Shivvers in Fear 🙀 @shivvy.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

This needs to go in some sort of Bad Idea Hall of Fame

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Walking up to AI developers like "so are you the kind of AI developer who knows they're a fraud or the kind of AI developer who thinks they're a slaver?"

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine

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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Lawn darts killed three children before they were completely banned in the United States.

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Went to the most northerly part of Ireland, also last Jedi filming location. And more north than Northern Ireland

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/08/2026

BUTLERIAN JIHAD NOW

LIVE
BREAKING NEWS

JUDITH BUTLER BEGINS HOLY WAR

QUOTED AS SAYING "THE AGE OF THINKING MACHINES IS AT AN END"

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Forgot to order eclipse glasses yet again (found some last month, went down the rabbit hole of making sure there were legit ones, got distracted). So cardboard box pinhole cameras it is.

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Of all the things I was expecting to be mentioned or discussed in @friede.bsky.social 's episode, kolache was not one of them.

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hasbro finally figured out what to do with D&D that isn’t entirely terrible - make more books and settings, use their leverage to get deals like official WoW and Star Wars expansions

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"It's pronounced guacamole"

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21/07/2026

The Sex Matters event has been dropped by Féile an Phobail www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

Statement from Féile an Phobail

An event application was submitted to this years Féile programme by a group called the Women’s Rights Network.

Féile an Phobail was unaware from the initial submission that this event would promote campaigns against rights for the Transgender community.

Féile an Phobail takes pride in standing up for those who are marginalised and attacked.

Féile was formed in 1988 at a time when the community of West Belfast was being attacked and demonised, and as a positive response to that demonisation.

In recent years Féile has organised discussion events with the Transgender community, providing a platform to raise issues of pressing concern, and we fully support the right of the Transgender community to be treated with equality and respect.

On that basis, Féile an Phobail has informed the organiser of this event that we are withdrawing their event.

This event is no longer part of the Féile programme.

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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Bonfires are crime scenes, from hate displaces to home burnings. 'In one incident, firefighters had to withdraw from a bonfire in Cookstown, Tyrone, as a result of a hostile crowd.' Bonfires have changed from small community bonfires to megastructures - they are now paramilitary shows of strenth.

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Fire service deals with 303 emergency calls as Eleventh Night bonfires are lit

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fangy @jeannesfangs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 15/06/2026

Both the UK and the US have a ruling overclass filled with stupid nepo babies who believe they know better than everyone, but in the UK that group is about 2000 people who all showered together in boarding school

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 04/06/2026

The most important cultural lesson of the late 80s/early 90s

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thrilled to announce that “Drosera regina” has been selected for this year’s Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy! Many thanks to @olivieblake.bsky.social, @johnjosephadams.com, and the @marinerbooks.bsky.social team. Congratulations to my fellow contributors!

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I just discovered “We” here in hay on wye because there are stacks of it in one of the used bookshops (that handles excess stock). This is the prototypical lonely male protagonist in a grey dystopian sci-fi novel. Published in 1924.

Cover of the book “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Features a silhouette of a figure and lines denoting some mathematical breakdown of it.

The book is sitting on a tree stump.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/01/2026

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our catsitter sends us the best photos

Close up picture of a 1/2 of a black cats face as it sticks it head into frame

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Thinking maybe this is the year I open a TTRPG / board game brick and mortar shop, with a corner of weird used sci-fi & fantasy books for people to find

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/05/2026

Good to see outlets get to where I was uh, somewhere between 6 and 18 months ago lol

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

In an alternative timeline, the '73 oil crisis triggered a massive decarbonization process of American energy systems, because oil dependency became a national security issue and not just a hippy thing.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”

startribune.com

Perry: This St. Patrick’s Day, don’t forget Irish music’s anti-fascist roots

Dropkick Murphys, the iconic Irish American punk band, are headlining a free block party March 6 near where Alex Pretti was killed by immigration agents, contributing columnist David M. Perry writes.

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Watching Return of the King, and it's wild to remember that the entire opening scene with Smeagol/Deagol was so Andy Serkis could have a none CGI scene and be eligible for the mainstream awards.

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The sun did manage to illuminate the tomb for a minute at the end. Here's a timelapse from a previous solstice: youtu.be/BAfZLCVyEhs?...

youtu.be

Newgrange Winter Solstice

YouTube video by National Monuments Service

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/12/2025

SoftBank is genuinely destroying itself trying to afford to pay OpenAI $22.5bn. There isn’t enough money to fund this company! www.reuters.com/business/med...

NEW YORK/TOKYO/SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - SoftBank Group (9984.I) • is racing to close a $22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAl by year-end through an array of cash-raising schemes, including a sale of some investments, and could tap its undrawn margin loans borrowed against its valuable ownership in chip firm Arm Holdings, sources said.
The "all-in" bet on OpenAl is among the biggest yet by SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, as the Japanese billionaire seeks to improve his firm's position in the race for artificial intelligence. To come up with the money, Son has already sold SoftBank's entire $5.8 billion stake in Al chip leader Nvidia (NVDA.O)E, offloaded $4.8 billion of its T-Mobile US (IMUS.O) a stake, and slashed staff. c

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Happy Solstice y’all. There’s a stream run by Irelands monuments group, where you can watch the inside of the 5000 year old passage tomb as it is illuminated by the winter sun: www.youtube.com/live/lRgumO6...

youtube.com

Winter Solstice Live Streaming - 21 December 2025

YouTube video by Office of Public Works

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 20/12/2025

I mean, things are tough all over. If rude criticism stops you from making art, you should probably not be making art.

There's a discourse that basically goes:
Alice: But I want to use Al to do art
Bob: Just do it yourself
Alice: But I am not good at it Bob: Just be bad, and post it on the internet, it's fine!
And Bob is lying, it sucks, you will get savaged as anyone who has taken a picture of their dinner knows.
12:17 PM • Dec 19, 2025

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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Guess I'll post this again

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Folks reposting that other guys clickbait about nvidia, the premise might not be wrong, but Ed will have actual coverage.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/11/2025

A few people have sent me this piece. It is riddled with outright lies, stuff about Arrow Electronics and NVIDIA (Arrow never mentions NVDA in any earnings docs and has said nothing about stock) and outright falsehoods about Oracle. This is very likely AI generated, written to panic people.

The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme

Channel checks conducted by this author support the latter hypothesis. Arrow Electronics, a major semiconductor distributor, reported in its Q3 2025 earnings that Nvidia product inventory days stood at 78, compared to a 52-day average for other product lines. This represents 50% higher inventory holding periods, indicating distribution channel saturation.

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Hey @mostlymartha.bsky.social your favorite Cork woodworker went to a wood worker festival and made a video about it, I thought you'd like it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_uc...

youtube.com

Ireland's Woodland Show

YouTube video by Eoin Reardon

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Well the west marches server had its first PC deaths, only one made it back. It’s gotten real quiet there - it’s been a month since its started and a lot of folks got settled into their characters.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Who is out there, sitting in a dockside warehouse full of bulk-ordered pumpkin plushies and glitter candles and ghost-themed dish towels, fingers crossed, eyes shining.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

A reminder that one of my favorite ways to frame the economy for most people is that they are *never* three good months away from being rich, but *always* three bad months from being homeless.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I remember reading some biography of a NI politician and they mentioned that Ian Paisley could turn off and on his roaring demagoguery and that he was quite personable one on one. It was all a performance which if anything makes it much worse

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2025

I get why everyone is making this rational argument, for the same reasons they did about Obama’s birth announcement, but learn the lesson: do not indulge the big lie. “Everyone saying the signature’s fake is doing so because they want to help Trump cover up his child abuse.” Stick to that story.

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Chris @mrzarquon.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It cost me €8 to get from the airport to my hotel in Amsterdam, which isn’t in the city center. In less time than an uber and much cheaper. We spent less time waiting for trains/transfers (10 minutes in total) than it would have taken for the first driver to pick us up.

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