iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 9h

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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Max @majuuorthrus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Humans have produced reams of stupid and bad fiction in the past and they will continue to do so in the future At least human-produced stupid and bad sometimes has heart and/or insight into the author's baffling neuroses

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Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin @mumblingsage.bsky.social · 7h

You can tell it's aggression-aggression rather than cute aggression because they didn't even bother to aim for its face.

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BlindManBaldwin @blindmanbaldwin.bsky.social · 8h

tonight on "crossfire": fake dating trope

"fake dating" is the most realistic romance narrative trope, because in all of our interpersonal relationships, we are always performing. the other is forever unknowable, because the self is unknowable.

you fool, "fake dating" is the least realistic trope, because in performance we find our truth.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This semiotic overabundance is in part an effect of how AI models are trained and optimized to match textual prompts. But it's also a worldbuilding technique. In slopaganda-world, every visible element has an unambiguous meaning, and they all reinforce each other, creating a kind of echo chamber

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Context: Sathi got called out for this in the Letters page of the following issue:

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David Raikow @david.raikow.online · 30/09/2026

In transitional justice parlance this is referred to as “lustration”, and is a pretty common tool. It can be very useful if done carefully, but can also cause serious problems if not. bsky.app/profile/amrk...

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think the Kavanaugh hearings were the first time I thought "hmm maybe the Ivy Leagues shouldn't exist" and I don't think there's really been anything since that point that's convinced me otherwise

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 30/09/2026

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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 30/09/2026

SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never listened to Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *plays video* please explain this video of you [SMITH]: That is Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure"

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 24/11/2025

there is no such thing as a bad trope, just tropes I haven't seen one of my favs execute flawlessly yet. lol

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My team at the NVA Lab has produced a new dashboard for exploring our data on US protests from Jan 2025-May 2026. This snapshot shows the 61k+ protest events (>14.6M+ recorded participants) active in the US since Trump's second inauguration. Link to dashboard in thread.

A platform displaying the data on US protests from the Crowd Counting Consortium. It includes a map of the US with counts of protest events in circular form overlaying the protests' locations. It also includes weekly tallies of protest events and participations, top protest issues, and various filters allowing users to explore events by location, issue, date, political valence, etc. The top of the image shows a total of 61,782 protests with 14,684,201 participants across 55 US states and territories from January 20, 2025 to May 31, 2026.

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

... *two* 15-point generic ballot poll leads from two different pollsters at the same time???

static.klipy.com

Capa Pandu

Alt: Dr. Grant removing his sunglasses

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

26. If, while revising, all you're doing is wordsmithing sentences your manuscript is either done or you're avoiding a major flaw. Only you know which.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Perfect example of how alt text can both describe an image for those who can’t see it & help a joke land with people less informed (me) without cluttering the comic understatement for those who need less explanation

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Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin @mumblingsage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think when a man tells you he graduated from an Ivy League school it should make you view him with at least a fraction disdain than you had previously felt.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I talk a lot about how I think a lot of writers need to build up their technical skills, but something I think might actually be more important is developing a capacity to sincerely enjoy your own work, for its own sake but also bc that is what allows you to refine a creative sensibility.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/09/2026

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY POINT IN HISTORY WHERE IT HAS BEEN IN THE BEST INTEREST OF WOMEN TO DEPEND UPON THE BENEVOLENCE OF MEN

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin @mumblingsage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So anyway I'm VERY CURIOUS to see what Amazon looks like in a few weeks now that there's a tighter publishing limit. I want to be optimistic but I'll settle for curious.

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Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin @mumblingsage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bonus round: ensure the resulting line is still in iambic pentameter.

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Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin @mumblingsage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hopefully this will stem the flood of low-effort books without inconveniencing authors too much. And I wouldn't trust Amazon (or most anyone) to use any measure that relied on AI detection. I do hope the limit doesn't drop much further, though.

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Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin @mumblingsage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I *did* say I might get back into dating...

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Johnson 2028

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Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin @mumblingsage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was reading about E.J. James's time in fandom before going big with 50 Shades and WOAH BOY (and she wasn't even outstandingly bad, just horribly ungracious, mostly in private).

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#StetChat @stetchat.com · 25/09/2026

Happy Fight Procrastination Day! (It was September 6. 🤪)

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Riana @riana.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

wishing a good evening to whoever drives the car I just spotted with the Catullus 85 vanity plate

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

God damnit, you've convinced me to have a try.

A Victorian poster reading:
"Let the people rejoice!
Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain [held by that eagle from the flag of Iowa]
Mr. Elon Musk, of Austin, Texas
To be launched into
FUCKING SPACE
Trillionaire never to be seen again.
THE REPUBLIC REJOICES!
A feat of science.
A feat of nature!
To be televised live
Or Seen In Person
At Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
On the 21st of JANUARY, 2027
DO NOT MISS!
Tickets available from Mr. Sherbet's Cabinet of Delight
HAIL! HAIL!
Freedom Triumphant!"

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Alternatively, you could use WordArt

I'm not even joking!
This is literally cooler, aesthetics be like that

AI art is so rancid it caused a cultural inversion

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 26/09/2026

A classic Safety-II example (“what went right”). There is a lot of talk a lot about how bad humans are and how automated systems can be safer, more reliable, more resilient, etc but the truth is that so often the human has a better model of what’s really going on and intervenes to ensure safety

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Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin @mumblingsage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The answer is that they trip over each other's legs while Everett True gets to the asshole.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026

Age verification is an egregious privacy violation, an inexcusable form of surveillance, and… it’s also voodoo bullshit that doesn’t work. It’s one of the reasons I’m proudest to support @eff.org, who have been leading the fight against the horrible practice for years: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...

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Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub

Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “ag...

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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I knew but still am amazed at how bad these numbers are, 10th percentile having a worse time of it than peak 10% inflation in 2022.

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No one's going to top @leyawn.bsky.social

Jan. 6, 2025
Bernard Mokam
In Grand Central Terminal, Leon Chang, 26, of Brooklyn, said he had not heard of congestion pricing and asked what it was. When explained it was a toll for cars entering Manhattan, he then asked
"What do you mean? What is a car?" Walking outside, we showed him a vehicle parked on the street. He gently touched the hood of the car. "You wish to forbid these majestic beasts from entering the city," he said in a wistful tone. It is a folly of man. The desire to tame the world around us."

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VERTICAL📼BLANKING📺INTERVAL @vertiblank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Over the course of the questions, it becomes apparent that I define left- and right-wing based on handedness.

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Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin @mumblingsage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Teleported from the 16th century and adjusting to liberal democracy, Catholics and Protestants living in peace alongside each other, to say nothing of public sanitation and the diversity of fresh vegetables in winter.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"In 2020, there were only six programs in the U.S. that sent unarmed responders, such as mental health clinicians, to certain 911 calls instead of police officers. Now, these programs — sometimes called alternative or community response — are in nearly 100 cities." www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...

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How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities

Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?

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Kelly Thompson @kellythompson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Again I am begging all LEGIT people running cons, signings, talks, events, etc. to stop using Ai to write your emails. What's happening is ALL THE SCAMMERS/CONMEN are ALSO using it, and so your emails are basically indistinguishable from them. They give off slop vibes EVEN IF YOU ARE LEGIT.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail.

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.

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Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin @mumblingsage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The version of Oregon Trail I played as a kid had a distinctive soundtrack and now it's going to be stuck in my head all day.

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Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin @mumblingsage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(CSA cw) Put me down as a huge fan of kids learning about incest and rape without their parents' knowledge. As well as other forms of child abuse. I think parents in particular and specifically should have no veto on their child's ability to hear about child abuse.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin @mumblingsage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I finally have another book that hits the same spot - rich prose, historical detail, sexy but dark and so gut-wrenchingly sad - in <Lightborne> by Hesse Phillips. Who I think is on here, how I discovered the book, but I'm not gonna tag someone to scream about how they're emotionally destroying me.

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Nero Villagallos O'Reilly @itsnero.com · 25/07/2025

There are a lot of free hosts still around! neocities.org is extremely popular.

neocities.org

Neocities

Create and surf awesome websites for free.

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