iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

This is a funny joke yes but also really bespeaks the AI use case of "perfect for doing a shitload of something you were already doing pretty badly and don't care about the consequences of fucking up"

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

HR department of the Polycule is this anything

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Increasingly rapidly detransitioning and retransitioning as my pink cloud tolerance goes up

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So I shaved my mental illness mustache and I'm pretty sure it like, extracted the toxins I feel ten pounds lighter

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Jules @ds9official.singles · 23/09/2026

one thing about newsom is that once you notice his gul dukat vibe you can't unsee it

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The mirages disappear as I approach them and I remain parched but they appear to be such still cool and clear water that when I finally reach one I'm sure it's going to quench my thirst

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Option two is that states have to share their two senators until their combined total population is equal to California. Then we have like sixteen senators total, bosh, problem solved

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have often considered this, take the smallest states population as the floor (Wyoming) and add one additional senator for each Wyoming above 1. So Wyoming gets two senators and California gets 80, bosh, problem solved.

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do I know any car touchers who can direct me to remedial knowledge resources on learning how to do basic car maintenance and care?

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Does the purge defense apply to civil suits?

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The thing with the purge is that presumably there's a fairly hefty burden of proof placed on prosecutors and litigants that the acts under dispute did not take place during the purge which feels like a truck-sized loophole

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The aged poor should die in penury and, most importantly, misery" my latest for the times

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Richard @ R. Rook 🔜 Sleep @rrookstudio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This Saturday in Philly (up in the Yunk): I run Road Warriors in Roseville Beach. This Satirday @ 7pm. www.eventbrite.com/e/road-warri...

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Road Warriors By Moonlight On Roseville Beach

A liveplay TTRPG event. Join us as our comedians enter the spooky queer beach town of Roseville Beach.

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

thigh tattoo, quick change into office-appropriate short shorts

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Danny elfman believes in the ancient Egyptian tripartite self with the embodied self, the ka or seat of reason, and the ba or animal spirit

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ah! Good! It is dumber than I remember and, more importantly, Chris vindicated

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I thought it was that he had a *genetic predisposition* for a heart condition he hadn't actually developed, not an actual heart condition. Isn't that the whole deal with Uma Thurman, that she developed a condition even though the genetic engineering made it sub-1% probable that she would?

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

anyway, the American id understander himself, Hunter S. Thompson, the next week for goddamn ESPN of all places. the party's over, folks.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."

Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history -- which is no doubt true -- but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a war-time economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.

That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. The time has come for loyal Americans to Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. That is the new buzz-word in Washington. But what it means is not entirely clear.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One bit of 9/11 ephemera I think about was how they weren’t sure if they should address the events of 9/11 on Friends so they just made Joey wear FDNY T Shirts in a couple of episodes

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It can be hard to understand why people who were around for 9/11 and the ensuing events speak about it as memorable, but this is made easier if one keeps in mind that it was a world historic event that had momentous effects both at home and abroad.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sorry everyone this is my fault because I bought a car :/

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was informed about the cylinder, it's not that busted it just rattles a little. It was very cheap.

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This mustache is not the act of a well mind

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Protect my right to blow clouds of olive tapenade

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Releasing a tabletop rpg, detransitioning to impregnate my partner, experimenting with hard drugs, buying a 1996 Subaru legacy with a busted cylinder

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The DC property that would work with a multiple timeline edgy mystery and a senior-junior buddy cop dynamic is The Question

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Green Lantern was always a poor fit for this genre tho the Lanterns cop show isn't True Detective it's The Untouchables

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Also this is beneath Laura Linney

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Like maybe it was naive of me to think the propulsive mystery and multiple timelines True Detective thing would actually get used with anything like sophistication but that third episode should have been like four flashbacks at points in the season where it matters to know the things.

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

LANTERNS Eps 3&4: man am I sick of superhero shows that spend their pilot pretending they're going to do a genre riff and then just slowly decide to stop

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Seeing a face in a rock dramatically alters our understanding of humanity, even if we don't particularly like the alteration

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Critics don't want to confront the consequences that me seeing a face in this rock and deciding it's a person have for our conception of humanity

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also also also European govts generally have more and harsher speech restrictions around specific topics that tend to get unevenly enforced on the left vs right (Palestine Action is a proscribed terror organization in the UK that you can be jailed for "expressing support" for, as an example)

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also also the numbers of every group is just so much smaller in Europe, the whole Texas is bigger than France thing matters when it comes to what a counter-action looks like here vs there

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also it is hard to feel from inside the US but anti racism as a cultural force is real and pervasive here in a way that Europe has simply never taken it as seriously. I know that sounds insane but there is a certain bedrock racial egalitarianism in the US that simply isn't there in Europe.

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My sense is that it's an even smaller and more inbred elite ruling structure and information environment. The ruling class consists of like twenty people who all have dinner together constantly and the Murdoch press triple-pickles reactionaries in heritage jars. At least in Britain.

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time

a picture from the NY Post titled " today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's childish avoidance of adult relationships and responsibility! She doesn't want to be grown up and communicative and blah blah she wants gummies and chicken tendies and milf mommy

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A review that still rings in my head from the time it came out was "its failure is more interesting than most shows' success" and that feels extremely true even as those failures are... extremely obvious in places

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

and I think it's becoming a bit of a litmus test between virgin posers (me, fans of the film) and sex having cool kids (gay and trans critics disappointed by it)

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

But the movie has no "and then" for them, it just lingers briefly in the afterglow of that climactic self-discovery. It's a jerk off movie about jerking off.

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And I think what leaves people, especially True Blue Sex Havers, cold about it is that it doesn't progress beyond the acknowledgment and embrace of these things, a thing they all did as actual teenagers. There's a strong sense of "okay. And then??"

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Miel @mxmarkus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

She's a child when watching camp miasma is her "queer awakening," these movies are positioned as an equivalent sensual childhood experience to sour patch kids and kfc, or the mother's bosom

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