iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it's not hyperbolic to say that if the ways you talk and think about disabled/sick people (as well as the COVID precautions we may take) are indistinguishable from how fascists talk about disabled/sick people—even down to the same statements—then you have a fucking problem.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...

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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really? People still haven't processed that death is not the only possible negative outcome from a Covid infection? Many ableists are going to learn some hard lessons in the years to come - and will see if they have people in their lives who are willing to continue to give a shit about them then.

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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Governments everywhere declared the pandemic over without cleaning indoor air, public health didn't explain how COVID spreads or the long term risks of infection (+ reinfections), we’ve all been forced back to normal (but with covid in the air) and large accounts here are dunking on people

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

another thing that hurts my heart is how much people who still mask do to understand why both strangers and loved ones feel the way they do about masking—or lack thereof—but there is rarely such curiosity the other direction, but rather, more often, almost a simmering contempt.

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

keeping kids safe from infection should matter to you, thus the tools that achieve this—from vaccines to air cleaning tech—should also matter. if you care about vaccines, fight for them; in the meantime, mask up, open a window, & crank up those air purifiers—the virus doesn’t care about bureaucracy.

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every time I listen to SZA's "Prom" I think of how amazing a full album collab with M83 in this dreamy '80s vein would sound, she does this so well 😍

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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Manwë told me Melkor keeps harrying the Firstborn of Ilúvatar so I asked how many Elves he has and he said he just goes to Middle-Earth and invites more Elves on the Great Journey so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding the Quendi to Morgoth and then Nienna started crying.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Be wary of those who say "humanity" without mentioning the need to overcome its division into classes, nations, races..

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

re: AI extinction (from Why We Fear AI) It turns out that looking first at an earlier transition is strikingly illuminating about many properties of the current historic moment. That transition, with its then-brand-spanking-new technology created a surprisingly similar media flurry.

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If this was a cyberpunk dystopia worth a damn we’d all have cobbled-together black market personal surveillance scramblers by now

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think it's Very Good that every single person I know who is working in tech is fed up and nauseated and yearning for a way out that doesn't blow up their life. I think that's Great.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You don't owe anyone (friend, genre, scene, yourself, etc) your taste in music by the way. Big mistake I made when I was younger was to only to listen to things that served an image or a social position. Your musical taste should be free, as limited and as open as you want it to be.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

After decades of being told "there is no alternative" that any idea of a world without inequality, scarcity, and hardship was the most dangerous utopia idea, we are now being sold that same idea repackaged as the future AI will bring.

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hearing from friends and seeing lots of "caught Covid again" posts, both of which are usually only talking about acute severity (or lack thereof) - wanted to share a lovely zine from @counterintuitive.bsky.social with up-to-date info from studies on (and tips on how to avoid) these repeat infections

laurellynnleake.com

WHY WE MASK – LAUREL LYNN LEAKE

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026

The most tragic view of this era is the one where people are like these people are trying to kill me, let me see where they’re coming from

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I reviewed Gil Duràn’s new book on tech-fascism and Silicon Valley’ panoply of hard-right ideology so vividly on display here since 2022. Give it a read -“ The Nerd Reich” is a unique book that steers readers through the obscure and, frankly, insane ideologies of SV’s oligarchs

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The better AI gets, the more (and more subtle) AI psychoses we're gonna see, especially among intellectually inclined people. Not because the machines make you insane, but because it's becoming painfully obvious that sanity isn't just an individual-level property, but something social, ...

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

empires don't announce that they're in terminal decline, you just start to see headlines like this appearing

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

An editor from the economist telling @olivia.science that nobody confidently understands the difference between the human cognitive capacity for language and a corpus. Idk about you, but to me (as a linguist and cognitive scientist) this is absolutely hilarious

Olivia Guest, quoting Dr Katie Twomey: exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

Followed by Economist Editor Matt Steinglass saying "I am not sure that I or anyone else confidently understands the difference between those."

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Speaking of Dobby, I often think about how people who haven’t read those books would be surprised to learn just how many pages are devoted to defending slave labour

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change.

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Very pleased to announce that we found a great home for @thelitcritguy.bsky.social to write about haunted houses in the American horror imagination. Debt, inheritance, trauma, financial speculation, the truly American question of who owns what, and how—this one has it all and Jon is a genius critic

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Everyone keeps trying to appease the nazis by being more like the nazis and all that happens is you get more nazis if only there were some sort of historical precedent for understanding this process

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/08/2026

people could respond to this framing around reporting deaths—"had significant underlying health conditions"—with more confidence if we weren't also living through a pandemic in which we have been told only people who have "underlying health issues" are "vulnerable" or "at risk"

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I have friends dealing with chronic health issues from long covid, loved ones who lost family members to COVID, and immunocompromised friends who have to be very careful still to not get sick and die. Sorry if posting about COVID is annoying but it's not over and I wish people took it seriously.

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Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In light of what’s happening in Congress today, it’s worth reiterating - Masks work and masks mandates work even better: the scientific evidence is undeniable. Anyone who insists otherwise is either willfully ignorant or is misleading you. www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-c...

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ANSWERED: Can COVID-19 Be Prevented?

A Collection of Peer-Reviewed Scientific Research (40+ Studies)

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 27/07/2026

"The quiet normalization of COVID-19 in our society has come at the great expense of school-age children and adolescents." thesicktimes.org/2026/07/24/t...

ID: Collage graphic with two dark silhouettes, one of a young man and one of a young woman, against a background photo of a school hallway, with linoleum walls and red lockers on either side of the image. The text reads, “The Sick Times. The (sick) kids aren’t alright: Observations from a teacher with Long COVID. We must help students by addressing Long COVID and advocating for clean air in schools. By Flynn Lovelace.”

If we want kids to have the opportunity to learn, to grow, to be, then we must do what we can to keep them alive and well. To quote Madeline Lane-McKinley from her book Solidarity with Children, “We cannot allow ourselves or each other to surrender the future.”

- Flynn Lovelace, The (sick) kids aren’t alright: Observations from a teacher with Long COVID

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Why Bernie Sanders is wrong - and nationalizing AI is a bad idea "AI is, above all else, a weapon of class war from above. Whether it’s the state that wields it or corporations does little to change that fact."

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The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI

AI is not a neutral technology whose benefits need to be redistributed. It is a weapon of class war from above, designed to cheapen labor and concentrate power. Nationalizing it does nothing to change...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

the reason we dont have medicare for all is bc corporations need employer based healthcare to keep you chained to your desk in a job you hate that doesnt pay you what youre worth

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

ALIEN (Scott, 1979)

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My favorite musical discovery so far this year - luscious psych-folk, big recommendation if you're a fan of Weyes Blood / Jessica Pratt / Angel Olsen

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Infinity Baby, by Baby Cool

11 track album

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

one of the saddest things I've realized over the past year of my life is that in our society, if you're experiencing deep hardships and struggles, most people, instead of moving closer to support you, actually distance themselves or even abandon you altogether

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Love to see Argentina get completely dominated end to end, Spain with an absolute tour de force through the whole tournament, a well-deserved win with some beautiful football

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

quick question: what the fuck is this

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Spain: we’re here to play the beautiful game at the highest level Argentina: if at first you don’t succeed, foul, foul again

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

ok the second half has been way more entertaining 😂

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

France at the forefront of poststructural innovation once again, this time on the football field

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Okay. Officially my fave character in Widow’s Bay. Because that’s how you handle that situation.

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"But a genuine assessment of the world’s climate predicament needs to...be grounded in a critique of really-existing-capitalism. The central problem is not the pace at which renewables are being added, but the social and economic system that determines trajectories of global energy use."

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Renewables, ‘Electrostates’, and other Myths of the Green Transition

The start of this month marked the publication of the 75th edition of the Energy Institute’s 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, the flagship publicly available dataset on global energy productio...

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