iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The pope was talking about getting lost with GPS (a metaphor for depending too much on tech) and he say it happened many times in Peru, Italy, and Europe but “once” in the US. You guys… The pope lost his way on Lower Wacker.

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Geoff C @geoffcorr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Orland Park grasslands are putting on a show

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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

"So, what's your take?" "This is the water, and this is the well. Drink full, and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes, and dark within." "100% disagree."

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 08/05/2026

sorry to christopher nolan but this is the best adaptation of the odyssey

Wishbone And The Amazing Odyssey computer game cd-rom (1996)

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Hundreds of Beavers

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 10/03/2026

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

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sam blickhan @snblickhan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

@nathalieisonline.bsky.social sent me this today and it has brought me endless delight. Clown event still possible.

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Julie Beck @julieebeck.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I've been working on this for ages and it's finally up today! I was p. baffled by AI friendship, until I realized: AI is a logical, if extreme, extension of the kind of friendship our culture already values: individualistic friendship that is on your own terms www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

theatlantic.com

Friendship, on Demand

AI chatbots offer relationships that are low effort, completely personalized—and hollow.

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nathalie @nathalieisonline.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I help write a hyperlocal almanac for @avondalegardeners.bsky.social every year and right now I am in the midst of seed starting, so anyway yeah I love Gardening in Chicago

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nathalie @nathalieisonline.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I know that St. Patrick is anti-pagan and Not Cool but still, I had to take my beautiful son to the Chief O'Neill's Parade today ☘️🌈

A dog dressed as a rainbow and a man dressed as a leprechaun pose in a park in front of a sign that reads, "Brands Park Chicago Park District"

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Jamie Bernstein @uajamie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

ICE abducted six colleagues on a work trip and claimed they held them for just 90min before letting them go, but in actuality held them for 30hours with little food or water before releasing them at 5am 140 miles away, forcing them to hitchhike to a hotel where they could call their families.

blockclubchicago.org

6 Legal Residents, Including Skokie Woman, Detained At O'Hare, Held At ICE Facilities: Officials

Sundas Naqvi and her five colleagues — all legal residents — were held at two immigration facilities for days before they were released. Little explanation was given for their detention, officials sai...

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nathalie @nathalieisonline.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Great way to ring in my late thirties:

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Jamie Bernstein @uajamie.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It’s been heartbreaking over the past couple years to see political attacks on trans people escalating with so little pushback and often facilitated by the media and democratic politicians. The fact that trans people are now being essentially criminalized for existing in KS is a five alarm moment.

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nathalie @nathalieisonline.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

If you live in Ravenswood or Buena Park, go to your local coffee shop and pick up an @injusticewatch.org guide because i dropped a ton off today!

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 24/02/2026

State senator and current congressional candidate Mike Simmons was reported to Chicago police while canvassing for votes in the North Side Buena Park neighborhood Friday.

chicago.suntimes.com

Woman calls police on congressional candidate Mike Simmons as he canvassed in apartment building

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JGhoulFromNPumpkin @jgfromnp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This is me again calling on god wherever she is to abolish the Board of Review. Let Fritz cook.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 23/02/2026

your award is in the mail

trophy meme that says "u don't like thing, here trophy, trophy 4u, good job not likign thing, wow, clap"

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Chicago, Bike Grid Now! @bikegridnow.org · 20/02/2026

New week, new (and repeat) bills to slip for. By 4pm, Tuesday 2/24 at 3:30pm: - Please sign as "Self" in the firms/business field; - "Proponent; (unless noted)" and - "Record of Appearance only" See below on how to file a wtiness slips. Bills and links follow in this thread. (1/8)

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🚨IT’S HERE🚨: @injusticewatch.org’s guide to the 2026 Cook County judicial primary elections is live! With detailed info on all the judicial candidates on your ballot, from their legal experience, to bar ratings, top campaign donors, and more. #checkyourjudges injusticewatch.org/checkyourjudges

injusticewatch.org

March 2026 Cook County Judicial Election Guide | Injustice Watch

Injustice Watch's guide to the March 2026 Cook County judicial primary elections.

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nathalie @nathalieisonline.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Splitsville is on Hulu now and I’m begging you: PLEASE watch it, it’s so funny and good

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week. Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

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TomTom @tomtomchi.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

AIPAC candidates in IL- Miller, 2nd dist: Chicago S lakefront and SE side, S suburbs, Kankakee Conyears-Irvin, 7th: Chicago W side, Loop, inland S side, Oak Park, W Cook County Bean, 8th: N DuPage, NW Cook and N Kane Counties Fine, 9th: Chicago far N side, Evanston, near N and far NW burbs

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin

Illegal aliens and Latin hookers twerking at the SuperBowl.

Not a single white person or English translation at the Super Bowl.

This isn’t White enough for me.

Cant even watch a Super Bowl anymore because immigrants have literally ruined everything.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

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Victor Caston @vcaston.eurosky.social · 08/02/2026

A critique based on class. The aim: enslavement of the masses.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

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Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

For $36/year not only do *I* not have to shovel the sidewalk but that means *everywhere* I'd walk in the entire city would be shoveled too?? Feels like a deal to me...

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nathalie @nathalieisonline.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Raise your hand if you have been personally victimized by private equity firms open.substack.com/pub/yourbrai...

open.substack.com

Everything is private equity <3

Or how my quest to buy a bridesmaid dress ruined by day

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Important thread: for a long time I have been waiting to see a clear critique of vendor influence over the safety net space. This maps out the political economy of vendor capture of safety net systems.

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nathalie @nathalieisonline.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Thank you @ramirez.house.gov I’m so grateful to be your constituent!

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers. More here: www.wired.com/story/palant...

wired.com

Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti

“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

according to bluesky, working for ice is a protected class against discrimination lol

email from bluesky

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imagine showing up to your office job and there's a crowd of people in the lobby heckling you every morning. "no one likes your emails" "your tie is ugly" lol. anyways i think everyone who works for ice should kill themselves

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nathalie @nathalieisonline.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I’ll take any opportunity for a bean photo

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now

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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Scoop – Daniel Biss submitted a policy paper to AIPAC early in the campaign, a person privy to the document tells me But after speaking with Biss, they turned to Laura Fine, before trying to reach back out to Biss in August

evanstonnow.com

Biss campaign denies he sought AIPAC support - Evanston Now

And other top stories from the campaign trail this week.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

One of the first things anyone learns about facial recognition is that it is often wrong and that it is biased. And yet ICE is using it all day every day to determine legal status & who to detain. And now we have a high-profile example of it being flat out wrong: www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

404media.co

ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice

In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...

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SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

New list of acceptable names to rename Balbo Drive? forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

4. Which candidate would you like to be memorialized by an Italian Heritage monument at Arrigo Park?

Amerigo Vespucci
Antonin Scalia
Enrico Fermi
Florence Scala
Maria Montessori
Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini
Phillip Mazzei
Renato Dulbecco

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nathalie @nathalieisonline.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Finally got around to watching Chicago Works on @wttw.bsky.social and it absolutely ruled — the wig maker! The bridge operator! The gold leaf sign painters!!! I learned so much

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caitmarke.bsky.social @caitmarke.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Imagine what mambo #5 would be like today

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nathalie @nathalieisonline.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

personally thrilled at the slim possibility of a Bills/Bears because even though I don't care about football, 1) Bills Mafia is my birthright, 2) Bears football is also my birthright, and 3) I got into sports betting with free money as a bit last year and i have bets riding on both teams winning 🤡

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Julie Beck @julieebeck.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

first of all being a hater has gotten me so many friends. secondly, the newly common idea that venting means one friend bellyaching and the other being drained of their life force ignores the ideal, superior form of venting: mutual venting! sometimes we are mad together, nothing more energizing <3

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nathalie @nathalieisonline.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

a truly inconsequential pet peeve: We've swung real hard in the direction of soft-sounding baby names these days. Emma? Sophia? Liam?! Did we run out of T's and K's? Truly, these are nice names but where is the phonetic diversity!

A list of the Top 10 Baby Names for Males and Females in the US, sourced from the Social Security Administration:
Male names:
1 Liam
2 Noah
3 Oliver
4 Theodore
5 James
6 Henry
7 Mateo
8 Elijah
9 Lucas
10 William

Female Names:
Rank Male name Female name
1 Olivia
2 Emma
3 Amelia
4 Charlotte
5 Mia
6 Sophia
7 Isabella
8 Evelyn
9 Ava
10 Sofia

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