iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 5h

JD Vance shows up in Moby Dick. This book really has everything!

000

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Seems like some anti-creative, pro-theft-of-copyright bullshit to me! Very stupid decision.

010

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

On the train reading Persona by Aoife Josie Clements. The person next to me is reading an issue of Women’s Health that has “Transform Your Body and Your Life” on the cover.

000

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

What kind of fascist-enabling bullshit is this? Get fucked, Idaho Statesman.

010

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I appreciate what you're saying, but we also had laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act in place in 1900. It certainly was not open borders for all people coming to the US.

070

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It was really a great novel. And it gave me a nightmare! One (1) nightmare, but potent. Hadn't read something that did that in a while. Congrats.

010

Reposted by Niall Padraig Chonghaile

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

161757474

Reposted by Niall Padraig Chonghaile

LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

God I hope Michael Tracey gets the shit sued out of him

317012

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm a Long September truther. Your Mean Girls memes mean nothing to me. Happy September 33rd, everybody.

010

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I felt bad thinking it but there was one sentence where the cadence made me think "maybe AI". It is maddening that we even have to be suspicious like that nowadays!

000

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wait, are there people saying this whole article might be AI? Or just the photo?

101

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Literally a Freudian insight before Freud. Melville could do it all!

000

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yea, just checked both library systems I use and neither has a copy...it's from 1981 apparently...will have to track it down via used book sites.

010

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Have you read Wild Wood by Jan Needle? It's Wind... retold from the perspective of the working-class animals in the Wood, apparently. (Haven't read it but I love sideways retellings like that, so was curious.)

111

Reposted by Niall Padraig Chonghaile

Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just spoke with a retired NBA player who told me that when he got drafted, he went out for ice cream to celebrate and was denied service. All these stories are still within living memory and they're still being contested at the highest levels of our government.

11350271103

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I wondered if this had gotten worse or what the deal was. I really struggle to talk about myself in one-on-one settings (dates are...frustrating), so it's very easy to just default to letting the monologuists monologue at me. Maybe I can bring up this article on my next date.

000

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Luring my homophobic stepfather who loves sandwiches and the early aughts rock single Kryptonite to a PFLAG meeting

020

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you asked most people if Moby Dick contains the phrase “white weasel”, I bet they’d be like, “Nah”. They’d be wrong though.

010

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Beoga, one of the Irish bands that dropped out in solidarity with Macklemore, is legit really good. I’ve been listening to them a bunch just since yesterday. Some good to come from it anyway. Fires and Tradfather are great songs.

020

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As someone who only in the last few years has begun to realize my bisexuality, people talking like this are truly mind-boggling. Meanwhile I'm just walking around like, "Wow...ladies are pretty." What a raging loser.

000

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I hope that guy with the bundle of sticks is doing alright. I think about him sometimes.

000

Reposted by Niall Padraig Chonghaile

alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

5949461459

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Very helpful, and very depressing, analogy.

010

Reposted by Niall Padraig Chonghaile

Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.

475239024325

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just googling the name...is it the Jim Thompson novel from the 50s? I love crazy genre shifts like this, thinking I might read it.

100

Reposted by Niall Padraig Chonghaile

TW @twesq.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I laughed

11409477

Reposted by Niall Padraig Chonghaile

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.

311554409

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

lots of jamon iberico (if they eat ham)...tortilla de patata cuz it's everywhere and it's so good...yema, candied egg yolks, if they want to try something unusual (I don't know about "good", but definitely unique. Specialty in Avila.

000

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is great. Have you read the Innsmouth books by Ruthanna Emrys? I've read only Winter Tide; was thinking I need to re-read it and check out the sequel.

010

Reposted by Niall Padraig Chonghaile

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?

3749931544

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

How do you balance the reading you do? Reading books you'll blurb, re-reading old favorites, etc. Do you have times where you wander down bookshelf aisles to pick up random new reads, or do you usually have a planned TBR pile to go through?

010

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I worry about you all in Europe with this heat. Hope you can get some AC and cool down and take care.

010

Reposted by Niall Padraig Chonghaile

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 15/07/2026

We on the left really need to start treating the UAE with the same contempt for its (US-enabled) genocide in Sudan as we do Israel for its (US-enabled) genocide in Occupied Palestine.

25663206

Reposted by Niall Padraig Chonghaile

Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Good to know where the utterly unprincipled think the winds are blowing

018039

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Call me crazy but I thought the Nazi tattoo was pretty disqualifying 8 months ago! Not just getting it— but the narcissism of thinking that it would never matter, and that you deserve to be one of 100 people in the Senate despite such a choice. What a piece of shit.

000

Reposted by Niall Padraig Chonghaile

Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

415192754459

Niall Padraig Chonghaile @nonplyblcharctr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026