iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/10/2026

Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.

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Larian Studios @larianstudios.com · 04/08/2026

It's that time of year again, you naughty number-loving nerds.

Images of modded bald Lae'zel and a car (both mods by wa_rouk) with the text: 500 Million Mod Downloads an 13K Mods Uploaded

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Sera C.B. @ketirz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Finally tried Palworld. Caught my first Pal. Set up a base and gave it a job. By the end of the day it had depression. Most realistic video game I've ever played.

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Aj d'Wit (Audrey) @audjde.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It is hard living in our world at present, perhaps it has always been so, but I can only speak for now, and on my own behalf. I try to speak out, but am ignored ... so I write verse to help my heart and soul. #Verse #Poetry #ECK #Injustice #DarkSilence #HumanityIsDying

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Freezer @freezer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The first time I got Star Fox 64 I was a toddler. The second time I got Star Fox 64, I was graduating high school. The third time I got Star Fox 64 I started getting grey hairs and I now have glasses. This game is the fucking Cats In The Cradle song.

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

“You can pick any assortment you like or buy a special box complete with all letters, punctuation marks, and a book of instructions. Here, taste an A; they’re very good.” Milo nibbled carefully at the letter and discovered that it was quite sweet and delicious—just the way you’d expect an A to taste

A letter vendor holding up the letter B, and shouting

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Cosmic horror is great because it just kinda invents itself. Spend a bit too long thinking about the sun and you realize it’s a radioactive death ball larger than your mind has capacity to comprehend, so inherently dangerous that looking directly at it will harm you, and it’s just sitting there.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 24/05/2026

to = ➡️ two = 2️⃣ too = ➕ Toto = 🙏🌧️⬇️🌍

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ehehe_he🐸 @ehehenohe.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Frog Rather Than Flowers. 2026/05/24. (East Japanese Tree Frog)

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Northbus @northbus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

@overlysarcastic.bsky.social According to the article, Boat Lists = "cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife"

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Northbus @northbus.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Just finished a design review. Why am I trying to drive an ampere through eight tiny wires over two nanoseconds, two million times per second? This seems so far from the job I used to do of measuring nanovolts and picoamps...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Warwick Davis was 11 when he was cast to play 'Wicket' in 'Return of the Jedi'. His grandmother heard a casting call for people <4 ft., knew he was a Star Wars superfan. Mark Hamill reportedly bought him every Star Wars action figure he didn't *already* own.

A composite of Warwick Davis playing Wicket on Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi, laying on his front lawn with action figures, holding a Wicket toy or puppet, and being held by a young Carrie Fisher, our Space Mom, gods bless her.

"12 Year Old Warwick Davis’s While Filming Return of The Jedi
As you’re probably aware, actor, Warwick Davis who’s well known for his roles in movies such as Willow (1988), Labyrinth (1986), The Leprechaun (1993), and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) and it’s sequels, also played various characters in the many Star Wars movies. His first outing in the franchise was way back in 1983 when he played the heroic Ewok, Wicket in Return of the Jedi.

He was only 12 years old at the time of shooting and was obviously a fan of the hugely popular Kenner toy line that many of us were obsessed with during the 80s.

He liked the toys so much that he wrote this letter to George Lucas asking if he could send him some of the new ones, presumably anticipating the mad demand for them and not wanting to miss out.

Davis said he was paid £60 a day to play Wicket, but that he was living out his dream so would’ve done it all for free."

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Chopchop @chopchopok.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

2+2=4 is right. 2+2=5 is wrong. 2+2=🦞 is neither. It's not even wrong. It's just a lobster. But if you really wanted to be a dipshit, you could say "Aha you can't prove me wrong! You're just mad I'm right!!!" and run away screaming about lobsters. This is how a lot of internet arguments work.

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Seedy E @seedye.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Remembering the ancient ways

Screenshot from a BBC educational website. The expanded section reads:

"10. How to be polite and show respect

In the old days of feudal Japan, a samurai warrior would shout

You are trying to view Flash content, but you have no Flash plugin installed."

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 02/02/2026

Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

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brinsonmarie @brinsonmarie.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

"With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat-shaped holes in the Universe." -- Arundhati Roy

Illustration of black cats. The cats are stylized silhouettes, and inside each cat is space with stars. They're arranged in a spiral composition around a pink and purple star.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 16/01/2026

Star Trek Voyager started 31 years ago today on UPN. So Robert Picardo has been playing The Doctor for 31 years. A role he reprised in Prodigy (2024) and then yesterday in Starfleet Academy.

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Northbus @northbus.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

To Zanarkand youtu.be/jESFyYvrY-M?... Now that you hear it in your head, what else is there for me to say?

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An exhaustingly detailed analysis of To Zanarkand's music theory

YouTube video by 8-bit Music Theory

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Your annual festive reminder that Saint Nicholas bears an uncanny resemblance to Lieutenant Worf.

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Northbus @northbus.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

So many times I've done this. Props to Stranger Things for giving every major character a unique hairstyle so people like me can actually tell them apart.

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minbitt @minbitt.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

they're getting stronger

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 01/12/2025

I've finally found something that I've been looking for for years. Yes, it's an old colander... but it's there's something special and historical about the artefact... can you tell what's so extra interesting about it?

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Northbus @northbus.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Okay, that's an impressive stand to take, and one worth sharing.

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Northbus @northbus.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Ooh, that's a good one. Five movies to get to know me: - War Games - Interstellar - Mr. Holland's Opus - The Martian - Arrival

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Northbus @northbus.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

youtu.be/t_gCvlQDO1E?... "The moon looks fake, but it’s hanging there, Frozen sky tastes like wine in the cold night air. The lines hum and my heart keeps time, It smells awful sweet for a world on fire ’Cause the kid’s asleep and the lights still work, And I talk to the cats like it’s church."

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Being Alive

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Well, if it’s 6 October, it’s the 82nd anniversary of the day the world was deprived of Ignatius Trebitsch-Lincoln, who was born a Hungarian Jew, got elected to the House of Commons, spied for Germany in both world wars, and eventually declared himself the 14th Dalai Lama...

Frontispiece from Lincoln’s 1916 book Revelations of an International Spy, showing a man in a suit and bow tie, holding papers, wearing a moustache, and looking at camera through small round glasses

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 29/09/2025

Portlanders — show off your corner of war-ravaged Portland below.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

In Super Mario RPG, the Guerrilla enemy is a "knock-off" of Donkey Kong. This is referenced in a unique way by its Japanese name, which replaces two of its characters with similar ones as though on a bootleg product logo. In English, this could be conveyed as e.g. "Donkev Konq".

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Northbus @northbus.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Wow, Michigan's chief medical officer has set up a wonderful loophole for Michigan residents to be able to receive the latest covid vaccine: www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside... In summary, if you haven't received a 2025-26 shot, that counts as an underlying condition allowing you to be vaccinated.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Education is the enemy of fascism.

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Filigree 'Cranky Science Witch' @filigreemchana.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

3/ Fascism cannot stand mockery, especially of the stupid silly kind. This is actually one of our best weapons.

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Filigree 'Cranky Science Witch' @filigreemchana.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

2/ Do not talk about Bad Stuff* online, to anyone. * You know what I'm talking about. Re: Lesser Bad Stuff. We're gonna do dark jokes, cynical observations, celebrations of joy that will infuriate MAGA just by existing. All of us are already targets. Kowtowing servility won't save you.

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Filigree 'Cranky Science Witch' @filigreemchana.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

1/ Some stuff about posting. If your employer asks about your social media, you don't have any. If you have to put your Real Name in your social media, *don't* link directly to your employer. Nuking your LinkedIn is also a good idea, since it's a cesspool anyway. Researchers can still find you.

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Alyssa Visscher (she/they) @alyssavisscher.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It is an universally acknowledged truth that the lil autistic guy (me) on a call who has fully prepared the call's materials will be asked to introduce themselves first and will totally blank out because they hadn't prepared that social script, and will therefore verbally vomit the most random shit.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

i don’t think that was intentional on jalen carter’s part. the controls this season have sprint as L1, sleep until morning as L2, barter as R1 and spit as R2. spit should be in the quick menu

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

The statement, "in 100 years no one will know the difference between a booty call and a butt dial and that's why we need historians" (or something like that) has been running through my head all week and damned if this didn't pop up today on @askhistorians.bsky.social.

Is there a difference between keeping house and housekeeping when it's listed as an occupation in the US census records?

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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 03/08/2025

I'm having a rough go of it lately, and have been thinking: everyone is going through something, and you have no idea what it is, or how it's affecting them. Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.

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Northbus @northbus.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

youtube.com/watch?v=6dTy... Sick and resting and watching YouTube for the day. And no video has hit that sweet spot of education, inspiration, fascination, and like 3Blue1Brown's pi day episode this year.

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There's more to those colliding blocks that compute pi

YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

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