iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Designercon @mahoukarp.com · 09/02/2026

world hard and cold but chicken nugget soft and warm

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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 01/02/2026

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🧵 I’m in my sickbed, looking tragic yet beautiful [think Lord Byron], & considering the world. There is no doubt about it, that everyone feels at least a little anxious & some of us, afraid. So let me share 10 small things to help you feel less on edge & more mellow?

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I cannot emphasize enough that the New York City subway is not scary. It’s one of my favorite parts of living here. I grew up in the suburbs having to drive on highways everywhere and that’s way scarier

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"...the imagination is not an optional extra, which we can humour in our children but safely discard in adulthood. It is at the very heart of everything. It is deadly serious, the necessary condition of political change, of love. It is the sharpest tool of ethics." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?

Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 24/01/2025

At a time where it feels like we're losing, we need to remember our victories that not only have happened in the past, but continue to exist today. Thus I give you, California Condor 926 of the SoCal flock. Great grandchild of Condor # 1. We as humanity can still do good things. #birds

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Alison Hennessey @alisonhennessey.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I went to the Science Museum yesterday and as well as having a ball with my nearly four year old in their amazing child spaces (god love free London museums) I was utterly charmed by this caption.

A caption from an exhibition in the Science Museum in London about a model of an Apollo 11 lunar module built by a 12 year old boy, which reveals at the very end that the creator of the model now works as Curator of the Museum’s Space Technology Collection.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 21/01/2025

Historians have long believed that native Hawaiians greeted Captain James Cook as a god... until a spicy debate broke out 30 years ago. In my newsletter, I look into why neither side of this infamous debate included any Hawaiian perspectives. And why it matters. buttondown.com/charliejane/...

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They Debated Hawaiian Beliefs, But Didn't Listen to Native Hawaiians

Welcome, new subscribers! If you just subscribed to this newsletter as a result of my livestreamed conversation with Rebecca Solnit et al., then you can read...

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N*Kim @nkimillustrate.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

제주도 Jeju Island

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Run out of numbers? This printer seems to have improvised for signatures: the 2 is a z, the 3 was a B, the 4 is a broken st ligature & the 5 is a broken S(?). Suetonius’ Lives of the XII Caesars, printed at Venice in 1480, probably by Johannes Rubeus. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.3.B.3.152[4304].

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Donald Childs @scupper.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This reminded me of Twitter pre-Musk. Thousands of journalists and citizen journalists around the world getting controversial news coverage out of repressive countries NPR-How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris www.npr.org/2024/10/28/n...

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How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris

The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2022, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in southern France.

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The Sex Work Historian ☂️(#DecrimNow) @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

(1/3) November 10 is #SesameStreetDay! Fun fact: In 1977, on an episode of Sesame Street, Buffy St. Marie became the first woman to breastfeed on national television.

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

“You cannot be neutral. You must either join with us who believe in the bright future or be destroyed by those who would return us to the dark past.”—Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin. Suffragist, civil rights activist. Recruited Thurgood Marshall to the NAACP. Make her proud. Vote.

Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin. A portrait of a Black woman with short hair, looking up and to the right.

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Inez Milholland toured to agitate for women’s right to vote. Despite having pernicious anemia and against the advice of her family, she persevered. She died at 30 after collapsing in the middle of a speech. Her last public words were “how long must women wait for liberty?” Make Inez proud. Vote.

An image of Inez Milholland, a White suffragist wearing white on the back of a horse. She is holding a banner saying “forward into light.” Above and below the illustration, the words “Inez Milholland Boissevain, who died for the freedom of women.”

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No Proscenium @noproscenium.com · 19/10/2024

Thanks to the influx of #newskies we've updated our #Immersive Sky Starter Pack. This one brings together IRL and #XR immersive creators, journalists, and more key figures across #gaming, #performingarts, #themedentertainment, and art. go.bsky.app/FcLHUFg

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Noah J. Nelson, Spooky Cat Enthusiast 🎃 @noahjnelson.com · 19/09/2024

We run a little shop that punches way above its financial weight. I’d sure love to be able to have the resources to professionalize what we do: from paying my own taxes on time to have stipends for our reviewers (and a freelance budget). If #immersive *anything* is your deal: become a backer!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2023

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum one of my favorites from the entire series

“Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

“It’s a lot more complicated than that - “

“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes -“

“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”

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Fact Walrus @factwalrus.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Every city should have a walrus signal that you shine into the sky whenever you have crimes to solve or a burrito that needs eating

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

About 8% of trans Americans have already changed states because of bigotry. That’s 130k-260k people. If each of those brought just ONE family member on average, that’s 260k-520k people. These are Oregon Trail numbers (about 400k went to OR/CA/UT on the trail). Will we get a video game and monuments?

A green and black screenshot from the 1980s computer game Oregon Trail. It shows a covered wagon being pulled by an ox and some mountains. There is text that says “You have died of hate.”

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

My phone just autocorrected “eepy” to “republicans” and that is NOT OK, PHONE

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 12/08/2023

I love how chickadees chirp their name: 🎶 chickadedededede🎶 (📷 Steven Menalson)

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

Turns out basically nobody regrets masculinizing top surgery. Median satisfaction score was 5/5, median regret was 0/5. The responses were so uniform they couldn’t even do a lot of statistical analysis, because, like, everybody was still happy two years later. 🧪

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No regrets: Gender-affirming chest surgery in adults has long-term satisfaction

Evidence of high satisfaction among adults getting gender-affirming care.

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($3.11/$100) Kay Salvatore 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉 @iwritecoolstuff.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

"The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see." — James Baldwin

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/08/2023

I'm a "Coke Zero and Social Media" writer, but I do manage to squeeze out a book or two between posts and sips sometimes

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2023

How did the America-native turkey become the Official Food Of Renaissance Fairs And Other Ye Olde Places(tm)? Turns out once the Spanish imported them, Europeans went wild for tasty turkeys. By 1629, the Puritans even brought turkeys with them back to America, a huge waste of valuable boat space. 🧪

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How Turkey Spread Around the World

One bird’s journey from the forests of New England to the farms of Iran

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

Story on kelp forest decline and restoration work from The Nature Conservancy CA: “in the past 10 years, 96% of kelp forests in the region have disappeared… From San Francisco to Oregon, nearly all that remains of one of the most productive ecosystems on Earth is an underwater wasteland" 🧪

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The Vanishing Kelp Forest

Unchecked populations of purple sea urchins are devouring California's iconic kelp forests, but pioneering scientists are working to put the ecosystem back in balance.

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.” - James Baldwin. Seems appropriate to post today when talking about anti-Blackness in tech and occasional nice words vs repeated failures to act in a way that reduces harm and improves all experiences

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Ida Clemens @idaclemens.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

I say this as a trans woman who has already fled Texas: you'd think queer people would understand giving the government the power ban things just because a majority have decided it's morally objectionable is, like, bad for us

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

seeing a lot of free speech discourse today. I too want Nazis to not exist. But crucially they want *me* to not exist too, and the 1st amendment is one of the best tools we’ve got for making sure they can’t use the government to do that

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Anonsee Storyweaver 🕸️ @anons.ee · 30/06/2023

Anyway some of y’all need to study this and figure out where you *really* fall because a lot of y’all don’t even reach White Confessional. If you white, I want you to share this.

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

Daily Walrus Fact 🧪 : Sometimes walruses roam away from home. This walrus, Wally, got on boats. The new boats were overwhelmed by the sudden walrus mass on top of them, and the boats sank. He then moved on to different boats and sank them too. This is not a metaphor, why would you think that?

Wally the Walrus sinks a boat. Photo Paul O’Sullivan, Bristol Post.

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 30/06/2023

Walrus fact of the day 🧪 : Walruses spend a lot of time in cold water and on the beach, so they need a strong temperature regulation system! They change their blood circulation on land, which is why Mr. Dozer here is pinkish. When they get back in the water they turn grey as they redirect blood.

A giant slightly pinkish walrus. Photo Point Defiance Zoo

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2023

Walruses gather in huge many-thousand walrus “haulouts.” They commute to the feeding grounds. As ice disappears, they’re using beaches more and more often. This causes crowding and longer commutes, leading to additional stress. Filmmakers spent a fascinating season with a scientist, article here: 🧪

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Where Walruses Go When Sea Ice Is Gone

The short documentary “Haulout” follows a scientist on a remote Arctic beach who witnesses the chaotic effects of climate change on Pacific walruses.

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2023

What actually helps suicidal people? A systematic review says: training primary care physicians in depression recognition and treatment, educating youths on depression and suicidal behavior, as well as active outreach after a suicidal crisis, CBT, DBT, and means restriction all prevent suicide 🧪

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2023

people are real quick to call transphobic policies that lose in court a “waste of money” and “obviously wildly illegal” but won’t you please think of the politicians? how will they achieve new frontiers in discrimination if they spend time thinking about pedestrian concerns like “the constitution”?

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 28/06/2023

But not the original function of the tusks! Walruses evolved on ice-free temperate coastlines and likely initially arose as weaponry associated with sexual selection/competition, much like deer antlers - later co-opted for benthic feeding and ice 'walking'!

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 28/06/2023

Walrus tusks are their upper canine teeth. Their genus name, Odobenus, means “tooth walker,” and one of the big uses of the tusks is to haul themselves up on ice floes. Basically their tusks are giant built in ice picks. They also sometimes use them as a kickstand for sleeping 😂 🧪

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Kristyn Plancarte on Instagram: "Imagine having a “kick-stand" for your face 😂. . At only 7, B...

761 likes, 10 comments - Kristyn Plancarte (@kp.assionate) on Instagram: "Imagine having a “kick-stand" for your face 😂. . At only 7, Balzak and Lakina’s tusks are..."

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 27/06/2023

I’m also going to do a week of walrus facts, because walruses deserve it. Someone wanted to know if walruses have a prodigious appetite for oysters, like in the Lewis Carroll poem. Most of a walrus’s diet is bivalves, the family of clams and oysters. So… yes! They suck the meat right out. 🧪

A big walrus in the sea. Photo Allan Hopkins on Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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one note parody account devolved into railing abou @walkingjalopy.bsky.social · 25/06/2023

I was going to start a site called the distinguished bachelor where you could buy oak separators to keep clean and dirty laundry piles from touching but they won't let me file for incorporation and bankruptcy at the same time and I refuse to make two trips

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MxVoid @mxvoid.com · 22/06/2023

Biologists: “Awesome, now that genome sequencing is cheap, we can use *genetics* to determine relatedness, not just morphological differences and similarities!” *Many taxa showing that horizontal gene transfer and hybridization are far more common than originally thought* Biologists: “Aw, fuck!”

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 22/06/2023

At the depth of Titanic, there’s more than the weight of an adult male white rhino on every *inch* of a submersible. (There are also far more inches on the Titan submersible than there are rhinos in the world) 🧪

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