iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 16/10/2026

"The Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow" --JACK VANCE, THE STAR KING

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16/10/2026

You should not vote for fascism because fascism is evil. But also, you should not vote for fascism because fascism is stupid.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/10/2026

I don't believe they are conscious but I also don't believe you should get to do interviews where you say "idk man our business model might be built on enslaving sentient creatures" and still get to be a business.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Posted this in 2018. Still remember the night that prompted it. Still so relevant today. 🐝 🐝 🐝

Tweet by me saying “Every woman I know has been storing anger for years in her body and it’s starting to feel like bees are going to pour out of all of our mouths at the same time.”

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't know anything about this guy, but this is undeniably a clever and fun ad.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The wearer of this dress sounds as glamorous as the garment itself, Mrs Opal Halt, a Canadian who liked to buy her clothes in London. This is a mid #1930s Vionnet gown of black velvet with streamers on either side of the shoulders which look like a mini superhero cape #V_and_A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A slim, long black velvet gown with a bias cut skirt and a crossover bloused bodice. A coloured silk streamer is visible hanging down the back of one shoulder like a mini cape

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Women when they hear that right-wing men are going on a "Sex Strike for Patriarchy"

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Beyoncé's Surprised Reaction and Laugh

ALT: Beyoncé's Surprised Reaction and Laugh

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The Booooobarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Housecleaning by Nikki Giovanni

TEXT: Housecleaning
i always liked house cleaning
even as a child
i dug straightening
the cabinets
posting new paper on
the shelves
washing the refrigerator
inside out
and unfortunately this habit
has carried over and i find
i must remove you
from my life

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Mary Anne @pers1stence.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm sorry, the Summit-Gotham score line was WHAT now?

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A reminder that a ban on social media for under 16s is also this inevitably happening to the rest of us.

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Mary Anne @pers1stence.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

@theferocity.bsky.social catching up on podcasts. Heard you & z mentioned loving the JP Gaulthier style in the movie The Fifth Element. Made me wonder if you have seen The Cell with JLo?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/08/2026

My god. Everything is not a distraction from the Epstein files. They LIKE doing a fascism. The whole “exerting their power over the powerless“ thing comes from the same root. They are assholes in a large number of ways, and the Epstein files are one of those ways.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

See also: Don’t care who is hurt ✅ The keywords “white supremacy” and “gender-based violence” are not world-rearranging in terms of values and priorities ✅ Not concerned about accountability ✅

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I don't think it failed.

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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

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Southern Sylvs 🍉 she/her @southernsylvs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Idk, the guy with the Nazi tattoo not liking women seems on brand to me. Life could be so much easier for so many if racism was a deal breaker. Because it's never JUST racism folks. But hey, y'all got it.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/05/2026

"I'm really angry that this scifi writer whose work was stolen to train a probability machine that depletes water tables and raises electricity prices and is accelerating the transfer of wealth and capital toward men who actively hate other humans doesn't like 'AI," what a lack of vision they have"

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 13: Words can be distracting. It's very easy to be so drunk on words that you forget what you're really saying. That's why it's sometimes useful to strip down your sentences to the bone, and check that they're really conveying what you intended them to.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I had the strangest dream. I dreamed that my shoes—my comfortable, unfashionable wool shoes—were pivoting to AI. "But you're a shoe company," I said. "Just go out of business! Keep your dignity!"
My shoes thanked me politely for the great question and then tried to walk me off a bridge. That was how I knew that their pivot to AI was complete. From Allbirds to Allbirds (see, that L is an 1). Maybe I've cracked, I said to myself. Maybe this is the piece of Al news that has finally broken my spirit for good.

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We all have days like this

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Mary Anne @pers1stence.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

@sceneonradio.bsky.social - just finished the season 3 series you did on men/the patriarchy. I am curious if you have done, or have thought about doing, some kind of follow up episode to reflect on the trajectory you expected and whether your conclusions hold up, given the last couple years?

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auggie @autumndork.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I gather the SF&F subgenre formerly referred to as'blokes in cloaks' is now to be known as 'mantasy', and may be considered the counterpart to 'guy fi'. You may now go on with your day.

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Mary Anne @pers1stence.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Uhura and Spock turn 2 tomorrow

Small grey girl cat laying on her side facing a larger white and brownish cat also laying on his side. They are laying on a soft gray platform in front of windows so that their butts and back paws are touching. She is asleep. He has his head lifted slightly and is looking at the camera.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Without hesitation, John Cena comes off stage to hug a fan battling cancer and offer him some words of encouragement.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/03/2026

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

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needs emotional tuning @persian-slipper.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I tell myself this every time I get takeout or order pre-made meals. Ancient Roman apartment dwellers didn't cook for themselves, so why am I expected to?

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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus

Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Beautiful meditation to start a Saturday.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

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Spirit Squadron @spiritsquadron.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We stand with our friends @roseroomco.bsky.social and urge the @washingtonspirit.com to reconsider their decision to not host a game celebrating the Black DMV community, especially in a time when its needed most.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

As you would expect from Madame Grès, some ethereal loveliness worthy of a water nymph and dating to the mid #1940s, fluid, cascading. Via #didierludo #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A side by side image that shows the front and back of a long blue silk sleeveless dress. It has a pleated bodice and draped skirt with a deep cowl like collar at the back

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

It is a day and maybe you could use a goldfinch, so here, have this one, totally free

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 14/02/2026

It just happens that back in 2014 I made a bunch of Winter Olympic Lolcats. Let's have a look!

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Luge cat practices in its sleep

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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

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Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca · 08/02/2026

Joy doesn't wait for permission or perfect timing. It doesn't postpone itself until every wound has healed, until the chaos settles, until the ledger of life balances itself. Instead, joy emerges like wildflowers through concrete — in the spaces we least expect it.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I was talking about ctenophores last night and it just made me want to lay on a dock watching the animals go by so badly. This is the part of the winter where the length of time indoors starts to feel unbearable.

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Mary Anne @pers1stence.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This is why I have a hard time getting into Fandom communities. It often feels like too many folks idolize the creatives in ways that feel deeply unhealthy for my personal comfort level.

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