iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ruby, pretty ape machine @anontranshoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

woohoo, we're at $186 now, over 10% of the way there, which is good cuz I gotta pay this beast in 9 more days! I wish I could just wave an "I was homeless, bitch" wand to make this debt disappear, but alas the electric co isn't that forgiving

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The Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Banger. Frankly a salve against people weaponizing the language of accountability against survivors.

Our goal is not for every single person to feel comfortable and validated, our goal is to end cycles of harm. Fundamental change in the people who enact harm is by far our preference, but lacking that we understand that our responsibility is then to reduce or destroy their capacity to continue to enact harm on others. We don’t just sit on our hands and hope we can eventually convince them to change at the same time that their enacting of that harm continues to work in their own interest because they’re surrounded by people who think consequences for harm is the same as throwing someone in prison

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Is it not telling that the conversation of abolition has been co-opted so strongly by liberal values that anything beyond nicely asking an abuser to volunteer to engage in an accountability process is accused of being one-in-the-same with State violence?” butchanarchy.medium.com/against-a-li...

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Against a Liberal Abolitionism

In the explosion of interest in the topic of abolitionism during and after the explosive summer of 2020 its meaning and purpose has become…

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RebelleCunt @rebellecunt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You can also find us on CA @ $HeauxHistoryProject

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RebelleCunt @rebellecunt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good morning! Its a real bitch birthday and id love to see some d0nations made to @heauxhistory.bsky.social If you appreciate our work and care about Black SWer led efforts please share and send some love. Currently doing a $10 match training, hop on!

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Good Morning, Good Morning, Good Morning

ALT: Good Morning, Good Morning, Good Morning

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"John Richard Green, who is imprisoned in Texas, wrote that, w/ Long COVID, his health is “more messed up than the floor of a New York cab...Now I am bedbound, sick, and all alone." Vital feature by @octoberk.bsky.social about the disease's invisibility in prison. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...

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I interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system. - The Sick Times

While there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to me...

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Raani Begum @raanibegum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A long time SW friend of mine had a client of 20 years go about maliciously destroying her life because he didn't like that she needed a MINOR change in the relationship. Maybe it's so "2018" but old school advice exists for a reason. If you're good at this job, you create an environment ...

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Sometimes I feel old for remembering when the tech industry’s primary product wasn’t death threats

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Raani Begum @raanibegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm very sure that my customer voice sounds like an AI over text when I'm trying to get a booking confirmed

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And porn. DVD sales are up as much as 20% in states with online age-verification.

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Raani Begum @raanibegum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Funniest article that could have surfaced up on my feed when I logged on to the internet lmfao

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...

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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]

Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 04/09/2026

BREAKING Musk’s company xAI, backed by Trump DOJ, LOSES its motion for a preliminary injunction blocking Minnesota’s “nudification” ban. Background on All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/p/saturday-r...

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 01/09/2026

Fans have paid artists $168.7 million on Bandcamp Fridays. On Bandcamp Friday, we waive our revenue share for 24 hours so more money from every purchase goes directly to artists and labels. The next one is September 4. Start building your wishlist now: bit.ly/4x6nzKg

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Timeline cleanse from the Black Flute Brigade of Los Angeles.

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Raani Begum @raanibegum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My abs hurt from stress. But does it give me muscle definition? No

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The vast majority of guns in Haiti come from the United States. We are sending people back to Haiti to face violence that is driven by our guns. I cannot scream this loudly enough.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/08/2026

It is utterly damning of this country that a "Check If Your Salad or Your Guacamole is Especially Likely to Make Your Ass Explode" app is necessary, but since it is, I guess it's a good thing one exists

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AllThingsDre @allthingsdre.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This whole Taylor farms thing and all the food being infected with parasites. It's actually a very good example of why these conglomerants and monopolies shouldn't exist. You shouldn't be able to operate under one name and own 30 brands that do the exact same thing

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

this must be the legendary they/them pussy i hear people talk about

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victoria @vashetc.blacksky.app · 21/07/2026

Looking to speak with any Black folks in New Mexico, Arizona, Missouri, Maryland, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Washington, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, or Colorado (whew) who have had their Medicaid or SNAP benefits abruptly canceled! (I’m writing about how AI systems are denying benefits)

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Raani Begum @raanibegum.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Why can't I get courtesy texts when a Dr is running late

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Raani Begum @raanibegum.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I, too, do not want to survive this economy

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Monthly update to my website Destroy What Destroys You! Check out what I created and shared in June, what I’m working on now, and new additions to the library 😁 butchanarchy.noblogs.org/post/2026/06...

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New in June – Destroy What Destroys You

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

They've tried nothing, and they're all out of ideas.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

Rashid is a sugarcane farmer in Jhang District, Punjab province, where temperatures regularly exceed 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) during peak summer months, transforming agricultural work into a form of biological endurance that few understand. Just last summer, the city of Jacobābād in Sindh province recorded 51°C — making it one of the hottest human-inhabited places on Earth and creating conditions that push human physiology to its absolute limits. When I first examined Rashid in my Lahore clinic in early 2022, I noticed something that didn’t fit the typical decay pattern I’d seen in rural patients across six years of dental practice. This wasn’t the gradual erosion from poor hygiene or untreated cavities that you’d expect in communities with limited access to healthcare. This was aggressive, systematic dissolution — as if teeth were being chemically attacked from the inside out, dissolved by forces entirely beyond individual control or comprehension.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The myth underlying this is that trans people (trans women specifically) were ever "invisible." We were objects of fascination, scorn, mockery, and fetishizing long before 2014 (for about the entire history of mass media really). What really broke a lot of brains was the idea we deserved dignity

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This thread. I have been a disabled artist since ‘09 and taught and mentored many disabled artists. Disabled art contains v sophisticated philosophies, far beyond many abled ppl’s understanding, & the assumption that we need AI bc ‘we can’t’ is L-O-L. Also, access aides for artists—humans!—exist.

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Who Even Reads @whoevenreads.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hey, it's us! In The Sick Times! 😍😎 Famous! If you haven't already, check out our piece on Covid-conscious practices in indie bookstores And book people, you can subscribe on whoevenreads.com for immediate access to our future books coverage 👀📚 #booksky 🙏

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 13/05/2026

For a fictional exploration of MOVE, who were bombed in Philadelphia on this day in 1985, look to the novel THE UNSETTLED by Ayana Mathis. Art will light the way!

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The Unsettled: A novel

A novel

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victoria @vashetc.blacksky.app · 15/02/2026

Hi everyone, I wanted to share a research study I just launched on rest, energy, & ME/CFS, open to people with ME/CFS & medical or healthcare providers who are currently practicing or conducting research & have had at least 1 patient or participant with ME/CFS. Visit restandmecfs.com for more.

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researchdoom @bananaintherama.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I would add that the current obsession with turning hobbies into monetisable side hustles and professionalising hobbies into revenue streams has completely sapped the joy of simply doing / trying things just for kicks. Also, how many artists have we lost because education no longer values the arts?

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

May Day memorial in Kyiv, Ukraine for the Haymarket anarchist martyrs

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RI DaSēr @sotreu.blacksky.app · 30/04/2026

Idk man, if you actually took seriously the notion that amerikkka is an antiblack genocidal settler colony built on chattel slavery, that its main political project has been the disempowerment of Black and Native peoples, and that its reform is impossible, today comes as less of a shock.

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I just made a series of rage noises

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

It's never been a war on drugs, it's always been a war on drug users

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 22/11/2024

Hi! You're seeing this because someone noticed you posting an image that doesn't contain alt text. This is not a scolding! You are loved! But everyone needs to be convinced using alt text is socially mandatory. (I sure had to be shown the way as well!) Would you mind reading this🧵 about it and why?

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/04/2026

ah the irony of claiming it's "mumbo jumbo" when they are going to discover AI is research misconduct statistically so too doi.org/10.31234/osf... oopsie poopsie

The three aforementioned related themes sketched out in this
section, will play out in the AI-social psychology relationships we
will examine — namely:
a. misunderstanding of the statistical modelswhich constitute contemporary AI, leading to inter alia thinking that
correlation implies causation (Guest, 2025; Guest & Martin, 2023, 2025a, 2025b; Guest, Scharfenberg, & van Rooij,
2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025);
b. confusion between statistical versus cognitive models
when it comes to their completely non-overlapping roles
when mediating between theory and observations (Guest
& Martin, 2021; Morgan & Morrison, 1999; Morrison &
Morgan, 1999; van Rooij & Baggio, 2021);
c. anti-open science practices, such as closed source code,
stolen and opaque collection and use of data, obfuscated
conflicts of interest, lack of accountability for models’
architectures, i.e. statistical methods and input-output
mappings are not well documented (Barlas et al., 2021;
Birhane & McGann, 2024; Birhane et al., 2023; Crane,
2021; Gerdes, 2022; Guest & Martin, 2025b; Guest, Suarez,
et al., 2025; Liesenfeld & Dingemanse, 2024; Liesenfeld et
al., 2023; Mirowski, 2023; Ochigame, 2019; Thorne, 2009).

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Surprised but happy to hear that the AI bros have solved all the problems of hermeneutics with their rigorous text analysis machine!

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Raani Begum @raanibegum.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This is not true. The world's poorest are already in the fuel crunch and rapidly adopting indigenous AND modern renewables faster than the elite can blink

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Raani Begum @raanibegum.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

My medium take of the day is that Americans often don't understand the difference between malicious gossip and "cancellation" and that difference hurts movement spaces.

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Caty Simon @marginalutilite.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Currently only $355 short to opening an hour early for programming next time for Whose Corner Is It Anyway, our group by/for low-income, housing insecure sws + trafficking survivors who use drugs! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon

Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 21/04/2026

Warning: Do not run AI Agents on any device used to access Signal or other content that you want to keep safe + unsurveilled. We made this graphic to be posted in your Signal groups to explain what the threat is. Share it widely if you can. More at AISnitches.org

A black graphic with large abstract purple bubbles in the background. The white text says:

WARNING: DO NOT RUN AI AGENTS ON ANY DEVICE USED TO ACCESS SIGNAL

What is an AI Agent?
Agentic AIs are programs that access all the data on your device to do autonomous tasks like manage email or make reservations. Examples include OpenClaw and Microsoft Recall. An AI agent is not a chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude.

Why not?
AI Agents save everything that appears on your screen, including Signal messages. Storing encrypted or disappearing chats (potentially forever) violates community expectations of privacy & puts all your contacts at greater risk of surveillance.

Is Signal still safe?
This is a human error problem, not Signal's error. Signal remains the best tool out there for private messaging.

What the absolute F#@K?! How can I stop this?
Help keep each other safe by sharing this message to your Signal groups and contacts. Learn more + yell at Big AI over at AISnitches.com

- Your friends at Fight for the Future

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Raani Begum @raanibegum.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This is because long COVID patients discovered nicotine patches helped stabilize or increase their energy thresholds. It is a grotesque co-optation

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