iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Throwback to when I put Trainspotting quotes on the Obi Wan Kenobi show

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 30/09/2026

we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm just glad Lil Bub isn't around anymore to see what they've done to her Internet.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have literally seen dudes tailspin because of a super-casual "Pretty rapey/racist/weird/etc., dude." from a friend. Fuck some girl/brown person and their dumb opinions, they don't care about us. But they are 100% not prepared to hear it coming from you.

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have thought of this specific strip at least once a week during my adult life for situations in both home and work. At this point that is a lot of weeks. I HAD to find it again. I am so glad I could save you some work! Search engines are not what they used to be.

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Samantha Soma @sisoma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sharing, with deep appreciation to @randomgeek.bsky.social, who unearthed this Jerry Van Amerongen classic that’s been apparently haunting us both for years and years.

B/W cartoon panel of a woman holding a pan, looking expressionlessly at her male partner who is repeatedly slamming a can of soup against the counter, disgregarding the can opener immediately to his left. He is wearing a buttondown shirt with two pens in the chest pocket, indicating his technical prowess in other areas.

Text reads: Cohabitation Axiom No. 6: The less it appears you know how to do, the less you’ll have to do.

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Skooma Cat @madorilynx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lol, theres a burnt down Carl’s Jr here in Tucson, look what they did to the sign.

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Adventure (1980, Atari 2600) That led to D&D and many other RPGs, programming, art, world building, etc etc (I was already hyperliterate Tolkien kid so it was inevitable, but finding a secret door in Adventure was the triggering event)

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DK Liao @chosenconcept.dev · 16/09/2026

PSA: my vector graphics library for Godot and Unity is currently free on itch. I’m in desperate need of feedbacks please do try it out! #gamedev #indiedev #godot #unity3D

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I got into volunteering when I had money because of analysis paralysis ADHD version of effective altruism. How can I know how my money gets used and who can use it best? Hang out and help out. Clearly my primary concerns are those that can be easily localized. YMMV. Just avoid lazy semantics.

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That's not the issue. I've helped out at enough shelters to know: money freely given is the most useful contribution. Of course you want to know your donations help. EA is at best minmaxing the biggest bang for your buck and at worst ignoring today's hungry while claiming tomorrow will be better.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I would literally not be who I am now if I hadn't watched Aeon Flux/The Maxx.

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Cyannabelle 💙 @cyanschism.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

yoooo i tamed a crow

a screenshot of minecraft in which a crow is sitting on the player's shoulder

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't justify much of anything. I'm not trying to get to heaven or make a perfectly balanced investment spreadsheet. I support the hungry by sharing my food. I support art by buying art when I can. I support criminalized populations by emphasizing the service in an otherwise menial service job.

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning

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LEARNING | jerthorp

Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Basically “It’s vital I do what I want so the unborn multitudes who come after me can prosper,” which is just stock Manifest Destiny Christian nationalism nonsense.

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The semantic dissonance of “effective altruism” rubbed me wrong from the first time I came across the phrase (a book cover on a display island at Whole Foods, which sure sets the tone). If you add “effective” you make goodwill transactional, which sure as heck ain’t altruistic.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:

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Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why

Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 16/09/2026

ooh, I like this take - all the elements are present, so call it what it is: not liminal (which was never quite right, tbh), but gothic for a new generation of people who don’t remember why we built that shit in the first place, or what it was supposed to be *for*

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/09/2026

Here is our draft definition of 'artificial intelligence' from 1981. It was written by a lovely human.

Index card with Merriam-Webster's draft definition of 'artificial intelligence' from 1981

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Most of it is the fog of age, but—I mean we only had a couple genocides and global pandemics going on at any one moment.

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Do you understand how angry it makes me that I, certified cynical disaffected directionless latchkey kid Gen-X youth of the late 20th Century, have been looking back wistfully at the 1990s as a more innocent time?

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Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Whenever a beloved celebrity dies, I check to make sure they weren’t transphobic. Gloria Steinem went from Transsexual Empire-inspired transphobia in the 70s to full support in later life. Heroes change their opinions when they realize they’re wrong. www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic...

Anti-trans views and reconsideration
In February 1977, amid increasing anti-trans sentiment surrounding transgender athletes in general and Renée Richards in particular, Steinem published an anti-trans article titled
"If the Shoe Doesn't Fit, Change the Foot." Steinem claimed "transsexuals are paying an extreme tribute to the power of sex roles. In order to set their real human personalities free, they surgically mutilate their own bodies..." Steinem also embraced the conspiracy theory of "the transsexual empire" promoted by Janice Raymond.
In 2013, Steinem addressed z "words circulated out of time and context" from those previous writings:
So now / want to be unequivocal in my words: / believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make. And what / wrote decades ago does not reflect what we know today as we move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.
In 2021, Steinem signed an open letter supporting trans women and girls, saying, "I am proud to sign this letter because we all must fight against the unnecessary barriers placed on trans women and girls by lawmakers and those who co-opt the feminist label in the name of division and hatred."

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I know being silly but no, because you can sort of hear that if your inner eardrum is okay. Maybe you can't hear it, but system notes pressure changes and lets you know a bad noise is happening. Source: my impaired right ear, which still triggers misophonia. Also, pets.

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

and yeah still getting value. These are the little tidbits that don't always get into a microblog, or do so in a disjointed fashion. Still pondering a revisit to the scheduled blog note thing myself.

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

catching up on US politics "Lake America?" what do I do with the HOMES mnemonic HAMES? no that doesn't work SHAME aw hell

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

At my awful current job—oy. I recognize one outcome from a lifetime of undiagnosed ADHD, autism, dyslexia, PTSD, and sometimes actual mental illness, treated as a character or ethnicity flaw so long that it gets internalized. Even the actually dangerous ones, you can look at them and see the path.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

When I was a kid there was a popular series of history books that were like 90% cutaway illustrations like this of castles, temples, tombs, etc. Oh MAN I have not had that weird itch scratched in ages.

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What amazes me is how every video since from OK Go is exactly what you would expect if you took these guys right here and said “what if we provided you with a few million dollars to fund another video?” There’s an enduring endearing madness to their method.

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

youtu.be/M1_CLW-NNwc?... what do you MEAN this video is 17 years old

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OK Go - A Million Ways

YouTube video by OKGoVEVO

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There seems to be a clear status association with food types in the Homeric epics, in which unlike real Greeks, the epic heroes never eat fish, and only really talk heavily about roasted meats. Archaeologist Flint Dibble calls this 'food porn' for listeners. penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Jou...

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Homeric Heroes and Fish — Classical Journal 12:328‑330 (1917)

Brief note by John A. Scott: Homer was from Smyrna, where fish is not good. Part of a very large site on ancient Rome.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I have not been able to read my full timeline in a while but I see today is an excellent day to remind people that "social media addiction" is a made up thing and accepting that framing and using that term is actively harmful www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Overestimates of social media addiction are common but costly - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Overestimates of social media addiction are common but costly

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Jenn @geekgalgroks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm watching Rocky Horror with the audio description on and holy fuck I didn't realize how many small visuals I was missing.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Well, How 'Bout That?

Alt: Dr Frankenfurter saying, "Well, How 'Bout That?"

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

They want me to wear a tear-away lanyard at work for safety but I try to wear tear-away pants and they get all mad.

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Do what you love for a living and oh no

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Published in the Boston Globe a few weeks before ChatGPT was released in 2022.

I tell my students that writing — in the classroom, in your journal, in a memo at work — is a way of bringing order to our thinking or of breaking apart that order as we challenge our ideas. We look at the evidence around us. We consider ideas we disagree with. And we try to bring a shape to it all. Sometimes my students see the process differently. They see writing a paper as a hoop they are being asked to jump through, a way for me to evaluate them and pronounce them successful or not. In other words, they see writing solely as a product. If the end point rather than the process were indeed all that mattered, then there might be good reason to turn to GPT-3. But if, as I believe is the case, we write to make sense of the world, then the risks of turning that process over to AI are much greater.

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Tom Brazelton @tombrazelton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There’s a gas station near where I work where one of the employees calls everyone “boss” and his name tag reads “Old Man Dan.” He is awesome. That is all.

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Inbal Breda @greyannis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Might as well post it here! A magical girl animation I've been slowly chipping at over the weekends for ages.

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

current activity: making banana bread current status: surfaces are clean; I am covered in flour

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 06/08/2026

Today’s #Yardbug nearly gave me a heart attack when she unexpectedly landed beside me on the deck - but she’s just a moth. An enormous, terrifying, harmless moth.

She was longer than my thumb, I shit thee not. This is an American hornet moth, a mimic that can be a problem when its a larval thing - as the caterpillars bore into some native trees, and a bad one infestation can kill one - but this is the only one I’ve ever seen in my yard, and I think she’s magnificent. She was very chill, so I got a little closer for this pic. I love her fuzzy little body, which you can’t see without a macro. An excellent job of mimicry indeed!

Same creature from underneath - she looks like an enormous black and white hornet, but as you can see from this angle, she has no actual stinger.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"We may think companies are immoral, but that’s because we assume they are coldly dedicated to their bottom line, not making billion dollar decisions based on something someone sent them on Facebook."

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We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/07/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

The crowd looked at the last melon. They were street people. They knew the score. When the object can be under one of three things, and it’s already turned out not to be under two of them, then the one place it was certainly not going to be was under the third. Only some kind of gullible fool would believe something like that. Of course there was going to be a trick. There always was a trick. But you watched it, in order to see a trick done well.
Lord Vetinari raised the melon nevertheless, and the crowd nodded in satisfaction. Of course it wasn’t there. It’d be a pretty poor day for street entertainment if things were where they were supposed to be.

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Random Geek @randomgeek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“Millennial grey” is an alien with stocking cap, eco-friendly flying saucer, and an impressive vinyl collection. I am accepting no other interpretations.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

short version: the best version of Robin Hood ever put on screen is effectively a gay shakesperean proto-furry. oo-de-lally!

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