iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 6h

This is good but still presents an implementation challenge because Throw polling at 60% is misleading when Take polls at 5%.

A dog asks his human to throw his ball without taking the ball from him.

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SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social · 5h

You called me pedantic but what I think you meant was fastidious.

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 7h

hooo time to log off again

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 7h

*and*, if you're more in the nihilist-edgelord demographic: USAID was the greatest humint apparatus on earth

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 8h

if you think about it, winning via a direct connection to the divine father of all creation through His appointed emissary on Earth is a much more egregious cheating scandal than banging on trash cans

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 11h

If you missed today's @rinpharma.bsky.social workshop, here are a few of my favourite "quick fixes" for some common #ggplot2 issues 📊 1. Use {ggview} to preview plots at the same size and resolution as you want to save them with ggsave() to avoid the annoying resizing #RStats #DataViz

library(ggview)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) +
geom_point() +
canvas(
width = 6, height = 4,
units = "in",
dpi = 300
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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 19h

...in which I realise (should have known!) that my planed sources for 'most medieval poetry' may be incomplete... (This turns out to be a fragment from the 'Metrical Calendar of Hampson' which is in hexameters [what tipped me off]. One line per day of the year. There's an edition, but not free)

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Extremely important for multilingual research!

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

my exact experience of living in Switzerland, can endorse

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ppl that never saw SQL Slammer wanna talk about "apocalypse" smdh

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Retired software breaker here, this isn't how anything works. We had so many inflection points where all software was broken. In fact, over my career, the "apocalypses" (which were kind of fun and hilarious) just got morphed into capability for the military industrial complex and Those Governments.

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As I prepare for another early morning #BI393 Biostatistics lecture, came across this deep dive into the history (and errors ?!?) in the well-known "mtcars" dataset! #rstats jengianoulis.substack.com/p/secrets-of...

jengianoulis.substack.com

Secrets of the classic dataset "mtcars"

Back in time to Sunset Boulevard in the 70s

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R Works @rworks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The CRAN Top 40 is a monthly attempt to sort through the new packages submitted to CRAN and find 40 quality packages that demonstrate the #RStats language and appeal to a wide audience of potential users. We hope you find something interesting and maybe even useful. rworks.dev/posts/august...

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August 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works

The CRAN Top 40 is an attempt to sort through the massive amount of new packages submitted to CRAN every month and find forty, quality packages that demonstrate the broad use of the R language, and ap...

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

HOME for three weeks (north of Chiang Mai) before heading into European autumn. View from the balcony remains peaceful. Not pictured: *so much* frog and bird noise

A pano of a rice paddy in rural Thailand

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 29/09/2026

🤘 KICK IT 🤘 The Bird of the Year is the Black Robin/Karure, coming in like a tiny wrecking ball to smash the competition. Thread Project premium screenprinted tees in unisex and fitted sizes S-5XL. Pre-order this tee NOW: pepperraccoon.com #birds #boty #kikorangi

A detailed dark fantasy style illustration of a black robin on a branch, holding a tiny spiked mace. The words Black Robin are in high stylised handlettered text, and the border features Chatham Island forget-me-nots.

A flatlay of green t-shirts, featuring a detailed dark fantasy style illustration of a black robin on a branch, holding a tiny spiked mace. The words Black Robin are in high stylised handlettered text, and the border features Chatham Island forget-me-nots.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Want to play with corpora of the French 3rd Republic ? Want to join a nice team ? Want to do something else than LLM and have fun with smaller models as well ? Want to work with people in the humanities and the digital humanities ? Well, this might be for you 😄: jobs.inria.fr/public/class...

jobs.inria.fr

NLP Post-doc / Engineer for Information Mining in Historical Data (French 3rd Republic)

Offre d'emploi Inria

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have once again packed everything I own, ready to move countries. 😅

A 20kg checkin suitcase and an under-seat backpack

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 26/09/2026

Wall Series Nº 3 Richard E. Loftis, 1981. art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/4928...

black-and-white abstract photograph depicting a stretched, tensioned piece of fabric or a sheet with subtle, organic protrusions pressing against it from behind, creating soft shadows and highlights.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 25/09/2026

Colin Blanchard, ‘The Witch Hares’ www.colinblanchard.com/recent-print...

Hares arranged around and inside an inverted pentagram, enclosed by a circular ring of text.
The text reads the traditional folklore saying: "she returns to be she which a hare is :: a witch hare might be :: when to her form she :: a witch hare might be ::" referencing old British and European folklore about witches transforming into hares

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A #Roman glass bowl, in a beautiful cobalt blue with an irregular swirling white pattern. It looks amazing - especislly given that it is nearly 2000 years old! #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SEEN them? I've played Persona 5 where finding an exit is literally the first boss fight

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You are talking to a bright, eager undergraduate student in CS. They are convinced that scientific reasoning is not socially/culturally conditioned. That is, the scientific method is the scientific method, whether it's 2026 Canada or 1850 China. What would you recommend they read? (Note the CS & UG)

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This model and the computation are a qualitative advance in using diverse data to estimate human growth patterns. Unlike most models, this one is biologically parameterized, not just curve fitting. Is cool.

Figure 2. Simulated cross-sectional height data for 100 individuals (black points), where the thick black line is the true population-mean growth trajectory and gray lines are true individual trajectories. Horizontal lines connect each point to the potentially-inaccurate “observed” age for that individual (blue circles), which incorporates uncertainty in the age recorded for each child during height measurement. Note that uncertainty tends to increase with age.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is Lucan’s Pharsalia

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PoemOfTheDay @poemoftheday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📖 THE COMING OF NIGHT. 👤 Dickinson, Emily (1830—1886) How the old mountains drip with sunset, And the brake of dun! How the hemlocks are tipped in tinsel By the wizard sun! How the old steeples hand the scarlet, Till the ball is full, — Have I the lip of the flamingo

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📖 THE COMING OF NIGHT. 👤 Dickinson, Emily (1830—1886)

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

it literally could not be easier to run against an opponent who is fixated on a microscopic minority that isn’t actually harming anyone! focusing on imaginary threats posed by trans people instead of the world burning down around us is bad politics! point that out! loudly!

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

of _course_ Emily Wilson still has a Substack 🙄

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sometimes I just make "food" where idgaf about recipes or cuisines. This will be a chicken, stock from the chicken, a smoked pork hock, lima beans, leftover tomat, csabai, some olives, leftover pesto, etc, etc...

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Excited for this! Hypervisor bugs are the first step to a sandbox escape....

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 21/09/2026

Penzance in the Cornish Riviera British Railways travel poster Frank Sherwin, 1939 collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co22...

St Michael's Mount with the town of Penzance and Mount's Bay in the background sailing ships pass the Mount

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am treating this Steggles Family Roast chicken with extreme disrespect (thawing it by roasting it fanforced, prior to stewing the heck out of it)

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Ed Chirac @edchirac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Les chercheurs de l'Université d'Helsinki confirment les observations de terrain de @50euros.bsky.social : oui, les conducteurs de BMW ou d'Audi sont bel et bien des connards.

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Dr Alex A. @dralexa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s publication day! It’s a pleasure to finally see this edited volume in print. A massive thank you to my co-editors and to all the collaborators to the volume. It’s a pleasure to bring together a wealth of scholars from across the world, all asking questions about the Roman Censorship.

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Last cooking-for-guests before I leave for Belgium! Italian was requested, so: antipasti (got eaten too fast), fresh tomato with bocconcini and pesto olive oil, spaghetti alla nero di seppia with charred cherry tomatoes and truffle sauce, scallopini ai funghi. The kitchen this morning OMFG 💀

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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 19/09/2026

Today's OCR error: Bum, bum tree and fem! #hobbit

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Was it worth it?" absolutely savage. I am destroyed. Not even my bones remain.

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

pick a shirt! (except don't pick "Elf Sack" that one's mine)

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