iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 24/09/2025

i made a helpful reference

$top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby$

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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

INVENTOR: i have just created the push button MARKETING GUY: should i do a press release INVENTOR: that’s how it works, yes

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/04/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

Do you understand what I'm saying?"
shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!"
"Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm.
"What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who told you that?"
"I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People," said the golem calmly.
"I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!"
"No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.

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Dane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

applying for jobs again

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Liars and cowards

April 7
Liz Oyer, pardon attorney: In February, I was assigned to a working group that the attorney general created to restore gun rights to people convicted of crimes. I was asked to identify suitable recipients, so I looked for people who had committed minor low-level offenses in the very distant past and demonstrated exemplary conduct in the community for many years since their conviction. The pool was narrowed to nine people. And then I was asked to add Mel Gibson to the list.
Mel Gibson has a history of domestic violence, and I'm well aware from my experience and training that it is very dangerous for a person with a domestic-violence history to possess a firearm.
As attorney general, Bondi has the power to restore rights without my blessing. My recommendation was sought, I believe, to give a veneer of legitimacy to what was actually a political favor for a friend of the president. I said I couldn't recommend restoration. And then I waited for the other shoe to drop.

I finally got a phone call from Paul Perkins, an associate deputy attorney general. It was strongly suggested to me that Mel Gibson is someone who had a personal relationship with the president and that really should be all I needed to know. I felt sick. I literally did not sleep at all that night. I wrote back still not making the recommendation.
At 2 o'clock that afternoon, I was in a meeting when I learned that I was fired. My deputy told me to grab my bag and literally pulled me out of the room by my elbow and told me in the hallway that she had gotten a call saying that there were security officers in my office waiting to walk me out of the building. I threw everything into a grocery bag and walked out of the office. I passed a lot of people I knew on the way out, and everybody was just looking on in shock.
Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, issued a statement saying that I was lying about the circumstances leading up to my firing. Then I was invited by the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to testify in front of Congress. The administration sent armed U.S. Marshals to my home to deliver a letter warning me about testifying. A career employee who was still at the department helped me get it called off before they got to my house, where my teenager was home alone. I felt the purpose was to intimidate me.
And I think it was intended to send a message to other department employees, too, who might be thinking about speaking up.

I needed a lawyer. I spent the entire weekend calling all of the lawyers that I know at law firms around D.C. Everybody I talked to was saying:
"Thank you so much for what you're doing. We'll do whatever we can behind the scenes to support you." But nobody actually wanted to sit behind me at a congressional hearing. Nobody wanted to put their name on a letter to Todd Blanche.
Unfortunately, only Democrats attended the hearing. There were no Republicans. It has really perplexed me that there's not a shared level of bipartisan concern about what's happening inside the Department of Justice.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

A convicted felon who had also been found liable for sexual assault and committed additional crimes in plain sight was close with a notorious child sex trafficker and likely participated in some of those crimes too got elected with much of that known and spent his presidency railing against “crime.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/11/2025

people as things, that’s where it starts if you really internalize this one it will keep you on the right track

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Randy Davenport @redavenport.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This is the way someone might talk to their grandparent while they’re on their deathbed and need comfort

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Randy Davenport @redavenport.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Homie we just won multiple important elections on Tuesday and Trump’s approval ratings are falling by the minute, how is it not working

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Randy Davenport @redavenport.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

If only there was some recent metric or bellwether to judge public opinion of the democratic party by Perhaps a series of decisive election victories within the last week showing the voting public was overwhelmingly in favor of fighting the GOP/Trump rather than conceding to them If only

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Randy Davenport @redavenport.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

These are the questions political candidates actually need to be asked. When is the last time you bought your own groceries for the week? When is the last time you cleaned a toilet? When is the last time you were stressed about being able to pay a bill? Weed out normal people from rich weirdos.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 03/11/2025

it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

i’m just so mad because if we absolutely had to elect an unqualified media personality to be president we should have gone with either of the guys from CAR TALK

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic. He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

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Brendan @chibdm.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

It's bad that cogent argument and data analysis doesn't matter at all.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 08/09/2025

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2025

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Tony Cross @lokster71.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

There's Terry Pratchett quote for everything

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Pope Elwood IX @ekingsbury.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The worst thing I’ve seen happen to the United States through all of this is that it’s now cool to be an asshole in the US. Stupidity is celebrated if you’re loud and if you don’t care about anyone else it’s viewed as a positive trait. It makes me sick really and I’m sad and mad about it.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

kenklippenstein.com

The ICE Shooter’s Motive

Joshua Jahn's friends speak

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"Next FDR" is available to the first Democrat with guts right now

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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a military veteran USMC intelligence during President Reagan’s era, carries a U.S. Flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Good reminder that public/private censorship of mass media was common in the 20th century. The Hays Code, the Comics Code, blacklisting; we have been here before and arguably more oppressive in the past. It took 75 years of 1A jurisprudence to make us all believe It Can’t Happen Here. But it did.

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Randy Davenport @redavenport.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I just don't understand how the party that has built itself up as the party that loves America could so truly, genuinely hate most of what makes America it is. They hate free speech, they hate free religion, and they hate the entire half of American people who don't vote the way they want.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 10/09/2025

Hannah Arendt said 'The death of human empathy is one of the earliest & most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism' We saw the recent cruelty of MAGA denying empathy to Melissa Hortman Empathy for Kirk—not because he ever acted like a decent human—but because we are decent humans

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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Jon Green @modestholdings.com · 06/08/2025

1/3 My hot wash of yesterday:

Three Hours in an ICE Facility
At 8:51 on a recent Tuesday morning, I signed into the Homeland Security Investigations facility on the southwest side of Cedar Rapids. I was accompanying Hugo Zamora of Postville. I would not leave until 11:30. Hugo would not leave a free man.
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Several weeks prior, many elected officials were contacted by Escucha Mi Voz, a local immigrant rights organization, with an invitation to attend an annual Immigrations and Customs Enforcement check-in. We would observe and participate in a protest and attempt to perform “protective accompaniment.”
In a message, Escucha Mi Voz describes protective accompaniment as “a strategy where elected officials, clergy, and community members walk alongside immigrants at ICE check-ins to increase visibility, reduce risk, and build collective power. It’s a direct way to protect our neighbors while challenging an unjust system that prioritizes detentions and deportation over dignity and due process.”
I failed to protect Hugo, but in the process I was afforded the obligation to witness unlike any of my fellow elected officials or other advocates present Tuesday. I share my experience with you in the hope that it will help convince you of an uncomfortable truth: at the conclusion of the present administration, every person who has worked for ICE must face criminal prosecution and, if we are serious about the Constitution, referral to the Hauge for investigation of crimes against humanity. Anything less will fail to absolve the moral injustice being perpetrated, daily, in our name, by these fascists.
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Starting around 8:00, a hired goon began admitting families into the ICE facility anteroom, with each family accompanied by an elected official. The protest continued, but was occasionally interrupted by cheers of joy and a dread relief, as family after family emerged from the building spared for another year.
I was the final elected official to enter, and I met Hugo just before we went in together. A translator …

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Randy Davenport @redavenport.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I think the thing that’s really messed up about the world today is that they could be making more Muppet movies constantly and yet they actively choose not to

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The more we learn about the U.S.-Japan "trade deal", the more we learn there is no deal. Trump rushed out an "announcement" after a 70 minute conversation with Japan's trade negotiator and the press dutifully reported a deal. 1/ No text and widening disagreement on terms.

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 11/07/2025

ICE is out of control. This is not law enforcement. It is state violence.

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