iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My phone died about 36 hours ago and so far my life has improved significantly. Some of the things I used to do on my phone (like accessing Bluesky) I can do on my laptop, but it's significantly less convenient and seamless. Time to get a dumb phone.

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am never so glad to live in this century as when I am at the dentist's. #deepthoughts

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your dead ex-wife 🧂 @longpig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also finished my illustration of bear 901 and her adorable little cub! #katmai

Illustration of a mother brown bear and a light colored bear cub

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm all in for "Hot" Walker, but realistically I think this is Bucky's year.

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When I mention "Claude" you can assume I'm talking about the alligator, not the LLM.

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And the #FatBearWeek bracket is live! Let's talk about the match ups! Thread below 🐻🐻🐻

Fat bear week bracket in a pixel art style.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

2/2 This girl from Licinio's family portrait is mad as hell. Plans to grow up to be a Venetian Super-blonde & wreak revenge.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026

FYI when you go check your voter registration, or to register to vote (you can check your voter status, or register with your state's online election site) www.snopes.com/fact-check/v...

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Elon Musk's VoteSafe.org shares users' personal information. Here's how we know

Musk's America PAC funds the online voter registration hub.

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I had a dream l lived in an old apartment building and there were kids running and playing in the hallways and everything was brightly colored and people were friendly. My apartment was at the back of the building where it was quiet and one of my neighbors asked me for a favor and I said yes.

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

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 09/09/2026

Just learned that Category Is Books, a lovely queer bookshop in Glasgow, has been targeted by transphobic violence, & is fundraising to cover the costs of a smashed window & roller shutters. I hate that they have to do this & would love to see them meet their goal.

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Though she be but little she is fierce. youtu.be/oFsQLY18Ee0?... [alt.text: Brown bear sow with two cubs charges a much larger male bear who got a little too close to her babies.]

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6 Sep 2026: 610 Chases 913 (explore.org)

YouTube video by mckate

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Remember, after someone is elected, that's when you get to work lobbying them on particular issues.

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Son: Can you come pick me up? Me: Have you done the thing I asked you to do? Son: Not yet. Me: This is a shakedown. #parenting

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oz is claiming that the two measles deaths in Pennsylvania might have “had another condition that was already attacking them and they happened to get measles at the same time”. This implies that 1. It’s okay if kids with comorbidities die of measles. 2. That they would have died anyway so nbd.

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

get a covid vaccine as a tribute to dolly parton challenge

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There were two little girls (maybe 8 yrs old?) in the row ahead of us at a performance of A Midsummer Nights Dream. At the end, when Puck said "give us your hands if we be friends," they both enthusiastically held out their arms. Adorable! #tinyjoys

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last picture of the sky from your camera roll. Note: this is harder than it looks because a lot of pictures have *some* sky in them. This was the first that had significant sky content.

Rocky coast with gray sea and sky. The sky is about half the picture, so I think it counts.

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Very confusing headline. The issue is that "sell by" is not the same as "use by" or "best if used by." Basically they're just simplifying labelling.

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The actress playing Jane Fairfax this summer in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of Emma portrayed Gwendolyn Fairfax in last year's production of The Importance of Being Earnest. She did not, however, play Mrs. Fairfax in the previous season's Jane Eyre.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18/08/2026

AI detection is a) also AI and b) apparently about as reliable as a dowsing rod

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The end of TPS was only finalized a few days ago and it is only now starting to break as they are losing their jobs and being detained and feeling the heft of this wholly fucking evitable human tragedy that some of the worst people on the planet have brought upon them

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Yooty @yooty.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I don’t think people adequately understand how fucked up the situation on the USS Abe Lincoln is.

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

OMG there is an Acorn Woodpecker granary tree just opposite the kitchen window of our vacation rental!!!!!!! #birds #woodpeckers

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

SIL: Have any of you seen The Odyssey yet? Spouse: I have, but I left my wife and son at home.

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Listening to an audiobook of Emma with my son. Son has just uttered "Oh, Emma!" — the first of many such utterances, I'm sure. #JaneAusten

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/07/2026

Trying to strike that perfect balance of sounding just a little bit airheaded online so people don’t square up at me over lukewarm takes or trivia, but not *so* dense as to compel people to spontaneously explain things to me.

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

One useful piece of information I've gleaned from the Odyssey discourse is that if I do see it (still undecided), I should bring earplugs.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you can donate, please do. If you were previously not eligible to donate, the criteria have been SERIOUSLY revised: you are no longer deferred for spending time in England/the EU and the sexual risk screening has been replaced with a much more evidence based model.

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It seems to me that people who (correctly) say that "their" can be either plural or singular, depending on context, should be open to the possibility that "guys" can be gendered or non-gendered, depending on context.

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Kyle Goon @kylegoon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I spoke to Mitch McConnell for twenty minutes today and he said, “I leave the mills in Signa to my dear friend Gianni Schicchi.”

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Overheard: a man, walking his dog and talking to someone on the phone via a headset: "Let's say you know x and y and z, and you divide by the total amount of knowledge in the universe, which is infinite, then you get zero." #deepthoughts

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Son's friend: Can I put my phone in your fridge for a minute? Me: Sure. A lightly chilled phone pairs well with seafood and chicken.

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I think this video is too long to embed, but here's a link to this year's bear cam cast of characters. youtu.be/XQTc6tChhfo?...

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Woodland Park Zoo @woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's berry season and you have the tiniest friends. These critically endangered babies are Egyptian tortoises that hatched on July 4 and 6, 2026. Currently, our Egyptian tortoises are living behind the scenes in a warm and cozy habitat with lots of attention from their dedicated animal keepers.

Two small Egyptian tortoises are positioned on either side of a bright red raspberry on a gravel surface.

A small tortoise is on a sandy surface, next to a plump blueberry

An Egyptian tortoise is close to a blueberry on a sandy surface.

Two small tortoises face a large blackberry on a gravel surface.

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I'm reading a book whose author seems determined to undermine any sense of urgency or dramatic tension. Example: chapter ends with viewpoint character about to plunge into a burning building. Next chapter begins with discussion of how the character has learned there are things you can't prepare for.

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Timeline cleanse. For those who don't know the story, Biggie (the larger cub on the left) was emancipated by her mother, 128 Grazer, when Grazer went into estrus. This is normal bear behavior. Somewhat more unusual: Biggie joined bear 806 and her spring cub and seems to have been adopted!

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

My entire feed right now is a string of posts about how it's okay to speak ill of the dead if they deserved it. Warms my heart.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/07/2026

WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 06/07/2026

Today is Nonidi the 19th of Messidor in the year 234. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate cherries. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Cherries.

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Janet @relfal.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I've been contemplating buying a trike for a while, and finally took the plunge this week when I saw this used trike advertised locally. Still somewhat anxious riding it on the street, but I successfully took it for a grocery run today.

Magenta adult-size trike in a rather dingy garage.

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