iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by hailsy 💫

The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

theverge.com

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

366201089885

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If there's an afterlife, it is popping off today 😭

011

Reposted by hailsy 💫

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

218104122359

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

@mikemcmahan.bsky.social My wife got me the Lower Decks boxset for my birthday and it has been such a delight listening to all the commentary! Thank you for making an absolutely incredible love letter of a show. Here's our cat snuggling with Moopsy as a token of our gratitude.

Pikelet the tabby cat has her face smooshed up against a soft toy of Moopsy from Star Trek Lower Decks. Moopsy is a round white loaf of a creature that is adorable but has an insatiable appetite for drinking bones. As Pikelet remains undrunk, this adds further weight to the idea that cats are made of rubber.

160

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This #MEXENG game is absolutely mental. At least 20 mins left, tune in if you want to witness pure chaosball!

010

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If you've ever thought the services of this country are incompetent, I have great news: you discover whole new worlds of idiocy when you work for them. A vast spectrum of how to be inept.

010

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hacks!! Such a good ending to a fantastic show. If you want a comedy that's different to anything else out there, check it out. Congrats to Hannah for getting to make out with so many gorgeous women, even with moves like this.

static.klipy.com

Ava Hacks Dancing on a Boat

Alt: Ava (Hannah Einbinder) from Hacks, wearing a bright orange life vest and doing a very unselfconscious dance on a boat.

000

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Yeah the giiiiiirls!!! 💙💙💙

000

Reposted by hailsy 💫

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

131143763266

Reposted by hailsy 💫

Viet P @vietp86.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

History has been made! The NSW Blues Women secured their first-ever victory in Newcastle with a thrilling 11-6 win over the QLD Maroons in the 2026 Women's State of Origin opener. A gritty, defensive masterclass in front of a record crowd sets the tone for the series. 🏉👏💙💙 #Origin #NSWvQLD

011

Reposted by hailsy 💫

That tree guy 𓅃 @somearborist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Now that they’re safe on the ground we.. ocean, I can make a joke OMG ARTEMIS IS IN TROUBLE WE’RE GETTING REPORTS OF A GIANT CAT BATTING THEM OUT OF THE SKY OH THE HUMANITY

252632498

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Someone in the nerd chat at work posted a link to the Artemis 2 launch, so very little work is occurring today. Space is so fucking cool.

010

Reposted by hailsy 💫

Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

5947151297

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This article is a how-to guide for the A Leagues and should be glued to the front door of every club/forehead of every CEO until the ideas sink in. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

abc.net.au

Why massive Matildas hype hasn't translated to A-League Women fandom

Despite the recent hype of the Matildas, support for the A-League Women remains relatively low.

000

Reposted by hailsy 💫

Sam Lewis (she/they) 🌈 @battledinosaur.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

over 100 human rights, sports, and medical groups have condemned the IOC’s new eligibility guidelines which violate international and Australian laws, target and police the bodies of women and girls, and distract from the real issues facing women’s sport. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

theguardian.com

Human rights experts raise concerns over Olympics transgender women athlete ban

Over 100 human rights, sports and scientific groups have criticised the new gender eligibility guidelines as ‘a blunt and discriminatory response’

15427

Reposted by hailsy 💫

Mark Parisi @offthemarkparisi.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Advanced tech

25911

Reposted by hailsy 💫

Matthew Sharpe 🍪 @mythor.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

NSW Health has started listing measles exposure sites and there’s already so many. No matter how much you hate anti-vaxers it’s not enough. www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/m...

health.nsw.gov.au

Measles - Measles public exposure locations in NSW

Current measles exposure locations and guidance on how to stay safe and protect others.

011

Reposted by hailsy 💫

Sam Lewis (she/they) 🌈 @battledinosaur.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

FUCKEN COME ON!!!!!!! ASIAN CUP FINAL BABY!!!!!!!! WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! #AFCWAC

18113

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

@the-matildas.bsky.social hiiiiii admin! please don't forget about bluesky - us insta haters need tillies content too 💚💛

010

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Ch9 playing Olympic ice hockey highlights with the "All The Things She Said" remix as the backing track! Slo-mo shots of men pouring water over their heads, then ice fighting. Perfect, no notes. #HeatedRivalry

020

Reposted by hailsy 💫

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

6474120713896

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Sure, let's talk more about increasing police funding for the essential work of *checks notes* doing donuts over South Melbourne for 5 HOURS AND COUNTING.

A map of south Melbourne. There's a flight tracker overlay of three helicopters, two of which have police callsigns. Their trails from 5+ hours of flying look like a plate of spilled spaghetti or a loose ball of yarn. This is all because our government allowed a genocidal president to visit, and some of the democratic populace thinks this is a bad idea. I think it's pretty reasonable to not want a genocidal president over for tea! Seems like a bad time! People are using their democratic right to protest and the cops are using their power to royally shit me off by flying laps around my suburb all week. There's a better way than this, if we cared enough to get there.

010

Reposted by hailsy 💫

Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player

7186222550

Reposted by hailsy 💫

toonholechris @toonholechris.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

RIP Catherine O’Hara

453597

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Sydney FC can't buy a goal atm but they can absolutely give me 'shots on target' palpitations #ALW #PERvSYD

010

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Sovereignty was never ceded. We've changed the date several times throughout history - we can do it again, with intent, empathy and acknowledgement of our past. #ChangeTheDate #SurvivalDay en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral...

Screenshot from the Wikipedia entry for Australia Day: "The formal establishment of the Colony of New South Wales did not however occur on 26 January as is commonly assumed. It did not occur until 7 February 1788, when the formal proclamation of the colony and of Arthur Phillip's governorship were read out. The vesting of all land in the reigning monarch King George III also dates from 7 February 1788."

Screenshot from the Wikipedia entry for Australia Day: "The first Australia Day was established in response to Australia's involvement in World War I. In 1915, Ellen "Ellie" Wharton Kirke MBE, née Clements, mother of four servicemen, thought up the idea of a national day, with the specific aim of raising funds for wounded soldiers, and the term was coined to stir up patriotic feelings. In 1915 a committee to celebrate Australia Day was formed, and the date chosen was 30 July, on which many fund-raising efforts were run to support the war effort. It was also held in July in subsequent years of World War I: on 28 July 1916, 27 July 1917, and 26 July 1918."

Screenshot from the Wikipedia entry for Australia Day: "Historian Ken Inglis wrote in 1967 that Australia Day was not celebrated publicly in Canberra at that time."

Screenshot from the Wikipedia entry for Australia Day: "After 1988, participation in Australia Day increased, and in 1994 all states and territories began to celebrate a unified public holiday on 26 January – regardless of the day of the week – for the first time. Previously, some states had celebrated the public holiday on a Monday or Friday to provide a long weekend."

010

Reposted by hailsy 💫

Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 24/01/2026

Not that Fifa will do it, but Federal agents repeatedly killing innocent people in the streets in broad daylight with multiple witnesses and without accountability seems like a justifiable a reason to have World Cup hosting duties taken away.

20498108

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

You should legally be allowed to throw anyone who uses their phone speaker on public transport INTO THE GODDAMN SUN.

120

Reposted by hailsy 💫

Sam Lewis (she/they) 🌈 @battledinosaur.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

FIFA can’t even be bothered trying to hide their corruption these days hey

15919

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

We just opened the curtains for the first time today since the 'cool' change has come through. We're quite close to the CBD and there's ash on our balcony.

The sun, but there's smoke clouds in front of it.

200

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

So this is what the state looks like today. Stay safe Victorians - get the Vic Emergency app, have a safety plan and take care of yourself and your loved ones 💖

An emergency alert map of Victoria. About half of it is shaded red, indicating catastrophic fire danger. Scattered across the state are a bunch of danger icons. There are red fire icons, indicating fires in progress. There are orange fire icons, indicating "watch and act" (there is fire nearby, be prepared to leave) warnings. There are yellow fire icons, indicating people in the area should stay informed.

072

Reposted by hailsy 💫

Art! @punsultant.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it. Everyone, give @skatunenetwork.bsky.social your money. They deserve it.

9124671050

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

No-one is a model employee the first week back from break, but working during these temps is an absolute struggle.

Screenshot from Weatherzone of Melbourne temperature today. It's currently 38.4C, feels like 33C and will get to 42C at 4pm. The text is all sorts of hot orange and red tones. Send help, I'm melting.

120

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Happy fireworks night friends! Here's to all good things in 2026 🎆💖

010

Reposted by hailsy 💫

Greggo 🏳️‍🌈 @greggo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

My response to anything over the next two weeks

A grey and red transit bus on the road in a city. The bus’ destination sign reads “NO? ?? ???????”

51149613934

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The politicking that has happened since the Bondi massacre has been completely disgraceful, but kudos for whoever gave me this little moment of schadenfreude today.

A screenshot of The Guardian's live news blog:

"13.32 AEDT

Sussan Ley queries resourcing of counterterrorism and intelligence agencies

Ley says questions need to be asked of intelligence agencies.

"These are questions that need to be asked, and much of the reporting over the last few days has indicated that there are genuine concerns when it comes to the resourcing of our counterterrorism and intelligence agencies on our side of politics, we have always leaned in, this government has leaned out."

Asked if the Coalition was told about one of the gunmen going to Asia in 2019, when Scott Morrison was prime minister, she says she cannot comment on operational matters."

130

Reposted by hailsy 💫

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter

In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
•
I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.

I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.

Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B

1011106752820

hailsy 💫 @respondingtohails.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I don't know anything about anything but I sure hope someone is checking that house expansion rubble for traces. Something ain't right there, even in these *gestures broadly* interesting times.

010