iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's #fossilfriday! Here's a guy from HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY: Arthropleura, a (probably!) herbivorous millipede relative that roams the coal forests of Carboniferous Scotland. Survival Verdict: YES. It's got a nasty nip, but we feel if you get bit, you have it coming.

A large, flat green millipede of unusual size crawls through a Carboniferous swamp forest, with some tiny tetrapods crawling on its back. Art by Stieven Van Der Poorten, from HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY

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Animal Photo Reference Repository @animalphotorefs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Behold… your #dRAWRtober art prompts! Anyone can participate, in any medium. Do as much or as little as you like! Art tagged #dRAWRtober will be shared on Halloween day for a spooky extravaganza. (New species to assist your artistry are arriving on the site soon!)

An image listing Halloween-themed art prompts. The background of the image is tan with a paper texture. The upper left corner has a string of decorative bunting flags in orange and green. There is a pale starburst decoration in the upper right corner. The top center of this image has a decorative green tag that reads: 2026 Animal Photo Reference Repository #dRAWRtober

Under the text is a cartoony vector of a black bat.

What follows is the prompt list. All prompts are highlighted in alternating orange and green.
The prompts read:

1. Legs! legs! legs!
2. In the deep, deep dark
3. Now you see me…
4. Frankenstein’s Chimera

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/09/2026

Excellent product endorsement placement

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

this takes an incredible amount of character, not just to give it up, but to admit all of this. This guy has more guts than any AI fuck by a mile, and maybe more than us too. People who've managed to escape AI usage are invaluable towards convincing others to do the same.

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Imogen Cassidy @imogenwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Humans can't smell" is the best phrase ever.

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R Garner @rhgarner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Uber eats refused to refund my food that arrived thoroughly contaminated with air freshener - inedible - and hung up on me when I asked for an explanation of that policy. Now I have no food, no refund, and no spoons to go get something myself since I can’t risk that guy picking up another order.

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Animal Photo Reference Repository @animalphotorefs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

New Priority Species: Servals! Patreon supporters picked this species to be added to the site as quickly as possible - and the photos are worth it. www.animal-photo-references.com/servals All photos on the repository are free-to-use for artists creating derivative/transformative works (sans AI).

A serval sitting in a firehose hammock and looking at the camera.

A side view of a serval walking across a stage.

A side view of a serval's head and shoulders as it licks its own nose.

A serval jumping towards a peacock feather being dragged across the grass.

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R Garner @rhgarner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I’m used to jangling my entire brachioplexus when I sneeze too hard, because hypermobility. Today’s new horror is somehow pissing off both femoral nerves simultaneously. It’s like hitting your funnybone… the entire length of the nerve. Why, meatsuit, why?

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Fact-checking (by @rhgarner.bsky.social) saved my ass on this, in terms of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site, "this place is not a place of honor," you know it. Games and games of telephone across reputable publications!

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you’re tempted by the “AI summaries are just modern CliffsNotes” argument, please remember that CliffsNotes were written and edited by people who got paid to be accurate, not built on stolen data and extruded through a LLM that doesn’t know what truth is.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/08/2026

I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these

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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is my favorite thing I drew today

A cartoony drawing of an octopus flying through the air crying "waaaah!"

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“Currently, Google’s offering is all-or-nothing: If you want to show up in search results, you’re also agreeing to let the company feed your content into the maw of its AI apparatus.” By @katiebakes.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2026/08/04/t...

theringer.com

The End of Google Search—and the Internet—as We Know It

For years now, Google has been tweaking its search formula to prop up AI and bury actual links. Now it’s rounding into its final form—and changing the internet forever.

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Kendra P @hagofbolding.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New tattoo flash: regular degular sea creatures edition

A color tattoo flash sheet featuring a lobster, nautilus, eagle ray, scallop, and sea shell adorned with random eyeballs and teeth where they should not be

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ButtPoems @buttpoems.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Get ready with me comic

4 panel comic titled “get ready with me”
Panel 1 - a guy is bringing a bowl of food to his cat - the caption says “this is my cute little morning routine”
Panel 2 - he watches as his cat eats the food, behind them is an ominous black portal bordered with skulls and with tentacles coming out of it
Panel 3 - he sits in a recliner with a cup of coffee and his cat at his feet. He says “ahh so nice” - the portal is still lurking behind them
Panel 4 - he’s now reading a book. The cat is sleeping in his lap. The portal still looms. He says “the trick is to ignore the void of infinite horrors “

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

THIS. People educated enough in the specific subject to pull the data together don’t need LLMs; people without the knowledge to weed data from the bullshit are at the mercy of the LLM. They’re obsequious Dunning-Kruger machines. Designed to flatter midwits and the technologically obsolete.

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R Garner @rhgarner.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

@erinbiba.bsky.social sorry to tag you directly - are you taking book manuscript FCs at this time? If yes, I occasionally need to pass on work when I’m low on availability & try to suggest other fact-checkers. I would love to point them your way, but I’m not sure how to put them in contact with you.

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

For Aftermath's Hater Week, I wrote about how Google's conversational AI search results aren't just annoying, but are an offense to everything I hold dear about the process of information searching in the first place

But the same way it drives me crazy when Stripe’s AI customer service tells me it’s so sorry, omg that must be so hard to hear about whatever utterly mundane, thoroughly unemotional issue I’ve brought it that day, Google search’s hollow facsimile of the human desire to help lays bare how badly its inventors misunderstand what regular people want and how we feel when we’re searching for information. (Full disclosure: I wrote my library school Master’s thesis literally about this, so it really riles me up!) It exposes how Google sees its users: helpless and intellectually lazy, longing for machines to solve our problems for us, unable to sit in the sometimes uneasy space of unknowing that motivates information searching in the first place. Shortcutting yourself out of this space–or, worse, letting AI do it for you–robs you of the chance to explore and discover, to let your search take you to new places and learn new things.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 24/07/2026

and I wake in the morning and I step outside and I take a deep breath and I get real high and I scream at the top of my lungs

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Horizontal & vertical splooting by gray squirrels ... #Sqrlpix

Collage of four squirrel photographs - one down a tree, three horizontal

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olive consumer @machete.gay · 21/07/2026

young witch in the alps looking for her cat approved

a young witch in the alps who is potentially looking for her cat in the style of disco elysium

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Fewer libraries & more surveillance is a helluva sales pitch to potential students / families

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R Garner @rhgarner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hey Seattle and SnoCo folk, bad air is rolling in from the east. East side of the state is already red and purple on the air quality maps. Good time to shut your windows.

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Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 02/02/2025

Life advice for the ages. Those doing wrong want you tired and hopeless. But stay angry. And when a chance is in front of you: bite back. Digital plans for a real linocut. I'm anxiously awaiting a press to make this stuff possible with my RSI in my hands. #art #tiger #resist #linocut

The image is digital art made up to look like a two color linocut print. It features a geometric twisting snarling tiger. It's flanked by the text "Stay Angry" and "Bite Back" that follows the contours of the tiger.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

if you don't have any money, you too can support artists by liking and sharing their work, telling your friends about them, reminding them to eat, taking out their trash, doing their dishes, watering their plants, feeding their pets, please help i need adult supervision—

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R Garner @rhgarner.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Hyper-mobility problems: sneezed wrong yesterday while doing chores that took a lot of shoulder extension, now half of my ribcage is screaming. Now to go lace into a historically accurate corset to approximate the ribs heads in the hope the aggravation will calm down and I can function today…

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I did a tonne of research so you don't have to. I talk about masking, air filtration, and air quality rating systems, & I give concrete suggestions to help you keep yourself and your loved ones safe. If you don't have this information yet, it's time to get educated. Wildfires don't respect borders.

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R Garner @rhgarner.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I’m looking forward to reading this.

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R Garner @rhgarner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Wildfire smoke clogs filters quickly /and/ N95s. It messes with the charge in meltblown filters as well as just being a physical blockage. If you’re using a mask outside in the smoke, replace it probably daily - and if you’re masking indoors for health reasons, have a separate mask for it.

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R Garner @rhgarner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A year or two I put forward questions about if zoos/sanctuaries had contingency plans for staff and animal health in heavy smoke or other respiratory hazard events like nearby teargas deployment. I was not taken seriously. I wonder what’s happening with animal welfare now in the midwest?

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R Garner @rhgarner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Holy shit. We’re used to bad fire season regularly causing 300+ AQI out here and sometimes up to 600, but this is. Unheard of.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"Is Disco Elysium like Homestuck?", asks a friend who knows neither, blissfully unaware of the academia-worthy cognitohazard packed in such a short sentence

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This NOT a case of a tourist being stupid and getting the consequences. The article makes that absolutely clear, but people are still saying FAFO. No. Stop it.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026

ADHD Women's Summit— a summit specifically for a cohort of people CATEGORICALLY KNOWN to have auditory processing issues— is *Charging A Fee*. For *Subtitles*. What in the ACTUAL FUCK.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

it’s dead guys

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R Garner @rhgarner.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Bought it this sale, maybe halfway through? I cannot stop playing it.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Instead of fireworks, why not scare your neighbors the old fashioned way? Grow out your antlers and fangs, cultivate a thunderous beard of moss, haunt the night, and become a terrifying creature of legend and lore.

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Kat Baumann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

the pouch is out the pouch is seen

Photo of my long hair diluted calico lying on the floor with her belly out and legs all akimbo

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R Garner @rhgarner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I found this game last year from a rec thread and bought it immediately! It is still one of my favorite games. Super cool novel mechanics, good sense of humor, so many puzzles! And a built in card game I still log in just to play a few rounds of almost daily. I cannot recommend this game enough.

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R Garner @rhgarner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

show me a picture that captures your essence

A smiling white woman with braided pigtails is taking a selfie with a tapir. It is lifting it’s nose towards the camera to show teeth and tongue and is just ridiculous.

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R Garner @rhgarner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A very good overview of practical ways to become better at communicating complex topics to people who don’t know much about them.

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A ratfish for #SundayFishSketch - Hydrolagus collei. Working my way through a PNW field guide while at FHL

A digital painting of a ratfish, a small fish with white spots, rendered in tones of purple and burgundy on a bright pink background with lavender edges

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