iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

my job pays me shit but the benefits are great and i can come in whenever (or even not come in) so i'm never giving it up

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Lauren O'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 22h

I was told there was nothing more sacred to these people than women's sports.

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Mayor Q @mayorq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t know what y’all are talking about, but it’s been a while since my last Atlanta Hawks football game in Iowa City. Can’t wait to get back!

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Look at his face when he thinks he's just got him lol

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Best case scenario, these AI assistants offer all the utility of a whiteboard that somehow gets things wrong for you

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fellow writers: has anyone else done a library event where they were expected to donate part of the proceeds of book sales to the library? This is an unpaid speaking event, not a local author fair or something, I'm providing the programming for them.

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WHO COULD EVER IMAGINE OWING 3,596 DOLLARS AND 47 CENTS OF MEDICAL DEBT. Truly a good reason to go to the fucking police. I apologize Dr. Marshall

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Enjoying Dark Matter because it’s like what if the mystery box was literally a box and also the box is an empath

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RMJ=H @rmj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Read this and let’s all agree @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social is the much much cooler RMJ

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Chatted with @rebeccaonion.bsky.social at @slate.com about just how many axes Ryan Murphy can stuff into one show, and why I think the big dawg of axe murder Miss Lizzie Borden was actually innocent (I'm like 55% sure, at least). slate.com/culture/2026...

slate.com

History’s Most Famous Ax Murderer May Not Have Been a Murderer and May Not Have Used an Ax

Netflix’s new No. 1 show takes on one of history’s most infamous crimes. But did she really do it?

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ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unboxing day! Over a decade in the making, NECESSARY INVENTIONS: ROGER BACON, THE MIDDLE AGES, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN SCIENCE (PENN Press) is a material object. Thank you to everyone who helped along the way. For sale on October 20. @pennpress.bsky.social

Photo of a box filled with multiple copies of the book. The cover is ochre, and has different images of Bacon, from manuscripts and printed books.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.com

A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books

Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sometimes people will go "the first female president is OBVIOUSLY gonna be Republican" and I just want to know if they've taken a look at the Republican party recently

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I really like the new Taylor Swift songs! Love her when she's defensive, I honestly think that's where she does her best work.

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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

(celebrity walking through the Fitcarraldo Closet) Oh my god I love this one, I’m taking it *flashes a solid blue rectangle at the camera*

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nathan Fielder’s hair is too powerful

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Red state woke is DURABLE. We are still doing land acknowledgments at the Kansas Book Festival, and you can’t stop us

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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slate.com

History’s Most Famous Ax Murderer May Not Have Been a Murderer and May Not Have Used an Ax

Netflix’s new No. 1 show takes on one of history’s most infamous crimes. But did she really do it?

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear this but you can’t outsmart people who don’t know what they’re doing.

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

HALEY WILLIAMS IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: I'll be the biggest star at this COVID conscious lesbian bar

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today in Every Story Is a Science Story: "Was it a common thing in the 1890s for people in one smallish city to experience this many ax murders?" "The Bessemer process made it much easier to make steel, so there was an explosion of steel tools in the second half of the 19th century."

slate.com

History’s Most Famous Ax Murderer May Not Have Been a Murderer and May Not Have Used an Ax

Netflix’s new No. 1 show takes on one of history’s most infamous crimes. But did she really do it?

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is one of my favorite types of stories. Get an expert who is a Good Sport to talk about something that's popping in pop culture & explain what we know about history / science / murder / etc. and have a fun conversation:

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just spent two weeks in Appalachia. What few Trump signs I saw were all weather beaten, half-torn-down, covered with dirt and debris. Just like the White House!!

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fall is better than spring because cooling down is better than warming up

A picture my husband took on a hike yesterday through Kentucky’s red River Gorge

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

how did i never connect the two of the primary women of the Shining are Wendy

shelley duvall as wendy torrence reacting to an axe

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bluesky after dark: the thing about middle aged married sex is that any kind of novelty is a good thing but also you kind of need to be in your comfort zone to actually get into it, which is at odds with trying new things

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Because the Bordens had sooooo much closet space 🙄🪓

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bruce Springsteen is fine as hell. It is inappropriate to keep emphasizing it to my husband so I’ll say it here because I must

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You can tell someone’s a lib in southwestern Virginia when they have a regular license plate instead of a Gadsden flag (dont tread on me) license plate

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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

People suggesting that Nicole Kidman should go back to the deep red hair of Moulin Rouge and Practical Magic don’t realize that really really red hair is aging after a certain point, and Nicole Kidman is obviously someone who wants to look younger than she is.

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hi, I'm Tilly Norwood, for Jukt Micronics.

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Obsessed with how much Lewis Powell, who was part of the Lincoln assassination plot, looks like Neil Young

A photo from the book manhunt by James L Swanson. It is a picture of Lewis Powell in 1865. He has is in handcuffs and's a cowboy hat and has a lantern jaw and looks pissed off like Neil Young.. Caption I'm mad. I'm mad Lewis Powell, Secretary of State Seward's , assassin.

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have avoided Ryan Murphy but from my vantage point as the world’s foremost axe murder expert: 1. I don’t personally think Lizzie Borden did it 2. The axe - the handleless hatchet she was accused of using at her trial - is probably the strongest single piece of evidence of her innocence

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026

There's been a lot of outsize AI drama lately, but it's pretty wild to me that a Microsoft exec was caught -- in court documents -- admitting that AI is the "largest theft of labor in human history" futurism.com/future-socie...

futurism.com

Microsoft Director Privately Admitted AI Was the "Largest Theft of Labor in Human History," Unsealed Court Documents Show

Newly unredacted court documents reveal damning statements by two AI executives in a landmark case about intellectual property.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I joined some of my coworkers in writing about what Annie Dillard's writing meant and means to us. Line for line and lesson for lesson I think she's absolutely as good as it gets. defector.com/annie-dillar...

defector.com

Annie Dillard Gave It All | Defector

Following this week’s news that the brilliant writer Annie Dillard has died at age 81, some Defector staffers wrote about what her work and example have meant to them. Much is made of Dillard’s genius...

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Everyone hating on the bad plastic surgery of the celebrity I can’t name because I ALWAYS get in trouble when I do….. feels good.

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Annie Dillard tells you to pick up a broadax, you better listen

"How many of you, I asked the people in my class, which of you want to give your lives and be writers?" she wrote. "I was trembling from coffee, or cigarettes, or the closeness of faces all around me ... All hands rose to the question. (You, Nick?
Will you? You, Margaret? Randy? Why do I want them to mean it?)"
She added: "And then I tried to tell them what the choice must mean: You can't be anything else. You must go at your life with a broadax."

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Jasmine Crockett is actually playing four dimensional democratic chess. See, first she established herself in opposition to Talarico. Then she sucked up to Chris Brown, and then pissed off Brown and his fans, motivating them to vote for her enemy….. James Talarico. 🤯🤯🤯

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thinking about Sheeran’s career, I don’t know if he’s gotten involved in a controversy of this scale in his whole career. Unusual for a star of his size. Speaks to a man who’s carefully avoided taking a stand for as long as he possibly could.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 16/09/2026

When Nancy Kissinger died last month, her obits glancingly mentioned a strange 1982 incident where she went on trial for choking out a Lyndon LaRouche supporter. I'd already been piecing the story together, and the results are in today's @flaminghydra.com newsletter:

flaminghydra.com

Throttle diplomacy

Nancy Kissinger goes berserk in the Newark Airport: a vignette of 1982 by Sarah Weinman

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hearing “beef tallow” and “seed oils” in any proximity to each other 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Jean Smart winning that many Emmys for Hacks seems a little excessive. Unless you've seen Hacks.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 14/09/2026

"on every campus there are two universities—the administration and the faculty—who are competing with one another. Indeed the two are fundamentally at odds about what a university is" from me & @vox-magica.bsky.social in @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/religion-hum...

liberalcurrents.com

Religion, Humanities, and the Public Good

The right wing's assault on Religion and Humanities programs is an assault on our ability to understand the world, from Hindutva abroad to Christian Nationalism at home.

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