iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

1/ Given recent attacks on Camp Sovereignty & the fact that a little rich kid racist is assembling the troops agen this Sunday, it'd neat if lots of people attended this I reckon. 2–8pm Camp Sovereignty · Naarm Free concert + delicious food

Camp Sovereignty presents Rock Against Racism.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/08/2026

In case you wanted about 3,700 words on the problems with today's "settlement" that gives Meta way more power over how the internet works than it should have.

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 08/08/2026

It is sobering to contemplate that in fewer than five years, the directives of about half a dozen very wealthy men have effectively ruined the most effective research tools ever devised by human civilization.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Because to me, fantasy isn’t wishful thinking, but a way of reflecting, and reflecting on reality.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Somewhat of a nightmare that Kmart's cheap perve glasses have sold out

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The very people who accuse others of "staying silent" are SILENT THEMSELVES ON 1000 issues a day which is NORMAL because you are ONE PERSON & simply cannot have takes on every single thing.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic

Two panel comic. Panel 1: an anglerfish is washed up on the ocean shore, laying in the tide. It thinks to itself, “it’s so beautiful.” Panel 2: wide shot of the beach, rocky cliffs, and sky at sunset, with the anglerfish still laying in place. The anglerfish continues thinking to itself, “I might have never known.”

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

his psychologist recommended that he make new friends so he joined a cult

painting of a white cat dancing around several black hooded cats with a statue of a demon cat in the background

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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I think we just passed oops.

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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 20/06/2026

Mona Khalil, one of Lebanon's leading conservationists has died following an Israeli attack on her home, she had dedicated her life to protecting the country's turtles www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon

Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country

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Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

AI Data Centres risk derailing the shift to renewable energy at a moment when the climate crisis is only getting worse. Despite this, there are no guardrails for this extractive industry. That's why FoE Australia is joining the call for a moratorium on new data centres. www.foe.org.au/ai_moratorium

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Moratorium on all data centre developments now

Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA) believes that social and environmental issues cannot be separated from each other. As a result, FoEA is a social and environmental justice organisation. We seek t...

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It is not a coincidence that men are being encouraged to perform masculinity harder & weirder than gender-affirming care ever looked. Hammers to the face? 🤔 And as they desperately perform The West. 🙄 The radicalised Right are neurotic cowards. 💜🏳️‍⚧️💜 #Auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/the-attack...

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The attack on trans existence demands our solidarity

Pauline Hanson's disgraceful nonsense about a "transgender insurgency" would be funny if it wasn't so dangerous. For the rest of us, these are the historic moments where we expose who we are.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

No one told us fascism was going to be so embarassing and so pathetic. And, yet it always has been. The most embarassing. The most pathetic.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2025

From Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free" I first read it in November and I'm rereading it now. It crushing feeling the exact same things as this academic did. It's the same process.

A series of four images with black text on a white background, containing a long reflective passage about how authoritarianism and oppression gradually take hold unnoticed.

First image: The text explains how small, seemingly inconsequential steps—each justified or regretted—prevent people from recognizing the larger process until it’s too late, comparing it to a farmer not noticing corn growing until it towers overhead.

Second image: A colleague explains how each act is only slightly worse than the last, leading people to wait for a shocking turning point that never comes. Fear, uncertainty, and the desire not to stand alone stop people from resisting. Outsiders seem content, and those who sense danger are dismissed as alarmists.

Third image: The text describes how, eventually, a small personal incident shatters self-deception, revealing that everything has changed—society, spirit, and morality. People accept things once unthinkable. Life feels normal on the surface, but principles have eroded. When realization comes, it’s too late—people are compromised by inaction.

Fourth image: The writer notes how friends drift away, meetings shrink, and isolation grows, weakening resistance further. The long-awaited great occasion for mass opposition never arrives. Instead, oppression progresses step by step, each act numbing people to the next. The example is given of Nazi Germany, where atrocities escalated gradually, making it harder to resist at each stage.

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Independent Australia @independentaus.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

News Corp’s growing support for One Nation follows a familiar playbook: protecting billionaire interests by repackaging far-right politics as a movement for ordinary Australians. News Corp jumps on One Nation bandwagon ~ @drvicfielding.bsky.social buff.ly/LYYBKNl

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

“The women’s movement has fought for centuries to avoid being defined only by biology…” Dr Anna Cody (Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner) reminds us why many feminists oppose laws that define what it means to be a woman in crude binary or biological terms. Trans rights are feminist too.

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Sex Discrimination Act Commissioner Slams ‘Retrograde’ Push To Redefine Women

Sex Discrimination Commissioner Dr Anna Cody has condemned a bill that would redefine "man" and "woman" in the Sex Discrimination Act

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The undisciplined & lawless behaviour of the IDF seems boundless. Combined with the stated aims of Israeli government ministers, it imposes such despair on Palestinian people. I hate antiSemitism, and I oppose this attempted genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank

The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when soldiers fired on family in Hebron

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Hastings museum had an LGBT history exhibit and there was a bit on a trans guy and a cis woman who married in 1954 that I found moving

UNCLE VIC & AUNTIE JOAN

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Victor Kenneth Jones and Joan Jones (née Lee) met in 1950 at a telephone exchange in Catford, where they both worked. Vic was 22 and Joan 17. They married on 25 September 1954 at St Luke's Church, Downham, with family, and friends in attendance. Joan's family supported their relationship and respected Vic's identity as a trans man. After a honeymoon in Hastings, the couple settled there.

In 1954, they were publicly outed and fined £25 each (around £900 today) for what authorities ruled an 'illegal marriage' because Vic was trans. They also became the subject of national newspaper coverage. Despite this, they lived together in Hastings until Vic's death in 1991. Joan remained in their home until 2023, when she passed away at 90.

The photos and objects on display were shared by Joel, Joan's nephew. After Vic's death, Joan gave him Vic's archive, asking him to do as he wished. Joel brought Vic's wedding ring to the Collective's 'Queer Lives. Queer Queer Objects' gathering in March 2025.

I was moved by the lasting love Vic and Joan shared and the quietly defiant way they built a life together on their own terms. ers a rare glimpse into the life a trans ma part Hastings in the mid-20th century.

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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social says it plainly, and I respect that.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 02/06/2026

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

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Alastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

"Since the petition’s launch last week, more than 11,000 individuals have signed to call on all federal parliamentarians to “stand with LGBTIQ+ people and women by rejecting attempts to weaken anti-discrimination protections in the Sex Discrimination Act.”" #auslaw #auspol #trans

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11,000+ sign petition against changes to Sex Discrimination Act

Equality Australia has launched a petition calling on MPs to stand against changes to the Sex Discrimination Act.

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the

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cindy @depalmasux.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

adult swim used to be muzak for your dealer’s house but now it’s baby sensory videos for the ambitionless boyfriends of bisexual women

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𝔏𝔬𝔟𝔬 ⛓️ @wolf-kin.com · 31/05/2026

painted drift wood

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 29/05/2026

The mega-wealthy buying into Australia’s increasingly concentrated media industry is nothing new – and it is a critical issue for democracy.

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Gina Rinehart and Southern Cross Austereo: what do billionaire media buyouts mean for democracy?

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Ruby 💖 @rubysusan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Interesting point! Australians are also feeling pessimistic about our economy despite it being relatively strong. Our Murdoch-heavy media plays a part in that, as does our bin-fire of a housing market, but Gina gifting private jets to far right pollies really hammers the message home

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Ruby 💖 @rubysusan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The Australian Christian Lobby and the Human Rights Law Alliance worked on the National party's bill to amend the Sex Discrimination Act. Just in case there was any doubt about what this is really about.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Not only is the "death tax" campaign a TOTAL LIE, but even if it were true, we are talking about a truly minute number of the population. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Chart showing that in 2022-23 there were 10,516 testamentary trusts our out of 16,108,843 taxpayers. - or about 0.07%

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 17/05/2026

This whole thing of the entire global economy now being based solely on gullible fascists selling each other magic beans would be much funnier if the global economy wasn't how I feed, clothe, and house myself.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

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Patrick Lenton @patricklenton.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

the Giggle v Tickle case appeal will be decided tomorrow - but in the meantime, I've deep-dived the very wealthy and powerful christian fundamentalist hate group who are backing the giggle for girls app www.starobserver.com.au/news/adf-int...

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Anti-LGBTQ Hate Group Backs 'Giggle For Girls App'

The Giggle v Tickle appeal decision will be announced on Friday May 15th. One of the backers for Giggle is the wealthy anti-LGBTQ ADF.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/05/2026

It's really, really wild to see how widely One Nation's racism and white supremacy has been erased. First by centrist media and now, frankly, by a huge number of white progressives / left groups in Australia who are rhyming more regularly with Hanson

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Don’t run universities like a business run it as a public good

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