iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jonas Goonface @jonasgoonface.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🎃Halloween Hobo Horror🎃

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Attorney General Nick Brown @atg.wa.gov · 08/10/2026

As of Oct. 1, the Immigrant Worker Protection Act (IWPA) is now in effect in Washington State. This law requires employers to inform workers within five business days when federal agents have issued a notice to conduct an inspection of workers’ employment eligibility documents, known as I-9 forms.

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's not a dick pic book — It's Rigsby WI Volume 3 and you only have 4 days left to back it on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro... Only $800 left to go before it gets a cover enhancement — the other two books have a UV enhancement on the cover, I'd love it if the third book could match

(Jeordie and Jenna in Jeordie's car. Jeordie is looking through a binder of CDs, Jenna pulls a book from between the seats)
Jeordie: Fine, I'll find something else for us to listen to.
Jenna: (paging through the book) This book looks cool.
Jenna: Oh my god!
Jenna: (holding up the book turned to a Robert Mapplethorpe photo of a nude black man) Why do you have a book full of pictures of dudes dicks?
Jeordie: (reaching for the book) That's...from the library. It's for an assignment.
Jenna: On guys peens? This is just a book of dick pics!
Jeordie: (snatching the book away) It's Robert Mapplethorpe.
Jeordie: And this isn't a dick pic book. It's modern American photography.

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Gabe @cwgabriel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is no such thing as AI art.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

It's interesting, isn't it, that there are people who care about computer code feeling pain, but don't have anything to say about the young people who've lost their lives because of the effect the chatbots have had on them.

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 28/09/2026

Parasocial media: why influencers really aren't your friend www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/04-para... How the very design of social media supercharges misinformation and harm.

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Parasocial media: why influencers really aren't your friend

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it's getting cramped in here and it's going to get worse! all the #swordtember ⚔️ swords painted and uploaded in the sword hoard series as stock art on my Patreon until now. #ttrpg #bsnm

an assemblage of two dozen of magic sword illustrations, with designs going from elegant to ridiculous, as a nice chess knight sword, a magic scroll sword, a lava sword, a ghost sword, an insect sword or the very justice sword broken from the arms of a justice statue.

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Russell Brandon @runtzel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I love the shadow play and the gradient from bottom up - at a distance my brain keeps thinking "landscape" and it's almost like dad is mountain and mom is sky, and their feet and tails really play up on that - love you work!

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cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An old comic from 2021 about being an alien

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

in the long run it's hard to make out the difference between behavior caused by a lack of skill and behavior caused by lack of incentive, since ceteris paribus you'd expect either over time to produce the other. but these changes are recent enough that we can probably sort out which is the culprit

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 26/09/2026

Do you or someone you know use DraftKings or FanDuel? You can help @propublica.org continue to report on these apps by sharing your data with us. In some states, you can request it. But we also built a browser extension to help download your own data! projects.propublica.org/sports-betti...

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Help ProPublica Report on Sports Betting by Sending Us Your App Data

If you’ve bet on sports with FanDuel or DraftKings, you can help ProPublica understand how these apps respond to their users’ betting behavior. Use our browser extension to download your betting histo...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Russell Brandon @runtzel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think this meme really speaks to the cohesiveness of @anyaustin.bsky.social 's work - great stuff

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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Flock wants to shut down the Flock Surveillance Map, a detailed map of its surveillance devices. The database not only shows the scope of Flock's reach, but also its vulnerability to data leaks. Read Nikita Mazurov's article at: theintercept.com/2026/09/24/h...

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Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline

A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants the map taken down.

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Russell Brandon @runtzel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I hate that fucking smear text background so much now, we'll get like 2 flyers in a week for different events and it takes minutes to determine that they're different it's such slop

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Russell Brandon @runtzel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's reaching through computer education programs is my guess, Goodwill does "AI prompt training" and companies are giving out "free training" to public libraries to get people hooked - lots of school, daycare, solo business owners around here using it

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The challenges we face must be met by a bold progressive populist movement that strengthens democracy and shakes up the system. We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump. We cannot allow Big Money to dominate our politics and economy. And we cannot capitulate to the oligarchy.

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Russell Brandon @runtzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So thanks! Makes me feel like it's less weird to think/feel this way about "friction" and creative process with these sorts of things

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Russell Brandon @runtzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is getting my brain going on some frustrations I've had with work and creating library programming vs. program "kits" - even when well done I can't elaborate because I start running into flaws or things I wish were diff, so I either do my own or just zone out and just do with less enthusiasm

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 22/09/2026

"If you allow the most wealthy and powerful segment of society to opt out of public services, those public services will get worse. The reason is simple: You have removed the incentive for the most influential people to use their influence to improve public services." Mm-hm.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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michaellasley.bsky.social @michaellasley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The image was timed to capture a total lunar eclipse — but it came with quite a twist. First, the eclipse: the fully Earth-shadowed Moon is visible as the orange orb near the top." A Double Helix Lunar Eclipse (Image Credit & Copyright: Chunlin Liu) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25110...

The image is of an observatory (lower left of the image) pointed at the sky. In the sky, the band of the Milky Way begins top left and moves to lower right. The following is from the description from NASA's site: "The image was timed to capture a total lunar eclipse — but it came with quite a twist. First, the eclipse: the fully Earth-shadowed Moon is visible as the orange orb near the top. The eclipsed Moon's orange color is caused by a slight amount of red light scattered first by Earth's atmosphere, adding a color like a setting Sun. Now, the twist: one of the apparent double helix bands is the Milky Way, the central disk of our home galaxy. The second band is zodiacal light, sunlight scattered by dust in our Solar System. The reason they cross is because the plane where dust orbits our Sun is tilted relative to the plane where stars orbit our Galaxy. This well-known tilt is shown dramatically in the featured wide-angle Mercator-projected picture, spanning from horizon to horizon, captured in early September from Mingantu Observing Station in Inner Mongolia, China."

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You can read the full investigation here, and you can get a tiny glimpse into the world of surveillance, profiteering, and overriding focus of U.S. policing on crushing any remotely progressive social movements. www.thisisbydesign.com/how-mpd-buil...

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How MPD Built a Police Surveillance Operation Around Renee Good’s Memorial — and What It Cost the Community

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𓇢𓆸𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆ꫂ❀ @fsohns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Now with colour

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🐊 @kyssimmee.com · 20/09/2026

read-a da comic i make, wontcha

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

who benefits: oligarchs cuz AI is a political project, but who benefits also: corrupt trustees of universities hoovering public money to prop up tech companies with a diffusion crisis faculty need to connect the dots too; join us in chicago for a workshop! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Against the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher Ed

Welcome Reception / October 23 / 6-8 PM Central / Chicago, ILWorkshop / October 24 / 9AM-5 PM Central / University of Illinois-Chicago Email us to inquire…

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/09/2026

It's official: Starbucks is gutting DEI policies company-wide to curry favor with Florida politicians as our union's call for a boycott grows. Vote with your dollar. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS.

Fox News headline: Starbucks agrees to DEI overhaul after blockbuster Florida legal showdown. The coffee giant will pay $1M and submit annual compliance certifications for four years under the agreement

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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 21/09/2026

Garffeld Pt 14

3 panel comic of Garffeld: panel 1, Garffeld is crouched on a cushion while Jon is saying, "A poor, benighted creature was left at the door. I will tend to it till it is well."; panel 2, Jon holds up a small grey kitten and says, "This is Nergal."; panel 3, Garffeld flops his head down on the cushion, while thinking, "Wake me on judgement day."

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

every cat should get to see the great lakes, at least once

A comic page featuring Darius taking a long road trip with his cat, Pugsley. Panels show them driving next to Lake Erie, standing at the beach at sunset, Darius rubbing his eyes while driving, Darius and Pugsley sitting in a cheap motel room watching TV and eating Chinese food, then the next morning, driving on I-90 into Chicago. Darius sips coffee from a to-go cup while Pugsley stares out the window at the Chicago Skyway Toll Bridge. I'm not sure why they went this way. That toll bridge is expensive.

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Comedy Bang! Bang! World! @cbbworld.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🖐️ raise your hand if this picture is all you need to get excited about this week’s ep!!

Lauren Lapkus, Brian Posehn, John Gemberling, Owen Burke, and Scott Aukerman. Glasses report—three prescription and zero sun!!

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Copper Hamster @copperhamster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My friend got a picture of them all together.

Sailor Moon cosplayers in a Mexican themed variation

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think there is a good chance that if Democrats sweep Congress one of the first things they'll do is try to pass an Australia-style social media ban for under 16s. We need to start organizing against this right now. Ron Wyden can't be the only Senator who will understand this is terrible.

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Russell Brandon @runtzel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That pauldron bracer sword cohesion YES HELL YES

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TRASHFUTURE @trashfuture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A recent article claimed @doctorow.pluralistic.net theory of tech's continual worsening is actually fake, and that people actually love their phones and apps more than ever. Cory wasn't going to read it, but we got him on and let him respond. Let's just say there are some holes in the logic.

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Washington State Standard @washingtonstatestandard.com · 15/09/2026

In an unexpected move, President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Pete Serrano, a former state attorney general candidate from Pasco, to be the next U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/09/14/t...

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Trump nominates Pete Serrano for US attorney in western WA • Washington State Standard

President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Pete Serrano to be the next U.S. attorney for the western District of Washington.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/theres-a-100...

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There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet

“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 15/09/2026

The Library Edition release of eco-horror series INTO THE UNBEING is available now! Details: bit.ly/49a6Nk8 By @zacthompson.bsky.social, @cleanlined.bsky.social, and Jim Campbell. With cover from @slimyswampghost.bsky.social

Cover of Into the Unbeing Library Edition, illustrated by Trevor Henderson

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