iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/10/2026

Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.

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Taylor Fischer @tcfischer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some halloween sketching with the crayolas Demon goat!

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Sam 🏳️‍⚧️ @samgauss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Rest in peace, dear Noodle Always here for dog forecasts

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Seán Ferrick @seanferrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was tempted to pirate HP, curiosity and all that. But @jessiegender.bsky.social is right - think of the amount of times HBO commented on GOT leaks and downloads, just as an example. They DO track these things, and even that drives interest. Let this show die. Trans people deserve better.

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Sam 🏳️‍⚧️ @samgauss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My handle “Ntkufreak” is from middle school and references a CLAMP character “Nataku” who was a clone of a scientist’s deceased daughter, but with the body of a beautiful androgynous man, I was immediately obsessed and of course I didn’t know why until much later

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

they always show their asses eventually because the thing is that you cannot truly, sincerely care about women if you don’t care about trans women. the minute you carve off any one subcategory of women you claim are “lesser” in some way, you’ve declared women’s rights to be conditional by definition

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Joe Brian 🇺🇦 will win @mrjoebrian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This made me laugh

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Sam 🏳️‍⚧️ @samgauss.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Maybe dark fantasy too, fey stories, Pan’s Labyrinth kind of strangeness and connection

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Sam 🏳️‍⚧️ @samgauss.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ancient fantasy à la Madeline Miller? I keep thinking about Song of Achilles—not necessarily seeking heartbreak or angst. Trashy is ok.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

really don't like when pieces like this bring up the carceral state or a carceral mindset when talking about someone who is facing purely social consequences. i think it's really dangerous to frame any & all negative reactions to terrible behavior as carceral. it does not help the work of abolition.

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Matthew Prorok @mattprorok.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If that's your concern, I have great news! There's no evidence that trans people have any kind of physical advantage in athletics, and some evidence that they may be at a disadvantage.

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Trans Women in Sports: Facts Over Fear | SF.gov

Resources to combat misinformation around trans women's participation in sports.

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We actually don't hate this administration enough

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal

Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The psychology of doomerism is that the Doomer is the smartest boy in class because he can see the Real Problem, which obviously negates the primacy of Other Problems. For totally mysterious reasons, the Real Problem is never poverty or discrimination.

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Sam 🏳️‍⚧️ @samgauss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It was so frustrating hearing “labels are for soup cans” as a trans queer kid who was just trying to figure out what the hell was going on in my brain

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Sam 🏳️‍⚧️ @samgauss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah, seems odd, like it was a memorable stylish concept that was broad enough to invite more iteration in sequels

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Sam 🏳️‍⚧️ @samgauss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was really hoping for more of the almost SCP concepts. From the very very little I’ve read, I don’t love what they’ve done with Jesse, though I’m a little optimistic hearing Dylan is better than expected (I found him very annoying in Control lol)

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Sam 🏳️‍⚧️ @samgauss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Extremely glad I no longer hear that stupid “die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain” quote anymore, it always struck me as somehow both cynical AND naïve

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Sam 🏳️‍⚧️ @samgauss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don’t think it’s Disco Elysium, but it’s the only one I’ve played, so I will waste the guess

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026

Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.

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Sam 🏳️‍⚧️ @samgauss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He’s not a fireman. He hates fire Love reading your thoughts on this, and the above conversation about her directing and the buddies’ staging, it’s so thought provoking

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I could talk about this scene for an hour. The entire film I’m subconsciously braced for the fat jokes. The ugly jokes. And I don’t even realize I’m braced until i have a good exhale when this entire exchange manages to unfold without once mocking the cashier.

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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

as far as I can tell the harry potter series is a couple of chapters viciously skewering a snobby middle class couple and then seven books outlining why snobby middle class closed-mindedness and bigotry is great it's just that those two people were fat

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 22/09/2026

I think you had to be very online at a time when most people weren't to know that the bush administration was comically evil to the extent that it was, but for those of you who weren't: trust us! these were stupid evil people, not so different from the current ones!

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Spooky SazCaz @sazcaz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Choosing to reference a method of inflicting trauma on a community when you lose an argument on the internet and look bad is absolute dogshit behaviour, whether the person is on my side or not and we should call it out

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Case in point: I get accused of taking testosterone and mocked for being muscular, and that my “all consuming rage” at being fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk is supposedly from roids. And the right-wing idiots said I embody a “primitive form of manhood”. freebeacon.com/men-of-the-y...

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2025 Man of the Year: Karen Attiah

Great Men never go down without a Fight. The beefier the Man, the fiercer the Fight. Karen Attiah practically dared the Washington Post to fire her beefy ass in 2025, and that's exactly what happened....

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Sam 🏳️‍⚧️ @samgauss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I wish I’d had this when a cis person was explaining to me what reality was a few weeks ago

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

flinching on trans rights does not help dems win nor does it help with the other 'more important' issues. you ever think about those weirdass voters who like AOC *and* trump? what they hate is a fucking flincher. they hate a wimp. even if they don't support trans rights, they hate flinchers more.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

not for nothing, the thing that kills dems image isn't 'oh they support trans people' it's 'people, including many dem voters, think dems are spineless, cowardly, wimpy, and don't actually stand for anything' standing for trans rights corrects that. beshear won in *kentucky* without flinching.

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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

for those who aren’t familiar—the NAACP’s solidarity with trans people and willingness to recognize “similarities between exclusions of transgender kids and racial segregation” is something i find genuinely moving

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026

I would also like for my siblings that live differently, more loudly, more radically than I do to have the same freedoms and rights as I should have. I am not an exception or a model tranny for cohering in the ways I do. There is and should be no “correct” way to “deserve” rights as a trans person

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a very good point and the thing to understand is that’s not what’s happening on either side. The republicans are identifying all the people they want to target for degradation and a repeal of their civil rights. The democrats are giving a list of who they’re okay to do that to.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can't say it enuff: Every leftist politician should Xerox Mayor Mamdani's direct-to-the-people model, speak DIRECTLY to the constituency about the good they're doing, ignore the billionaire-captured filter of legacy media, & reduce those people to impotent hecklers forever reacting never directing.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/09/2026

Arienne Childrey, an Ohio LGBTQ+ rights leader and trans candidate, speaks out about being stonewalled by the Ohio Democratic Party for confronting Dem. Governor Candidate Amy Acton's anti-trans comments. People tell us to "just speak with the candidates." This shows why that doesn't always work.

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Ally is a Verb

The True Story of the Ohio Democratic Establishment’s Demand for Silence, the Fight to Be Heard, and Why True Solidarity Cannot Coexist with Political Triangulation.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/09/2026

All it took was one person to confront Rob Sand at his town hall for his anti-trans statements. There are 26 Democrats that have taken bad votes or made bad statements towards transgender people. Those who disagreed with my article said to talk to the dems instead. So, we are. Go do it!

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

(Realizing it would sound petty if I just said I don't like your post) Your post jeopardizes an important election

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Let's all unite to win this unjust, immoral imperialist war that everybody hates" is not a new position for the Democrats, alas

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

an admittedly tertiary but still annoying side detail of the "trans kids in sports" debate is that these were already the worst kind of sports parents and now they think they're The Face of a Movement

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

two years ago, i was allowed to use the women's room at the airport no problem. now, the texas state government can fine the airport thousands of dollars if i use the women's bathroom.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"I work in tech! AI will replace us all!" No, AI will replace you and generate slop that you *think* replaces the output of people in the social sciences and humanities because you do not have the ability to discern quality work in those fields

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Relegated Things @relegatedthings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The ACC moved the basketball tournament away from NC and that popular governor is on a glide path to winning a Senate seat there. Do people understand how crazy it is nobody is talking about the race in NC because the DEM seems like a lock? Trans rights being a losing issue for Dems is delusional.

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