iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I googled her name and she’s a health policy researcher who writes think tank reports about gambling harms, we have found the patron saint of UK Bluesky

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Sam Nichols @samnichols.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The chord changes on All Things Must Pass are quietly bananas

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.

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Sam Nichols @samnichols.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

On a distant Christmas my mom bought this box of ornaments at Reny’s for 88 cents

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Sam Nichols @samnichols.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Gauguin Vargas *Vauhini Vara’s! “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age” is amazing and highly recommended by one person you know (or are at least connected to)

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Sam Nichols @samnichols.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Did Adrien Brody just back up to throw his gum to his wife? Did she just try to catch it? What is happening

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Sam Nichols @samnichols.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Composers, come work with Ensemble Dal Niente and the Empyrean Ensemble, and have a new piece premiered. No fees or restrictions. Please spread the word and make sure people have a chance to consider applying. We're accepting applications until April 15, 2025. arts.ucdavis.edu/taproot

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Taproot New Music Festival - Music

November 6–9, 2025

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Unseen History @unseenhistory.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

A teenager water skiing as Mount St. Helens erupts in the background (May 18, 1980).

A 19-year-old Jim Hobson, of Battle Ground, is shown here water skiing on May 18, 1980, as Mount St. Helens erupts in the background.

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Sam Nichols @samnichols.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

@chaujkelly.bsky.social @lauriesanmartin.bsky.social and I were at Dunloe’s which used to be B & L and look what LSM spotted:

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Sam Nichols @samnichols.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Bryndan learned how to solder today

A young man wearing glasses, appearing slightly stressed out, leans over a table holding a solder iron. He is poking around in the guts of some sort of audio equipment.

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Sam Nichols @samnichols.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Lynx putting together a project in the Sound Lab.

A young woman sits cross legged while holding together two pieces of metal.

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Laurie San Martin @lauriesanmartin.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The national news is making my head spin. But I’m so grateful for moments with outstanding people and musicians. Come hear the orange Road String Quartet at Pitzer center thurs, 1/23 @12noon and fri, 1/24 @5PM. Both concerts are free.

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Markus Hesselmann @hesselmann.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

"It has been said that climate change looks like the dissemination of ever more alarming amateur footage until, someday, you’re the one making the footage." Teju Cole @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

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A City on Fire Can’t Be Photographed

The images of a burning Los Angeles won’t last, simply because our ways of seeing are inadequate to our predicament.

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Sam Nichols @samnichols.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

@lauriesanmartin.bsky.social w Gabriel Duarte DaSilva at the Artzenter reading at Herbst on Friday

Two people in a green room backstage get ready to take a picture. A man is holding his phone and trying to figure out how to flip the camera, while a woman wearing a scarf stands next to him and grins. He looks a little stressed out but she is having a good time.

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Sam Nichols @samnichols.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Was headed to meeting at the library the other day and came across these

A cluster of a dozen or so individually wrapped bloodshot eyeball candies left on a bench outside of the UC Davis library.

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Sam Nichols @samnichols.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Documenting the birthday cake she baked

A young woman wearing a sweater stands over a cake she’s baked and takes a photo of it with her phone.

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