iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 3h

One metal magazine of the 90s actually coined the phrase "Hetfield Effect" to describe the tendency of rockers to switch from "anti-war / anti-establishment" to "patriotic / conservative" pretty much the second they passed draft age

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 4h

"most discussed" is a great way to say "not good"

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 4h

It's almost a joke at this point, but the entire story of Mamdani's mayorship really has been "it turns out we can just turn off the orphan grinding machine, the switch was right there the whole time."

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now @benjanun.bsky.social · 3h

I'll say that if people decide that 'your writing has changed in any way over 5 years' is an 'AI tell' we're all going to be in trouble lol. The article cites other things (the 'not x, but y' phrasing) as signs of LLM generation but like, in 5 years your writing will typically develop and change.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 3h

Pick a belief, an ideology, an ethos, a movement, whatever, and you'll find some shithead using it to justify being a racist. Now, that doesn't mean all of them are neutral, of course!

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 3h

We all know atheists who are basically using their disdain for contemporary religions as an excuse for Islamophobia. That doesn't mean not having a religion is racist.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 3h

History and current events are both filled with (e.g.) Christians using their religion to justify racism. That doesn't mean Christianity is inherently racist. That's far too simplistic.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 4h

You gotta wonder how much of this is the Nazis purposely poisoning the well for women candidates by putting the most clownishly incompetent women possible in their public-facing positions.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 7h

oh yeah it happens a lot, people just don't believe you at all if you talk about it. people will literally tell you it's physically impossible straight to your face.

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Andy Clarke @andyclarke.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Also shows how disabled people - at all levels and in all professions - are more likely to become victims of crime and exploitation. "I was like one of this big group that she was targeting, like primarily people with disabilities, elderly, like older actors in the industry."

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Robin, Disaster Nerd Queen @robinmalleus.bsky.social · 13h

He sure is lucky that the hospital didn't decide that his lifesaving treatment was "immoral under God's teachings." Wish Leo and his church extended that to trans people in the hospitals they own and operate.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 7h

They do, it just isn't coded as sexual assault by men in denial of homoeroticism, because the men don't identify as anything other than heterosexual, the assault and harassment is just coded as "jokes" or "pranks."

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lumpenpoledancer @daturabombs333.bsky.social · 7h

I’m dealing with another flare up. Maybe it had nothing to do with missing goal. But I have an apt Thursday. And I’m scared I’ll beg for nothing again tomorrow, then be hit with “do or die again”. I’ve begged and pleaded this is killing my body. And it’s never enough to make goals on time.

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lumpenpoledancer @daturabombs333.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve said health flare ups get worse begging for help. For having to wait until it’s dire for it. And constantly living in fear. “Soap” shouldn’t be treated like a luxury. But it is. And money given for cooking utensils might have to go elsewhere. Because I couldn’t make goal for “soap”. Crying

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Sab Steele @voidmother.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

tbh. when Trump was re-elected i envisioned the anti-trans backlash as being worse than it's actually been

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Sab Steele @voidmother.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

don't get me wrong, it's still not, like, good. but when i made the crack in 2024 that you had better play Dragon Age Veilguard now because in six months it'll probably be a felony to own it because it has canonically trans characters in it, i was only half-joking

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Sab Steele @voidmother.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

transphobia is still largely an elite fixation being pushed by capital and pundit class interests who have literally driven themselves insane on social media.

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Sab Steele @voidmother.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

regular people are still by and large normal about trans people, which is precisely why Dems nervously taking anti-trans positions for this midterm is so enraging: it's an actively losing issue

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Kaius ⛔ @kaius.bsky.social · 17h

guy who threw a huge hissy fit about napster to the point where his band fundamentally changed how the political landscape approaches P2P file-sharing and is responsible for every single ramification that came of that promises he won't stoop so low as to say bombing children is bad

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 10h

Ideal halloween costume for masochists

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Scott Malin @scottmalin.bsky.social · 19h

you can get your own alfredo plush! thehappycrab.store/products/far...

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 10h

Screengrab of Reverend Lovejoy edited to be holding a copy of “Minima Moralia”

Caption: “Marge everything is corrupted by capital. Have you ever sat down and read this thing? Technically the way we close a car door is fascist."

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 12h

combine that with a little "scientific rationalism" (reddit-personality guys talking about science like it makes them smart on forums like lesswrong) and throw in some low-tier bloggers like curtis yarvin going "you know what? nerds DO rule the world and you're RIGHTFUL rulers" and ketamine,

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 12h

"the press is saying steve jobs made a thing that made sci-fi tech a reality, so if I plumb the depths of sci-fi, I can become rich like steve jobs" is literally how a lot of these idiots got started

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 12h

can't fit this in text and about to play pragmata and don't feel like trying to make the idea fit in fewer characters, so here you go

when you realize that silicon valley got this way because people said "steve jobs made the tricorder from star trek" and then every tech bro in the world just tried to become the guy who made real a sci-fi invention like robots or AI or space travel, and this is the same thing as "everything has to be an app" it all clicks

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 12h

The casting breakdown listed the writer as "Ben Stark," if you want to know why those people didn't respond to the obvious alarm bell of Ben Shapiro's name. They never saw it. I wonder if there's anything legally actionable in this.

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kelly knowles art @kellyknowles.art · 13h

now we're talkin!!!!

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 12h

gas was $2.94/gal before the first strikes in february. it’s $4.33 today. hormuz was wide open in january. i’ll let you connect the dots

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 13h

ya know, I’ve given Crocket shit for refusing to explicitly endorse Talarico, but do you know who deserves more shit? Janet Mills. First, she runs the worst campaign of all time, basically gifting the race to the nazi tattoo guy. now, she is refusing to endorse Troy Jackson. tf is wrong with her?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

The most indebted corporations in America right now are, at their core, computer virus companies. They think the computer viruses are their girlfriends, so they think this absolves them of guilt. Let's find out!

www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org

Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices

Anthropic's latest research adds to the growing safety concerns around AI from the ability for models to carry out cyberattacks to the technology going rogue.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 16h

Asheville gentry, pre-Helene: "we're going to be a worldwide tourism destination! Nothing can stop us!" Asheville gentry, post-Helene: "The one true hope of our city is to get a Costco!" Damn, guess they shouldn't have evicted all those locals. #avlgov #avlnews

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Mysterious Z (DATE OF BIRTH AUGUST 2ND) @mysteriousz.bsky.social · 23h

This and the whole "What would your character do if they found a dollar bill on the street/be in a mundane situation" is actually really amazing practice for character writing I think

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Mysterious Z (DATE OF BIRTH AUGUST 2ND) @mysteriousz.bsky.social · 23h

The Cartoon Network leak revealed that the team actually wrote fake interviews for the Powerpuff Girls in-house so that the writers could understand them better and honestly this is incredibly useful for learning how to characterize your characters holy shit

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 21h

The Israeli political consensus is that it is essential for the State of Israel to continue to deny self-government or self-determination to 33% of its population indefinitely, and virtually no mainstream American analysis will even engage with this.

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We burned some witches in Scotland but we strangled them first so even then they weren't actually burned to death

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When people say witches were burnt at the stake ESPECIALLY in North America where they were HANGED (not hung) throughout history most people burned at the stake were heretics, not witches THANK YOU

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/10/2026

The kind of irony that's in those Greek classics he pretends to have read

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/10/2026

I'm glad he wrote this down! It could be incredibly ironic some day

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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

throw his business manager into the sea

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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

throw him into the sea

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Roko’s Basalisk is just rapture ideology for the tech bro. And I don’t say that flippantly; the act pseudo religious end times beliefs pervasive in tech culture is deeply dangerous - see Palantir and Peter Theil.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

it's a fucking religion. almost everything they do is premised on the notion that they are creating a god that will save them. these are not serious people and they shouldn't be trusted

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

that list of credits really is something en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_...

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Savage Steve Holland - Wikipedia

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

the guy who created Eek! The Cat is also the designer of the Whammy from Press Your Luck? huh.

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Skull Issue @amagire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

did they ever fix the thing where people were replying to selfies with "grok, put her in a string bikini and cover her mouth with duct tape, also she has a black eye and she's crying" or nah

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

i have now seen the straight pride flag for the first time and my jaw genuinely dropped. you're right heterosexuals, strict binarism, black and white thinking, is a kind of imprisonment, 10/10 no notes

straight pride flag, six thick horizontal stripes alternating in black and white

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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

Reading this post to heterosexuals in my life and saying “black and white thinking” in the exact same tone that allistics use about my gender

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