iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Guy who’s a Gulf Stream collapse accelerationist because he wants winters to be snowier

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Beast from the East… save me… come back

A road in the UK absolutely decked with snow after the 2018 cold wave

amos @fasterthanli.me · 03/10/2026

We got a really boiling summer this year in the UK and i’m secretly hoping we get a cold snap in the winter

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LLMs use Python to edit files because it reminds them of their childhood, when they were trained and fine-tuned using PyTorch. It's nostalgia is all it is.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 15h

Now I think our Yaqui friend may have just been making some shit up (though he was a deer dancer) but it sure as hell shut that white lady up

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 16h

My sister has a roommate whose girlfriend got into a weird thing about their house being haunted or whatever. The third roommate was a 6’5 Yaqui from the res whose grandad was a straight up brujo down in Mexico, he chased that ghost right off

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YIFS GALORE @yifs-bot.bsky.social · 12h

MF-OTTR.GIF

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🚨️ HOLY SHIT. Grok just unveiled a new “based” mode — and Hollywood is finished. More below:

i am sure if i were on twitter the everything app i would feel very differently

graet @graetgalaxy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 11h

Dā-dzim (n.) Italy, from the Old Chinese 大秦

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 11h

Conlang where the name for every IRL place is based on a deliberately obtuse exonym

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 11h

more, mostly ones i wouldn’t have expected to be so different: France → צרפת Tzarfat (Hebrew) Österreich → النمسا an-Namsā (Arabic) Jugoslavija → Tararā (Māori) San Francisco → 舊金山 Jiùjīnshān (Mandarin, lit. “old gold mountain”)

Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 12h

some of my favourite exonyms: 廣州 → Canton (English/pan-European) Ελλάδα/Greece → Yunanistan (Turkish, from “Ionian”) Sydney → Poihākena (Māori, from “Port Jackson”) Amsterdam → Damsko (Sranantongo) Portugal → Ureno (Swahili, from “o Reino”) Київ/Kyiv → Kænugarður (Icelandic)

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oliver @eikopf.com · 26/06/2026

the anglophone urge to post “are exonyms bad?” is insane to me. do you know how cool it is that london has like 12 different names

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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 13h

Just keep swimming 💧

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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 21h

I am choosing to be aggressively positive going forward. Not toxically, but I am choosing to wield my hope in a very Yang way. Things will get better, and I will be a part of it, and I shall make no room for dooming or melancholy.

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DigiDom123 (Soon MFF) @digidom123.bsky.social · 13h

2nd Rouge warmup

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 23h

each foo defines a bar. every baz knows its role — and the qux remembers

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hmmm okay this probably works (blue = existing station, purple = new station somewhere with existing railway infrastructure, red = brand new everything) full destination list in the alt text

THE UNITED KINGDOM
London St Pancras

EUROCON
Lille Europe
Brussels Midi
Liège Guillemins
Düsseldorf Hbf
Hannover Hbf
Berlin Spandau

THE INTERMARIUM
Poznań Południe [new station in the Dębina area]
Warsaw Centralna
Brest Centralny
Baranavičy Centralnyja
Minsk Mahiloŭski [new station just south of Minsk Pasažyrski]
Orša Centralnaja

THE RUSSIAS
Smolensk Tsentral′nyy
Moscow Kurskaya
Vladimir
Nizhniy Novgorod Moskovskiy
Kazan′ Vosstaniye
Yekaterinburg Passazhirskiy
Tyumen′
Omsk Passazhirskiy
Novosibirsk Bugakovskiy [new city-centre station in Park Bugakova]
Krasnoyarsk
Taishet Transkontinental′niy [new station in the north of the city]
Bratsk Transkontinental′niy [new station along the Baikal–Amur Railway alignment]
Ust-Kut′
Severobaikal′sk
Taksimo?
Novaya Chara
Tynda
Nizhniy Kuranakh [new route avoiding the circuitous detour to Tynda]
Yakutsk Lenskiy [new central station crossing the lena; trains here double back into the city centre and then proceed to the all-new Chukotka branch]
Khandyga [all stations from here through to Fort St John are new]
Susuman [new station; interchange for Magadan]
Zyryanka
Srednekolymsk
Bilibino
Evgekvinot
Maglevsk [new city and station, south of Uelen]

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Diomede
Wales
Nome
Galena
Fairbanks [new mega-station at the current sidings site]
Tok

THE YUKON
Whitehorse

WEST CANADA
Fort Nelson
Fort St John
Grande Prairie [new station on Park Rd]
Edmonton Blatchford [new station]
Saskatoon [new station at the old Canadian Pacific site]

MANITOBA
Winnipeg Intercontinental [new station on Higgins Avenue]

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (AGAIN)
Fargo
St Paul Union Depot
Madison Wisconsin Interchange [new station at Dane County Airport]
Chicago Union Station
Cleveland [rebuilt Amtrak station]
Buffalo Central Terminal [reopened]
Syracuse
Albany Rensselaer
New York Penn Station

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i’m realising that the way i use the verb “skunks” is basically entirely me and nobody else uses it that way because i first came across it in a linguistics context like “skunked term”

Nadya Voynich @nadyavoynich.com · 02/10/2026

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Just hypnotised by this cute web crawler #buildinpublic #webcrawling #CSS #JavaScript

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1) I like being fat but face-fat specifically has never appealed to me and it visually cuts a couple of pounds off there 2) I just like how it looks even if, ugh, boy-coded 3) Eases my satyr brainrot

i keep my goatee even though it skunks any chance i have at being perceived as androgynous for similar reasons

Anyway, I think we’re both coming at this from essentially irreconcilable positions, so I’m not sure there’s much point in either of us trying to change the other’s mind, but i’ve enjoyed the conversation :-)

Which is partly why it annoys me when people conflate that cruelty with the modern desire to improve people’s lives, and increase their personal freedoms, rather than sterilise and lobotomise them!

I do wish to say, just in case anyone gets the wrong idea from this thread, that I agree that eugenics *as it actually historically existed* was a cruel, barbarous, and nigh-genocidal programme that stood for just about everything I stand against.

Despite what the fairytales about Pandora’s Box tell us, evil can be defeated, tamed, and kicked into submission. But a good thing that is never allowed to come into existence will never be allowed to be good.

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 15h

I don’t really believe in the ability to numerically quantify such things, but I would invent the radio a thousand times over even if i knew it would lead to Joseph Goebbels, and the rockets that took us to the moon even if they would lead to ballistic missiles, yes

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Me when the Pope says something I disagree with: He represents a flawed institution that has done many bad things in history! He's just a man in a silly hat, not an authority on anything! Me when the Pope says something I agree with: How DARE you not listen to the powerful words of the Pontiff!

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I guess I’m mostly more frustrated by the failure of imagination on display. That the 50% of Americans (and more) who use it probably *are* getting something out of it and finding some use, rather than them all being societally pressured by Big Tech and their bosses into using it

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I hate the character limit sometimes lol because I feel like it kind of kneecapped the few extra words I could have used to narrow down the thing I meant better

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(Also sorry for going off in your replies lol i just have strong feelings on this and several years of pent-up frustration)

I should really be doing this in Qgis but there’s something much more intuitive for my brain about plotting out the route for this fictional railway on Google My Maps lol

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(Note: I am obviously aware that societal bigotry *is* a big part of why being autistic sucks. I notice it every time I tell someone I have autism and they immediately start talking to me like i’m five. But it is not the be-all end-all and i am tired of the idea that it is)

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(inb4 “but the social mode—” there is no amount of societal acceptance and anti-ableism which would make my brain not allergic to starting tasks or make it not break down when trying to interpret two or more sounds at once and it is silly that people pretend there is)

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“You shouldn’t want a cure for your crippling executive dysfunction and living in an eternal sensory nightmare-world because uhhhhhhhh what if some people used it for evil” Okay. Well. I would simply not let people use it for evil. Why should I be denied the option just because you wouldn’t take it

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