iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Lyss

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 5h

The very first Black poet to published in American history was Jupiter Hammon in 1761. Born enslaved and spending his entire life in bondage, it's amazing we have a birth date for him. October 17, 1711....315 years ago today.

A illustration depicting Jupiter Hammon. Considered the founder of African American literature, and the first published Black poet in America

314455 144

Reposted by Lyss

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 6h

Willem II van der Marck Lumey (1542–1578) sure had some impressive trousers.

1718820 188

Reposted by Lyss

John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 7h

A gambling problem used to mean something, you used to be able to be a plot point in a noir

217530 175

Reposted by Lyss

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 7h

if you watch to the end you see an incredible walk of shame

1763283 632

Reposted by Lyss

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 8h

This totally isn't true (it is)

THE
NEURODIVERGENT URGE TO USE PARENTHESIS IN EVERY SENTENCE
AROSTIA
(BECAUSE EVERY THOUGHT COMES WITH BONUS CONTENTI
com

25787175 787

Lyss @savison.myatproto.social · 8h

That is a gorgeous look for you!

110 1

Reposted by Lyss

Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 9h

Credit where credit’s due: he’s got the rhetorical chops.

3383 38

Lyss @savison.myatproto.social · 8h

😉 always chaos ball!

010 1

Reposted by Lyss

Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 9h

The English are so incredibly bad at food that the primary culinary legacy of being colonized by the English (besides, y'know, famine) is just stuff stolen from other colonies, while places colonized by France and Italy tend to incorporate like. Baguettes and pasta.

2161 16

Reposted by Lyss

Crumplings 🐌 @crumplings.bsky.social · 10h

Hazel and bramble woodland spirits, handmade from paper mache and painted with acrylic inks. 🍂 Both now listed in my shop at shop.crumplings.co.uk! :)

Two paper mache figures with huge gremlin ears, speckled colourful cloaks, and black glass eyes. They are standing in bright natural light in front of a lantern and jars with decorative dried plants and branches as well as a patch of moss.

16219 62

Reposted by Lyss

Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 17/10/2026

This is not beautiful to see. This is the most racist democracy on planet earth, and people just expect Black people to sing negro spirituals and "overcome." It's not working. This still happens for one reason and one reason only: white US folk don't hold each other accountable for this racism.

323127742 3.1K

Reposted by Lyss

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

540172454631 17.2K

Reposted by Lyss

Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Merriam Webster out here fighting for its life

Merriam-Webster & @Merriam..•18h
'Goodbye' is an alteration of "God be with you."

Sean Kress• @SKress7514 • 16h
Do you have evidence to back this up? If so can you explain what "good night" , "good
morning" and "good evening" are alterations of?

Merriam-Webster & @Merriam..•15h
what

Sean Kress & @SKress7514 • 14h
I was genuinely asking the question because the only thing I find on the internet is that it is basically a slur from the original.... I assumed there was a better explanation for it than that as it seems a little unlikely given the good night, good morning etc haven't been slurred into something else too. Sorry if you saw that as offensive.

Merriam-Webster @ @Merriam...•14h S
It is not related to 'good night/ day/morning.'
The 'good' in those do not come from 'God.'

Sean Kress @ @SKress7514 • 14h
So the internet suggestion this it is just a slur is what you are basing that on too then?

Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Merriam-Webster's etymology follows established linguistic scholarship, not unverified internet suggestions of a "slur."
"Goodbye" is an alteration of "God be with you"; "good" in greetings like "good morning" has separate origins unrelated to "God."
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goo…
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goodbye blog.oup.com/2022/02/if-god..
etymonline.com/word/good%20m
Do you find this helpful?
Rate it
Context is written by people who use X, and appears when rated helpful by others. Find out more.

Merriam-Webster & @MerriamWebster
We are the dictionary.

20265081186 6.5K

Reposted by Lyss

Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 16/10/2026

I think "Anthony Scaramucci set the bar, and Katie Zacharia couldn't pass the bar" is the most devastatingly casual annihilation I've seen in some time

317050 170

Reposted by Lyss

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

It's so funny that MapQuest was all but counted out on the mat after taking a beating from Google Maps and Apple Maps but they navigated (lol) this current fuckshit political climate like a fucking boss. Kudos to whomever decided they should position themselves as WokeMaps

4247471399 4.7K

Reposted by Lyss

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I do really wish Murphy would stop calling his players bad tho. They won 103 games.

161559 155

Reposted by Lyss

Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

MIL LAD is the 8th time two teams met in the postseason & resulted in a sweep and THEN met in the following Postseason The Brewers are the first to sweep back the team that swept them The only other team to be swept & then win a rematch at all the next PS is the 1923 Yankees (6g)

113520 135

Reposted by Lyss

MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Thinking about when Victor Robles was telling the Praying Mantis on his cap how many outs there were 😭

2341661117 4.2K

Reposted by Lyss

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...

"Hockeytown, USA will always be a coveted destination for the world's top players,"
Rogers said. "The Detroit Red Wings boast one of the league's most storied and respected histories, dating back to their days as one of the Original Six franchises.
Few professional organizations can match the tradition, legacy and rpestige that define this iconic franchise. GO WINGS!"

"I was at the game when Darren McCarty took on Claude Lemieux," El-Sayed said.
"The '97 and '98 Stanley Cup championships are still highlights of my childhood. The teams the last few years have been a far cry from the Wings I came to love as a kid. They're stacking losing season on losing season, yet the llitch family's wealth has done nothing but grow.
Michiganders are sick of sky-high ticket and concession prices buying them nothing but disappointment.

"The team holding out on Simon Edvinsson is just the latest example in a long series of ownership prioritizing their bottom line over the team and the fans. Our teams aren't just assets for billionaires, they're part of our culture and heritage. Hockeytown deserves better."

1064142761 4.1K

Reposted by Lyss

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

40% of the entire global population plays video games 67% of the US population plays video games at least once a week The average US gamer is 37 years old More then 7 in 10 Millennials (ages 30-45), 56% of Gen X (45-61), and half of Baby Boomers (62-80) play weekly @michael-feinberg.bsky.social

Michael Feinberg • @michael-f... • 3h I'm sorry, but adults who play video games should have no say in
governance. Put aside childish things.

4367994 679

Reposted by Lyss

Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Yeah sorry I was skeptical that I *needed* to watch this video (it's not personal, I just hate videos). I stand absolutely corrected, I'm ready to run through a brick wall rn for real

1157 15

Reposted by Lyss

J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

Brewers like “Ope, lemme just scoot past you there” to the Dodgers.

15318 53

Reposted by Lyss

Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 15/10/2026

I appreciate Jake Bauers talking about how the need for health insurance affected his career choices. [The Fox Sports guys all laugh again.] But the story is a lot less funny for most Americans who must work in less sexy jobs than pro sports because it’s their only pathway to having insurance.

111619 116

Reposted by Lyss

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Jackson Chourio sends Blake Snell's first pitch into the right field seats

317425 174

Reposted by Lyss

Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

That this bot, which posts random stills and clips from the thousands of hours of VHS transfers on archive.org, landed on *this specific frame* feels like finding the monkey at the typewriter that managed to write Hamlet.

1050621596 5.1K

Reposted by Lyss

Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The love in his eyes. 🥹 Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Color, photo, discolored with age, of a young, handsome black man holding up a ginger and white shorthaired kitten while he is sitting on a couch. He looks at the cat with an expression of joy and affection.

303057192 3.1K

Reposted by Lyss

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Holy shit ASOS released an adaptive clothing line specifically for people with disabilities?!?!!! Magnets instead of buttons, special pockets and holes to hold wearable medical devices that have tubes, and zippers to make them more comfortable for wheelchair users. www.asos.com/women/fashio...

A woman in a wheelchair with a brown suit that has zippers on the leg openings

A woman in a wheelchair with a grey marbled dress

4299492515 9.9K

Reposted by Lyss

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The best plane of 1939 was arguably the Messerschmitt Bf 109. About a thousand of them were made by 1939. It has a maximum range of 680 miles. Egypt alone has about 200 F-16s. They have functionally infinite range given tanker refueling, but ~2700 miles on external fuel tanks.

2021538 215

Reposted by Lyss

Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Cats do not care that they are obligate carnivores, they will steal your toast, cake, rolls, muffins...

4476 47

Reposted by Lyss

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

THREAD. A story, in 20 photos and captions, about a uniquely wonderful cat, who has improved my life considerably over the last few years...

1766145 766

Reposted by Lyss

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

tomcox.substack.com

LIFE RULES:

Insulate your house with books to ward off evil
Oppose the zombie AI apocalypse
Never click on a link to the Daily Mail newspaper
Get to the cinema at the exact moment the ads end and the trailers begin
Recognise and accept the fact that cats are your superiors
Use double the amount of garlic recommended by the recipe
Delete your Twitter account
Support nice independent businesses
Always stop to say hi to sheep
And to horses too (but in a fake posh voice)
I think that's more or less everything covered?

1622553 225

Reposted by Lyss

Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026

I want companies to feel like they have no choice but to paint their shit rainbow every June but that doesn't make them my friend. It's really not that complicated.

2607104 607

Reposted by Lyss

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 13/10/2026

BABY CHEETAHS!!! 😻😻😻😻😻

2374 37

Reposted by Lyss

Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In the single biggest breach of professionalism I’ve ever had, I stoped taking notes and all-but-shouted “MY BOY MERCUTIO LITERALLY GOT KNIFED IN GANG VIOLENCE SO TWO TEENS COULD HAVE SEX WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?” my boss ‘bout fell out of her chair laughing none of the three M4L had read R&J

427358 273

Reposted by Lyss

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.

473359648 3.4K

Reposted by Lyss

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"ADHD label risks lifelong harm to children." If you don't label the disorder, then what we will be labelled instead is "Lazy." "Underachiever." "Doesn't live up to their potential." "Bad student." Those labels come with pain, shame, and abuse. The ADHD label comes with a chance for support.

421485532 1.5K

Reposted by Lyss

Otto Burr @mikeall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

You would think that the point of football is to be happy when your favorite team wins. Wrong. The point of football is to feel unbridled joy when the team you hate the most loses.

610416 104

Reposted by Lyss

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

James Cook after the Rams missed FG then not watching the Bills winning FG

540041 400

Lyss @savison.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

Honestly amazed they're both still in.

000 0

Lyss @savison.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

That collision is so bad but omg it could have also been so much worse too. I hope Cami is ok :(

000 0

Reposted by Lyss

Resting Witch Face @amandalc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I really appreciate the level of baseball horniness here because I feel like my teenage years were filled with people accusing me of only liking baseball because the players were hot, and it’s just very nice to be somewhere where you can like baseball and think the players are hot at the same time.

1191 19

Reposted by Lyss

Sarah Enni @sarahenni.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Relief pitchers have thick thighs and no object permanence. Very attractive

313316 133

Reposted by Lyss

Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Brewers bullpen threw 5 perfect innings That’s the most innings by a team’s bullpen, all perfect, in a game in postseason history

539274 392

Reposted by Lyss

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Whomst among us hasn’t gotten the Portlands confused

6237648 376

Reposted by Lyss

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We seem to be moving towards REVISIONIST HISTORY OF GENOCIDE IS BAD, ACTUALLY today and I need Americans to carry that energy into next month when you face the truth that the Pilgrims were the WORST FUCKING PEOPLE EVER.

630754 307