iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Atanas K. Stefanov @astronasko.com · 08/10/2026

6445 confirmed planets on the NASA Exoplanet Archive

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good news from the Badlands! Today, October 6, Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, a Lakota nonprofit based on the Pine Ridge Reservation, plans to return 50 bison to nearly 40,000 acres in the Stronghold area of Badlands National Park.

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Lakota nonprofit returning bison to 40,000 acres in Badlands National Park to restore native prairie

Thunder Valley CDC will release 50 bison across 40,000 acres in Badlands National Park on Oct. 6, restoring native prairie ecology and Lakota stewardship.

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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 06/10/2026

I think its because those people hate America.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 05/10/2026

Same. This is "Cookie" (tentative name). She wound up in our yard, practically starving. Claws shredded (from scratching at a door). We had her for two weeks. Spayed her, got her shots, and rehomed her with a recently widowed lady. What we do to animals in the US is awful.

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Amanda Knox @amandaknox.com · 05/10/2026

15 years ago today, I stared out of an airplane window in shock at the sight of my city, Seattle. I hadn't slept in 48 hours. It looked unreal, like a model train diorama. When the airplane door opened, I was struck by the smell of trees and rain after four years trapped in a concrete box. /thread

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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 05/10/2026

I loved it. But yes, it was really that simple. And yea, there's a prequel in the works. I think this director did the latest Resident Evil, right?

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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 04/10/2026

I am! Filming for a few weeks in the area, for 'The Fishmonger.' You folks want to grab a food or a beverage at some point, if there's time in my schedule?

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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 04/10/2026

Yea. Gonna experience that in a couple of days :(

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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 02/10/2026

That kills me. It just kills me. There is such a disconnect with people showing up, every election, everywhere.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From NASA: How do you get a probe ready for the heat of Venus? Put it in a furnace.🔥 From Aug. 28 to Sept. 10, a model of our DAVINCI probe went through six cycles to 869°F (465°C), each matched to its planned hour-long descent. It came out unscathed: go.nasa.gov/3VYwVKR

Close-up of the DAVINCI probe engineering model, a rounded metallic vessel about the size of a yoga ball, before heat testing.
Credit: NASA/Mike Guinto

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Joe Yracheta (A ∩ & ∪ Ω) @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This whole thing is good. Watch, listen, act. But at 9:55 to 10:15 we hear the fundamental warning, now's the time to stand up and protect who you were, who you are and who you will be for 7 generations, or else they will take your data and make up any story they want www.youtube.com/watch?v=eebH...

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The Native BioData Consortium: A Beginning

YouTube video by Native BioData Consortium

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 28/09/2026

I'm one of the scientists here. Sternberg Museum holds one of the most important pterosaur collections in the world. It is extremely important that the collection remains accessible for research, and it would be a tragedy for Kansas if it has to be transferred out of state.

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight

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Joe Yracheta (A ∩ & ∪ Ω) @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Go to my Podcast to hear more. I've been saying this at least since 2019 if not earlier. Y'all are crazy if you are acting like the 1979 Common Rule and/or Belmont Report are worth more than dirty toilet paper. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Palantir has a hand in NIH’s most ambitious health initiative

The defense tech firm’s work with public health data has largely flown under the radar.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you want to understand what's what re generative AI, follow @doctorow.pluralistic.net and read his book The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, along with Enshitification. No one is doing a better job of analysis and critical thinking on the subject.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 15/09/2026

#NASARoman activated the Wide Field Instrument—a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow it to explore wide swaths of the cosmos quickly. This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the instrument—taken as an initial performance assessment: go.nasa.gov/4rg4qEc

$At the top, a grid of 21 panels shows a series of blue images with tiny neon green and yellow circles. A larger image highlights a section of the grid with circular patterns, and an inset presents a detailed star-like diffraction pattern. The colors consist of blue, green, and yellow.$

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Philip C. Sedgwick @philipcsedgwick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tucson moments ago...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Lahaina fire in 2023 destroyed over 2,700 structures and killed at least 102 people, leaving 12,000 homeless. The disaster exacerbated the existing housing crisis in Hawaiʻi and Maui in particular, driven by vacation rentals and remote work, leaving many displaced families struggling to rebuild.

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The Long Road to Rebuilding Lahaina After the 2023 Wildfire (Gift Article)

Hawaii’s housing crisis was at a breaking point even before the fire. Since then, displaced families have struggled to rebuild their lives.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today's the 50th anniversary of the Viking 2 landing. An excuse to re-up this. science.nasa.gov/resource/vik...

Illustrated poster showing a Viking lander on the surface of Mars with the rising sun in an orange sky. Several other kinds of robotic rovers and helicopters that came later are also depicted. Text reads: Viking - The lander that broke ground on 50 years of Mars surface exploration.

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

From NASA The Curiosity rover has now been exploring the surface of Mars for more than 5000 Martian days! Each day on Mars, or "sol," is about 24.6 hours long. How did Curiosity and its team mark the occasion? By working, of course. 🪏 1/2

Black-and-white photo of a small, dune-like ripple of sand and soil-like material. The ripple is crossed by a deep rover track.

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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 01/09/2026

There's no problem! Only opportunities!

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0wlpunk @pax-amorisque.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How does time travel work in Star Trek? Perfectly fine! www.youtube.com/watch?v=E168...

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Solving Star Trek's Time Travel Problem

YouTube video by Trekspertise

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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 31/08/2026

Also, this video is about THIS map, a Cosmological Map of the #startrek Multiverse. And it is unfinished.

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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 31/08/2026

I did my best, y'all. It might not have been enough. LINK: youtu.be/E168IrW_V2E?...

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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 31/08/2026

Come get some! September 4, 5, & 6, 2026

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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A mama chimp at The Sedgwick County Zoo is despondent as her newborn baby was taken from her after birth to get oxygen at the vet for a few days. Here they are reunited. 😍🥹❤️

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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 29/08/2026

Just scared, I guess. Change is coming.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/08/2026

BREAKING: More than 550 people missing in Tibet, China's state media says, in massive flash floods that have also killed at least 162 in Nepal.

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More than 550 missing in Tibet after floods that left hundreds also missing in Nepal

China’s Xinhua News Agency says mudslides caused by a glacial collapse in Tibet have left 558 people missing.

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Joe Yracheta (A ∩ & ∪ Ω) @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dick Durbin, Senator from Illinois, almost single handedly stopped the surreptitious company called Regeneron from buying the bankrupt 23 and me assets. This is something that needs to be screamed from the rooftops. We are in a dangerous cross-roads. www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/re...

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Durbin Delivers Opening Statement In Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On The Privacy & National Security Implications Of The 23andMe Bankruptcy | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement at...

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

From NASA: Looking for more NASA photographs? Here are some places to start exploring: - nasa.gov/images - images.nasa.gov - nasa.gov/image-of-the... - eol.jsc.nasa.gov - flickr.com/search/peopl...

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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 19/08/2026

"He who is not acquainted with foreign languages knows nothing of his own." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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