iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Y'all know Bean Soup Theory? How someone can post a recipe for bean soup and the replies will be "BUT WHAT IF I DON'T LIKE BEANS?!" That is sometimes annoying trolling but it's predominantly people failing to understand how to read for context, understand intended audience, etc.

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

Time to log in and read the thoughts of people I've chosen to follow and, curiously, the thoughts of people I was specifically trying to avoid

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/09/2026

Global data centre investment has already surpassed solar PV, and will soon surpass all renewable investment combined sf-asset-manager.s3.amazonaws.com/97637/1139/8...

Data center investment rises sharply from near zero in 2015 to about $800B in 2025; chart also shows renewables and solar climbing steadily while oil and gas investments fluctuate at higher levels (2015–2025, USD billions).

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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Rich Cheng @sedm0784.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think Jamie Smart is great and The Phoenix is great, but this is extremely Now draw the rest of the owl.

Get Drawing with Jamie Smart!

The tutorial shows how to draw Bunny from Bunny vs. Monkey.

Steps 1–3 are drawing a square and two overlapping hearts: Bunny's face and ears.

Step 4 is pencilling, inking and colouring the entire rest of the character.

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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This wasn’t just a chat bot helping or encouraging a mass shooter. Humans at the company knew and told no one.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 04/09/2026

Even if you already know they do this shit, it’s absolutely fucking _wild_ that they’ve just put it out as a finished product that is basically screaming at the user how bone-chillingly creepy it really is.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/09/2026

all around the world, over the course of many years, a bunch of white street and parking lights slowly turned blue/purple, when a special yellow phosphor coating that turned blue light into white gradually delaminated. nobody knew this defect would happen, it just took time. i think that's beautiful

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One thing my cat likes to do is tear open a fresh loaf of bread and remove one slice and then leave it there for me to find to let me know he doesn’t like bread

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am thrilled to announce the release of my latest Elite hack: Two-player Elite for the #BBCMicro This is the original 1980s Acornsoft Elite, but with split-screen, two-player, deep-space combat See the thread for links, downloads and details (1/10) #retrocomputing #retrogaming #elitedangerous

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The Interactive Fiction Competition @ifcomp.org · 01/09/2026

🎉 The 32st Annual #IFComp is live! 71 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!) Dive in at ifcomp.org/ballot!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A person under 25 has literally never seen *any* of these companies doing normal things, innocent things, competent things. It's just "oh yeah, the CSAM pervert company, the other CSAM pervert company, the company that makes games no one remembers, the company that tells you to drink bleach" etc

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Well then what's the problem

BBC News headline, reading:
Prisoners freed early are returning to jail at rapid rate, governors tell BBC

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Things To Do With Potatoes Throw a potato on the ground behind a stranger, then say "Excuse me, you've dropped your potato!". If they deny ownership, pull another potato from your pocket, saying "Well it's definitely not my one". Hide a potato in a pair of shoes at a bowling alley.

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J.E. Skeets @jeskeets.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Who had the NBA Dunk of the Year? 💥

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Crockett Houghton @crocketthoughton.com · 18/08/2026

My wife wanted me to try her gluten-free ramen so she extended a fork full of them towards me. I put my hand under them, as one does, so they didn't drip on the table and she dumped the pile of noodles onto my palm, like that's what I wanted, with complete confidence. I love my wife.

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Rich Cheng @sedm0784.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I appreciate the dedication to security, #Apple, but I’m not sure if I’m still going to *want* to use my iPad 1 in… uh… 56 years?!

A photo of my 2010 iPad (1st generation) lock screen. A message reads:

“iPad is disabled
try again in 29,485,996 minutes”

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Rich Cheng @sedm0784.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Omg why is this so funny?! (Also… the ensuing thread! It’s been a long time since I’ve laughed so much.)

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Undead in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away

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b. wolo @bwolo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Everyone on bluesky is insane because it's a collection of people who were so addicted to the website twitter that we had to migrate to a separate bootleg version of twitter when it became enshittified. It's like how the US is insane because the early colonists were all religious crackpots.

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It's close, but if *everyone* who voted against Farage in Clacton votes for Count Binface, the funniest thing could happen

Pie chart showing the share of votes in the Clacton constituency at the last parliamentary election: Reform 46%, Conservative 28%, Labour 16%, Lib Dem 4%, Green 4%

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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

America: "We'll adopt renewables when China sorts out its emissions" China:

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

carpe diem motherfuckers

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Rich Cheng @sedm0784.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I messed up my latte art and accidentally made a Hollow Knight tribute.

On the left: a cup of coffee with a poorly executed “rosetta” pattern. I somehow touched the surface with the jug's spout while pouring, mangling the design. It looks a bit like Hornet, the protagonist from Silksong, and the caption reads, “Hornet, from Silksong”.

On the right: Hornet, from Silksong. The caption reads, “A delicious cup of coffee”.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

i need to find all of these

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is beautifully edited and it made me tear up to think about the inner life of our pets and their ability to enjoy beauty, but it's also likely that she does this because she found a piece of chicken there five years ago

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Londoners, there is a webpage for you to see where your nearest "cool spaces" are when the extreme heat hits - places with water, air-conditioning & shade. Have a look and spread the word, especially to those who may need this but might not think to look for it: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 24/06/2026

Earlier this year I wrote a thing about "The Collective Power Of Human Troubleshooting", aka people getting solid help on reddit in this age of AI search results, and I think I just found an even better example...

aftermath.site

Despite AI's Best Efforts, I Fixed My Kid's Airpods Through The Collective Power Of Human Troubleshooting

"Suck on the one with low sound"

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his arms

Article screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Life goal: Get a plaque this good

Stephen Hales DD FRS 1677- 1761

Curate, Twickenham, Middlesex. The first person to measure blood pressure (in a horse) and sap pressure in trees. Found how to stop a pie crust sagging

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A List of Things Eaten by Scientists 🧵

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Rich Cheng @sedm0784.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Did anyone do this yet? All y’all #Knicks fans gotta be feeling pretty good heading back to the garden up 2–0. Whatever happens in NY, basketball is the winner! #NBA #BingBong

The “Suns in Four!” guy, but I’ve clumsily photoshopped his jersey to say NEW YORK instead of Suns.

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sof @mofu.run · 04/06/2026

modern tech is so depressing

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Luke Bonner @lukeybonner.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The best part of the 2014 Spurs championship was when my brother took the Larry O’Brien trophy to different parks we grew up playing at unannounced and let whoever happened to be there enjoy it.

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Rich Cheng @sedm0784.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but you can’t just slap the paint straight on. You need to clean all that moon dust off first. Your budget needs adjusting for skip hire, a metric shit tonne of sugar soap and a j-cloth or two.

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Rich Cheng @sedm0784.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

In the 80’s there was an advert where someone said “The wa’er, in Mah jorka, don’t taste like wot it ough’a”. I think about it every time I see/hear/read anything to do with Mallorca. First time I actually SAW the advert was a couple of years ago when I got curious and found it on YouTube.

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