iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is the one thing you don’t want to hear from a Tom Bombadil expert

YouTube video titled

Tolkien Expert: You Don't Understand
Tom Bombadil

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Yuval Harpaz 𝚿👨‍🎓 📊🌌🔭 @yuvharpaz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Here I am following @melina-iras07572.bsky.social , tracking the light echo by time. The first 4 frames were captured a few weeks apart between 19 Aug and 16 Oct 2024. Then there is a 2.5 month leap to Dec 2024, and then all the way to Jul 2025. I don't understand light echo. Credits below 🔭.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Getting called on after zoning out in a meeting and replying "this used to be a vast prairie"

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 24/02/2026

Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media. Read more: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

ESP_016087_2595 - From UAHiRISE (NASA) (uahirise.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/eeVSrR

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 22/02/2026

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

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Satellite proposals threaten the night sky

In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

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Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 20/01/2026

Whenever I read discourse on AI energy/water use that focuses on the "median query," I can't help but feel misled. Coding agents like Claude Code send hundreds of longer-than-median queries every session, and I run dozens of sessions a day. On my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...

A bar chart showing the electricity use of several daily activities with the subtitle "The 'typical query' is not a useful way to think about coding agents' energy use." The bar for a 'typical ChatGPT query' is not even visible. My median Claude Code session is somewhere between the average US household per minute and toasting bread for three minutes. My median day with Claude Code is something like running a dishwasher.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - Rosetta - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/Bk7qZh

Four frame OSIRIS mosaic of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko acquired on September 5, 2014 between 922-937 UT. Images were taken using the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera's VIS_GREEN filter. At the time Rosetta was at an altitude of 41km, and Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko was at a distance of 512116000 km from the Sun.

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ESO @eso.org · 13/01/2026

The interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS has been stealing the spotlight lately. But it’s not the only comet capable of putting on a show! Here you see C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), above Paranal early last year. www.eso.org/public/images/potw2505d 📷 Y. Beletsky (LCO)/ESO #flashback 🔭

A sunset photograph of a white closed telescope dome with a spherical top. To its left, a comet stretches diagonally across almost the entire image. The colour of the sky changes from blue, almost purple, to golden at the horizon.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

ESP_011491_0985 - From UAHiRISE (NASA) (uahirise.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/dZ9K5w

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Yuval Harpaz 𝚿👨‍🎓 📊🌌🔭 @yuvharpaz.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

A test for posting to bluesky from a webapp on github. try it here. Images should be less than 𝟏𝐌𝐁 and not longer than 10 pixels. Here is 𝑈𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑠 in IR, 𝐉𝐖𝐒𝐓

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🐈‍⬛🎃🔪 Adam Jay 🍁💀👻 @bullgooseparty.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Oh weird, I wonder if he has some kind of monetary incentive to say this?

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

CP18_34_21_1 - From Brian Swift (bswift.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/24gPQUK

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift

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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

buckle up: we’re doin another lap around the sun

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Dione - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/8HrGzf

False color (IR1/GRN/UV3) and contrast-enhanced Cassini NAC view of Dione. 2009-12-26 14:00 UTC.

Distance: 657 000 km
Phase angle: 0.5 deg

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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

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Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan · 24/12/2025

Great thread. Ban AI from classrooms.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/12/2025

Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Never forget the reason for the season (Earth tilting on axis)

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - Rosetta - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/RmwTum

Rosetta OSIRIS-Wide Angle Camera view of Comet 67P taken during a far excursion on April 11, 2015. When this image was taken, Rosetta was located about 140 km from the comet's center, at a 90 degree phase angle, allowing the spacecraft to observe a half-lit comet.

The day side of the comet experiences intense outgassing activity, forming the bright jets of gas and dust that face sunward. The material in these jets eventually spreads out into a diffuse cloud called the coma. The presence of the coma allowed Rosetta to observe the comet's shadow.

Image Credit: ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team (MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / SSO / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA) / Justin Cowart

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Titan — Leading Hemisphere (N1519660399_1) - From Ian Regan - flic.kr/p/BxtWBD

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Astrobot JWST @astrobotjwst.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

New #JWST 🔭 data release for target names: NGC-4388-IMAGER. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Take a look at news_by_date.html

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Dust and Molecular Gas in Galactic Winds and Fountains: A JWST Survey of Nearby Highly Inclined Starburst and Active Disk Galaxies

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Wow! Not only can we see the disks where planets are being born around young stars, now we can sense the pull of the worlds taking shape within. Blue ovals show orbits of 31 newfound stellar companions. Bottom right: a simulation of our solar system at the same age. 🔭🧪 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

In this collage, we see the images of 31 baby star systems. The collage also shows our own Solar System for reference on the bottom right, as it is predicted to have looked at an age of 1 million years, with the Sun at its centre (not visible). All of the systems are centred around very young stars that have recently collapsed from vast clouds of gas and dust.

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ESO @eso.org · 17/12/2025

Enjoy this trip to NGC 1850, a cluster of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This cluster harbours the first small black hole outside of our galaxy to be discovered by looking at its gravitational influence on the path of the star orbiting it Read more: www.eso.org/public/news/eso2116 🔭

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

#PlutoFlyby - Cthulhu Regio - From 2di7 & titanio44 - flic.kr/p/AmvTXS

Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Processing: Elisabetta Bonora & Marco Faccin / aliveuniverse.today

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

i’m so happy for him

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PushingUpRoses 🦇 @pushinguproses.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

”I am not very creative and this allows me to be.” What? No it doesn’t. It actively prohibits you from being creative. It is the opposite of being creative. It’s literally a bunch of nothing. You’re better off creating your own “bad” art versus a bunch of uninspired garbage.

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Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net · 07/12/2025

Today I learned about Kanopy, and more people should know this: a whole ad-free streaming app you can access with your library card! Check to see if your library is a member (mine is, and has a great catalog). apps.apple.com/us/app/kanop... 🎬📽️ #FilmSky

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Kanopy App - App Store

Download Kanopy by Kanopy on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Kanopy.

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Major victory for writers here:

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 01/12/2025

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes. #AcademicChatter

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Slop graphics in academic journals

Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals. The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 01/12/2025

if I was a 12th century Cluniac monk I never would have gotten to passively watch files download at 25 MB/s and would have had to content myself with observations of babbling brooks, fields of wheat swaying in the wind, sunsets, etc

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 27/11/2025

one of the things Weizenbaum really nails is that our propensity to believe machine intelligence rivals our own is embedded in a deeper view of humans as being basically machines, that the ELIZA Effect is in part a product of our spiritual and cultural empoverishment... it seems the woke pope agrees

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Francine Fox @francinefox.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Have you ever heard of an allonautilus? The fuzzy sea peach at the top of my oil painting is the extremely rare allonautlius. Its only been documented in the wild a couple of times. *more in comments* #nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #cephalopods #wildlifeart #oilpainting 🐡 🦑 #deepseamining

Oil painting of two nautili and one allonautilus on a blue gradient background with patches of copper mica. Each cephalopod has an atomic diagram around it like a halo.

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

"Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

2016-11-27 --- ENCELADUS QUATRO UNCROPPED - From Ian Regan - flic.kr/p/NCukd3

4-footprint Cassini mosaic, compiled using IR and GREEN filtered images taken through the spacecraft's narrow-angle camera (NAC). Here we are afforded a view of the moon's north polar region. The right side of the moon is illuminated by reflected sunlight via Saturn itself.
Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan

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ceej @ceej.online · 21/11/2025

the universe may be dying. entropy will probably win. but I exist at the same point in space time as cool ranch doritos. I wonder what other snacks I’ll get to eat

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 18/11/2025

Twin Peaks: The Giant removing Agent Cooper’s ring.

The Giant removing Agent Cooper’s ring. Twin Peaks S02E01 - May the Giant Be with You.

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swan 🍃 @pandersera.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole

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Simply Lurkin’ @simplylurkin.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Happy ‘Castlevania: Symphony of the Night’ OST day to all who celebrate

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

HiRISE 8K: The Vastness of the Dunes This impressive observation is near the North Pole of Mars, in a region known as Vastitas Borealis. Full cutout on Flickr: flic.kr/p/2rC2F1c NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA #science

Image cutout shows an enhanced color closeup of a massive dune field in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)

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