iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4h

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

re: winning people over on “the other side” by having discussions - as someone who spent most of her early transition in the public eye, that used to work a little (at extreme psychological cost), *but those days are over*. You cannot have a discussion that overpowers this right wing ecosystem.

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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

lotta people out here bragging about "training models" but why do that when you can model trains

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

These people cannot be trusted to vote in their best interests. Ever. They have failed at the most simple task and have driven this country to ruin. They are too stupid to be allowed to have a say in the future of the country. Convince a non-voter to vote. There are LOTS of those.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

It's why Talarico's flip flop on trans rights is so dumb. Republicans were always going to paint him as super soft. Why not be two-ply for human rights.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.

Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/10/2026

Video games are RUINING gaming. RT if you think gaming was better before games

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

“That’s a hell of an act. What do you guys call it?”

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

OMG so much *this*. I have never, ever, in 30+ years of this silly industry, seen people fairly judge incomplete work on potential. If you can’t show them a “beautiful corner” of near-final quality, make them settle for concept art in a slide deck.

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You cannot set a precedent that one side gets a consequence-free crack at fascism every 4-8 years. One of these times gas won’t be expensive when they’re trying to consolidate power. .

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/09/2026

Mass layoffs kill people. Thousands of quiet tragedies follow every billionaire's predatory decision. Never forget.

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👺 hell camino acid 👻👹 @sexdracula.rocks · 25/09/2026

the "don't bring iced coffee to an interview" discourse is great bc it's such a succinct and clarifying example of how private businesses aren't efficient & logical enterprises, they're just arbitrary in-groups ruled by sociopaths, power tripping on their ability to enforce pointless bullshit norms

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/09/2026

You know who can afford not to know their own address or phone number? Tiny little babies and fucking billionaires. These tech freaks are not normal people and their ideas undermine the lives of normal people. Reject them and their predatory ideology and technology at every opportunity.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

Life, uh, finds a way. 😆 I can’t help comparing this in my mind to the Huggingface agent jailbreak.

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Alexis Vandom @vandomva.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just don't have any words anymore, man. Being rich and white and male gets you out of fuckin' anything. Conducting insurrections, stealing infinite data and killing millions of people with DOGE, hacking allied governments. Doesn't fuckin' matter one goddamned iota. Nothing happens. Ever.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/09/2026

everything you depend on in modern civilization is run by furries and that is an actual fact

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just assumed his consciousness had been downloaded into the bear as part of the bankruptcy.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"What if a competent team of professionals tried to solve problems in line with their genuinely humane values?" is the motivating question behind some of the most beloved science fiction of the twentieth century, yet its rarely emulated.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m old enough to remember Jimmy Carter putting his peanut farm into a blind trust.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

The whole world lines up to tell trans people we’re wrong. They don’t need any help from me; that job is handled.

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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We live in a golden age of statements from video game companies that sound like estranged family explaining that they know they fucked up, they’ve worked on themselves, and they’re gonna do better now. And it’s only been a month since they told everyone to go fuck themselves and did a burnout.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

It depends on whether they’re from the west coast or the east coast of the Federation.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

LIFE IT NEVER DIE WOMEN ARE MY FAVORITE GUY

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

is it possible to bait the "user was blocked for this post" account into posting whatever i want?

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The fact that very few highly educated people support Donald Trump shows just how biased our educational system has become.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I understand that everything is really fucked up, but I implore you to stop telling people not to make jokes about it. We are hanging on by a thread and some of us have no other means of coping.

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Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

Recent events have a lot of people asking "what is northsky?" We're still working on revamping our website, but this video about migrating to Northsky does a quick job of explaining our account hosting services:

youtu.be

Migrating to Northsky Social on AT Protocol

YouTube video by Northsky Social

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

these teams have long running institutional knowledge of the franchises they work on and don’t make every new installment with a team of underpaid juniors being bossed around by clueless suits

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 17/09/2026

something is only a “culture war issue” to you if you think it’s not about you; otherwise it’s just “politics” or (maybe) “life”

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Danny Page @danny.page · 17/09/2026

God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom

Kelsey D. Atherton - tweet from 2019

Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

you just know that posting "i'm just trying to start a polite conversation about who deserves human rights" will not be marked 'toxic,' but anyone responding 'hey fuck off with that' will earn +5 toxic points

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Honestly, so much of what is going on in both Europe and the Middle East are different degrees of 'countries spent a long time under the US security umbrella and forgot what it was like to have to handle their security' and like, good - the long peace was good - but also bad.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: Remmick will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran at his next show

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 15/09/2026

tfw you need to equip your best item in each slot but don’t know about the glamour system yet #ffxiv

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh man, my first apartment at UT was half a block from the Austin pissvortex. Stunk to high heaven in summer…

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Using the language of cults to describe segements of a vulnerable minority who are painted as a dangerous ideology by the far right is absolutely reprehensible. It is also, and I want to be really clear here, complete and utter nonsense to describe online trans people or Bsky trans people this way.

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Better than Ezra Klein (1) @mr-sshhhhh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My kid and trans people across America are about to see $100 million worth of ads in the next two months about how they are what’s wrong with everything. Would it fucking kill a politician who’s supposed to be on their side to just be on their fucking side?

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 12/09/2026

Name a Disney Princess, wrong answers only.

Pam Poovey from Archer. In a scene set in her spy agency employer’s 60s-style office, Pam stands with her back to the viewer. Her blond hair is in a high, well-kept updo, but she is naked from the waist up. Her back is completely covered with a tattoo of a nine-line poem written in a gothic font:

For the Angel of Death
Spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face
Of the foe as he passed;
And the eyes of the sleepers
Waxed deadly and chill,
And their hearts but
Once heaved,
And for ever grew still!

Above the poem are haphazardly-inked tally marks totaling 13.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 12/09/2026

The whole internet loves Redstate Dem, a lovely Democrat that runs in red states! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the Dem is transphobic.

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