iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

we're 1:1 on takes for this album except if u turn back now is my fav of the new tracks. but it's a buffet and the choices are steak or steak

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Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Homelander? I hardly know 'er

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 07/09/2026

It's so cool we have this depiction from just after 1066, and then this photograph 920 years later in 1986.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

He took this one too :)

Two little girls sit on the sill of a huge open window. They face towards the room. Unseen behind them, giant-sized head of Snoopy (an inflatable balloon) looms, filling the entire area visible through the window.

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Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

great, another 6 minutes of ethereal crooning

Two people sit on a bus driving on a mountain road. The one on the left frowns and looks at a wall out the window. The one on the right smiles and looks at a beautiful view of the mountains out the window.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I have banged my shin on fortune's coffee table in the dark room of life

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Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

John 135 creep by radiohead candide voltaire

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Lex @glitterstrands.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

mad how the defining cultural image of Steamboat Willie is Mickey whistling and driving the boat, and not the bit where he plays a pig's nipples as a musical instrument while it shrieks in pain

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I’m certainly not a Linux bro, but I feel like this is kind of like making a peanut butter sandwich sound like a complex systems intervention involving iterative bread-based substrate optimization, protein-delivery mechanisms, and stakeholder engagement across multiple layers of the lunch ecosystem.

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I wish you well in your adult literacy journey

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Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

"If your potato chips need dipping sauce, you need better potato chips." "If your chicken tenders need dipping sauce, you need better chicken tenders." "If your french fries need dipping sauce, you need better french fries."

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

You want to keep this going big boy? I know your type your the troll type who wants me to block you. If I do that you win but if you block me you know I win. Well I got news I’m not as dumb as you think not letting some 30+ year old neckbeard get under my skin nope. I know I’m better than you

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Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Huh? "While many similar offline survival computers are designed to be run on bare-minimum, lightweight hardware, Project N.O.M.A.D. is quite the opposite." Yes, let me consult the AI on my survival gaming computer if I should eat these mushrooms I picked

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

It is incredible that the left always has their hand in the blame for every failing of the right. This piece does not have substance and the author is not a serious person. Just take a peak at his X account.

Post on X from The Atlantic article's author, Alexander Kustov, at 1:21AM April 3, 2026:

"My sincere call to fellow academics with a modicum of integrity who are still on Bsky: LEAVE NOW.

Folks are free to use whatever platform they choose, but Bsky is absolutely a cancer for intellectual conversation on any topic that even slightly veers outside of the prevailing consensus. You get a mob of anonymous trolls and professors calling you names, questioning your integrity, and accusing you of all possible sins over an article they didn't bother to read.

You've all seen previously the calls to fire me in response to my tentative thoughts about AI use in academia, and if you think that was an anomaly, look at how the same people reacted to my recent Atlantic piece: over a hundred of unhinged quote posts like this one. I have no problem with serious criticism of my work, but not one of these people engaged with a single argument in the actual article.

And the worst part is the silence of people who should know better, who see this happen every day and never say a word because they're afraid to become the next target of the mob. I'm sorry, but this is all utterly pathetic.

All social media is bad, but if you really need to post somewhere about your research, do it on LinkedIn."

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Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

not enough limping or Vicodin but otherwise accurate

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Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

CEO of AI company claims everybody is using it and it is as good as one of the most popular & useful new drugs on the market

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

From the article:
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool – I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates."

"It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."

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Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This is AI slop. Look at the white brick in the background, the shoelaces, the head of the doll

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Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

they're going to ruin google maps, the last good google product. incredible

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 06/03/2026

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this. The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

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Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

so based that I'm surprised I don't see Cameron Winter

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
'Blessed are the merciful' in a courtroom?
'Blessed are the peacemakers' in the Pentagon? Give me a break!
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

me when I'm talked to before my morning coffee

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 09/02/2026

Daily Bread. Quebec, Canada, 1977 Photo by Alain Le Garsmeur

man with two bags of bread, he appears happy as he stands on a slush and snowy street. he is smoking behind him is his van.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

me finally owning a home in a walkable neighborhood when im too old to walk

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
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FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

[photo of Liam]
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35

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Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

imagine his letterboxd reviews :( willy died too young

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Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

when I scrolled past the ads to the singular image on the webpage I got a giant popup ad that blocked the entire screen. Incredible

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Rydawg @smittencactus.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Thanks for the high quality content

Phone browser screenshot of the webpage linked: two gigantic ads, top and bottom, with the webpage heading DINING & COOKING occupying a small space in the middle.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

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