iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

1. Thinking I have not read all of The Iliad but excepts and that I know what's in it 2. Realizing that what I've read IS ALL of The Iliad and that most of what I think is in it isn't. 3. Realizing that Iliad and Odyssey are just parts 2 and 7 of the Epic Cycle 4. And everything else is lost.

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There are times I wanna post here and as I'm typing I realize "no...this belongs on Tumblr, what am I doing with my life???"

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Still thinking about the utter betrayal during Blood on the Clocktower last Saturday. My D&D bestie really looked us in the face and deceived us all. I gotta remember there are no friends under the clocktower!! Such a good game

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

For some reason, all my algos except Tumblr think I care about the world cup

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Changing my pants and a handful of coins fell to the floor and my husband looked at me and asked "why do you have analog money?"

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over. Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed. I have the links

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Tyler Nordgren @spaceart.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Organ Pipe Cactus commissioned me to design this poster to celebrate their new dark sky status. www.spacearttravelbureau.com #art #spaceart #astronomy

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Great day for a bath 💦 IG: birds_perfection

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

the reason you hear about trans sports is because, after failing to create a culture war about bathrooms, GOP strategists all got together and figured out they could exploit the fact that every single adult spends an insane amount of money on their kid playing sports to attack trans people

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Ben Monreal @benmonreal.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

L. Frank Baum really really loved using the word "meat" adjectivally and I have to bring this to your attention. Here is a meat thread of some of L Frank Baum's meat mentions: 🧵

L Frank Baum, old timey suave mustache man

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Just rage singing the latest Paris Paloma song for no personal trauma reason whatsoever

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The fact the actors in The Odyssey use American accents is actually kinda cool. If anything, I'm mad there are not MORE american accents. We have so many! USE THEM! I mean, seriously, how *else* were they gonna sound? British? Let's not pretend British wasn't the other option.

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

He's over ten years late, but my spouse has started to binge Stargate SG-1 and I've been having immense fun teasing him as he explains what episode he's on which consists of pretty much Spouse: [Describes thing happening to character] Me: Cool... which time? Spouse: MORE THAN ONCE??

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

My horror loving 11 year old is the reason I'm now a Digital Circus fan. Like. How the turn tables, I'm getting solid recs from my own kid

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Logged into FFXIV for the first time in 3 years to watch a guy get murked only to surmise this was a boyfriend I forgot about and honestly I think I'm hooked. Warrior of Light? Whozat? I'm a Widowee out for revenge now

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Got to play an Alpha test of an unreleased D&D game tonight. Super fun, only rolled D4s. Beware the soup!!!!

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

D&D public gaming space with a lot of potential. If you live in Virginia, give it a looksie. If you love D&D, also roil for perception. Been here myself and it's super cool.

kickstarter.com

Mythic Hall: Immersive Gaming Adventure Space

Roll initiative to gather your adventuring party together in highly-themed, private rooms for in-person gamers, streamers & makers.

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Yeah, my fifth grader kinda hates me, but we insist on the same thing. Cursive plus her spelling words for the week. It's wild to think this may end up being an employable skill

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Tbh, I'm MORE excited for the new season. I enjoyed season 4 with all the yearning and "my heart vs my duty" and season 5's setup is just that but MORE. I need this hot mess

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

D&D public gaming space with a lot of potential. If you live in Virginia, give it a looksie. If you love D&D, also roil for perception. Been here myself and it's super cool.

kickstarter.com

Mythic Hall: Immersive Gaming Adventure Space

Roll initiative to gather your adventuring party together in highly-themed, private rooms for in-person gamers, streamers & makers.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/03/2026

To everyone out there who defends and encourages reliance on generative AI: I want you to explain to me how software systems that do this is not just defensible but something good and to be encouraged. Go on. Explain it to me, right now. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Seeing the same burial image on social media, others turned to X’s AI assistant Grok to check its veracity. Like Gemini, Grok will breezily assure you the photo is not from Iran at all – although it lands on a different date, disaster and location. The image is “from Rorotan Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia – a July 2021 stock photo of Covid mass burials. Not Minab,” it says.

In both cases, the AI answers sound sure: they don’t equivocate, and even provide “sources” for the original image, should you choose to check them. Follow the thread to examine those, however, and you’ll begin to hit dead ends: either the image doesn’t appear at all, or the link provided is to a news report that doesn’t exist. For all their impression of clarity and precision, the AIs are simply wrong.

The cemetery image, it turns out, is authentic. Researchers have cross referenced the photo of the site with satellite images that confirm its location, and it can be cross-referenced again with dozens more images taken of the same site from slightly different angles, and again with video footage – none of which experts say show signs of tampering or digital manipulation. The “factchecks” by Gemini and Grok are just one example of a tidal wave of AI-generated slop – hallucinated facts, nonsense analysis and faked images – that are engulfing coverage of the Iran war. Experts say it is wasting investigative time and risks atrocities being denied – as well as heralding alarming weaknesses as people increasingly rely on AI summaries for news and information.

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I'd like to believe one day they'll run out of goal posts

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Nicole Brookus @nbrookus.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

#caturday No, you are not allowed to go without me!

A gray tabby perches primly on the top of a beige suitcase, looking dejected.

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I accidentally put on my eldest's bra because the style is so much like my own I didn't realize and now I'm in physical pain I knew we'd end up getting each other's clothes eventually but fuck this is a special hell

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Rewatched The Postman today (1997, starring Kevin Costner) and boy does it watch different given everything

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Watching The Swan Princess with the youngest and totally forgot this movie, about a woman who turns into a swan, was made by a company called Nest Entertainment

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Not my DM saying we'll be ready to stream our campaign *next week* 💀

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 28/02/2026

If you've grown up having to deal with the weirdest and most unsettling of church goers (often white and republican, lets not mince words) you know how true this is. Christian Nationalism is just that mind bending and dangerous. Its basically no different from a turbo cult but now they have power

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My ten year old has decided there is no difference between Star Trek and Star Wars and this is how I have failed as a parent

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Discord can fuck off - I already sold my soul to Google before I realized it was a crossroads demon

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

My therapist sucks, by which I mean she's very good at her job and it is I, a wicker basket, who must reweave myself because I'm not actually a basket I'm a person

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

My DnD group has some amazing artists, especially doodlers! It made me wonder how out of practice I am and, well, I'm rusty but not awful. My oldest, who is a fantastic artist, watched me over my shoulder & asked why I stopped. I don't remember. But it feels good to draw again, rust 'n all

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Thoroughly enjoying Horizon Forbidden West a lot more than Zero Dawn. Alloy, Unstoppable Force, meeting Hekarro, Immovable Object, was so good. Also, the kangaroo machines!?!? LOVE them!! ...also hate them

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

I have been thinking all day about the number of times unarmed Black people were killed by police on the pretext that their cell phone looked like a gun. And people would say “oh but you just don‘t know what the truth is.” Well here it is.

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Tonight's Crooked Moon session went from discussing if we thought we could wrap up in 20 minutes to wrapping in 20 seconds because the enemy hit the rogue so hard he fell down and then the enemy grabs and POOF!! They both *vanish* Fucking love it

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It will be a cold day in hell before download the Shop app to track my orders. Give me a damn tracking number with the postal service used. All this consolidation and One Stop Apps cannot be good in the long run

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Had such a fun session with Legends of Avantris Crooked Moon tonight! Two fights and my DM is regretting giving me an Immovable Rod Pinned our enemy to the floor by their throat after the bard Hideously tickled them prone - and here I thought I'd end up using it as a cudgel, lol

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Smol Emweeeeeee @smolemwe.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Finally beat Horizon Zero Dawn and the Frozen Wilds DLC. Over 150 hours and all but 7 achievements. Thinking of telling my hunting friends I'm ready to go with them this deer season, lol Now on to Forbidden West. After that South of Midnight.

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