iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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You know what I'm going to say: do not watch video of someone being killed for any reason if you don't absolutely have to, and if you do *genuinely* have to, ie for reporting, use every psychological mitigation technique possible: synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/803314.html

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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snowgall @snowgall.bsky.social · 13h

God that's so sad. I wish someone could go back in time and protect that poor child. I wonder if her life got any better. I hope so.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My youngest child needs speech therapy to help with some pronounciation issues she’s having, and they had to certify that it’s “interfering with her social development”, aka is she getting made fun of. So my child has to be bullied before she can get help with a developing speech impediment??????

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 09/10/2026

Why does Korea have a holiday for the alphabet? Because unlike other writing systems that evolved over centuries, Hangul was the work of one dude who solved mass illiteracy by sitting down and creating a brand new fully-formed system from scratch that anyone can learn almost instantly.

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 09/10/2026

From Minneapolis to y'all: Three quick bursts if you see ICE. Long loud blasts if they're actively detaining someone. Form a crowd, stick together, and film everything.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Every time I teach Media Studies intro, I begin by having students log their media diet for two weeks. I then anonymize & aggregate to present a picture of their collective media use & compare it to previous classes. Obviously caveat for size & selection biases, but trends 🧵 Music listening is up:

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times?

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Homme danse sous la pluie avec parapluie

ALT: Homme danse sous la pluie avec parapluie

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A Dublin #painting "Liffey Clouds" is for people who like the capital city's River Liffey. Or clouds, I suppose. I didn't really paint it for anyone; I painted it because this is one of the many views of my home city I like - even if it's been changed since I painted this. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Portrait format in acrylics on mat board. View from centre of Ha'penny Bridge east along River Liffey. Top half all sky, white fluffy clouds, with touches of yellow, on blue sky - darker in the gaps at the top, where more sky is covered with cloud, paler and almost cloudless close to horizon. Water is rippling blues with white reflections, all in short horizontal strokes. Square tower office block of Liberty Hall on left with its alternating bands of dark blue windows and off-white concrete, topped with small pale green hat with zig-zag-brim. Closer is a tall wide glass and concrete building of O'Connell Bridge House on the right behind the 4-storey white and red-brick buildings of Aston Quay. Trees are across the street from those buildings, overlooking the river wall and dark shadow below. The flat almost white road bridge of O'Connell Bridge is in the centre with its three arches, two piers, and balustrade along the top. The small green dome of the Custom House behind it is partially hidden by the black metal lattice railway Loopline Bridge. The dark blue blocks of glass of the IFSC (International Financial Services Centre) is behind the Custom House. A flat-ish orange leisure boat is moored neared the foreground on the left down steps from boardwalk under full green foliage trees that line the north bank quays of Bachelor's Walk and Eden quay beyond it. Signed bottom left in dark blue, Liam Daly

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/10/2026

If you are outraged about this (and you should be, and I bet you are if you're reading this) and you want to do something about it: crank up that VPN and search for "ICE watch" or related activities + wherever you live. Get your Signal login going. Sign up for everything.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

I could hug @anandwrites.bsky.social for this. This is so true but you NEVER hear it in US media. Never. Truly doing god's work.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Powerful message: “when people see these vulnerable people, and say ‘look at these cities’, we are holding a lot of your people, people who you failed to love and take care of” 🔥🔥🔥

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"We are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.' Short vid, watch:

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nineteen people--whom we'll never know--were going to defend a serial child molester until they realized it would be public knowledge. Anyway, the bastard got to live the rest of his life in relative comfort after serving only 13 months in prison. He died today. Rest in piss. /thread

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A Dublin #painting "The Long Hall" I painted because, it's one my favourite pubs, sitting inside it anyway but it's particularly impressive on the outside too. Now I just need to paint the rest of my favourite pubs in Dublin. I may be a while. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Portrait format in acrylics on canvas. Narrow 4-storey building, 2 window bays wide, with dark wine pub front at street level. Wine and white striped canopies are over the doors on either side of the large central window which is split in half vertically. Suggestions of figures can be seen through the main window. On the fascia in ornate font in red is: The Long Hall. Each of the 2 windows on all 3 upper stories has cream panels surrounding it which join the panels of the window above and are all decorated with maroon stripes and spots, and mini canopies above and a short striped sill underneath. The upper stories are a light red brick rendered in pink with a grey capstone along the top. The building adjoined to the left is an orange-rendered red brick period building with decorative blue brick stripe adjoining each upper story window, and a shop front of dark grey around a brown door. The building adjoined on the right is a modern pale grey block with larger windows and a dark glass door. Both buildings are also 4 storeys and a little higher than the pub. Sky is pale blue. Path is creamy yellow with maroon kerb slightly sloping down from right to left. Road surface is violet with white solid and dashed lines. Signed bottom right in very dark blue on the violet road, Liam Daly

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

developing a safe and reliable driving automation system is such a vast and complex task, which can be undercut by even a little sloppiness, that it's impossible to develop them in a rigorously safe way if you also buy into a utilitarian permission structure that justifies cutting corners short term

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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 05/10/2026

All right I will offer a nuanced comment on this. If your friendship with someone who actively supports and campaigns for this administration is more important to you than what this administration is doing, you're who Dr. King was writing that letter about.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have this vague feeling that we have vastly underestimated the value of friction. So much of modern life is geared towards reducing friction. Amazon is brilliant at it. It's not the best place to shop, but my god, it's the _easiest_. Point, click, be on your way.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What’s the main legal obstacle to charging the Cornell frat guys? Not engagement bait, actually asking, please don’t be an idiot and treat anyone offering an explanation as though it came appended with “and that’s good and great, the situation is perfect”.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the idea that immersing yourself in gruesome violence is a technique to build empathy is something which everyone who has ever studied the subject will tell you is not just false but 180 degrees removed from the truth.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An Irish #painting. "Sligo Sunset" came out of a time I was in the northwest feeling alone and happy as I looked across Sligo Bay from Strandhill at Blackrock lighthouse and beyond to the glory of Donegal. The sun was going down but it came up again the next day. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Wide panoramic format in acrylics. View across lilac water past a narrow strip of black rocks reaching out from the right. A white and black lighthouse stands centre-right close to far edge of the water where behind it there is a low strip of land running horizontally across the whole painting, slightly higher on right tapering down to slightly lower at the left edge, made of a patchwork of olive green fields, and topped with a line of dark trees that are silhouetted against in the distance a large long blue shape of a mountain ridge that tapers down at either end. Behind it the sky is pale yellow and above the mountain the sky is in rising bands of orange, pink and lilac. Signed bottom right in dark blue, Liam Daly

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Brandon Prickett @bprickett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just finished Babel by R. F. Kuang (a book with the premise of "scifi if the science were #linguistics"). Highly recommend!

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ok i think this really needs to be said: zuckerberg is not a fan of high-end fashion, he is a fan of visibly expensive t-shirts

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rod Serling was a king. WWII paratrooper in “The Death Squad,” TV pioneer, LOUD critic of McCarthyism who knew his status as a war hero put him in a privileged position to call shit out. Wrote critiques of racism into his scripts, created The Twilight Zone to escape the censorship that brought on.

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every time I see a serial killer tv show advertised I think of this

My dad used to work with Ted Bundy at the University of Utah and every Friday my dad would say, "See ya Monday-Bundy" and I can't imagine how much Ted actually thought about murdering him for
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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A #painting from everyday Ireland, "Sheep, Stone Wall II". If you see sheep every day, that is. Like I used to, when I had a little dog and we'd walk for miles stopping every so often to let the sheep look at us as we'd talk about the countryside and how yellow it all seemed. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear

Square canvas in acrylics. Against a background of all golden yellow in varying painterly shades, some more orange, are four sheep. They are white with navy, almost black, heads, legs and shadows underneath. No eyes can be made out but their ears project out sideways. All are standing except the nearest which is sitting facing towards the viewer. The wool is lilac in the middle with touches of pink as it transitions from the white on top in the sun to navy in shadow and when dark wool. Wool color edges are not blended but hard in a stylised fashion. Behind them in the mid-distance is a low dry-stone wall of navy and white stones, with seven navy fence posts rising at intervals from it. In the foreground are some darker low tufts of a green created by a dark blue washed over with yellow. Photo taken before my signature was added.

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos

Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My #painting "The Long Walk II" was painted when me and my bicycle sat in Galway by Claddagh Quay. Rain then softly landed on my face. And made the painting look funky. Then it got much heavier and washed all the paint off the canvas. So I returned the next day and started over. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. View across rich blue rippling water to narrow band across the centre of the painting consisting of a street of about two dozen terraced houses, the leftmost being 4 stories and the rest a mixture of 2 and 3 stories high, above a band of dark blue that is a quay wall. Windows and doors are dark simple soft rectangles. Houses are single colours of, from left to right, blue, 5 white 2-story houses, blue, yellow, pale green, brown, white, maroon, red, pale green, white, blue, brown, yellow, blue, yellow, white, and yellow. Slated roofs are dark blue. Sky is stormy yellow mixed in with patches of green and red, dark in patches near the top, brightest at the bottom above the roofs. The water closest to the dark quay wall has less rippling and shows a dark shimmering reflection of the houses. Foreground includes some grass and flagstones of curved quayside on left. Signed top left in dark blue, Liam Daly

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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also, I've come to believe is that there are *NO* wrong choices when it comes to a loved-one with dementia so long as the choice is the best one for your emotional well-being. Our loved ones loved us and want us to be as happy as we can be in these horrifically terrible circumstances.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/09/2026

anyway character driven stories are not, in fact, easy to generate by a thing that doesn't understand human emotion

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snowgall @snowgall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hormones and horniness are typically part of what gets you *into* a relationship, so it's nearly impossible to talk about work-related power dynamic issues before you're already in pretty deep, I would think 😏 (though I don't disagree in a perfect world!)

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snowgall @snowgall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kinda sounds like an AI edit, honestly!

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Sean @cackalackdev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

good on these kids www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...

Seven Arizona State men’s hockey players asked the university’s president to place the Sun Devils’ coaching staff on administrative leave pending further investigation into the workout that left sophomore transfer Matthew Mayich on life support.

In a 26-page letter sent to ASU president Michael Crow on Monday and obtained by The Athletic, the players disputed numerous findings from the university’s initial review of the Aug. 20 workout, writing that Mayich did not receive water and was provided inadequate medical care after his collapse.

The players sent the letter anonymously through attorney Tim Casey because, they wrote, they fear retaliation from coach Greg Powers and his staff. The seven players — roughly a quarter of the roster — wrote that additional teammates share their views but did not join the letter because they have similar concerns about reprisal.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've talked to a few journal editors who are concerned about similar problems re: anonymous reviewers. If a peer reviewer wants a little help & feeds your unpublished submission into an AI system, they've just shared your proprietary work & broken confidentiality. A nightmare to think about

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 26/09/2026

I love this @xkcd.com comic. So accurate.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.

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