iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13h

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s dangerous out there in the garden. A lot of * I’ll see myself out.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

other day i was at david lynchs grave just having a moment of thought and admiration and lookin down at all the flowers, and coffee cups, and two cookies and a coke, and wow it just hits you like a thousand suns that art is immortal. creation is too radiant to contain in a body. we trot across time

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Andrew Young clearly skipping Brain Day

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 05/10/2026

Spooky bird stories. My Halloween comic from 2024.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, A screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

‘Bad things’ include Sam Altman

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026

no....no!!!!!

lowly worm is now driving the trolley problem trolley :(

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So our space brothers are pale and beautiful, like Greek gods? Frisch and Rogan are just useful idiots and soldiers for the white supremacy movement.

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A most excellent weevil! Eupholus schoenherrii, from New Guineau, at the Insectarium de Montreal. Beetle is about an inch long, and yes, it really is that colour.

A solid-looking beetle, about an inch long, in garish cross-wise stripes of black, gray-green, and bright lime (ish) green

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Congrats! And add my voice to the “loved Hummingbird Salamander” cohort.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

JFC these fuckers feel like they’re in a safe space with Rogan.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/10/2026

Just a girl and her* airplane 🥰 * actually it is emphatically the Canadian Aviation Museum’s airplane but they do let me fly it a lot

Me standing on the wing of a yellow De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk, on a sunny afternoon. I’m wearing a flight suit and aviators and trying to look cool, which may or may not be effective, but the lighting is really good at least

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

She must have made quite an impression on him.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

3279 AD We have found these all over the Western world, but like the Roman dodecahedrons, we do not know what they were used for.

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It must be true, he “left Joe Rogan stunned”…

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AP Strange @apstrange.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To celebrate the arrival of spooky season, an extra full length episode of The AP Strange Show dropped this week- a conversation with the man behind Spooky World, David Bertolino! It was a great conversation with an original "hauntropreneur", whose theme park... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Going Behind the Screams at Spooky World with David Bertolino

Podcast Episode · The AP Strange Show · October 1 · 1h 1m

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I like it, gonna keep using it.

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Creatine and Palestine. Ah, the stench of ChatGPT is strong with this one.

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nice list! I'm pleased to see the Tull boxed set on there ❤️

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good question - the resemblance is there!

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026

Butterbutt. An older comic.

A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."

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Sal @thesalamander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Texas Cooters (Pseudemys texana) are interesting because of the non-sex related variation in eye color. I saw two turtles today with different eye color. Some of the texana also have a brilliant blue color. One of these turtles has a more subtle blue coloration while the other is an amber #turtles

Texas Cooter in the water. It has a light blue eye

Texas Cooter in the water, this one has a more amber colored eye

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For #FrogFriday an Orinoco Lime Treefrog (Sphaenorhynchus lacteus) from NE Peru. They live in and around bodies of open, slow-moving water such as ponds, oxbows, and the quiet backwaters of rivers, blending in with the emergent vegetation. #herps #frogs #NaturePhotography 🌿

Side image of a green frog perched on a brown leaf, facing left and towards the camera on an angle. The frog's body and limbs are pale green, with a faint yellow stripe running from the eye to the groin. On the front of the face is a two-toned stripe running from eye to eye along the edge of the nose - the upper stripe is pale yellow, the lower is a rusty brown. The iris of the eye is gold and the dark pupil is horizontally elliptical.

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

thanks! yeah that was an outstanding specimen.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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