iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

so anyways shun generative ai to avoid the day anthropic rips your brain out through yer asshole to feed it to their monster.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22/09/2026

It's honestly bizarre to me that abolishing the jackbooted fascist paramilitary shooting people over paperwork is considered extreme and radical but having a jackbooted paramilitary shooting people over paperwork isn't.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 21/09/2026

while everything else gets bigger and louder. more violent. i feel myself working to make my world smaller, sweeter warmer and more kind quieter—listening hard to the trees and to the people who are hardest to hear i want to move slower and with more purpose. to sip long books like cold tea.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 20/09/2026

HAPPY SUNDAY! NEW EPISODE! @emilystjams.bsky.social and @laurentheisen.bsky.social wrote an incredible book, EVERY TIME A BELL RINGS, about my favorite movie of all time, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and we were lucky enough to have them on the show to talk about it: pod.link/1274489817/e...

The cover for EVERY TIME A BELL RINGS: THE LEGACY OF "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE," AMERICA'S MOST BELOVED HOLIDAY FILM by Emily St. James and Lauren Theisen

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Like Octavia E. Butler said, “We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.” “Do the thing and you will have the power.”

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steen halloween @steenhalloween.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unfortch, the new mini series about Lizzie Borden is RIGHT UP MY ROAD. It’s so gay and macabre. I’m only a little annoyed that it’s from Ryan Murphy.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/09/2026

if you’d like to watch our Minneapolis crew from Smitten Kitten and Unidos receive this peace prize, there is a livestream i’ve read the speeches and they are incredible and worth tuning in for

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Verleihung des Aachener Friedenspreises 2026

YouTube video by Aachener Friedenspreis

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 25/08/2026

a roof over every head food in our stomachs healthcare for all bodily autonomy freedom to love/marry who you want safety to be yourself freedom to worship, or to not clear air, water, soil safe roads accessibility in all spaces a living wage fair taxes to fund the public good our radical agenda

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

this is one of my favorite visual jokes of all time. i think about it several times a week.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

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steen halloween @steenhalloween.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Tonight I made coconut chicken curry! All the ingredients cost the same as a take out order and it doesn’t taste as good. But hey, I made dinner!

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I just saw someone refer to how AI "just gets rid of the friction that lets you know you're alive" & thought about how a de days ago I was desperately cutting through baling twine while the young sheep tangled in it strangled under my hands, making the noises a mammal makes when she can't breathe.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

i bet the modern version of MKULTRA is testing out ways to build an LLM chatbot that gives its users AI psychosis on purpose as fast as possible

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Lane Moore @hellolanemoore.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Is anybody else having a hell of a time managing their own inner turmoil *and* the constant external turmoil around them? I can handle one turmoil max. This is too many turmoils for me.

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Elli @ellipsis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Every glass of water you drink, is a little less water for the data centers. Stay hydrated.

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The van hands out food, water, clothes, first aid and free HIV tests. Locals recognize "Thrivey" as it drives across the Twin Cities. The van, and everything in it, is funded by federal money that has been suddenly revoked, as the government reroutes grants from nonprofits to state health agencies.

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Running on empty: Can a red HIV outreach van outlast federal cuts?

The Aliveness Project says that nobody else can replicate what they do for the high-risk communities they reach. They're still being defunded.

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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

You might’ve noticed I became angrier and yes I did

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steen halloween @steenhalloween.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I wish I could text my cat when I’m away for a night

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Ruben Ray Martinez. Renee Nicole Good. Keith Porter. Alex Pretti. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Five people shot and killed by ICE. Five lives taken. No accountability. No justice. Which is why it’s no surprise to see them murdering someone else. www.cnn.com/2026/07/13/u...

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Live updates: ICE-involved shooting in Maine kills one person | CNN

A person was killed today in an ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine, according to the state’s speaker of the house. Follow here for live updates.

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 07/07/2026

Meet the Pacific stargazer, an ambush hunter spends most of its life buried beneath the sand. Its upturned face allows it to see even when most of its body is concealed. And? It's capable of stunning prey with electrical shocks of ~50 volts! Photo: alboertoalcala, CC BY 4.0 iNaturalist

A close up photo of a Pacific stargazer. The fish is mostly covered by sand. Its upturned face is visible, with large eyes and sharp teeth.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 06/07/2026

i saw that adam sandler officiated taylor swift's wedding and that is really all i need to know. you can be a billionaire and still get married in an ugly sports arena to a stinky football player with happy gilmore on the mic. women have to stop marrying men.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It’s very telling that the most fight the centrist Democrats have shown is against the left and not Republicans

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Once you learn many of the queer people who survived the Third Reich's concentration camps were promptly put back into prison - with the help of the Americans, who returned home to immediately instigate the Lavender Scare - your worldview is irrevocably changed.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Mainstreaming sociopathy is bad, actually

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Making a playlist, so here's a prompt: You are listening to the last song you will ever hear before you die. You did not choose it. It is not an overtly sad song. Nevertheless, you find it oddly appropriate. What song is it?

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steen halloween @steenhalloween.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Concentration camps in America right now

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This should shock you to your core. These letters don’t just represent the experiences of people in Delaney Hall. They represent the experiences of thousands of other immigrants in concentration camps across the country.

LETTERS FROM OUR
COURAGEOUS
NEIGHBORS INSIDE THE
DELANEY HALL
CONCENTRATION CAMP
PRIVATELY OWNED AND
OPERATED BY GEO GROUP:

5/31/2026

Through this letter, we will provide an account of the events that have taken place since the 22nd of May, 2026, when the hunger strike began at the “Delaney Hall” facility, where people detained have all voluntarily stopped working and assisting with facility operations. Since the strike began, we have been subjected to reprisals, discrimination, mockery, mistreatment, and threats, mainly from “GEO” staff. Here are some names we were able to identify: Lieutenant L■■■■, Supervisor M■■■■■■■■, F■■■■■ M■■■■■■■ (Case Manager), M■■■■■■ (administrator), the facility director and shift officers, J■■■■■ (in charge of the kitchen).

They constantly threaten to deport us, transfer us to punishment units, and move us from one detention center to another; they take photos of us in the dormitories without our consent and tell us that we have no rights here.

Through these threats, they are trying to force us to work in all areas of the facility (cleaning, kitchen, maintenance, laundry, floor polishing) and are trying to force us to go down for meals by making us sign a list so they can track who goes down and who doesn’t, in order to punish those who aren’t eating.

On May 25, we were gathered in the common room; the facility’s director, F■■■■■ M■■■■■■■, and the administrator, M■■■■■■, wanted to speak with the leaders of the hunger strike to identify them.

They were upset when we told them there was no leader and that the strike was a collective effort. That’s why they took retaliatory action against the young man named “■■■■■■,” the person who helped with translation.

That’s why the “GEO” staff tried to take him away in handcuffs, which all of us, seeing the injustice, wanted to prevent by peacefully blocking their path with our hands raised so that they wouldn't take him away, in return we received from them: beatings, pepper spray, and from “ICE,” a riot squad came up spraying pepper spray throughout the facility, causing many people to be rushed to the hospital - one due to the beatings and others affected by the gas. To this day, we haven’t heard anything about those people. They’ve restricted our access to tablets, visits, and the common room. They only open it on a limited basis as a form of punishment.

As a result of all this, we feel psychologically impacted and are plagued by the fear that they might carry out their threats for no reason at all.

Judges, without checking the cases, order expulsion in two or three hearings, either to the country of origin or to a third country, also 95% of bond hearings are denied claiming that we are at flight risk, even though they don’t have actual arguments. Through these rulings there are people who are here from 3 months to a year and a half. We ask for the bonds to be revised since we are fathers and mothers with no criminal record and we have contributed to this beautiful country.

We deserve to be free and to complete the process at home with our families, given the excessive amount of time we have spent in this prison.

We could be released, even if it means being under supervision, required to report regularly, or wearing an ankle monitor. The conditions in this prison are not fit for human beings over such a long period of time: medical neglect, water unfit for consumption, food that is past its expiration date and in poor condition, bathrooms that are unusable, and ventilation systems that have never been maintained and because of this, we are constantly sick.

We demand freedom, a fair trial, and for our rights to be respected.

S.O.S

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steen halloween @steenhalloween.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

THERE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Links here where you can donate to support a trans woman who is facing felony charges for defending herself against fascists.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 07/06/2026

“My own immigrant story has shaped the core values that have guided my entire life and career, which include the principle of never placing profit above the value of people,” said George Zoley, the CEO of GEO Group, the nation’s largest for-profit jailer of immigrants and ICE’s biggest contractor.

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The founder of a private company accused of mistreating ICE detainees came to the US via Ellis Island in 1953 | CNN

When George Zoley, the founder of a private company that manages more than 20 federal immigration facilities testified before Congress in 2020, he spoke about how his own immigrant experience shaped h...

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

There are concentration camps in the United States in the year 2026. There are CONCENTRATION CAMPS in the United States in the year 2026. THERE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE YEAR 2026.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/06/2026

The arc of the moral universe only bends towards justice if we bend it. There's no karmic comeuppance for fascists. There's just us. Community and hard work and a willingness to to take risks and fail.

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🍞 Brioche (i protect the family) @brilikebrioche.swifties.social · 31/05/2026

Grocery shopping is hell. Literally everything is over $5.25 and a lot of that is “on sale.” Minimum wage is around $15. You can afford fewer than 3 grocery items for working AN HOUR. I’m salary and paid decently. But I’m very worried about our vulnerable populations. Our kids. This is absurd.

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Brian Keith Jackson @bkjwordplay.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I will keep saying this until people start understanding: Data centers are speeding up the wars of the future, which will be over water, not oil. This is not something to wait until after the fact to fight. If you will not be able to afford water, what do you think they will make you do for it?

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

ALTMAN: "WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.

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