iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3h

just for kicks

An anthropomorphic serval wearing active wear and smiling.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 3h

Got my ballot yesterday and VOTED! ONLY 33 more days until the MIDTERMS. Goto Vote.org & check your status, make a plan, and have everyone you know do the same. We need EVERY voice voting. This election will decide the future of our Democracy. 💙🗳️

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Lulu @lulu.sheshed.rocks · 3h

“All the rapes - whether at infancy, or at 11, or 17 - were known to people in authority” You cannot stop a society that normalizes and trivializes violence against women by executing its victims. I’m not condoning her actions, but the system was designed to fail her.

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 3h

Just encountered this for the first time and wow

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 3h

53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.

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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

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The Conversationalist @conversationalist.org · 4h

"Overnight, I lost some of my capacity to think and write. After fighting to get it back, I cannot imagine choosing to give those faculties over to a machine." @marianneeloise.bsky.social's argument against AI.

conversationalist.org

In Defense of Difficulty

As someone who, overnight, lost some of their capacity to think and write, I cannot comprehend why a person would choose to give those faculties over to a machine.

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 3h

Preaching to the choir here, but this is very good. Something I've started to appreciate more over the years is that I write precisely because it is difficult. Writing is an act of communication that allows for multiple iterations until you find the "best" one. It's not easy, and it shouldn't be.

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Amy Jean Nobles @ajnobles.com · 3h

The Tompkins County district attorney who brought no charges against seven Cornell fraternity members has acknowledged that his office relied on the university’s police and did not independently investigate the allegation against them.

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📰 A DA Says His Office Never Independently Investigated the Cornell Case. A Tucson Thread Shows Why That Matters.

Due process requires more than caution; it requires scrutiny of the evidence and the institutions handling it.

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Critical Criminology @critcrim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Grow Freedom Compost Cops In Vancouver. #ACAB #FTP

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 3h

This little video from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is still darn good. It demonstrates so many things including how big is a zetta joule and how grossly inefficient burning stuff is. youtu.be/2mxdaLe0zDs?...

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Sen. Whitehouse Office Supply Explainer - What's a Zettajoule?

YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 5h

23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use. The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use

The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Blanche: "Today, we're also announcing that just a few minutes ago the DOJ filed a judicial misconduct complaint with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals against all but one district court judge in the District of Minnesota for violating various judicial canons."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

Uh the article says "other pilots" landed the plane and only mentions the pilot and co pilot who were the two people involved in the altercation. Are there secretly like 5 pilots on a plane? Or is this whole thing made up?

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erin plasma @plasmasword.blacksky.app · 3h

there isn't a single AI rapper worth a damn and the few who've tried it just end up leaning into gross digital minstrelsy

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 3h

What now lol "The co-pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv tried to crash the plane after stabbing the pilot. Doron Spielman, a spokesperson for the Israeli prime minister's office, told Reuters the incident was not believed to ⁠have been a hijacking, describing it as a "different incident"."

reuters.com

Passengers overcame pilot who tried to crash flydubai flight, Israel says

The co-pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv tried to crash the plane after stabbing the pilot, but passengers subdued him while other pilots landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia, Israeli offic...

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine being Eric Schmitt and writing "I DON'T CARE!" on a notepad referring to the Epstein files, and then attempting to go nuclear over an Atlanta Hawks game where you accomplish nothing more than outing Jack Smith as a Caitlin Clark fan. We are in the dumbest timeline.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h

At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.

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Destination Venus sells comics in Harrogate! @destinationvenus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No. Absolutely not. Under no circumstances. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. variety.com/2026/tv/glob...

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BBC Boss Says He Watched a ‘Pretty Good’ AI-Generated Episode of ‘Doctor Who’: ‘Everyone’s a Creator, Not All the Creativity Is Bad’

BBC boss Matt Brittin says he watched an episode of 'Doctor Who' entirely generated by AI which he deemed 'pretty good.'

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 18h

I too would be deeply offended if someone accused me of attending a Hawks game.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 20h

The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 18h

The punishment for the disgusting Cornell rapists was to simply write an essay about their heinous crime whilst women can be thrown in jail for using abortion healthcare services. That’s the fucked up timeline we’re living in.

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Augustina @augustina.bsky.social · 19h

Reposting because every Canadian should know about this; know about how a Canadian drone company did it's bullshit rahrah dance, got a huge CAD gov't contract, then went to Florida & DonnyboyJr all of a sudden is a huge investor/shareholder. CANCEL THE CONTRACT!! @pmcarney.bsky.social #cdnpoli

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 18h

I was JUST thinking about this. Eric Schmitt is not some well-known name. Even amongst political junkies like myself, he rarely leaps to mind. Today marked his introduction to millions of Americans with his instant classic viral video. And he fell flat on his face in humiliating fashion.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h

I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 19h

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 18h

Cornell. Didn’t. Refund. Her. Tuition. THEY DIDNT EVEN REFUND HER TUITION. I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ONE SINGLE BLIP ABOUT TRUST IN HIGHER EDUCATION UNTIL WE TEAR DOWN THE SYSTEM THAT MADE THIS BOTH POSSIBLE AND A COMMON OCCURRENCE.

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Amy Jean Nobles @ajnobles.com · 18h

“Republicans don’t have much else to run on. They’re not going to run on the economy, and the dynamics on immigration, politically, have shifted. So, this is kind of their last bet, and they are playing it literally everywhere.”

19thnews.org

Republicans can’t stop talking about banning trans athletes

They’re campaigning on keeping them out of sports, even in states where trans students have been blocked from competition for years.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 18h

El Salvador continues to imprison ICE-Gestapo deportees from the US even after the major backlash of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case with quite a few people disappearing entirely. This would be called crimes against humanity. Every MAGA official who allowed these atrocities to happen should be jailed.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How the fuck are any of us functional. We’re 1% of the population, give or take, and we have Great Depression employment numbers

But Democrats in Republican-leaning districts are under pressure to respond. One Democratic strategist estimated that fully half of the GOP’s messaging this year has been around transgender issues — about the same time they’ve given the economy, data centers, immigration and crime put together.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I had gotten hit by a car to get this photo it would have been worth it

A man in a black helmet and khaki motorcycle gear rides his motorcycle down a street in Manhattan. In the motorcycle’s sidecar, a dog that looks like a heeler mix stands at attention with his front paws up on the front of the sidecar, his eyes protected by a set of khaki motorcycle goggles. The dog is wearing a harness that sort of looks like a biker vest. He appears to be having the time of his life.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20h

little paws. little curled up paws

orange cat loafing with his paws tucked in

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 20h

Specifically the QUEER romance. Most people loved the QUEER romance being given the treatment that usually only straight romances get.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 20h

Indeed. This point can't be stressed enough. "Sex-based" is a term we've always used to describe *discrimination*, and its sudden mainstreaming as pseudo-feminism in the UK reveals it as a poison that unravels the entire liberal democratic architecture of civil rights. I wrote about it here.

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The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"

"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 20h

JUST IMAGINE A SPINDLE COVE SERIES MY GOD a seaside town full of unmarriable ladies who are there to literally just hide from having to talk to men gets invaded by a militia full of dudes who are all conveniently Hot Weirdos and there are dinosaur bones & shooting and absolute chaos!!!!

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 20h

Perfectly innocent bullet, flying along, and then some terrorist throws his body in the bullet's way, totally assaulting the bullet, stopping it from traveling further.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 21h

MAGA lunatic Eric Schmitt tried to create a conspiracy theory that accused Special Counsel Jack Smith of being somewhere he wasn’t and when it fell flat because his BS lie was exposed he called Mr. Smith a dirtbag. No you shitty trashy treasonous moronic asshole, you are the dirtbag.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh my fucking god, you have to watch this. eric schmitt just made himself the main character.

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Republican senator has blocked a bipartisan bill that would have prevented Donald Trump from demolishing the Kennedy Center without the approval of Congress. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

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US senator blocks bill to ban Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center without Congress’s approval

Mike Lee objected to the safeguard against the demolition of any presidential memorial Congress designates

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trump’s Education Department says 2,000 gold medals were “stolen” from women and girls. The number came from HeCheated, an anti-trans website that counts nearly every first place it can find, from middle school meets to events with one entrant. www.thenewtranssexual.com/p/the-rights...

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The Right’s “Stolen Medals” Number Comes From a Site That Counts Middle School Meets and One-Person Races

Trump’s Education Department repeated the claim that over 2,000 gold medals were “stolen.” The group that built the number never said which of the site’s results it counted.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not only did Schmitt completely clown himself, but positively quoting one of the most bloodthirsty and evil men of the 20th century, NKVD head Lavrentiy Beria, is just wild.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Believe it or not, a lot of people do not have to-do lists. And the the lists many of them have are not structured for an ai agent to be helpful. This isn’t groundbreaking. If you have ever watched the evening news or read even a single story about people who aren’t like you, it is pretty basic

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes, Republicans. The entire news cycle on your moronic Jack Smith hearing will now be dominated by Eric Schmitt’s basketball game buffoonery and John ‘Foghorn Leghorn’ Kennedy asking Smith about the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy. Brilliant job, once again by the feckless fools.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.

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