iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

so anyway I hope I’m not the only outlier but if I am I hope I ruin all the data

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education is, and shoud always be, to help shape young people into curious, accepting, open-minded creative, knowledgeable global citizens. We are killing their passions and making them cogs in a capitalist/technocratic machine and should all be ashamed.”

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“Higher education's insistence on being career or worse ‘market’ focused is a huge mistake and is continuing to lead us all down the wrong path. The purpose of education is not, nor should it ever be, for students to focus on how they can make the most money in their adult life. The purpose of

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the comments I wrote: “Literacy, critical thinking, practices of research and scholarship, all are being negatively impacted. Al is training students in its own image: to gather together random bits and bobs, accurate or not, and spit them back out, without reflection.”

Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

university sent me a survey about AI and when I tell y’all I gave them *several* pieces of my mind

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Find your patch of sun today ✨

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Jackie @sugarandspicer.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

oooo ok ok can’t wait! 💜💜

oh! I have actually listened to her album Silence Between Songs quite a bit and I really like it. and yes, she made a music video that’s an homage to Jennifer’s Body so you’re not wrong about the Megan Fox comparison.

Candice Dailey @thedaileydoodle.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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So excited my piece of Qimir from the Acolyte was picked for this year’s Celebration art show in Japan! #starwars #theacolyte #mannyjacinto #qimir #thestranger

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Laura McGarrity @a-warm-garlic-yurt.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

Hand embroidery of a tiger swimming amongst green weeds represented with French knots

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I might be an action figure person now because I love him 😍

a Roman Reigns action figure in black tactical vest, black cargo pants, and black boots. he is sitting on a floral pillowcase against a beige tufted headboard

I tried but didn’t manage to keep the habit. I need to do better!

I think chapter 2 😭 but I didn’t leave a comment on it so I might as well just start from the beginning again. ok I have it opened in my browser I WILL remember (hopefully)

Jackie @sugarandspicer.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

ash please yell at me to catch up on your fic

Jackie @sugarandspicer.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I need to get back on here more because I miss @flythesail.bsky.social 💜

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mish 🍂 @pocketsofdaisy.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

powerful stuff from our beloved Ali Hazelwood!!! 🥹🫶🏻 #romance

interview extract shared by yourromancedestinee (IG) from author Ali Hazelwood's interview with Pen America

Question: What value does romance bring to literature writ large?

Answer: I think we should turn this question around: Why should romance, a genre that clearly resonates with millions of readers, have to explicitly fight for its right to exist? I’d love for everyone who wonders whether romance has value to ask themselves: What biases drive this question? Why, out of many types of genre fiction, is it romance that constantly has to justify its existence? What does this say about the way they view the people who read and write romance? Do they see any pattern with the way they view romance now, in 2025, and historical events that took place before any of us were even born?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2025

These are research grants awarded through evaluation of their merits by scientific peers, in which the investigators are carrying out important, ground-breaking work. They're being targeted because, as required by NSF guidelines, they include some investment in benefits for the broader community.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

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Jackie @sugarandspicer.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

turned on The Last Jedi for the first time in so long and god it really is that bitch huh. Rian Johnson I love you dearly

Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

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so much of teaching is teaching students that they are worth taking seriously, that they should take themselves seriously, that the world is in their hands, that they are up to its challenges (this will be my only contribution to the current discourse about ai in the classroom)

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Jackie @sugarandspicer.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Judith Butler always gets it english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

$an excerpt from an interview with Judith Butler. it begins with their answer to a previous question regarding the role of gender in the US presidential election: A. It’s part of the picture. But the important thing is how we think about the gender division in relation to increasingly virulent forms of racism. Who is to say that gender and race in the person of Harris was not a fundamental issue in a country that is becoming increasingly misogynist and racist. Q. Did it prove once again that the United States is not ready to elect a woman, or was it that particular woman? A. I don’t agree with a lot of what she stands for — fracking, migration, Palestine — and I did not actively support her candidacy. But I did vote for her. We have a pernicious history of misogyny, which is being celebrated in the person of Trump. Guilty of sexual crimes, he has done more than any other American person to demean and degrade women as a class. The people who say, “Oh, I don’t like that part of his behavior, but I’m going to vote for him anyway because of the economy,”$

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they’re admitting that they are willing to live with that misogyny and look away from his sexual violence. The more people who say that they can “live with” racism and misogyny in a candidate, even if they’re not enthusiastic racists, the more the enthusiastic racists and the fascists become stronger. I see a kind of restoration fantasy at play in many right-wing movements in the U.S. People want to go back to the idea of being a white country or the idea of the patriarchal family, the principle that marriages are for heterosexuals. I call it a nostalgic fury for an impossible past. Those in the grip of that fury are effectively saying: “I don’t like the complexity of this world, and all these people speaking all these languages. I’m fearful that my family will become destroyed by gender ideology.” As a consequence of that, they’re furiously turning against some of the most vulnerable people in this country, stripping of them of rights as they fear that the same will be done to them.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

"The visceral response from people across this country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of their insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the health care system," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told HuffPost in an interview on Tuesday.

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Elizabeth Warren Issues Dramatic 'Warning' After UnitedHealthcare CEO Assassination: 'People Can Be Pushed Only So Far'

Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke about the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson which occurred last week, condemning the violence while simultaneously noting the insurance company polici...

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

That's an unbelievably athletic play by Keanu Benton, who rocks

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Jackie @sugarandspicer.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

worried about whoever curates the playlists at corporate… 😅

Repeatinglitanies @repeatinglitanies.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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Entertainment weekly naming the acolyte’s ep5 “night” as number 9 out of 20 best tv episodes of 2024

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 06/12/2024

I heard you were saucy at my gates

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Rhonda | I Blame Jane Podcast @rhondawithabook.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Many may remember a couple months ago when I posted on 🐦 app about wanting to start a Jane Austen themed podcast. I’ve just recorded my intro episode and it will be available December 16, just in time for Jane’s birthday!

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Jackie @sugarandspicer.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A Real Pain looks so good! definitely on my awards season list this year

Jackie @sugarandspicer.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

realizing that Rupert ordered the tee shirts… he chose that blue color for Taggie didn’t he? which is also why he’s wearing a blue shirt for their bid… going insane!

Jackie @sugarandspicer.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I like to think it’s the former 😄

Jackie @sugarandspicer.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

the purpose of education should in fact be learning and knowledge! expanding horizons! following passions and curiosities! not ‘how do I incur the least debt now and the most money later?’! but they look at you funny if you say that these days

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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Just a reminder that there’s an app available for your TV called PBS RETRO where you can watch all sorts of wonderful old pbs shows like Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow, you know, in case you might need that sort of energy right now

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caitlyn marie @caitlynd93.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

i find it truly hilarious that i can attend a concert with 68,500 people in attendance and my anxiety is fine. stick me in a costco and forget it, my anxiety is through the roof

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Jackie @sugarandspicer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

my booooooooiiiiiiiiii 🥰🥰

Jackie @sugarandspicer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

thinking about how Taggie’s wardrobe is mostly blue (because she looks soooo good in it) and the presents Rupert gets her are blue, but their song is Lady in Red and her two red things (nightgown and jacket) she wears specifically for him to see her in #rutag #ruperttaggie #rivals

Jackie @sugarandspicer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

also a possibility! he works closely with them and therefore is better able to connect with them 💔