iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One for our “data collection process is model” slides

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Always here for good Tortoise news!

a giant tortoise with a mountain landscape on it

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 10/10/2026

Congregants celebrate the reconstruction of First Baptist Church of Williamsburg. Established by enslaved and free Black Americans in 1776, in defiance of laws banning Black assemblage and congregation, it is one of America's oldest Black churches abcnews.com/US/wireStory...

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Congregants celebrate the reconstruction of one of America's oldest Black churches

The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, one of the oldest Black churches in the U.S., celebrated the reconstruction of its original meeting house with a re-dedication on Friday

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you could use a pick-me-up, check out the Smithsonian’s live cheetah cub cam. The five-day old cubs are beyond adorable, and an important addition to the captive breeding program for this vulnerable species.

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Cheetah Cub Cam

The Cheetah Cub Cam streams live from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.

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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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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 10/10/2026

As VAPs go, this is a pretty great one for 3 years at Amherst College in Law, Jurisprudence, & Social Thought for a law & humanities scholar. Amazing colleagues and I’m just down the street. 🗃️ apply.interfolio.com/195062

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Whoa. That’s an Overton Shift.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thanks to generosity of Elmira College alums, Carl & Cindy Hayden, the Center for @marktwain.bsky.social Studies is offering two new Quarry Farm Fellowships for high school students & teachers. Part of our emphasis on involvement in scholarship for educators at every grade level & career stage.

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Elmira College Alumni Establish Prize and Teaching Fellowships at Mark Twain’s Historic Quarry Farm

ELMIRA, N.Y. — High school students and educators in the Elmira area will soon have the rare opportunity to study at Quarry Farm — the historic summer home where Mark

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.

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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis

Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh my heart is so full reading about this. The US Colored Troops were huge in the story of emancipation and in the human dignity of enslaved Black people. For the first time they had weapons and uniforms, just like white men.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is an incredibly rich, impressive bit of reporting, plus I learned that if I hated children I could personally open an anything-goes, unregulated school in 10 states.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's comforting to know that Vince Guaraldi had exactly the kind of mustache his music for Peanuts would lead you to expect he did

A white man wearing glasses and a great handlebar mustache, in front of the Golden Gate Bridge: it's jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi!

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now I can’t see a literary prize shortlist without worrying about whether Bret will see himself reflected and feel okay

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dear Homer, I evaluate standout voices across literary genres, and the unique premise you’ve built in the Iliad caught my attention. The handling of historical fantasy, rich world-building, and high-stakes action through Achilles and Helen creates a resonance that is provocative and deeply engaging

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

details on university funding of such contracts - who on your board of trustees has a financial stake in the company, how the dollars compare to funds for instructors and libraries - can be very illuminating and persuasive! tools like FOIA can help; AAUP has resources www.aaup.org/issues-highe...

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Toolkit for Activism on AI

The AAUP ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions developed the following toolkit resources to fight against the top-down adoption of technology by colleges and universitie...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is not necessarily high up on the lists of reforms we need to impose on SCOTUS, but I think Congress should amend SCOTUS's budget so that it only funds clerk salaries for clerks with 10+ years of real-world experience (academics, lawyers, even non-law ppl like scientists or finance types).

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’ve been an election volunteer in Wisconsin since 2020. I highly recommend it. If you can afford to take half the day off work, it’s the most rewarding civic duty you can do, and in a lot of localities it even pays a little bit.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

German chocolate cake was named after English-American chocolate maker Samuel German, and uses baking chocolate—which may be the Baker’s Chocolate brand which itself was named after the Baker family who owned that chocolate company.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026

This is demonstrably, measurably improving the health of the people who live there. Most notably, it increases the respiratory *& cognitive* health of children. They literally do better in school. If this country really gave a shit about children, this would be at the top of the public-policy list.

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 03/09/2026

Get ready for the #midtermelections by making sure you’re eligible to vote – and know how to respond if somebody says you are not. Here’s a straightforward guide from a civil rights lawyer: theconversation.com/what-to-do-i... #KnowYourRights

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this is perhaps the best piece of journalism i have ever been involved with

How long have you known Alix Harrow?

Wait, that’s her name?

Yep.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Holy smokes an unreal rendition of "I Will Always Love You" by Cynthia Erivo in Vancouver last night to honor Dolly Parton….incredible

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

*Beastie Boys voice*

1770 teapot with the motto: Health to the sick, honour to the brave, success to the lover, & freedom to the slave

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026

The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan

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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

extremely yes, make it make it here’s today’s tiny something, cheezit crust

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

GENE KELLY — born 114yrs ago today — and SUGAR RAY ROBINSON doing a tap dance number together on television in 1958. Fantastic stuff.

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Passwords and no chance of rabies. How is that even a question.

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merlinrain.bsky.social @merlinrain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This question should be asked at every medical appointment: how would you get around if you couldn’t drive a car?

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Stopping to get a little gas during a police chase, realizing you don't have time and then just having your friend drop a gallon of gas off on your route is... it's something. Teamwork makes the dream work www.instagram.com/reel/DcPwYjP...

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

NEW in Porch Party: What is the opposite of enshittification? It's this exhibit of constantly renewed, individually labeled fresh wildflowers, meticulously run by volunteers at a small museum for more than a century www.porchpartynews.com/p/the-wildfl...

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The wildflower table holds summer's last days

In a time of strategic and pointless degradation, a museum exhibit cultivates respect even for roadside weeds

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One man — specifically U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. — shook hands with both John Quincy Adams (who was born in 1767) and JFK (who was elected president 193 years later).

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I love how, whenever I try to cancel anything, the company - all of them - gives me three pages of guilt trips before letting me cancel. YES, I'M SURE. I'M REALLY SURE. I WOULD NOT HAVE GONE INTO THE LITTLE SUBSCRIPTION SECTION TO CANCEL IF I WAS UNSURE. Obnoxious kumquats.

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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Standing on stage at the New York City Center, Mayor Mamdani announces his admin's opening a lottery for 2,000 free tickets to Broadway shows for local high schoolers. Noting that he's been doing sports game lotteries all summer, he says: "This is justice for theatre kids."

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

JIM HENSON wrote a letter to his Children to be opened after his death. It’s entirely beautiful.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

faculty! Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas faculty! please answer this anonymous AAUP survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

MEMO TO THE SOFTWARE IN MY LIFE The plural of “aircraft” is “aircraft.” The singular of “premises” is “premises.” The past tense and past participle of “forecast” is “forecast.” IF YOU WANT TO BE A FAKE HUMAN YOU MUST LEARN THESE THINGS

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 12/08/2026

ok but what about a little baby water buffalo he's just a baby!

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Just in case you didn't know…. #BookSky

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