iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Whenever I think about this, I end up thinking about M. Night Shyamalan’s aliens in Signs, which were intelligent enough to make it all the way here but not quite intelligent enough to research our ecology first. Honestly, it kinda tracks

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a tiny marvel that we live on a planet where water just falls from the sky.

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Even when I’m expecting a rejection from a lit mag, it still hurts. But every rejection also gives me renewed determination. Hopefully that’s the right approach.

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Widows Bay is the perfect rx after a long day. So much laughter, so many details to get lost in

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Groundbreaking research aside it’s good to be reminded now and then that humans share ancestry with worms and jellyfish.

Finally, the researchers looked back over 550 million years of evolutionary time. They found the same two-origin brain pattern in chickens; zebrafish; and, remarkably, in acorn worms, tiny creatures living on the ocean floor that share a distant common ancestor with humans. Jellyfish, which diverged from humans about 600 to 700 million years ago, have two nervous systems at different ends of their body.
"Our research suggests that evolution took two existing neural systems and pushed them together spatially," Loh said.
"Having the brain as one organ would probably be more efficient

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

They need even less water to breed than the native mosquitoes 😉

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So many fun, sneaky, bonus horrors that come with climate change! My current fave are the invasive mosquito species that bites during the day!

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

personally I think we should just take the ai doomers at their word and shut it down if they’re telling the truth, well, good thing we shut it down. If they’re exaggerating, well, they shouldn’t have done that

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It can even be the llama for all I care

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Next they should do someone getting stabbed with “bibberty” as their last word before dying

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Based on my experiences watching mad men I can only assume liberty bibberty came from research that points to “b” sounds lodging themselves in your brain more effectively than any other letter. Name recall above all else, pushed by complete nonsense

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And I’m saying this as a white descendant of settlers. I can’t imagine how the erasure feels for Indigenous people in that region, but they have my deepest sympathy and solidarity

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Having grown up in western NY, I always oriented myself on a map using Lake Ontario. Having that piece of my history and the history of that region erased and its name changed so fascists can play power games is unmooring.

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Uneasy because this seems like an image AI shouldn’t know about

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve been into drawing webs recently and even put one on a mug! Stay tuned for results after firing.

A leatherhard mug with a sgrafitto design featuring a decorative iron fence with a web strung inside it.

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A spider web strung with tiny globes of water has to be one of the most beautiful sights on earth. And it has looked basically the same for millions of years! I would include a photo of what I’m looking at if my phone was up for the task, but hopefully you all can imagine it instead.

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s Vincent Price (& Corman & Poe) hours

“The pit and the pendulum” title card with a gothic castle on a distant cliff top and the surf crashing on the rocks

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Always such a treat to chat with @jimlaczkowski.net! It was great fun to spend so much time with Holofcener’s films.

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wasps have been been mysteriously appearing and subsequently dying in my bathroom. Not sure what this portends

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

-Sinister ball pit -evil symmetry

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Categories of AI food I’ve observed, and ongoing list: -warts -holes -slimy -eldritch -labyrinthine

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Not interested in your wart meat, sorry. Maybe an iPhone pic would have sufficed??

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One of the crazier things about restaurant AI posters is how disgusting and unappetizing the food looks, like it’s made of little warts. And no, I won’t share the example that inspired this skeet to spare you the nausea.

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Camp Miasma is fantastic! An amazing new entry into the dyke/queer/trans canon

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My anxieties often spiral out of control when I’m lying in bed, awake, but once I’m walking around, coffee in hand, things usually feel manageable. What’s behind this, I wonder

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My St*ncil theory is that he is absolutely desperate for a platform and will embrace any ideology that will give him one. Would not be remotely surprised if he shifted to alt right politics. Has he already? I’ve tried to stop paying attention to him

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My parents have asked me for a Chemex coffee demo. I’m thrilled and honored and they are about to get probably way more information than they wanted about this!

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A feel good story for the day:

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It would be pretty funny for Olive Garden to remove the ID requirement this weak argument is hinging on. They would be folk heroes, just saying

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Waiting for someone, I don’t even know who at this point, to tell me when it’s ok to eat lettuce again

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Amazed that people are walking around rawdogging this Chicago air!! It’s times like these I appreciate having a stockpile of kn95s. Please be safe out there.

Selfie of me wearing my black kn95, gray baseball cap and fave orange striped t-shirt. Haze visible in the background

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Chinatown also comes to mind

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thank you to George Lucas for acknowledging the Luddites were right

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is a funny comparison because cars more or less are death machines that seem to grow more dangerous by the year, and are quickly approaching the size of tanks

Resistance to the technology, he said, was
"very much like sitting here saying. 'Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it's at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there's all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they'll be making them into tanks, and then they'll be killing people. It's terrible.?"

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.

wired.com

Sam Neill Inspired a Generation of Scientists

The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Anyone else vaguely concerned Mitch McConnell’s team is finishing up work on his AI hologram replacement

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Folks, no one has a RIGHT to higher office. OK? You aren't "canceling" anyone when you decide NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR QUEST FOR MORE POWER. Please let's be SERIOUS. This is not what is meant by "no one is disposable." I'm begging people to focus and use your brains. That man can still make a LIVING.

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Technology used to excite me as a young person. Now I react to almost every new tech development with dread, all the while mourning my addiction to this pocket device that’s so deeply integrated with my life and work I can’t get rid of it

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Perennial issue with HOtD being back - I just want my own dragon so bad. I really think I’d be a responsible dragon mom. Let me adopt!

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Gen AI exists because the companies stole indiscriminately from creatives. How is any creative worker ok with using it? it’s very existence is morally corrupt. Why do we even need additional tiers of argument against a plagiarism machine? That should be enough!

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Kate Blair @swampyw1tch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Unbelievably low quality argument, disgusting that it was published!

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