iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

congrats to the oxford botanic garden scientists who captured the moment when the infamous mediterranean squirting cucumber (ecballium elaterium) shoots its seeds up to 40 feet by exploding off the stem with the pressure of an inflated bike tire 🥒🧪

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Alerts from NWS Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN (UNOFFICIAL) @mpx.nws-bot.us · 29/11/2024

MPX issues Area Forecast Discussion (AFD) at Nov 29, 5:53 AM CST at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:54:09 +0000 via IEMbot Additional Details Here.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/11/2024

Researching and reporting my story about how truly horrible Facebook has become genuinely rattled me, and changed how I looked at the internet permanently. It's important to understand how messed up they are. www.wheresyoured.at/killingfaceb...

Yet Zuckerberg could not perpetuate these disgusting acts without the help of people like Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz, who saw to it that Meta shut down CrowdTangle, a public insights tool from Meta that allowed researchers to easily analyze what was happening on Facebook. Horwitz reports in Broken Code that Facebook — led by Alex Schultz — killed CrowdTangle because reporter Kevin Roose kept posting a list of Facebook’s most-engaged-with content, and that Facebook was dominated with right wing lunacy and misinformation like “Plandemic,” a COVID conspiracy film that Joel Kaplan, head of Meta’s public policy team, initially blocked the health team from removing until Roose reported that it was Facebook’s number one post.

Just to be abundantly clear, the Head of Public Policy at Facebook deliberately allowed the spread of COVID conspiracies, and would have continued to do so if a reporter hadn’t used a Facebook tool to show how popular they were, which resulted in Facebook choosing to kill the tool that allowed the reporter to find out.

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Bolero's Wisdom - Gator Days

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2024

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

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taint believin @taintednode.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

When he can tell you’re done with morning meetings.

Handsome dog staring directly at camera. Sitting. Left ear cocked back a little.

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Fuck. I just realised Home Alone is Die Hard for kids.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵

Saagar Enjeti tweets: "Probably a cold take but IMO Tokyo is the male fashion capital of the world: whether it’s western wear, suits, street wear the aesthetic is refined to the highest possible level

From the salaryman to the rebel teen they are impeccably dressed

It also helps no one is fat"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Instead, we should look to history, path dependency, institutional structures, politics, and economics. For Tokyo, I think urban planning—walkability, mixed use neighborhoods, affordable real estate—all contribute to the richer media and commercial systems that feed into culture.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/11/2024

"The basic idea is to turn the American government into the biggest crypto bag-holder of all time." prospect.org/power/2024-1...

prospect.org

The Crypto Plot Against America’s Gold Reserves

National Treasure: Bitcoin Edition

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Biden, failure of all time

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 25/11/2024

Hey I'mma tell you right now all that stuff you talk about wanting a better world & being A Good Person is just a bunch of lying ass fuckshit if you don't even understand our socioeconomic situation well enough to approach service workers with a built in expectation to tip and tip well.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/11/2024

News has just broke that Trump plans to eject trans people from the military within days of inauguration. Trans servicemembers who have served 19 years will lose their pensions and healthcare. This is obscene. They served our country, and will be kicked to the side like trash.

independent.co.uk

Trump reportedly plans to swiftly eject trans troops within days of inauguration

Trump’s actions could eject thousands of current trans service members

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 26/11/2024

People are so miserable and lonely it’s like oh my life is unfulfilling and alienating you know what would help? Being a bigoted anti social loner asshole. Yeah great idea moron

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Deno @deno.land · 25/11/2024

It's done. Now it’s your turn, Oracle. We’ve submitted a formal petition to cancel the JavaScript trademark: it is generic, Oracle has abandoned it, and Oracle committed fraud on the USPTO during the last trademark renewal. It's time to #FreeJavaScript. deno.com/blog/deno-v-...

deno.com

Deno v. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark

Oracle is holding the JavaScript trademark hostage, and we’re pursuing legal means to #FreeJavaScript. Here’s a brief update.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 25/11/2024

After seeing @emilyliu.me 's post this morning about using Bluesky for the comments section on her site, I had to try it. Here's a writeup on how to do it, with everything you need to set it up yourself in five minutes. Leave a comment on this post to test it out! www.coryzue.com/writing/blue...

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Emily Liu

Emily Liu's Personal Website

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Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · 25/11/2024

The thing about Dude Wipes is that someone created a product, a corp. hired pros to develop the product, held meetings on marketing them, and now there are ppl whose entire workday is dedicated to them, and it’s all predicated on the idea that men take huge messy shits that require extensive cleanup

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Leif Malone @thetroops.fightins.online · 23/11/2024

Bluesky’s just not going to even bother with banking or what

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taint believin @taintednode.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

People are saying Project 2025 will make Costco charge $7 hot dogs.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

lady of sophistication @janky_jane
Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario
Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty
Replying to @janky_jane
I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.

Matthew @MrWeir
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I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'.
Replying to @janky _jane
My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her
15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App

was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said,
"Where are we off to now. Columbo?"

Eoin O Neill
@eoinjoneill
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Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"

Loic Wright
@dufflest
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I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it.

Eóin O Coileáin
@L20_MTN
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I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Saying “shitter’s full!” any time someone tries to teach me something

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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"Me Too"? BLM? Guys, they're hoping that when this is over you'll be submissively grateful for anyone not actively trying to repeal the 14th and 19th amendments.

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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

What's going on here is that the entire American ruling class, including the elected Democrats, is still butthurt about the events of (roughly) 2016-20, and they're all eagerly clearing the deck for an authoritarian administration that they hope will put an end to all this nonsense once and for all.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/11/2024

whoa are you telling me that the trans panic is bad for cis people too ?? whoOOAOAHAHH!OOOOOOHHAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! time to care about it i guess

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21/11/2024

if Trump just didn't do anything he'd reap credit for Bidenomics and probably hit 60 percent approval. but if his staff nominations so far are any judge, he isn't going to do that

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Lauren Bauer @laurenhlb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

SNAP work requirements fail to increase employment. Just plain getting on SNAP does improve labor market outcomes. www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/... #EconSky

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

people will yell at you for expressing this opinion - maybe they're right - but it's how I and I think a lot of people increasingly feel about subsidies and liberal outreach to rural America www.volts.wtf/p/dan-savage...

Dan Savage

And yet, every time I pick up a story, read a story in the paper about some kid blowing his head off, it's not some kid on the Upper West Side of Manhattan who blew his head off. It's not one of my people. It's some kid in a rural area with rube fucking parents with tons of guns laying around. Occasionally, it's a kid in an inner city where there are guns laying around, but almost invariably, it's an exurban or rural problem. And I was like, "We're losing votes because we are fighting so hard to get gun locks under the guns of these idiots in Iowa." Fuck them. If they don't want their own kids to survive being toddlers, why are we expending so much political capital and losing votes in these areas for being perceived to be anti-gun to save their own kids from themselves and from their parents?

David Roberts

Well, to once again draw a parallel, like Biden's whole administration was devoted to policy meant to revive precisely those red areas of the country that have been hollowed out by globalization, et cetera, et cetera, minimum wage stuff and care stuff. Like Biden fought for those people and in response, they hated him. You know, like the working class in those areas, the white working class in those rural and exurban areas hated him like Satan. Even though on any sort of like tangible policy level, it was the most sort of like, you know, most working-class-friendly Democratic administration in years.

Dan Savage

And imagine, imagine if the same sort of investment and prioritization had been targeted at cities, not just during the Biden administration, but the Clinton administration, the Obama administration. There's this constant sense that, well,

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

someone needs to put this in a development economics lecture

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onion person @junlper.beer · 20/11/2024

it disgusts me the national democratic party barely pushes back at this attempt from the right to wind back LGBTQ rights decades after claiming to be the party of LGBTQ rights

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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

the simple truth conservatives always ignore

tweet from snarls saying: every "traditional" social norm was invented by advertisers in 1957 and every "newfangled social phenomenon" has been around for 3000 years

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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 20/11/2024

the gender troll blocklist i started yesterday now stands at 972 boring losers bsky.app/profile/did:...

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taint believin @taintednode.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Jersey Mikes is about to become as bad as subway.

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Eli N. @nachos.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

the good news is that you can mute/block them with the moderation list I made! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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taint believin @taintednode.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If you want to feel good today, read about how dumb greedy racists who lose everything because they think Elon is giving away free money.

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taint believin @taintednode.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Billionaires are a threat to democracy and it would be incredibly easy to divorce them of their wealth and put them in their place.

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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Woke up this morning remembering how, after Kerry's 2004 loss to W, the Democratic party and the press decided it was abortion's fault. When I tell you that this is not an exaggerated memory:

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/11/2024

none of these tedious dickheads can stand each other, they want to hang out with funny people who do interesting things, like each other and have fun that's what the 'echo chamber' whining is about, they feel entitled to *our* community spaces bc they've made a wasteland of their own

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