iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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nora "nora.jewelry is now open" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 25/04/2026

i think we should have an identity label for which of these things you sound insane explaining makes you the maddest, and then replace astrology with that. i am a cia sacrificed a real shot at the eradication of polio to find bin laden sun, chiropractic ghost teacher rising

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 25/02/2026

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

A poem in the shape of the artist beating Henry Kissinger to death, full text can be found on the website Taco Bell Quarterly

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Viewing this video changed the trajectory of my day earlier

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terraobscura.bsky.social @terraobscura.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

people saying "you reinvented libraries" like you don't know he means an edutainment phone app (with a monthly subscription for the low-ad version) that claps like a seal when you correctly identify a linear progression. if they were interested in *books* they wouldn't be busy pulping all of them.

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terraobscura.bsky.social @terraobscura.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've had, like, dozens of these conversations and maybe 4 authentic successes; each with people who had intrinsic reasons to want to change. You can hold someone's hand through navigating their way out of bigotry if you want to, but it's extremely thankless and has almost no chance of working.

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

It's amazing how the rationalists have basically just re-invented Calvinism for the AI age.

john calvin thinks you're the elect of the machine god probably

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid

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terraobscura.bsky.social @terraobscura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit: All with me's meet that I can fucking fashion fit.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

these people will happily whitewash and paraphrase unhinged Trump rants to make them seem grammatically coherent and authoritative, but if a young woman says “like” we must keep it in there to make sure you know she’s a bimbo infuriating actually

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

seravph
being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

seravph
what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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🎃 Norah “Cabin in the” Woodsey 🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 21/07/2026

Someone posted this and yes lol

From a tshirt, it is a cool cat cartoon surfing a star. In fun font, it says I used to be on the honor roll, now I’m on a government watchlist.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

so far in the 21st century we’ve had multiple genocides, a global pandemic, accelerating climate crisis and habitat destruction, numerous protracted wars, the return of fascism, a fire at notre dame, and a 10-year gap since Rihanna put out a new album but sure

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I hope people read my thread and respond to what I said and not whatever they made up in their head," I said, posting on the Responding To Whatever You Made Up In Your Head website

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026

I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...

We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

When ChatGPT's chatbots deployed this tactic, they weren't "setting their own goals" or displaying worrying initiative. They were rolling out a tactic that has been understood by American middle-schoolers for about two decades.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Basically, whether or not you like AI at work will depend on how much power you have; to decide how and how not to use it, to avoid being terminated by an AI-enthused manager, and so on. It further underlines what's long been evident: AI is for the bosses.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 31/08/2026

feels like it’s inevitable these days that every tool you rely on is one garbage founder or funder away from their app’s version of this post

alilleybrinker.com

1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker

1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.

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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This argument is a variant of one of my favorite tweets ever

JoeKerr
@societylivr1984

There's an old saying in Schelling - know it's in Hegel, probably in Schelling - that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as...as...tragedy...the second time as...as...it's funny if it happens again

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/08/2026

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social they definitely didn’t show us this when they tried to teach us to play recorder in third grade.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In his Second Discourse, Rousseau talks about how man was born free and able to live off the bountiful food that surrounded him in nature and then he was plucked from this state and introduced to society, where he was forced to labor. IG riverreachconstruction

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

This year's admirals are *always* last year's pirates, and they insist that what *they* did to their predecessors was progress, while anyone who tries to do the same thing to *them* is a thief. 18/

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

we should do this every year on the anniversary of her passing. think how much better the internet is today when everyone is just talking about one of the purest souls who ever lived. annual mandatory "1 out of every 3 posts must be about Dolly" day

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Anyone who AIs Dolly Parton for any reason is going to hell

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/08/2026

The NYT piece is IMO both too scary and not scary enough, in that the AI targeting tech used in these Russian drones isn’t a big surprise - but we also cannot assume at all that adding AI to drones will REDUCE civilian casualties. It is just as (if not more) likely to do the opposite. On purpose.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/08/2026

RIP to the finest pair of Big Naturals, attached to the most wonderful person, to ever do it

John Ryan
@johnryanwrites.bsky.social
She didn't die. She sailed West, to the Undying Lands and remained Galadriy'all.
People Magazine • @people.com • 55m
P: bit.ly/4qC1fWV
Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80.
Her nephew revealed the news in a Aug. 25
Instagram video.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich

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terraobscura.bsky.social @terraobscura.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

soup is a conversation between you and your kitchen, a statement of intent. Soup is everywhere for those with eyes to see.

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terraobscura.bsky.social @terraobscura.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

make a band bigger: Kola Superdeep BoreHole

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

OK everybody remember, this "debate me on racism" thing has been tried before and people actually did debate the racists and all it ended up doing was elevating racist messaging. Also, that message was sown on Twitter to be bait for journalists in 2016 so maybe don't fall for it this time around 🥰

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/08/2026

Today’s Discourse Danger level is Very High to Extreme (continuing the danger levels of the last two days). Please take epistemological shelter, secure patio furniture and psychological defenses, and discuss emergency grass-touching strategies with your loved ones.

ALF
LO
EXTREME
VERY HIGH
TODAY'S DISCOURSE
DANGER

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/08/2026

I think it is good and important for other countries to start playing domestic US politics like this right as everyone starts paying close attention to the midterms? fuck you, retaliatory tariffs punish the Republican Party directly with your timing

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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 23/08/2026

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

getting fed false information about AI personhood at a Crisis Data Center

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