iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 17h

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Update from the realm of teaching; I loathe LLM's and generative AI with the heat of a thousand Stars, and barring some wide scale intervention or broad social push back, I don't know how this turns out well for us.

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“The Lathe of Heaven” by Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s also the greatest tv show of the 24th century of the Correct Century, making that a Mobile Hat Trick.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

raise their goddam taxes holy shit

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

me and the homies watching tobias beat david’s ass like

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of my infinite frustrations as a teacher who worked through Covid was that our schools had to fundamentally shift the things we were doing in order to meet kids' needs. All the bad stuff was grandfathered in, and all the good stuff (free lunches) was abandoned.

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Neuromancer (1988) I could only play it in black and green on my mom’s Apple II, and it certainly was NOT age appropriate for a 9 year old, but it showed me the potential that games have beyond side scrolling and jumping.

You just woke up face down in a plate of synth-spaghetti. This is Neuromancer. If need some cash, you can always sell a few organs.

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this guy looks like he’s about to eat Gingertown and start droning about Androids and perfection.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Characters wondering if Wolverine is man or Beast, and Hank McCoy is like, “….I’m right here…”

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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it’s time to give Ms Rachel a gundam

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sue is reading "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and has been getting her husband to read Kropotkin and Judith Butler.

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I can’t get all this out of my head. I grabbed my copy of Zinn’s “People’s History of the United States”. I could cite my own anecdotal memories all day, but this is the history. This was what ”unity” meant, and the nightmares we’re experiencing today are the consequences of that “unity”.

It was an unprecedented assault against enormous symbols of American wealth and power, undertaken by 19 men from the Middle East, most of them from Saudi Arabia. They were willing to die in order to deliver a deadly blow against what they clearly saw as their enemy, a
superpower that had thought itself invulnerable. President Bush immediately declared a "war on terrorism" and pro- claimed: "We shall make no distinction between terrorists and countries that harbor terrorists." Congress rushed to pass resolutions giving Bush the power to proceed with military action, without the declaration of war that the Constitution required. The resolution passed unanimously in the Senate, and in the House of Representatives only one member
dissented-Barbara Lee, an African American from California.

The American public, ever since the calamity of September 11, was overwhelmingly supportive of Bush's policy of a "war on terrorism." The Democratic Party went along, vying with the Republicans on who could speak tougher language against terrorism. The New York Times,
which had opposed Bush in the election, editorialized in December 2001: "Mr. Bush... has proved himself a strong wartime leader who
gives the nation a sense of security during a period of crisis." But the full extent of the human catastrophe caused by the bombing of Afghanistan was not being conveyed to Americans by the mainstream press and the major television networks, which seemed determined to
show their "patriotism." The head of the television network CNN, Walter Isaacson, sent a memo to his staff saying that images of civilian casualties should be accompanied with an
explanation that this was retaliation for the harboring of terrorists. "It seems…

said. The television anchorman Dan Rather declared: "George Bush is the President.... Wherever he wants me to line up, just tell me where." The United States government went to great lengths to control the flow of information from Afghanistan. It bombed the building housing the largest television station in the Middle East, Al-Jazeera, and bought up a satellite organization that was taking photos showing the results, on
the ground, of the bombing. Mass circulation magazines fostered an atmosphere of revenge. In Time magazine, one of its writers, under the headline "The Case for Rage and Retribution," called for a policy of "focused brutality." A pop-
ular television commentator, Bill O'Reilly, called on the United States to "bomb the Afghan infrastructure to rubble-the airport, the power
plants, their water facilities, and the roads." The display of the American flag in the windows of homes, on auto- mobiles, on shop windows, became widespread, and in the atmosphere of wartime jingoism, it became difficult for citizens to criticize government policy. A retired telephone worker in California who, working out in his health club, made a remark critical of President Bush, was visited by the
FBI and questioned. A young woman found at her door two FBI men who said they had reports of posters on her wall criticizing the president.

Congress passed the “USA Patriot Act” which gave the Department of Justice the power to detain noncitizens simply on suspicion, without charges, without the procedural rights provided in the Constitution. It said the Secretary of State could designate any group as "terrorist," and any person who was a member of or raised funds for such an organiza
tion could be arrested and held until deported. President Bush cautioned the nation not to react with hostility to Arab Americans, but in fact the government began to round up people for questioning, almost all Moslems, holding a thousand or more in detention, without charges. New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis told of one man arrested on secret evidence, and when a federal judge found there was no reason to conclude that the man was a threat to national security, the man was released. However, after September I1 the Department of Justice, ignoring the judge's finding, imprisoned him again, holding him in solitary confinement 23 hours a day, not allowing
his family to see him. There were minority voices criticizing the war. Teach-ins, peace ral-
lies took place all over the country. Typical signs at these gatherings read
"Justice, Not War" and "Our Grief Is Not a Cry for Revenge.
Arizona, not a place known for antiestablishment activism, 600 citizens (continued on next page) signed a newspaper ad that pointed to the to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

They do this with entire regions too. As a red state leftist, I notice when natural disasters occur in places like the Texas, and they say the people there deserved it because of how they voted. I don’t think anyone “deserves” to freeze in their home, but that gleefully condemns their own allies.

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

you might say our souls are weighed down….

Headline in Popular Mechanics:

Gravity Molded
Human Consciousness- But a Future in Space Could Make It Evolve,
Scientists Say

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

they were beating up sikhs

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Polar Johan @polarjohan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you're wondering what to do on 9-11, consider watching the best film ever made about 9-11 and its aftermath, which came out four years before it happened.

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Kids these days will never understand the experience of only being able to listen to these songs as instrumental .midi files on the PC in the back of the biology lab during lunch.

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When you’re interested in the lesson but some asshole has the teacher off on some tangent.

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When I saw Voyage Home as a kid I envied her so much.

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Scrolling through my feed I saw this and low-key thought it was an AP photo from NASA for a few seconds.

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When I saw this episode as a kid, I thought for like 5 years that this was what Matt Groening actually looked like.

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's kind of wild that I have only heard of three of these people. One because he made that Iron Lung movie I didn't see, Ms. Rachel, whom my daughter never watched, and the guy the Democratic Party is making out to be History's Greatest Monster for some reason.

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Enshrining my slice-of-life F4 head-canon:

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Currently, every potential Dolly Parton and Tim Curry is being told that they should go to trade school, or only focus on STEM because otherwise they’ll have no job and die poor. They’re seeing their peers deal with long term unemployment and homelessness, while society screams that it’s their fault

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We're getting put through the ringer, man.

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

See the Masked Antagonists in Gundam are like poetry, they rhyme.

When you steal a guy’s wife and daughter so badly that he refuses to show his face, decides to wipe out all of humanity, and kills you with his brain.

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Emmeline @shirokumahi.me · 25/08/2026

finished star trek prodigy. extremely grim that it has to end tying into the moronic events of picard season 1, choices so bad all of star trek has to avoid that era of time like the plague forever or just undo it

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I.G.Y. Azalea @steelydad.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

[over loudspeaker] “We need more NOABORT license plates in the gift shop”

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Photosynthesis - much better adaptation, and also a much cooler way to destroy the planet.

That time cyanobacteria tried to make Earth copy all the Icy Moons.

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Lizzy @icecreamjones.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

literally the funniest jonah panels in history especially given the present trend

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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is a reminder to me that I need everyone to know that when they made a Tuvix action figure, it came with a “special existential despair action feature”.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Animorphs (1/3)

Page 1, 3 panels. Panel 1: group of friends in a public party setting. A guy asks one of the girls, “you’ve really never heard of Animorphs?” The girl laughs, “never!” Panel 2: later, the girl is now alone and unlocking the door to her apartment. Panel 3: as she enters the apartment, she morphs into a wildebeest. She thinks to herself, “no one can know.”

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