iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Slick @dtwiz.bsky.social · 21h

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Ms. Moxie @ms-moxie-xoxo.bsky.social · 17h

Ancient but still a banger

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 7h

The spooky season has arrived, and that means Creepy Biology is upon us. It's time to talk origins. It's time to talk gore. It's time to talk about BLOOD. Specifically, YOUR blood 🩸 [a thread]

A blood splatter by Luis Moraga 17, from wikimedia commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EFECTOS_(SANGRE)_(93).png

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 15h

no....no!!!!!

lowly worm is now driving the trolley problem trolley :(

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Amish Super Model @amishsupermodel.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If you watch Jaws backwards, it’s really a beautiful, uplifting story of a shark overcoming his bulimia.

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put trains in space @gunpowdertim.bsky.social · 21h

oh, and a brilliant one from 2025

A cinema board read:
Gladiator 2
Paddington 3

User Geoff norcott quotes with: 'Massive away win for the little fella'

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Katie @ohweebeasties.bsky.social · 16h

Many good quote skeets of this one

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R.C. Brougham @captainruck.bsky.social · 18h

Found a couple pretty good ones in my files

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Chris Hepler-Skelter @theotherhepler.bsky.social · 22h

Credit according to the image is Paul Noth.

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Chris Hepler-Skelter @theotherhepler.bsky.social · 23h

Heracles putting a rear naked choke on the monster of Nemea.

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Chris Hepler-Skelter @theotherhepler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

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Emmett Nahil @emnays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the crazy thing about making time for any creative pursuit is that you literally have to do what you have a gut-deep yearning to do or else you'll see other people doing it, and it WILL make you insane.

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Chris Hepler-Skelter @theotherhepler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

on second read, I should have changed 'the shelter' to 'indie devs'

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In 2025, Trump was inaugurated into his second term and immediately ordered the Department of Education to stop investigating complaints about sexual violence or other violations of women’s Title IX rights.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

its called the gulf of intelligence now

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/09/2026

This the most anti-American administration in history. Destroying everything good about us, growing all that is bad.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"It says here you're going to die soon. That you need to remember the inevitability of death and accept it with good grace. That you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Go well. This has been MEMENTO MAURY. Thank you, and good night."

A picture of Maury Povitch reading from a cue card.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The whole internet hates Dilkshake Muck, a loathesome bigot who loves misogyny. *5 seconds later* we regret to inform you Dilkshake Muck is assistant general counsel of the General Services Administration"

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i don’t know how to make it any plainer that the vast majority of dem voters believe holding people accountable IS part of “getting back to work”

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 21/09/2026

The only part of game development I don't care about is the shareholders

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026

Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud

60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not really the point, but I'd suggest that if you own 20 "family farms," they probably aren't "family farms."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Beef is woke and gay now

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not bad, but this one is my favorite:

@prettyliltakemachine

Welcome new students. My name is Charles Xavier. The world around you will judge people like us for our differences, but at this school we seek to teach you to harness - who thought that. I do not look like Mr. Clean's gay brother. Who thought that."

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One way to prevent climate disaster is to stop studying it and act really surprised when there are floods, fires, and crop failures. Then say: "How could anyone have known, or allocated resources for this? How sad that you are starving and exposed to extreme temperatures. We're praying for you."

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sometimes two skeets arrive together in my timeline and sometimes the whole is definitely more than the sum of the parts. @danielbolnick.bsky.social @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @swordznsorcery.bsky.social

Two skeets consecutive in timeline. First reads "Remembering the time, as an early assistant prof, I had to adjudicate an authorship dispute between two more senior colleagues, both very burly guys, who were nearly in a fist fight over who would take charge to write a working group paper.
The paper was never written by either."

The second reads "One of them used to be Conan O'Brien, which might help if I could remember which one."

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...

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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton

The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”

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LaurenWalshArt @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The internet is not a real place. I’m literally seeing comments that the crowd didn’t care about the blizzard reveals. I can tell you that place was electric. As I’ve said a lot of people are addicted to anger and rage bait because it’s what the algorithm wants you to see.

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Kathy ☘️Irish Kat☘️🐈 @soberdeaconess.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This made me laugh.

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