iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Emmurder Killwell えま @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

yeah i'm a game writer, you might know me from hits like: INVENTORY FULL AMMO HERE CHECK THIS OUT I'M UNDER ATTACK!

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jae (hallowed) @fubarchitect.com · 07/10/2026

watching a society learn that basically no one considers what everyone else does all day "real work" is very interesting and also very depressing

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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 07/10/2026

All 12 members of LCV Victory Fund's 2026 Dirty Dozen in the States have supported policies that are destroying our environment and raising our bills. And all 12 of them are running in competitive state and local races where every vote matters. Spread the word and help us defeat them in November.

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2026 Dirty Dozen in the States

These state and local candidates have consistently voted to raise energy costs, kill clean energy jobs, and take funding from corporate polluters.

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Joseph Knoop @josephknoop.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You can just say things and get it printed in a major publication if you're rich enough.

Regarding Kotick, Ellison said, “Bobby led a global entertainment company through three decades of sustained growth, and he brings real perspective on building enduring franchises and connecting with fans. His record of pairing bold strategic moves with disciplined capital allocation is exactly the experience we need as we bring our businesses together.”

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 07/10/2026

You hysterical idiots. Donald Trump wasn’t asking Iran to attack LA or San Diego, he was just talking in a completely incoherent way that we have chosen to interpret as saying it would be bad if that happened. And it’s actually good that he talks like that,

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.

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Slick @dtwiz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Ms. Moxie @ms-moxie-xoxo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ancient but still a banger

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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 · 05/10/2026

no....no!!!!!

lowly worm is now driving the trolley problem trolley :(

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Chris Hepler-Skelter @theotherhepler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well, this blew up. Thanks for the likes, folks, you made my day. If you like mythology references, I have a 6-issue comic series all about them. A golem, a gengineered demigoddess, an umutwa, and a forgotten Trojan War hero walk into a bar… er, hospital. #kindle www.amazon.com/Mythkillers-...

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Mythkillers #1: Long Knives, Short Deaths

Amazon.com: Mythkillers #1: Long Knives, Short Deaths eBook : Hepler, Chris, Cifuentes, Vicente, Daay, Philip: Kindle Store

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

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 · 05/10/2026

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 · 05/10/2026

Many good quote skeets of this one

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R.C. Brougham @captainruck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Found a couple pretty good ones in my files

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Chris Hepler-Skelter @theotherhepler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Credit according to the image is Paul Noth.

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Chris Hepler-Skelter @theotherhepler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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

Do you get an achievement called Besk of the Besk?

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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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Chris Hepler-Skelter @theotherhepler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I found this in Earthdawn for you, Gail!

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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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