iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by James Panek

Hilary Purnamasari @hilary-ps.bsky.social · 20h

Sketchbook pages

A sketch of a building somewhere in Paris

7564107

Reposted by James Panek

dissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i am experiencing

cat sitting under a ray of light. enjoying the light

131748336

Reposted by James Panek

isla @politeisla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i get my regular account back tomorrow and I must be polite and -not- provide the Iranian military with “detailed instructions”

031

Reposted by James Panek

Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

205189655407

Reposted by James Panek

NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 25,1944

P1- NANCY SEES A FLOWER BLOOMING IN A CRACK IN THE STREET
P2- NANCY LEAVES AND RETURNS WITH SOME STRING AND A LARGE PIECE OF CARDBOARD
P3- NANCY HAS MADE A DETOUR SIGN AND PLACED ACROSS THE ROAD, IN FRONT OF THE FLOWER IN THE ROAD
A MAN IN A AUTOMOBILE HAS STOPPED AND IS LOOKING AT THE DETOUR SIGN

1257864

Reposted by James Panek

AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

apnews.com

https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

5542341628

Reposted by James Panek

Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor

8354181209

Reposted by James Panek

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

it’s time to give Ms Rachel a gundam

5051361133

Reposted by James Panek

Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have this residual sense the Truth Of Life is hidden in 90s vertigo comics but the way they exist irl is not an exact match to how they exist in my head, when I try to read them, which is mildly frustrating

0341

Reposted by James Panek

A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

52144935760

Reposted by James Panek

Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of my favorite parts of @evandahm.bsky.social’s “The Harrowing of Hell” is when Satan (who strongly resembles a Roman emperor) tells Jesus “You know they’re just gonna warp your peacenik bullshit into more violence, right?”

229071

Reposted by James Panek

dreadelion @dreadelion.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

the kind of wisdom one would hope to find in anxient tomes 🩸

1741351778

Reposted by James Panek

Chris Howe @chrisjhowe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Running and screaming leaves no time for culture

21311

Reposted by James Panek

oh no @ili.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

But they were all deceived, for a Fifth Loko was made

110737

James Panek @thepanekroom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

someone mentioned once that the old Main Library of the City & County of San Francisco had custom doorknobs. i never thought i would get to see them until i got a tour of the Print Shop in the new Main's basement, where, anomalously, they had an intact door from the old building

410615

James Panek @thepanekroom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

below: i've thought about this a bit over the years, how every generation gets away with using less effort. a typical 1920s house has so much more decoration inside and out than a 1990s house: getting "optimized" for the builders. businesses do the same - handpainted signs to MS Word Art to AI slop

020

Reposted by James Panek

Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now

171165023552

Reposted by James Panek

Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

187165415084

Reposted by James Panek

こまちみゆた @comatimiyuta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

まだ夢の中

040865

Reposted by James Panek

𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

John Collier, The Devil Skating When Hell Freezes Over, 1894

101545343

Reposted by James Panek

Elena Kononenko @kononenko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fall raspberries 🍂

102335690

Reposted by James Panek

Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A gem at the county fair art show. 🎨

Acrylic painting of an angry looking white cat staring at the viewer with one paw on a blue vase, about to push it off a mantle.

138102341614

Reposted by James Panek

Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Protostar in LDN 1527 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2o1cFqj

Update: Simeon Schmauß over on Twitter (@stim3on) recommended G'MIC for taking care of the horizontal noise / banding. It worked pretty great. There's a Photoshop plugin for it, too.

Wanted to process my own version of this one, since nebular landscapes are some of my favorite views. Having a hard time with the linear noise pattern, especially near the top of the image.

In the center of this view is a newly forming star crossed by a dark disk of dust (say that three times fast!) which is casting shadows to the left and right, and allowing cones of light out the top and bottom. Think of it like a light bulb inside of a donut with a bunch of fog. Though the infrared light can penetrate much of the dust, there are clues in the image that show some of the dust is still too thick to see through. At the lower right especially are a lot of background galaxies. On the left, the background galaxies are fewer, and what we see are dimmer, so we can tell there is more dust there.

You can see the official release here. They've got a much better description than I could ever write.

Orange "screen": NIRCam/F444W-F470N (not arithmetic)
Red: NIRCam/F444W
Green: NIRCam/F335M
Blue: NIRCam/F200W, F187N, F115W

North is 100° counter-clockwise from up.

2456134

Reposted by James Panek

Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hampstead Heath, 07:44

To the left, brambles and a glimpse of an oak tree; to the right, a variety of dry grasses gone to seed saddle away towards the tops of trees and the toothed silhouette of the city under blue sky and reefs of cloud.

110915

Reposted by James Panek

evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

interlibrary loan is a MIRACLE

11188

Reposted by James Panek

pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 30/08/2026

brain, i understand that you'd rather do Preferred Activity, but right now we have to do Task. if we finish task we can do Preferred Activity WITHOUT feeling weighed down by the need to do Task. do you see how that works ah it's biting me my brain is biting me

340351944

Reposted by James Panek

yuzuBOO @yuzupool.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

linguini from ratatouille counts as a gundam

213135

Reposted by James Panek

Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

the neighbour lady has taken her lagotto to have his fur trimmed. one can now discern the actual dog that was, this whole time, hidden within the lagotto. like the alleged diamond core of planet jupiter

1452

Reposted by James Panek

Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

To my beloved indie trans writer community:

Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully, saying "Mulder, the Internet is not good for you"

216229

Reposted by James Panek

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Same, son

little league kid says dream job is retirement

443956557

Reposted by James Panek

Cool Jim the Vampire @lechased.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

[bene gesserit voice] no worries if not

124081

Reposted by James Panek

✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Go-Man Vs. the Star Dragon OUT NOW! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Every drag show this weekend is going to have to make some very hard choices

41952551

Reposted by James Panek

Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

a favorite bit of writing on Dolly: David Cantwell on "Coat of Many Colors" "I am poor, but I will be more than that. I *am* more than that. Despite your contempt, the things I love are worth loving."

Coat of Many Colors is not a documentary or even a memory, but a story she's telling herself. The adult Parton presents this childhood story says a lot about the survival tactics of poor kids generally, and of Dolly Parton specifically. It might, for example, explain Parton's flamboyant stage dress through the years. More substantially, it tells how a poor kid from the Blue Ridge Mountains has to make sense of life if she has ambitions, as we know Dolly Parton most certainly did. ...I am poor, but I will be more than that. I am more than that. Despite your contempt, the things I love are worth loving. And since my mother slaved over this amazing coat for me, I must be worth loving, too."

1436136

Reposted by James Panek

alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

because my kids were both born on medicaid in eastern kentucky, they got imagination library books in the mail for a little while. always felt like a package delivered from a world just a little better & kinder than ours.

21249120

Reposted by James Panek

CocoEagle @cocoeagle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I cannot express this any better.... the frustration is real

133174135242

James Panek @thepanekroom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

below: in looking into their ancestry my partner found news articles about their grandfather and his drunk driving escapades in the 1940s. he wasn't a celebrity, just a well-off guy. this is the news system destroyed in the last few decades because rich people do not want this level of scrutiny

020

Reposted by James Panek

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

On the other site I would occasionally state my theory that the systematic destruction of the local newspaper ecosystem is not collateral damage from digital "disruption" or the Internet in general but a key part of a long range strategy to end accountability. I was informed that I was being silly.

715148

Reposted by James Panek

johnasavoia @konatachan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Aerochrome style digital infrared work from yesterday

0142

Reposted by James Panek

Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Once you start seeing it through this lens, a remarkable proportion of books, op eds, features, even news pieces can be summarised as "why won't my darling child go back to how they were when they accepted my complete authority over them, before they self-actualised (and got QUEER)"

634975

Reposted by James Panek

✧𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

girls be like “i know a spot” and then take you here

a staircase leading down underground surrounded by water with tree branches reflecting in it

16471191455

Reposted by James Panek

The Onion @theonion.com · 17/08/2026

‘Do You Have Any Idea Who I Am?’ Jalen Brunson Shouts At Librarian Refusing To Move Him Up ‘Lonesome Dove’ Waitlist theonion.com/do-you-have-any-idea-w…

171358129