iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

After watching the first episode of this season of Slow Horses, I'm dreaming of a show that actually does follow the daring adventures of transit authority operatives, fixing potholes and thinking about many kinds of vehicles. Rescuing pedestrians! Making protected bike lines! Reducing traffic!

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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 01/10/2026

All in service of a project nobody fucking wants

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What happened at Cornell was not an anomaly — those boys just got caught. When we talk about College For All, it can't just be about free tuition. We need an end to rape culture and the universities that allow it to persist.

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the sheer number of stores i've been to where they have new systems that ruin everyone's workflow is mind-boggling - and the new systems always seem to focus on finding ways to track employee utilization, rather than helping employees do things more efficiently

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the most underappreciated unforeseen consequences of the smartphone/streaming/social media era is the elimination of boredom as a key driver of creativity. Without boredom, there just isn't enough impetus for most people do go out and learn and do things.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You have a better chance of going bankrupt than of becoming a millionaire. Wake up!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a country of delusional people who believe they may one day be rich. The California Wealth Tax has less than 50% support right now. We have to tell the truth about the propagandized voting public. It's incredible.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Stories like this take me back to the l&d room when the nurse went over my birth plan and asked if I wanted to keep the placenta (throw it in the trash) and if I wanted the vitamin K shot (of course, do all the things) and how she smiled with *relief* at my incredibly normal responses

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Using data from The Deportation Project, L.A. TACO broke down the nearly 4,000 logged apprehensions in L.A. County by neighborhood and city. The full story: lataco.com/ice-kidnappi... By @eltragon.bsky.social

A shot of the L.A. skyline taken from a park.

Headline reads "ICE Kidnappings By Neighborhood In L.A. County"

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Keith Edwards @kedwards.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Conservatives: He wants to institute Sharia Law!!! Mamdani *turns on the lights at all the city playgrounds* : now everyone can play later!

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026

one great thing about Mamdani's brand of cheerful competence is how ridiculous it makes his conservative critics look, like nobody is buying that the Mr Rogers dude who filled all the potholes is a wild eyed America hating extremist

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Deny, Defend, Depose (Carl Nyberg) @carlnyberg312.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Government is moving in the direction that even basic services like mail delivery and public transportation have to build the infrastructure of oppression.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Surely a large part of this is the shift to remote work? My organization, for example, switched to a fully remote office in 2020 and never went back, so now I spend most days at home.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They call me the Mistress of Bubblewrap. The much under appreciated art of wrapping and shipping ceramics! I’ve gotten pretty good at it over the years if I may say so 😉

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Innovation ys not just tech. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

People really need to understand this

why would rapists bother to pretend to be trans in a culture that treats rapists better than trans women

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

God I'm so tired of seeing rapists everywhere. I hate these fucking braindead pigs, I hate watching them gorge on power and money for no reason except that they want it, I hate knowing they're torturing women with impunity, I hate seeing their smug stupid fucking faces on the news.

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Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#fiction She is thinking that everything she knows is a construct in her mind. Maybe she’s thinking she should bite. She is thinking this rabbit knows something deeply fundamental, something important, something she doesn’t. www.strangepilgrims.com/p/angora-pow...

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Angora Power by DM Gordon

👀 Free Sub Call Open Now: Announcing New Theme! | Micro #2 ⭐︎ Rabbits

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.

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Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#fiction The piece grew from that tension between being cared for and being contained, and from the unsettling possibility that the two can begin to resemble each other. www.strangepilgrims.com/p/otter-by-z...

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Otter by Zoé Mahfouz

Free September Challenge Theme Reveal! | “And I have to react to a plushie doppelganger of myself.” | Micro #5

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The article is actually aggressively awful, but it's a great example of how media pretending to be neutral leaves people *more* vulnerable to demagoguery, not less People have been studying and describing that problem since before Levitz was born, and it's gotten worse and worse the whole time

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People handle tasks so complex and with so many shifting variables as part of our day-to-day existence that the complexity is underestimated. It’s like how knitting machines have existed for over 400 years but there still isn’t a machine that can crochet, though we think of those tasks as comparable

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In recent months, the planned safety upgrades for a mile-long stretch of road near Griffith Park have grown highly contentious for Los Angeles politicians, street safety advocates, and nearby cemeteries. Read the full report here: lataco.com/forest-lawn-... 🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social

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Harlot🔞 @harlotprincess.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the cycle is already starting. they're gonna claim it never happened, they're gonna claim she asked for it, they're gonna claim drug use is consent, they're gonna say she's not a perfect victim and so no victim at all, but we know what happened because it keeps happening.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the only way forward is to invest in *more* use of open protocols - so website yes, RSS yes, and federated distribution channels yes. Investing in closed platforms and hoping for an occasional bite of the apple hasn't worked for the last 15 years and it will work even less over the next.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this

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Climate and Transit @climateandtransit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every single city should be considering congestion pricing for their downtowns.

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Eddie S. Glaude @esglaude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Green and Red Podcast @podcastgreenred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

University administrators are vile.

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Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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👺 hell camino acid 👻👹 @sexdracula.rocks · 25/09/2026

the "don't bring iced coffee to an interview" discourse is great bc it's such a succinct and clarifying example of how private businesses aren't efficient & logical enterprises, they're just arbitrary in-groups ruled by sociopaths, power tripping on their ability to enforce pointless bullshit norms

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.

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WebcomicLibrary @webcomiclibrary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So on Tumblr I was able to make a more in depth post about the Tapas situation, primarily how I currently feel about it and my next steps in the coming months for those interested. www.tumblr.com/webcomiclibr...

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Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your people.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Notice all the black writers being accused of using AI in their works. Notice.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

today in Stop Romanticizing Canada: Quebec’s Bill 9 has just taken effect, barring women in veils from receiving public services. Public employees include university faculty, so professors have been instructed to require veiled women to uncover their faces or be removed from the classroom.

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