iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 14h

Just saw an extremely honest commercial for MS's Copilot in which the user mentally reverts to a kindergartener.

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 20h

1st century Rome: What if Year of 4 Emperors? 2nd century Rome: What if Year of 5 Emperors? 3rd century Rome: What if Year of 6 Emperors? 4th century Rome: What if... EVERY Year of 4 Emperors? 5th century Ostrogoths: What if Year of 0 Emperors? 5th century Byzantium: no wait we're here too

041

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Come on Brazil, did Paulo Freire teach nothing to your oppressed?

000

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Unskippable ads are one thing, but I have just experienced an UNPAUSABLE ad. To this my only response is: avast, yohoho, and yarrr.

030

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

SELL IT TO WHO, BEN?! FUCKING AQUAMAN?!?!

060

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Calling for laws against games and apps tracking your "streaks". It's just a cheap way to make them fractionally more addictive.

020

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The crew of the Pequod in Moby Dick (set in the early 1800s) could have been familiar with that one tune they often played in Popeye cartoons, "the Sailor's Hornpipe*" (dating as far back as 1757). *no, not the main theme, the other one

021

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

See, Windows figured out the trick here years ago when they went from 8 to 10.

130

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hāc intellegentiae artificiālis aetāte, urgēns fit hūmānam artem ab iīs distinguere, quae māchinīs efficiuntur. Ars enim et ea, quae māchina ex innumerīs aliēnīs imāginibus statisticae ope computātiōnis generāre potest, ontologicē, prius etiam quam aestheticē, inter sē differunt.

141

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A couple days ago I started to watch a video from the guy who confessed to a bad thing yesterday. Said video immediately got into a topic that freaks me out mightily so I nope'd out of there and put on something else. Vibes win again!

010

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can boil it and dry it out at the same time if you toss it in the pot with the basmati

040

Reposted by Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺

Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

38391262849

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the technocrat's version of the shitty antisocial D&D player's "it's just what my character would do". Dawg it's a fake that that you made yourself. This is still your fault.

050

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I loved NYC when I visited, but this stuff really makes me wish I actually lived there.

010

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just saw an ad for my local GOP candidate claiming the Dem "wants kids to get gender surgeries" immediately followed by the Dem's ad saying "he doesn't want kids to get gender surgeries actually"

010

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just saw a Quora email drop into my box that started with "Cleopatra was African American" and I just, like,

120

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My house has two machines that fill a vessel with liquid over time and beep when they're done. One of them is a chore and gets poured into the bathtub drain, the other is a joy and gets poured into cups to be sipped.

021

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For a large percentage of human history, credit was just how people got stuff they needed. This depended on having a small community where you know the other people, so that you know who's in good standing with the community. David Graeber's book Debt yadda yadda.

030

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This one's for the Latin nerds: Broke: only teach habeo [+ acc] Woke: only teach [nom] est mihi Bespoke: teach both and use them to practice converting the same word from nom to acc in the same context

141

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Nega-verse has their own cookie, the Biscon, baked from the finest anti-flours and reverse sugars. If one comes into contact with a Biscoff, the resulting annihilation reaction can wipe out every cookie for kilometers.

100

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wacky hypothesis: maybe there are a lot of religious people who hate paying taxes because of sloppy translations of the Latin "publicanus" as "tax-collector", when it more fully means "one who privately contracts to extract taxes from non-citizens, usually trying to get a big personal profit".

1132

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Online video community names for... Slime making: GooTube Sneaker collecting: ShoeTube Cattle ranching: MooTube Ghost hunting: BooTube Private Detectives: ClueTube Marsupial husbandry: RooTube Traditional bowyery: YewTube Chimney sweeps: FlueTube Timelapses of people standing in line: QueueTube

010

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thinking of all the entire human beings who are trained "food stylists" while there are small business idiots making absolutely hideous AI advertisements with images of not their food.

020

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fellow Android plebs, since when have the creeps at Google been forcing "AsK gEmInI" into the context menu even outside of the Chrome app and whom can I wound to get it out?

020

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Meanwhile, chrome rock band Samurai's frontman Johnny Silverhand has accelerated his plan to sabotage several of the venues with nuclear warheads. When reached for comment, Silverhand remarked between cigarette pulls, "Who the fuck is Ed Sheeran"

000

Reposted by Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺

Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 15/09/2026

Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent”

A sort of map of US government, with lots of arrows and words. It’s labelled “SIMPLIFIED CONCEPT MAP: U.S. GOVERNMENT.”

Close up of the diagram:

Example: Watergate Impeachment Key 2473 - Watergsstate Impreachment
Imeachment bolitiy Precedent
Legislative Checks
Executive
Veto
No
Executive Cheeks
Example:
Washington's 2-Ter-in Precedent
Example 3: Impeachment Precedent Key 2016 - Declares political inconinitional comnoladunt precedions hutsite avothov Uncostitutional: Bleachmens on the divisience of the Barizon Precedent

1821759391

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Love it when my Star Trek viewing is interrupted by an AI-generated commercial for some class action lawsuit for hernia mesh patients. Yes, of course that woman's envelope slipped into hyperspace when she opened it, don't yours?

000

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've never been a math guy, but it still annoys me when people use "x times less" to mean "1/x as much"

050

Reposted by Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺

🎃HalloDeeny🎃 they/them @geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think about this like 5 times a day

2227162

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I also want to take a moment to appreciate the utter doublespeak that is insisting on calling it the "Department of War" and then refusing to call this obvious war a war.

020

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today we commemorate the loss of 3468 human souls taken in an unprovoked assault on... oops, that's the number for Iranians killed in the war we started with them this year.

021

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Guy who famously refuses to pay people after they do something for him offers to pay entire nation after they vote the way he wants. Pay up first, then we'll think about it (we won't).

040

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dawg our dean of academics used AI to generate a document he sent to us teachers about academic integity MOST OF THE CITATIONS ARE FAKE

230

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hot take: IF someone believes kids need to "learn how to use AI" (I don't, but some people do), the interface with the program is human language, so the most important skill once again becomes the usage and understanding of language. Oops, tech bros turned STEM back into the humanities!

071

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If only the owners of Dave's Cosmic Subs (or whoever owns the franchise that printed this hideous poster) had access to SOME SORT of technology that could produce accurate images of their food, rather than resorting to the nightmare machine

Cross-section of a nightmare sub with nondescript moldy-white "vegetables" on the bottom, rice-looking unmelted cheese on top, and a crumb that looks like it was scribbled in with a bread-colored pen

Nightmare chocolate chip cookie with distinct cells of cookie matter and, presumably, cookie mitochondria (the powerhouse of the cookie cell)

Nightmare phalanx of subs, some of which appear to be topped with chopped zucchini (an ingredient not offered at this restaurant) and other vague repeated geometric shapes in food-approximating colors

030

Reposted by Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/09/2026

BREAKING: Democratic Ohio gubernatorial candidate Dr. Amy Acton was attacked by an armed individual who lunged at her during a campaign event at the Canfield Fair near Youngstown. 1/

93199074116

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The GOP strategy of "throw wrenches into election infrastructure in order to sow chaos and manufacture rationale for fuckery" is just plagiarized from the Roman Republic technique of declaring yourself "dictator for the restoration of the Republic".

2133

Reposted by Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My man looks like he owns a Hooters-branded Discover Card

Secretaryof Homelandsecurity Markwayne Mullin

7059999937

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Whenever I see the phrase "explanation of benefits" I read it as "itemized list of how our insurance company is making you pay for things you already paid for us to cover"

031

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A little grandiose to call the boulder you roll in front of the mouth of the cave to keep your herd of giant sheep and party of wandering Ithacan sailors inside "closed doors"

020

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Putting a real phone case on it and then showing the wooden screen to people would be a good bit

030

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How is Burger King going to do a Dragon Ball collab with a themed crown, but it's not, like, super-saiyan hair or a Piccolo turban?

021

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Man I wish they were dumb enough to do this for real without an actual expert just out of frame telling them when they're about to perish if they follow the instructions

000

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just had a conversation with my sister in which we both described different restaurants as "like Chipotle but [specific world cuisine]", so I regret to inform you that Chipotlevania is now a genre of restaurants

1100

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The age of the snow day is passing. The age of the heat day has begun. (Maybe eventually all the schools will either get AC or get torn down, and then we'll have to await some new kind of calamity to get days off.)

020

Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The odds of this being some AI abomination are high enough that I will not, in fact, be watching.

A screenshot of the YouTube app with a video thumbnail showing a suspiciously light-skinned version of Carl Weathers' character Greed Karga holding Grogu, except they're knitted dolls. Oh, and the title of the video is, bizarrely, "The Original Story Celebrated | The Mandalorian: Yes! No!"

000