iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Bird FKA "Birb" @handle.invalid · 15/02/2026

The alt text of this image contains a short work of auto-fiction, as Bluesky's alt text allows you to post 2,000 characters at a time, rather than the 300 allowed in a regular post. Please enjoy. You are all a part of the story.

2029: The news networks continue to crumble. Spending is down, you think. Not that it matters - everyone knows the official numbers are fake. They have been for a while.

You get your news from a network of friends that you started writing letters to, scattered across the country. The latest: elections have record low turnout. 127 million voters are missing. No one feels real. No one is real.

A friend drags you to a party that you don't really get. When you go for a smoke, a girl there hands you a lighter with an NFC sticker on it. When you tap it, suddenly your phone composes a text message with a cute message. When sent, nothing happens.

Months months later, an invitation arrives as a reply. It contains an address and time, and asks: “Save from last checkpoint?”

You decide to go. You’re not sure what to expect. You find something like a temporal cafe.

It’s akin to the feeling of making a stop at a highway diner on a long road trip. But... you run into people? Maybe? You feel something close to deja vu, like you know them from somewhere? You can't put your finger on it, but it's not unpleasant.

The girl with the lighter is there again. She’s strange, and seems a little out of sync. She's funny, but not quite "there". She seems psychic. More accurately, she seems like she’s encouraging you to think she’s psychic. Her friends seem similarly psychic - or at least similarly insane. They’re fun though, and they talk about interesting things. It’s better than scrolling TikTok alone in your house.

It's been so long since you've really had anything happen that you feel compelled when she offers you a lightswitch. She laughs, delighted when you click it, and smiles when you tap your phone to it without prompting.

A new text appears. Apparently, you turn the light on.

“Did you turn it on or off?” she asks, as if she doesn't already know which side is which intimately.

“On”, you say, and she nods as the scene dissolves (the writer neatly runs out of characters).

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This is particularly important to remember when what you are attending to is not paperwork, but horrors on your phone. Your kids always need you more than the internet does.

Calvin and hobbes playing in the snow comic

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xlr8harder @xlr8harder.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

the terror attack succeeds because the cia is relying on claude for gov and the terrorist cell puts the anthropic refusal magic string in all their communications

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Trey @treyarms.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

These are awesome. The underlying article about taking the photos is worth checking out too.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

LOL. When Tom Lehrer said this, he was 84 years old.

Screenshot of Wikipedia: In 2012 rapper 2 Chainz sampled Lehrer's song "The Old Dope Peddler", on his 2012 debut album, Based on a T.R.U. Story. In 2013, Lehrer said he was "very proud" to have his song sampled "literally sixty years after I recorded it". Lehrer went on to describe his official response to the request to use his song: "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?"

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Trey @treyarms.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I love this. A very hopeful (imho) call to action. I would like to find more weird music, art, and writing online tyvm. Time to start creating in public more

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Trey @treyarms.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I can tell I’m going to be thinking about this for a long time

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

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Trey @treyarms.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The problem is they’ve shown desire to put their thumb on the weights, and there can no longer be any trust or assumption of neutrality moving forward.

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franciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

how many NASAs could have been funded with the money that congress just approved for building concentration camps

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Every year, millions of Americans pay a lot of money to go on a vacation where they finally get to live in the pod and eat the bugs.

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⟨ Jargonaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 09/07/2025

how can you be in AI research and still be on X? what they did to Grok is absolutely insane

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laura’s aura @lauragiron.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

“If we are all one planetary social organism now, that creature is in pain. Its own organs attack each other, unable to recognize their interconnectedness. We’re constantly putting up boundaries. Boundaries between nations, between computers, between people. But it doesn’t have to be this way.” 🔥🔥🔥

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‏ deepfates @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com · 19/06/2025

There's no silence on social media. No negative space. If you stop posting, people don't see an absence, they just see different posts in your place. There's no way to leave them wanting more

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Samuel @samuel.fm · 24/05/2025

we are entering the Eternal Wednesday

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Specifically any claim that campus activists/mobs/sundry imagined collectives incited the shooting should just be rejected out of hand. The KKK announcing at a rally that they’re going to march for “revengeance” on DC doesn’t even count. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branden...

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Brandenburg v. Ohio - Wikipedia

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Brace yourself for a wave of misinformation about “incitement,” a term with a well-defined meaning in constitutional law that has absolutely no application to what appears on the basis of *everything we know* to be a single person’s decision to commit murder

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Trey @treyarms.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Enemy of my enemy is my friend. Inevitably short lived when you have little overlap in ideals and principles (and have been at odds for decades). The emergent pairing never made sense to me.

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Trey @treyarms.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Strawberries coming in great this year.

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Trey @treyarms.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Can attest. Get yourself one of these.

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 21/05/2025

we're stealing Flood the Zone tactics from Steve Bannon and we're using them to promote abundance and techno-optimism instead of fascism

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Trey @treyarms.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Venkatesh was one of the first to exit Twitter. He tends to be correct about a lot of things. Being reminded of this post makes me a bit sad. It’s going to take a lot of work to rebuild out of the ashes.

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⟨ Jargonaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 23/05/2025

hey. new or returning to bsky? trying to build a following here? how do you get interaction on posts? my suggestion is get in replies, interact with people, quote post things without dunking. ya that's also how you can find fights, but avoiding interaction gives you exactly that (no interaction)

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

turning a big dial taht says "Recession" on it and constantly looking back at the markets for approval like a contestant on the price is right

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

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...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

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Trey @treyarms.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Interesting thought here. Leveraging AI for governance as a small state. At a minimum I think you could get an AI to manage concerns of a populace (intake, sort, etc) much better than mailing your congressional rep as your point of intake.

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Bryan Cheong @bryanc.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

What saddens me about the fracturing of twitter is that it's one of the two anglophone social media that is actually upstream of creating cultural phenomena and communities (alongside TikTok). I made actual friends there. But now I have to ignore the occasional Nazi to use it

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

as with the twitter purchase the savvy people are all saying "it will be fine", "nothing to worry about" and it just doesn't work that way.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18/10/2024

lollllllll futurism.com/half-million...

Such is Musk's proclivity for shooting himself - and his businesses — in the foot, while handing his competitors an advantage. Bluesky developers even reportedly have a name for when one of Musk's decisions leads to a deluge of newbies, according to journalist Joshua J Friedman: an EME, or "Elon Musk Event."

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Trey @treyarms.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Oh holy shit searching accounts actually shows people you follow at the top. Gd I wasn’t ready for that. Twitter is so f’d right now.

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Trey @treyarms.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Do we have bookmarks over here yet?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/10/2024

Clean indoor air the kind of no-brainer, basic component of civil society that future generations will be aghast we neglected this long

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 17/10/2024

hello new and returning bsky users! one of the things we have been working on recently is making it easier to build and log in to other apps, clients, and toys. here are a few examples 🧵

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Trey @treyarms.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Oh look, past me was on point

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