iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"You're right — I shouldn't have told you to cough your bubonic plague cells directly into your grandmother's mouth to give her 'herd immunity.' That's on me. Would you like me to give you some resources for caskets in your area?"

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks @crikey.com.au for publishing this great, but sobering, piece by Jason Chatfield.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A sorta odd request. I’m looking for an artistic cartographer or an illustrator to commission to make a cute, useful street map of an actually existing village. Searching the internet produces a bunch of fantasy map specialists and AI slop, which isn’t quite it. Know anyone? (This is paid, ofc.)

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

new favorite baker just dropped (I am finally watching the new ep of Bake Off)

screenshots from the latest season of British Bake Off of a chef named Mo, he's a tan skinned young man. He's got dark hair falling over his forehead and a beard. He's saying, "I come with a lot of baggage, but it's, like, the good baggage."

Mo continued, "Like Louis Vuitton baggage."

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Literally all we want from life is for people to know things

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Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It would be so cool if you would take this survey! Instagram is right on your tail with their engagement in our survey, Bluesky! Come on now, don't let META beat you!!!!

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 23/09/2026

The Telegraph recently published an article about "sickfluencers" titled “How having a disability became cool." We've republished a piece by Julia Doubleday at The Gauntlet pushing back against the article, which she calls "absurd on its face." thesicktimes.org/2026/09/21/c...

A young woman stands by a staircase with a backdrop of tree canopy. She wears a white, high quality mask and has long dark hair. She wears a teal sweatshirt and black pants. The text reads, “The Gauntlet x The Sick Times. COVID-19 — not TikTok — is disabling young women “Sickfluencers” are symptoms of a mass disabling event. By Julia Doubleday.”

“The country is sicker than it’s ever been before” — now why would that be? Six years after COVID-19 hit, four years after the virus has been allowed to run totally rampant without mitigation, the country is sicker than it’s ever been before, but we can’t come up with any reason why that would be other than “women be faking?”

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Chris @leftychris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Next month it’ll be 3 years since the majority of this country voted no. Such a profoundly shameful act. Anyway, Clothing the Gaps has just brought out this new pin, so I got one. Available here (along with free downloads of the same thing in poster form): www.clothingthegaps.com.au/products/sti...

Pin stating Still Yes - text in yellow in the centre and the background as the black and red of the First Nations flag.

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Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A long and extremely worthwhile thread

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Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Help us get better!

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Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary, Inc @blindcatrescue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Adopt a Less Adoptable Pet Week! 🐱💙 Seniors, black cats, those with medical needs, and bonded pairs are often overlooked. They deserve love too. Adopt, share, or support your local shelter today! #AdoptALessAdoptablePetWeek

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Not taking sides" when it comes to speaking out about genocide is indeed taking a side, Ed Sheeran, but I think you probably already know that.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Some thoughts: -Toronto crime is down -Toronto homelessness is down -Cops don't solve crime -Union Station is fine -It's FINE -Jesus Christ -Why is everything about cops with this dude -Stop trying to scare your way into office -Please don't elect this fucking guy www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Brad Bradford says he will put a Toronto police outpost in Union Station if he’s elected mayor | CBC News

Brad Bradford has promised a Toronto police outpost at Union Station as part of his mayoral campaign platform.

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Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

When a human author has written a work, when there’s a unifying intelligence behind it, it’s easy for an experienced editor to work out what the problem is, get a sense of what the author is trying to do, and (often) see how it could be fixed.

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Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Reading this was like being shaken by the shoulders, smacked in the face and given a lifesaving dose of the elixir of truth at the same time. Read it if you have a single doubt about gen-AI and the way it is being sold. ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...

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🫀nenetto [🌳 Deku edition ▿] @nenetto.com · 17/08/2026

By www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08...

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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Remember those nazi salutes Musk gave last year, then when called on them said that the reports were propaganda and that he wasn't a nazi? He was a nazi. Still is a nazi. And he's funding nazis.

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

new toon: the great renaming www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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The great renaming

A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Angus Taylor bad burning/good burning #auspol

Drake meme with Angus Taylor's face.
Saying no to burning an Australian flag. Saying yes to Australia burning with bushfires caused by fossil-fuel induced climate change

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On a panel at the recent Festival of Dangerous Ideas, researcher into the psychological impacts of AI, Eleanor Gammell, used the term "LLMings" (L-L-Lemmings) to describe those hurling themselves into unquestioned AI adoption.

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Well, here goes. I tried to keep it contained. Ridicule is what we use to fight institutional hostility. Make no mistake, that's what this is. rick-morton.ghost.io/deliver-us-l...

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Deliver Us, Lord, From Ridicule

On Friday, Defence deputy secretary Celia Perkins began her evidence before a senate inquiry into asset sales by the department and Australian military with an embarrassing manoeuvre. 'In closing, I ...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 06/09/2026

Had never seen the term “botlickers” and I’m adopting it immediately. 13/12, no notes

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Love to get all unicorns in Word Grid (at which point it showers you in goats – yes, you read that right), but sometimes it takes a bit of ingenuity/contortion ("disgustfulness"?) #WordGrid

A square grid of 9 rainbow coloured squares, each with a word in it: memories, renascences, divagates, glories, revivals, dickered, floridnesses, reificatory, disgustfulness. At the top and the sides of the square are the rules each word must follow, e.g. "Ends with es" AND "Contains or" (for the first one, memories)

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I do not care what Minister Wong’s personal feelings are about Israel’s latest atrocity, I don't care about her outrage, I care about actions. The Government must impose the sanctions and material responses needed. Until they do their words are distractions.

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Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I find mattress stitch kinda magical – satisfying, beautiful. See also: tubular bind-off. I now have another one: invisible mending. My first attempt (to patch a holed elbow on a fave jumper) is serviceable rather than invisible. But such fun to use a crochet hook to create the new stitches #KnitSky

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CNN @cnn.com · 02/09/2026

New York City is banning the use of generative artificial intelligence for public school students from 2K through 8th grade, part of a larger move to restrict classroom technology in the nation’s largest school district. cnn.it/4iGlH79

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Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🧵 Pay close attention to how Covid "experts" like Catherine Bennett are talking about repeat Covid infections. If you read this article, you might come away with the impression that repeat infections are good, actually! They protect you! But – and it's a HUGE but – what she's saying bit.ly/4qQF7bJ

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The COVID trend Australia wasn't expecting this winter

Australia's winter COVID season hasn't followed the script. Here's what the numbers show.

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ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hi fellow healthcare workers. Please read this and then sit for a minute to think about how you can best protect patients. In HCW-patient dynamics, power often sits with the HCW. It is difficult for patients to speak up. The onus is on you to be better.

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ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is how easy it is for a healthcare worker to protect patients. It's not rocket science

I'm wearing a white N95 mask. I'm standing against a bright pink background. I've got shortish curly brown hair, and am wearing a black top with a blue vest over the top.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

COVID-19 is an exceptional disease. There are posters up all over hospitals encouraging patients to remind healthcare staff to perform hand hygiene before contact. How many posters have you seen supporting patients asking healthcare staff to wear a mask? Please. Wear a #respie.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you want to spot AI-generated writing just look for how the writer describes smells and tastes, because it's always goin to be some iteration of, "[Noun] smelled like [Food Item] and [Angry Or Sad Emotion]." Who smells like citrus and wrath? Wrath is not a smell??! Throw ChatGPT off a clifffff

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Nancy Malek @n95anaesthetist.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Doctors: does Covid cause long-term harm? Let's examine the evidence. 🧵 1/4 youtu.be/uGtU_gSCANo?...

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Covid for Doctors Part 2 - Dr Nancy Malek

YouTube video by Dr Nancy Malek MBBS FANZCA

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What an embarrassing Semmelweis-situation this is for most doctors! The doctors in my family would definitely have laughed at his handwashing given how they "feel" about Covid. (Thank you @triciadearborn.bsky.social for posting this video on the other site!)

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Covid for Doctors Part 2 - Dr Nancy Malek

YouTube video by Dr Nancy Malek MBBS FANZCA

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Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Doctors, think about this: should your ease/pleasure in getting to see a patient's nose and mouth trump the risk to the patient of catching extra diseases (which in some cases could literally take them out)? Is seeing your patients' full face more important then them staying as healthy as possible?

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Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Want to support good people doing good work? It's as easy as signing up for @thesicktimes.org newsletter! And yes, you are correct, these doodles of our team are NOT AI. I drew them with my own silly hands. pages.viral-loops.com/share-the-si...

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The nice thing about being in The Satirical Arts is I can write the line, "Bring it on, fuckface. I’ll build an Austrian spa on your grave," and Doug Ford can't sue me

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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sydney folks! There are a handful of tickets left to this book club event with yours truly this Sunday. All proceeds will be donated to Committee to Protect Journalists events.humanitix.com/read-like-he...

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