iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 17h

this will be funny to like 3 people but I’m one of them and that’s all that matters

The poster for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, but it’s been edited to include And Knuckles at the end of the title, and Knuckles has been edited into the photo of the cast

Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 22h

Such good data, would love to see the equivalent for the parties over here. I suspect similar for young ON voters! I've been of the opinion for a while that talk about young people been driven to the far-right by economic precarity is misleading and that fascists are generally better off and well:

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've said this in some of our book talks, but as an advocate I think spending a lot of time trying to find common ground with "someone on the other side" is generally a waste of time. It's much more effective to identify latent supporters of the things you want in the world and get them to join you.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Paul Atreides as a character is spicy white-coded, so you might want to tone down the loathing.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And the Apes were ten thousand, each unlike his brethren, yet all equally hideous. Their likenesses any might behold or copy, but upon the Chain were inscribed the names of their lords. And many paid dearly to be numbered among them, ere the floor fell away.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trying to pick what to have for lunch today, falafel wraps which we had yesterday, aglio e olio which just feels too oily and carby right now or texmex with homemade tortillas, guac from a perfectly ripe avo and this great habanero and mango hot sauce we have... I'm choosing texmex, you can tell.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jake Tapper (moderating the 2028 Dem primary debate): Final question. Do you renounce the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar? Pete Buttigieg: I renounce it. Kamala: I renounce it. AOC: I renounce it. Gavin Newsom: I will be deploying the National Guard to Greenfield on day one of my administration.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Once it's had the Hildegard von Blingin' cover done people have no excuse (because they should have heard of it via said cover). Just for the joke of "Choosin' Wessex" alone tbh.

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Choosin' Texas by Ella Langley - A Bardcore | Medieval Cover by Hildegard von Blingin'

YouTube video by Hildegard von Blingin'

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There's a lot of preamble that would be a thread in itself to explain how I got there but I was recently sitting on a hill atop a cliff at a fancy resort in Bali with a camera when I had a whole troop of monkeys walk right past me and I wanna share some photos!

A cliff at the Ungasan Resort in Bali, there is a wedding being set up in the background by a long series of bushes separating the grassy flat area where the wedding is from the cliff's edge. The ocean is visible below the cliff and a beach can just be seen in the background.

a monkey sitting on a small ledge in a grassy spot. There are some flowers visible in the background.

A monkey putting a purple thing in their mouth looking at the camera

a monkey putting a purple thing in their mouth

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It ys tyme for Tulip skeptics to face some difficulte trouthes. Tulips are the waye of the future. Yf you do not invest yn Tulips you are way behinde. Yf you do not teache your children about Tulips thei will not be able to compete on the jobbe market. Onlye Luddites dislyke Tulips.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I reckon Hugo is cheating; I heard he's just standing on the tips of his toes.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's hard to communicate to some of my American friends here how funny it is to an Australian that someone would do a romance scam pretending to be Scott Morrison, but with some help from my partner I've come up with the perfect comparison: imagine someone doing a romance scam as Mitt Romney.

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AbracaBraniel @scrawlivertate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The alt-text of all alt-texts

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My hot, spicy and much desired take on the "AIs can rationalise" argument is that it's depressing how quicker many are to ascribe personhood to computers then they are to animals. Perhaps the animals just need to be more sycophantic? We'll just train the cows, pigs and chickens to sound like LLMs.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Disc Horse Bot revealing it's master plan here: wiping out the donkeys. The horses shall be the only equines left trotting!

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My partner is currently annotating a protein sequence with the string FISHLASER in it and I just wanted to share that. There's also TAILGIRL in there.

A single-letter amino acid sequence with "FISHLASER" in it.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I see this impulse over here a bit so it's not entirely uniquely American, but it does seem that to the American center/right the most offensive thing imaginable is even so much as implying that American lives are not qualitatively different to non-American lives.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Foaming dairy and eggs is second nature to us people with a baking hobby, it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows how to make meringue and maybe one or two buttercreams. And whipped cream, of course. of course...

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Feels like we could do something similar over here, too. AusPost is a weird little QANGO sure but could still handle it, or we can just do it through another government service. Basically fits with my philosophy that anything the government requires it should provide.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Several times today AI slop has been reposted sincerely by people I follow. One of the first times I've seen an AI video fool a bunch of people here. Mark Hamill sharing it doesn't help, annoyed he didn't take it down when like every comment pointed out it was slop.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I know it's a minor point in the grand scheme of things but I can't help but note the explosions look like cauliflower?

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Zoomers would rather accept a YouTube sponsorship from BetterHelp than go to therapy

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Once the robots speed up, who cares how they slow down? "That's not my department!" says Robot von Braun.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just made the mistake of watching an ABC interview with Ben Carrol talking about the 10 dental clinics where he was asked how we can afford it... Because it's a fucking trivial amount of money? Like I dislike the policy *because it's so small*. It's one clinic per 700,000 Victorians!

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hello! Are you a human being capable of processing aural and visual stimuli? Then the Weird Al Tiny Desk concert from a few days ago will improve at least 3 of your biomarkers. youtu.be/o4I-Y8XiBIs Also the entire band is great but my *god* that singer. You'll know the one by the third song.

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'Weird Al' Yankovic: Tiny Desk Concert

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Anyway, a reminder. Fuel Tax Credits over the next 4 years will cost the Govt $47bn. The savings from the cuts to the NDIS is $38bn. Gillard in 2010: "Budgets are about choices, and you show what you value through the choices you make" Indeed.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is just absurd in the light of the actual state of academia right now for anyone outside of a tiny cluster of senior academics. Academia is a brutally competitive arena where all your interests and specialties need to be put aside to try and chase the sexiest research lest you fail to publish

quote from Sasha Gusev: "Academia is a unique space where people can pursue controversial questions wherever they lead. If the work is pseudoscience (and, in my view, Cofnas' race science clearly is), academia has effective channels for response: public criticism and peer-review."

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There are SO MANY more excellent scholars than there are academic positions. Cofnas’s work is based on discredited pseudo-science, which means he should not be hired instead other scholars who are doing legitimate and rigorous work. And his work can be desk rejected before peer review.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Does 'Trump Bond Invasion' sound like an indie rock band or is it just me?

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The chart here is the first time I've the comparison of 'the number of headlines about Clinton's emails' vs 'headlines about Trump in any way shape or form'.

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Our age of Brons is collapsing

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I know this is the third hourly ferret I have shared today but the ferrets are just really cute today.

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v i t r i o l @vitriol.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The same manufacturer, producing the same textiles the same way with fibers from the same farms, generally makes worse fabric now than 20-30 years ago. And it’s not only “worse on purpose.” This applies to all textile production, even home sewists & those TRYING to make high quality.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Some fantastic nominative determinism there!

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