iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

“Curtis Evans stood directly in front of the gate with an American flag. The 65-year-old Evanston resident heard about the first protest on social media and came to represent “the ideals that our country stands for.” “None of us have ever done this before,” he said…

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Hey yall. So I’ve been less active on here for a while now (and was never very active to begin with) due to an ex and their current friend group watching my known socials, or at least the expectation and fear of that, living in my head. I’m not gonna get into that and I won’t be naming names (cont.)

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Miss Black Valkyrie | Comms Open @missblackvalkyrie.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Artist! Quote with your night art! ✨️

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 15/09/2025

All our stories are FREE right now, but that won't always be the case (we gotta make money) so read them now! There are so many good ones to choose from y'all. Like this @janelleblarg.bsky.social comic that I love SO much: www.coyotemedia.org/the-punks-vs...

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The Punks vs. The Pigs

An illustrated history of a lesser-known battle in Berkeley’s People’s Park.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Stop calling it "political violence" in ways that suggest this is something new. Politics are almost always violent. OUR politics have always been violent. The words you are searching for are "political assassination" or "deadly terrorism." Which are also not new, but are certainly less common.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

In June, a Democratic state rep in Minnesota was murdered, and a state senator was shot. And a couple of days later, Trump said he wouldn't phone Gov. Walz, calling him "whacked out" and "a mess"

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Goddamn but Chicago is pretty

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

PRAY HARDER. 😭😭😭

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Ahahahah read a whole book in one night last night cuz the start of this semester has been SO chaotic. Then of course had Other readings in the morning (almost knocked out then) and forgot to eat before I caught the bus but was like “ok I’ll hit the vending machine” but they DIDNT FIX IT ALL SUMMER—

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

About to finish this Labor Day deep-clean just in time for a rain storm and OH it’s delicioussss

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

It’s not a “gotcha” if I want an actual answer “ I need him to have a policy that doesn’t destroy homeless people” Is not a “purity test” It’s a request , making you say you don’t believe in that isn’t a trap Because here’s the thing? You could.

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Been back on my stardew grind as someone who has very little stardew experience cuz I kept starting over a bunch and never made it past year one for AGES, but guess who’s on year 2 now baybeeee we are Progressing

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Had a day full of Stuff after a week full of Things which meant I only had One Hour to write this 1000 word essay, and I SURE DID IT. But at the cost of finding out After doing all of that… That I didn’t even need to write it. There are 7 chances to write one of these essays and we only need 3 total

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 27/08/2025

There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.

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✨🔮 Riley O'Malley Commissions OPEN🔮✨ @therileyomalley.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Get in your orders now and I'll have them done by tonight

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

all im saying is if we start saying we think the first one is more woke we can really fuck with their heads

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I'm a modestly successful indie author and the absolute most I've ever made in one year from writing is around $2k. Extremely successful indie authors & Big 5 agented authors do a bit better than this, but not much-- I think the average comes out to like $7k per year?

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

tw: self-harm, suicide here's the single-paragraph reason you should not be putting ChatGPT into a school curriculum

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I know it’s fucking Tough in a fucked up family dynamic to hold on to sibling relationships in a healthy way, and for a long time I Did lose that connection to my siblings/took a step away. But since coming back to work on it some more… idk man I’m just constantly hit with how glad I am to have em

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

First day back at class tomorrow, let’s goooo

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Got my first sunburn since moving here (despite applying 100spf THRICE) and OOH OWW OWIE

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Very funny to me that my brain keeps going “you don’t have OCD, you’re faking that.” And then days like today happen where my brain decides my sleeping drunk friend is Dead/Dying in my passenger seat and it wants me to run through what Exactly I would need to do if she seizes/her heart stops beating

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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

create ------------------ bonus comics: patreon.com/nhoj

4 panel comic

P1: a right hand draws a wavy stroke on a sketchbook page. A caption box up top reads "draw"

P2: the word "CREATE" dominates a panel with a black background, forming in the negative space. Various small shapes surround it.

P3: a lone simplified humanoid figure is on the bottom right of a another panel with a black background. A thought bubble forms above their head, the words "if not for others, then at least for yourself" within.

P4: The Earth dominates the bottom of the panel, with a sliver of space above it. Clouds swirl and boil across the Earth, which is the only element on the entire page coloured a pink-red. A caption box above reads "now, more than ever"

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Wild how I will forget how good Linkin Parknis and then I listen to em again and go “GODDAMN”

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 16/08/2025

the phrase "decolonially trained AI" is giving me agita

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𓃫 yocholol 𓃫 @yocholol.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

in a lonely world, i found you!

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Rifter Dask @flashfennec.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

No lie, this calling campaign is one of the most effective levers we have at the moment. If we sustain the campaign through the financial quarter we'll be sending a strong message that this administration is bad for business. Please continue making censorship unprofitable.

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Anything can be a trans allegory if you try hard enough (tboy version)

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 08/11/2024

A comic about making comics (the alt text took longer to write than the comic did to draw * I drew this a few years ago)

A 14 panel comic, a top tier of five panels shows a drawing of me, and in each of the subsequent panels the drawing of me gets simpler and simpler, with a cartoony drawing, a crude cartoon, then a stick man, then a smily face then a simple blob. Each time I'm saying "Hi"
Tier two, panel one, the smiley face is sad and saying "PJ! I can't draw!" "How can I make comics"
Panel 2, me as a simple cartoon "Oh that's ok, comics work..."
panel 3, me as a very crudely drawn figiure my head tilted at a funny angle and Im saying "No matter your skill level"
Panel 4 more simplistic drawing of me holding a ruler "As long as you can (sorta) draw a straight line " "(I use a ruler)"
Panel 5 even more simple drawing "And a bubble"
next (final) tier
Panel 1
A simple circle with two dots for eyes and a small line for a mouth and a balloon coming from his mouth saying "People can be quite forgiving about the artwork"
Panel 2 the round simple face meets a spikey simple face, spikey says "I'm not - I like GOOD artwork" me - "Oh"
Panel 3 me (still a smiley face, but straight line mouth ) I have two stick arms raised up with little stick fingers and I'm saying "...Sorry..."
Spike says "Bah"
Panel 4 (last panel) Me, slightly better drawn (but only just) "OK - not everyone is quite forgiving about art" "BUT I AM" "Good luck!"

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The shower after a day of sweaty chores is so fucking peak bro

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I have this design up for sale for $80! They will be covering my doctor’s visit today.

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

My sibling, literally within seconds of learning about bottom growth: “can it get long enough to fuck yourself??” Me: “I?? Don’t know???” My mother, holding the phone up with it on speaker for said sibling’s interruption, who I had originally called to talk to about thrift shopping successes: 👁️👄👁️

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Mix The Satyr (VTuber) @mixthesatyr.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I'm not entering, I already have a shillelagh that works fine, but I wanna share in case anyone needs one! Bibi makes amazing aid devices and they're totally worth it! <3 I'll get compression gloves from them some day! ^^

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It’s my ANNIVERSARYYYYY and we STAY popping bottles about it cuz holy FUCK I love this goofy little guy (who is currently making us coconut shrimp at 2am to celebrate because they are an angel)

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Every single time I walk a dog in this neighborhood I make a friend, it’s wild and I love it here 😭💖

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Are you even married if you don’t have recurring characters that you and your spouse do bits with?

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.

Thanks to the control it exerts over Palestinian telecommunications infrastructure, Israel has long intercepted phone calls in the occupied territories. But the indiscriminate new system allows intelligence officers to play back the content of cellular calls made by Palestinians, capturing the conversations of a much larger pool of ordinary civilians.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 06/08/2025

Zohran Mamdani just released a statement about Cuomo working with Trump:

NEW YORK, NY – Today, the New York Times reported that Andrew Cuomo is coordinating with President Donald Trump ahead of the upcoming New York City mayoral election to help billionaires buy this race and steal it from the very New Yorkers on the frontlines against Trump's authoritarianism. Andrew Cuomo tried to hide this from the public because he knew how damaging it would be. In response, Zohran Mamdani released the following statement:

“Andrew Cuomo has spent his career governing for the powerful and prioritizing his own self-interests over those of the people he was sworn to serve. This is not just a shady backroom deal by a cynical politician, it is disqualifying. It is a betrayal.

Donald Trump is sending masked agents to rip our neighbors off the street, gutting the social services so many New Yorkers rely on, and threatening to deport me for having the audacity to stand up to him and his billionaire friends. The job of New York City Mayor is not to be jester for a wannabe king, it is to protect the people of this city.”

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VK [RETIRED] @veridianknight.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Dog parenthood warms the soul cuz this morning I was woken by a little man snurfling at my face for a cuddle after going for a walk with his other dad, and so my first words today were “…Why are your feet wet?”

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Jack The Vulture @jackthevulture.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

goats are so shaped

Digital drawing of a brown and white goat standing and looking over its shoulder to the right. Behind it is a row of corn and a blue summer sky.

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