iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 10h

I just think she’s neat

Riley Pinkerton, the "Rat Queen" of the band Castle Rat, dressed in a sort of Red Sonja gold chainmail bikini getup and holding a guitar onstage, eyes closed and in the groove

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Curiosity Guild @curiosityguild.org · 13/10/2026

Tickets are live for By Design, our penultimate show of the season! Five stories of plans that worked out exactly as designed, for better or (sometimes) for worse. Curated by Martin Strauss Tue Nov 3 · Public Works SF · 21+ Doors 6:30pm, show 7:30pm Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/by-design-...

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

simply (but importantly) tracking the damage done by doge & other musk-related forces -- these folks. unbreaking.org/about/

unbreaking.org

About Unbreaking — Unbreaking

Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

To everything - turn, turn, turn There is a season - turn, turn, turn And a time to every purpose under heaven. Autumn in Kelvingrove...

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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

let it not be said he couldn’t throw himself into a role

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Out today!!

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

in the meantime, someone needs to ship a true multiplayer interface for these new tools many of us now live with. it won’t change the world, but it might remind the people building that other people exist and relational work matters even when you’re ass deep in code.

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

but me? i’m hoping and planning to shift into a new focus that’s purely relational. i don’t think i’m alone in this.

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i hope and trust people are working on that, it’s a small thing that could lead to bigger changes down the road. even in the shadow of alienating software culture, small pockets of community can and will bloom when given the right medium.

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is true at deep levels of ownership and architecture, but the more surface level thing that is bugging the ever living fuck out of me, and i find frustrating daily, is the lack of a multiplayer interface for ai tooling.

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the change predates the current ai boom but has accelerated with its arrival. i don’t personally think llm tech is inherently alienating — a language-based technology could well be pushed in the opposite direction — but the current instantiation very much is.

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

staying the obvious my expertise & my joy working in tech has always been around the relational aspects: how people interact with each other through digital media; how teams come together to build things. both of these are currently being alienated, for all of us.

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

played music for the 17 year old i thought he might like he did that’s it, i won at parenting, we can call it now

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

that’s kind of what i was going for sometimes i play it more like a thriller, with secrets and dead drops sometimes i am mysterious and spooky it’s fun to see how long i can keep them going, and whether i can suss out human vs ai

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

you can’t have that, that’s my emotional support yearning

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

so this is for when you feel happy

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“why are you a descriptivist and not a prescriptivist, jamie?” “i read the relevant linguistic theories and descriptivism is obviously more correct.” “is that the real reason?” “… no” “what’s the real reason, jamie?” “… mommy issues.”

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i am gracious and forgiving in many areas of my life i am an adult woman of a certain age and i also use certain grammatically “incorrect” phrases habitually -/ not merely despite, but *because* my mother (grammar snob extraordinaire) told me off once for using them

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i also need to! eldest kid pulled off a fantastic (and sneaky) embroidered gift for youngest kid and i was in awe

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

this might be my first actual metal show?

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ughhh that sucks. also, skill issue on their part. there are so many good options around if you know how to look! maybe i’m weird but picking a place that someone will be comfortable in is an art and one of my favorite things to do

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

LORE OF THE WITCH WORLD (1979) Watercolor on Watercolor Board Early in my career I had the privilege of being assigned covers for many established authors. That list, of course, included Andre Norton, one of the grand dames of science fiction. #bookssky #art 🪐📚

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

google changed the order of the star colors in gmail and it's fukin up my whole workflow

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October issue

The cover of Vizier Monthly with a shapely big-haired woman in a loose blue gown with a trailing yellow scarf, seated in a throne-like chair. Headlines around her read:
"Some of us are hot": Urda the Fair on the Politics of Pleasure
Ladies of Miss Rule: Tyranny knows no gender!
Oh My Goddess! Simple Ways to Make Him Worship You
Poison Rings: Hot or Not?
It's Lit! Arson, Parliament, and You
So You've Been Overthrown: 10 Tricks to Get Back on Top

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anyway, Sherlock is arguably a gnostic narrative, so let's be careful about labeling the slut-shaming hipster a Manichaean icon.

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She says when kissing me, ‘“Don’t hold your breath, darling, this is not a disaster, this is kissing, don’t be afraid,” and I want to say, I am not afraid. I am trying to be worthy of it. (Worthy of the Event - Vivian Blaxell)

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

fishnet topography

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

long ago we used to live inside the folsom street fair bounds the joy of going out to breakfast while folks were still setting up wandering around and seeing the sights, then having a cozy place with a clean bathroom to return to when tired but hearing the frolics continue from our open window

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

pun not actually intended but we’ll leave it in place

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

mmm, my version of that may come in due course

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

why haven’t i taken my bike out this last year? she’s so fun and good. gotta get out on her more.

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veruca salt had a point @vsalt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

past me: yes, though only very occasionally. current configuration: lol, no.

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