iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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“how much shit can you deny yourself? cheese, gender, the fuck’s next?” truly humanity is a rich text

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 13h

This is the hell what you do when you see a woman being attacked. These two are heroes. Take notes, Fellas. The world needs more men standing up for women. Don't be a piece of shit rapist, for fuck's sake.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 07/10/2026

you're telling me this is how you built the city

just a silly photoshop of a slab with a city on it and it's up on top of a massive rock and a massive roll, like a bolder and some bread

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...

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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

there’s one true answer but it’s the correct one five minutes after game of thrones - the last true monoculture show - ended, we all collectively agreed not to talk about it again, and house of the dragon/knight of the seven kingdoms haven’t recaptured a fraction of that cultural presence

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

But the helmet has gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that work stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today:

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

A less critical but important example, my city privatised rail in the 80s and 90s. The cost per kilometre of new rail has skyrocketed, even for govt funded projects. One key factor in this is that there is not a single person in civil service who knows enough about rail to evaluate costs.

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve said this before, but it’s sort of insane that no British political party is willing to champion Games Workshop, one of the country’s most successful, British born and run companies, and would much rather simp for Palantir or OpenAI

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST, THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLIND OBLIVION. AND EVEN OBLIVION MUST END SOMEDAY. LORD, WILL YOU GRANT ME JUST A LITTLE TIME? FOR THE PROPER BALANCE OF THINGS. TO RETURN WHAT WAS GIVEN. FOR THE SAKE OF PRISONERS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS.

Death took a step backwards.

It was impossible to read expression in Azrael's features.

Death glanced sideways at the servants.

LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay “They were men who felt that The Time Had Come. Regimes can survive barbarian hordes, crazed terrorists and hooded secret societies, but they're in real trouble when prosperous and anonymous men sit around a big table and think thoughts like that.”

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Elon Musk, who is estimated to have ensured the mass deaths of 16 million people by 2030, most of whom will be children, is also history's most prolific creator and distributor of CSAM. He has basically infinite money to avoid facing any legal consequences whatsoever for his vast, vast crimes.

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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The book is Guards, Guards by Terry Pratchett. His description here perfectly prefigures the recruitment process for ICE agents :

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

You can think of it like an anti-tool, one that actually destroys your ability to solve a problem. That actively makes it impossible to learn from solving problems how to solve new problems.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate. A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.

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Warr @warrstories.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wouldn't be surprised if this extends into bigotries like islamophobia & transphobia - "I feel powerless against the wrongs of the world, but here's someone within brutalising range who I can be convinced to use as a sadistic proxy for my own catharsis"

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This makes me think that Anthropic is a truly Californian company. Yes, Silicon Valley and venture capital but also cults, woo woo and vague spirituality.

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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Retired people, esp. people who retired early, and stay-at-home parents: these are the backbone of local community stuff. Because in order for it to happen? People need to have *slack*. They need redundancy - inefficiency, by capitalist or market-oriented metrics - so they have capacity to build.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yup. Though I think the more troubling aspect is that it's not that nobody *can* stop him -- it's that those who can, don't want to, and therefore will do nothing to rein him in.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026

The UK right's current political project is to co-opt the language of antidiscrimination to make bigotry legally unimpeachable.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lately I've been thinking a lot about Terry Pratchett's "Reaper Man" and AI. He was so ahead of his time in so many ways - or maybe squarely in his time but so many missed the very obvious signposts of where we were heading. Gonna be spoilers in this thread for a 25-year old book.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the most underappreciated unforeseen consequences of the smartphone/streaming/social media era is the elimination of boredom as a key driver of creativity. Without boredom, there just isn't enough impetus for most people do go out and learn and do things.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026

one great thing about Mamdani's brand of cheerful competence is how ridiculous it makes his conservative critics look, like nobody is buying that the Mr Rogers dude who filled all the potholes is a wild eyed America hating extremist

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Aleeya @thiccgaiaa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Men can't be leaders cause once they get seduced by female spies who want information about their countries for example they fall in the trap in no time and they end up getting blackmailed by other politicians you can't even control your dick how can you control countries

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This mindset is the least we deserve from a leader. Of course it has to be turned into action. But this kind of ambition and love for the country, this kind of personal but positive vision is what takes people with you. How feeble-minded Farage and Badenoch seem. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Photo of Burnham waving to the audience in front of HOPE AGAIN backdrop

Burnham was not going to die wondering. He knew he might be delivering one of the longest suicide notes in history, but he did it anyway. Because he couldn't not do it. Better to go down remaining true to his principles than being slowly airbrushed out of history like the previous six prime ministers. Failures all. Andy was prepared to burn through all his political capital right there in Liverpool, right then. Not just for his own legacy but for a country he wanted to rebuild. It was the only way he could look himself in the mirror.
Honour his parents.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

"We were letting actual 8th graders sneak into our wild drug and sex parties at our Silicon Valley AI group house" is the most eyebrow-raising quote among many from that New York Times piece, IMO. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...

The house quickly became a hub for events. Eric Zhu, 19, a tech entrepreneur, said he used to sneak into parties there when he was about 13. No one checked anyone’s age, he said, and “it was pretty crazy.”

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.” - Emmeline Pankhurst. UK suffragette arrested, 1914 #womensart #Tuesday

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman being carried by a policeman as other men crowd around

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/09/2026

Right this is what I find so maddening. As far as I can tell, the problems LLMs are "solving" are caused by a combination of increasingly constraining application design and learned helplessness. MS office used to ship with a version of Visual Basic!

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/09/2026

graphing calculator app called "vizier" (you use it for plotting)

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...

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