iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Choosing to believe there is an S in today’s spelling bee because the NYT is celebrating something we do not yet know to be confirmed

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

b, watching the wonderfully weird world of gumball: i like mr. small bc he's a quaker like us. us: what?? there's a quaker character?? how do you know he's a quaker? b: he wears a rainbow shirt. duh.

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Ten years of marriage with my beautiful wife!!! When I was buying these roses our 7yo asked “will you and Mama dance together since it’s your anniversary and you’re in love?”

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Rebecca Mott @rebeccamott.fit · 22/06/2025

If I post these now, maybe l remember to do a longer thread on disability and crafting next week 🪡🧵

I'M ACHAOS CRAFTER. I usually have several WIPs going at once. Sewing, knitting, crochet, and usually multiples of each. What I work on depends on what I need from the making experience.

What I need from making changes from day to day. Physically, a repetitive stress injury or other pain flare-up might mean I can't knit, but I can sew. Or vice versa. Mentally, sometimes I need a challenge to take my mind off things, and want to crochet a lace with several different stitches. Sometimes I need to zone out and just fall into rows of knit stitches.

My sensory needs change, too. Sometimes my hands want to touch wool, other times they want to work with cotton.
I might leave a project for months before it becomes what I need again. But having multiple projects means I'll always have something to work on.

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

This past week, still very imprecise & unscientific: 26 house finches 3 northern cardinals 1 blue gray gnatcatcher 3 goldfinches 15 brown headed nuthatches 11 white breasted nuthatches 1 Carolina wren 1 eastern towhee 8 chipping sparrows 1 song sparrow 1 great crested fly catcher 2 cowbirds

Picture of one of my feeders, a small cedar house shaped thing with two glass windows

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 18/06/2025

new @teenvogue.com in our Overlooked History series: in 1995 Rusty Mae Moore and Chelsea Goodwin bought a house together in Park Slope, inspired by the 1970s S.T.A.R. House. Transy House became a shelter for trans people for 13 years. Sylvia Rivera lived there at the time of her death in 2002.

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This Trans Couple Bought a House in the '90s. It Became a Home for Unhoused Youth

Sylvia Rivera was living in Brooklyn's Transy House when she died in 2002.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.

She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

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Garrett Merz @garrettmerz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Pollinator is such a chill ass job. I hope I’m a pollinator in my next life

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 16/06/2025

A little bird told me that @theflytrapmedia.com's pitching window for freelance writers might be opening soon for stories in Q4 2025 and Q1 2026. Start thinking about your stories now! And a reminder that we ONLY accept pitches through our pitching form, NOT through email.

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The Flytrap

Want to write for The Flytrap? Read our contributor guidelines and submit a pitch here.

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The bird tracker on the window is less easy to see this week, sorry, I used blue permanent ink to make it a week long chart mostly because kiddo really wanted to participate. He’s now able to identify a house finch and a cardinal!

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 17/06/2025

Alsooo we loved @rebeccamott.fit's writing so much we made these stickers for #Pride: theflytrapmedia-shop.fourthwall.com/products/que...

A graphic that says QUEER PEOPLE ARE MAGIC

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 17/06/2025

Happy Flytrap Tuesday! Today we have a freelancer piece by @rebeccamott.fit on the queer joys of being a bra fitter in Atlanta. Get ready for some wholesome gay reading time: theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/queer-joy-...

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Queer Joy! at the Bra Store

How the lingerie boutique where I worked as a bra fitter became an intimate space for shared queerness.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 16/06/2025

We have a super queer post coming out tomorrow (pun intended). Why not subscribe today & get your GAY post in your inbox tomorrow? We recommend the FlyBys for $6.66/month if you're tight on money, or Friends of the Flytrap at $65/year if you got that cash on you! theflytrap.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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Bringing Back the Feminist Blog

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

My wife @rebeccamott.fit has an INCREDIBLE, moving, gorgeous essay about queerness, joy, and bras out this week on @theflytrapmedia.com. Follow the link below to subscribe so you can read!! Here what I looked like reading her article last week theflytrap.beehiiv.com/subscribe

close up of me, a cis woman with short, pink hair and black heart-shaped glasses, in a pink shirt (different pink), making a little pouty face with tears in my eyes because my wife's writing has moved me so immensely. there's a bug bite on my forehead in this picture, i just noticed

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 16/06/2025

aaand there will be two more gift links this month. Reminder that to keep us running, we need paying subscribers. So if you like this content and want to support us, you can subscribe here: theflytrap.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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Bringing Back the Feminist Blog

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

@lutimestwo.bsky.social what are the odds of y'all releasing an album of every song alan has created for terrestrials? because sometimes i do just need to scream along to "we're just rats! we're just rats!"

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Rebecca Mott @rebeccamott.fit · 13/06/2025

If you're in Atlanta, you can learn more about my mending and alterations services at wearitout.fit. I love working with fat people and queer people to help you feel comfortable and confident in the clothes you own.

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Wear It Out! Welcome

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Rebecca Mott @rebeccamott.fit · 13/06/2025

You can book a virtual bra fitting here! beacons.ai/rebeccamott We'll talk about past issues you've had, what your ideal bra would do, and any other issues or concerns you have. I'll then send you a list of 5-10 bras I think would be best for you, with specific size and fit recommendations.

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Rebecca Mott @rebeccamott.fit · 13/06/2025

I'm a grad student working on my Master's in Library Sciences at LSU, focusing my research projects on the role public libraries play in the lives of queer youth. I pay the bills with virtual bra fittings online, mending/alterations in Atlanta, and am dipping my toes into freelance writing!

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Four days of very unscientific bird tracking: 6/10 1 chipping sparrow 1 eastern bluebird 1 blue gray gnatcatcher 4 house finch 1 eastern towhee 2 Carolina wren 6/11 3 house finch 1 chipping sparrow 2 goldfinch 1 cardinal 1 blue gray gnatcatcher

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This little guy started visiting yesterday and i had the hardest time id-ing him because of the beak and I realized this morning he’s a brown headed nuthatch (classic squeaky toy call) with a beak deformity. I love him

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

yesterday morning we heard our 7th yell "i did it!!! i've been trying to learn and i finally did it!" and my wife went to the living room and asked what he learned and he said "ARMPIT FARTS!" and farted his armpit at her

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Pigeon Post @pigeonpost.shop · 09/06/2025

A USPS logo for every state bird!! 🐦✉️

Tea towel featuring USPS postal boxes with state bird designs- birds other than the iconic eagle.

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Noah @bedmounds.com · 10/06/2025

A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Ok but if I said that Nicole Scherzinger’s performance of As If We Never Said Goodbye represents how nuance is getting lost in the theater as much as it is everywhere else

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

another thing about not having a phone is no ebird or merlin so today's birding list is all analog babyyy. i didn't even have my bird guide so these are just the ones that i could identify confidently #birdsky

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

My lovable cutie pie wife is getting surgery tomorrow & if you can help out by donating to our meal train that would be neat! mealtrain.com/134oq5

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This is a thread of cool mushrooms I’ve seen

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I get so excited every time I get to use the word laity on a spelling bee. No reason it’s just a cool word

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

“When I’m a grown up I’m going to write a movie called Middle Finger: Attack of the Beast” absolutely out of nowhere

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Thought that “every breath you take” by the police was by the actual police as in cops and that it was a warning not to do crimes

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Look at who I added to my life list today!!

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

open.spotify.com/track/3c2kMi... in the song "groovin'" by the young rascals there's part towards the end where the song goes "life could be ecstasy, you and me endlessly" that i spent my life hearing as "you and me and leslie" and i never questioned it. i was like, cool song about a threesome

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

There is a rose breasted grosbeak by my apartment building and I can hear but cannot find it because my binocular skills are very bad

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

today i am mourning the hyperspecific extremely fun corner of one direction fandom in which i once participated because i'm never going to have a fandom experience like that again and that makes me kind of sad. wonderection forever

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

We stayed on Lake Ocoonee this past weekend and I added soooo many birds to my life list!!

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

good morning. @heatmap.news won a national magazine award last night for Decarbonize Your Life — a landmark explanatory journalism section that walks you through ways ordinary consumers can reduce their carbon footprints. now’s as good a time as any to reshare DYL!

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Decarbonize Your Life

A complete guide to making your everyday decisions count in the fight against climate change.

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Ennui Doofen @ennuidoofen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I think I'd rather have a social network that's all about giving crows gifts and posting pics of the gifts they bring in return

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Walter Groggins. I’m so in love with @vicmmic.bsky.social

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This morning I was up at 3am wondering if things like autism and adhd are found elsewhere in the animal kingdom

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Continuing to have a great time ignoring just about everything in the whole world other than like my wife and child and the firefighter show

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Zoonotic is a word, actually, @nytimes.com, or were you not there in 2020

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I don’t want to work. I want to think about my little guy. My friend Buck

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Something so special to me is that B is really really obsessed with this Radiolab for Kids/Terrestrials episode about lichen that ends with a song featuring Laura Jane Grace, the lyrics of which are “we grow together better than alone” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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The Fuzzy Ruckus: The Power of Lichen

Podcast Episode · Radiolab for Kids · 10/31/2024 · 27m

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Britt @whineosaur.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

i am in so deep with those goddamn firefighters. on the bright side, their whole thing is much lower stakes than my usual ship fare so instead of playlists where every song is about suffering, every love song makes me think of them

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