iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Unironically love playing Jenga with our node dependencies and seeing which things can update without the whole tower toppling over. Nice to have a brain break while CI runs or while I wait to see the results of something.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Having finished this: 5/5 stars, cannot wait for book three, those kids are such a wonderful bunch and the power progression being as driven as it is by the acts of heroic character makes it all come together gloriously. What a gift it is to have so many awesome stories to read.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Life is great and I'm a sweaty mess and I'm a girl who's spending the night getting spun around the dance floor.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tian Zihao is transfem gender goals, god*damn*. Even has a spear-butch goddess girlfriend/Dao companion to make me ever more envious. #SkyPride

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am dealing with a stressful thing that I cannot actually hasten the resolution of and I don't want to pull the trigger on the changes I have queued to our monitoring till tomorrow so I will de-stress by going to my safe space (working on updating our React Native version) (no I'm not joking)

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Kernoel just released Book Two of their Tenets of Eden / To Save Two Worlds series (dual-world cultivation/litRPG). in the very first pages I get first some alien body horror stuff and then whiplashed by gay gay gaaaaaaaay girls and I'm like yup this is great and I'm so hyped to read it. 🌈📚 #booksky

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I exist in the same sentence as the Brontes, this is unexpected and awesome, eeeeeeeee~

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So in the Python AtProto SDK, atproto.blue/models/app/b... states that getProfile doesn't require auth, but I'm getting an "Authentication Required" error when trying to use it unauthenticated. What's up with that?

atproto.blue

app.bsky.actor.getProfile

Get detailed profile view of an actor. Does not require auth, but contains relevant metadata with auth.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do you like cozy fantasy, #booksky? HearthCon is coming up on October 3rd & 4th! There are a lot of awesome panelists talking much coziness, and indeed I'm going to be on the Cozy Fantasy Over The Rainbow panel (🌈📚) at 6PM PDT on Sunday. I love so many of these books, and it's gonna be a great time!

A promo graphic for HearthCon, the online cozy fantasy convention at www.LazyDragonBooks.com , which will run October 3rd-4th 2026.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I want you to think about the kids in your life. Maybe those kids are 8. Maybe they are 32. Do they know enough about snails? Hard to imagine anyone truly knowing *enough* about snails. Help those kids learn snailhood. Get them a Snail Facts advent calendar. SquidFacts.net.

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Intermission at a community theater production of Into The Woods and it's kind of amazing ngl, the bakers wife is unbelievably good, so is Jack's mom

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am pleased to report that skirt spinny and girls pretty.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It is several dances into Praxis Time and I'm already a mess of sweat. Life is good.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15/09/2026

Okay rich friends employed with companies that do employer matching: Please help me raise $7k to support @scarleteen.com's fall fundraiser. We're expecting 7 million visitors this year (up from 5 million!) in a climate where access to good sex ed, esp. for LGBTQIA+ young people, is dwindling.

pro.gofundme.com

Scarleteen's Raising $7,000 to Celebrate 7 Million Visitors in 2026!

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Heme too low for donating blood, alas. Despite the iron supplements! How annoying, even if it's very gender-appropriate.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I already wrote a story in which the MC is isekai'd straight into a first-adventure support party perfectly designed for his personal growth and survival and thriving, which involved a leader who's a thousand-year-old monk badass, but I realized this morning that there's even better A graul.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Holy shit that water slide was terrifying but I went down it! And the bikini stayed on.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Drum major competitions: for when you want to wear a skirt and twirl a baton but still present masc (most of them; there was a woman in the finals). Complete with knee highs and high steps & kicks. I say this with all love, more men should wear skirts and twirl batons.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Me, naive, a naif: gosh Daily Grind is so good and I wish there were more of it when if it were fanfic MrHackman: *plugs his fanfic in the Discord server* Yessssssssssss this is why people should be more shameless, how did I not know this existed~

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Happy Labor Day weekend y'all, I wish you many convivial block parties and firetrucks to keep the little kids amused.

The author, bringing a covered plate of cookies to the neighborhood association block party.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

> But I want to overthink it. ~Bret Devereaux, speaking on behalf of Us All.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

nobody warned me that the downside to uncomplicated acceptance in the PTA is that I'm at the top of the list for a major future responsibility... Wait shit no they did. I did literally ask for this set of outcomes.

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Webbonomicon @webbonomicon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Great news, #TGAB readers! From 8/31 through 9/14, Book 1 of The Gods are Bastards will be priced down to $2.99 on Kindle! That makes it a great time to start the series if you haven't, just in time for Book 3 to release on 9/29! Thanks @PodiumEntertainment ! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCH1CXQV

amazon.com

The Gods Are Bastards: A High Fantasy Western

The Gods Are Bastards: A High Fantasy Western - Kindle edition by Webb, D. D.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Gods Are Bastards: A High Fantasy Western.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is a cool set of flags to be prominently at the convention center where the district PTA is having its training convention.

A set of flags, notably with a bunch of pride flags, at a convention center

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Eyyyyyy I'm in this picture! Floss is an awesome person and I love these stories. My God they're so wholesome. Also, unusually for this genre, these are *completed*. #booksky (I'm not tagging queer for once and it feels so weird but the MCs aren't. Well, one is transhuman...)

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/08/2026

We often throw the term "Extremely Online" around a lot, often as an insult to mean someone who's slightly more Online than the speaker. So, I tried to put some philosophical handles on it. Behold: an exhaustive definition that explains why Extreme Onlineness fucked us.

liberalcurrents.com

Extremely Online: A Definition

Becoming Extremely Online is a choice: one that fewer of us should make.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's kinda funny that the only writing I've gotten done since turning in the draft to the line editor is a fanfic of the 100th Run ending. Well, two fanfics. And I'm thinking about writing a third. Fuck I loved that story. (Progress on Frozen Dreams resumes this winter.)

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Doc Impossible @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

2.34% of all Americans are trans, according to US government census data. This number absolutely POLEAXES me, and from what I can see in the source data, the number is completely and totally legitimate and based on a colossal datapool of almost 2.5 MILLION respondents. Let's dig in.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ever since I took my break here I have been reading so many more books. *So* many. Downsides: only getting Petra Parker fanart through my server members, but they're being good about posting those! I read eight Victoria Goddard books, a bunch of KU stuff (mostly cozy litRPG), MR Full Bloom, & more.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I would probably kill to have Tian Zihao brew me a cup of The Ideal Tea For Aaron because that boy could figure out how to make a non-caffeinated tea that tastes better to my anosmic ass than (full-caf) PG Tips. Modernity has utterly failed to do so.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Always fun to get an "I have never seen that before" from a medical professional. (Inability to relax my hands/wrists when my hands are empty; I have to grip something or have them on something. Inconvenient when trying to sleep.)

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15/08/2026

this fic was tagged "cultivation" but our reporter's investigation shows it was actually "litrpg." what this means for housing policy

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Was taken aback at how *fast* passport control & customs is at SEA. Like damn. Also it's like a ten minute walk from getting off the plane to getting to the bathroom, and I definitely noticed every minute of it.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Tall grass in Pokemon made so much more sense after seeing the grass in Iceland rising substantially over the height of the sheep.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The funny thing about being up at five AM to get ready to leave Iceland is that it's summer so it was full sunlight by the time I drew the curtains. I would have loved another week here but also it'll be good to be home.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I wonder why I keep getting long looks followed by a smile and a nod from ladies with multicolored hair here in Iceland. It's such a mystery.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Okay yeah the tomato farm is super cool (in every way other then temperature)

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Things I would do if I were spending another week in Reykjavik: hang out at the obviously queer board game cafe, Shabbat with whatever the Jewish community here is like, lagoon spa, more bakeries with more kinds of sourdough, go whale watching again, head up to a caldera...

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Some sort of loud double boom in Reykjavik at midnight thirty on eclipse day? Can't bode in any way, it's fine.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Reykjavik is gorgeous, the bike lanes are great, the weather has been perfect (alas for tomorrow's weather! another overcast eclipse, most likely), the rainbow flags continue to make me smile, and whale watching promises to be awesome. Life can be wonderful, y'all.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hey Jewsky, any resources for what the mundane hour-by-hour Shabbat was of the average Jewish woman over the centuries in various areas? What did they still have to do, what did they not do, how did they deal with losing 1/7 of their spinning time pre-spinning wheel?

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The downside to having a job and parenting is that I cannot just binge read Victoria Goddard all day. I mean the downside of that would be that I'd run out really fast and then be in a dissociated "holy shit that was good" fugue state but holy shit she's good at this.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Social dance is great and more of you should do it. Wheeeee skirt goes spinny!!

A social dance set list, themed for tiki night

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

@hairypenguin.bsky.social I have run into some very funny bugs in Axom Conquest but the run I just abandoned at wave 48 was probably the funniest. "You have found all the upgrades" indeed! Also it glitched out and my Drill disappeared so I couldn't lose. But I couldn't Ion Cannon, so.

A screenshot from Axom Conquest in which there's placeholder text on some upgrades.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Turns out that litRPGCon was awesome this year and I'm so glad I went. What a feral goddamn fanbase we have, and what an awesome community of professionals and hobbyists making our stories and bringing them to life! Looks like I've managed to avoid catching anything or getting con crud, even. xD

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