iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Girls don’t want boys girls want books that scratch precisely the same itch as the Westing Game

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Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Really nice bit about a) when to ignore your critique group and b) filter effects when using experimental techniques in fiction Learning takes a long time, if you listen to surface level feedback and delete your experiments, you will not grow leave.substack.com/p/timelike-c...

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"Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves" in Reactor

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It should never be forgotten MEL BROOKS had the World Premiere of BLAZING SADDLES (1974) at the Pickwick Drive-In Theater in Burbank, Los Angeles for 250 invited guests - ALL ON HORSEBACK.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sometimes a drug trip is a profound experience where you realize that you’ve been carrying pain in your heart for years, that you can forgive yourself. Other times you come up with a concept called “gay money” (money that’s gay) and you text your friend “gay money” days later. Both are healing. ❤️‍🩹

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tantric Cosmic Egg, the fertilized world egg, divided into spheres and currents of energy, Rajasthan, 18th c. Gouache on paper, 27 x 41 cm.

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aegor ray @aegor-ray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

it’s really moving that people can connect to plants as geometric/internally logical and also wild/unruly

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"...the thin line between the inside and the outside is beginning to erode and at the moment I’m a thirty seven foot tall one thousand one hundred & seventy-two pound man inside this six foot frame and all I can feel is the pressure all I can feel is the pressure and the need for release"

A work by David Wojnarowicz, "Untitled (Hujar Dead)," 1988–1989, which includes b&w photos of Wojnarowicz's lover Peter Hujar dead in a hospital bed, collaged with other elements.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

David Wojnarowicz: "I wake up every morning in this killing machine called america & I’m carrying this rage like a blood filled egg & there’s a thin line between inside & the outside a thin line between thought & action & that line is simply made up of blood & muscle & bone..."

B&W photo of a man's face covered in rocks & dirt as if emerging from or buried within the earth

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)

A black-and-white photograph of artist & writer David Wojnarowicz, with added elements including red and yellow flames along the right side of his body, and maps over his face and neck

A photo of artist David Wojnarowicz wearing a jacket; on the back is a pink triangle and the legend, "If I die of AIDS-forget burial-just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A."

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bee hyland @wellsforboys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

idolatress.com website is up. chapter 1 on october 2. check it out.

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about idolatress

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J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"You want to be a universal language. You want to be the scent of a dream slipping through cracks in the stars." This story has me in a chokehold!! Everyone read MR_MR_CENTICORE

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal

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Liz Hand @elizabethhand.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My new book is out next month, 3+ years in the writing. Was it worth it??? Now’s your chance to let me know! So far it’s got raves from PW, Kirkus, and Booklisr, whew. It’s on pre-order at 25% off today through Friday.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 08/09/2026

Hello, I was hoping to avoid doing this, but I am asking for help paying for my hernia surgery. I need about $6800 to cover it and I simply do not have the money to cover it. If you're able, I would appreciate your help. <3 gofund.me/db73f7f90

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Donate to Help Katelyn Burns Cover Surgery Costs, organized by Katelyn Garrett

Hi, I'm Katelyn Burns. I am a self employed journalist with a newsletter and … Katelyn Garrett needs your support for Help Katelyn Burns Cover Surgery Costs

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Skellan-ton (they/he) @stelsadick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Remember that every labor law was written in blood. Thank your local union today (and every day, really)!

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SHOEGAZE COMMANDO @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This never happened, and the reason why it never happened is because people who have actually experienced a murderous paramilitary invasion and occupation of their communities in real life (NOT FROM WATCHING IT ON A SCREEN) know that this would have gotten even more of us killed.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

an open restaurant kitchen is a symptom of the surveillance state. let those boys cook in peace. what happens back there is between them & god.

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T.L. Najjar @tlnajjar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Please check out my friend Abhijeet's (@bingingout.bsky.social) amazing story that just came out in Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "Seneschal of Shattered Tor"

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aegor ray @aegor-ray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

thank you @mariahaskins.com for your kind review of my story “senescence“ for @strangehorizons.bsky.social this past may 🌸

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Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

From the bestselling author of #AHundredYearsWarOnPalestine comes a powerful introduction to Palestine for a new generation of readers. Featuring photography, maps, illustrations and definitions, #Palestine: A Short History by Rashid Khalidi is out now: tinyurl.com/m8h5uezt

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

so delighted to be in this, still wrapping my head around it :^)

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aegor ray @aegor-ray.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

me: i wish herman melville could have seen godzilla my sweetheart: well you’re watching it for him

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I don’t want main character energy. I don’t want secondary character energy. I want gone character energy. I want “heard he’s writing a novel somewhere in Puerto Rico or New York or Portugal or in a small cabin in the Pyrenees” energy. I want hermit ghost energy.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 17/08/2026

Have I mentioned how incredibly good and vivid and heartbreaking this book is because if not it is VERY MUCH all those things and other things also. Kindly request all to preorder instantly thank you

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This Independence Day, a recommendation: RAM KE NAAM, a 1991 doc about the Hindutva campaign to destroy the Mughal-era Babri Masjid & replace it with a temple to Ram. Months after the film, the mosque was destroyed by mobs on national TV. The fascists who incited this hate crime now rule India.

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Ram Ke Naam (In the name of God) - a documentary by Anand Patwardhan (1991)

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/08/2026

TWO CRABS ENTER. ONE CRAB LEAVES. TONIGHT! AT THE BUCKET

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aegor ray @aegor-ray.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

where are the trans men named barnabus

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aegor ray @aegor-ray.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

an internet friend in high school told me Ægypt would change my life - they were right 💙

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aegor ray @aegor-ray.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

first day back at hot yoga after 6 weeks at clarion and i feel like silly putty’s older bro. serious putty.

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kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Friends! I wrote my first novel! Please buy it! Out October 6th, 2026 Pre order here angryrobotbooks.my.canva.site/compendium-o... @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

name 'kuzhali manickavel' on top, young south indian girl with a spiral for a head and a melting mouth

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Liz Hand @elizabethhand.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I first read this in 2000 but it's still a great essay, with links to JC's work for the Boston Review.

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Genre Trouble

Why can’t critics take John Crowley seriously?

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mb carvalho @mb-carvalho.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

it isn't enought to know that in japan they don't do a three act structure. you need to understand what it means that *you* do, that *you* expect that to be the primary mode of storytelling, and why you ask certain questions of certain pieces and not others.

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mb carvalho @mb-carvalho.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

there is, I believe, a lot of discomfort found by people from the u.s. when, for example, magic exists without a system to it. when religion is not separated by clear lines. when ethnicity and belonging are not neatly segregated, but live side by side in a dialectical relationship

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 11/08/2026

And now that I'm back home, it's time to break out the reminder that we are in the midst of a subscription drive to increase staff and contributor pay to celebrate our 20th anniversary issue in October. Subscribe here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Text reads: We're running a subscription drive!
Clarkesworld will publish its 20th anniversary issue in October and we'd like to recognize this milestone by giving our staff and contributors a raise. Each new subscriber brings us one step closer to reaching our goal.

We are within 200 new subscribers of our target!

On the right, there is a cover of the recent issue. Clarkesworld robot looks up at the text from the bottom left corner.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026

what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/08/2026

transsexual community needs to develop a single word shorthand that means like “i understand you are being well intentioned but please do not say that fucking shit to me ever again. also you are okay and you’re good. i promise you’re good. you’re good. it’s okay. you’re good.”

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aegor ray @aegor-ray.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

!!!!! congrats to this incredibly talented writer

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aegor ray @aegor-ray.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

yaaaay omfg i can't wait to read this!

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aegor ray @aegor-ray.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

read this brilliance and give yourself something beautiful to relish 🙌🏾🙌🏾

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aegor ray @aegor-ray.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

starting the blue sky thing !!

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