iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Anyway we are now looking up state dinosaurs and are betrayed. What the fuck. Also a bunch of states don’t have a state dinosaur?

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 4h

Early voting and not stressing about it is the best. Also as someone who phone banks they update the lists daily and you are one less person to call.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 13h

Roommate is like, you’ve ruined everyone’s algorithms, all we get is Frankenstein content now. I apologize. She’s like, you’re not sorry. And she’s right, I’m not sorry. Me and Victor, dragging our households after us w/o their consent.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Everyone says they’re open to feedback from the resurrected corpse of William Shakespeare, but just wait. You’ll get tired of his mummified, judgmental ass eventually.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am being held hostage. They refuse to go inside.

Black cat and black and white cat lying on an upstairs deck next to the world’s saddest container of cat grass.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This was such a fun conversation! Wickhills is such a cool book to get to ask a million world build questions about and listening to Premee talk about writing is one of my favorite things.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For years my parents were like are you scared FOR the mermaid? No Are you scared OF the mermaid? Also no In retrospect I think it was social anxiety. I was not fucking prepared for a convo with a mermaid that had just come up through the shower drain. There is no script for that.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Did NOT like it when they opened the closet at the beginning of Labyrinth and it was full of little guys. I was like oh I’m not watching this. Also some movie where there was a mermaid in a tank & for years I was scared that a mermaid would come up the shower drain (could not tell you why)

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David Naylor @profcedar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do the thing y'all. I have been yelling at assorted people in my life to check theirs for weeks now.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Top tv shows but make it about birds: #9 Birbs With Enthusiasm (Great Egret chicks excited about something) #birds 🌿

Three large white egret chicks stand in a big nest. Two face the camera with their beaks open, looking like they’re exclaiming loudly over something.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Currently rereading Romantic Outlaws, the joint bio of Mary Wollestonecraft and Mary Shelley but the problem is I’ve entered the point in their lives where it’s just, like, straight bummers and it’s not great for morale.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have heard it bc there’s a bardcore cover and my partner was explaining the OG song to me so I looked it up. (She had not heard it either, just knew about it)

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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

💖🤎🧡 love is love 💖💚💛

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New chair = new box, which is always a good day for Penny.

Orange cat peering out from the shadows of a cardboard box about four times her size.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like I have so many friends who have already lost jobs and so many who will and so many whose kids are just fucked. And it’s probably a done deal but maaaaybe something happens in November that’s enough to change it. The speed at which the state has turned against public ed is honestly unreal

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Given that the school district I grew up and worked for for six years is almost certainly getting destroyed next year unless there’s a radical shift, I super try not to think about it.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I worked at a fancy school for two years with a free salad bar, so I made myself get the tomatoes every day and eat them first. I don’t know that I’d say I *like* them now, but I will occasionally eat them voluntarily. Not the big sliced ones tho, those just taste like sadness.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Weirdly moved and inspired by this kind of creative manifesting ngl.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Have been informed that it is outside time and that I’m gonna be sitting on this patio for a while longer.

Orange cat in a low-sided cardboard box staring up at the camera.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just… I think about this all the time and I’m never over it. Why must we live in IP hell but we can’t have any of the things had actually work?

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

No one is concerned. The general consensus is that if they see a snake they will simply leave. I can’t even blame this on growing up in Washington bc roommate is also from Texas.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Our roommate just also got it wrong?! None of us will survive in the wild.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Horrified bc I just made my partner recite the poem to check that she knew it and she GOT IT BACKWARD. Her: I’m great, haven’t died of a snake yet.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My partner and I were discussing this after the AI geese (bc their hair was so much lusher than his) and came to the conclusion that some of it is maybe that he just looks so unwell that having his hair look better would draw attention to how bad he himself looks?

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thrilled to discover, via an AI spam email, that I am apparently the author of M. A. Carrick’s Eye of Leviathan. How cool that I wrote such a great book. Pity that I’m apparently not marketing it correctly.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Having spent my entire career watching vampiric stupid ass ed tech eating up budgets and replacing better options, it feels really, really good to watch people successfully pushing back against AI.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Not super gifable and not my real answer but Boyhood came out that year and it’s set in the exact place where I grew up and I’m the exact same age as the older sister (w/ a younger brother) and wow that was trippy as fuck.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sharing a bathroom with Penny is challenging because her favorite hobby is staring at herself in the mirror with the lights off. She’ll do it for ages and if you turn the light on she gets SO SAD.

Orange cat hunched on the bathroom sink staring at herself with her face pressed up against the mirror.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Not to be dramatic or anything but there’s really enough going wrong in my life rn without my kobo refusing to sync with my Libby app.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I read the Goblin Emperor right at the beginning of grad school, as I was starting student teaching, and I could feel myself imprinting on it in real time. It was a book about being overwhelmed and trying your best at a new job and it was so exactly the thing I needed in the moment.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I love that book so much and it’s such a wonderful novel to have a longstanding relationship with too. It’s long enough I only read it every few years and I feel like my understanding of it shifts each time.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I was not emotionally prepared for bad things to happen to the mushroom in this children’s book. Wtf

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

When I was in high school I got a Netflix dvd description and used it to watch Lost and I was telling some adult at church about it and she was like “wow what a waste of time, do you know how many TED talks you could watch instead?” And tbh I think that is the primary TED talk vibe.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tbh, my main thing about Dolly Parton is that if I had achieved that level of success, I also would have built a theme park. Relatable shit.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Tracks. Whereas I think this was probably in the first five fics anyone recommended to me? Like maybe the first three? I can’t imagine why it didn’t get me into fanfiction. This actually is contextualizing a lot of my childhood lol

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Think it’s gotta be generational bc I never really read fic, was not really in online HP fandom spaces, & def recognize this fic. I think due to IRL references/recs. I do not enjoy the way we all have to be forever chased by the worst excesses of our childhood cultures, now somehow worse.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Also a useful strategy bc often it’s in line w/ the way we’ve been socialized, so it’s a good strat in high stress situations where it’s easy to fall into old patterns.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Omg this is my partner in 30 years when we retire

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Every day I live in fear something will happen to my Honda Fit. At that point I assume I will just abandon society and go live in the woods.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Often when I hear other teachers talk about using AI, they aren’t talking about outsourcing grunt work so much as outsourcing student work. Formatting, drawing, cutting etc. that I would usually have my kids do. Fine motor practice, processing time, etc. that is good for kids IMO.

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LucyParkerPaul🦉🇦🇺 @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A young, inquisitive Powerful Owl at dusk in a Brisbane park yesterday. #birds #wildoz #brisbane

Young Powerful Owls track everything that moves, often head-bobbing to get a sense of their surroundings.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Real live footage of me trying to build an agent list for querying.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’ve definitely seen that. I’ve also seen pple who haven’t met those goals & want to lash out. Real walkable communities feel so impossible that wanting it feels like an extravagance. Also easier to blame pedestrians & bikes for how much driving in a city sucks.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Tbh I think a lot of it is denial. Living in a walkable place is objectively so much better and also inaccessible to a lot of pple and so they have to reject it vehemently. Once you see the hell of car dependency it consumes you. Better to hate walkability.

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