iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Crucial thing you must do right now is strengthen and expand your community. Serve together. Try a new activity. See each other in person. Over on the other site I am continually struck by how the rabid intensity does not actually reflect community or connection. Only way we get through this.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

continue to make things, continue to learn things, continue to share knowledge, continue to share mystery, continue to share being

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Alana F. @alanaf.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I don't know locations in my real life!!! Don't make me know them for violet and xaden!!

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

expertise? you mean my years of yearning and nights of nothingness?

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Alana F. @alanaf.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

When I rewatched Gilmore Girls last year, I realized I have always been Lorelei. Now, rewatching Sex and the City, it's glaringly obvious that I'm Miranda. Oh, 19 year old Alana. What I would tell you.

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Alana F. @alanaf.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Reading Onyx Storm on minimal sleep! Not sure totally what's happening, but that means I'll get to reread it and it will feel like the first time!!

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Alana F. @alanaf.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Parent hack: get a sister-in-law who fosters rabbits and then have your toddler watch them eat carrots. Now carrots are an approved food.

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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 27/01/2025

I don't want my appliances to be connected to the internet. I don't want them to have blinky lights or touch screen controls or be accessible by phone. All I want is for them to do the one thing they are supposed to do, and to beep less. Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Huge news. A ton of Amazon’s ongoing momentum in the book space is solely about kindle/audible. An ethical, easy-to-use alternative is great.

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This essay by Brandon Terry was published in 2018 and every year on this day I read it and discover something new. www.bostonreview.net/forum/brando...

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MLK Now - Boston Review

Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had. * RIP David Lynch

People might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of, or because of, his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn't so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

—David Lynch

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Alternative New Year's Resolutions: -age better than your exes -be healthier than your parents -sleep 8 hours a night -charge your phone outside of your bedroom -wear sunscreen every day -donate 10 items you never use -make plans with a new friend every month -dance more often -be proud of yourself

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Alana F. @alanaf.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Ty for reading my small screed

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, with more than 770,000 people counted as homeless.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

According to Barron’s, Elon Musk’s wealth increased by almost $200 billion between November 5 and December 20. That means he could give $250,000 to every homeless person in the US and still be as rich as he was on November 5.

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Kodo and Sangha! @kodoandsangha.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

If you do your search and add -AI to the end, you don’t get the garbage output

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

"We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us, to all her literary children across the writerly world," said Kwame Alexander in the statement on the renowned Nikki Giovanni’s death

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Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81

The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

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Alana F. @alanaf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I deleted my Amazon app and use a Keep note to write down the things I want to buy. If I still think I should buy the ✨thing ✨ 1-2 weeks later, then I usually do. It's not groundbreaking, but it has decreased the amount of shit I buy andddd lessened my BUYITNOW impulse

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Oh, I’m so so sorry. I gave the impression that I was looking for advice from total strangers. That wasn’t my intention. 💖

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Alana F. @alanaf.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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Alana F. @alanaf.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Can you explain? I adore Phillips but I just don't understand the comma here!! I feel lacking

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Alana F. @alanaf.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My memories often center around the type/quality of light

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Alana F. @alanaf.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

It's a different thing to process & grieve and I'm just gonna shout into this new void to say to all the other friends in my shoes that we aren't alone and we aren't inherently bad or unlovable

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Alana F. @alanaf.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I've been hearing a lot about children who go no-contact with their parents when they become adults. (See: most recent Today Explained epi, replete TikToks) & I'm here on the flip side to say that my mom is the one who decided to go no-contact with me.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A poem from Danusha Laméris's book, Bonfire Opera. #poetry #danushalaméris #books

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Alana F. @alanaf.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I don't mean to be all doom n gloom, but the number of recalls just keeps increasing (up 20% from 2020 to 2023). It's almost like government regulations and enforcement are needed to keep us alive? What a drag. Unrelated, can't wait for whichever billionaire goon ends up running the FDA 🙃

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Leo Folsom @leoebfolsom.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

me: did you not hear me, or are you just not responding when I speak? 2yo: I am not responding

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Alana F. @alanaf.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Just lamenting that Leo battled Ticketmaster to get us tix to the Lover tour (which was canceled due to *gestures* global pandemic). BUT I bet a lot of merch had already been made. Where did it all go? I want some. Is Taylor on this thing yet? Taylor, can I please have a shirt?

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