iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

While you were reading other short stories, I was studying the blade. Now it's your turn, with "Endless Thirst, Undying Desert" by @alexyuschik.bsky.social. kaleidotrope.net/summer-2026/...

Once, you were as awed as your wielders when you drank blood, sweat, sweet water, wine, and that rare nectar—tears—ever eager and ever wanting. No longer. Now, without a master, you sleep and you wait for the next. For there will always be a next one, just as there will always be someone desperate enough to bear your thirst.

You are a very old and very clever knife.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the slow and careful art of getting better at noticing your cat's small bids for attention over time

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 28/09/2026

Any time we hear "AI did this and this", it's not proof programs are becoming sentient, but that the humans deploying said AI did this (which is generally failing to deploy proper sandboxing measures to prevent an AI from going against security) It's not the AI that's rogue, it's the company

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The world's got enough Ahabs. Be Jacques Cousteau. May this post find you creative and well. Peace.

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My hope is that you write no matter how the cogs turn all around you. My hope is that in your heart you can greet your own work with the word brilliant minus hubris, only love. My hope is that you're not being ground into a fine powder in the pursuit of either acclaim or other imaginary benefits.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 20/09/2026

Who was that academic who wrote about video games as art? Her take is that “What is art?” is not an interesting or useful question anymore, but that is IS useful to look at basically anything from lens of art. I have not stressed about Fine Art ever since.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2027 class of fellows! Apply by Oct. 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) at bit.ly/periplusfaq

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This video is amazing.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

It's a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn't accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

as a reader of historical romances i have to say the thing where she makes him give up his elaborate revenge plot to prove his love?? baffling. unrealistic. girl this is a group project now

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

look, I love getting feedback on my work as much as anyone, but if you are a writer who is new to submitting your stuff professionally, you've gotta understand that editors/screeners/agents/etc don't owe that to you just because you tossed your hat into the ring

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

thrilled we're getting more review sites, esp in the SFF poetry space! 🌌✨ can't wait to dive into this!!

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

@jordankurella.com just finished DEATH OF MOUNTAINS and had to say how much I liked it!! lyrical and haunting, and I still can't get over how expansive everything felt (even while I was v worried near the end for Plundered Mountain lol). thank you for making it! 🧡

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

unfortunately, listening to the same song on repeat for an hour, writing longhand, and bricking my phone really will heal me

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

[me, outlining insane grim reaper love story in starbs] man: *taps me* your journal is so pretty and well-written me: oh! yes, thank you man: it's just really nice to see someone doing reflective work in this digital age me, glancing at notebook reading "kiss & renovate hell": ah y-yes

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fear is the Project Killer.

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

how good did it feel to put "Use of AI: prohibited" on my syllabi this term, you ask? 💅 INCREDIBLY GOOD

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Greg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yayoi Kusama She made the heavens swirl.

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

no rush of power quite like filling out the "suggest a purchase" form for my local public library highkey begging them to add certain books to the Collection and then them actually ordering them

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

get your rest tonight so you can watch the moon, North American pals who aren't in especially cloudy areas! "why?" it's whimsical "who cares?" moon gets red "it's late though" this is earlier than I typically see them "so?" moon gets eaten by our shadow, have a little joy because you deserve it

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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“Calcifer, were you ever a falling star?” 🌟

Digital artwork of Sophie and Calcifer from Howl’s Moving Castle, depicting Sophie running across fluffy clouds chasing Calcifer as a falling star

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

update: "This & That" has a similar effect, so by this highly scientific process I guess intense monosyllables from Felix unlocks my productivity like a sleeper agent

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 20/08/2026

Also? Social media is real life. If you're being an ass on the internets but nice at home, you are still being an ass. This especially goes for "but they're only doing it as a public persona!" My sibling in Mithras, whatever you're willing to do for your persona is SOMETHING YOU'RE WILLING TO DO.

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You want me to go with you to Sephora? The thing that killed Aerith?

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

at the stage of burnout where the only thing that helps is watching brits frustratedly restore dilipated chateaus while my cat lies down with blissful trust right under the wheels of my spiny desk chair

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Final word for now is really, why should anyone expect epic translators to be polite & soft spoken? Politeness has little place here. This is a career in which you hold hands with the dead, share a mouth with ghosts, & try to imagine the impossible, all day long. It's messy work, folks.

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EssonnianDragon @essonniandragon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

OH MY FUCK THEY ACTUALLY DID THAT

Rabbi Yirmeya raises a dilemma: If one leg of the chick was within fifty cubits of the dovecote, and one leg was beyond fifty cubits, what is the halakha? The Gemara comments: And it was for his question about this far-fetched scenario that they removed Rabbi Yirmeya from the study hall, as he was apparently wasting the Sages’ time.

בָּעֵי רַבִּי יִרְמְיָה: רַגְלוֹ אַחַת בְּתוֹךְ חֲמִשִּׁים אַמָּה, וְרַגְלוֹ אַחַת חוּץ מֵחֲמִשִּׁים אַמָּה – מַהוּ? וְעַל דָּא אַפְּקוּהוּ לְרַבִּי יִרְמְיָה מִבֵּי מִדְרְשָׁא.

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

really excellent work here from Bona Books, both in terms of their response to an awkward and thorny situation and also their openness discussing the larger AI issue in submissions. all of it is well worth a read:

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Andy Demetra @andydemetra.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Why yes, that’s a Spain fan air guitarring an inflatable Iberico ham leg. How can you not be romantic about the World Cup.

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

today's small joy: getting a package of stickers/merch I ordered from an artist in the mail and reading their sweet note thanking me for being one of their first orders! like!! 😍 what a pleasure to support creative humans chasing their dreams!! this is in fact what I came here to do!

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

ICYMI: YOU TOO CAN ACHIEVE YOUR DREAM OF BEING A KNIFE!! experience lasting friendship and the heady thrill of transformation! may include ghosts, dragons, and *checks notes* uh an eternal cauterizing thirst but really how bad could that be NOW AVAILABLE at your fine local @kaleidotrope.bsky.social

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“Endless Thirst, Undying Desert” by Alex Yuschik

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

my short story "Endless Thirst, Undying Desert" is up on @kaleidotrope.bsky.social today!! beat this monster heatwave by curling up in some air-conditioning and spending some quality time being a knife!! 🏜️🗡️⚡ "You are the very soul of lightning. You melt sand into glass and you thirst."

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joyce’s monster 🎃 @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

this is what summer is going to be like

diagram of temple/dungeon next to town in rpg

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

one of my favorite parts of the MN State Fair was my near-constant state of mystification re: its fried food innovations

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anthony (haunted version) @panecasio.com · 30/06/2026

The Saint of Bright Doors (2023, @vajra.me chandrasekera)

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I AM IN IT!! GET HYPE GET READY

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

huge indicator of my life getting less chaotic is me actually using my planner again, like I can literally feel the tension dissipating as I write in meetings smdh

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 20/06/2026

"death of the audience" is genuinely unironically good advice for anyone who wants to make anything

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

WHAT EXCELLENT NEWS!!! IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THIS YET YOU SHOULD!!

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

i keep trying to find a chill or ironic way to post this and there is simply nothing chill about it!!! ahhhhHHHhhhhhhhh!!!!! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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‘The Everlasting’ Series Adaptation in the Works at Netflix (EXCLUSIVE)

A series adaptation of the fantasy novel 'The Everlasting' is in development at Netflix.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I don’t even follow basketball and I am not from and have never lived in NYC but this thread is genuinely lovely.

Mamdani skeets: HISTORY. First reply: MY MAYOR MUSLIM. Next: MY BAGELS JEWISH. Next: THE POPE’S ON OUR SIDE. Last: KNICKS IN FIVE.

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Alex Yuschik @alexyuschik.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

somehow, in spite of everything, I am having a really excellent time being a research mentor

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 07/06/2026

This is Bong Joon-Ho coded to me

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