iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kevin @kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This is the ninth shooting by ICE since September (I did not know that). All of them were into vehicles.

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Deadly Minneapolis Encounter Is the 9th ICE Shooting Since September

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

where are my Ted Chiang stans to back me up on this?

attempted a pangram for the NY Times spelling bee: HEPTAPOD

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

*mom attempting to gentle parent during the apocalypse* 'I see that you're upset the zombie ate your friend, but that doesn't mean we hit' 'be careful! I mean,' *struggles to be specific* 'we run with the machete's cutting side down!'

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

you should start your day with excerpts from Virginia Woolf’s diary www.newyorker.com/magazine/195...

SEPTEMBER 25. Yesterday morning I made another start on “The Moths,” but that won’t be its title. . . . Who thinks it? And am I outside the thinker?

DECEMBER 26. I wish I enjoyed it more. I don’t have it in my head all day like “The Lighthouse” and “Orlando.”

1930:

JANUARY 12. I can now hardly stop making up “The Waves.” . . . What is essential is to write fast and not break the mood.

MARCH 17. The test of a book (to a writer) is if it makes a space in which, quite naturally, you can say what you want to say. As this morning I could say what Rhoda said.

APRIL 9. It is bound to be very imperfect. But I think it possible that I have got my statues against the sky.

APRIL 29. The greatest stretch of mind I ever knew. . . . I suspect the structure is wrong. Never mind.

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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This is a terrific book! 👇

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

an open marriage gets complicated when two lovers become pregnant at the same time—read the first chapter of Likeness here!

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SHR Exclusive: First Chapter LIKENESS by Samsun Knight

SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

🧵GAZA I just donated to Gaza Soup Kitchen ⬇️ Pls join me if you can. If you're Jewish, please also join me & 20,000+ Jews ⬇️ in calling for an immediate end to Israel's food blockade on Gaza. Signers include hundreds & hundreds of rabbis & two of my heroes, Mandy Patinkin & Letty Cottin Pogrebrin.

foodaidforgaza.org

Jews for Food Aid for Gaza

Jewish people support food aid for families in Gaza and an immediate end to the Israeli government’s food aid blockade. #JewsForFoodAidForPeopleInGaza

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

mom-brain is sick bc how did I successfully forget a major spoiler to The Last of Us

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

Illustration of a squirrel carrying a pile of books, walking towards a tree hollow full of books.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Girls in your area Girls in proximity to your location Girls approaching your coordinates Girls have breached the perimeter Girls inside the containment zone, repeat, girls inside the

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

uh here's a corner of my house. thought the light was nice

dappled light on a teak built-in with a modernist, abstract primary color painting, a stack of speculative fiction books (also in primary colors!), and a noguchi paper lantern.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

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Jeff @gojeffgo.com · 13/05/2025

kind of regretting teaching my parrot the Tears in Rain monologue

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Kári Tulinius @kattullus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

Screenshot of a single question and answer from interview in the Times Literary Supplement with Ursula K. Le Guin. Here is the quote:

If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be?

In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 22/04/2024

IfNotNow has released a Passover haggadah which you can download here: cdn.sanity.io/files/14yk6f...

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Two detectives came to my door & my first assumption was that it was to arrest me for my crimes? What crimes, Amanda?

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

mickey 17: the rare movie to center what I can only describe as 'wholesome horniness'

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Anti Defamation League is so right, if there’s one thing that makes me feel safe as a Jew, it’s people with unpopular political opinions getting abducted by the government

A tweet from the ADL:

We firmly believe there should be swift and severe consequences for those who provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations, incite violence in support of terrorist activities, or conceal their identities in order to harass and intimidate Jewish individuals and institutions with impunity.

We appreciate the Trump Administration's broad, bold set of efforts to counter campus antisemitism
— and this action further illustrates that resolve by holding alleged perpetrators responsible for their actions.

Obviously, any deportation action or revocation of a Green Card or visa must be undertaken in alignment with required due process protections.
We also hope that this action serves as a deterrent to others who might consider breaking the law on college campuses or anywhere.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2025

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. propub.li/43487Tj

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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Jack Saebyok Jung 정새벽 @daybreakjung.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Full image of the cover for Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus, my debut poetry collection from Black Square Editions. Edited by John Yau and managed by Margaret Galey. Cover art by Eunha Kim with design by @shannacompton.bsky.social. Grateful for blurbs from Kim Hyesoon and Mark Levine.

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES! I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books. (details below)

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Haven't worn hard pants in months so here I am writing about fashion! (but actually writing about writing, ofc)

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the many deaths of personal style

our screentime is telling on us

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

“I wrote to you of Benjamin's three stages of prose writing: the musical, the architectonic, and the textile. So first you have a song and at the end you have a piece of cloth and in between there's something like a shelter.” —Sofia Samatar, OPACITIES

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

my most popular substack of 2024! here’s to all you weird and horny writers out there:

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how to f*ck an alien

a 10-step guide

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

(why not work for free, I guess) tense in English-written works shouldn't always be measured in grammatical terms but can be used as a way to express a character's lived reality or as a way of expressing a disrupted self

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

need to bottle this and ship it to the whole community (in a not-passive-aggressive way)

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

We're back! 📚 No agent? No published book? Our editors can’t wait to hear from you! Our submission period for debut novels will take place next month, Jan 11–12! Learn more about what we are looking for and how to submit your work: tinhouse.com/book-submiss...

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

pls look at this house, the menacing vibe, the scalp sconces, the ball sack on tenterhooks. we need to bring back "yuppie" (derogatory) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/r...

a monotone grey living room with a collection of uncomfortable furniture including a standing lamp that is ready to accuse you or eat your face and what appears to be a ball sack on tenterhooks

a charcoal grey kitchen with spiked counter chairs, chain mail curtains, and a vase of flowers in medusa- fashion

the couple posed with a dog statue, in front of a "scalp" sconce (it looks like how it sounds)

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Lyra, observing from her perch above the writing desk, waits for the moment to pounce on my head

calm office scene in neutral tones, featuring electric kettle and narrow windows. Perched on the lofted bunk bed, a calico cat poses (only a little menacingly)

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

💀 short substack about Buehlman's Between Two Fires & retracing the trauma plot 💀 amandakallis.substack.com/p/can-trauma...

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can trauma plots forgive?

returning to the root

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

wrote some thoughts on worldbuilding, in conversation with two pieces I haven't been able to get out of my head lately: Ted Chiang's lecture "On Being a Cyborg" & @vajra.me 's essay "The Lone and Level Sands" (vajra.me/2023/05/06/t... )

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the tomb of the unknown cyborg

Imagined Communities, our global worldbuilding exercise

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

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the tomb of the unknown cyborg

Imagined Communities, our global worldbuilding exercise

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 25/03/2024

This excerpt from a school district review of A Wizard of Earthsea is actually a fairly typical reaction to Ursula's work early in her career. As she once said, any original author has to teach people how to read her.

Unusual in its plot, abstruse in its meaning, this beautifully written book will have limited appeal.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

I'm currently out of the office. Please deposit all messages in my Æon Flux Molar Hatch and I'll be in touch ASAP.

The scene from Æon Flux where they pass a secret message via a tiny scroll deposited from one agents tongue into another's tiny molar hatch.

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

The Shai-Hulud implies the existence of the Extrovert-Hulud.

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

"..one of us should be allowed to enjoy this night, and since I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t enjoy it if Ryan Gosling started ardently making love to me or my book hit the New York Times bestseller list or everyone who had ever doubted me groveled at my feet..." lol oksana 4eva

joylandmagazine.com

Black Sun, Incinerate Me | JOYLAND

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

bene gesserit witches are prob great at pilates

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

yes: "few worldbuilding projects have the space (or the interest) to investigate the depths of historical-psychological complexity, ambiguity, unknowability, and irreducibility that might be seen in the edit history of a single contested Wikipedia page"

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 25/02/2024