iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Friends of the Maynard Public Library @maynardlibfriends.bsky.social · 8h

Two days before our fall book sale: Sat Oct 3 from 10-4 and Sun Oct 4 from 12-3. Your book purchases support our programs. (Friends of the Library members, there is a member pre-sale on Oct 2. from 7-8:30.) Not a member, join now! www.maynardpubliclibrary.org/join-friends

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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 10h

My new favorite game: trying to submit before the submission cap closes the form. Two times now I was dithering over my cvr letter & by the time I hit submit I was too late.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12h

Kind of highlights the absurdity of the entire fucking thing that you can ritualistically try to kill a person, fail at it, then send them to the hospital for life-saving medical care. What a cruel fucking joke.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.

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Friends of the Maynard Public Library @maynardlibfriends.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The coolest event of the fall! Our fall book sale: Sat Oct 3 from 10-4 and Sun Oct 4 from 12-3. (Pssst, if you are a Friends of the Maynard Public Library member, there is a member pre-sale on Oct 2. from 7-8:30. Join now! www.maynardpubliclibrary.org/join-friends

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm so honored! The essay about the lockbox, the form I invented, is nominated for Best of the Net. This means so much!

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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thanks be to the migraine medicine. Let me sleep without pain.

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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm so tired of my role of good daughter/nice older sister. Is it ok to break the habit when I'm 50?

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.

cornellsun.com

EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

ICE are currently chasing and kidnapping immigrants in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a town that is at this point probably most famous for being the starting point for Ishmael’s journey in the great American novel Moby-Dick, which portrays a multiracial crew including many immigrants, working together

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jd for Safe Streets 🎃🚸 @thedirte.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fulfil the Earth Wind and Fire prophecy!

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 20/09/2026

day after day after day of this asshole it’s exhausting

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

‘ed sheeran nuked from orbit by ms rachel,’ i mutter to myself, descending deeper into impenetrable madness

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anti-leaf blower account @eboldy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

alan cumming tells you to vote you fuckin vote

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 15/09/2026

Sorry to break the kayfabe, but too many people didn't realize that when Mr. Rogers was telling them they're special and worthy of kindness that he was simultaneously telling everyone else in the world the same thing. That's what you were supposed to get out of it. Not that only you matter.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's Friday Night! Here we're listening to Carolyn Forche & Tracy K. Smith. There, where you are, you should read some poetry that helps you remember the work of life is worth it.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/09/2026

"As you can tell from our name, we invite you to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of exquisite writing, spiritual luminescence, and fried lasagna." (Happy birthday, Mary)

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Welcome to Mary Oliver Garden

8/17/25

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Cowards can just say: This is a made up controversy and my constituents are asking me about X. Y. Z. which are LIFE AND DEATH ISSUES? Why aren't you asking me about X, Y. and Z?

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Did Jeff Bezos get the startup funds for Amazon by looting orphanages at gunpoint? It's disputed

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/09/2026

Seth Moulton ran the campaign Third Way has been asking for and

The results chart from Massachusetts showing Markey winning nearly every city by over 40 points

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you have to ban a government agency from buying sci-fi torture gloves, then that government agency is not responsible enough to spend money on anything and should not be allowed to do so. That should be obvious.

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Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Happy Seth Moulton Loses Day to all who celebrate!

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's not the only reason he fucking sucks but all my Massachusetts homies love and support trans people and rightwing Democrats can eat shit with this losing strategy.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 02/09/2026

Look, it's either liberation for all of us, or liberation for none of us. Primary voters continue to make that clear.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 01/09/2026

He said it like last year

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 30/08/2026

The entire Massachusetts Senate Primary ignores that Seth Moulton ran for president and spent $2,516,794.74 to get 0 votes He had so little support he dropped out before *Joe Sestak* He's not some national voter whisper. He's a narcissist with above average constituent services in his house office

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A Ben Franklin erasure for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

the Curious
tho' made in a different Manner,
have the Body of a Kite;
Tail, Loop and String,
with all the loose Filaments
attracted by
the Electric

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The Notebooks Collective @notebookscltv.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

With September comes (hopefully) cooler weather and--even better--this In Conversation event with poets Nicky Beer & Catherine Pierce. So excited! thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-con...

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In Conversation: Nicky Beer & Catherine Pierce

As poets, essayists, and teachers, both Nicky and Catherine embrace a practice of play. Far from being frivolous, or antithetical to serious and complex work, play can be an essential part of the…

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The Notebooks Collective @notebookscltv.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Let's talk revision! What works for you? What doesn't? Does it intimidate you? We've invited José Angel Araguz (one of our favorite teachers) to lead a class in revision, specifically as a way to be curious. We'd love for you to join us! thenotebookscollective.com/event/revisi...

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Revision as Listening

Revision can sometimes feel like correction, judgment, or pressure to make a piece “work.” In this two-hour workshop, we’ll reframe revision as a practice of listening: a way of returning to a draft…

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I like to say that I write poems for a stranger who will be born in some distant country hundreds of years from now. -- Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hiya Dem Pollsters! Would love you to know that as a 50 yo white woman I'm all for abolishing ICE & demanding DJT return all the $ he stole & Medicare for All. Maybe let Hakeem know? Thanks!

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CourtWatchMA @courtwatchma.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Some things change, some things stay the same. Even 50 years later. BPD's Former Superintendent Eddy Chrispin in 2026 🤝 BPD Commissioner Robert DiGrazia in 1976 #bospoli #DefundBosCops #mapoli

Former Boston Police Superintendent Eddy Chrispin spent years dealing with people in crisis, first as a social worker, then, for nearly three decades, as a police officer. When he was honored last month at the City Council, he spoke from the perspective of both roles and pointed out what he described as a societal bias toward incarceration.

“We never say there’s not enough money to spend to incarcerate somebody,” he told the gathering of elected officials and community members. “But at the same time, we always lack the means and ability to invest in young people at the early stage of their lives.

“If we’re going to fix this thing that we call crime, that everybody battles with, dysfunction, whatever it is that you want to call it, we have to invest in young people. We have to invest in families, not on the back end when they, unfortunately, hurt somebody, generally, who is somebody from their communities.”

Not all police administrators are afraid to speak up on the realities of
crime. Robert DiGrazia (former) Boston Police Commissioner, said at
the Police Foundation’s Executive Forum on upgrading the police:

“There is one other thing few police chiefs are doing-leveling
with the public about crime. Most of us are not telling the
public that there is relatively little the police can do about
crime. We are not letting the public in on our era’s dirty little
secret: that those who commit the crime which worries citizens
most-violent, street crime-are, for the most part, the products
of poverty, unemployment, broken homes, rotten education,
drug addiction and alcoholism, and other social and economic
ills about which the police can do little, if anything.
“Rather than speaking up, most of us stand silent and let
politicians get away with law and order rhetoric that reinforces
the mistaken notion that the police-in ever greater numbers
and with ever more gadgetry-can alone control crimes (the
politicians, of course, end up perpetuating a system by which
the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and crime continues).”

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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Loving this conversation between Dorsia & Vincent on joy as resistance, water as a right, community & mutual aid. @notebookscltv.bsky.social

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The anthology and broadside bundle features an excerpt from Molly Spencer’s essay “My Rivers”! 📚❤️🎉 Back our project here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/riv...

A river runs through it anthology cover and What can be said of rivers and poetry broadside (pink and teal) with the text:

What can be said of rivers and poetry
That language seems to remember itself best in the river of poetry: breaks free of, spills over these glinting flashes: the artificial, superficial, imposed, official, political, commodified, transactional, and fascist constraints of its use.
That to rush a poem is to rush a living thing: to rush a poem is to rush a river. As if a river could be rushed instead of rushing.
Molly Spencer

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Lisbeth White (she/her) @earthmaven.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Pretty excited to be in the company of these exquisite writers who love water like I love water 💦 💙

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

READ THE WHOLE FUCKING ARTICLE AGAIN Build cognitive endurance again Sacrifice ease to not support environmental racism again Rely on your own skills and limits again.

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Did we mention that we're open for submissions? ... We're open for submissions for Glass: A Journal of Poetry. We never charge a fee and there's no caps. Hope to get the chance to read your work! www.glass-poetry.com/journal/subm...

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Submission Guidelines | Glass: A Journal of Poetry

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