iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 12/02/2026

The daily existence of millennials is laughing while crying. On special occasions, we alternate screams of laughter and despair.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 11/02/2026

I've just realized. Banks used to be big imposing high street buildings because it gave people confidence they had money and weren't fly by night. A big elaborate website was the internet equivalent: proving someone had invested £ and was here to stay. You can't trust that any more.

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Dogpatch Press @dogpatch.press · 01/02/2026

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

If Democrats haven't announced their proposal for the Donald Trump No Guns in Public bill by the end of the day, they're missing an easy shot

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

After the Boston Massacre, the soldiers responsible were arrested and received fair trials. King George recalled the regiment to England, and then American leaders were like “good, that was enough, we’ll remain your loyal subjects forever…” wait, that’s not right…

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

www.garbageday.email/p/am-i-too-s...

I can’t speak for everyone, but my mind tends to treat writing an article, making a video, writing a song, cooking a meal, drawing an image, and, apparently, designing software the same way. It’s not a matter of just “generating” something perfect from my head, but exploring the tension that exists between what I’m imagining and the limitations of my stupid meat body. That’s actually the exciting part. It also lets me figure out if something has turned out wrong or just resulted in a happy accident. Vibe coding, like every new trend coming out of Silicon Valley, turns this process — the entire act of creativity, itself — into a slot machine. One more pull on the AI and maybe it will figure it out for you. You won’t understand how any of it works, of course, or feel particularly proud of what you’ve done, but maybe you’ll have something. Just a few more dollars for some more tokens. C’mon, just pay a bit more.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Also, if you’re having trouble concentrating you’re not alone. BOSS, THE FASCISM

A tumblr post from user nitrwrighter on March 26 last year:

Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
#the current horrors 2025 edition

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/01/2026

So @tobymorton.bsky.social is a national treasure and Hilton is fucking up royally with this nonsense. www.hiltonice.com cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social

A satirical website for HiltonICE.com: "Experience Compliance at Its Finest."

Unauthorized Use of Hilton
Trademark
To the Owner and Operator of the Website
https://www.hiltonice.com/,
Please be advised that the use of the Hilton name, including its incorporation within your domain name and its use in connection with a hotel-branded website, constitutes unauthorized use of a protected trademark and raises significant legal concerns.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

thinking about how, in the Russian history elective I took in HS, every time a tsar was facing domestic weakness the teacher would turn to the assembled students and ask "so what is it time for?" and we would chant "stunning territorial annexation!" and she would respond "well, DUH, girls"

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

12:32 am on Christmas… trans rights

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 15/12/2025

we are in this constant artistic conversation that is coated in years of fingerprints and patina from being handled by artists and being shaped by our senses and our bodies and our gravity and physics and how sound carries in the air, and that is such a precious, beautiful thing

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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 11/12/2025

Breaking news: US military has seized oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Leadership making foghorn noises and insisting they are now “friends with all the octopus. All of them.”

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Shen Tao @dragons.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

They are giving away 50 copies of my debut, The Poet Empress, on goodreads! I hope you'll enter 🥰 #booksky #ThePoetEmpress

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 13/11/2025

Fearless earnestness is the next cultural phase.

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!

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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 17/11/2025

“Art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation.” I’m not Catholic, but Chicago pope spittin’ bars

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Hey Charlotte folks-Compare Foods has waived delivery fees for groceries, so if you know anyone who'd like to get groceries delivered rather than go out to the store while the nazis are in town, spread the word

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

"Love your neighbors more than your government" Sticker spotted in Savannah, Georgia

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caylen @caylen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

a “Space Force”, if you will

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 06/11/2025

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

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Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

YOU THERE BOY, WHAT DAY IS IT

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Spreadsheet enjoyer 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bluser12.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Just get Dropout instead

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I truly can’t imagine the person I would be, the art I would’ve made, the choices I might’ve made, the wide-open vistas that might exist in my brain if the constant anxious horror of the last 10 years in America wasn’t just 24/7 squatting its horrible carcass on every cell of it.

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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

For anyone who can, a GoFundMe has been set up to help Rob's wife and their young daughter. Sending tons and tons of love and deepest condolences to Rob's family and friends. www.gofundme.com/f/family-of-...

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Donate to Family of Robert Wieland, organized by Vickie ONeill

Friends of Robert Wieland have requested that we set up goFundMe page for the benefit of his f… Vickie ONeill needs your support for Family of Robert Wieland

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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 13/10/2025

I'm gutted. Rob Wieland was one of my first friends when I moved to Milwaukee. He was one of the kindest and most generous people I've ever known, and his joy was as infectious as his creativity. He was a brilliant writer and a stalwart friend. We'll miss you, Rob, more than I can say.

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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 11/10/2025

“A good main character lies at an odd angle against the plane of the world.” 🔥🔥🔥 Even better if they are garbage at introspective trigonometry.

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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 08/10/2025

A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC x HOUSE M.D. 🏥 Blood magic, medical degree required 🎓 Graduate? In *this* economy? ✊ Best friend is a secret rebel 💰 Capitalist conspiracies 🗡️ That lesbian tried to stab me, and I think I liked it #DVpit #F #A #LGBTQ

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

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Banned Books

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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 08/10/2025

A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC x HOUSE M.D. Days before graduation, blood-magic medical student Nettle accidentally girlbosses herself into the middle of a murderous conspiracy. Her best friend has been hiding his radical political activism. And worst of all, she’s *really* broke. #DVpit #F #A #LGBTQ

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 24/09/2025

Writers with kids face many extra challenges to our schedules/productivity/sanity. But also, they will just randomly drop the most banger story prompts.

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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 24/09/2025

This is an incredible friend

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Juni! 🥰 @literallyjustadog.online · 18/09/2025

who up strokin' they sword while lamenting the social realities

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Joe Sparrow @torpordust.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

a comic about fishing (1/7)

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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 10/09/2025

Absolutely chuffed, so proud of my neighbors down the coast.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Here’s to actual good news:

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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 03/09/2025

I have the immense privilege of being not only in the same @viableparadise.bsky.social cohort as Allison, but now the same critique group. She's SO SMART you guys. Get IN HERE while the door is open.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

"Move fast and break things" but the things are kids and the people allowing tech bros to break them are educators.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/08/2025

These statements are couched (heh) in terms that sound like ones of politeness: say please and thank you! But they encode entire hierarchies. And that is explicitly what JD is doing here: trying to make the United States into a place of hierarchy instead of one of equality.

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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 28/08/2025

I don’t play Magic at all but this warms my heart. Vivi, my BOI 💖 so on brand of him

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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 27/08/2025

The most shocking thing that Sam Altman and his cohorts have achieved is making Big Tobacco look positively lazy by comparison.

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Amateur writers: I can get away with using an LLM so long as I thoroughly check the manuscript myself. Pro writers: I can not be trusted with the Find and Replace tool.

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Ash Howell @ash-howell.com · 27/08/2025

*turns to camera with a dead-eyed stare* Wow. Shocking. Who could possibly have predicted this. Certainly not any sensible software engineer who hadn’t been chugging SV’s latest batch of Kool Aid.

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