iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

For sale: baby shoes. So fuckin worn. This baby ran everywhere fast as shit

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour

A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Vampires! Eldritch whales! Pathetic lesbians! Weird science! Vengeful trees! Sadness! As always, this issue has everything you crave

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'll be at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social this year, a very cool fully digital convention! Come find me two places on Sept 19: 😱 FOLK HORROR @ 9 AM mountain / 11 AM eastern 🪐⚔️ OTHERSIDE CHILL-N-CHAT @ 5 PM mountain / 7 PM eastern Register for Flights of Foundry here: flights-of-foundry.org/

Ash's flights of foundry schedule for 2026. Sept 19 they're on 2 panels: Folk Horror at 9AM mountain, and the OTHERSIDE chill n chat at 5 PM mountain.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I wrote about AI, our relationship to pain and to comfort, and about why writing should hurt johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/writing-sh...

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Writing Should Hurt

On our relationship to pain and creativity

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

also...transformers are aliens? they're not American, they're...from space...

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

⊹₊˚COVER REVEAL FOR MY QUEER APPALACHIAN HORROR‧˚⊹ A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns it all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I have a story in here that's originally from a print anthology- so excited to get more eyes on it!

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Last chance to enter the lottery for the @othersidespec.bsky.social chill-and-chat at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social! Ash, Val, and I want to hang out with you—come yap with us about the first year of the magazine, queer SFFH generally, miscellaneous nonsense! flights-of-foundry.org/lottery/

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Limited Seating Sessions – Flights of Foundry

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 19/04/2026

Whatever you do,

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN."

Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

this cover also got us asking important art questions like "are we allowed to publish a peen" (the answer is yes)

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✧𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

girls be like “i know a spot” and then take you here

a staircase leading down underground surrounded by water with tree branches reflecting in it

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bispau @JW MAD ➡️BILBAO @bispau.art · 14/08/2026

How it felt to be transmasc in your childhood

3 girls and a crocodile all dressed in ballet clothes

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 09/08/2026

Ok folks, Sheila and her family need our help. You might know her as the editor of Asimov’s, but she's also a good friend and one of the best people in the field. If you can, please... www.gofundme.com/f/help-irene...

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Donate to Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care, organized by Irene Bruce

Hi - This is Irene and Juliet, the daughters of Sheila and David. As many of… Irene Bruce needs your support for Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Here is my round-up of the poems nominated for the Hugo Award in 2025 and 2026! magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/award-winnin...

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Award-Winning Speculative Poetry Is Easy to Read

Review: The First Two Years of a Speculative Poetry Hugo

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

running a magazine is very fun and rewarding. it also means I have drastically less time to actually write (still striving to find a balance there) but I just sold a reprint to a cool place and that'll just have to do for now!

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

love under green light 💚

fanart of the two main character from the lesbian romance The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All by Sumiko Arai
they are lying on a bed, cuddled up together, sharing earbuds & listening to rock music on Mitsuki's phone
they are bathed in green light and the whole scene looks very sweet & tender

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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Me a queer historian: *Rubs filthy hands together* Knew it...

A screen grab of a Wikipedia subheading that says 'Personal life'

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

the croc charms - is jibbitz plural? is just one a jibbit?

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

AI companies (preparing to start up the book-shredder 5000): why does everyone hate us

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I've been pretty offline for a few weeks, but for a delightful reason: I had a baby! 👶 she made us a family of four at the end of June and I'm slowly crawling out of newborn bliss and sleep deprivation 💜

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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Dr. Twink, Microplastic Surgeon @subtlebeast.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

HAALAND YOU TALL MOTHERFUCKER YESSSSSS

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Happy Pride, everyone! 🏳️‍🌈 Given that I'm stuck at home working on my PhD instead of marching in the sun, please take pity on me and consider buying one of my fabulous, queer-as-hell books! (first here, second in the post below)

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The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley (Austentatious, #2…

Being snubbed by Mr Darcy—passed over for Elizabeth Ben…

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A kitten fighting to defend a pop diva in the comments section of a creepypasta reading website.

A painting of a cat using a computer on a creepypasta website, with a bowl of ramen next to her.

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

we've been wondering for weeks how the single cat in our house goes through so much water I think I've cracked the code, gang

A very fluffy, large cat standing with her foot fully in the water dish

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I will be fully agentic within months

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

a lace hanky for pride 🙂‍↕️

a black and white edit of a lace handkerchief. there is black text in the center of the hanky that reads "pro-freak, anti-police". the image is textured to look grainy. the hanky is on a black background.

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

and we mean HORROR, folks! if you're a trans author, send us your fucked up (complimentary) shit when we open June 22!! 8c/word or 50$ per poem! full guidelines here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...

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Moksha

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

buckle up, it's Sad Boi Spring! this poem came to me very quickly last year as a thought about what grounding feels like when you're up in the clouds, and what happens when that isn't enough 💜 so pleased it found a home with Small Wonders!!

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I have a newsletter! It says things! This one in particular says things about my two new poems out at Nightmare Magazine and Small Wonders (both linked) I also have recs for some beautiful pieces by @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social and @clairejiawen.bsky.social !

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beyond the vale

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 04/06/2026

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

NO WAR WITH IRAN!
The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West.
You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together
& we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you
& your government is much bigger than the difference
between you & me.
And the difference between me
& my government is much bigger
than the difference
between me & you.
And our governments are very much the same...
—Marjane Satrapi

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 03/06/2026

"we are all made of star-stuff", by ash vale, moves from the physical reality of that phrase to the emotional truth that we don't necessarily feel that way, and the separation that can bring.

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we are all made of star-stuff - Small Wonders

someone dead said that once and you told me / with matching crescent moons on our / wrists that you felt not celestial

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

it's here - my poem is now free to read in Nightmare (!!!) a dream come true for me, truly. consumed is a little bit of trans cannibalism, gender dysphoria, and bad feelings wrapped up in one small package. "I dwell on the consequences: what if after she eats the bad, there is nothing left?"

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consumed - Nightmare Magazine

my lover has peculiar tastes; her cravings are unnatural. she apologises for her appetite

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This. The closet was nearly my casket. We express ourselves with writing, and many of us don't choose to write about queerness; it comes out in the work. To strangle that is to strangle the art, and then what is the fucking point? To lube up bookshelves with frictionless tripe? To hell with that.

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