iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 11h

I know that it's Scary Movies Listicle Season, and I don't want to get trampled in the rush.

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And Things That Go Bump in the Night

[the collection]

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 16h

This might not be up very long, but: the XX set at Austin City Limits last night was so good www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM42...

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The xx - ACL Music Festival 2026 Weekend 1 - Full Set

YouTube video by PLUS Concert

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah those came after I crafted my complaint 😂

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fun Saturday watching baseball with the family, with brief interruptions by ads for The Department of War and Megan Fox talking about dick pills ⚾️ 🇺🇸

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She rules. And people with good taste have always loved that movie

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Manda M @bettesays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love @austinkleon.bsky.social's typewriter interviews and today's is a nice antidote to the timeline if you need one. Sidenote: Quiet floor time is so underrated. Unsurprisingly, I THRIVED in the Montessori preschool environment. austinkleon.substack.com/p/typewriter...

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Typewriter interview with Roman Muradov

10 questions for the artist about lying on the floor, lineage, cats & kettles, and more...

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We’re in the ⚾️ playoffs again so that’s something

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With all Cleveland has to deal with already now this

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People precious about books as objects should have to work in a library or a bookstore for a week and see how many books get tossed

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I tried to get my 13-year-old to do this with the mammoth Steve Jobs biography he picked to read for class

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Turn your tv on black and white

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amyalynx.bsky.social @amyalynx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

...a few clues...

back cover of the book - Just Make Stuff: 1/throw out the instructions, 2/don't take things too seriously, 3/give yourself the space and materials, 4/permission to be bad, 5/Believe in Magic, 6/think outside your head, 7/Problems of output are problems of input, 8/Borrow a kid!, 9/Nothing is wasted, 10/you don't need a vision

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amyalynx.bsky.social @amyalynx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

wonderful book... always a good time to make stuff, add some balance to life, let the fun factor be high ~

Don't Call it Art, 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again, book by Austin Kleon

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Only one I haven’t seen is THE LEFTOVERS? Guess I should get on that

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Depends. I really like his early stuff — especially ODELAY — but I can’t stand the way he sings on stuff like Sea Change. But if you like that stuff, yeah check our Mutations too

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Best lines Don’t Look Back in Anger, remembered as accurately as I can manage: Liam: You have to care a lot to really not give a fuck. Noel: You write a song & someone hears it & puts it in their life & says, that’s mine now. That’s what you want.

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a better world is possible

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Seems to be confusion online too about which way the portrait goes This is from a gallery having a Mapplethorpe show fdag.com.br/en/exhibitio...

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Annie Dillard was a Pittsburgher like me. I wanted to be a writer, in high school, and when I read PILGRIM for class, it changed my understanding of what being a writer could be. I remember being caught off guard by how funny she was, and how elegantly that could modulate into revelation. Thank you.

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 08/08/2026

"I’ve never felt like having kids and making art were that different because you don’t know where any of it’s going. There’s this vast uncertainty to it..." Collin Mitchell interviews @austinkleon.bsky.social about Don't Call It Art (@tarcherbooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/QyelfmI

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I love how my boys don’t have any hangups about stuff I would’ve turned my nose up at when I was their age — in the car today we played a little game of “tell me when you hear Michael McDonald” with “Ride Like The Wind” and “Peg” 😂

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

When I was watching the movie I thought “Odysseus” was the beginning of this for a minute: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYGe...

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The Anchor Song

YouTube video by Björk - Topic

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

MASTER AND COMMANDER feels to me like many of my favorite experiences with art, where you begin with bewilderment — “WTF is this?” — and maybe even annoyance, but something keeps pulling you back so you just give yourself over to it, and eventually you lock in and you’re hooked

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Mid-life bromance reading continues

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

He must be in the air — Sam Anderson quoted him in his World Cup piece in the NYTimes today. “A soccer match provides what the historian Johan Huizinga calls a ‘magic circle.’”

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I would read an essay about this phenomenon. I think about this often:

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Who asks you to form an opinion? —John Stuart Mill, letter

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Huizinga quoted in a Jackass related article? I gotta read this

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Sorta knew about this but there was more or less (with exceptions) a two year gap in recorded music in the US from 1942-1944 due to a musicians union strike against the record companies over royalties. This Wikipedia entry touches on it but the mind boggles at what must have been lost.

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1942–1944 musicians' strike - Wikipedia

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I need to spend a lot of time at my desk for the next few weeks, so I have the second-screen portal open to my favourite virtual co-working companions, the salmon-fishing bears of Katmai National Park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Zr...

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LIVE Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park, Alaska 2026 | explore.org

YouTube video by Explore Live Nature Cams

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’ve seen COMMANDO a hundred times and never noticed this dude in the airport

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I vividly remember watching “Just another day” a million times of vacation because the rental had vh1 and they played it, like, every hour

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I just want SYRO on CD dammit

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James Kochalka Superstar @kochalka.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I was delighted to see American Elf get mentioned in Don't Call it Art by @austinkleon.bsky.social Unfortunately, the publisher no longer sells the American Elf books, not even the digital editions. However, I post new American Elf fairly regularly over here: patreon.com/kochalka

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Someday I want to orchestrate a feud like this so both parties can sell more books

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I maintain that if adults read wishes, lies and dreams and rose, where did you get that red by kenneth koch it would improve their metaphor literacy by 1000%

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

ohhhhhh this is so completely my scene!

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

She selling books, he’s selling tickets… everybody wins!

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