iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 10/09/2026

explaining to people how sometimes tagging systems have exploration utility for the development of art and sometimes tagging systems are a fascist technology that cuts up art

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Lansing Independent Comics & Zine Fest @liczfest.com · 05/03/2026

LICZ! is BACK! 💥 The Lansing Independent Comics and Zine Fest is a FREE-TO-ATTEND one-day celebration of all kinds of printed matter--hosting over 50+ self-published creators with paper, staplers, and moxie!

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is not a joke. Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series! And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

The cover for the original volume of Thyme Travellers.

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William L. Clements Library @clementslibrary.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Pi(e) Day 2026 is in the oven and will be sharable on March 12 from 3-4 pm for a special Zoom event featuring Clements Librarian for Instruction and Engagement and librarians from other special collections libraries! 🥧

“Historic Hand Pi(e) Day Zoom Panel 3/12 3 PM ET #GLPBO Great Library Pie Bake Off.” Logos of the University of Michigan Libraries, Clements Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Virginia Tech University Libraries and a graphic of a pie.

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Gary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Selected patterns from “Linoleum & Felt-Base: Spring Season - 1932” Sloane-Blabon Corp., New York Image: Avery Library Architectural Trade Catalogs Collection (Columbia Univ.) via @archive.org; archive.org/details/lino...

A grid of nine linoleum patterns arranged in a grid of squares. The patterns contain a wide range of alternating shapes and colors, bright or muted, most symmetrical. Most suggest marble or tile.

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Today’s my birthday! 🎉 As a way to celebrate, I wanted to repost some art that all share a common theme: surreal depictions of emotional vulnerability and connection.

Digital art of two women gently holding onto one another. Both women are missing their faces. A reddish-orange tangled mass of organic material flows out from where their faces should be and connects them together.

A digital illustration in the style of a woodcut. It depicts the upper half of humanoid figure whose “head” is a flattened organic shape. A serpentine creature delicately wraps around the figure’s arm and into an opening in their face. The figure handles the creature gently.

A digital illustration in the style of a vintage children’s book. It depicts two humanoid figures whose heads are a flattened organic shape with an opening in the center. Leaning forward, their faces are chained together. Their body language conveys that, while slightly surprised, are ultimately cool with this event.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 09/03/2026

i'm constantly astounded and impressed by everything in "what happens next". the character writing in particular is phenomenal, textured so well so as to really interrogate the framing of the "perfect victim" without shying away from the brutality of quotidian unjustified

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🍌 Cig @ MCM LONDON OCT 2P16 @cigardoesart.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

When the seagulls cried again, none were left alive. #umineko #うみねこFA #cigart

Post style fanart of Umineko, with the Ushiromiya family underneath the painting of Beatrice. Yes it's also a redraw of the Knives Out movie poster hehe.

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

We've waited so long to yell this: IF YOU'RE A SUBSCRIBER OR KICKSTARTER BACKER, ISSUE 1 IS IN YOUR INBOX! 🪐🗡️ Issue 1 will be free to read online March 15th, but if you can't wait, get your hands on it RIGHT NOW! Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/othersidespe... Patreon Shop: www.patreon.com/othersidespe...

Issue 1 cover on the left, with our Wanderer in pastel blue looking down at a spacescape from a crumbling coliseum seat. Text to the right says ISSUE 1: nine stories, five poems, one essay, original ary by queer creators - available now for subscribers! www.othersidespec.com

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beck @beckmallwitz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

another day of bringing up uncomfortable questions in bureaucratic meetings. yet people refuse to engage. if you can't even sit in your discomfort, what use is your allyship? do you really think students should have to call the cops to get into a locked building on a public school campus?

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chadzia dax 🔞😷 @m00psy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

additional PSA: 49% of covid infections are asymptomatic, so you might be infectious without knowing it. wear a (K)N95 in shared air to protect yourself and others. (damn, i wish it were financially feasible for everyone to be testing regularly....)

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wells @wells.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

hey, that's me!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/02/2026

Hey everyone! Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today! But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold. I just resorted our list to put those on the top. Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!

erininthemorning.com

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!

This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 26/01/2026

IT'S RELEASE DAY! "Brown/Trans/Les", my second book of transfeminist essays, is out now---and so is the audiobook of "Trans/Rad/Fem", if you want to re-experience the original in a new format! Itch: taliabhatt.itch.io/transradfem Audible: www.audible.com/pd/Trans-Rad...

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Trans/Rad/Fem (ebook + Audiobook) by Talia Bhatt

Essays on Transfeminism

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 26/01/2026

Happy Birthday, Angela Davis!

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Ivy @askylitocean.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

🖼️ painting titled "Pani od gwiazd" (Lady of the Stars) by Polish artist Monika Szpak.

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wells @wells.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

i think when cs ed shifted from "cs can be cool and fun, regardless of identity" to "you're of a marginalized identity, you _need_ to learn to code for economic mobility" we lost something (and ended up serving corporate interests)

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Owensgrandpa @owensgrandpa.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Bird of paradise June 19th 2024

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 11/12/2025

Listen everyone our next book for spring Missed Connections With Tall Girls is so punk rock and funny and sexy and loud and beautiful and sad it makes us WEEP. Astonishing young poet Gwen Aube is here from the Rust Belt swamp to break new literary ground and YOUR OWN STUPID HEART

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 29/10/2025

As the dread day approaches and the spirits begin to stir, now is the perfect time to hunker down with a horror novel! 😈🗡️ This Halloween, TFR shares twelve chilling tales from transfemme authors to match the mood 🖤 A handcrafted rec list with a scariness rating for each book. #halloween #horror

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12 Chilling Books by Transfemmes to Read This Halloween (CW #16)

Tales of Nazi censorship, haunted houses, and mushroom cults to keep you up at night.

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 21/04/2025

I’m the news editor for Chrysalis, and I’d love to get pitches on news stories from trans youth!

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Here’s “Basket Case” except it’s about why you shouldn’t use Face ID or a thumbprint to unlock your phone

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 08/04/2025

Happy National Library Week!! A great time to ask everyone you know if they have a library card. #art #nationallibraryweek

Gouache painting of a spaniel, beagle, and german shepherd. They're holding in their mouths a tennis ball, library card, and rope toy respectively. The beagle looks very proud, while the other two stare at them.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We don’t have to - and must not - place scholarly writing and popular writing in opposition. Doing so is a losing move. Writing exists in many overlapping genres and we get to work in and out of the ones that fit.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

someone shared this on insta and I thought, i better not reshare this bc it’ll piss ppl off. anyway.

Shaking hands in agreement meme—liberals, conservatives, and an upsetting amount of leftists:
NOT MASKING IN PUBLIC SPACES.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.

Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.

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Jessi Zabarsky @hugbox.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Birds and flowers too, I guess

A four panel comic about all the regular signs of spring

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NutshellGulag @nutshellgulag.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

drawing(? not sure of the medium) by @secondlina.com

A lovely drawing of two very chunky cats, one gray and white and the other black, flaunting their tummies on a faint blue and white diner tile background. They are surrounded by text that reads "#BELLYSEASON IT'S SUMMER AGAIN" "PRIMORDIAL POUCH EXPOSED SEASON" "OH YES HERE WE GO FELLAS" "THE POUCH IS OUT, THE POUCH IS SEEN"

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

🌞𝕭𝖊𝖞𝖔𝖓𝖉 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕱𝖎𝖊𝖑𝖉𝖘 𝖂𝖊 𝕶𝖓𝖔𝖜🌛

Title: Beyond The Fields We Know

Image: a landscape in a limited color palette of navy and gold, depicting a stylized landscape of forest and farm fields in the American Midwest. The sky is filled with overlapping stylized clouds and stars depicting a scene of both night and day at the same time. A classical sun with a smiling face occupies the upper left hand corner and a classical smiling crescent moon occupies the upper right hand corner.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 20/03/2025

Anyway here's some cool protest art I saw in Florence today

A relief that says "Jesus was Palestinian" with Mary in a keffeyeh holding a baby, done in the medevial Christian style

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 20/03/2025

The easiest way you can show solidarity right now is to wear a mask when you're doing your grocery shopping. Seriously. You're protecting people around you and normalizing community care. I wear a mask when I do my grocery shopping. Will you join me?

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Vera Drew @veradrew22.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Insanely good shit. Pick up a copy today especially if you're into Lovecraft, are trans, hate big tech, and love your wife. Dark, dystopian but also uplifting in all the right ways. Can't wait to see what Mattie does next, and will be re-reading Boys Weekend over and over again in the meantime.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

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Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

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Aruvi 🏳️‍⚧️ @aruviii.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

also he doesn't yap about like I do, but he is on this site as @riverie.bsky.social . I'll ask him to post more of his art on here. The world needs disabled gay trans art now more than ever. This is his latest work:

an artwork of three sets of disabled skeletal legs in three different shades of blue on a pink background, showing hips, knees, and ankles with progressive pseudo-rheumatoid dysplasia. above and below the legs are the text "The Future Body is a Disabled body"

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Becca 🧂 @moresalty.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Collective liberation must include disability justice! The first step to fighting fascism is to wear a damn mask.

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Kim Salt @kesalt.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Happy year of the snake, friendsssss!! 🐍🌱 19x24" prismacolor pencila on paper

a pale green snake sticks its tongue out, surrounded by tiny flora, fungi, dragonflies, snails, and a small frog

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beck @beckmallwitz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

feeling very grateful for the people in my life today!! especially after attending (and knitting at) the amazing defense of my advising sibling, Dr. Mez Perez!! 💕

the doctoral defense of Dr. Mez Perez. several people are seated around a conference table engaging in various crafts.

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Carta Monir @cartamonir.com · 19/11/2024

Being trans is a prayer for something better. Transness is belief in a better world.

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Divination Hollow Reviews @divinationhollow.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It's time! Come visit us today and grab some free queer books during Queer Your eReader! divinationhollow.com/queer-your-e...

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Queer Your eReader — Divination Hollow Reviews

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beck @beckmallwitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

just preordered from my local bookstore! can’t wait :-)

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Carta Monir @cartamonir.com · 11/12/2024

If you're trans, you're trans. Live your life and get the most out of it. It's going to be hard no matter what. There's no reason to be proactive about limiting yourself or making it harder. Seize your own happiness, tranny! Nobody else is going to seize it for you!

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wells @wells.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I got some boba the other day, and it somehow got me to write my first long-form blog post about boba. Here's to hoping I write more blog posts this year! blog.wellssanto.com/a-rare-post-...

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A rare post about boba

Today I went to try Molly Tea, another boba shop that's recently opened up in the Bay Area. I had a ton of thoughts™️ about the drink, so much so that I realized I had an mini existential crisis about...

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Hibby @hibbythach.com · 09/01/2025

What if being sad and trans is praxis

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This should be blatantly obvious. Universities are hierarchical institutions & many people, including many faculty, are deeply invested in those hierarchies. This is why change is so slow at universities.

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M'ista Spot💜GATEway prep time! @saishi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Saw this and had to repost. <3 Credit to Marpal Embroidery for the work!

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blair @blairaf.com · 25/11/2024

If you're prepping a winter term syllabus & looking for a classroom AI policy that: -discourages students from using AI -doesn't overpolice (no biased plagiarism detection tools, unenforceable bans) -keeps a door open for translation & accessibility then do feel free to use or adapt my own policy!

Excerpt from a syllabus describing the policy on "Use of Generative AI Applications in Coursework." The policy reads: "To promote your learning and the development of your own personal writing abilities and intellectual abilities in this course – as well as to reduce your risk of accidentally committing plagiarism – you should not use generative AI applications while working on assignments in this course. Text-generating applications are likely to generate untrue or misattributed claims, and in some cases, to regurgitate exact text from a training data source without attributing the source of the text (i.e., plagiarism). We will cover these and other ethical concerns associated with generative AI in class. Some students may find that they benefit from using generative AI to support brainstorming, outlining, translation, or personal accessibility. In such cases, students are strongly advised to remain mindful of the ethical and practical concerns associated with using generative AI and mindful of the resources provided in the above section on "Academic Integrity." You are wholly responsible for assuring the quality and integrity of any assignments you submit in this course."

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