iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/08/2026

Sending this out to whoever needs to see it: It's okay if you read slowly, there's no great victory in being able to read quickly, everyone kind of has their own reading speed, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just really happy you're reading. I hope it gives you joy at any pace. Thank you!

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 30/03/2026

Happy birthday Vincent.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 02/11/2025

standard time is superior to DST

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Bookish @bookishsnowflower.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

DST is over as it should be. I would like if it never came back and we stayed on standard time permanently.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2025

everyone says it for a reason: really important to lock in when it comes to fitness and health. just establishing good habits — regular exercise including strength training, eating a balanced diet — will pay huge dividends

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

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The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Your moment of calm for today...

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Underwater Buddha in Permuteran, Bali. By Paul Turley

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Eric Lindahl 📷 🦅🐺🦋🐋🦉🐝 🦦 🦢 @eric-lindahl.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

#nature #photography #birds #duck #woodduck Wood Duck hen and chicks. - taken 5.23.25 - Description in alt text

Friday as I was walking through my favorite nature center, down the long floating bridge, to where the Egrets hang out, I spotted this Wood Duck hen and her adorable chicks!! Other photographers had walked right by them. Even though I got many great shots that day, this was my favorite.

A wood duck hen is a female wood duck, a species known for its beautiful and unique appearance.

While male wood ducks are brightly colored with iridescent feathers, hen wood ducks have a more muted, brownish-gray plumage, with white markings around their eyes and on their wings.

They also have a white belly and throat, and their legs and feet are dark yellow.

Wood duck ducklings, also known as ducklings, are born with a full coat of downy feathers, appearing mostly gray and brown.

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Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Actually the best life advice I ever got: Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. A half-cleaned room is better than an uncleaned room. Occasionally flossing is better than never flossing. A 10-minute workout is better than no workout. When it’s all you can do to get out of bed, get out of bed.

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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

applying for jobs again

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

A quiet moment for this pair of ring-billed gulls #LaridaeSaturday

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

If a stranger posts about how happy a silly little pleasure made them and your response is to be an asshole and make fun of them it’s time to re-examine your whole life. It’s 2025. We no longer shit on other people’s joy if it’s not hurting anyone else. This is loser behavior.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 25/04/2025

Computer, enhance!

Closeup of a lovely layered orange cactus flower.

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Yard Gone Wild @yardgonewild.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

If you’re thinking about what to add to your garden Frog suggests a few little ponds with lots of plants… 1/2

Frog nose poking through floating plants

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Nimasprout 🔜 LBX 213 @nimasprout.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Parrot tulip seasonnnnnnnn

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We left the lodge at 5AM today to look for this fancy boy and I managed to spot him. 😁Resplendent Quetzals are considered near-threatened due to habit loss. And that tail is real, no April Fools joke here. 🪶 San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica

A bright green bird with a ridiculously long tail. He is perched on a lichen covered branch in dense cloud forest.

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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

There are so many rabbits around this spring! Here's one from a few days ago. #wildlife

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The beauty of female Calif. Quails is highly underrated! Then again, they make it super hard to appreciate them - *really* had to thread the needle on this Ms.! #birds #becurious 🪶 #StickHappens

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Tharusha Wijewardena 🐢 @turtleecology.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Hold up! Today is #WorldFrogDay? Well I must contribute! Here’s a Grey Treefrog 🐸 They will be out and about pretty soon too!

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Providing a little water for wildlife works magic! All I did was put a small pond in my suburban yard and now these perfect, enchanting little creatures appear every year. I am awed and blessed. (Wood Frog waiting for a mate) #herps 🌿

Closeup of an extremely cute brown frog grasping a thick plant stem, partway out of the water

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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I might have to do another "most stylish bird" contest with the American kestrel. #birds

A photo of a male American kestrel perched on a post with a soft greenish yellow background. The kestrel is very stylish with rusty red and slate blue feathers and daring black markings that bring the whole look together nicely.

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NorCal Lynne @norcal-lynne.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

A pop of color with a purple Poppy Anemone. 🌱 #BloomScrolling #Gardening

A photo of a grape colored purple anemone flower with its dark center that almost appears black, background is green foliage along with bark mulch.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/03/2025

Listen I'll say it: I like it when it gets dark at 5:20. It's too light out

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Tharusha Wijewardena 🐢 @turtleecology.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This is how I look reading the news everyday...anyway, enjoy the toad! 🐸

American Toad on a log staring at photographer. Tiny shrub in front of the toad. Toad has a grumpy face.

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Dr. Gordon Walker @fascinatedbyfungi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Beautiful cluster of black trumpets (Craterellus calicornucopiodes) popping out from underneath a mossy log

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

you look sad here's a picture of a boxer crab a very grumpy crustacean who with minimal provocation will grab two anemones and use them like fists to fight photo by Bruce Shafer

A skinny-legged pink crab with huge orange eyes clutches two white sea anemones. They are the perfect size to be her fists

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Photos by Noora @np-photos.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I got this id:d as a violet webcap, Cortinarius violaceus. Flemingsberg forest, near Stockholm, Sweden. #FungiFriday #photography #mushroom #naturephotography

A violet colored mushroom with a rough looking cap, like sandpaper. The ground is covered in moss, with some twigs, dry leaves and pine needles.

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Amina Akhtar @amina.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Just a coyote sitting on my patio, staring off looking majestic, all while it rains

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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Best look at a Hepatic Tanager I’ve ever had! Really heavy storms probably limited its feeding yesterday. A normally hidey bird, was pretty patient for my friends and I Foraging in coral tree, conifers, and even to the ground! 📷🪶

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/02/2025

Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

An excellent friend for #TurtleTuesday. I believe it's a Red-bellied Turtle, who is very well named. #herps 🌿

A turtle is propped on a bare log at the surface of the water, its reddish belly visible. It kind of looks like it's doing pushups

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Is it too late for a bird break? No? Good. Take a break. Have a bird. Photo by me.

Close up of an owl -- a little screech-owl, yellow beak pointed down, feathers a mix of ruddy red and white. Its ears are perked up and back, pointy. Its eyes are yellow. They are pinched and tilted in a way that the owl is expressing something akin to incredulity, or perhaps, sheer unfuckwithable anger. This owl is dubious and full of salt. A salty, disappointed, disapproving owl. This owl is how we all feel right now, I suspect. This owl is all of us. This owl says, "well fuck this shit," and the owl is right. Anyway. The background is mostly dark -- hints of blue and green. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

A handsome pair of American Wigeons. I think the female wigeon is gorgeous and possibly the prettiest of all female ducks that I've seen. #birds #ducks #wigeons

A pair of ducks on a jumbled pile of rocks, looking to the right. The female is in the centre of the photo. She is gray, buffy brown and a taffy to almost orange colour on her breast. He's partially obscured. HIs body is a darker purplish-brown. He has a green patch running from his eye to the the back of his neck, and a white stripe down the centre of his head.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Lots of reasons to only have indoor cats. Now, possibly, another one...

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

No new work to share at the moment (not that I’m not working, just that I can’t share). So have a herd of prehistoric fluffalumps from the archive.

A digital illustration: a herd of woolly mammoths emerge from the fog on a rust-red, bracken-covered hillside.

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Bookish @bookishsnowflower.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Book 6 of 2025: Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire 4⭐️ #books #booksky

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Pine grosbeaks are one of my favourite winter birds. The males are such a lovely cherry-red, while the females are a beautiful subtle yellow-grey. They've found my yard this week and have been cleaning the seeds off of my ash tree. 🪶🌿

A cherry-pink pine grosbeak male perches on the snow-covered branches of a white spruce. It's heavy black beak is for crushing seeds.

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Bullfrog of the day! Saturday, 1 Feb 2025

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Dani✨ @danisdiary.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🎊🧧🐍✨

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