iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Live, laugh, love, lurk, lunge, lacerate

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I pretty much picked one and moved on with it

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!

a photo of a small, spotted wild cat, with orange fur and brown circular markings, staring up with big golden eyes.

Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm booking freelance edits for full manuscripts as soon as October. I've worked in book publishing for eleven years at places like Writers House, Triada US, Stonesong, Entangled, and NetGalley, and I have edited #1 best sellers and major award winners. Reach out here! bookmarkobrien.com

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Whenever I refer to “the haters,” know that I am talking about my biological family

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Monroe read your posts, and she has concerns.

My perfect tabby cat Monroe looking at the camera with big wide beautiful eyes

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Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Go off king! Oh wait sorry that was unclear. King, you are being stripped of your crown and exiled. There, much more direct.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

He got out of bed and had something to eat. Then Toad crossed out: Eat Breakfast.

Toad sits at his breakfast table, studying his to-do list.

From "A List"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It actually literally is, because you wrote it and no one else is you. No one else has your unique authorial lens on life (and death) and how to translate that to language—and written language, at that! THAT SAID, I am such a wimp, lmao.

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thanks! Feels strange to me, but this absolutely does happen to most of us, so at least I’m in good company.

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Me, a literary agent who does not read nor represent horror novels and thrillers, says so on his agency’s website, and does not include those genres as options on his QueryManager, when checking my queries every day and seeing more horror novels and thrillers: “Oh.”

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

He banged his head against the wall, but he still could not think of a story.

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Pulled out ol’ reliable (see above) earlier, and he goes, “I’d still like you if you were bald.” 🫪

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Ha, you never know! When I was querying in my former life as a writer, I got some requests within 24 hours. (That was my sixth queried manuscript and also in 2015, though…I imagine things have changed!)

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

49% of me understands how they’re feeling completely; 51% is like, well, at least I don’t have to reply to those emails, I guess?

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Impressed (derogatory) with the gall of querying writers who do not follow any of my submission guidelines but do, regardless, feel entitled to follow up with me every single day, sometimes more than once a day. You better twirl those red flags.

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Every queer person should get a free monthly felony

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Could an LLM extend a meaningful invitation to vampire for purposes of threshold crossing?

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Fun bit: telling your gay partner you’d still like them if they were gay. It kinda just always hits. And it’s free!!!

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

unfortunately i am invisible now due to having been disappeared :(

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sorry to Mario and Luigi but their services are simply irrelevant 💅🏻

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Post Malone implies the existence of Pre Malone

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I used to read the almanac for fun 💅🏻

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

What’s the suburban equivalent of “this book made me miss my subway stop”?

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I’m being impersonated by a scammer. Like any reputable agent, I will never refer querying writers to a freelance editor. Nor will I contact writers directly from a Gmail account. My agency has some tips for identifying these sorts of scams: www.azantianlitagency.com/scams

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Thank you, Jen! Yeah, we’re getting kind of a lot of these reports lately 😅

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s always panem et circenses, never panem lightly toasted et a little bit of butter

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Faefyx Collington @faefyx.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I had a great chat with John Parker on @thegailyshow.org yesterday. Check out the second half for: the EEOC refusing to investigate trans cases, the right’s fury over MyGender Dolls, and anti-trans crusaders turning on women’s rights (as we always said they would). www.youtube.com/live/knPxQzk...

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Children’s Theatre Company. Journalist Faefyx Collington on EEOC & Flint Del Sol.

YouTube video by The Gaily Show

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Thank you! I don't accept pitches on social media, but you can review my interests and submission guidelines here, then send me your query letter if you think we might be a good fit! www.azantianlitagency.com/about-us/mar...

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My eleven-year anniversary of working in book publishing is on Saturday, and I’m very proud. It is the honor of my life to work with so much incredible art.

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