iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🍏Toxins out of our food 🧑‍🌾Farmers first, not chemical companies ❌Break up corporate concentration in agriculture 💧Clean water, guaranteed 🍽️School meals that nourish 💸Public dollars should buy public health ⚕️Food as medicine ⚖️Accountability for polluters, not immunity

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some primo hand-acting by Galen in this clip showing off our new label for TONGUE WALL atmosphere spray 👅

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It only takes a minute to contact the offices of these delusional “Democrats” and remind them who they work for, and what they’re supposed to stand for

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was seduced into trying out some “pumpkin pie but healthy” pudding/bar recipes from the internet, and they were BAD, don’t do it

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Philly's Market of the Macabre at Laurel Hill has been postponed due to weather, so we will *NOT* be seeing you there tomorrow. Please play it safe as you weather the storm! 🩶

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026

This is what happens when you get loud and demand Dems not drop trans people. We CAN get orgs to realize this. But we can’t stop with Kaptur. She’s the worst but not the only one. There is NO acceptable anti-trans vote or statement or ad from a Democrat. None. GET LOUDER!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026

We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.

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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In celebration of my book, The Art of the Unknown, the fragrant fabulists & alchemical aesthetes at @bpal.bsky.social have gathered up a handful of the book’s visuals & distilled them drop by drop into perfumes as rich and curious as the artworks themselves blackphoenixalchemylab.com/collections/...

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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey friends and future readers! Just a reminder, you can buy signed copies of my book directly from me! sarahelizabethauthor.com/books/

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds, 1871.⠀ ⠀ One of several hummingbird / orchid paintings by Martin Johnson Heade. This and a couple of other Heade works available as prints in our online shop here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-ar…

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Geoff Klock @geoffklock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What are we doing here. Why did we allow this. This is me reading an article on my phone. It's absurd that anyone reads these, it's absurd that anyone would write anything that appears in this format, it's absurd that anyone would do this to someone's writing.

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This week we'll be expanding ARS INSPIRATIO, our ongoing fragrance collaboration with author @mlleghoul.bsky.social, to include a fresh round of artworks selected from her latest book, THE ART OF THE UNKNOWN Here's where they'll live: blackphoenixalchemylab.com/collections/...

A photo of S. Elizabeth's book The Art of the Unknown opened to the page containing Wenzel Hablik's painting "Starry Sky, Attempt," a square, blue-hued starscape swirled with planets and interstellar cloud formations. A silver necklace is draped across the page, holding the book open.

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dems are running amidst war and ongoing economic crisis against candidates endorsed by a historically unpopular President. Transness need never be mentioned.

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𝕵𝖎𝖒𝖒𝖞 𝕸𝖆𝖐𝖊𝖕𝖊𝖆𝖈𝖊 @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

SPIDER - 2026 My piece for @paulscottcanavan.com 's excellent Mastering Imaginative Realism course. it's the hardest I've ever worked on a single image and has been a total goldmine for technique, research and workflow. sorry if you don't like spiders, I found painting this very healing.

a woman rides into battle perched on the back of an enormous spider, they emerge into sunlight from a glowing green cave, the woman is weilding a glave and is casting a spell that resembles tugging on a spider web. in the foreground a smaller spider is also approaching. image painted as the result of Paul Scott Canavan's excellent mentorship scheme.

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Change dot org petition for Mattel to make a yassified Skullector series Monster High doll for Possum (2018)

An image from the 2018 movie Possum, in which a nervous man holds a disturbing puppet aloft — it is bald with a human face, and a short body trailing spider legs

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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Another perfume journal spread! Today’s is Owl Moon, a collaboration between Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and bloodmilk 🌜🦉🌛

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

How can Dems credibly promise to oppose Trumpism when they campaign using Trump talking points?

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Putting this episode in a hanging saline drip to get me through Friday

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 17/09/2026

Indie bookshops across the globe might not all sell books in the same language, or have the same recommendations, or host the same events. But their message is consistent: Read books, and shop small 💓

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"I am not complicit," "why would I deceive you," big couple weeks for really non-suspicious ways to phrase things

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Philadelphians, you are SERVED! Join us at Laurel Hill Cemetery on September 26th, where we'll be a vendor at their Market of the Macabre 💀

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Market of the Macabre - Laurel Hill

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Woke up feeling driven to non-ironically reclaim the slogan "for THEY/THEM, not YOU" with no changes

A graphic image with a blue and pink background. Text reads: "I'm for THEY/THEM, not YOU."

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Should we send some Snake Oil to the POOG podcast? 🤔

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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There is a Goodreads giveaway currently running for my new book, The Art of the Unknown! A friend referred to this book as my Tumblr made manifest, and I couldn't have been more tickled ...I took my Tumblr seriously back in the day! Anyway, good luck, weirdos! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We're sincerely trying to bring in more goths

A screencap from the movie The Craft, showing the moment when Nancy's mom is freaking out about Rochelle not knowing who Connie Francis is, but we added text: "You're not on Bluesky??"

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be."

The disconnect between last Tuesday’s monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is startling, depressing. The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public. Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a “cowardly” attack on “civilization” or “liberty” or “humanity” or “the free world” but an attack on the world’s self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word “cowardly” is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards.

Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is not afraid. Our spirit is unbroken, although this was a day that will live in infamy and America is now at war. But everything is not O.K. And this was not Pearl Harbor. We have a robotic President who assures us that America still stands tall. A wide spectrum of public figures, in and out of office, who are strongly opposed to the policies being pursued abroad by this Administration apparently feel free to say nothing more than that they stand united behind President Bush. A lot of thinking needs to be done, and perhaps is being done in Washington and elsewhere, about the ineptitude of American intelligence and counter-intelligence, about options available to American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, and about what constitutes a smart program of military defense. But the public is not being asked to bear much of the burden of reality. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.

Those in public office have let us know that they consider their task to be a manipulative one: confidence-building and grief management. Politics, the politics of a democracy—which entails disagreement, which promotes candor—has been replaced by psychotherapy. Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen. “Our country is strong,” we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be.

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Semi-regular reminder that one of the 1980s' strangest, funniest, and most creative movie treats is currently on AMC+ and Shudder, restored to retina-searing 4K

The dvd cover for the 1989 movie DR. CALIGARI, featuring an image of a woman in a tightly-tailored pink satin lab coat holding up a syringe, her black hair styled in a long bob. In the background an asymmetrical doorway can be seen, and a pink trench coat dangles from a clothes hanger.

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.

Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The tragedies of 09-11-2001 were a profound awakening for many of us looking on from a distance. The distant horror on TV swiftly metastasized into waves of racism, xenophobia, and paranoia rippling across the land unchecked, dressed up in the American flag and eagerly stoked by right-wing media.

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Twin Cities! We'll be returning to haunt @oddmartmn.bsky.social with a fine selection of spooky perfumes on October 3rd from 12-3pm. Come enjoy A Little Lunacy with us? 👻

a poster image for A Little Lunacy, a pop-up retail event at Odd Mart in Minneapolis. The background photo is a witch's workspace set up on the seat of a wooden chair: a brass cauldron, a candelabra, jars, a whisk, and a goblet filled with the same glowing green fluid seen in the cauldron. Text reads: "A Little Lunacy, fine fragrance sampling & shopping at Odd Mart: 2520 Lyndale Avenue S., Saturday October 3rd, 12-3pm."

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bpalvtlunacyevents.bsky.social @bpalvtlunacyevents.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Behold the glory of RPG perfume oils & Beard Oils!

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Wow, people get really freaked when you react to a Dem candidate saying something transphobic by observing "That's transphobic"

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Saying it loud and early: we're very PRO-VOTING, and will be urging you to vote in whatever way drains the most power from Republicans across every branch of government. And we'll do it while ALSO questioning/critiquing Dems the whole way, because we deserve leaders who are accountable to us

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.

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Screenshot showing two sequential posts on X by journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) discussing Texas politics:
* Top post: Text reads, "Paxton on Talarico: 'He wants to transition your kids!'" accompanied by an embedded video frame of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking at a podium in a dark suit and red tie.
* Bottom post: Text reads, "Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors," above a video thumbnail from Fox News Channel featuring a woman anchor in a red blazer, with lower-third banners reading "EXCLUSIVE," "SHIFTING THE REINS?", and "TALARICO STANCE DIFFERS FROM EARLIER COMMENTS."

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Recession indicator? The shoplifting of testers and display jewelry from our Dragon Con booth was beyond anything we’ve seen before

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

He should’ve taken a move from the Jasmine Crockett playbook. This is spineless as hell. Call/write your Dem leaders and urge them to get their facts straight!

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dearest, the Con is over! 😮‍💨🥲

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also killed off: our stash of Dusk In Autumn, the scent of black tea, currant cake, mandrake root, a whirl of dried leaves, and hearthsmoke.

A photo of a porch at dusk heaped with baskets, pumpkins, and scattered leaves, with one candle glowing from atop a candelabra

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