iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Writers need to stand in solidarity with artists against these Must Read rights grabs, the same way we need to stand in solidarity with artists against AI in cover art etc etc.

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How solidarity against bs is done.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I took me a minute to get into this one because of the tone, but you're right, it's an excellent craft book that uses humor and cringe super well to sell the points it does. It's in my top five. (I wonder if I actually have 5 craft books I'd recommend.)

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 06/10/2026

H’as spoken like a traitor, and shall answer As traitors do.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's a great week for the rest of us, though!

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My mom had a drive-in theater date and decided to just throw me in the back seat, expecting I'd fall asleep before the second feature. I did not, and that is how 6 year old me saw Brian DePalma's Carrie.

Three screenshots of the Sue's Nightmare sequence at the end of Carrie. Upper left, is a cross-shaped For Sale sign with "Carrie White burns in hell" scrawled on it. Upper right, Sue in a white dress approaches the cross. And finally, bottom: Sue's arm being snatched by the bloodied undead arm of Carrie White.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NEW: PEN America today reported nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year—the largest number in a single year. New state censorship laws accounted for much of the increase, coupled with the use of AI to remove books en masse: pen.org/press-releas...

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Nearly 12,000 School Book Bans Nationwide in 2025-2026—Biggest Number in a Single Year

PEN America today reported nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year—the largest number in a single year. New state censorship laws accounted for much of th...

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Potential short story title: "There's No Buttfuckin' on Sunday." I don't know, just spitballing.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A lot of guys I'm seeing are mentioing that they aren't saying anything because they're afraid to come off as "performative". Guys, please be performative. Please be cringe about it. That fear you have to look bad is the same fear that shut the 50 other group chat members up. Say something

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Repostin' The Autumnal. Manifesting my seasonal mood.

A skeletal figure floats off the ground, wrapped in a cape made of autumn leaves. It wields a scythe adorned with a harvest of gourds.

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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 01/10/2026

Alright, #morktober day 1: Goat

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

YES!! I so regretted not getting one of these. INSTABUY!

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a lot of heavy stuff in the news right now, take care of yourselves. we weren't made for this much horror.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“It was the second time this year that Tennessee has been unable to carry out an execution: “In May, state officials called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers after executioners tried and failed for over an hour to place an IV to administer pentobarbital” apnews.com/article/chri...

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Tennessee governor halts executions after Christa Gail Pike survives lethal injection attempt

Media witnesses say Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder on Wednesday.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."

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Gillian "JENNY WILL EAT YOU NOW" Daniels @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'll be at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social TODAY, 9/30 at 7pm in conversation with @brackenmacleod.bsky.social! Come join us on the last day of September for a book launch.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

* The Creatures’ ‘Don’t Go To Sleep Without Me’ -- 1999 Type O Negative’s ‘Haunted’ -- 1996 Meat Beat Manifesto’s ‘She’s Unreal’ -- 1996

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If I were Sentator Schmitt, I'd be looking into investing in a Kaczynski-style cabin in the middle of nowhere and a lifetime of MREs to avoid my crippling shame.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shit, man! It STILL frustrates me that "Josh's Blair Witch Mix," a tie-in "mixtape" that was supposed to have been "found" in Joshua Leonard's car in 1994 had three songs on the playlist that didn't come out until years later.* And I didn't even make that mix!!!

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a former litigator, I cannot imagine going into actual testimony as unprepared as Eric Schmitt and being so roundly humiliated with casual knowledge. Not even specialized understanding like in My Cousin Vinnie, but just knowing the difference between the names of sport teams!

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How your email finds me

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"One reason rape culture is so difficult to dismantle is that doing so requires us to abandon one of its most comforting myths: that rapists are fundamentally different from the rest of us," @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social writes

andreavbecker.substack.com

The Myth of the Monster Rapist

On the Cornell 7, rape culture, and why I no longer write about rape

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yea. My hard drive died. I'm pretty sure I backed up everything suuuuuper important... except maybe the latest rewrite edits on my novel in progress. *le sigh*

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Canada vs USA UFC Canadian beats the living shit the shit out of the MAGA mouthpiece! #cdnpoli

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I used to say, "If I could do math, I'd've gone to med school instead."

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

FUN FACT: I've written a novella that follows up with the MC ten years later. Still deciding how to get that out into the world. Will let you all know when I do.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This poor little book has had a rough go of it. First publisher (a solid guy) decided to close shop, and Amazon has given the successor publisher such absolute hell he finally gave up. I need to get it back in print.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you feel comfortable, DM me a mailing address and I'll send you the epilogue the original editor cut (that I restored in the second edition).

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Christopher Buehlman @buehlmeister.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Truly haunting and macabre cover art for the Italian edition of Between Two Fires, Tra Due Fuochi, published by the excellent team at Mercurio. 🖤🖤🖤

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

THANK YOU! You found the original edition!

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet

5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion

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WIRED @wired.com · 24/09/2026

Since joining the tech company in 2025, Gary has noticed that naming his employer prompts brutal reactions from prospective paramours. One woman, he says, called him the devil; another asked how he lives with himself. www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

“When I started thinking about questions around genocide and the technology that kills or tracks or excludes. I realized that the things these people are building are secretly, or under the surface, really nefarious, and I could not personally be with someone who is a puzzle piece in that tapestry.” - Helen, a 28 year-old who works at an impact investing firm funding technology for underserved communities

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/09/2026

Time Magazine Feb 1993 www.tumblr.com/envexe/82486...

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I got the book and the sticker, but no jerky!!!

An emoji crying to the heavens with an expression of WHYYYYYYYY!?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Given Melania’s close ties with Jeffrey Epstein, human trafficking may be one of the rare issues to which she brings expertise.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love this show so much. Somehow, despite it being recorded with an audience, I'd always imagined the panel all just sitting at a long convention-style table, maybe with printed name placards. There's an actual set! Peter Sagal has a PODIUM!!! WHAAAAAAT!? (realizing my impoverished imagination.)

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