iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026

We desperately need to get away from arguments for the humanities that elevate them because of what they do for technology. The humanities should not be understood as service disciplines. They are an extension of us, and that is enough.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

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Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

actually my thing is the best thing you could read about her because it knows what a memoir is www.patreon.com/posts/144031...

More and more, I hunger for the real story in this horrid morass, because every new detail that emerges convinces me that it's fucking interesting. Nuzzi was engaged to Ryan Lizza, who was dismissed from the New Yorker because of sexual misconduct allegations! And Lizza just published a blog claiming that Nuzzi also slept with Mark Sanford during the 2020 election! And Nuzzi recorded a song when she was sixteen called "Jailbait" where she sneers about seducing much older men! The real story exists, dammit—I can smell the sadness emanating off it like rot, all that selfishness and narcissism and addictive behavior. Now, it's not my business to moralize. Indeed, I'm starting to feel bad for Nuzzi because of how many journalists are gleefully moralizing about the skanky things she's done. Well, I'm guilty of plenty of skanky behavior myself, and so is every uppity journalist being all pious about how they would never and they could never and can you imagine. I can't judge about any of that. I can, however, judge a memoirist for declining to write honestly and therefore compellingly about her awfulness. I write honestly about my awfulness; it's a charge I take seriously; being a memoirist who refuses to do so is autobiographical malpractice.

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 07/11/2025

In his work, Ronald M. Schernikau paired strong political commitments with a rigorous engagement with craft. Ben Miller writes on his queer Bildungsroman, “smalltownnovella,” out this month in an English translation from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social.

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Innocence and Its Opposite | Ben Miller

Ronald M. Schernikau knew that literary creation and political engagement are intimately related—and in unpredictable ways.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

love a crisp fall day with a high of 82°

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 20/02/2025

Others have remarked on this but the resurgence of the R word across the political spectrum is really wild? Like did I miss a memo about this? I expect it from some people but from others, you really can't come up with a better and more interesting way to describe people you don't like?

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Brendan McHugh @brendanpmchugh.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

A poem got picked up but this selfie feels important, too. Happy NYE

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Brendan McHugh @brendanpmchugh.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I should post more about my writing but I get distracted by my good beard days 😔

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Am I the only one who cannot hear about this book without immediately chanting LET THE BODIES KEEP THE SCORE, LET THE BODIES KEEP THE SCORE in my head www.motherjones.com/media/2024/1...

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What the most famous book about trauma gets wrong

People kept telling me to read "The Body Keeps the Score." I was shocked at what it actually says.

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Jinwoo Park @jinwoo-park.com · 10/12/2024

Han Kang delivered her Nobel Prize lecture in literature on December 7th at the Swedish Academy. There was so much beauty and wisdom in that lecture, but I want to focus on her questions. Specifically, the questions that drive her literary force.

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Slate @slate.com · 26/11/2024

The rise of virtual life is stuck in a feedback loop with the declining appeal of our cities. We can break the cycle.

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It’s Time to Leave the House

There’s still time to save ourselves from the loneliness remote life ushered in five years ago.

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

where is Neil deGrasse Tyson to explain that it’s technically impossible to hold space

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Gays Of Bluesky @gaysof.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🚨 Pink has been removed from Gays of Bluesky “Actually I’m not” - Pink

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Brendan McHugh @brendanpmchugh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I had a really great time having my fun little (and first published) poemt made public by Poetry Trapper Keeper over on Substack. It’s quick it’s about the housewives, enjoy. And follow PTK!!! open.substack.com/pub/poetrytr...

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I am the $60,000 Ring Lisa Barlow lost in a Palm Springs Airport

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Brendan McHugh @brendanpmchugh.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Taking a moment from errands/writing to announce I am experiencing beard euphoria today.

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Brendan McHugh @brendanpmchugh.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Loved writing with Contingent a few years ago-give em a follow!

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Brendan McHugh @brendanpmchugh.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Loved finding @renfro.bsky.social new book on my work’s bookshelves! Going to dive into this asap (and everyone should buy it from your local indie)

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

person ahead of me on the train skipped past a TikTok from a Zizek lecture to watch a full scene from Breaking Bad

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

at least once a month i get an email from an app i use every day that’s like ‘good news! patreon’s got a fresh new look 😎 also we moved every button to a place where you’ll never ever find it!!’

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Brendan McHugh @brendanpmchugh.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Birthday weekend meals with Leslie Jamison’s Splinters ARC 🤌🏻