iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

No?? Aside from how Baldwin likely would not be into AI (a soulless thing), why use AI for what is essentially looking up key words in an index (or a word cloud)? If people will be drawn to this because they're drawn to AI, would they actually have the desire and patience to read Baldwin's writing?

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 07,1955

P1- NANCY IS LOOKING VERY TIRED AS SHE YAWNS
FRITZI: NANCY--- GO TO BED ---YOU'RE NOT GETTING ENOUGH SLEEP LATELY
P2-
FRITZI: YOU GET UP VERY EARLY AND YOU GO TO BED VERY LATE
P3-
FRITZI: REMEMBER, YOU CAN'T. BURN A
CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS
P4- FRITZI IS SURPRISED AS NANCY HAS A CANDLE VERTICALLY BALANCED ON THE TOP OF A FUNNELS SPOUT, AND THE CANDLE IS BURNING ON BOTH ENDS
NANCY IS SMILING
NANCY: HEH,HEH

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

while waiting several weeks for a response to an email, I've written over 12,000 words into a new project; I don't think the concoction of spite and anxiousness is a poor motivator, even taken subconciously.

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

yuzu baby's having a growth spurt this summer

the same small yuzu plant as those pictured in the quoted post, now a year later, with several more leaves and a few inches more height, it is a vibrant green and inspires confidence

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

maybe an unpopular opinion but I think y'all have got to stop calling your art/humanities degrees useless. that degree kept you from getting a degree in business.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

i think to be a writer you have to be stubborn, defiant, and at least a bit delusional. i mean, you have to believe—and keep believing—that you have something worth putting on the page. even just for yourself.

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Excited for this! (& long live Lost/Found!) 🎊

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I’m so furious about how stupid everything is

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

attenborough-100.vercel.app

Attenborough at 100 — A Nature Documentary Archive

Explore nearly 5,000 episodes across 90 series — from Zoo Quest in 1954 to Secret Garden in 2026. Search by animal, habitat, location, or theme.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Look, if I unclench my jaw, my brain might fall out

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 01/04/2026

We're open for MULTIGENRE FULL-LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS!!! April 1 - June 1, send your multigenre books to our SUPER EXCITED brand new multigenre reading team, headed by our SUPER EXCITED multigenre editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social! Link for full details + to submit: splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

purple background with jellyfish and the message OPEN CALL FOR MULTIGENRE MANUSCRIPTS, reading period April 1 through June 1, submit at splitlippress.submittable.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

Elderly man with a thin mustache holding a cardboard sign

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surely magazine @surelymag.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

our next submission window opens March 29, and it will be for a themed issue—"big slime falls down stairs"! guidelines and more are at surelymag.com/about

Issue 34 will be a themed issue! Inspired by some search terms that showed up in our site analytics, the theme for our next issue is "big slime falls down stairs"—this is wide open to interpretation, but we want your prime slime, your sentient blobs, your gooey pratfalls, your fun fiction that leaves us gooped.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

as an editor of a small literary magazine, i'm begging folks to read submission guidelines a little more closely. otherwise i have to tap the sign via email. ☹️

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

flames….flames on the side of my face

A screenshot of an incredibly ridiculous and offensive email for a “writer editor - part time - AI trainer” position with Outlier Ai that pays FIFTEEN DOLLARS PER HOUR for a person with a brain and editing and writing experience to train some sort of LLM bullshit bot to help AI replace the very person training the program.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

When you recount this election day:

Gonzo in Muppet Christmas Carol saying "Now once again, I must ask you to remember that Dick Cheney was dead and decaying. That one thing you must remember, or both that follows will seem wondrous."

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Tash 🍉 @tashmahal.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

Oh Lydia Davis ❤️

Fear
By Lydia Davis

Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She cries out, "Emergency, emergency," and one of us runs to her and holds her until her fears are calmed. We know she is making it up; nothing has really happened to her. But we understand, because there is hardly one of us who has not been moved at some time to do just what she has done, and every time, it has taken all our strength, and even the strength of our friends and families too, to quiet us.

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 04/04/2025

Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday. Heart feels better, then. But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart. - Lydia Davis #Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

Head, Heart

Heart weeps.

Head tries to help heart.

Head tells heart how it is, again:

You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday.

Heart feels better, then.

But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart.

Heart is so new to this.

I want them back, says heart.

Head is all heart has.

Help, head. Help heart.

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Em Gray @em-words.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This might be my favourite piece by Lydia Davis - a comfort in the never lostness of things.

A photo of a book page, showing a short story by Lydia Davis titled 'Lost Things' that reads;

They are lost, but also not lost but somewhere in the world. Most of them are small, though two are larger, one a coat and one a dog. Of the small things, one is a valuable ring, one a valuable button. They are lost from me and where I am, but they are also not gone. They are somewhere else, and they are there to someone else, it may be.
But if not there to someone else, the ring is, still, not lost to itself, but there, only not where I am, and the button, too, there, still, only not where I am.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

It is true there is not enough beauty in the world. It is also true that I am not competent to restore it. Neither is there candor, and here I may be of some use. —Louise Glück, from "October"

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bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Ursula Le Guin's 1999 letter to Michael Powell, the owner of Powell's Books in Portland. Powell's workers unionized in 2000 and have faced some union-busting measures since, but were the first contract in ILWU Local 5.

Ursula Le Guin letter to the owner of Powell's Books in 1999 where she says it would be an honor to know that it's a union shop.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I didn’t even edit this one. Snail looked this good all on their own. Sports Illustrated model of snails over here. Great work snail you’re lookin wet as hell.

A wet snail on some tiny leaves on the side of a wall

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Ah, the scammy book club placement emails have reached me and they’re getting the title of my book wrong. The perils of being An Author in the modern age ✨

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

my 1st book, Sister Golden Calf, was released 2 years ago today by @splitlippress.com. I don't think anyone can predict how a book launch will go, but I got real lucky with the Split/Lip team & the events I got to do in Portland w/ David Naimon, Alissa Hattman, Thea Prieto, & Bishop & Wilde Books

the cover of Sister Golden Calf: a peach-colored rectangle hovers in front of a landscape of red rock formations and blue sky. On the peach rectangle are the title of the book and my name, in front of a pile of 7 cow legs; 1 cow leg hovers mid-air. Designed by David Wojciechowski.

David Naimon and I in front of the audience at Powell's City of Books

Me reading in front of a wall of books at The Stacks Coffeehouse

Promo graphic for my reading at Bishop & Wilde on 10/4/2023. Five people showed up for this reading, but now I'm actually friends with all of them, and the oddly intimate reading situation should not be dismissed!

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

thank god i'm not alive to see this

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

how the emails are finding me this morning:

Three pictures of sun bears, which look dazed and goofy as hell standing on hind legs, the wonderful ape-dog creatures everyone knows them to be. They’ve never been sent emails and I envy them that.

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

& speaking of review outlets, a boon for my Monday just came in the mail

The latest issue of The Anarchist Review of Books

“In this year of war, fear, and rage, we have found ourselves returning again and again to W. S. Merwin’s poem The River of Bees. “We are the echo of the future,” Merwin writes, “On the door it says what to do to survive/ But we were not born to survive/ Only to live”
ALL POWER TO THE IMAGINATION
ALL POWER TO LIFE

The Editorial Collective
August 15, 2025”

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

what if I (or anyone) started a publication for reviewing books that have been out at least a year...? 🤔

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

It’s too hot to think about quilting. And yet.

A six-pointed star made of fabric with a pattern of orange and blue polka dots floating over a white background (the dots are about dime-sized and have gradation so they almost look spherical), with a solid light orange hexagon at the center of the star

A six-pointed star made of fabric with a pattern of orange and dark teal dotted lines arcing over a light sagey green background (the lines are crossed by coordinating orange and green dots here and there, they look like olives or beads), with a solid orange hexagon at the center of the star

A six-pointed star made of fabric with a pattern of white, light blue, and dark blue flower shapes and angular shapes (very kiki and bouba), with a solid blue hexagon at the center of the star

A six-pointed star made of fabric with a pattern of leaves in stems curving around a white background (the colors are Mardi Gras shades of yellow, green, and purple), with a solid purple hexagon at the center of the star

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

It’s a heatwave in Portland so I’m looking back ever so longingly at quilting progress from a couple weeks ago

A six-pointed quilted star made of fabric with dark brown polka dots (smaller than a dime) on off-white, with a light brown hexagon at the center of the star

A six-pointed quilted star made of fabric that looks like a very small scale Yayoi Kusama net painting in coral over white, with a solid pink hexagon at the center of the star

A six-pointed quilted star made of fabric with a stylized daisy print in dark blue with overlapping grid and checkered patterns, with a blue hexagon at the center of the star

A six-pointed quilted star made of fabric with a print that’s really hard to describe—light brown background with a pattern of dark brown, yellow, and green on top, in sort of crisscrossing and diamond shaped routes but made of u-shaped marks—it’s very late ‘60s I think, with a light brown hexagon at the center of the star

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I’m Out Of Office for the next week but please fill our inbox with your weird short fiction in the meantime

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

“Let us come together to celebrate literature without lending these banks the shine of our collective dreams for a better future, without helping the reputations of those who profit off death in the shadows.” 📣📣📣

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

This beautiful summer poem by Rosalie Moffat.

THE SUMMER THE COLLIES

died and were buried beneath fir trees,
I had two kinds of apple: red and red-yellow.
I had a three-legged aluminum ladder, a bucket, a wasp's nest the size of my fist.
I fit between
the branches, filled, first my hands and pockets
and then the bucket. A wasp with the face
of my oldest dog stung me twice. It takes a long time
to leave. My father's green bulldozer will break down
in the purple-headed thistles some August
and then stay and stay there. A tractor outlasts
a person. It's never worth it to haul it away.
There are monuments, in the country, everywhere.
If I talk too often about wasps it's because they're inescapable.
They'll be under the hood in no time--here, no emptiness
goes uninhabited. I always want to put Christ's heart back
in his chest, like returning a jar of jam
to the cupboard. I make the bruised apples into sauce,
ladle it hot into jars. What is sown as perishable
is raised imperishable--a joke I make
to myself about the buzzing soul
of the bulldozer, existing here on earth
long after it's died, as something venomous
and intelligent.

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Request: could everything just kind of stop for one (1) month

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

@robertlong4man.bsky.social what have you done?? Weird Pig can steal my car anytime; he’s one in a million (I would’ve read it sooner but needed to save it as a reprieve for an especially dark season & it really came through)

A picture of Robert Long Foreman’s novel WEIRD PIG

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 08/07/2025

Ah, so the day has arrived when we need to bring this chestnut over from ye olde Twitter archives. PLEASE shop small/local/direct whenever you can!!!

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