iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 21h

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 22h

I can finally share the cover for THE WORST MONK IN OMNU, out next May from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social!

Cover art for THE WORST MONK IN OMNU by Marie Brennan. In a nighttime landscape, an Asian-looking monk is silhouetted against a glowing waterfall plunging down the mountainside.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23h

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 22h

⚔️🔥Wanna see what’s in the brand new HERO SLAM expansion pack? I made a quick unboxing video so you can see everything, while also trying to speed through some of the cards to keep a bit of surprise 🫡 💖 Hero Slam: Curse Of The Cat Demon is out NOW! (Requires original Hero Slam game)

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

followers from the twitter days may remember my 'english mall or indee horror game?' quizzes

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I would have written your name in gold leaf on parchment but all I had to hand was a penknife and a park bench.

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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026

The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 30/09/2026

It's new Hurley story day! For a buck you get 120+ pieces of short, weird fiction you can read instead of doom scrolling. Join the 1000+ other folks who think that's a GREAT idea www.patreon.com/kameronhurley

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Kameron Hurley — creating Short Stories

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“There is a harvest of greed and corruption and cruelty that’s cropped up in the last ten years, lovingly tended by those who were supposed to strike it down.” New interview! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zswl...

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Trump Created a CRISIS that Half the Country Doesn't Know About! (feat. Sarah Kendzior)

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy #internationaltranslationday! The perfect time to meet NORDIC NIGHTMARES: a new anthology featuring nightmarish tales of mystery and horror, from the best voices in contemporary Nordic fiction ed. by Margarét Helgadóttir! Out October (UK) & November 2026 in (US). Preorder geni.us/nordicnigh

A paperback copy of NORDIC NIGHTMARES egainst a purple fabric background.

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I guess wanting trans people to be allowed to exist in public life, disabled people to be able to afford to live and refugees not to being hounded by racist mobs is “perfectionism” now.

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gob-1.bsky.social @gob-1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have a very small footprint on social media, but for those that see this could you take a look at this please and respond of you wish to. Google (former motto "Don't be evil") want to build a data center on an Essex wildlife reserve. action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/200909/...

action.wildlifetrusts.org

Defend wildlife in Thurrock from a data centre

The Thurrock Local Plan is the perfect tool to ensure development does not damage nature.

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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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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 29/09/2026

Ohohoho my contributor copy of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD arrived! :D Yos yos I love it LOVE that cover (cover art by Galen Dara, AND the wonderful internal black-and-white illos!)

a copy of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD in front of my tea tray (a black tray with a skull on it)

the cover of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, edited by jonathan strahan, illustrated by galen dara, showing a skeletal figure with a crown of roses, spectral robes hanging. behind it is a tombstone surmounted with a circled cross.

SINKING ALL THE WHILE

Premee Mohamed

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We didn't kill him. He fell sometimes people die of a fall-it's known-we are accustomed to blame but we are not to blame. Perhaps he was dead al-ready. We don't know. It's not our fault. We can't tell.

It is true that we embraced him as he sank, and we pulled on his soft rich clothing, yes, that's true. We pulled him-not down! toward!-in a direction toward the center of things, you know the one. Deep inside. People have this silly idea about directions, the way to cut up the world, north south east west up down. They forget away and toward (the center).

You cannot cut water; we think he still tried. The scabbard on his belt was empty. His hand clutched a knife. He sank slowly toward the center.

How we held him! Like a lover, entered him, tenderly, sweetly, in si-lence, not wishing to be too forward (not a direction). His juices meeting our juices. Blood of the city: rainwater and pisswater and the oozings of trash, of-fal on Butcher Street

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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 29/09/2026

Hey authors fancy doing something fun for Halloween text in the alt description

Hi
Every Halloween week, Ginger Nuts of Horror likes to do something daft. This year it's the Halloween Author Interrogation: five silly questions sent to a batch of horror writers, with the best answers run together in one piece on Wednesday 28 October. We'd love you to be one of the accused.
There are no wrong answers, only answers your publicist might wince at. Answer as many as you like (three or more is perfect), and keep each one short, anywhere from a sentence to about 100 words.
1. You're allowed to keep one cursed object from horror fiction or film. Which one do you take home, and what everyday job do you put it to?
2. Which horror death would be the most embarrassing to explain to your mum?
3. Your house is haunted, but the ghost only has one complaint about you. What is it?
4. Which horror villain would make the worst flatmate, and what does the first passive-aggressive note you stick on the fridge say?
5. A demon offers to write one scene of your next book in exchange for your soul. Which scene do you hand over, and is it worth it?
Along with your answers, please send:
• A one-line bio
• Your latest or upcoming book, with a link
• An author photo we can use
• Your social handles, so we can tag you when it goes live
The deadline is Friday 16 October. Just reply to this email with your answers.
Thanks for playing along. It should be a lot of fun, and a nice way to get your name and book in front of our readers in the scariest week of the year.
Best wishes,
Jim McLeod
Ginger Nuts of Horror

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you’ve ever wanted to read a story where a far right book banning group got what they deserved this one is for you👌

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Renard Press @renardpress.com · 10/08/2026

🧡💙Have you discovered our Renard Press Editions? Signed, flapped, numbered editions, in this rather glorious regalia – featuring @iainhoodwriter.bsky.social and @annmorgan.bsky.social – and an anthology of all the contemporary books from our first five years, raising funds for Bookbanks. 🙌

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Marley Rose-Teter @marleyroseteter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Changelings have always had a special place in my heart, so of course I jumped at the chance to write about them for Reactor! Featuring fabulous changeling stories by @franceshardinge.bsky.social, @hgparry.bsky.social, @kimberlybea.bsky.social, Ivelisse Houseman, and @macarrick.bsky.social!

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are many things in this world I do not know nearly well enough to offer what would be a presumptuous opinion. On #Ireland, the #OrangeOrder, and #GarvaghyRoad, I did come across this comment on Insta that I'd like to offer instead. Peace is fragile. This is how we hold on.

kev_buchanan writes on Instagram in response to a news item:

I understand tradition. I understand freedom. And I understand the principle of having the right to walk peacefully on a public road.

But surely rights also come with responsibility, judgement and an understanding of history.

For almost 30 years the Orange Order has not walked down Drumcree Garvaghy Road. That restriction didn't appear from nowhere. It followed years of confrontation, violence and division surrounding a period in which people lost their lives and, amid the horror of 1998, three young brothers, Richard, Mark and Jason Quinn, were murdered in a loyalist petrol-bomb attack.

Yet here we are in 2026, after an administrative failure opened the original decision to legal challenge, with men sitting through the night in court and now apparently prepared to wait however long it takes to exercise their "right" to walk down one particular road.

But why?

Tradition matters. Freedom matters. The rule of law matters. But so do remorse, empathy, responsibility and knowing when a tradition has become more damaging than meaningful.

Nobody needs to surrender their culture or identity. But after almost three decades, if exercising a right means insisting on walking through a community that overwhelmingly does not want you there, reopening wounds that Northern Ireland has spent years trying to heal, perhaps the bigger question isn't whether you can.

It's why you still feel you must.

At some point preserving tradition has to matter less than preserving peace. Otherwise we aren't honouring history - we're refusing to learn from it.

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Claudia Salowski @claudiasalowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Frühstücksdöner, anyone?

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again:

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are opening submissions for our fourth and final issue of the year in October! SOON! Issue 4 has a theme: EXPLORATION 🪐🗡️ Early opening for trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors: October 1-7 General submissions: October 8-21 Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New books are here! The Pike Boys has been compared to the sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, and Peaky Blinders. It takes place in 1920 NOLA, and follows the exploits of three brothel-owning rum-running brothers, as they navigate generational trauma, addiction, and poverty! DM me for signed copies!

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

"Once, I went out on the rob for diesel, and sparked a major international security incident"

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Kate Shaw / Tigerbat Tails @tigerbattails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hardbacks ordered! I ordered a few extras to sell at CONjuration in November if no one grabs them as preorders first. Paperbacks are in production and I should have them within two weeks! All books ship out as soon as I get them!

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Rhiannon Grist | HOME SICK out now! 🪓🐑 @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Getting ready for the best season's reading 👀🦇🍁

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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nobody could have predicted this. It’s not as if Britain has a history of damaging its own economy in order to chase the satisfaction of a clutch of racists.

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For Halloween, spiders put out tiny decorations that look like human furniture.

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

See, making young people’s lives better, improving their life chances and giving them more opportunities, *that* could be a ‘moral crusade’. Changing U.K. benefits for young people is just about saving rich people’s money.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An early peek at the Tyrant Philosophers ttrpg

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We've seen lots of Hummingbird Hawk-Moths in our garden this year, but last night as darkness fell, we were treated to a first ever visit from its amazing larger cousin. The arrival of the nocturnal #Convulvulus Hawk-Moth caused panic to find my flash. I set up just in time... #TeamMoth #Stunday

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Colin Sinclair @devilsjunkshop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was going to suggest this might be more interesting if it featured non-politicians trying to cope with an emergency situation, but then I remembered the BBC did that in 2004 for a show called "Crisis Command".

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

cuth pube

A sign that attempts to spell out "the Cube pub" by shifting the B in Cube down with the PU right before it and TH before the E.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Still a bit blown away to see copies of ‘Hookland Fragments’ in the wild. Here is a signed copy available from @treadwells-books.bsky.social

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Scuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Janice Turner has no background or training in medicine, neuroscience, psychology or psychiatry.

Janice Turner: Is your ADHD diagnosis really helping you?
A huge increase in those claiming the condition as well as receiving Pip to cope with it risks creating a lost generation

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

definitely worth reading. I think maybe the broadcast pointing tv cameras into the crowd deserves some opprobrium as well.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Longfang @longfang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

RIP. This product image has killed me.

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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 - ℌ𝔬𝔴𝔩 𝔚𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔢 @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So this game called "Dverghold" came across my Steam homepage. Interesting retro vibes, apparently collabing with a dungeon synth artist for the OST. The art was kinda tickling my AI-dar though, so I scrolled down to look for any disclaimers.

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