iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 2h

There’s an infusion center in Denver that I drive by often. Now I wonder what kind of evil goes on in there. Long, worthwhile thread.🧵

040

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

BARO @baro.bsky.social · 13h

I always thought the ultimate highest level of solidarity was between the hyper-wealthy, but the solidarity between rapists seems an even more universal and unbreakable bond.

0292

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19h

Labor's share of income just hit an all-time low. That means for every dollar a company brings in, workers are taking home smaller and smaller slices. Income keeps shifting to the owners. With @svaneksmith .bsky.social newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…

17546204

Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Didn’t know that if a journalist interviewed you, your words could be used by any journalist in a massive media organization for any purpose. Seems likely to dry up journalism’s sources.

030

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵

101091256

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 02/10/2026

I strongly encourage Republicans to run on this message!

Screen shot of a Fox News clip with Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett saying: "The higher mortgage rates are actually a good sign for the economy because corporations are borrowing money to build things like data centers instead of lending to homeowners."

32847231

Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If we’re not worried about Ebola spreading in the midst of a civil war, we should be (sez old epidemiologist husband and others)

040

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Keith Edwards @kedwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The GOP realize they're going to get their ass whooped in the Midterms and so are pivoting to, "let's all calm down, be civil and focus on the real issue: the national debt," to try and difuse any messy, divisive hearings or trials for crimes against humanity.

031

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

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

Anyway I don't want to be accused of starting drama. I don't want to be assaulted, and I don't want to be a problem! So I leave and the men assume I'm tired or dull or maybe they don't care bc without me, they don't have to confront the creeps, they can claim ignorance and buy the bar another round.

303553247

Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just had this conversation with my son. The abuse of athletes is related to the abuse of women (and racial terrorism, too).

050

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not quite. Egos and incompetence are what created the DHS. 9/11 is just what put those failures of Republican character into the spotlight because they refused to work with each other, share information, and instead chased the spotlight. DHS literally could've been an org chart.

093

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Sarah Handley-Cousins @sarahbelle721.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Slavemasters built their wealth & status through rape. Epstein created a network of power through the bodies of girls. The Cornell case is a reminder that men use (and have long used) women's bodies to forge relationships with other men that help them move through echelons of power & wealth.

05120

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

SusanHughes @susanhughes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#mentorship_opp Are you a Canadian writer working on a children's manuscript? I can apply for a @twuc grant to mentor 1 writer (10 hrs). Get in touch with me by Oct 15 if interested! writersunion.ca/mentorship-m... @canscaip.bsky.social @scbwicanadaeast.bsky.social @scbwicanadawest.bsky.social

writersunion.ca

Mentorship Microgrants | The Writers' Union of Canada

236

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“The goal was to destabilize U.S. educational infrastructure and carve out a large space for reactionary indoctrination within it.” When you don’t have a teacher—a thinking person—in a classroom, endless ideological reproduction is easier.

416862

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This piece highlights that despite the success of those of us pushing back on AI mania, some bad experiments are being performed on children with AI tools. Superintendent and administrators appear especially vulnerable to industry talking points.

npr.org

Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them

Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.

33820

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight

17124532615

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ap is broken, we can and should do better www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

press.jhu.edu

Shortchanged

How Advanced Placement Cheats Students

1224

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Raise your boys to be the ones who yell absofuckingloutely not when they see a man spike a woman’s drink. Tell them about what happened at Cornell and their job is to disrupt the group chat and call the police. Teach them that this is what being a man looks like.

430884

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the loss of privacy for adults is the actual intention; they want all our movements linked to our state ID like most moral panics “the kids!” is a bad faith smokescreen for the encroachment the fascists desire

7373135

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My working theory is that misogyny runs DEEP in American culture because it’s the thing that has united our otherwise discordant subcultures from the beginning. What did the Puritans and the secular intellectual libertines like Ben Franklin have in common? Misogyny!

2585

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Had bookmarked this and just now listened. Fantastic episode. The enslavement of Native Americans was based on *where* they were. They were on land that settler Americans wanted. It was qualitatively distinct from the enslavement of African Americans and those differences need to be understood.

37731

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Ms. Foundation for Women @msfoundation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#HispanicHeritageMonth spotlights essential contributions of Latine & Hispanic communities. Dolores Huerta reminds us: collective action builds collective power🤝 This year, she came forward as an SA survivor, in hopes of empowering others with similar experiences. Our love for her is unwavering.

13313

Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great thread 🧵 on trump’s war on academia, from the guy whose education posts got me to join twitter years ago.

172

Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Helluva 🧵 thread. Ever notice how a lot of people who live dangerously die at home in their nineties?

181

Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Probably one of the most important things in this election will be the state executive races.

012

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

The Nicest of the Damned @tyrannosaurus-ritt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For those interested: Patterson has a huge immigrant population. We're encouraging Multilingual Learners to join as a fun way to practice speaking, listening to, and reading English. As a service project, I have a dream to train teen DMs to host one-shots at a neighborhood old folks' home.

1112

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

The Nicest of the Damned @tyrannosaurus-ritt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gonna try again: I'm a public school teacher in Baltimore with a newly approved D&D club. We could really use supplies and we don't have much money to spend. Please consider donating some supplies *or* sharing this post on your feed! #dnd #d&d #ttrpg #gaming www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

amazon.com

Check out my list on Amazon

104540

Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ugly. Sure hope nobody I interact with online hooks up with Muse. Vain hope, eh?

020

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

amjro.bsky.social @amjro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Agreed! “Hanania is an early case of the type we will likely face in much greater numbers after Trump is gone. That is, some chunk of the far-right commentariat will try to make safe passage back to mainstream media. We should not let them.”

083

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NO So disrespectful. I hate it.

2625227

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

JazzComposer @jazzcomposer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A satiric contagion: Brainworm crawling up the nose What it eats no one knows Missing brain explains his woes Ear to ear the wind now flows Measles used to be quite rare Now we have to be aware Old diseases are everywhere Public health in disrepair Lessons from our past Lost very fast

031

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"We are opening up our service members to unnecessary danger and harm as a result of an unnecessary war that we should not have gotten in to." Eileen Laubacher is running for Congress against Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 4th Congressional District. @eileenforco.bsky.social

523148

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I feel like if Sam Altman was criminally charged under CFAA they would figure out a way to stop doing crimes all the time

441850

Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yesterday I had the post-vax shadow of flu. Today I #amwriting and I’m excited because I’m back at the beginning of my WIP, restoring some ‘Ōlelo Hawai’i vocabulary that I’d taken out. Some translations don’t satisfy. It’ll be much better this way. Mahalo to @leilehuayuen.bsky.social

060

Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

😁 I guess the Republicans are unhappy with the price of diesel

030

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

6. "This truck is gonna sit and rot now until this idiot president is out of office," said a Trump supporter in a video that went viral. "I voted for him and I'm so sorry I voted for him." He added: "I never thought I would say this – I miss Joe Biden."

620352

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

But the 2024 election cycle blew that up. Their Trump fluffing was still more or less balancer shit for most of 2024, but late in the cycle, when the wealthy owners of The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times BOTH refused to let their underlings endorse Kamala Harris? Game over. New era.

141

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

Relief sculpture of a lithe figure in a dancing-like pose

712964939

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 22/09/2026

Got notified an artist was located, hired, and paid for work through HireHumanArtists.com and I couldn't be more thrilled Pls hire more artists through here!!! Support human made! #hha

hirehumanartists.com

Find an Artist Who Doesn't Use Generative AI | Hire Human Artists

Looking for an artist for your next project? Our human artist directory is full of over 400 artists who have pledged not to use gen AI.

111190669

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

DTEE @dtee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

just got off the phone with my school’s financial aid department, yeah I’m probably not seeing my loan for bit. not there fault or mine, the administration just hasn’t helped i got bills to pay by the end of the month, so any commissions are appreciated right now!

02119

Reposted by Ellen Hokanson

Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

6/end: Banning diesel exports would, in effect, be a small subsidy to farmers and other industrial users of diesel across the country at the expense of New England residents, who would see heating costs skyrocket if not run into acute physical shortages.

815834