iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Me: Population Health Somewhat Clinical but Non-Lab Research Assistant Job near Boston? LinkedIn: Gaelic fairytale research job! Must! speak! Gaelic! Me: …that sounds fascinating but that was absolutely not what I was going for

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 8h

my writing style is the scene in @dropout.tv @gamechanger.dropout.tv where the meter thing breaks and Zac Oyama says Oops All Bits? and Sam says OOPS NO BITS except it’s reversed and it’s OOPS ALL SYMBOLISM and no plot

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 8h

brb becoming a dark goth fairy witch who lives in a hawthorn tree and eats blackberries and enchants squirrels and crows foxes. it’s october so none of y’all can tell me what to do anyway. the deer and the geese are my soldiers and i can control the clouds and the moon.

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 20h

back pain back pain back pain back pain back ha ha it’s back the pain is back

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whenever I read about men using AI to draft love notes for their wives, I feel a seething fury. That is something you could easily have done yourself, and it would have been a million times more meaningful. Technology is training us to be dependent and soulless.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Kristin Z. @kayzee1012.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I legit cannot wait for the mid-terms to be over because I am utterly sick of talking about elections. I am sick of the ads, I am sick of the rhetoric, I am sick of the hypocrisy. Election cycles should not be this long and tortuous.

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my good bitch 💎 @clozilla.cryptoanarchy.network · 30/09/2026

it’s really hard to be online right now. it’s like little needles in your soul.

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

heating pad is not enough I need to light my sciatic nerve on fire

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

someone should invent a lower back that doesn’t hurt for no reason whatsoever

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wet feet wet feet big puddles wet feet for hours no dry socks!

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Instead of CSDCAS they should just ask have you ever joyously scripted with an autistic toddler gestalt language processor and are you used to being overworked and underpaid and undervalued then if you say yes to both they let you go to speech language pathology school

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In October I get to go on a trip with my best friends. In November we get to be done with the midterms. In December I get to be done with my course. In January I get to be done with applications. In February I have a thing I’m really looking forward to! And in March I get to rest.

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

and suddenly you wake up and you’re almost 30 and what are you doing with your one wild and precious life? you still don’t know what Big and Perfect Answer you’d give if someone asked but you are living, you are stretching to inhabit a life you once thought was impossible, unreachable, unearned

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

but the wreckage of you I no longer reside in, the bridges have all since been burnt and the ash of the home that I set the fire to starts to return to the earth

youtu.be

Noah Kahan - Halloween (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by NoahKahanVEVO

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ouch, a direct hit

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Goals for today: -Start second half of vowel homework -Finish second half of vowel homework -Email classmate about vowel homework x2 -Check classmate’s answers and compare notes -Start vowel blog post -Pet cat -Take walk -Listen to 1 podcast

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

more professions should do this

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

new idea "one email a day" you should only be able to send or read one email a day

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

vowel quadrilateral intensifies

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you would like an absolutely delightful anecdote about babies and gender, follow this 🧵

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

why pay for Boston Ballet’s The Nutcracker when you can watch rats fighting on the street in Somerville for free?

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

related a little too much to the Autistic Geek who Cannot Lie (to detectives or to anybody) Because She Is Autistic character on last night’s tv with roommate

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

oh so today is a historic! extraordinary! unprecedented! bad news day, not just the ordinary slow creep of fascism and bad news and Trump does dumb shit bad news day. This is great. This is fine. Everything’s fine. 🐶☕️🔥🚛

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ladies, if your man: -Alternates between sudden, sporadic bursts of energy and sleeping all day -Enjoys adventure, including steep hikes -Has shiny, healthy hair but strange hygiene habits -Expresses displeasure by batting at items or knocking them over -Enjoys screaming -that’s a freaking cat

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

what’s a good sport to start following for someone who’s not into sports and a good instrument to play for someone who doesn’t play instruments?? im thinking baseball and guitar??

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

what have we ever done to deserve cats I love them so much

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Whyyyyyy must Bernoulli’s principle and Boyle’s law both start with a B?

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I love fluff I love Somerville I love my friends so much

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

experienced at using data-driven strategies (me think wash foot makes germs come off??) to prevent adverse health outcomes (foot get infected —> I die?!) while providing a positive clinical experience that is sensitive to patients’ lived experiences (idiot girl is big scared of foot ouchy)

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tonight’s concert: Funky indie singer-songwriter turned climate activist doing kinda experimental stuff in a Unitarian Universalist church, at the *longest-running volunteer music organization IN AMERICA*. Songs included… a sea shanty… about BIKE LANES… that got very sexy. MA, never change.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I assume anyone who points out how small the trans population is doesn’t know any trans people & I guess that’s what it takes to care? Because if you know even ONE trans person, like a person in your life, how can you think about that person and conclude it’s okay if they get thrown under the bus?

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The time to push candidates toward more progressive policies is NOT after they get in office. It’s before. We have to look out for everybody. That may include a type of person that is not in your life!

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

describing yourself and your thought processes to a friend who has outside perspective is so humbling lol. they’re just like “sounds like you really want this, why don’t you do what you want and set yourself up for success and see if it works out” and i’m like oh. this was an option? okay I guess

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

being very brave (ran over my bare foot with the heavy nasty trash barrel while wearing flip flops) and coping with hard things (foot ouchy!) through ~creative solutions~ (bandaid on foot) to prevent negative healthcare outcomes (did not die and also did not contract sepsis and die immediately)

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Really interesting zoom today with an autism educator, a parent of a multi-modal communicating autistic child, and a nonspeaking autistic person.

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

-“Non-Lab Research Assistant Jobs w/in 15 miles of Boston” -WET lab job working with WET SQUISHY MOUSE BRAINS must have 7 years’ exp. chopping mice -Policy job studying nutrition in South Africa must speak several languages and be comfortable with 2x/yr travel to South Africa* -No longer hiring

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*searching Indeed for “Research Assistant” jobs*: -Train the Torment Nexus! Remote $120k -Research Technician Salem ER Must Know Computed Tomography 16-hr split shifts working holidays & every other full moon! -Perfect Beautiful MGH/Harvard Job - OOPS 3,000 ppl applied in 5 min, position closed!

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Emma @emmaeducating.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They should invent jobs that people with nonlinear career paths can actually get

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Good news: we have created the Robots That Repeatedly Attempt to Exploit Extant Security Vulnerabilities from the never-published Isaac Asimov short story The Robots That Repeatedly Attempted to Exploit Extant Security Vulnerabilities on Ganymede B.

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