iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Renee Kalagayan @rkalagayanpoet.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

New interview with @emmagstephens.bsky.social up @south85journal.bsky.social !! Would LOVE if you gave us a read. ❣️ 🔗: south85journal.com/2026/06/godh...

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Renee Kalagayan @rkalagayanpoet.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

My friend Emma wrote a book! Available for pre-order & releases next month. 💚 If you love Appalachia, Southern Gothic, formed verse, or existential questions, NO BILLBOARD GOSPEL is for you! @emmagstephens.bsky.social

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.

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Emma Galloway Stephens @emmagstephens.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

There's some good in this world, Charlie Brown. And it's worth fighting for.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb

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The Mountain Goats - Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan

Choose your preferred music service

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Emma Galloway Stephens @emmagstephens.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

While we're all out here hollering good news, I have not one, but TWO books coming out next year.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

If you want to push back against tech's encroachment into every corner of our lives, you have to read books. They're eager to create a future in which most people are illiterate and hooked on slop, a world without imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

did one of these for poets a while ago

two haggard looking people pictured twice, the first picture is labeled “people who read poems” and the second is labeled “people who write poems”

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

people should subscribe to literary magazines

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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

If you're a writer in the South with a funny, irreverent novel, this is the time to send it to me. I would love to read something like that right now.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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Emma Galloway Stephens @emmagstephens.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I need a Portlandia sketch about the Portland occupation

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

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Emma Galloway Stephens @emmagstephens.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I strongly recommend that y'all read literary fiction and poetry from indie presses. These two books from @driftwoodpress.bsky.social are miraculous.

A copy of the book Bark On and a copy of the book Hillbilly Madonna.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 24/09/2025

The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this. I don’t view it as a Me problem.

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Emma Galloway Stephens @emmagstephens.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I finally received a rejection letter from The New Yorker for the poem I sent them in June, 2023.

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Emma Galloway Stephens @emmagstephens.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

First day back in the classroom. I'm not emotionally ready.

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scare-ah 👻 @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

"Sorry, I can't, I'm writing a villanelle"

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Quick everybody cast their phones into the fires of Mount Doom

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Emma Galloway Stephens @emmagstephens.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Today is August 4. The high today was 70. It rained all day, making it feel more like 65. I live in SC. This is unheard of. Felt like early fall.

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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 31/07/2025

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

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Emma Galloway Stephens @emmagstephens.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I saw a group of geese flying south IT'S BEGINNING, BABES, THE AUTUMN APPROACHETH

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Emma Galloway Stephens @emmagstephens.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Saw Sinners at last. Excellent film. Had all my favorite ingredients: southern gothic asthetics, horror as a vessel for social commentary, UNBELIEVABLE music, gorgeous design and cinematography, vampirism as a metaphor for corruption and oppression.

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Emma Galloway Stephens @emmagstephens.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

UPDATE: my submission status has changed to "in progress"!!

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Emma Galloway Stephens @emmagstephens.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Time to watch a tyrant get what's coming to him.

A TV playing Disney's Robin Hood: a shot of Prince John admiring himself in a mirror.

Same, but the crown has slipped down Prince John's stupid tiny head.

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Emma Galloway Stephens @emmagstephens.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

We're staying at THE b&b from Groundhog Day for our tenth anniversary, and let me tell you, this place has truly stratospheric levels of commitment to the bit.

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Christianity Today @christianitytoday.com · 27/06/2025

On Tuesday, Iranian asylum-seekers who fled persecution for their Christian faith were detained by ICE in Los Angeles. The arrests add to a growing number of church members taken despite lawful status.

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On Tuesday, Iranian asylum-seekers were detained in Los Angeles, adding to the count of church members taken despite lawful status.

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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

i am BEGGING you before you pop off about paywalls to go to your local library's website and scroll through their digital resources. mine gives me access to NYT, WSJ, WaPo and if its linked with PressReader or a similar app, all the news magazines, sports, fashion, hobby etc. FOR FREE.

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Emma Galloway Stephens @emmagstephens.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Happy belated 2 year anniversary to my poem I sent to The New Yorker that's still marked "received" in submittable.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

We will believe the worst kind of myths about the people we’ve already decided not to love.

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

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