iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*

21419405

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

13674820319711

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 31/03/2026

Happy Publication Day to the Official @marchxness.bsky.social Selection Committee, @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social, and the long awaited, never duplicated HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY!!! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

cover of March Xness Anthology, a yellow book with a cassette tape on the cover

14016

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Melissa Faliveno @mlfaliveno.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

HAIL QUEEN CELINE. It’s an honor to have fallen to these champs!

061

Reposted by Emma Allmann

March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

THAT'S THE BUZZER! MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION HAS CROWNED A NEW CHAMPION! FINAL SCORE: CELINE DION, "My Heart Will Go On" and @mfitejohnson.bsky.social 784, Ben Folds Five, "Brick" and @cicilybennion.bsky.social 474. Congratulations to both our finalists for an outstanding game.

13410

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Erin Dorney @erindorney.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

518 Zine Fest tomorrow! I turned my @marchxness.bsky.social essay into a zine and I'll have some copies there ❤️‍🔥

A drawing of a green moth reading a zine, highlighting the 518 Zine Fest on March 28 from 12-4PM in Albany, NY. The moth's wings have all of the tablers listed, and the Albany skyline can be seen in the background.

A spread from Erin's zine on heteronormativity and Paula Cole's Where Have All The Cowboys Gone showing a woman on a horse going off a cliff with men chasing her. Erin is holding the zine in her room, you can see her feet and some other zines on the floor.

2187

Reposted by Emma Allmann

March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

TIE GAME 275-275 with 100' to play. Get ye vote on if you have any feelings in you: marchxness.com#/final4-fold...

052

Reposted by Emma Allmann

March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

TOMORROW FRENZ IT IS THE FINAL FOUR / BATTLE OF THE 1-SEEDS. GNR VS CELINE. PREPARE THYSELVES.

095

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Last night I shot a music video on the blacked-out beach for my synth'd out "Glycerine" cover. Big thanks to Dave Rosman for the violin, big thanks to YOU for voting Bush on to the Final Four of @marchxness.bsky.social! youtu.be/E1DOPrrgCgg

youtu.be

Glycerine (March Sadness)

YouTube video by Jason Thayer

8155

Reposted by Emma Allmann

March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Sending our condolences to and appreciation of @jygravley.bsky.social and @emryal91.bsky.social for their excellent essays and deep March Sadness runs. We salute you and your work!

0184

Emma Allmann @emryal91.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

What whirlwind! This has been so fun and I'm delighted to have made it to the sweet sixteen. Kind of can't believe this is what has got me playing the uke again! Congratulations to @thejasonthayer.bsky.social I'm so excited to cheer for you in the next round!

393

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Melissa Faliveno @mlfaliveno.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This Blink/Bush matchup is the heartbreaker of my Xennial dreams. Sixteen Stone was one of my favorite albums as a thirteen-year-old, but Adam’s Song was my saddest 90s pop punk anthem, and when I saw Blink for the first time a couple years ago man did I weep. Blink forever!

1103

Reposted by Emma Allmann

March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION SWEET 16 DAY 4 SCORES, 120’ to go: Glycerine 131, Adam’s Song 91 You Had Time 119, Sappy 92 Nirvana and Blink-182 on the ROPES Read, listen, vote by 9am today at marchxness.com to register your preferred sadness!

094

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Moira 🫡 @moirajo.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

ADAMS SONG AND SAPPY HIVE WHERE ARE YOU!!!!!!!!

083

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Erin Dorney @erindorney.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

In high school I crowd surfed at a Blink 182 concert (very not my nature, but, exhilarating!). My gateway to Blink was MxPx, who I also loved dearly. There's still time to help Blink make it to the next round! marchxness.com/schedule

0103

Emma Allmann @emryal91.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Feels very meta to tear up a bit at this! If I go out this round (and it sure is looking like it) how lovely to get to cheer for @thejasonthayer.bsky.social and Bush!

120

Emma Allmann @emryal91.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I've been given to understand this is a @marchxness.bsky.social Sweet 16 tradition? As a millennial representing a millennial song, what I lack in musical skill I more than make up for in ukulele! Would love it if you read my Blink-182 essay and voted! marchxness.com#/sweet16-bus...

2155

Reposted by Emma Allmann

March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Let's get today's SWEET 16 games up: (8) Blink-182 vs (5) Bush / (8) Nirvana vs (13) Ani DiFranco! Read, listen, vote by 9am 3/21 at marchxness.com

2105

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I am a little obsessed with the Gen X / elder Millennial generational split in this tournament (and many Xness tournaments!)

252

Emma Allmann @emryal91.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

ROUNNNND TWOOOOOOOOO honestly it's been so fun reading all these and listening to some sad sad songs! Please go read! Go listen! Go vote! Crazy how much joy all our sadness has brought me!

093

Reposted by Emma Allmann

March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Also just need to say this: the best television show the Selection Committee has seen in the last 10 years is probably Deadloch (streaming on Prime for free). Plus bonus March Sadness 90s Edition content. Don't sleep on it. New season comes out this month!

141

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

For real! What a gift to be able to debate which of these excellent essays and memorable songs hit us squarely in the right soft spot to pull one ever-so-slightly ahead of another ... I learn so much about the songs, the artists, and how people engage with them every year.

092

Emma Allmann @emryal91.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It's HAPPENING!!!! Please vote for my sadness and Blink-182! And go read and vote for more essays about sad 90's songs marchxness.com#/1stround-bl...

marchxness.com

March Sadness 90s Edition

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

171

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10/02/2026

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text. Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

"I'm proud to be here to represent Team USA, and to represent our country. But we'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been for everybody. This stuff is happening right, right around where we live"

"I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution," Ruohonen continued, "and it allows us to (have) freedom of press, freedom of speech, protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures, and makes it that we have to have probable cause to be pulled over. And what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of grey. It's clear."

"I really love what's been happening there now with people coming out, showing the love, the compassion, integrity and respect for others that they don't know, and helping them out," Ruohonen said. "And we love Minnesota for that.

"And I want to make it clear that we are out here, we love our country. We're playing for the U.S. We're playing for Team USA. And we're playing for each other, and we're playing for our family and our friends that sacrificed so much to be here today. And that doesn't change anything.

"Because what the Olympics means is excellence, respect, friendship, and we all, I think, exemplify that. And we are playing for the people of Minnesota and the people around the country who share those same values. That compassion, that love and that respect."

3038531027

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

16687693799

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 24/01/2026

"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ... "Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Stella Carlson said that before the shooting, the man was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather.
"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. The ICE agents approached us, told us to back up, back up. I'm not even sure why we were helping them, if anything. And I got on the snow bank, and next thing I knew, they shot him," Carlson said.

1533641778

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE agents killed a man and are disappearing the witnesses.

2124621212

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 24/01/2026

Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

60806458

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Brian Oliu @brianoliu.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

We have a long road ahead of us but our team is built for this moment. Thanks for the support! 🌾

0136

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Rudbeckia @rudbeckia.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

uh holy SHIT?

157203110

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

322033500

Emma Allmann @emryal91.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Love working with @ecotheo.bsky.social to get this piece together for publication! Check it out here: www.ecotheo.org/etreview/nat...

010

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…

5749722282

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/09/2025

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

833226696758

Emma Allmann @emryal91.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

So excited about this/very aware I picked a song that has BEEN written about. If any of y'all have stories you wanna share about Adam's Song this is me officially saying I'd love to hear them!

3111

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Man I’m just so fucking proud of all the people who didn’t give up and aren’t going to give up

3983101434

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I wrote a pep talk? I started with how I actually feel powerful that an expensive computer program that ate all of my work and that of all writers is still not as good as all of us it stole from. Then I went a few places. Anyway, it's here. mailchi.mp/e87ac78bc7b7...

mailchi.mp

Alexander Chee: Let's Go

1220348

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like. And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

theguardian.com

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

5140932111

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Ink In Thirds @inkinthirds.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Nominations for Best Microfiction 2025 @bestmicrofiction Congrats and good luck! * Fractions by JoAnna Scandiffio @opalstar5 * Sweet Nothings Are a Diary… by Keith J. Powell @keithj_powell * The Ball by Lance Manion * Burnt Lemon by Emma Allmann @emryal91 * My Head by Paul Allatson

151

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Ink In Thirds @inkinthirds.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 for our upcoming issue 𝐕𝐨𝐥. 𝟓, 𝐢.𝟐: #inkinthirdspublished 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥/𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒: 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐄 Paul Allatson, Emma Allmann, Lynn Bey, Andy Bodinger, Kelli Short Borges, Nicole Brogdon, C.W. Bryan...

142

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Hey, look, yet another campus settling this peacefully. It's almost like the university presidents that called in armed police to their campuses to handle their own students made an incredibly stupid mistake and should be forever banned from leading an educational institution.

251285391

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/03/2024

All of this is true, and in addition, when we stop using AI art, it stops using water and electricity, but if we stop using human artists, the human still exists and has needs that must be met.

81018407

Reposted by Emma Allmann

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

A bit of a digression, but Scientific American has been one of the biggest supporters of trans existence and trans rights of any major media org that exists and props to them for that.

121201357