iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 16/09/2026

As long as everyone’s talking about sex stuff, a reminder that I’m fundraising for @scarleteen.com (link in the next post). Scarleteen has been at it with high quality, free, inclusive, joyful sex ed for almost 30 years. They’re one of the few online resources left standing.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.

Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 30/08/2026

this paper is incredible

ROMANCING THE BONE.The women generated four terms that had no
equivalent in the male group's list, all taken from the stock euphemisms of romance fiction, a genre with which men are less familiar (or less willing to admit familiarity). They all fit into the frame "She felt his — against her." They are throbbing manhood, swelling passion, swelling hardness, and growing desire. A related euphemistic term was family jewels.

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🌅 Patricia Wallinga 🌇 @pwallinga.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Pretty much every woman whose name is in the title of her opera

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Elizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

WELL. If you wondered why I had zero things to say about the NYT piece on the HR AI fic situation last month...I had zero things to say publicly then. 🥲 Thank you to everyone who discussed this situation with me and read a draft of this. I tried my best to illustrate these longstanding dynamics:

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Lessons From a Heated Media Rivalry

How we learned that the New York Times has a Fansplaining account.

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I also highly recommend this story! it's long, thoughtful, and deeply engaged with fandom history and dynamics in ways that no other reporting on this topic has been. I said "oof" several times while reading it, which is not a compliment to AI but is a compliment to Kayti Burt.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

i simply cannot believe this

orange cat asleep upside down in his cubby

close up on orange cat asleep upside down in his cubby

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

watching him in motion is funny every time. this man is being operated by a team of puppeteers

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I think a lot about how gentrification and categorization is really flattening everything. It's okay to let things just exist without needing to define them down to three tropes in a trench coat. idk. everything feels so rotten.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Just like we should wonder who benefits when we say "this AI machine is the only way to prove something is AI", I think we should also question who benefits when we say "readers don't care."

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

i'm eeping

orange cat asleep on a bed with navy sheets

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

can you honestly believe this

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 28/07/2026

A thread on special editions, luxury books, and publishing history: In 1903, J. M. Dent created Everyman’s Library, intended as a cheap line of hardbacks to make a classical education accessible as mass literacy rates were on the rise.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

yes! exactly! the promise of AI is limitless knowledge, divorced from the actual people that generated it. information without context or labor or connection! a book with no author! fuck off!!!

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I appreciated this. I'll add that what I've heard from author friends who got the special edition/sprayed edge treatment is that it increases the time dedicated to production at the expense of time dedicated to editorial. More time to spray the edges means less time to write and edit the book.

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

this is partly because I reread/rewatch stuff I love so much (more than other people, I think!), but I do looooove a piece of media that repays revisiting. can't wait to run back through this whole season a couple of times with my noticing glasses on.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21/07/2026

The best fantasy & PNR romance is written by people who understand that this is true but also know how to navigate it in a way that can simultaneously embrace the parts that give us thrills while threading the needle on consent & decency. And there's lots of it out there!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

you will save yourself a lot of trouble and grief on any text based social media site by simply remembering that a lot of people can't read.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

One thing being discussed in SFF circles is how SFF magazines are getting lots of AI-generated submissions purported to be written by authors of marginalized identities. A good example of how GenAI is not any kind of tool of equality or diversity, but really the exact opposite.

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𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔 @borgerville.com · 16/07/2026

just saw your girl slow blinking at a stray cat

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 06/07/2026

me writing a piece of fiction: "I cannot use an exclamation mark as the whole thing will sound unhinged." me writing an email: "Do you! Want! To send me! The File! I would really! Like! The file!"

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Kerstin Hall @kerstinhall.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

oh hey, it looks like Second Spear is on sale for $2.99. (I‘ve got about $60 left on my advance of this book, so if anyone feels so inclined…)

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Second Spear

Check out Second Spear - <p> <b>Kerstin Hall's <i>Second Spear</i> is the thrilling follow-up to the Nommo Award finalist, ...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

just shockingly hostile to the people who live in DC

flyover schedule for july 4th with military plane flyovers scheduled every ten minutes (via user PenguinSix)

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It’s never worth clicking from Instagram to Threads, but sometimes it is

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

this man 👇 ate a potato chip

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

not the main problem with today's book landscape, but do you think we could find a way to bring back long-running fantasy series whose authors have not even begun to think about the possibility of resolving their psychosexual issues so their books end up reshaping queer teens' minds permanently

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 18/06/2026

Morning.

Silhouette of a bird flying across a dramatic sky, centered in front of a bright opening in dark storm clouds glowing with warm orange light.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

pouting because I figured out if I put the blanket over my hair he can't pull it at 3 am trying to wake me up

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 15/06/2026

Never pass up a chance to share this story. There's always someone who hasn't heard it, always someone waiting to experience the joy of reading about it for the first time.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

please enjoy 30 seconds of Adonis making biscuits in front of the air conditioner

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

apropos of the thing of the day: just about every construction regulation that you personally find to be annoying overkill is in place because somebody had a grisly, avoidable death. they don’t establish regulations ahead of disaster just to be safe. they do it to clean up horrifying messes

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🌑 @fell.energy · 08/06/2026

everyone knew you

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

one of the most powerful skills you can ever master for yourself is "yes, it sucks, and i love it". once you learn this you are free

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

lesser shows would be fearful to open with a Phantom of the Opera homage and turn Samuel Beckett into Daft Punk but IWTV boldly goes where no show has gone before

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

had to pause so my friend can catch up with me, which means I have a spare moment to say: these motherfuckin theater-kid-ass losers (affectionate) who write this show. these greasepaint hussies. opening it like this! "Lot 665 then, ladies and gentlemen"–ass opening! oh a music box? IS IT???

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

it's just soooooooo boring when media feels the need to resolve any and all moral dissonance by bringing me a box of donuts and promising me that deep down they're all nice people, Really. even the nicest people aren't purely nice people! why are you feeding me this tedious nonsense!

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

IWTV/TVL are just full-throatedly about the things they're about. It's not trying to hold my hand and resolve the cognitive dissonance I feel about being interested and engaged with the inner life of a character who just accidentally murdered a sweet, good-hearted carriage driver.

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Fansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Our latest is live! 💖 @tabbykibugiwriter.bsky.social writes about the thriving GL scene in Thailand—and how the industry's prioritization of fan service around pairings might be limiting the shows themselves. Read or listen to an audio version:

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The Limits of Fan Service in Thailand’s Vibrant GL Genre

Thai “Girls Love” thrives on real-life star pairings—for better and for worse.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/06/2026

Starting Thursday, there is — for the first time — an official YouTube channel dedicated to the work of Fred Rogers, the beloved children’s TV host. Eventually it will be a repository for full episodes, behind-the-scenes footage and compilations.

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Mister Rogers: Now on YouTube

On Thursday, Fred Rogers Productions started a channel dedicated to the beloved children’s host. Eventually it will be a repository for full episodes, behind-the-scenes footage and compilations.

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I just read a thing where Jacob Anderson said "Lestat sees Louis as cooler than Louis sees himself" and it made me extra-feral for the new season. I love, love, love this show's exploration of unreliability in memory and perception. my GOD it's good.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

genre romance for decades was allowed to do this, but the trade off was that everyone looked down on it and made fun of it. Now that it's gained mainstream acceptance, the books are way less sexy and fun.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

the common factor between this and people who want to ban books in schools is that these are people who don't trust children as readers and thinkers.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

When people say they like character based shows, I think what they’re really saying is they like shows that are relationship based. Every show is the story of the relationships between the people on screen and between an audience member & the story. TPTB now routinely cut all that off at the knees 👎🏻

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I'm just saying that every generation deserves at least five unhinged SF shows with 22-episode seasons where every character hates the cops so, so much.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 28/05/2026

did I reread all near-500 pages of The Vampire Lestat in two days and rediscover how much that book deeply mattered to my teenage existence? maybe!!!!!

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Wrong to the point of malpractice

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carlotta giudicelli VEVO @angelaslamsbury.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

like the return of the Capistrano swallows marks the arrival of spring, so too might summer in NYC be rung in by the reappearance of the Phantom of the Opera on the roof of Lee’s Art Shop

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

velveteen rabbit

orange cat asleep on a pink blanket with his head resting on his little paw

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