iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 5h

vociferous shrew

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 6h

Again, the US isn't structurally racist because people *feel* it is. The US is structurally racist because empirical research across a wide range of fields, from history to sociology to economics, has *shown* it to be. This is the right way to think about US history, and people should be taught it.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 9h

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Petra Erika Nordlund @pepurika.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm trying to do a sort of #drawtober challenge, with the characters from my upcoming comic, ALL KNIGHTS DIE FOR GLORY!! it's a story about a tournament that happens only once or twice in a lifetime of a person, in which knights can pledge for a favour of a saint to be their patron-

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 03/10/2026

Brother Rye seems especially contemplative today

northern short-tailed shrew having a think and a smoke

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My Minnesota friends have already seen this, but I keep thinking about it and want more people outside our state to, too.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 03/10/2026

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 02/10/2026

Maris is right, this is silly af. Some reasons not to panic! They’re sticking with a small number of texts to start: public domain (Dracula) and things they’ve arranged rights for like 1984 (SERIOUSLY) and a weird cultural history guide and something produced by Andy Weir (fuck off for that, Andy).

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026

This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...

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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Oktobermoz @obermoz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why should I read an AI book? There are SO MANY books I want to read. Even if tomorrow there would be no new books published, I could read (for me) new books until I die. There is NO NEED for AI books 🤷‍♂️

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 03/03/2024

water shrew

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tis the season. 🍁

Kermit the Frog with Vincent Price, both with vampire fangs.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

"That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts." (Ray Bradbury "October Country", 1955) 🎨 K. L. Ricks #Spooktober

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wanna try before you buy? Check out The Scarlet Ball here, and if you dig it, pre-order it before release on OCT 6! Reactor not only gave us a fun selection to read, but also an audiobook sample as well, which, incredible because the audiobook is read by the incredible @natalienaudus.bsky.social!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hmmmm. Setting aside the Oprah part, this windows vs mirrors thing is a corruption of Dr Rudine Sims Bishop's foundational work on kidlit about windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors. scenicregional.org/wp-content/u...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you have to understand that all ICE does is lie literally 100% of the time

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Benjamin 🜬 (they/she) @enbyemu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Last night, my 11yo and I decided the world would be a much better place if it were run by librarians. And I know librarians have a lot on their plate already, but I think we may be on to something here. 💙📚

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 28/09/2026

kitchen duty

the monks havin a gab while leisurely preparing dinner

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey, want to see me talk about my new novel THE SCARLET BALL? Wanna see me in person? Check out my tour dates!

Graphic in gray with red text: NGHI VO ON TOUR

Inset: small round portrait of Nghi Vo

Book Cover: The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo, featuring an Asian woman in a red dress holding a white skin mask as ghostly hands reach for her.

Smoky gray graphic with text:

NGHI VO
ON TOUR

10/6 - Harvard Book Store
with Cassandra Khaw

10/7 - Dungeon Books
with Cindy Pham

10/13 - Boswell
wiht Jim Higgins

10/17 - Salt Lake City
Book Festival

10/23 - Andersons
with Katee Robert

11/7 - Twin Cities
Book Festivals

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Petra Erika Nordlund @pepurika.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

tigertigercomic.com/tiger-tiger/... it's tigers day!!

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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A friend who works at a thrift store gave us this gigantic Jesus frame so I of course thought it was the perfect place for @evandahm.bsky.social 's wonderful medieval Christian demons print

A photo of a print of a Jesus painting in an ornate gold frame. Jesus is shown from the elbows up, his head bent over in prayer with his hands clasped over his mouth.

A photo of a print by Evan Dahm, the illustration depicts 3 medieval demons walking together. They have menacing expressions and all carry weapons that look like fire pokers, long metal rods with sharp claws at the end. Their stomachs have faces and mouths as well as their knees. The one in the center has wings. The background is a bright shiny gold.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

S i g h .

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 25/09/2026

Check your voter registration and check it often

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Girl dinner

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seems like everyone is having a rough go of it these days, so here's a periodic reminder that you're not alone, it's okay if you're not handling everything even remotely well, and I'm glad you're here.

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Benjamin 🜬 (they/she) @enbyemu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Susanna Clarke has another book coming out! This is not a drill! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! 💙📚🪐

Screenshot of pre-order information for The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City by Susanna Cladke. It wipl be published in hardcover 10/20/2026. Cover is green with a gold sillhouette of a tree with a bird landing on it.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 22/09/2026

Oh my god it’s funny because it’s true — take a gander at the video and then read up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_...

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Dunnes Stores strike - Wikipedia

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Victoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com · 05/05/2026

The Connoisseur. Gouache and watercolor on paper. Dreaming of autumn... Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...

Painting of a boar in a sweater with a mushroom basket, holding and smelling a mushroom.

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Aaronacious @aaronacious.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Human Trafficker no human trafficking!

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Petra Erika Nordlund @pepurika.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My family says i'm bullying minister with my drawings but i'm only trying to learn how to draw cats....... It's not my fault he looks like that...

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 19/09/2026

Brother Barley & Brother Rye

i'm very proud of how the fur came out here. the less we speak about the barrel the better

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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⛩️ 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊 ⛩️ @deathbyhibachi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Last Journey #Art by Jakub Schikaneder, 1880

Reaper skully with scythe walks with a traveler

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kid was asking some pointed questions about how babies are born which led to me drawing the best picture I’ve drawn in my life

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

About to publish an investigation into stolen art that is the greatest possible demonstration of this core research principle:

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Benjamin 🜬 (they/she) @enbyemu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Very windy today. There's a hummingbird we call Flash who always stands guard on a tree branch outside our window so he can attack other hummingbirds @ the birdfeeder. We spent far too much time giggling & watching him get smacked off his perch by a branch in the wind repeatedly. #natureisbeautiful

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don’t forget to take care of yourself. Don’t forget to rest. Don’t forget to read banned books. Don’t forget to dream. Don’t forget to be the reason that forests seem haunted.

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Minna Turunen @amarathimi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Recently started reading this one. I really like the art style, the goofy humor and just sliiightly incompetent elves~

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The Tattletale Fool

The Elven kingdom receives a worrying prophesy about a human kingdom's plans... and sends Tilulei to spy out the specifics! She'll do a great job!!!

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Ⓙ. 🅱Ⓤ🆁Ⓡ🅴Ⓛ🅻Ⓞ Ⓢ🆄Ⓑ🅼Ⓐ🆁Ⓘ🅽Ⓔ @biginsanehappy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You guys ever think it could be a problem if the leader of the free world garners derision and mockery rather than respect? Like might it be an issue if he were not a competent leader but rather a predatory, erratic, narcissistic, sundowning idiot? Like a clown or something?

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This was a awesome time! If you missed this one, you can watch it here, courtesy of Library of America!

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I made this design in 2019, and it’s been ripped off by countless creepy little Temu shops, as well as by Shein. Seeing it in an AI ad is ruining my day, ngl. If you like it, buy one from me - link in bio. I actually give money to queer mutual aid and medical care groups.

A shitty AI ad on Instagram showing my “you are safe with me” design being sold by a company that is not me.

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