iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

spooky season is coming… what about being very spooky for only $13? www.threadless.com/shop/@poorly...

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My weird girl lit novel got a STARRED REVIEW in Publishers Weekly! 🤩 "Using aliens to explore alienation, SHE ISN'T HERSELF TONIGHT brilliantly turns abduction narratives on their heads. Piper continues to outdo herself.“ out October 27 from Saga! 🛸 www.publishersweekly.com/9781668077122

She Isn’t Herself Tonight
Hailey Piper. Saga, $18 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-6680-7712-2
The latest foray into supernatural horror from Bram Stoker award winner Piper (A Game in Yellow) offers an enthralling twist on the classic alien abduction plot. At age 30, Rabbit (a reclaimed childhood nickname) is eagerly awaiting the return of the aliens, or “Guests,” as she refers to them, that first came for her at age 10 and then again at age 20. She has never felt truly understood, not by her mother, who paraded her around local churches as a child to tell the story of her first abduction—substituting the aliens for angels—nor her recent ex-boyfriend, Leo, who accused her of being “too much work.” As she reels from the breakup, she takes comfort in knowing that the “Guests,” the only ones who have ever made her feel safe and cared for, will be returning soon. Piper mines a lot of tension from Rabbit’s yearning for her abductors, making readers just as anxious for their arrival as Rabbit herself, even as, in the meantime, Rabbit’s body undergoes a mysterious, possibly extraterrestrial transformation. Using aliens to explore alienation, this brilliantly turns abduction narratives on their heads. Piper continues to outdo herself. Agent: Lane Heymont, Tobias Literary. (Oct.)

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026

NEW: OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.

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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anybody else remember this movie? Some friends and I watched it a bunch of times in high school in the late 80s! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleamin...

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Gleaming the Cube - Wikipedia

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thread: tidy-up and shop sim games that supposedly do not use AI and are cool (IMO). Disclaimer: You are welcome to add games to the list. You will be blocked if you start a witch-hunt, particularly based on "but it LOOKS like AI." I do not want my money to support AI. Part of that...

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#HispanicHeritageMonth: Sonia Manzano, 15-time Emmy-winning actor and writer. For over 30 years, Manzano portrayed Maria on “Sesame Street” and was one of the first Hispanic characters on national television ✨

Black and white photo of Sonia Manzano holding a Children’s Television Workshop sign

Black and white photo of Sonia Manzano and a group of children on the set of Sesame Street

Sonia Manzano and Justice Sonia Sotomayor in an episode of Sesame Street

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These mf'ers HURT when working their way out. Including when you've had one for 10-15 years instead of the standard several weeks. And I never had a tooth extraction so where the hell did it come from? www.healthline.com/health/denta...

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Bone Spicule After Dental Procedure: Bony Protrusion on the Gums

Like bone spurs on other parts of the body, oral bone spicules are the body's reaction to bone disease or damage. Learn about the causes and treatments.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My roommate got me a tshirt that says "I don't struggle with anxiety I'm actually very good at it" She knows me so well!

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Devs selling games using AI keep reassuring folks they've verified the quality of the work and totally don't get that's not the main concern. If I'm spending money on a video game, I want it to support real, live artists, writers, musicians, and coders.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I would like a tidy-up sim game where the set location is a sci-fi mall in a space travel-existing setting. I mean I like Black Friday Janitor, but it would be way cooler with a futuristic setting! (No AI, please.)

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My doc: "Do you know what atrial fibrillation is?" Me: "I48.91." (No I do not have afib.) (Medical coder humor.)

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 22/09/2026

Moral panics are manufactured concerns created to push an agenda, don't hold up under scrutiny, and the fallout always harms more people than will ever be helped. Stand up for trans people.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026

Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Is YOUR teen texting like a millennial? LOL - lumbar, oh lord DIAF - dentist! Incisors are fucked! AFAIK - Asprin for aching, irritable knees YMMV - you moved my varifocals ROTFL - Really ow, this fucking lumbar

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DriftlessFlyGuy @driftlessflyguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think one of the biggest items of white privilege that most people don't notice or gloss over is that any opinion pieces or writings we do aren't immediately cast with it being the "white" view.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My pharmacy sent me my small, innocuous nasal spray bottle in a large, mostly-empty cardboard box... that is more than a foot on each side. I'm so confused.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ignoring everything else about this: Which do you want to be trying to find for a screaming toddler on hour twenty-six of your day: something that blends seamlessly with your carpet, couch, and walls, or something bright goddamn red and yellow?

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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TC Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

THE TOMMY: still free to download at the Bat webstore! Want a quick-read liminal horror novelette inspired by the time I got lost down a hospital corridor while listening to a podcast about Lamashtu? Have at it!

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The Tommy: A Liminal Horror Novelette

When she opened her mouth to bare her teeth, I saw a polar desert, cold as eternity…It’s a hot summer night in 1998 when Joey gets the call: his brother Shane’s been in an accident, a bad one, and Joe...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

People WANT to trust medicine. But they’ve been betrayed by doctors and healthcare providers for decades. It takes and average of TEN YEARS to get a chronic illness diagnosed. The average medical student receives only ~9 TO 11 HOURS of education on chronic pain during their entire schooling.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Literally no artist I know feels they can or should separate who they are from their art. “Separate the art from the artist” is an idea born of how to grapple with historical monsters who were important to genres of art, not a blueprint for how to handle current ones that don’t have to be.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My roommate has a terminal illness (necessary context) and it's my goal to make her laugh as much as possible in whatever time she has left. This morning: Me: "How did you get rid of the phorid flies??" Her: "I don't want to say until I'm sure it worked." ...

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The interns got baseball cards at the game today and they keep asking how to make them battle because all they know are Pokemon cards 😂😭

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/09/2026

BASH: Gas prices Labor Day weekend are the highest on record. Isn't it possible gas prices could go up even more? CHRIS WRIGHT: I don't want to have an opinion on that BASH: As the energy secretary, shouldn't you have an opinion? WRIGHT: If I had to guess, they are more likely to go down than up

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My roommate/bff is sick. Like, terminally so. But things are up and down, and for the first time since before she was diagnosed, she felt up to cooking today! I'm thrilled not just because I love her cooking, but also because she loves to cook and it made her so happy!

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Celebrate Celebrate Good Times

Alt: Betty White dancing to Celebrate Celebrate Good Times

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Baltimore is having *massive* rate hikes. I read an article that attributed as much as 70% of these hikes to data centers and the infrastructure needed to run them.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

AOC: Let’s put a data center in each one of Donald Trump’s golf courses. Let’s put one in New Jersey on his golf course. Put one in Mar-a-Lago. The only reason I don’t say put one on the White House lawn is because he’ll be out of there soon. If he loves them so much, he can have them.

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Peter Clines @peterclines.com · 28/08/2026

Those face-eating leopards must look like little spotted blimps at this point

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

ORPHANED CATS NEED FOREVER HOME IN NORTHEAST (PLEASE READ *ENTIRE* THREAD) My wife's childhood friend died Thursday, leaving his two *mildly* special-needs cats. The elder, Wally, is about 13. ABSOLUTELY affectionate cat; GLORIOUSLY dim. His only issue is that he poops in bathtubs if given a chance

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In case you missed it!! Finishing out the THIRD narrative cycle!

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Local food, lifestyle and entertainment portals take the trouble to tell us how many events are happening around the city during these long weekends. For those of us of a certain age/inclination it serves as a helpful notification that we should probably stay home (epic traffic jams) 🫠🥲

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A thread on Susan's crappy Uber driver. First, Susan uses a walker since the hip replacements. She's a nice person so she always messages the driver right away to let them know she'll need help getting the walker in the car. That way they can bail if need be. Almost no one does. 1/

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

For some reason today I found myself wondering whatever happened to Michael Ironside, and now I want to watch Scanners. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanners

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Scanners - Wikipedia

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You know, I kind of prefer it when diagnostic tests actually turn something up, because then at least you have some idea of why something is happening. So yeah, about that CT scan of my temporal bones related to my ongoing hearing loss...

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lol, lmao esq @grumbellgast.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I've had the em dash beaten into me through high school, lots of older books (like Lem) and then additionally through my university where Chicago Style was law. seeing people assume that using the em dash is a surefire, 100%, never-miss way to identify AI writing kills me inside every time.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 16/08/2026

Went on a campus tour of MIT last week because my kid is old, and they’ve been doing pass/fail for freshmen for years. MIT! Imagine if people had information about literally anything that was not fed through a propaganda disinfo machine.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is Niko, squeaking. You'll want to turn the sound on!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Indonesia has gone from aid recipient to donor. Six decades after the World Food Programme first fed families in Bali in the wake of a volcanic eruption, Indonesia has reached self-sufficiency in 8 staple foods. The world’s 4th most populous country is now a donor. buff.ly/aDKcZFP #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Indonesia’s transformation: From food aid to WFP humanitarian donor | World Food Programme

Once supported during crises, Indonesia now helps WFP tackle hunger in other countries

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Welcome to the United States! Every other week a new food gets secretly replaced by poison, and all of the medicine is behind a paywall! It has to be this way!

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