iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 19/08/2026

This week is reading @ghoulpus.bsky.social stories and letting them live rent free in my head, gnawing at my brainstem as they gestate in my ventricles. Just insanely good stuff.

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Peeking my head up from my Bluesky break to say: I hope everyone is having a lovely Autumn “Not Like Other Girls” is getting a French translation Okay thanks :)

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Champagne problems, but my plate is piling up, and I need to knuckle down and focus. Taking a little Bluesky break, happy reading!

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 19/08/2026

I'm happy to show you the cover for my short story "Audit of the Collapse and Convalescence of Minds", coming next month to @reactorsff.bsky.social. This beautiful, enthralling art is by Mirko Ilić. The story is about the limits sentience and about forgiving yourself.

Cover art for short story: It shows Audit of the Collapse and Convalescence of Minds and the author name, Renan Bernardo, below. It shows a vintage-style android with goggling eyes and metal layers on its neck. Half of its head is fused with a female's head and their eyes intersect and shed a tear.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

ME when you use AI to write, the author is ME ME and all the OTHER WRITERS this AI has stolen from remit all payments to ME or one of them

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 18/08/2026

When I was a kid I thought Martha's vineyard belonged to Martha Stewart

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

it already has a wait list 😭

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

YAY my library has my story now!!

"Not Like Other Girls" available to borrow through my library's Libby account.

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I've started explaining writing as equivalent to selling ceramics at an annual craft fair. Would *you* quit your job for that?

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I sincerely believe they could have ridden “They Weird, Yo” all the way to the White House.

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The angle of the sunlight tells me it’s time to watch a cozy British crime show and eat cookies and not work for the next eight months

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We are less than one (1) Club Serpentine backer way from getting QUIET HOURS by Esther Alter added to the novella series! And that means we are SO CLOSE to opening for submissions of queer speculative novelettes.

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I see we're doing another A/B test of "Who uses alt text on Bluesky?"

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Maybe when we learn about a new movie from the exact same feed where we learn about a new global atrocity, we are gradually training ourselves to treat movies like global atrocities and treat global atrocities like movies

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Love waking up on the weekend, no place to go, and my brain is like “I solved that story problem for you, boss”

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 15/08/2026

people get intimidated by the social belief of "supporting the arts" as like donating $5,000,000 for a new wing at a museum or hosting some gala it's not. 10% of our audience throwing us $1.00 a month would literally be *life-changing* money most artists are in the same boat.

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Today was a "Do the things I usually ignore in favor of writing" day It's good for the mind to take a break and also clean the habitat

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Amy Probably @socklessinseattle.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Is this the best animation of all time because it’s sure looking that way

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I do this with my posts. Something pisses me off -> Urge to post about it -> What would the opposite thing be? -> Post about liking that instead

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Put my hand on a bison rubbing stone today. It’s been sitting here since it was dropped by a retreating glacier at the end of the last ice age. The sides are smoothed from generations of bison rubbing on it. Good to think about that now and then

Large red granite boulder in the foreground. Grass extending to a distant horizon. The sky is bright blue with puffy white clouds.

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Katie (the other one) @kayfabegamergirl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thinking, as I often do, about this tumblr post

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Ann VanderMeer @annvandermeer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

So, this happened last night! I was honored with the Robert Bloch award. Touched and humbled by all this kindness and generosity. I am so happy that my words and my work have made a positive impact in the world of weird. Flying my weird flag and wearing my weird crown proudly. #NecronomiConPVD

Photo of yours truly holding the Robert Bloch award. On the rooftop of The Graduate hotel in Providence, RI.

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

ME: oh, it's chilly today BRAIN: it's 68º ME: year's almost over BRAIN: it's August

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Theodore Hill (he/him) @probablyharmless.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hi. Everything I want to say it at the following link, which contains why I think Patrick Barb should not be HWA President. I'm going to step away from socials for a few hours now, and will see you all later. 🫀 CW: sexual misconduct. theodorehill.weebly.com/statement.html

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 15/08/2026

working on a bumper sticker

a picture of lestat crying with the text "I have the blood of akasha in me please let me merge"

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Buttondown @buttondown.com · 13/08/2026

Congrats A.L.! 🦑📘

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I got *two* legitimate emails this week, including a cool offer. The rest was this.

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A small sampling of what it's like being an author in the age of AI scams

Ten glowing publishing emails, all AI scams.

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

i'm proud of my nasty, earnest, sometimes twisty stories (and collages!!) and i'd love if you checked them out 🥩 ✨️

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

True Detective S1 succeeds because Matthew McConaughey delivers a world-class performance of “I can fix him”

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Not Like Other Girls" is a Bookshop Best Seller, which means more money to independent bookstores. Thank you everyone for buying, borrowing, and reading. bookshop.org/lists/booksh...

Bookshop.org Best Sellers of the Week banner including "Not Like Other Girls."

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you got a bat stuck in your hair on August 9th at Olympic National Park, please go to the hospital immediately and then contact the Mason County Health Department, they're worried about you.

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Search is on for woman who got rabid bat caught in her hair at WA park

Olympic National Park says an unknown woman got a rabid bat caught in her hair on Sunday. Other visitors could be infected.

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the most typical @jazzpomegranate.com · 13/08/2026

“indies will save us” but then creative people who *checks notes* made the matrix can’t get money to make more movies

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A Nightmare on Nat Street 🇵🇷🏳‍⚧ @peanutbutterwhisky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ally Pankiw (I Used to Be Funny) revealed in an Instagram post that she passed on directing the HBO Harry Potter series. Kate Herron (Loki) revealed in the comments that she passed on directing episodes TWICE. It really is that fucking easy. It's really just that easy.

Text messages:

"I have an instinct on the answer but I feel compelled to ask."

"Harry Potter? Hard no?"

"Absolutely fucking not!" Lol"

"But thank you got asking."

"Of course :)"

"I assumed as much"

"And agree)

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

if there's a writer you like, and you'd like to keep reading that writer's work, *you need to pay for their work*

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Not Like Other Girls" is a Bookshop Best Seller, which means more money to independent bookstores. Thank you everyone for buying, borrowing, and reading. bookshop.org/lists/booksh...

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TQ 🌿 @witchytq.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

they know we don't want it. they do not care.

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Ann VanderMeer @annvandermeer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hello, Weirdlings! I'm on my way to Providence now for NecronomiCon and I can't wait to see you. We'll discuss all things weird and wonderful!

Poster for the NecronomiCon Providence convention in yellow, red and black showing a skull with a keyhole in the forehead and a large key floating in front of it.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 12/08/2026

also what happens to union voice actors who literally fought to not have their performances used for training data?

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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 12/08/2026

What happens if a creator streams your game and is opted in? Does Twitch think it has the right to feed a developer's game into its AI slop factory? This has deeper ramifications than it seems on the surface.

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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 12/08/2026

Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

Training for Generative AI

Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod). Learn more

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