iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 17h

Did the Grammar Girl/Quick and Dirty Tips website gut all the grammar information? It’s been my default site to quickly check myself for decades but now I can’t find any useful information on the site.

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The storied Mokena Video, which is still in operation. Dark rows of handmade shelves of empty VHS (now DVD) boxes. You pulled a numbered tag off a little eye hook and brought it to the counter where a guy who had everyone’s phone number memorized started filling out your receipt before you got there

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Why are these shoes exclusively for a guy who has just returned to his job as a majordomo after years of being a bewitched clock in an enchanted castle

Little slipper-style athletic shoes made of mahogany leather with a brass buckle

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Every sign/flier/seasonal menu in my favorite beach town was AI generated and there was nothing I could do but make it my sister’s problem

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Has anyone seen a round-up of vetted places that are helping in Northwest Indiana right now?

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The roaring exhaust fan noises my phone makes as it tries to figure out which of the dozen Jennifers I, a millennial woman, is trying to text

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yes YES The tiger is out

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It is just wild to me that we can simultaneously have eleventy billion articles about how social media is destroying young people and then also a near-religious AI adoption policy.

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 30/07/2026

just became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster

William Howard Taft campaign poster, 1908

Floating head, with “BILL” in huge letters

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The luxury Apple Store experience of sitting on a bunch of Apple crates on the floor with a bunch of other adults

Many boxes on the floor upon which adults are seated

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Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Podcast @scroogepod.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A Scrooge backstory, how novel. We’ve never traveled back to his past before.

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The thing is I probably am a kiwi in a birthday hat

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Jamie Oliver was at Taylor’s wedding because OF COURSE. Reputation era Taylor 🤝 pink sludge era Jamie Oliver

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Honestly I want more of this on my timeline

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Oh wow, it’s time for my daily rehearsal how I would answer the “what’s bringing you joy?” question on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

@likaluca.bsky.social just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your questions at the Ann Patchett event on Sunday! I learned so much and loved hearing your publishing takes. Thank you!

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Returning to the same shelf at the library book book sale to see if the book I didn’t pick up is somehow back like a dog who found a chicken leg in a bush once

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Yeah I don't feel like enough gets said about how "pivot to video" is really about "pivot to centralized platforms," it's not like anyone's saying to send out mp4s via RSS, it's all just another front in the project to dismantle podcasting's original decentralized model

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It was very satisfying to be watching The Two Towers while completing the mini crossword puzzle tonight, is all I’ll say

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The Sheep Detectives is the pro-hollyhock movie America needed

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Did we know that the toast dot net has been taken down entirely? I thought they were planning to maintain the website into perpetuity

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Daphne du Maurier, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Playwright, #BornOnThisDay in 1907, in London 📸 Bassano Ltd (July, 1930)

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Well I guess this ends my 15-year (give or take) relationship (experience?) with Fitbit.

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The answer at the end of this thread is true and somehow crushing

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Considering paying for this substack so I can know if the Pope and I endured the same deep suffering (First Midwest Bank being bought out by Old National)

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Just wanted to say that I am having an excellent time with THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF. The book’s great, wonderful narration from Fiona Hardingham. I know V.E. Schwab and Cat Clarke have a lot going on but I hope they do more of these!

Screenshot of LIBRO.fm app displaying the cover of THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF (stark black, red, and white cover which is a keyhole in the middle of a book.

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Is anyone around who could forward me the April SCBWI Insight email? I somehow fell off the mailing list, I think.

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I’m sorry, I just learned that Jasper Fforde runs a yearly fan fest and it is called Fforde Fiesta. www.ffordeffiesta.co.uk?fbclid=IwVER...

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Welcome to the Fforde Ffiesta

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The “See Also” on the Wikipedia page for Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is just, oh, exquisite

^ See also
• Ecclesiastes
• Methodism
• "On Slide Inn Road"
• Particular judgment
• Sheol

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Whitney Evans Harrison @whitneyfharrison.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Anyone on here do gardening and know of these are weeds or garden plants coming up? We moved in this past autumn and are uncertain what may or may not come up this spring. There were tomatoes, zinnias, jalapeños, and thyme growing in the garden last year that we were aware of 🤷‍♀️

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Everyone else has violets blooming in their yard and ours refuse to come up. To whom can I send my complaint?

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We have forgotten the old texts

Still in meme format from movie YOU’VE GOT MAIL with the caption TALL, DECAF, CAPPUCCINO

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Middlemarch is basically “if you give a mouse a cookie” but the mouse is egoism and the cookie is a pier-glass minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions placed against a lighted candle such that the scratches will seem to arrange themselves in a fine series of concentric circles

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Found the veiled insult section at the greeting card shop

A clearance greeting card that reads “I guess heaven couldn’t wait” as the crossbar to a minimalist cross. $2

A pale purple greeting card with a medium skin toned woman in a simple wedding dress with the words AT LAST in script. $2

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If you were teaching a class on great profile writing, what profiles would you assign to read?

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Dashka Slater @dashkaslater.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

My mom is out of the hospital which means I can finally lift my head up long enough to say, "Hey! I have a new book out tomorrow!" It's called Deep Blue and it's about conquering your fears to discover the joy of swimming in the ocean. You can order it here. bookshop.org/a/96530/9781...

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Deep Blue: Swimming in the Big Blue Sea

Check out Deep Blue: Swimming in the Big Blue Sea - <b>Swimming in the ocean can be scary, until Kayla uses her imagination to overcome her fears in this lyrical story for readers trying something new...

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If you were teaching a class on great profile writing, what profiles would you assign to read?

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Listen, maybe it only bugs me because I paid tens of thousands of dollars for my MFA, but the kidlit community has got to stop this “MFA in a Day,” “MFA-style,” “mini MFA” phrasing for A WEEKEND CONFERENCE

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Weather dot com has an April Fool’s “retro cast” with a 90s style display, but the joke’s on them because it’s the first time their site has been readable in 10 years (the retro cast has no ads)

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

So did the Tournament of Books fall out of favor? I am used to it being a major social media *event* but I haven’t seen a single post about it this year.

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

So did the Tournament of Books fall out of favor? I am used to it being a major social media *event* but I haven’t seen a single post about it this year.

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The children yearn for the enneagram

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Please stop turning my two asterisks into shorthand for making a word bold. Those asterisks are a *garnish*

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Jesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I will never understand copying and pasting other people’s jokes from Twitter to earn clout on *bluesky* of all places

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I swear every dystopian tech development is like "Hey, are you OK with being this much not-a-person in our eyes? How about this much? One or two? <clicking noises> OK, how about now—one or two?" like I'm at the devil's optometry office.

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