iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5h

shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'll admit it, I was also at this "Hawks" game

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks

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Rabbi Ariel Stone @rabbiariel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“We have built a world with flawless logistics for war and broken logistics for food.”

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WE'RE STARTING THE CAR AND DRIVING TO IOWA CITY, GET IN

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026

I unironically love these lists because it gives everyone something to be incandescently furious about with zero stakes hell yeah let’s take a break from The Horrors and get mad about television rankings

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ok that's 3 minutes, keep moving, got a lot of sad teens here.

Just 3 minutes with a mini horse or donkey improves teens' moods, study says

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sad beige toys for sad beige children

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The least realistic part of Lanterns so far is being able to navigate an FCC website that quickly.

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Chicago should build a second Bean. Bigger and beanier.

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'd also nominate The Eternaut for this category, trapped inside with their pod, wrapping up in gasmasks and gloves to go outside, etc.

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

First a Gulf and now a Lake, I fear we are moving into smaller and smaller bodies of water. Pond of America coming soon.

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm less of a "see heaven before the devil knows you're dead" kinda guy and more "eat another serving before my stomach knows its full."

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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry is survived by his frequent co-star, a big spooky mansion

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Checking in on the Freedom 250 takeover of DC's streets for an IndyCar race...

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So embarrassing when people think the point of reading a novel is to know the plot, so a summary is just as good. The plot isn’t important, you rube. You absolute simpleton. The point of reading a novel is to find out what the characters are eating and start thinking about what you want for dinner.

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aaron @hillenjoyer.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026

you don’t understand. i’m not trapped in here with you. you’re not trapped in here with me. we’re not trapped. i’m on my phone and i can just do something else. in fact i think im gonna. rip to you if ur trapped but im built different

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Just getting back from a week at the @barrelhouse.bsky.social Writer's Camp. Gonna be hard to go back to the email factory tomorrow after spending the last few days star gazing, writing by the creek, and talking shop with so many smart, kind people.

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Some would say it's broken but I think it's perfect

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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

oh god oh fuck i clicked on ONE mens fitness youtube video and now the whole app is ruined. fuck fuck fuck every video is lifting tips. every ad is for a training program. there's a whey merchant on my doorstep. lean men are crawling in the walls

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Scrolled by this while donating. If you can, you too can take a few minutes to sit and scroll on your phone guilt-free

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

You can laugh but referees only do this under severe stress

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Did a data center write this?

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Those renaissance paintings of weird looking animals are starting to make more sense

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm about to go full Liver King (and start making credible threats against Joe Rogan)

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Been messing around with some B&W film and naturally went to my favorite sandwich shop in DC.

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Honestly surprised they kept woke roundabouts

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

one thing that’s dying out in the next generation or so is knowing roads. my parents will ask me shit like “how’d you get there? 178? 232?” buddy i went where the computer told me.

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This Messi guy, pretty good

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Spoilers for Widow's Bay Season 2

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Colin Jost and Pete Davidson strike again

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

when fifa corruption breaks your way it’s good, actually

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

What did you just call me, bruv?

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I started working on an idea for a novel a year ago. Just finished the first draft.

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If that Olise audacity goes in, we'd be watching the highlight for the rest of our lives

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Waiting on a perpetually delayed flight out of Dulles and when the agent announced latest 20 minute delay people at the gate booed like it was a hydration break

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Sugar walked so that Bugonia could run.

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Scotland are facing stiff opposition

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

An insufferable 75 degrees today in Seattle, time for a hydration break.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The "hydration break" really is a perfect American capitalist innovation: a nakedly commercial play to insert more ad revenue into a game that doesn't have ads anywhere else in the world, all under the guise of some humanitarian interest in the players' wellbeing.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

we’re going to piss off a lot of countries when they find out the knicks won the world cup

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I'd like to place one order for more basketball, please.

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Jake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I've been pulling for the Spurs but man, this series is fun to watch

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I also get booed wherever I go, due to my ways

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