iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 13h

A figure like Trump is always gonna be a huge influence on how people of his era write villains, even subconsciously, so it sucks for art that he's just perfectly smooth psychologically.

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 15h

Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!

A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 20h

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman Releases Nov. 11 @anotherindiewriter.com · 19h

I feel like shit and am almost without a voice. Not making a real Project Tasman ad today. Have this. Preorder please. Amazon: www.amazon.com/Project-Tasm... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/project-tasman Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/anotherindie...

A pink heart drawn in Paint with green text reading "Am attempt was mayde"

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Nathan Fowkes Art @nathanfowkes.com · 18h

From my trip to Japan.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Long Covid Unlikely To Explain Increase In People Too Ill To Work, Because That Would Be Too Obvious, Say Experts

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Jenny Tan (mainly on insta, but will pop in here 🦋 randomly) @hijennyt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They say Treviso is beautiful at twilight.🐦‍⬛🗡️🏮 I’ve always wanted to paint a gondola scene, thought I’d borrow some inspiration from Tangled for this one~ (I swear I do work in between even its just showing as full brainrot) I #rookanis I #lucanisdellamorte I #datv I #dragonage

Lucanis and Rook on a gondola admongst a twilight Treviso. There are lanterns and crows flying around them. Very pink colour palette

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Rabbit @rabbiting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Set yourself free. Draw dinosaurs

Two rainbow geometric feathery tyrannosauroids with a rainbow geometric border. There are other dinos hiding in the triangles

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fix @fixkuwili.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

cloaked in steel 🐉

a teenager with dark skin and curly black hair in armor

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Jay @jaybiiird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(if you're unfamiliar, Y. pestis is also commonly known as bubonic/pneumonic/septicemic plague. it is fully treatable with modern antibiotics!)

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Because it's buried at the bottom of the article and CNN is presenting it in a misleading way: before people worry, the "unknown" part is how the worker was exposed, the pathogen is good old fashioned Y. pestis which we understand extremely well and can treat just fine if caught early

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Rie Sonomura, NeoY2K Hacker Vtuber @riesonomura.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

same with the AI flag in the video itself, ESPECIALLY for music

I wish all AI generated thumbnails a very "Don't recommend channel"

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mimi 🔞 [ team rub + working on cmsns 🎨] @notsoknightly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

updated this again as more of the garbage floods in

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Here's the thing: most books that are banned don't make the lists that get circulated each #BannedBooksWeek. If you're a book creator and your book gets banned, please respond to this post with your book and its buy link on bookshop.org. That way we can support indies and banned books 💛

bookshop.org

Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

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Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

www.oglaf.com/damselfly/

Comic strip!

panel 1
a prince climbs through a window. A princess watches him enter.
Prince- Sure I could rescue you

Panel 2
Prince- but withing three months, ninety percent of rescued princesses are back inside a tower

Panel 3
Prince is really narrating this one now
Prince- at 'staircase down' we believe real change comes from accepting you're part of the problem

panel 4
Prince- and that's the most difficult part of the journey

panel 5
Princess- apart from the fire breath
Prince- The what?

Panel 6
Princess breathes fire, incinerating prince

Panel 7
Princess stands over smouldering prince skeleton

Panel 8
ghost of prince hovers over the smoking bones
Prince- I have to accept, on some level, that I needed that to happen

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

if you have ever peered with curiosity at my work then for BANNED BOOK WEEK it is the perfect time to try some tingleverse horror or erotica. i am in strange position where my books have not been banned, but the texas library association banned me AS A PERSON so i guess the catalog is fair game

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Jay @jaybiiird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I lose mine *constantly*. I genuinely have no idea where it is right now.

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🪾THE WITCH OF THE WOOD🏚️ 📖Novella 🖤MM Fantasy Romance 💀Breaking a Curse 🪾A Spooky Forest ❤️‍🔥Fast Burn 🏚️A Search for a Witch 😟Nervous x Confident 🍂Coming October 6, 2026 Uni: books2read.com/u/bw6gwP Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/the-witch-of... Cover: @isthiseva.bsky.social

The cover of The Witch of the Wood by Alex Larkspur. It features two men in a dark and gloomy forest. Milo stands in front, a man with tan skin and short, dark hair. He’s dressed in a cream tunic and a green cloak around his shoulders. He has a bow and arrows. He is clearly afraid as he stares at his left hand. His fingers are blackened due a curse that is spreading across his hand. Another man, Cam, is turned the other way and holding Milo’s right hand. He’s looking over his shoulder and looking at Milo with concern. His clothes are bright, colorful, and patchwork. The gloom of the forest mutes their color. The trees seem to close in around them.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ta-Nehisi Coates said, ”I‘ve been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I’m not qualified to talk about.” ”No one person should be the oracle or be the articulator…be skeptical of people who attempt to appoint themselves as that. I don‘t want that job at all.”

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K.S. Nightingale (Kai) @ksnightingale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I always feel like I post about being an editor way too much. But I still have open slots for October, and would really like to fill them. 👉👈

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aAaaAAAAAAda @oinkophobia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

getting an increasing amount of Dentist Content telling me to stop snacking and to stop drinking juice. Fuck you. Fuck your mother. Live free or die motherfucker

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Jay @jaybiiird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M IN MY THIRTIES. faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake

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Jay @jaybiiird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Eight years. Goddamn. Then again, it's been six since I moved home from Kentucky, so... Time is faaaaaake. What do you mean that it's been 10 years since I finished my Bachelor's. Fourteen years since I met my best friend. Almost exactly a year since we bought our house together.

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Jay @jaybiiird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also I'm told that UPS now references that incident in training materials, which is nice. Good to know they learned from their mistakes. Just still funny to me that I like. Just happened to be driving past the building right after it happened.

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Jay @jaybiiird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Was talking to my brother and somehow we got on the topic of hazmat and it reminded me of the time I was driving to work in Lexington and saw a bucketload of fire trucks headed to the UPS facility right off that highway exit.... Yeah, apparently it's been eight whole years since that happened.

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Jay @jaybiiird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not a herpetologist, just an amateur, but I /think/ that's a milksnake.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is actually a really important point. There’s the AI that’s identifying cancer cell clusters and new solar systems and then there’s the LLMs churning out romance novels featuring protagonists with three penises, they are only tangentially related.

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Áine ☽𖤐☾ @whoa-magic.lol · 02/10/2026

ICE doesn't have to exist. The End.

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Ash⁷ @arajellybean.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Okay so in case y'all didn't know , because hockey content is having a Moment- the Netflix show The Sticks claims it isn't about the Humboldt bus crash but it very much is them taking that tragedy turning it American and trying to profit off it and I'm so fucking angry still always about this

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/10/2026

Talking about the trades? Read this instead of The Atlantic!

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aquila 🍉 most normal frankenstein enjoyer @belllmonts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"dracula is actually about repression" "dracula is actually about bloodsucking landlords" "dracula is actually about assault" "dracula is actually about xenophobia" "dracula is actually about bram stoker being closeted" dracula is about all of those things welcome to the gothic genre

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am so tired of Jonestown being a stock reference for “haha, you’re in a cult.” 918 people died, most against their will, and still it has become shorthand for how stupid you think someone is. It's the McDonald's hot coffee incident of mass death — universally referenced, entirely misremembered.

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's the 1 YEAR HAUNTIVERSARY of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC! Happy birthday, dear book! Open your Halloween hearts & let us in! A deeply heartfelt book uncovering real history, wild spectral accounts & how it all intersects with Gothic literature! A Bram Stoker Award Nominee! Please share! #BookSky

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 02/10/2026

Joji Florence, a former math teacher, began dreaming up Miss Major Middle a decade ago. Named for Black trans author and activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the school will be a haven for LGBTQ kids.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 02/10/2026

Many people don't understand that garments are still made by hand by real people in production shops. And while people talk a lot about how fast fashion is destructive, this applies across the garment industry. Yes, even your nice boutique brands.

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The Abuses in Turkish Textile Factories Supplying Major US Brands

An exclusive investigation finds that workers routinely face forced overtime, insults and threats of dismissal

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Jay @jaybiiird.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Disappointed that you chose to use Substack. There are plenty of alternatives that don't give money to Nazis.

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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The Hearth (1/21) A sapphic horror comic about witchcraft and hunger in the dead of winter.

An illustrated cover for a short comic called The Hearth by lainey williams. A cabin sits in a clearing in a snowy forest. The small windows in the log cabin are lit yellow and there is a trail of blood through the snow leading to the door. Smoke rises from the cabin’s chimney to surround the title. On either side of the smoke are illustrations in the style of Karelian embroidery, showing stylized geometric patterns in red thread. On the left side embroidery section, there is a depiction of a woman kneeling. her hands are stained red and she wears a headscarf. Opposite her is a woman standing. Instead of a left arm she has a wing. Over the top of the image, two geese shaded in red fly over the cabin and smoke. The trees all around the cabin are shaded in dark blue.

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