iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 33m

goodnight blooski do no harm take no shit the leaves are turning it's my favorite time of year 🍁🍂

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Sygnin @sygnin.com · 15h

Come, Sweet Death #darkart #sygnin

Art of death with skull head and scythe, with large white wings

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Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social · 31m

One of the therapeutic things I have decided to do for myself that is, to be clear, NOT actual therapy, is to start attending the in-person writers group at my local library. Wasn't sure what to expect, but in my library, the group takes a prompt or two & writes to them, & reads results out loud.

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 24/09/2026

I'm joining the war on slop with cheap, fast flyer commissions. If you know someone who is asking the computer for event posters, tell them to ask me instead. Get the guarantee!

A poster mocked up as if it was offset printed in black and red roughly 60 years ago. The header reads "AVAILABLE NOW! FLYERS DESIGNED BY A HUMAN BEING!" and the subsequent text is pitching $50 flyer designs with a "SLOP-FREE GUARANTEE," incorporating some vintage Henry Volk clipart of people looking at a poster and saying how well it reflects on the event organizer.

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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 1h

Hozier: My love is a goddess (complimentary) Sleep Token: My love is a goddess (derogatory)

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The Meggles Art @megglesart.bsky.social · 2h

Bob Ross would be disappointed in your AI Generated Slop.

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 1h

In a candle flame, she sees the Countess (infected by an idea).

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 3h

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14h

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Chris 🧠 talk with humans @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1h

if you're trying to strike up conversation with a prospective partner and you aren't sure what to say ask if they'd like to be part of your webring. this filters out ones who aren't cool or are too young for you. note: you need a webring, or they'll discover you're a liar. so step 1 set up a webring

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 1h

I want more shows like Parts Unknown and High on the Hog and Taste the Nation; I want fully unscripted documentary shows about food and culture. I'm so sick and tired of faux reality bullshit that I could spit

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 10h

Recession indicator anecdote: Last time I booked with my tattoo artist, the nearest appointment was a 6 month wait. Today I could get a full day session in two weeks.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2h

That’s not how any of this works but it is illustrative of not just RFK JR’s motivations but the entire MAHA industry. They’re bitter they never earned the respect and admiration of their peers and have to make it everyone else’s problem.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 4h

TERFism’s proposition to cis women has always been “What if you accepted having fewer rights than men in order to guarantee that trans people have fewer rights than you?”

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 5h

Surprisingly common type of post is like, "Why doesn't [country] introduce [sweeping reform that would require a dramatic reorganization of society over the course of decades]? [Other country] did it hundreds of years ago [when they had a king or emperor or some shit]."

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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice @lizzzs.bsky.social · 5h

You know how veteran organizers say, get to know your neighbors, organize your community to be more resilient in the emergencies that are racing towards us? Get training: forestry.ubc.ca/future-stude... Via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter. @davidkaib.bsky.social @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

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The Community Engagement Micro-Certificate is an 8-month online program that equips leaders with the skills to engage and train local climate champions.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 10h

Sorry, not the most insightful response, but, besides them trying to find new, subversive, ways to access our personal data, these things just invite more people to discover that the underlying *machine* is a lying machine

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.

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Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget

Sure, seems safe.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 10h

“Straight heated rivalry,” girl be for real

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 11h

It’s Launch Day, darling! This one is not cozy or for the faint of heart, please note the warnings, but it’s here at last! And while you should read in the way you like the best—dude, Neil Newbon’s narration knocks it out of the PARK. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813073...

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Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion by T. Kingfisher: 9798217298594 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The roguish charlatan Astarion will free himself from a centuries-long fate of servitude or die (a second time) trying—in this decadently dark fantasy adventure by award-winning author T. Kingfisher.....

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Kevin Sonney @sonney.com · 15h

It's ASTARION day! Did you see that @tkingfisher.com wrote a 1-shot adventure to go with it? You can get it as part of the Book Club Kit at bg3books.com/book-club-kits

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Baldur's Gate 3 Book Club Kits - Official Baldur's Gate 3 Books

Resources for book clubs and adventuring parties everywhere

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 11h

Ohohoho my contributor copy of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD arrived! :D Yos yos I love it LOVE that cover (cover art by Galen Dara, AND the wonderful internal black-and-white illos!)

a copy of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD in front of my tea tray (a black tray with a skull on it)

the cover of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, edited by jonathan strahan, illustrated by galen dara, showing a skeletal figure with a crown of roses, spectral robes hanging. behind it is a tombstone surmounted with a circled cross.

SINKING ALL THE WHILE

Premee Mohamed

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We didn't kill him. He fell sometimes people die of a fall-it's known-we are accustomed to blame but we are not to blame. Perhaps he was dead al-ready. We don't know. It's not our fault. We can't tell.

It is true that we embraced him as he sank, and we pulled on his soft rich clothing, yes, that's true. We pulled him-not down! toward!-in a direction toward the center of things, you know the one. Deep inside. People have this silly idea about directions, the way to cut up the world, north south east west up down. They forget away and toward (the center).

You cannot cut water; we think he still tried. The scabbard on his belt was empty. His hand clutched a knife. He sank slowly toward the center.

How we held him! Like a lover, entered him, tenderly, sweetly, in si-lence, not wishing to be too forward (not a direction). His juices meeting our juices. Blood of the city: rainwater and pisswater and the oozings of trash, of-fal on Butcher Street

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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 14h

I think wanting precise outcomes and strict representation from a book is part of the literacy crisis. People are looking at representation and not the thesis of the book and how characters work within it.

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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 14h

It’s wild to me how often readers are engaging with female rage books and taking umbrage with the rage. You say that you support female rage but also believe in strictly legislating how it’s expressed? Look around, babe.

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Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 13h

People want a bitchy FMC and then they get one and the response is still "why isn't she nice and likable"

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community. And if they understand that, then the lessons on consent and sexual violence come naturally.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 11h

hey all!!! this Wednesday, which is tomorrow, i'll be at @storyhour.bsky.social with @megelison.bsky.social !!!! holy carps!!! you know you wanna attend this one. free author readings online, to refill the creative well! 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern youtube.com/@storyhour2020

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Story Hour

Every week, an hour of speculative fiction short stories, narrated by the authors. From horror to weird to hard SF and everything in between; from newly published authors to seasoned pros and multiple...

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BrokenFiction @brokenfiction.bsky.social · 17h

Holy shit new Luana. Go go go!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17h

Just a note: when people say "but this is fine under the First Amendment, I guess you just hate the First Amendment" to justify their conduct, remember that the First Amendment has been held to justify Nazi marches.

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Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · 17h

This is a GREAT article. Mind you, I agree that corporations should stop lying to us but… they are not going to.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17h

this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.

Opinion
Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a good example. It assumes that the person can afford the price of whatever shop is available, for one thing. It also misunderstands that finding someone to work on your car is, for a lot of people, a social relation as much an economic one.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We scream into the void. We stare blankly into the abyss. We post into the ether

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

yeah i am reasonably sure that i have a better chance of winning the democratic primary for president than rahm emmanuel

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The Absolutely Never Show @theabsolutelynever.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ever notice how the demo video for every AI video generation tool is basically “make a beautiful woman do whatever you want?”

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Tea Berry-Blue @teaberryblue.net · 28/09/2026

Hey friends! I’ve been informed that someone is using my name to send fraudulent acquisition queries to authors. Please note: my outgoing work email address should be from @penguinrandomhouse.com. I will not contact you about work from any other email!

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Time to ask for a little help. My partner has been looking for a job in his field for over a year now and the incomes we’ve cobbled together without it aren’t quite adding up. It looks like I will have to start looking for copywriting/content design work again as well gofund.me/6755c4d8b

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Like so many others right now, my best friend and life partner Gary B… TK Rex needs your support for Help Gary and Thea keep our home while looking for work

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don’t put yourself in a bad situation. (Too late. That’s just existing as a woman.) Don’t go somewhere alone. Don’t dress this way or that way. Be careful who you trust. Be friendly but not too friendly. And more. All that and yet, it doesn’t keep us safe. Because we are not the problem.

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every woman you know does so much mental math on the regular regarding her safety. When to smile politely. When to confront someone. When to walk away. When to cause a scene. Who’s safe? Who’s not? Who sees her as a person? Who doesn’t? Women are taught to never leave their drink unattended.+

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Immigrant Punk @porcupunk.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Even if there were no inherent quality issues across the entire industry, the tech enthusiasts dream of everyone learning to code and developing their own AI agent will never happen while vast majority of information is unstructured.

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Daniel Mintz @danielmintz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would LOVE to see tech bros’ guesstimates of what shares of the population do different types of labor. Part of the infatuation with AI has to be that they can’t really imagine what most people do all day

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And there is no reasonable interface that I can imagine ever existing that would translate those skills in a culturally competent way — and it’s all cultural — for people to make that leap.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am talking about working with people to even conceive of their lives as a set of tasks — that isn’t exactly natural and isn’t something we train people to do and yet its a precondition for figuring out what an agent would even *do*.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I participated in some public library ai courses. I’m telling you that the state of literacies and the complexity of lives deeply enmeshed in the bowels of late stage capitalism cannot find a use case for an agent & if they could, people don’t have the scaffolding to imagine one that could be useful

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Most people’s work lives are not that structured. And almost no normal person’s personal life can be that structured. The “gee whiz” of it all cant manufacture the market it needs.

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