iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 13h

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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Jen Coster @jcalyst.bsky.social · 13h

what... what is happening

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Physgal ⚛️ @physgal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just needs alt-text:

How to avoid sexual assault! A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE*

sexual violence centre cork

1 DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS

4 WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE HER ALONE.

3 WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS NOT RAPE THEM.

6 CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.

2 USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU.

5 IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

*for perpetrators.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 17h

my most right wing coded opinion is that I don't hold with armor transmog in games, if you want the cool look you should be willing to overcome the shitty stats

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 16h

"Dissolve the Chi Phi fraternity" is the lenient position.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19h

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy Publication Day to The Unhaunting and to me! It’s actually a dual publication day because in the dead of night I put out this month’s My Favorite Thing. It is depressing, has nothing to do with the book, and probably too personal but it was in my brain: www.patreon.com/MicaiahJohns...

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My Favorite Thing: A Quote from The Little Prince, and also Absence. | Micaiah Johnson

(Alternatively titled: "Please stop asking if my parents are proud of me" or "Something waits for me in the divine for resisting the urge to

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026

Literally this, so much, forever, in so many ways that are hard to articulate and reach facets of life I never imagined.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

was literally just referencing this—the “who is having the most fun, the player, the designer, or the computer” question—earlier today. it’s such a core concern when making something heavily systemic or relies a lot on procgen

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I mean, if "they" are the bears, then this is indeed a mystery.

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 24/09/2026

Never hurts to repost (and maybe get a few more recommendations)

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/09/2026

block any influencers who sign onto this

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sheeran still trying to both sides it, calling Palestine 'the most complex political issue on the planet'. It's *not* complicated and that bullshit stopped many of us seeing reality for years. In 2026, there's no excuse. We have all witnessed a government murdering children and gloating about it.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

If you haven’t read this yet, here’s your chance 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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Dillin Apelyan - Bob the Builder's #1 Guy @superdillin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You're not wrong, I just want you to be more productive with your correct opinions

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 19/09/2026

As someone who has to say “you cannot say ‘TTRPG’ when you only mean D&D” a zillion times in my academic job, has written a whole-ass book to refute the idea that Actual Play is only D&D, & gets another white hair every time an article has to use D&D in the headline because of SEO… co-signing this.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

checklist for future projects

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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 17/09/2026

We've reached and then quickly surpassed 25% of our funding goal and are now closing in on $15K and 30%. 178 of you have pledged your support so far. Thanks so much to all of you for backing and spreading the word... and being a part of the LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE story. bit.ly/LS-NM-26

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LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror

We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!

a photo of a small, spotted wild cat, with orange fur and brown circular markings, staring up with big golden eyes.

Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Too often writers pour into the community and platforms we so desperately need, at the cost of their own work. "Forged in FIYAH" is intentional about holding space for the authors whose labor made the magazine possible. In that spirit, we praise Eboni and invite you to enjoy her stories!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026

i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 17/09/2026

Literally the first chapter in Think, Write, Edit, Romance is on this subject, ahahaha. We aren't even going to TALK until that one's nailed down.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

at a professional level I am kinda fascinated by how storytelling and pop culture have deeply ingrained the idea of the devious supervillain but not the one about the town coming together to save the day

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My "I am not complicit" statement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my statement ass post

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 15/09/2026

Tell a friend! Tell the group chat! Tell a stranger!

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This issue features my story about Santa at a black ops site. Festive!!

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

when extremely nice people finally get salty about someone >>>>>>>

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

To the tune of the O'Reilly Auto Parts theme song: CHO CHO CHO CHOBANI IS A CAT

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yeah. Wrote a whole book about it. We make issues salient in discourse through consistent effort. It’s an empirical fact but folks acts like political issues& issue attitudes are sprung from a “kitchen table” cabbage patch. We should argue for what we want. Again & again. Until it’s common sense.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

We get concentration camps when we allow certain people to be dehumanized. Rightsless. When we signal that we don't care what happens to them and it doesn't matter how they're treated.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.

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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Important Lexicon Update just dropped, everyone please take note.

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inkle @inkle.co · 10/09/2026

In case you haven't picked up the Kaleidoscope, you can now read one of the essays in the excellent @mothership.blog

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thompson's issue of Hellraiser is an all-timer. Absolutely one for the books. Go pick it up today if you are looking to lose sleep

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

CHAPTER

1

The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

aside from everything else, it's very funny to pretend that hiring "GHOST writers" ever made you, yourself, an author. you are simply describing two types of guys who did not write a book

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In 2023, I nearly died when an ectopic pregnancy burst, taking out a corner of my uterus and one ovary with it. I bled 2 liters out internally, and the whole time kept asking am I dying because it FELT like I was dying bc I WAS. It was excruciatingly painful. That's how these people are dying.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/09/2026

Never trust anyone's analysis if they refer to nonviolence as either "passive" or "obeying the law." They don't understand nonviolence, and also, they're really fucking racist.

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