iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

My teenage self scribbled swordfight travel adventures in notebooks and read books by Jayne Ann Krentz and Julia Quinn. Thanks to the Happily Ever After Society and Chandra Wicke — I’m in this beautiful book with my favorite authors. #whatisthislife? ❤️🫶🥹

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Kitten: My teacher told us to stop everything and pay attention. I guarantee if I am not doing anything and looking at you, I am not paying any attention to anything you’re saying. My mind is somewhere else. Me: ❤️‍🩹 I scribble on a piece of paper. It’s socially acceptable to write things on paper.

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I will be there speaking on Action Scenes and Love Scenes. Also unveiling a new talk: Raiders of the Lost Archives with @shawntelle.bsky.social

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

My twinsies both made Jazz Ensemble. I may have cake to celebrate. I told them mommy might not have had a great day, but her DNA had a big day and so there should be cake.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This is the clip. I still can't believe this is all he said. gizmodo.com/why-jimmy-ki...

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 24/07/2025

The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae

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Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun

Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

My Little Sis requested this at the No Kings rally she attended and it reminded me that 1) She’s a badass 2) California and LA is in my heart today ❤️ It’s been too long since I listened to this: music.youtube.com/watch?v=LRt6...

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California Love (Original Version)

YouTube video by 2Pac - Topic

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 10/06/2025

The thing about human rights is that they belong to every single human being unconditionally

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

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Cries of Defiance and Songs of Joy in Los Angeles

The protesters are being called unspeakably violent by the Trump administration. I mostly saw clergy sit-ins and Tejano bands.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

"Parents have struggled w/the heartbreak of having lost years of their son or daughter’s childhood, children have had to rebuild bonds with parents that were shattered & through it all, the federal govt has done little for these families compared to the immense & lasting harm it inflicted on them."

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Who has two thumbs and was accepted to the @communityofwriters.bsky.social Non-fiction/Memoir summer workshop? This girl! 👍👍❤️❤️🥰🥰

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 17/04/2025

Step one: call a rep and tell them you want them to do something, on an issue you care about. Step two: find someone to help in a concrete way: money, food, a listening ear. Step three: get yourself something to eat, and take five minutes to read a bit or play a game. Then, tomorrow, do it again.

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Realizing I have autism made me conclude that ppl have autism completely wrong. And frankly some people are f#^*ing wrong.

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Autism runs in my family. I have autism. Some are able to mask & uncannily navigate any system. Some of us cope & function independently w/ strategies. Some of us require a little support. Some of us require a lot more support. We all have value because we are human. We all take care of each other

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

“fight against the theft of your soul”

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The pattern seems to be that I teach a class and then go on a trip right when it ends. I’ve graded final papers while on vacation in Paris, on a cruise, in a hotel in Vietnam and if this isn’t living, I don’t know what is. Romance II finals will be graded in Las Vegas during the HNS conference.

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

My inaugural online Romance Novel II class at UCLA extension starts this Wednesday (4/2). There are still a few spots open. 10 weeks workshop-based class. (Requirement: You have written the first chapter of a romance novel) www.uclaextension.edu/writing/crea...

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Romance Novel II | UCLA Extension

Make substantial progress on a romance novel draft in this course for students who have completed Romance Writing I.

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 24/03/2025

We will hold office hours tomorrow and Wednesday for those working on data rescues who want to ask questions: www.datarescueproject.org/updates-and-...

datarescueproject.org

Updates and Office Hours

Preserving public data

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

It’s been a whirlwind week in Vietnam and Thailand. A trip that started as a research trip for On the Backs of Elephants and ended up being one where we connected to our ancestors and reunited with lost family. Wild trip of a lifetime

Jeannie with elephant at ChiangMai Elephant Nature Park

At great-grandfather’s grave site which looks like a shrine

A visit to the Museum of Broken Relationships

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Michael Allan Schneider @quadbonus.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

If you're feeling hopeless and miserable, I cannot possibly overstate how much it helps to just pick one thing you can do that helps people, and do it. You only need to do one person's worth of work. That's all any of us can do. You'll be doing what you can, and there is so much relief in that.

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

On the Backs of Elephants tells of the Trung Sisters rebellion in ancient Vietnam where women banded together to stand up and fight for freedom while old nobility bickered & chose a policy of appeasement hoping they could just quietly return to previous levels of subjugation and I feel this today

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

And so we fight. Because while we don't know what'll bring Trumpism down, or even for sure that it CAN be brought down, we know that it's rickety as fuck. So we keep fucking whacking at it. Until it falls or we do.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 03/03/2025

“If we can’t see this information, we cannot develop public health strategies to improve our maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States." This is the key point about so many of these datasets. The data is what helps us create services, policies, evaluations, and more.

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I want to see the demand for business suits plummet. I want to see the wearing of suits to become a symbol of empty puffery. Except for Bridgerton-style coats and jackets. Now those are sharp.

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Went to the Data Rescue Project event at WashU. It was uplifting to see so many ppl involved. It’s a national, coordinated effort. You can find local action or even just get involved remote. (I took some work home to finish) @datarescueproject.org

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

There is no right way to be an immigrant. Saying there are good immigrants and bad immigrants is a harmful narrative used to make us turn off our humanity

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Arcas De Disco @puckarks.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks  The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

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Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities | Brooklyn Public Library

Librarians and Teen Volunteers Spearhead Books Unbanned Initiative to Combat Censorship

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Stopped all my Amazon and FB Ads. Never thought they moved the needle much, but the bleed was slow so I just kept them on just in case they increased visibility. But realized that’s what it was — blood money.

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Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Who’s ready to run for something? #DoSomething

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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 23/02/2025

"There were over 10k-20k [Black people] that lived in London during the time of Jane Austen. The number has been estimated to be as high as 30k across England, Scotland, & Ireland. With less than 28 dukes during that time period, who were you more likely to run into, a duke, or a person of color?"

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Black People in The Regency Vanessa Riley, American Novelist of Regency, Diasporhic, Saga, and Historical Fiction

Vanessa Riley Novels to Empower Women and Teach Proud Black History and Culture.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I was wondering about this, because I'm pretty sure we have avian flu in Canada and the egg prices are mostly normal up here.

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Thank you for alt-text. I was posting on the run

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Sorely disappointed by LOCH: The Gallants. The only good things were: they kept the theme music from the 80s series, the Dragon Palm strikes looked cool, and Guo Jing was pretty. The storyline was like bad, disjointed fan-fiction. Unintelligible unless you knew the whole saga.

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I’m joining the Data Rescue Project to help preserve at risk federal data. They’re also on Bluesky @datarescueproject.org Fight back on all fronts with whatever skills you bring. No fight is too small

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Pressure works! I meant to share yesterday, to celebrate the rare bit of immigration good news. 😊

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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights @theyoungcenter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

2. These laws exist because children should never be treated like adults. The Trump administration falsely calls these essential legal safeguards for children who are here on their own “loopholes” and is actively trying to weaken them.

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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights @theyoungcenter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

1. 🧵Children who arrive at our borders on their own depend on a set of legal protections so they can be transferred from Border Patrol to protective custody provided by a different federal agency, where they can access basic services like adequate shelter, food, water, and medical care.

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Excuse me for a moment - !!!!!!!!!!!!! How am i just learning about this today and it’s in theaters this week???? If there were no Condor Heroes, there would be no Jeannie Lin, will they kick me out of the theater if i refuse to leave after the first viewing????? youtu.be/uyIPBAmY1hY?...

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THE LEGENDS OF CONDOR HEROES: THE GALLANTS - Official Trailer

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The Happily Ever After Society Kickstarter is launching today! An unapologetic celebration of romance and the authors who write them. It looks fun, sexy, empowering, amazing: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...

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The Happily Ever After Society: A Book About Romance Novels

40 interviews with legendary & rising romance authors- including Julia Quinn (Bridgerton) & Ali Hazelwood— in a stunning photo book!

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

On author news, guess who is the worst marketer in the world and lost her newsletter list due to inactivity? This girl!

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

A regime wants you head down and afraid, only looking out for yourself, no longer trying to connect or care about others. I learned this from my family left behind in VN. I don’t know the answers. I only know connection is what they don’t want. More lasagnas going out today #LasagnaLove

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/02/2025

He's been ordered to get rid of her by fair means or foul. The start of the Brothers Sinister series. Reminder: The Governess Affair is FREE just about everywhere! /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Gover... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c... Kobo: store.koboboo...

Cover for the governess affair by Courtney Milan. A woman in a yellow dress is looking at a flower. Next to this is a banner saying "free."

Cover for the governess affair by Courtney Milan. Text: “I am done with things happening to me. From here on out, I am going to happen to things.”

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Hey all, I have a specific request this AM. There's an urgent situation involving this (which Martha references in the original description), and the total needs to be doubled. Martha's OOO so I don't want to bother her to change the amount, but I'm asking for your help. gofund.me/505857f2

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Donate to Back Jess's Path to a Fresh Start in DC, organized by Martha Brockenbrough

You might know Jess Huang as Celeste Pewter—the tireless educator on how … Martha Brockenbrough needs your support for Back Jess's Path to a Fresh Start in DC

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Jeannie Lin @jeannielin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Find out the dirty secret to my writing process and which of my characters I’d LEAST like to spend time with. A Valentine’s Day interview on the Forced Proximity substack hosted by one of my former UCLAEx romance novel prodigies ❤️

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