iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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pckt.blog @pckt.blog · 02/10/2026

tiny blogs, BIG gay october 🌈 from oct 1–31, pckt is donating 100% of our october earnings to LGBTQ+ charities and mutual aid funds. please repost 🔁 and tell us in the replies where we should donate. we’re so glad you’re here. let’s do something big together pckt.blog ❤️🩵💚💛

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pckt: a blog in your pocket

A distraction-free space to write and share your story. Just you, and your words.

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Had somehow missed until reading this review that @alexanderchee.bsky.social worked on this, which has me even more curious to see it...

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today is the day to commiserate with Charles Darwin, on the 161st anniversary of his confessing to Charles Lyell that he felt "...very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everyone & everything." Here's more of the back story on Darwin writing about this not-so-good day. www.npr.org/sections/kru...

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Charles Darwin And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Geniuses have it easy, right? They wake up and out pops the brilliance. Well, not really. And not if that genius is Charles Darwin, who's got lots to do and absolutely no desire to do it. Those days (...

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyone else getting the chatbot book scams via text message now, or am I just especially cursed?

Text message: “Hi Jedediah, just checking are you the author of "The Naming Song"? Is this your book?”

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Deeply grateful to see this story of mine brought back to life. Maybe my only work of science fiction, actually!

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👾მვოვმ👾 @wader8er.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've discovered SO MANY books and authors on this app, the most recent being: Light Eaters by @zoeschlanger.bsky.social and Kill All Wizards by @jedediahberry.bsky.social Both of which are outstanding, I might add

The Light Eaters cover is matte black with a fluorescent colored flower and tendrils in pinks, purples and greens and yellows... "How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth"

Kill All Wizards cover is bright green featuring a cartoon barbarian with shaggy hair and an eyepatch , wearing a mauve suit, drinking tea and leaning on an enormous sword

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THE SCARLET BALL, my dark fantasy novel due out on OCT 6, is set in an 1890 that never existed. During the 1890s, dip pens were still king, but the modern fountain pen was beginning to appear. This, I suspect, is a Beekman fountain pen from the late 1890s.

Hardback book, The Scarlet Ball, resting on a wooden table with a black fountain pen laid across it diagonally.

The Scarlet Ball features an Asian woman in a red dress holding a white skin mask as shadowy hands reach for her. The text on it reads:

THE SCARLET BALL
USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
NGHI VO

The pen is black, with no clip or cap bands.

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Fortunate Fall was first published in 1996; thanks to Tor it's back in print in a new edition w/foreword by Jo Walton.

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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this was always my favorite of the “grey poupon” ads

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Remember it's never too late to write a review online of a book! Or to pitch an interview with an author! Or to post about a book online! Like this book for just one example off the top of my head:

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Every Galaxy a Circle

An Intriguing Journey through the Cosmos of Human ExperienceIn Every Galaxy a Circle, Chloe N. Clark masterfully intertwines memories, ghosts, and the future, presenting a collection that spans folklo...

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warden @cairnrpg.com · 25/09/2026

Cairn Press is VERY happy to announce our next kickstarter: A Sliver of Evidence by @karlyanddd.bsky.social. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cai...

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A Sliver of Evidence

A werewolf-inspired adventure for Cairn 2e, written & illustrated by Karly Andersen.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Advice for my younger friends: if you want to encourage yourself to stay healthy and functional, to exercise and eat well... ...pick a couple of motherfuckers you really want to outlive.

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Probably time I filled in my hazy memories of reruns with some savage, super-scientific, sorcerous viewing of this.

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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

👇😍🤘

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No one is disposable, including the canary ❤️🦜✊

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Misha Grifka Wander @mishagw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ancillary Review is looking for more editors! Message me if you're interested in copy-editing, dev editing, or graphics creation for a Hugo finalist magazine of spec fic criticism! It's volunteer-based and fits with your schedule <3

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Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @queerwizard.co.uk · 21/09/2026

Hello I’m still looking for work for October-November 👀

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 21/09/2026

God this means it’s ten years since the first September video

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thanks to @readingreality.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of Kill All Wizards, touching on Leiber, Bridgerton, @scottlynch78.bsky.social's The Wizard Who Kept Himself Suspicious, and some FASCINATING thoughts on where the sequel might be headed ;) www.readingreality.net/2026/09/book...

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#BookReview: Kill All Wizards by Jedediah Berry

My Review: Conan the Barbarian meets Bridgerton - minus the romance. Or at least minus the romance SO FAR. That’s a combination that you’d think wouldn’t work, but actually does. And where it doesn’t ...

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kill ghost @willjobst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

if you make a good creature design it is my opinion that you should be rewarded and anointed and want for nothing. our celebrities should be the creature designers. you understand something fundamental and reveal it. through creatures

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Shouldn't it be Batman Night? Anyway, happy Batman Day.

A city street at the pinkest part of dusk. A dude in the fanciest coat you've ever seen is hanging out with his boyfriend in leather pants. The sweet coat dude turns to see Batman strolling down the street, cape flapping fabulously in the breeze. The coat dude flirts, "Hiya, Batman. Nice night for a stroll." Batman ain't DTF, though, so he simply walks past, while greeting them with a, "Gentlemen."

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you thought September and October were exciting for traditional publishing, just take a look at the indie world... We're looking forward to possession novels, the Weird West, and a new story from the author of All Tomorrows this fall. @tobiascarroll.bsky.social delivers the highlights!

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Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for September and October 2026 - Reactor

Autumn is a busy time for independent publishers...

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We say some version of this just about every year but one of the absolute best ways to support your local indie bookstore is to do your holiday shopping in OCTOBER. (More context in Hannah's thread. Hi, Hannah!) #BookSky

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is advice I took from her and it works. Also, who writes like this? Amazing. The only person who could write startling sentences like that last one. Just a singular talent.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 15/09/2026

Four reasons why AI verifiers are harmful for writers: a) they’re built from many of the same resources as LLMs (including plagiarized work). AI verifiers *are* AI. ⬇️⬇️

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just listened to an episode of Between Two Cairns in which one of @yochaigal.bsky.social's obscure tangents happened to cover a topic (the pronunciation and origins of the word / place name Derby) that I specifically needed to research this week. So anyway, thanks, Yochai!

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fight scene snippet, snip-snip-snip

Instantly the monstrous hands latched onto his feet, his ankles, the hem of his cloak. They slowed him down but could not stop him—he barreled forward, catching those in his path with a series of sweeping hacks that sent severed fingers flying like so many scattered ninepins.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This book is so much fun and you should read it.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

ICYMI: I reviewed Emily St. John Mandel's EXIT PARTY, which imagines two dystopian futures for America www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/b...

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Book Review: ‘Exit Party,’ by Emily St. John Mandel

In “Exit Party,” by Emily St. John Mandel, two versions of America’s future crash into each other.

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don’t know but I used to rent a place there.

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And there’s a rough draft of the third in the Barbaric Ledgers series, almost 300 handwritten pages. Now to type it all up and make it make sense.

Stack of five notebooks, top one labeled "The Barbaric Ledgers #3 / The Sundering Game / -5-" Also an Opus 88 fountain pen.

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Will have to reuse that in the autobiography.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’m celebrating the 25th anniversary of my debut novel Edinburgh this fall with a new Mariner Classics edition (intro by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social) on Oct. 13th at the Center for Fiction with Brandon Taylor, @mirajacob.bsky.social and @rokwon.bsky.social. centerforfiction.org/event/edinbu...