iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Lisa Cooper Ellison @lisacooperellison.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It was so much fun to not just work on this post but to highlight the work of so many fantastic writers, including Sue William Silverman, @allisonlanda.bsky.social @kellymcmasters.bsky.social, @jennberney.bsky.social, @eirencaffall.bsky.social, Laura Cathcart Robbins, and so many others.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

What is this hollow argument that says the ongoing problem of the pandemic is isolation? No, the problem is structural abandonment leading to personal abandonment that goes on and on. Isolation is a symptom of the problem. If you treat it as the problem itself, then the problem will never end.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)

America hurt itself badly today.

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

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Carrie Finison @carriefinison.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

After calling my reps today, I tried to call the White House to leave a 'comment.' Apparently the business hours of the comment line are Tuesday-Thursday 11-3. Not sure what other business runs with those hours but OK. If you want to let off some steam around midday tomorrow, call 202-456-1111.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/01/2025

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

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Jennifer Berney @jennberney.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I borrowed the wordless picture book A Ball for Daisy from the library. Every page had a blue post-it note where an adult had transcribed what a child saw in the picture. I was annoyed until I got to this charming annotation: "The other girl gived the puppy a new ball that wasn't popped"

page from A Ball for Daisy with a handwritten note that says "The other girl gived the puppy a new ball that wasn't popped"

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Jennifer Berney @jennberney.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

For The Scrap Heap, I wrote about Tahlequah, and the burdens we impose on the animals we love.

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Orca Burdens

Tahlequah in her own language

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Monday morning we are entering a new chapter in this country's history and we are entering it together, with our friends and principles held close and our eyes wide open.

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Jennifer Berney @jennberney.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

May we all age into our hairstyles this gracefully

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 03/01/2025

Book Giveaway! 📚🎉 Help me test out @laiew.bsky.social's RaffleBlue tool & you may win a paperback copy of I'M BORED by @michaelianblack.bsky.social and me. TO ENTER: pls Like and re-post. US/Canada only. Winner picked Mon. Hoping to use RaffleBlue as my go-to Bluesky giveaway tool. #BookGiveaway

A playful book cover featuring the title "I'M BORED" in bold blue letters against a light blue background. An illustration of a young girl with pigtails, wearing a striped shirt, leans against the word "BORED" with a disinterested expression. The Junior Library Guild Selection gold seal is displayed in the lower-right corner, highlighting the book's recognition.

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Anne Liu Kellor @anneliukellor.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Coming to you on 9 Fridays in February-April (2.7-4.11.25)— WRITING TO WITNESS, GRIEVE, AND HEAL: Cultivating Hope and Resilience Through Storytelling and Community. 10 am - 12 pm Pacific on zoom. Scholarship applications due 1.20. Payment plans. To learn more: www.anneliukellor.com/work-with-me...

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Anne Liu Kellor

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Jennifer Berney @jennberney.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I've got a critique group and some great work-sharing friends, but none of them are picture-book focused. This is why I'm excited to join 12x12!

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Jennifer Berney @jennberney.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Be outside with the seasons even when it's dark, cold, and wet

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Jennifer Berney @jennberney.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Traveling is a challenge for me these days, but if I find the right virtual conference, I'd love to go.

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Jennifer Berney @jennberney.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I have a special tiny house at the edge of the woods that is my office. I try to spend time here every day, even if I can only spend 20 minutes. In this space, I can only do things that are writing / creativity related. No work or chores.

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Jennifer Berney @jennberney.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I'm excited to join in 2025! I wrote 4 drafts in 2024, and looking forward to writing 12+ in 2025 with the help of community accountability.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 20/12/2024

What if you lay down on the ground and start screaming and call that writing for the day?

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Jennifer Berney @jennberney.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I am still haunted and amazed by this video David Bowie released just three days before his death.

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On Bowie's Lazarus

a video I wish we were still talking about

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Jennifer Berney @jennberney.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Thanks! Learning about neurodiversity has been such an eye opener for me!

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

🕯️🌹Nikki Giovanni🌹🕯️

A Black woman with cropped hair and wearing an orange shirt displays a Thug Life tattoo on her forearm.

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Jennifer Berney @jennberney.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I could write forever and ever about the magic of Kim Deal, but I managed to keep this under 1,000 words.

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I Want to Move Through Time Like Kim Deal

towards tenderness, with ferocity

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

People are leaving Twitter because it’s not fun anymore and no one is obligated to be on a platform they don’t enjoy. It’s not rocket science.

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Jennifer Berney @jennberney.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Best of all, it's reciprocal: in learning about my kids' neurodivergence, I've come to better understand and accept my own.

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Jennifer Berney @jennberney.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

It's only through re-parenting myself, in retraining my inner voice to be kind and to radically accept my own limitations, that I've been able to show up as the parent my differently wired kids need me to be.

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Jennifer Berney @jennberney.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Earlier this year, I wrote this article on low-demand parenting for Romper. The more I learn about autism and neurodivergence, the the more convinced I am that we need to overhaul our collective definitions of what "good parenting" looks like.

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Low-Demand Parenting Is All About Giving In & These Parents Swear By It

What really changes if you let a kid have a popsicle before dinner? What Amanda Diekman found was: not much and also, everything.

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Jennifer Berney @jennberney.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It's been a minute since I laughed this hard

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Bluesky has made it. I can once again explain very online things to my not very online wife and have her stare at me, bewildered. We’re back baby!!!!

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