iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Exciting news: I've started a job at BBC Science Focus magazine as Deputy Digital Editor. I'm mixing writing, editing and commissioning and have really enjoyed my time here so far. I've since moved to Bristol in the UK for the role! Pls get in touch if you have any health or science ideas!

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

i went to an apartment viewing today and the rental company had used AI to edit out what turned out to be a hoarder's apartment so that's a fun new thing 2 dodge while apartment hunting

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Workers United NY/NJ @workersunitednynj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Workers United NY / NJ stands with the brave editorial workers of the Baffler. Baffler management's hiring of legendary union-busters Jackson Lewis is no accident.

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Finished some freelance edits on a book, went to the bakery to reward myself and then they gave me a free cinnamon scroll too

Cinnamon scroll with lots of frosting in a cardboard box

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I’ve learned how to use a slow cooker and find hope (not necessarily related)

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

whenever people talk of investment properties my eyes start to twitch

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

What are some good nz shows for someone who is getting back into being back in nz

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"Many disabled people in media, myself included, owe a debt of thanks to Alice, whether she helped us personally or indirectly by fundamentally reshaping the culture around us." Very much agree with these words by @sesmith.lol on Alice Wong. disabilityvisibilityproject.com/celebration-...

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Celebration of Life

Welcome & Introduction On November 14, 2025, our beloved Alice Wong became an ancestor. In her own words, she told us: “Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that …

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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

News! At this year's Taite Music Prize ceremony on 29th April, The Mint Chicks' 2006 album Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! will receive the prestigious Independent Music NZ Classic Record Award. Finalists for two other awards have also been announced. These are... 1/3 www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/the-...

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Me: I won’t get reverse culture shock coming back to NZ, I already know the culture Reverse culture shock: so it’s not actually that literal

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The cost of living crisis but it’s actually about the emotional cost of

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

They called those shoes all birds coz if u say all birds are ugly u sound like a nature hater

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

is it parasocial that the snoring of the old couple in the room next door is weirdly comforting like white noise

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Jess live on the other side (but her original side) of the world content

Grass and sand dunes at foreground and beach with hills in background

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

NZ's justice of the peace database is so outdated everyone has either retired or has a local news article about their drunk driving in 2010

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It's soo good to be able to hear rain on a roof again

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

not sure if it's worth announcing since social media is a mess now BUT: I have left the baffler and furthermore the US of A and am back home in new zealand for the foreseeable. After nearly seven years, one pandemic, three surgeries etc it's a big change but one i was ready for by the end

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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

remember that when Israel bombed the first hospital in Gaza, they dissimulated, lied, and argued, expending tremendous resources to "complicate" the "narrative." a month later, it was the new normal

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

ppl will be like it's about class, not race or gender and then not even discuss class

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

My sister was face timing me her new bathroom and I asked if that was mold on her bath and she was like "no it's black" and it turns out she thought mold was just green

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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

We're launching a new newsletter, Good Medicine, on a simple premise: These are chaotic times, with so much distrust and confusion around our health and our health care system. So our goal is to help all of us navigate through the cacophony, together: www.vox.com/pages/good-m...

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Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

A moustache is like eyeliner for the lip

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Sometimes I feel like I could write a whole novel about the social and political implications of the heart react

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Gimme gimme gimme a mayor after midnight

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 27/12/2025

if vaccines were free and widely available, if people got paid time off to get them, if testing was free and widely available, if masks were free and widely available… this has always been about layered protection, and masks are just one layer left that people can see from the outside

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Trifle - the thinking man's lasagne

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Sometimes I think pistachios are too expensive but then I eat a pistachio and have to respect that she knows her worth

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

i've been in a cute upstate town this week and every time i make prolonged eye contact w a fellow early thirties person i feel like we are cosplaying small home town return for xmas movie except this is not my hometown and i am not open to love

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

can someone create an extension like adblocker but for AI??

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

"I want the way I was born to be treated with as much dignity as my body after an accident."

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

writers being sad about AI using em-dashes meanwhile real BRACKET HEADS sitting smugly (as ever)

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 03/12/2025

It's not just about leave but about what we are producing when we are working, says Toss Grumley.

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

it's my first day back at work post-surgery and my close friend and furthermore 2-door-down neighbor dropped off some banana bread to mark the occash

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/12/2025

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

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UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

In just over two weeks I can lift weights again. I've never lifted weights but it's nice to know it's an option.

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

i bought a spinach type smoothie coz i was feeling soo tired and when i went to put it on the table i totally missed so i think we all (me, the floor) learned a lesson about pushing thru surgery fatigue

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

evidence-based as a concept has been well and truly bungled, it was a nice idea though

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

One day I'd like to live in a little cottage in a sea town and have a cat and a garden and my health

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

"What does it mean to love someone who has, or has had, a parasitic worm in their brain?"

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I've been watching midsomer murders and so far they have interesting food and lots of murdered

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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

does march still count as summer in New Zealand? I am of the opinion of YES but others (such as Google) say no

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