iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 2h

My mother’s sisters have all assembled for this trip they are going on tomorrow and oh my God the house is so full of aunts. So much aunting.

7220

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 11h

Just look at this little guy

050

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have reached the stage of packing to go away for two weeks where I'm just faffing about choosing fountain pens and knitting projects and books. It's highly enjoyable.

5340

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

OK, I am going down to my parents' this evening, for a fortnight, so why the hell is my fridge full of fresh delightful foods with expiry dates? What tomfool banana planned my shopping? JL - you literally did not eat for two days because you had a tummy bug. Oh. Stop being mean to yourself.

3340

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My fingers ache, my knee aches, my shoulder aches, my neck hurts, for once my hip ISN'T hurting, why are bodies, none of it makes sense or has an obvious cause.

1220

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tomorrow I am going to down to stay at my parents' for a couple of weeks, as mother has a lot of gadding about to do and her cats need sitting on. With. I mean with.

3250

Reposted by JL Kaufmann

Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I mean I am in my mid 50s so I already knew that. The only time cis men speak up about rape is in women’s comment sections to be blowhards about not all men and what about bla bla bla Cis men are chickenshits who can’t even tell another man a rape joke isn’t funny.

1443

Reposted by JL Kaufmann

Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So of the 5 men in my circles who have expressed any outrage or in fact any sentiment at all about the massive rape cases in the news, 2 are trans. I have thousands of men in my circles and generally speaking all the cis ones are clearly fine with rape because they aren’t against it.

1469

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh look, the AI bros overhyped some bullshit we all told them was bullshit and they implemented it anyway and it turned out to be bullshit.

35222

Reposted by JL Kaufmann

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.

641235367

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pretty much the second I stopped feeling sick and started feeling headachy instead the cat came trotting over for a cuddle. *looks at cat*

2200

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Look. "Released on bail" at this point means they were probably fly-tipping, possibly dogging.

5182

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stomach bug progress - I threw up my tentative little bit of toast. FFS. The cat, probably wisely, is refusing to come anywhere near me.

7240

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In ancient times, when I was doing my English and Italian Literature BA, I had an argument with my Computer Science then-boyfriend who thought my degree was 'easy' because he was doing hours in the lab every week and I wasn't. So we added up how much time I spend reading v. his lab hours and I won -

4190

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I appear to have a stomach bug. There was a small child at the next table in the café on Saturday wailing that he felt sick. His parent was treating it as him being tiresome about not wanting his sandwich but now I wonder if the little virus vector shouldn't've been tucked up at home actually.

4240

Reposted by JL Kaufmann

dawn of the debb @debbshock.blue · 28/09/2026

Monday is scary here, take this teeny tiny owl

603677541

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You know you want to find out where Andy went this time.

0111

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've pre-ordered the lot because CAAAAAAAATTSSS IIIIN SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE

1133

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have just ripped a bit of my fingernail trying to get the lid off the coffee tin. I am very... sweary? Sweary, yes.

4120

Reposted by JL Kaufmann

Robert Lloyd Parry @nunkie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hark! To mark the start next week of Nunkie's autumn season of supernatural tales, until Thursday you can get a copy of "Shadows and Gestures - Scripts after M R James" for £12.50. That's a scarcely believable £5 discount. Email me for details of how to pay: address here www.nunkie.co.uk/contact

1118

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I went out for a Stupid Little Walk For My Stupid Mental Health yesterday, telling myself I'd get some milk while I was at it. I opened the fridge just now to get the milk for my tea. Damn it.

7510

Reposted by JL Kaufmann

Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

There are no “legitimate concerns” about trans people. There aren’t any about women’s safety or fairness in sports or kids being kids or fucking toilets. If there were you’d have heard of them before 2018. I am a cis white woman so you have to listen to me or I’ll cry.

23547965

Reposted by JL Kaufmann

LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 26/09/2026

it's astonishing to me that micro-organisms can make cheese. really the last thing you'd expect them to be good at

1212

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tiny thing that makes me want to scream - people saying 'Oh no I can't have a fountain pen, my handwriting isn't good enough...' Look, the pen is NOT some kind of Badge of Neat Handwriting you have to earn first. Get the pen. Your handwriting will then improve, and if it doesn't, who gives a fuck?

9845

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have been to a Martin Simpson gig and I am feeling very happily full of beautiful guitar noodling.

1130

Reposted by JL Kaufmann

caztastrophe 🐦🦝🏳️‍🌈 @caztastrophe.gay · 25/09/2026

I know everyone is in need & I hate adding to the asks, but we still need about $900 towards Morgan's surgery. Please help us raise the funds to get this sweet senior girl taken care of, before we head west for the winter in a few weeks. @Caz-A on Venmo, or PayPal.me/ccabb

A Black Lab with a bit of gray around her muzzle is lying on a couch, looking up at the camera

01217

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh what the actual screaming banana fuck though

291

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have started that damn writing project on Patreon. It's currently free for anyone who cares to take a look at it, which frankly makes me feel faint. www.patreon.com/JLKaufmann Tea. I need tea. Lots of tea. Yes.

patreon.com

JLKaufmann — Overcaffeinated scribbling person. BEHOLD MY SCRIBBLES!

8287

Reposted by JL Kaufmann

Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Pity no one turned up" - G. K. Chesterton at the annual Postman's Ball.

68122

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was going through my notebooks looking at stuff I wrote a couple of years ago - no idea why I thought this was a reasonable thing to do right now - and was painfully smacked with the realisation that this fantasy epic quest thingy I have about 50000 words of is... not horrible.

5531

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

OK! Time to drag out the big six-cup cafetière. Oh, do you have guests, JL? Nope.

4240

Reposted by JL Kaufmann

Jeannelle @jeannellewrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

October 6 WHEEEEEEE!

The back cover of a forthcoming book, 'Ochre, Quartz, or Ivy,; dark blue with summary text and an author photo.

The cover of a forthcoming book, 'Ochre, Quartz, or Ivy,', with a gray sky, a mountain, a raptor fossil and a deep lake.

364

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have been out all day visiting people and I am all talked out.

4220

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've given myself a deadline of 'by Friday' for putting the first snippet of this project online so of course I have the heebies, the jeebies, the collywobbles, and a general sense of impending doom. And a mouth ulcer.

7271

Reposted by JL Kaufmann

TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

562782421

Reposted by JL Kaufmann

Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 21/09/2026

Premee Mohamed (@premeemohamed.com) reads from her story collection One Message Remains, which is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

youtube.com

Premee Mohamed reads from One Message Remains

YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation

113338

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Me: OK, now I need to make this piece of writing funny! This should be enjoyable! Also me: I have no idea how to be funny. Me: What? Also me: I've never been funny in my life. Me: Oh come on. Also me: I'm serious. I am incapable of being funny. This is a lost cause. Please go watch Bake Off instead.

4201

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's Bilbo's birthday (also Frodo's). This guy right here played both of them - Frodo in the BBC's magisterial audio drama of LOTR, and then Bilbo in Peter Jackson's beautifully cast three-movie epic of LOTR (we do not speak of his version of The Hobbit, for we are tired). Anyway. Hobbits. Yay!

static.klipy.com

Bilbo Hobbit's Changing Expression

Alt: Ian Holmes playing Bilbo Baggins, his expression of mild alarm breaking into a beautiful smile.

1504

Reposted by JL Kaufmann

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.

381081332

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Home-made sourdough bread, and Jarlsberg cheese, and butter, and home-grown cucumber sticks, and a glass of kefir, and a large piece of chocolate later...

2480

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sometimes you just want to read something sweet and lovely and with magic and crows in it.

181

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am at the stage of fasting where I keep going over to check my snacks and treats for this evening are all present and correct and where I left them ten minutes ago. Also clock-watching.

3500