iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Caroline von Golum @carolineavenue.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Seeking redemption?? REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE screens EASTER SUNDAY, April 5 at @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social Prospect Park! Followed by a Q&A with yours truly and @jolivingstone.bsky.social! Tickets on sale now! nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark...

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Delving into the podcast Reading Writers with their episode on The Sluts, which I'm loving this far. (And I had no idea about the Daryl crossover that @jolivingstone.bsky.social mentioned! Mind: blown.) shows.acast.com/reading-writ...

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Competing Fantasies: K. Austin Collins on Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts | Reading Writers

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

yet more impressed (neutral valence) following the @jolivingstone.bsky.social / @charoshane.bsky.social / Wambugu convo about Perfection by its mere existence: what is Latronico up to? does he take himself to be updating Things, as films are remade periodically, and nothing more? Things is in print

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My buddy Ian from the park wrote a beautiful essay about sandwiches and seizures. www.thestopgap.net/skate-trip/

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Skate Trip

Václav Varaďa, Steve Sheilds, Miroslav Šatan, Bob Boughner, Alexander Moginly, Derek Plante.

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

If I were still a weekly critic I’d be pitching an article rn about all the new books and movies about letting yourself be slowly eaten alive by a creature

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The Persian poet Ferdowsi described a prince who, shielded by Truth, rode horseback through fire without coming to harm. www.thestopgap.net/tuesday-obit...

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Tuesday Obituary: Aaron Bushnell

Born on the last day of June in 1998, he exchanged his life in protest one year ago today, on February 25, 2024.

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Here’s something I wrote in 2019 about how hard it is to repair what trump is breaking newrepublic.com/article/1543...

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The Death of Taboo

How Donald Trump and his allies have drained the stigma from society's worst transgressions.

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I thought a god-botherer was bothering god but now I find it’s people who bother you about god in the street

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Fashion?! God it pisses me off how the nice liberals joined the “xyz has gone too far” backlash in order to feel culturally normal and now are panicking over the mystery

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Funk of delic @wormsimpson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Melt Julep Superfecta: a series of digital and analog photographs from the 2024 Kentucky Derby. Also for @jolivingstone.bsky.social at the the Stopgap. www.thestopgap.net/melt-julep-s...

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MELT JULEP SUPERFECTA

Will Simpson photographs the 2024 Kentucky Derby.

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Funk of delic @wormsimpson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

2024 ᴀʀᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ ʀᴇᴄᴀᴘ (reverse chrono): Summer Camera Diary September for The Stopgap, editor @jolivingstone.bsky.social www.thestopgap.net/on-the-stree...

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SUMMER CAMERA DIARY SEPTEMBER

Will Simpson on the street.

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Today I sat in on a friend’s doctoral defense and one of the examiners was a historian who, having absorbing that hauntology was part of her argument, tried angrily for 30 mins to get her to admit that ghosts aren’t real. She did a fake “ok you got me!” concession & he was like fab lets move on

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

tech reporters you have new obligations that I’m not sure you’re equipped to meet

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Big problem going on with the pronunciation of ‘corset’

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Do republicans like Neil young. Genuinely

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Just me and charlotte on Lorrie Moore (shockingly negative) and Scholastique Mukasonga (strong endorsement) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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Three Types of Loss: CharJo on Lorrie Moore and Scholastique Mukasonga

Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 12/23/2024 · 50m

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I need a timesaving prefab stamp that says “why didn’t you tell me ben whishaw was in it”

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The reading committee and I are hugely proud to give you the 2024 NBCC longlist for nonfiction:

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I just spent two hours looking for my keys. They were in a fucking boot

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Does anyone agree with me yet that Oppenheimer is rubbish

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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Reading Writers is the best fiction pod because each episode begins "so what have you been reading?"

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It’s my HONOR to have the stunning friend Lovia Gyarkye talking about Marie NDiaye on Reading Writers :’) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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Inheriting the Inescapable: Lovia Gyarkye on Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine

Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 12/06/2024 · 1h 15m

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Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

No tool can make battle with the horrific whistling sound my teeth make while speaking apparently

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

A propos of nothing, sharing my favorite @jolivingstone.bsky.social essay from the (previous) Trump Era about why we should — and also how not to — write cultural criticism in the (this time) Trump Era. newrepublic.com/article/1409...

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In Defense of Cultural Criticism in Trump’s America

Why the arts need a space the state can't touch—and how we get there.

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