iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Like a delivery guy banging twice on the back of a truck to let the driver know everything’s good to go.

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Applications are open until 8/1 for SWWIM's Residency at The Betsy. For more information, please visit our website. XO SWWIM Team #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #SWWIMResidency #TheBetsyHotel #WritersRoom #SWWIMReadingSeries #AllisonBlevins #CarolinaHospital #NicoleHospital-Medina #HollyIglesias

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Don’t live your life so that when you die people say “oh I was hoping it’d be the other guy, but I’ll take it”

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

sometimes you get two bags of chips out of the vending machine I guess

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spooky dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 12/07/2026

Cheers to Lindsey Graham for being the one Republican who found out where Mitch McConnell was and actually went there.

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Elder Taylor @taylornewc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Today is the last day to submit! Tell your friends! 🌊 🌊📚💙

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Juliana Gray @julianagray.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

A student storing their refrigerator in my basement over the summer drew this incredible artwork depicting our (mine & the fridge’s) anticipated adventures.

A drawing of a mini fridge and a stick figure woman holding hands in a field of flowers, captioned “Fridgina and Dr. Gray.”

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 12/05/2026

Tired of the widening gyre. The gyre is wide enough

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Juliana Gray @julianagray.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Found this card tucked inside a 12-pack of beer. Glad to know the Lord approves of my plans to celebrate the end of the semester.

A card with a picture of sunset, bearing a quote from Matthew 11:28, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

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Juliana Gray @julianagray.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Imagine my embarrassment at coming home from birding to find this old piece of mine reposted. Sorry, Mom. 🕊️

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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 14/03/2026

Can this be a solution?

Strait of Hormuz map with the Human Centipede pasted over the top of the southern peninsula

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/03/2026

oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/03/2026

0:30 AM to 11:45 AM: - Dickinson and Drambuie: Pairing Your Favorite Writers with Liquor - The Stegner: What an $85 Application Fee Didn’t Get Me - A Year of Institutional Thinking: How to Unnecessarily Burden Your Students with Residual Academic Monotony www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-m...

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A More Realistic AWP Schedule

8:00 AM to 5:30 PM - Daily Meditation Room For People Who Have Been Submitting to the New Yorker and Poetry for Years Without an Acceptance 9:00 AM...

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/03/2026

[Exit Murderer.]

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Markwayne Mullin looks and sounds like some backwoods ding-dong that Raylan Givens has to throw in his car trunk on JUSTIFIED

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

DID YOU KNOW? If you have Delta Sky Miles, you can donate them to help a kidnapped-and-released person fly home! They are set free on the streets of El Paso or another Texas town with no phone, no money, nothing at all. Your miles can get them back to their loved ones!

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Donate Your Miles — Stand With Minnesota

Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

If you’ve been thinking to yourself “man, I really want to help people in Minneapolis, but I also some some cookies, AND I’d also like to help out trans, neurodiverse, and BIPOC youth“ boy oh boy do I have some good news for you! digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop5...

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Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today

That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.

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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

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dean @deanr.co.uk · 05/01/2026

“you won’t get away with this”

Uni lad headline hospice nurse who’s seen 100s of people die says everyone always says the same thing on their deathbed. Photo is a blond haired blue eyed woman’s face

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

visual representation of “we have added AI”

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Juliana Gray @julianagray.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Woo hoo! I published only one humor piece this year, and I’m pleased as punch that it cracked McSweeney’s top 25.

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Durrell @durrell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Happy Psycho Day to all who celebrate. (not yet Friday, but near enough)

The opening of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960): a black and white panorama of Phoenix, Arizona with the words "FRIDAY, DECEMBER THE ELEVENTH" printed across it in white.

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Juliana Gray @julianagray.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I love a prestige true crime limited series, but I'm tired of watching bad things happen to Patricia Arquette.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 13/11/2025

"Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...

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When It Happens

It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN. It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Elon got Joyce Carol Owned

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the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

I heard there was a secret mash That turned into a graveyard smash But you don't really care for monsters, do you?

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2025

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Boo-face Sicko @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

With so much wrong about this 'Ed Gein is bringing sexy back!' take, I'm still going to focus on the historical detail that he couldn't possibly have owned a chainsaw.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

Present Tense
by Todd Dillard

My father’s telling me about his dog,
how it fell into a well
when they were walking down a wooded path.
His dog ran across some rotted planks,
the planks splintered, “And whoosh!”
my father says. “No more dog.”
I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M.
“I’m not finished,” he says.
He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket,
how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down,
and yelled for the dog to get in.
“But all I pulled up was more barking.”
“Dad,” I say. “This never happened.”
He says he can’t remember
how long he tried to get the dog
to shimmy into the bucket.
Just that at some point
when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“
as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“
he decided to give up.
“Dad,” I say. “It’s late.
I’m tired. And you’re dead.”
“Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!”
My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt
and pouring the dirt into the well.
And I know what he’s getting at, I know
he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket
he filled the well and
the dog jumped out. He’s going to say
something about how the dog
led him home through the dark.
I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.
“Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?”
I keep lowering the bucket
but all I ever pull up are leaves.
Red leaves. Lately, some gold.

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Juliana Gray @julianagray.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Not only did I write this, but I also escaped that cursed washing machine in the 5th-floor Roman walkup.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19/08/2025

So we hate doing stuff like this, but as social media platforms continue to throttle indie publishers like us, we rely now more than ever on our readers. If you can spare $3 or $5 or whatever a month, it would go a long way to help us keep on keeping on. buff.ly/E4eljl9