iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 18h

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Grace Lin @authorgracelin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Almost there! I leave for book tour tomorrow and am getting all my ducks in a row before I go- including signing books @carlemuseum ! But there’s still time to join the virtual visit—just order from @carlemuseum before Oct 14th and you’ll get the link for the Oct 21 webinar.

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Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When one of the most engaging novels for kids of the year involves severed pinky toes, ominous packs of wild dogs, and rusty, unsettling metal buckets, then it's time to ask @aaronstarmer.bsky.social some questions. An ideal way to kick of October. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2026/10/02/t...

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The Uncanny: Five Questions for Aaron Starmer on You Are Now Old Enough to Hear This - A Fuse #8 Production

When one of the most engaging novels for kids of the year involves severed pinky toes, ominous packs of wild dogs, and rusty, unsettling metal buckets, then it's time to ask its author some questions.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Roses are red, These times are quite trying

A warning sign reading "danger not only will this kill you it will hurt the whole time youre dying"

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Kate Milford @katemilford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anybody out there got a lead on where one might acquire a 19th century traveling library of the variety that was delivered by tender to lighthouses? I want one because reasons. historyofinformation.com/images/Scree...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026

What’s Rustling In That Leaf Pile?

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Kate Milford @katemilford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The number of times as a children's bookseller I had to thread the needle between a kid whose eyes were lighting up at my recommendations based on their stated preferences and the (paying) parent who clearly wanted me to be recommending LITTRACHUR from the adult lit stacks

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2. Don't criticize their choices. Whatever they're reading - comics, fan fiction, non-fiction, even books by celebrity writers whom you may have good reason to dislike - let them read. Books with problematic content? Use them as an opportunity for discussion. But don't shut down their reading.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. Make sure you're doing it yourself. Kids read most readily when parents read. Seeing the adults around them reading, hearing them talk about what they're reading, is often the best way to engage their interest.

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 25/09/2026

I had cause to share this on the work slack and so by law... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

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Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy 90th to Jim Henson (posthumous). It’s safe to say that he as someone whose lifetime scarcely overlapped with mine did more to shape my worldview than many of the adults in my immediate life. Be kind, sing songs, be a little weird, make someone wonder how you did that today.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Frog and Toad were sad for a while.

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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Someone. Please. Go check on Frog

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Toad opened his present from Frog. It was a beautiful new clock. The two friends sat by the fire. The hands of the clock moved to show the hours of a merry Christmas Eve.

Toad and Frog set in front of a roaring fire in the hearth, admiring the new clock.

From "Christmas Eve"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

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Adib Khorram @adibkhorram.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

word friends I need help! Isn't there a fancy, like, Greek- or Latin-derived word that basically means an empty thing that we as people pour meaning into??? I may be explaining this poorly.

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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 20/09/2026

#worldkidlitmonth Eiko Kadono (1935- ) began writing in 1970 and has published about 250 books, mostly picture books. She has also translated around 100 titles from other languages.

A color photograph of Eiko Kadono, an older Japanese woman in a pink, floral sweater.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed

Bunnies re-enact the duel between Inigo and Wesley in "The Princess Bride", with a masked bunny fighting against a dashing shaggy bunny with a gold sword. The masked bunny is cornered, near the edge of a rocky cliffside, but still has a trick up his sleeve

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19/09/2026

Tomorrow is Arthur Rackham's birthday, so that's a fun thing.

Alice, of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, being attacked by a loose, flying deck of cards.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This thread is so funny 😂😂😂

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 16/09/2026

ooh, I like this take - all the elements are present, so call it what it is: not liminal (which was never quite right, tbh), but gothic for a new generation of people who don’t remember why we built that shit in the first place, or what it was supposed to be *for*

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“When I was small,” said Frog, “my mother and father and I went out for a picnic. On the way home we lost our way. My mother was worried. ‘We must get home,’ she said. ‘We do not want to meet the old Dark Frog.’

A flashback to Frog as a child, lost in the woods with his parents. His mother looks worried, and Frog looks scared.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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pretty BOO!!!👻👻🎃🎃😈😈🎃👻!!!😈g @inyourculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it's not some grand statement it's just "i saw someone bullying children and thought 'fuck that'"

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: Wyld Stallyns will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

Screenshot of Bill and Ted, aka Wyld Stallyns, from the movie BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

y’all are crazy

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Susie Esse @susieesse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So much…

A four panel brain comic by Susie Esse about a little brain with a lot to do today so they they go and hide under a blanket

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yeah i could photograph real bugs and do naturalist things and let my joy about it be infectious enough to inspire others or I could type prompts into the theft machine to generate soulless things that don't exist you piece of shit, you absolute forgotten pantry potato.

User Raymondreamer says, “If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you’re doing”

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“I tied up the Old Dark Frog. He roared and screamed. I ran away fast.”

Frog ties up the Dark Frog with the jump rope, while the Dark Frog roars and screams.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Another convention cosplay post: I love the sharp uptick in Porco Rosso cosplays the the last few years. I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Really good chicken helmet. Best chicken helmet I’ve ever seen maybe.

A knight’s helmet with, inexplicably, a chicken face coming out the front

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The one reason why you should make me your Senator for all 50 states:

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And really think, if they think about it for two seconds, nobody ACTUALLY wants a "Somehow Palpatine returned" moment for Gravity Falls. They want how Gravity Falls made them *feel* back. And again: The only treatment for that is to find new stories.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

I truly believe that we are witnessing his training arc for when he assumes control of the Thunderdome in our increasingly inevitable Mad Max future

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love summer, and I hate the change of seasons. But eels change in excellent ways, so let's talk about that, instead! That's right, friends...it's Big Eel Life Cycle Thread time! Before we start, let's remember that I'm a historian, not a scientist. But I'll do my best. 1/11 🗃️🧪

Meme. Drawing of the eels' life cycle, surrounding a map of their migration range, centered on the mid-Atlantic. The drawing shows the evolution cycle:
1. Silver eels spawning
2. Eggs
3. Larval stage
4. Glass eel
5. Elvers
6. Yellow eel
7. Silver eel

The inconsistency in singular/plural drives me a little crazy, because it suggests that eels shift from being multiple animals to one animal and back several times over their lives. Which is silly. Nobody does that. Not even my neighbors, who might be werewolves.

Meme text reads:
"There's history in here somewhere"

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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Heads up for anyone who wants a swashbuckling animal adventure graphic novel with Very Accurate Boats: Seacritters! is currently 25% off via Barnes and Noble's preorder sale. Code is PREORDER25! Good through 9/11. barnesandnoble.sjv.io/c/128773/189...

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Seacritters! The Hunt for the Jigamaree

Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026

Always a good time to remind ourselves that the US Confederacy was, even judged in historical context, evil -- a pathetic, morally repellant movement led by some the smarmiest narcissists ever known. It had no redeeming features & should forever be regarded with disgust & contempt.

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Trump officials strip military language criticizing Confederate memorial

A new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery.

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Kate Milford @katemilford.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't know who I know who can vote here, but if it's you, go vote!! HONEYEATER was one of my favorite books last year!

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As a parent in the NYC school system I think this needs context

“The kids simply cannot handle it: why New York students are reading fewer books”

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Kate Milford @katemilford.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Shit yeah, I have been waiting for this, let's GOOOOOOOOO

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/09/2026

If you have any of the same concerns, I implore you to send a note to @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to ask him to STOP these "A.i." pilots in NYC high schools until all of these questions are ironed out. You can submit a comment here: HeyMamdani.fyi

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Contact the Mayor - NYC Mayor's Office

Send a message to NYC mayor on the web. You can also get links to media contacts and submit FOIL requests.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/09/2026

Questions: 1. How much money are Brisk and the other tech companies involved in these pilots being paid? 2. Can kids/parents/teachers OPT OUT of these pilots? 3. How are these companies avoiding the falsehoods/disinfo/racism/sexism/sycophancy that all chatbots push?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/09/2026

The Brisk website's first pitch on their front page is "Turn any resource you love and trust into lessons, feedback, and student practice - without leaving your browser." So they're asking teachers to feed other people's material into their "A.i." slop database. NO. www.briskteaching.com

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Free AI Tools for Teachers and Educators | Brisk Teaching

The #1 AI platform for teachers and students. Build lessons, personalize learning, and know what to teach next — all in one place. Try Brisk free today.

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