iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

Oh my god, and I just recently learned that there are people who have made it their life’s work to get American chestnuts back… This is going to be devastating on so many awful levels.

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Elise is an editor at Deadlands, a long-time member of the SFF community. She's fighting cancer right now and going through a lot. Please help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

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Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey

hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Repeating my helpful little mnemonic song from Twitter: If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If you can't get there without him And you don't know much about him If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All right, we have 3.5 hours to do this. Make us donate $200 in matching funds, and get a disabled grandma almost halfway to her rent goal:

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'll be real with you. I'm too ill to reliably earn money and am at the end of my savings. I could use any help at all if you can spare it. ko-fi.com/karidru

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Become a supporter of Karidru today!

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

jesus christ. the new president of the university is closing down the biggest, oldest repository of fossils, specimens and artifacts with a single month's notice because I guess, archaeology is too woke or something? where the fuck is it all going to go? into the bin? get mad about it:

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✨️intelligentwat✨️ BRING BACK ŁINK @zinrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

be cool. buy the shirt.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you couldn't locate Greenfield on a map of Massachusetts without looking it up, you don't need to be commenting on the house policies of a lesbian bar there. You can sit this one out, I promise.

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Kate M (they/she) @katemontgomery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Look. I don’t have the energy to comment on the eugenicist hit piece published about masking at the disabled-centered dyke bar in my community. But when you point and laugh at the marginalized community skewered in that piece? Know that we can see you, and some of us have a long memory.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In the end they believe chronically ill and disabled people are weak or lying. They think if we just gave up medicine and our attachment to medical science and just ate non-GMO, “chemical free” foods we’d miraculously heal (or die, which is fine by them too).

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

However you feel about AOC it’s good for us to have a broader convo about how these MAHA people use keywords that you might agree with (pesticides! Chemicals! Safe food!) but the way they want to implement their ideas would kill the chronically ill, the disabled, the poor, and the marginalized.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There is no reason to NOT move on from the Potter series. They’re not exemplars of the language (Read Pratchett & Diane Duane), or exemplars of adventure stories (Rick Riordan instead)… And as an adult: read this, and think about it:

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Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books

Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A significant reason racism endures is because it is structu...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/08/2026

not useful to dwell upon, but it remains ASTOUNDING how many things are so fucked up and how many of our big institutions are entirely unwilling to do anything about it. we save each other, always and forever. find your neighbors who are doing the work and join ‘em, friends. the only way through.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 30/08/2026

it's legitimately heartwarming how the majority of WNBA players have absolutely seen through this bullshit and have been vocally supportive of trans women

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As Chris Hayes on MSNOW noted, this gigantic, 10-year, nearly $18 billion settlement with the states is the amount of revenue Meta brings in every single month. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $18bn

US tech giant agrees to establish further protections for teens such as daily usage limits and blocks on night-time use

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

essential reading if you saw that NYT article about Heated Rivalry AI fanfic a few weeks ago - or if you're interested in the current state of independent journalism.

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

From Tim, I learned how to take up space. The world was never going to make rtoom for us, so we took it. I had been terrified to walk down the street holding my girlfriend's hand, but I learned that if I dressed, walked and talked as I really wanted to, people would back off out of my way.

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

'Rocky Horror' had no truck with any of that. Like Tim - and like dear Dolly Parton, whom the community will also miss - it said 'Go out there, be loud, be proud, be yourself. Be fabulous, be promiscuous (if you want), and never apologise. Don't dream it. Be it.'

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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.

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Kate M (they/she) @katemontgomery.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This benefit auction closes TODAY. The “ask a medievalist” consult I donated — which went for >$200 for @romancingthevote.com — is hovering just under $70! Did you miss your chance for RTV? Come bid on an hour of my time now and help support @celestepewter.bsky.social !!

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1-Hour Consultation with a Medievalist

Auction item '1-Hour Consultation with a Medievalist' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Naomi @enting.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good morning, pocket friends! I have opened a ko-fi shop with some of my woodcut and linocut prints — please take a look! ko-fi.com/enting_print... (The grasshopper-and-yarrow print is a work in progress.)

Three small woodcut prints, two on white paper and one on black paper. From left to right, they depict a columbine, an orchid, and a grasshopper on a yarrow flower cluster.

Linocut print on white paper, on a pine table. The print depicts a stack of books, in a pink/purple/blue bi pride gradient.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

like the reason Dolly feels like an exceptional human being is because all the things we're talking about today in her lifetime of philanthropy trace back to just .... having empathy and we live in the era of "I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People"

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 wrote a book called echolalia echolalia 🎃 @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hi! So our eSims are keeping a whole hospital going in Gaza, and countless of students who are studying for exams right now. Our funds are about to run out because the usage of those eSims are especially high. <3 #ConnectingGaza

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm also having complicated thoughts I don't know how to articulate perfectly about Dolly as like . . . high femme Gender Euphoria™️ (for folks of all genders!) and that big hair / big boobs / sequins / high-pitched voice, etc are not - and should not be - incompatible with being taken seriously

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Kate M (they/she) @katemontgomery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This auction has been extended until the 26th because of a couple of late donations — maybe you want to go stalk the auction and find them? I’m sure going to!! www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Auction for Celeste Pewter

Silent auction 'Auction for Celeste Pewter' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A reminder that when evangelicals say “parental rights” they mean they want to be allowed to beat their children.

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

ORPHANED CATS NEED FOREVER HOME IN NORTHEAST (PLEASE READ *ENTIRE* THREAD) My wife's childhood friend died Thursday, leaving his two *mildly* special-needs cats. The elder, Wally, is about 13. ABSOLUTELY affectionate cat; GLORIOUSLY dim. His only issue is that he poops in bathtubs if given a chance

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Kate M (they/she) @katemontgomery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

That’s a wonderful way of putting it. I wish I had heard it when I was still teaching medieval history!!

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Alyssa Visscher (she/they) @alyssavisscher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I, an autistic baddie with a migraine disorder, just found out that MIGRAINES are now being understood as a SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER?! Give its association with social/emotional/sensory disorders, research has begun suggesting things like additional migraine screenings for folks with autism etc

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/08/2026

Apropos this discussion, it is alarming to me how many very small trade outfits have been purchased by arms of private equity. It is still not impossible to find people working on their own but it's getting harder and harder, and you have to explicitly ask, "who owns the business?"

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/08/2026

When Trump is finally defeated, remember that the hangers-on and the ghouls surrounding him, the JD Vances of the world, will all claim that they were trying to moderate his evil and they should be thanked. And we need to remember that this is a lie. They were willing to do anything for power.

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Kate M (they/she) @katemontgomery.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Oh that would be brilliant. Family mottos for historical novel, tattoos, etc! I’d keep an eye on @romancingthevote.com because they boost similar endeavors from time to time!

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Kate M (they/she) @katemontgomery.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Another auction post? You betcha!! So many books, consults, critiques, and AMAs on offer — and a number have zero bids so far! I’ll try to do a thread later today of some items I think need more attention. For now? Go forth and browse!! www.32auctions.com/auctionforce...

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Auction for Celeste Pewter

Silent auction 'Auction for Celeste Pewter' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Kate M (they/she) @katemontgomery.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I started doing it for Romancing the Vote, where they have a lot of other specialist subject experts for authors to bid on, and I was like — well, I know what bothers me in a historical novel, and I know a lot about history so — why not!!!

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

Here’s an awesome blurb on my first novel None but the Righteous from a critic at the LA Times who greatly respected my work that you’ll find on bookshop.org. To give you an enticing view of what this book holds for you.

$10:36 B Bookshop.org® Search books, authors, ISBNs All orders support local bookstores. $49,837,318.93 raised so far! Q ㅥ O 20 "[A] profound debut novel... James captures the simple kindnesses of a cup of coffee or a shared cellphone as though they were religious acts. Where a more ponderous writer might lapse into a lengthy stream of consciousness, James uses short chapters to weave a story of fractured time and uncharted pace into the fabric of life after Katrina .. This is a book of faith aching to be laimed, of a land that dares to be edeemed, of souls searching to be free, of all spirits looking for a home. It's a metaphysical book deeply rooted in ancient legacies of subjugation... This is a deeply haunted novel that moves with calm and ruthless determination, like the eye of a hurricane." - The Los Angeles Times$

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Bluesky Users 🚩🚩🚩 DO NOT FALL FOR ENGAGEMENT BAIT 🚩🚩🚩

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The only thing that would make most people do ANYTHING is if most people were doing it.

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I think we can safely say the history department had the best stickers today

A large circular sticker for the UAA Department of History. It reads "god forbid women have hobbies" and features a reproduction of the famous illustration of The Women's March on Versailles, 1789

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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

As mentioned in my comment on USPS's new ballot rule, the American postal service was born in 1774 _because_ the alternative system (the Crown's post) let the executive decide which mail not to deliver. For a Court riveted by bespoke historical analogs, this rule is 252 years of unAmerican.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Racists be like "You can't call me a racist, I just believe ::vomits incoherent mess of worst racist shit you ever heard::". Like, I'm sorry, but being a rancid racist has consequences and two of them are that people won't like you and will call you a racist.

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