iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My @carnegielibrary.bsky.social card is now old enough to drink. That's 21 years of literary adventures, movie nights, music discovery, and deep dives into random topics that have piqued my curiosity. All for the price of $0.00. Incredible.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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Eliza @artbyeliza.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

hope that clears that up 🙂👍

A sticker that says "trans lives are more important than shitty wizards"

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm very late in seeing this, but this is such a lovely review of my short story.🥹 And what a cool project! Thank you, Michael.

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

And yet Bookshop just partnered with Spotify, a company that aided in ICE recruitment by running ads, whose founder invested heavily in AI-powered weapons, and which pays artists literal pennies for their music. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 09/01/2026

Our latest FlytrapxBitch reprint celebrates the power of fanfic: "The ability to draw a convincing portrait of a better world is, after all, a crucial skill for making a crisis feel just livable enough to keep on for a little bit longer."

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To Fandom, With Love

Fanfic lets us imagine a better world together.

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Why can I turn off spell check in Word but not Copilot?

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

It's the first snow of the year, so all I want to do is read Narnia on the couch with a hot mug of tea and my dog snuggled up next to me.

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Pierre's voice was a constant presence on the radio through my formative years. After I moved to Pittsburgh, I'd tune in when I visited home, and Pierre was always there waiting for me like an old friend. His shows taught me so much about music and music history. Going home will never be the same. 💔

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

ANMLY is now open for new work! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap41

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ANMLY Submission Manager

**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

It's kind of insulting that Slack thinks I need some dumb LLM to summarize 4 unread messages of approximately 1-2 sentences each. And clearly it thinks that, since it keeps giving me a pop-up to upgrade so I can use said dumb LLM.

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

One hundred and seventy. That number will only increase.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

“I was with you, until you said ‘pregnant people.’” I get this a lot. I’m an abortion provider, and the CEO and President of an org known for abortion advocacy. Let’s talk about why I use inclusive language — and why I’m not stopping. 🧵

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Kwame Mbalia @kwamembalia.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Rescue the future. Confront the past. THE LAST ORDER is in stores everywhere today!

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I intellectually understand why corporate media is scared of Trump and why they regularly pull punches, though I find it deeply cowardly. But I do not understand why they refuse to describe in plain, factual terms the things he says and does www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...

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News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America

Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Every Jimmy Eat World album is fantastic. Placebo? Loud Like Love is gorgeous and Never Let Me Go is a masterpiece. Also lately have been obsessed with Garbage's newest album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light (and No Gods No Masters is a perfect album for the current moment). I could go on.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 15/10/2025

Impersonation alert! Writers, if you get an email from someone recommending you contact literary agent Annie Bomke at either anniebomkeliterary@gmail.com or submissions@anniebomke.com, it's a SCAM. Both emails addys are fake. Annie's real domain is abliterary.com writerbeware.blog/2024/03/15/t...

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The Impersonation List - Writer Beware

The most pernicious scams focused on English-speaking writers these days come from overseas: publishing/marketing/fake literary agency scams from the Philippines, and ghostwriting/editing/marketing sc...

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Megan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

@emilylhauser.bsky.social in case you haven’t seen, I have yet another zine out! It was commissioned to be distributed during the No Kings 2 protests. It’s called “We Marched! Now What?” and is filled with stuff people can do. drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...

Hand holding black and white illustrated zine of two people holding up signs saying “We Marched! Now What?”

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

1 week before my BPhil (undergad version of a phd) thesis was due, I banged out 13k new words, revised all 38k words (twice), created my defense presentation, met my future spouse, and spent a lot time flirting with him. Only 30 students out of thousands graduated with a BPhil that year. Fuck AI.

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 09/10/2025

Walked through the airport and saw my face in Time, on the cover of USA Today, and my book on the shelves. So surreal. I’m counting every blessing and grateful for all who stand for truth and intellectual freedom. They tried to silence me. Wrong one. Cheers to the haters! 🥂 #Invictus

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I've actually been thinking a lot about utopia (because of Le Guin, of course), specifically in the context of dystopia—both because of the dystopia we seem to be living in and because of how popular dystopian fiction has always been compared to utopian fiction.

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Governor Shapiro needs to get on this. Just because PA hasn't been targeted for this yet doesn't mean we won't be. "Bad things" happen in Philadelphia, after all.

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

"How do you do it? / You get through it then you put yourself through it again"* FOREVER by Charly Bliss is the '90s vibes pop(ish) album I need at the end of my 30s. *This lyric is talking about love but it applies pretty well to life in general. charlybliss.bandcamp.com/track/how-do...

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How Do You Do It, by Charly Bliss

from the album FOREVER

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I am in danger of turning into a person who listens to specific albums with specific audio setups based on minor sound differences. Is . . . Is this my mid-life crisis?

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

TIL I am a single gay male. Guess I have a lot of self-reflection to do.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2025

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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The Librarians Film @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

@librarianjones.com is a hero and a well-deserved Time100 “The World’s Most Influential Rising Stars”! time.com/collections/...

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Amanda Jones Is on the 2025 TIME100 Next

Find out why Amanda Jones is on this year’s list

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

And here is a helpful list of Banned and challenged books by living marginalized authors!

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Started reading THAT LIBRARIAN by Amanda Jones (@librarianjones.com) yesterday in honor of Banned Book Week. Librarians and library workers have been on the front lines of the modern fight for intellectual freedom for decades. Follow them, read them, listen to what they have to say.

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

As someone who grew up in a strict Evangelical household, I have some big cultural gaps, but I've been working on filling them in. I've still never seen more than 5 minutes of Friends or Seinfeld. I guess it's also culturally weird for me to have never seen Elf.

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

It's like she's talking about AI here, but this essay is from 1982. From Le Guin, "A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be," 1982.

"to count upon technological advance for anything but technological advance is a mistake"

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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

It’s always hard to start up a lit mag and get momentum, but we think these folks have cracked the code 💥💪 Here’s 10 amazing places to submit if you want to support publications that are coming into the spotlight! ✨🩵 www.chillsubs.com/lists/new-li... #writingcommunity #publishing #poetry

New lit mags blowing up right now and they want your writing!

• Strange Pilgrims #Real, surreal & brutally beautiful

• Seedlings #Roots in the old world and branches in the new

• RUNT Magazine #Proudly elevating the small and scrappy

• Heavy Traffic Magazine #Unbounded, instinctual writing

• Vellichor Literary #Raw, indie, and DIY expression

• Trash Cat Lit #Treasure in unexpected places

• Bread and Butter Magazine #Simplicity and the core of the human experience

• The CryptoNaturalist #David Attenborough meets The X Files

• The Bloomin' Onion #All stories come from somewhere

• wildscape. literary journal #Whimsical, chaotic, gentle, and everything in-between

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I'm picking up albums from Charly Bliss and Driveways today! How about you?

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

"Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets." This is supposed to be a selling point, Microsoft? 57.2 percent accuracy?

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I'm reading a collection of essays by Ursula K. Le Guin right now (because I want to begin my 40th year the correct way), and the amount of wisdom and foresight this woman had in the '70s continues to blow me away. What a gift she is. What a gift her words continue to be.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Anyway! I like this idea of being a utopian: doing the work, following the process, building toward the better world. The point isn’t that the better world doesn’t ever fully arrive. It’s that you did your part to inch everyone else toward it.

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Tommy Stella @tommystella.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Hey you! You can now read issue 1 of MUSTN'T TELL for free! Right now! Click this link! If you enjoy it, there's a link to back the Kickstarter right there for you! Also let me know what you think about it. We're really proud of this story and I love sharing it. bindings.app/read/s76RCTjM

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Mustn't Tell Issue 1 (of 5)

A horror story full of humor, heart, and 2000s nostalgia! What are the monsters that live under our bed? Are they real? Does that even matter?

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I saw a production of Bug in a former goth/punk night club in Pittsburgh sometime between 2007 and 2009. I think it was the Pittsburgh premier. I've seen a good number of plays, including a bunch of Broadway shows, but that production of Bug is the one I think about the most.

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Currently my postcard parties are me and Jeopardy, but if anyone wants to join me this weekend, I already have the postcards, stamps, and colored pens!

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I have a number of short stories published in digital journals that no longer exist. I wish I made pdfs of those stories. Some are still there on the Wayback Machine, and a few I took screenshots of, but still. Back up your work, even if it's published!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18/08/2025

Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/08/2025

DC won’t back down to a wannabe dictator.

A protester holds a sign that reads 'Americans don't fear tyrants; tyrants fear Americans' at an Indivisible rally in a city street.

Person holding a sign with the text "FREE DC" and three red stars over two red stripes, symbolizing the Washington, D.C. flag, at an outdoor rally.

A protester holds a sign reading "STOP FASCIST DISTRACTIONS RELEASE EPSTEIN FILES" with the word "INDIVISIBLE" at the bottom.

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Kelly Lynn Thomas @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Ask ChatGPT? No thanks, I'd rather spend three hours doing a library database deep dive on whatever small curiosity sparked my interest. In related news, the Pittsburgh Courier had an amazing gossip section.

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