iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

It has arrived! @blacklilyzine.bsky.social and my car wash photo. Thank you to the editors. Looking forward to reading all this punk/goth poetry and prose.

Zine issue entitled Black Lily, with a cover image of a person in a black dress with a sad face paper bag on their head, standing in a desert.

Grayscale photo of a mechanical car wash machine part, with water splatters

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

If you can support and buy a copy of this zine, please do. Thankful to have a photo appearing in this issue. (And what a stunning cover image!)

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Book banners say they are only targeting pornography and books with no literary merit. Since 2021, works by more than a dozen #NobelPrizeForLiterature-winning authors have been banned in U.S. school districts. pen.org/nobel-prize-winners-banned #BannedBooksWeek

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These Authors Won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Their Books Have Been Banned in Districts Across the Country

For countless U.S. schoolchildren, works by more than a dozen Nobel-winning authors have been banned and removed from shelves.

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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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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Autumn (Online) is calling! 🍂🍁 For the first time ever, Tin House is opening up our online faculty readings to the public! All readings are on Zoom and are free to attend. Register here: forms.gle/NPQx38ksrxUJ...

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The bean plant in my garden that I posted about 6 months ago, just before I went on a digital fast—it’s bloomed and faded and come back to bawdy life:

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Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Revision tip: check your manuscript for gasp, held breath, twisted guts, glanced, saw, felt, monitor, control, lighting strike, smiled, fringed, glared, sucked in, scrunched, blood stopped, ran cold, anything filtering emotions as bodily responses, especially ones which are involuntary in real life

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Update your ID. Do it now. Tomorrow.

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Tariffs bad, fiction good. I got a flash story accepted today. It’ll come out in October. Here’s to doing what makes us tick, whatever else may happen.

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Sometime in the last month I’ve started aggressively closing apps with a flinging motion as if dealing cards from the top of a deck. I now, officially, use my smartphone just like my mother.

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Clarion West @clarionwest.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Don't miss Writing Outside of Your Lane, an upcoming Community Class with Milo Todd on March 28! This 90-minute lecture welcomes writers of all identities and focuses on equipping you with the knowledge and confidence to write with integrity. #onlineclass #writingclass #clarionwest

Text over abstract blue background reads: Clarion West Community Class $5-25 Sliding Scale. Writing Outside of Your Lane with Milo Todd. Friday, March 28 at 4PM PST. Learn tools to approach writing characters outside of your own lived experience with care.

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

One of the things keeping me sane right now: our community garden. This is a bean plant that showed up, planted by some past gardener. Seeing all these intentions come to fruition is oddly moving. Someone wanted these plants and trusted them to live on into the future.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It’s too bad so many people see politics as a game rather than something that literally determines whether people live or die.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 15/02/2025

Canada’s new Rural Community Immigration Pilot offers permanent residence to skilled workers who want to work and settle in rural and more remote communities. 14 pilot communities will approve certain employers to hire for jobs that they can’t fill with local workers. More info here:

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Rural Community Immigration Pilot - Canada.ca

How to apply for the Rural community immigration pilot as a candidate.

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I can’t believe this is my first post here, but so be it. This is funny/sad. We need a new stereotype.

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