iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 5h

Almost full! About 50 more stories and we'll reach our cap!

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 18h

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The first two kittens went to their forever home today! We had a little costume party to celebrate. Bon voyage Rizzo and Inspector Gadget! (Their foster names; new names TBD.)

A black kitten wearing a bumblebee costume and a gray kitten wearing a green caterpillar costume are both sitting in a black leather chair looking up at the camera.

A black kitten wearing a bumblebee costume with its back to the camera, showing little bee wings, and a gray kitten wearing a green caterpillar costume standing sideways to show off the little caterpillar legs, are both investigating a black leather chair.

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 29/09/2026

Jk, I would *never*. "AI" here refers to "attempted illustrations." Enjoy my crappy art!

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We scream into the void. We stare blankly into the abyss. We post into the ether

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Katherine Thorne @sparklemarkers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

me, in front of the tv

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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026

The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives

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Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Things 8wk old kittens are afraid of: -sudden sneezes -cardboard boxes moving -vacuum cleaner in the next room -the starship Enterprise as it goes to warp during opening credits (In Yzma’s defense she’d never seen a TV before. She got used to it and has been watching SNW like a champ.)

A small gray kitten is snuggled on the shoulder of a white woman barely in frame. The kitten looks relaxed and appears to be watching TV with interest.

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ConFusion Michigan @confusionmi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our website is live with dates, panelist applications, panel suggestions and more! Who are we going to see there? 2027.confusionsf.org

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ConFusion 2027 – Official website for ConFusion 2027

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Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I know I’m behind in ST:SNW but I just saw the holodeck prototype episode and OMG guys it has been SO LONG since we’ve had a good stuck-in-the-holodeck episode of Trek. So great. I think Frakes directed it and the end credits make me LOL. They must have had so much fun making it. ❤️

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Welcome to the Translunar Travelers Lounge. The submissions portal is open for those of you booked in for the writing trajectory. Meanwhile those of you looking for reading material might wish to take a look at our previous 15 issues, available at the link. translunartravelerslounge.com

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Translunar Travelers Lounge

a speculative fiction magazine

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This bug has played a LOT of video games

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Advice for my younger friends: if you want to encourage yourself to stay healthy and functional, to exercise and eat well... ...pick a couple of motherfuckers you really want to outlive.

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Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

All the ads I see, both TV and mail, are emphasizing that Sherrod Brown voted for a bunch of democrat stuff and voted with Biden 99% of the time and he will never change, and like yes? He’s an old democrat? Who in either party thinks he is suddenly going to behave differently? Who are these ads for?

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 23/09/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Costco has a $50 giant Frankenstein head made of green chocolate that includes a mallet for smashing his head open at which point a pound of gummy body parts will spill forth from the edible wreckage of his face

“Monster Mash Chocolate, filled with body part shaped gummies. SMASH FOR OVER 1LB.
OF GUMMIES INSIDE!”

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bisexuality does not require you to have dated X number of people Y times to count. You attracted to more than one gender? Cool. You count. Anyone saying otherwise is a jerk.

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Truly this thread is the best absurdist thriller novel I have read this year

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

People must have had the date circled on their calendar as we've had a flood of responses. Yet some people still haven't heard and we still want more! Speculative fiction, 5000 words and under, and please, please read and follow the submission guidelines.

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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

When it hits 50°F (10°C) in September vs when it hits 50° in February

Quark and Odo sharing cold-weather survival gear on an alien planet

Quark displaying two horga'hns on Risa with a lascivious grin.

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Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Have scheduled flu and Covid vaccines for tomorrow evening for me and the kid! 😎 FYI the only question asked in scheduling re: qualifying was “have you had a covid vaccine in the past 3 months?” Which is reasonable.

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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...

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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Last week we were having a bad day. We stood under this tree (a grey poplar), pressed our backs to the bark and listened to the leaves high above which sounded like water in the wind. The tree gave us its time and its strength. 🌳 #ThickTrunkTuesday

huge tree in the park with a wide trunk and large branches high above. some yellow lichen on the trunk. Green leaves. This is a Grey Poplar tree. Mighty.

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Sarah Hans @sarahhans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hey, writers! PenguiCon 2027 (April 8-11, 2027, in Detroit, MI) is looking for writers! We’re especially interested in writers of color. (Please note that PenguiCon doesn’t invite authors, artists, or vendors who use generative AI, and we will check!) Application here: 2027.penguicon.org/authors/

2027.penguicon.org

Authors

Apply for Writer's Block at Penguicon 2027.

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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today is good day to start writing that novel. There are 101 days until December 31st. If you wrote 500 words every day starting today you would have 50,500 words drafted before the end of the year.

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Flights of Foundry @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hey-o it's nearly the FINAL hour of the convention! Dun dun DUN! As in, we're nearly done done done. But you don't have to be! Get a ticket! Yes, to an event almost over. You'll thank me later. Because you can still go see all the amazing sessions! www.accelevents.com/e/flights-of...

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Flights of Foundry, Fri, Sep 18th, 2026 @ 11:59 AM Accelevents

The most expansive conference for speculative creatives is back!With round-the-clock programming, global attendance, and conversations covering every medium, you won't want to miss out on our seventh year of Flights of Foundry.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Nearly two millennia ago, a wealthy Roman commissioned an intricate, multicolored floor mosaic that depicted two beloved household animals: a cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean." 🗃️ #Archaeology www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

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Stunning Roman-era mosaic discovered in Turkey features 'Emerald' the cat and 'Ocean' the dog

A cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean were memorialized in a Roman mosaic over 1,800 years ago.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The alt text here contains my favourite bit of wormhole trivia.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/09/2026

HOLY SHIT Y'ALL A MOTHERFUCKING BLACK CAT HAS JUST INTRODUCED HIS VOIDTASTIC GODDAMN SELF INTO THIS GOURD AND MUM FESTIVAL OF MOTHERFUCKERY WE HAVE GONE FULL FUCKING AUTUMN NOW GO GRAB A MUG OF SOMETHING WITH NUTMEG AND MOTHERFUCKING CINNAMON CAUSE THERE'S NO GOING BACK NOW

Saja amid the goddamn gourds and motherfucking mums

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Flights of Foundry @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Let's talk $$$ We spent 3x on the convention this year. Last year's convention raised more than $17k. This year? We're sitting at $13.5k. That sounds like a lot, but friends, we TRIPLED how much we spent on the event. And we've made a LOT less. Help us out? flights-of-foundry.org/donate/

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Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a fantastic organization that continues to do amazing things for the speculative community with this con and beyond. Please consider donating, or buying a ticket to the con that is still going on through tomorrow! You can view all of the content for 30 days after it ends!

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our first readers are working their way through the stories we've received - and we want more. And, I'm sorry to stress this again, please read the guidelines. Several stories have already come in that are ineligible!

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I strongly recommend AGAINST enrolling in or using TSA’s new service, Gateside, which permits approved people with TSA PreCheck to visit or accompany ticketed passengers gateside.

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Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

At a used bookstore in rural Ohio, and why do they have 2 books in Welsh? But also why are they Harry Potter, and a copy of the Bible? 😑

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Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The absolute tone-deaf irony of DataCamp running a sweepstakes for the best AI-generated pro-AI video, and using a hand-signed limited edition Picasso print as the prize. www.datacamp.com/blog/why-we'...

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Why we're giving away a hand-signed Picasso for an AI competition

DataCamp is giving away a hand-signed Picasso print to the best AI-generated video that teaches something about AI or data. Enter free before Oct 9.

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D.P. Lovecraft @donfoolery.com · 17/09/2026

I cannot stop staring at this.

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Howard Sherman @hesherman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Farewell to costume designer Bob Mackie, a designer of spectacular gowns for great divas, but also the creator of perhaps the greatest costume sight gag in history.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rare occurrence of heavy rains over Uluru (Ayer's Rock), the sacred sandstone monolith of the Australian desert: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ok, so you can't make it to Flights of Foundry this year. BUT YOU CAN! If you register, you get access to everything that isn't a reading, which, lemme tell you, is a LOT. 205 non-reading sessions. Pay what you can and join us!

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Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

CHICKEN HELMET. (This is the quality content I love from BlueSky.)

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Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Still fighting a cold. Lots of takeout dinners this week. 😞 Taking care of pets, did laundry, lots of napping. Made a pumpkin bundt cake yesterday for snacking and it is good. Need to go out this afternoon, so gearing up for that. Saw kid’s marching band Friday and that was fun. Rough weekend tho.

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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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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"The Transformers do not endorse the views of the President" okay, great, yeah, it's very normal that you had to say that. This is an ordinary world where things make sense. It's normal that I'd wake up to an official statement from cartoon robots denouncing the man who has the nuclear codes.

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