iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Going thru my usual routine of checking myself, spouse, parents, and in-laws to make sure everyone is still on the rolls…

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5h

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 10h

For those of you with day jobs where you're forced to use LLMs or be fired, good tip I gleaned this weekend, which is to tell the LLM to stop referring to itself using "I" pronouns and to eliminate the praise and other attempts to humanize itself. You get a much cleaner interaction w/o the marketing

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So today I spotted this little pigeon stuck on the platform at Oxford Circus tube station. I didn't think he'd find his way out so...

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Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Weekend writing retreat: scenic Ohio River, appropriately themed whiskey, and inspirational jewelry courtesy of @peculiarityshop.bsky.social .

A landscape picture of a river beyond a wide grassy expanse of lawn, under a sunny sky scattered with broken clouds.

A bottle of whiskey labeled as “Writer’s Tears” on a messy kitchen counter.

A white woman’s hand wearing a wide silver dragon ring where the dragon’s wings wrap around the middle finger, and a silver rose ring on the ring finger. The hand is resting on a laptop keyboard.

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

2027.confusionsf.org

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

translunartravelerslounge.com

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

THAT SUCKS so glad you got them back but that feeling is the absolute worst. 😭

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

Please rethink your uninformed and harmful views of transgender kids and make an effort to stand up for ALL Ohioans. It’s very disappointing to hear you parrot extremist conservative Republican talking points. Maybe do some research and talk to your trans constituents.

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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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Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ah that’s even better!! It counts as work!! 😎

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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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Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m really glad it’s such a long window. I specifically registered because of the recordings; I had too busy of a weekend and couldn’t attend any live panels but have enjoyed the couple recorded ones I’ve watched so far!

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Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I thought I saw 30 days somewhere but can’t find it now. Registration page says tickets are still available until Oct 20 so maybe then?

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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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Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I was so excited to actually find books in Welsh, and then so disappointed. 😞

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Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I GUESS IT MAKES SENSE. Problem is I don’t want to buy either of them! 😬😞

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