iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Why are you pouring water over your head?” asked Frog. “I hope that if I pour water over my head, it will help me to think of a story,” said Toad.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Congratulations to Leon Levy fellows @kristeniver.bsky.social, @lancerichardson.bsky.social, and @francescawade.bsky.social, who each earned major honors for their biographies! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/banner-... @kaibirdbiographer.bsky.social

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This is diabolical. Trump appears ready to just start drilling for oil in an allied country, despite explicitly being told not to.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

His True History of the Kelly Gang is also brilliant.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Love that novel. (The film is good too.)

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Discuss: Jorge Méndez Blake, The Impact of a Book.

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Jeff Pearson @legoverleg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Paiute Tribe of Utah have released a statement on the recent hostaging of their land. pitu.gov/pitu-release...

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Some interesting points, mixed in with some remarkably uncharitable, condescending, and snarky ones. D Mendelsohn offered a more interesting take in the NYRB (and, by all accounts, a better translation of the poem too).

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

How did you read this? The LRB website has been down for maintenance for an hour whenever I try to click through.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Love this. My "notes app" is Things, which I've used every day for more than 17 years and would be completely lost without.

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 05/07/2026

Trump is watching the Fox News feed of himself watching Fox News

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Both! I liked the movie a lot, and this is smart.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 24/06/2026

Have a look at some of the materials the Trump administration is putting in gift bags especially made for white South African immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...

The story, “Lwazi’s Hard Lesson,” describes Nelson Mandela, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and South Africa’s first post-apartheid president, as a “South African lawyer and activist who sought to end apartheid with acts of sabotage.”

It teaches that the South African government’s current policies “favoring the Black population over everyone else have made race relations even worse.”

“Unlike South Africa’s Black population, the white population is declining in number,” according to the PragerU text. “As an easy scapegoat for a failing government, more and more white South Africans are choosing to leave the country each year.”

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

That time of year again: the Cullman Center is open for applications. I remember when I first moved to New York, I had a fantasy of the writing life in Manhattan ... and then reality intruded. But for one year at the Cullman, my fantasy WAS reality. A dream place. www.nypl.org/about/fellow...

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 22/06/2026

Low-key liberal accomplishments coupled with high-profile policy concessions to the right and aggressive conservative virtue signalling — this is exactly the strategy moderates have recommended for Democrats here, of course. Didn't work too well. Maybe some lessons there.

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Sharing for anyone else poleaxed by grief. After my dad died last year people were really kind in sharing advice on how to cope, but nobody warned me about the physical exhaustion that accompanies grieving. It all makes much more sense after reading this ❤️‍🩹

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Argh. I'll be in Australia. So sad to miss this.

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

proelectrica.substack.com

Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption

Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My daughter's beloved child is the one I hold here. The one that I held on my lap While we looked at the light of the sun when we were alive, And that I still hold, now that we are both dead. - inscription on this c. 400 BCE Greek grave marker, carved with a grandmother holding a swaddled baby

Fragmentary marble sculpture of a woman and baby now in the Metropolitan Museum (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254695)

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 03/06/2026

Some things I did not understand until I was part of the publishing industry: - Awards ≠ sales - Critical acclaim ≠ sales - Almost all authors you see in a bookstore have another source of income, usually large enough to pay the bills - You do not have to publish to be a writer

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Jon, Bill, and Lesley should be seriously considering their own futures right now.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Finalized grades for the semester, and the new one starts … tomorrow. (But ten days talking about book at Bennington with amazing people is a pretty sweet gig.)

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Colorful play gym for infants featuring foxes and bunnies, two criss-crossing archs stand over a square mat

UFC cage being built on the White House launch, criss-crossing arches strongly resembling the baby play gym

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I told my agent I never want to know sales numbers. Better for your mental health to just assume the advance is all the money you will ever see.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Never look at the royalty statements.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It takes strength to look the person who could fire you in the eye and tell them that both they and their boss are giant pieces of trash. You usually don't win, but you definitely leave a mark, and you write your place in history. That's what Scott Pelley did today.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE. The ghost of David Lynch is with us. Happy Pride <3

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

(My answer to this question would be the Lenox Lounge. Sigh.)

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The best. So many wonderful places, gone.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Her dedication to books makes me love her music even more.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Evernote increasing its subscription price by nearly 100%, to $249.99, is wild. Wrote my book using the software, but — no thanks. Way to go sabotaging your own user base.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/05/2026

For those of you already missing Stephen Colbert, he's resurfaced on community public access in Monroe, Michigan, and no, I am not joking: youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4

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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube video by Stephen Colbert

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A family in Idaho has dropped their lawsuit challenging a state law barring transgender students from using the restroom after their 16-year-old trans daughter died by suicide. Idaho AG Raul Labrador praised the decision without mentioning the girl's death or why the case was dismissed.

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High school group challenging Idaho’s trans bathroom ban drops lawsuit after student’s death

Editor’s note: This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health issues, call the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Luis Gonzalez Palma

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Roel Janssen🍀🌹🪶 @vrijevogel56.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The Trump administration has removed all federal protections for the very rare Greater Prairie Chicken or Pinnated Grouse (Tympanuchus cupido), allowing oil and gas drilling in their natural habitat.

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