iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 2m

Dog folk! Give me your best recommendation for a collar/harness a twisty dog can’t slip out of! (This is a dog that ducked out of a slip chain, I’m looking for serious help. )

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 34m

Any and all "'AI'-detection services" are scams. They are just another way for the desperate, greedy companies behind the slop machines to *feed more stuff into their slopmakers*. They are not useful, accurate, or cost-effective. Just cut it out. Stop being taken in by the slop grifters. Jeez.

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 2h

Inflation picked up in September after three months of relative stagnation. Overall, prices were up 3.7% from a year earlier and 0.6% from August. Driven, according to sources, by gas and diesel prices. I’m sure somehow that’s Biden’s fault.

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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This new Press Secretary is going to make these briefings so useless being banned from them will be irrelevant

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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Honestly if Dems ran on a platform of "We Will Make Republican Crimes Have Actual Consequences" they'd win in a landslide

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“…practices which had been long abandoned… public executions, torture to extract confessions…and the deportation of whole populations—not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.” - 1984, George Orwell

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ah, air travel in 2026. We are, allegedly, boarding in 4 minutes (after a 2 hour delay). Our plane has arrived and is parked on the tarmac. The plane at our gate is still boarding. (This is the end result of too-tight turnarounds and limited gate availability meeting Weather.) I am…irritated.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch

Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My flight has been delayed several hours due to a delay earlier in the chain. My good plan to get home in time to apologize to the animals and get a good night’s sleep before heading back to work tomorrow has been FUBAR’d. I’m only surprised they’re not charging us extra for this. L

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

ok heres one democratic senator being clear and unambiguous about this. anyone else want to step up?

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We've been boiled frogs for so long this never gets mentioned. But this violates DOJ policies that have been in place for decades, ones that Defense Attorney Todd Blanche said should have extended for the entirety of the time his client had declared his candidacy. (Tho I think this was DHS.)

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For everyone who has patiently (so patiently) been waiting, there is a new essay up at Patreon, free for all subscribers www.patreon.com/LAGilman/pos...

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Survivorship | Laura Anne Gilman

Survivorship by Laura Anne Gilman on Patreon. Join Laura Anne Gilman's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 11/10/2026

According to Kickstarter tracking service, Kicktraq, the LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE campaign is trending toward only reaching 94% of our goal. So WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP. If you love SF, fantasy, and horror short fiction, please consider backing today and sharing this post. bit.ly/LS-NM-26

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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

23 days until we vote to end this nightmare.

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I may have been a west coaster for over a decade now, but seeing the sun RISE over the ocean still feels right. Hello, Boston. Where’s my coffee?

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Currently on a redeye to the East Coast and there is a young ‘un a few rows back who is UNHAPPY. Normally I dislike noise cancelling headphones (hypervigilance issues) but…

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Rosa Diaz Puts On Headphones in Brooklyn Nine-Nine

ALT: Rosa Diaz Puts On Headphones in Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh. Co-worker sent me this today (after picking up STAYING DEAD earlier this week) (She had been texting me as she went, literally flailing at some scenes) 🥰

Name redacted Teams text reading:
I finished the boooooook.
10/10 no notes.
I’m eager to read the next

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fix your economy with this one weird trick

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Meanwhile, back where we started. I said this morning: Notable that Anthropic is more interested in protecting Claude from humans than humans from Claude. Not just Anthropic. The misdirection of empathy says a lot.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 09/10/2026

This is also a reminder that several SFF mags *with* author-and-artist-friendly contracts are Kickstarting RIGHT NOW and backing/supporting THEM is a great way to show MRM that they will lose this argument.

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, in recognition of her efforts to advance peace and international law. 🙌🏽 This is also a massive “fuck off” to Trump. I hope he chokes on it.

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just did my run through the state-distributed voters’ pamphlet, checking who and what and why before I vote. Love our voters’ pamphlets. Anyway, Washington. Remember to vote NO on all three (terrible) initiatives. And let’s NOT elect SC justices who have GOP endorsements, yeah? Yeah.

Photo of a Washington state voters pamphlet, general election November 3, with information on when ballots are mailed out and contact info for the Washington state elections board

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mayor Katie Wilson today made Seattle the first city in the U.S. to ban “surveillance pricing,” a consumer protection and privacy measure. I love living in a socialist hellhole. 💕

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Normally a sitting President encouraging a foreign enemy to nuke two strategically critical American cities calling over 4 million American deaths "a small price to pay" while building a bomb shelter into the White House would be, you know, a bigger story.

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In between games of bait-and-chase, the cat will occasionally walk up to the dog, sniff at her face for a few seconds, then walk away. The dog is always left more than a little bit confused as to what just happened. Cats are absolutely masters at psychological warfare.

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404 Media @404media.co · 06/10/2026

Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.

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Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage

Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children."

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026

Stop putting off that thing you wanted to do

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

After a cancer-enforced hiatus, sending something out to be beta read this weekend. More anxious than usual about what people will say… (I know how to get back on the horse, I just don’t know how the horse will trot.)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026

You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Powerful letter from paleontologist Kenshu Shimada re: the Sternberg Museum of Natural History at Fort Hays State U in Kansas, US closing by years end. Along w/ the closing of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, US, this is an alarming trend in the US right now. #FossilFriday 🧪

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you do want to see this

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In lighter news: I am pleased to say that, post chemotherapy, my hair is growing back. I still look and feel a bit like a Chia pet, and I didn’t get chemo curls, dammit, but I’m starting to recognize myself in the mirror again.

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 02/10/2026

Gavin Newsom Is An Asshole Example #18,729

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You want to know how fucked up the Anthropic settlement BS has gotten? @harpercollins.bsky.social has acknowledged that certain books have reverted entirely to me, but they’re still claiming ownership of one IN THE SAME REVERSION LETTER as the others. I can’t even. @victoriastrauss.com

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Publishers take a cut, authors get cut out of payments.

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Continuing my read of BECOMING KIN and discovered that just _seeing_ the words “Doctrine of Discovery” on the page makes my stomach churn. Actual nausea.

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A midweek primal scream alert for every author caught in the malicious squeeze of the Anthropic “settlement.” Deep breath in….. And 🙀😱🙀😱🙀😱🙀🤬

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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