iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 4h

NATURAL RESOURCES My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world. Adrienne Rich (Art by Elizabeth D’Angelo)

color rich collage of birds, stars, stringed instrument, girl leaning over water with hands cupped to release what might be a frog or tadpole

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The problem includes entirely stolen content, environmental and social justice horrors, plus further enriching some of the wealthiest and most despicable people on the planet.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’m not reading/attending/following/buying whatever it is if it’s promoted by AI. PLEASE right click images and check the AI detector before sharing them on social media--- you don't want to be part of the problem.

Refrigerator with brightly colored letter magnets spelling out "I'm not going to your event if the flier is AI."

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"I believe in supreme gentleness, agenda-less curiosity, outrageous self-expression, and, most of all, that walking the path of kindness is the ultimate expression of intelligence. I believe in an open heart." ~Susan Piver (artist unknown)

watercolor-ish scene of dark figure sitting at end of dock looking at water and hills beyond

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world." ~Paul Hawken

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

Brick street with old buildings and people on foot and bike talking to one another, backlit by setting sun that makes the whole scene luminous.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” ~Nelson Mandela

Small curly-haired child facing the ocean.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks. I usually do better warding off AI posts.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“We all belong to the same galactic oneness.” ~Carlos Santana

Female lion resting in in natural area at dusk.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The purpose of craft is not so much to make beautiful things as it is to become beautiful inside while you are making those things." ~Susan Gordon Lydon

Beautifully gentle face of a man with white beard wearing a kufi. He is knotting in front of a marble column.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

CHAMPION THE ENEMY'S NEED Ask about your enemy's wounds and scars. Seek his hidden cause of trouble. Feed your enemy's children. Learn their word for home. Repair their well. Learn their sorrow's history. Trace their lineage of the good. Ask them for a song. Make tea. Break bread. Kim Stafford

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He needs to be convicted for assault and jailed.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just said "tomfoolery." I am officially 100 years old. Now I want the perks I'd hoped would come with age. These include (but are not limited to) dispensation for my: outlandish enthusiasm, excessive tenderness, beleaguered wardrobe, and chronically awkward demeanor.

Cartoon character with a half smile and side eye, wearing a ducky swimming ring.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When the shoe fits The foot is forgotten, When the belt fits The belly is forgotten, When the heart is right "For" and "against" are forgotten. ~Chuang Tzu

Black and white photo of white haired, white bearded street musician playing fiddle.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” Richard Feynman, physicist and bongo player

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Researchers already say humans are likely to reshape themselves to be better understood by chatbots, service robots, etc in a sort of existential drift... nautil.us/are-you-in-d...

Drawing of one child on laptop in shadow of AI chat, another child reading a book with an imaginative shadow of landscape, animals, planets, rocket.

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." Sydney J. Harris

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m ready for some time in an enchanted cottage with a crackling fire, bookshelves on every wall, pots of homemade soup, and talking woodland animals. Here is where magical friends and I will cast spells bringing peace to the world now and forever amen. (art by Joe Gilronan)

Twilight clearing with stars in sky and a tiny magical-looking round cottage with peaked roof and dozens of vibrant flowers.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Stack of 5 nonfiction books and 8 poetry collections at bedside, 1 nonfiction audio for commute, 1 fiction plus magazines next to couch, short story collection in purse, okay, I'm lying, there are probably 30 books at my bedside....

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“’Weep! Weep!’ calls a toad from the water’s edge. And I do. If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.” ~Robin Wall Kimmerer

A particularly charming toad sitting in the grass passing judgement on all who pass by.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call 'aware' - an almost untranslatable word meaning something like 'beauty tinged with sadness.' " ~Gretel Ehrlic

Photo of ripe apples in tree, some showing signs of rot.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

$suraj sharma14 posted "Bro, I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird. The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts, answers for free. AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions. And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable. We built the library. They charge admission. fractally replied "This has been my main argument against AI from the beginning. OpenAI scrapes the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of LLMs and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us. And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this."$

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In ancient times, purposeful solitude was both palliative & preventative, used to heal fatigue & prevent weariness. It was also used as an oracle, as a way of listening to the inner self to solicit advice & guidance otherwise impossible to hear in the din of daily life." ~ Clarissa Pinkola

Footpath through tall grasses toward a line of trees, with bright blue skies overhead.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

CARL SAGAN on Libraries: "We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory. The warehouse of that memory is called a library."

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sorry, my mind drifted again. In my reality I live among tiny beings in a mossy mushroom village where we sing our greetings, share our meals, dance away our problems, and have never ceded our rights to corporations. (art by Shirley Barber)

Charming illustration of a tiny hillside with orange-capped mushroom homes and happy creatures living there.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How cool is this? "Some comb jelly species have recently been observed reversing their development from adult to larval stages. Others have special types of lipids that help them withstand extreme pressure in the deep sea. They hold clues to the evolution of more and more complex body shapes."