iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

accidentally almost sent this in as my head shot

this is Blackbird in Twilight by Ciruelo Cabral. it rules. I don't even know how to describe it.

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

maybe I just stay in Ireland forever?????

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Glob Herman is actually the peak physical form we all should strive for

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The Mets are so back (complimentary and also derogatory)

Fox Mulder, with a photo shopped Mets hat on, saying our trademark slogan for UFO's and baseball "I want to believe"

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

me this winter break as I reorganize all my movies and records into chronological order like a psychopath

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

mother-in-law's Christmas clock was designed to scare the shit out of me

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

what kind of dumb dumb does this in Crown Heights

chalk drawing of an American flag and there's giant all caps text next to it that says CHARLIE KIRK

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

the day after your wedding, you legally have to watch this!!!!

Our TV at home with the title card from The Lord of the Rings on screen

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

really struck by this part. hardly any of us have time to pursue our dreams bc the bills keep getting higher and higher

Q: It does feel like the pressure to figure out how to make money is weighing on people who are coming up a lot more.

Kelly Reichardt: It's funny, I was talking to my friend the other day about how in our day, if you had a trust fund or wealth, you hid it. Now, talking to these kids, they were like, “Everyone just wants to be rich.” That was not part of the working criteria for the people that I knew in bands or making films or making art.

Everyone hoped that you'd be able to keep doing it somehow, but the idea that you would even be able to make a living off it, I don't remember that being in our psyche at all. But people now are paying a lot more to go to school, and they're paying a lot more for rent. I worry that young people don't have enough time to just hang out, to talk about art-making and to see art because of the amount they have to hustle to get the rent paid and what are the jobs. The corporate world has a much more of a stranglehold on everything. How do you navigate any of it with any clean hands?

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Eric Adams being undeniably funny til the end

Text that reads: In a video released to social media, Adams descends the stairs at Gracie Mansion holding a large photo of his mother, with Frank Sinatra's "My Way" playing in the background.

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

we could've had a mayor with so much flair smh

Eric Adams dressed in the wildest blue robe that's just covered in large Jewish stars

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

DAD'S COUSIN PAUL SENT HIM TO VERMONT WITH THE BEST RUGGELACH!!!!!

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I love the original Superman comics. He was a straight up dickwad to all the rich businessmen/warlords who made life miserable for everyone. gonna start a thread of my favorite panels.

a businessman in a green vest, dress and pants is startled. He says "W-who are you?" Superman, in '38 era costume looks hella pissed and is marching towards him while saying "Someone you're going to wish you'd never met!"

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

thank you The Hours on Blu-ray for existing

screenshot of a scene from The Hours. Two women sit on a bench. One is Virginia Woolf's sister in law who is sitting straight. The other is Virginia Woolf who is snuggling into her sister in law. I added text next to the sister in law that says "The Hours on Blu-ray". The text on Virginia says "me." This attempt to meme is to express the sheer depths of my love for The Hours on Blu-ray.

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

interviewer asked "if you had your character's super powers, what would you do with them?" and Ebon Moss-Bachrach is now my hero

Ebon Moss-Bachrach in a chair saying "There's a handful of fascists..."

"That I would just throw into outer space"

Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Pedro Pascal slap hands while laughing with joy about killing fascists.

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

addicts are never guaranteed a long life. Ozzy got one and I'm so glad he did. Farewell our sweet Prince of Darkness.

Ozzy Osbourne with a wild mane of hair sits on a toilet with his pants by his ankles. He's got a joint in one hand and a wine glass in another and looks high as hell, eyes bulged. On his knees are drawn two faces.

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

bit.ly/4e5FJnd 4 more days til Workers Comp! get your tickets today! all profits will go to help unemployed workers meaning me and @iangoldstein.bsky.social

a curly haired mess of a guy, meaning me, wearing an orange shirt and staring wide eyed into the camera. I am wearing orange star sunglasses.

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

some kids at the park gave me this cool chalk knee idk is that anything?

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

brb arguing on the Five For Fighting FB page with Islamophobes like it's 2002 all over again

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

bit.ly/4e5FJnd click the link to get your Workers Comp tickets and livestream or join me and @iangoldstein.bsky.social at Brooklyn Art Haus on 7/11 for stories about labor & an interview w/ @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social #Unions #Storytelling #SesameStreet #SolidarityForever

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

watching an election where I actually feel joy for once

Matthew McCoghany absolutely ripping a cigarette while looking intensely at something off screen

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

sharing from my IG story. #DontRankCuomo, we have so many options for a better world.

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

bit.ly/4e5FJnd July 11th, @iangoldstein.bsky.social and I are bringing Workers Comp back for more stories about workers rights. We'll also interview an organizer from @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social so come on out to BK Art Haus or livestream at home!

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

the only appropriate place for Cuomo to go is the trash!!!! #DontRankCuomo

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

my mom when I start accurately labeling her behaviors

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

my favorite part of my childhood seder is reading this poem. may this be the year we work to let every people go, free from the bonds of tyranny and fascism. #FreePalestine

a white page with two vines sporting brightly colored flowers, watermelons and prayer hand emblems. the text reads:
The Prison Cell

It is possible . . .
It is possible at least sometimes . . .
It is possible especially now
To ride a horse
Inside a prison cell
And run away . . .

It is possible for prison walls
To disappear,
For the cell to become a distant land
Without frontiers:

What did you do with the walls?
I gave them back to the rocks.
And what did you do with the ceiling?
I turned it into a saddle.
And your chain?
I turned it into a pencil.

The prison guard got angry.
He put an end to the dialogue.
He said he didn’t care for poetry,
And bolted the door of my cell.

He came back to see me
In the morning.
He shouted at me:

Where did all this water come from?
I brought it from the Nile.
And the trees?
From the orchards of Damascus.
And the music?
From my heartbeat.

The prison guard got mad.
He put an end to my dialogue.
He said he didn’t like my poetry,
And bolted the door of my cell.

But he returned in the evening:

Where did this moon come from?
From the nights of Baghdad.
And the wine?
From the vineyards of Algiers.
And this freedom?
From the chain you tied me with last night.

The prison guard grew so sad . . .
He begged me to give him back
His freedom.

- Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008)

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

me watching my wife fall asleep 25 minutes into Megalopolis

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

the Hibachi chef in Farmington, CT keeps saying I look like Bon Jovi?

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I'm starting a monthly live storytelling show with @iangoldstein.bsky.social called Workers Comp! come join us March 30th at Brooklyn Art Haus for stories about the workplace and why everyone needs a union, especially you. tickets at the bitly link! bit.ly/43nRD90

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

the face I make when you ask how I'm doing

a rotting carved pumpkin on a stake. the eye holes are just overflowing with seeds.

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

told the story of how I got laid off and said someone with a job should get me a martini and then THEY DID! showbiz rules

an incredibly handsome man, me, holds a martini glass aloft while smiling. He's holding a microphone to his mouth and is wearing an orange and blue squared shirt over a brown WKCR T-shirt. He's on a stage and is DOMINATING.

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

it's never vacation until I'm watching Columbo in a foreign town

A small television where we can see an England scenic shot with the text COLUMBO written across the bottom frame

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

no cheating. your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist. uh oh!!!!

Albert Brooks in a purple clown outfit. He's smiling (kinda derangedly) in front of a suburban house that's on fire.

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

this is the year I get really into the socialist films of Ken Loach

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

decided to get health insurance the fun way by forming our own Civil Union! Real wedding is still in October but January 17th will always be the day we filled out a form and then had our friends take pics of us near some cool typography.

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Joyce Chopra's autobiography was my fave read last year! she goes into so much detail on how hard it is to get a film off the ground in a male dominated industry.

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I wrote a satire piece entitled "The Stormtroopers Formally Request The Dark Side Recognize Their Union". it was rejected by every satire magazine I submitted it to but I love thinking about stormtrooper labor issues so here it is on my substack! open.substack.com/pub/zachlenn...

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

one belly has a baby in it and the other belly has blintzes in it

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Happy Brick by Ben Folds Five day to all who observe. donate to your local abortion fund today!!!

the first verse of the Ben Folds Five "Brick", which is about abortion.

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

for reference, me and the couple are in the last row. they are close to breaking up and the 4 hour movie we are about to see hasn't even started. Maybe The Brutalist will save their love?????

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

was already freaking out that Worf's human parents are clearly old world Jews but then I realized that his dad is played by Theodore Bikel, the yiddish theater legend whom my mom is related!!!!!

a screenshot of the Star Trek TNG episode Family. It's three people, from left to right: Worf's human father, Worf, and Worf's human mother. Worf wears his star fleet uniform and his parents wear civilian clothes.

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zach lennon-simon @lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

my fiancée and her siblings burned their dead father's last effects which led to us writing our new hit single "Roasting Marshmallows Over My Dead Father's Dentures"

in the backyard of a house in Connecticut, we see five humans all wearing winter coats. There's a brown box near a fire pit and the smoke is carrying away all the trauma their dead father left them with.

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