iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Michelle G Henry @michelleghenry.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I keep coming here to dump my different flavor of weird. Shared these pics in another digital space, but didn’t share the background of my October hike at the Arthur Butler Sanctuary, of my gasp at finding trees dancing, wondering if I needed an actual camera instead of my phone.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Let's begin ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a poem 💕 Contributor Jill Kitchen published a nostalgic poem in asteralesjournal.bsky.social. Find it here: buff.ly/ysScGZO

A mountain hiking trail with fog coming in.

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Michelle G Henry @michelleghenry.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I think I’ve lost some practice being vulnerable or everything is just exhausting. But walking around town lately, this has been one of the most beautiful Falls in a long long time. The visuals are a welcomed sharp contrast to the news. I need these moments to recharge & keep going. 😭

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Michelle G Henry @michelleghenry.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

As a film nerd and survivor of domestic abuse, you have no idea how freakin excited I am to be in conversation with Eleanor Johnson, author of Scream with Me, this Saturday 10/18 at 5PM at the local bookstore of a town I never could’ve imagined living in 😭 (Mount Kisco, NY) Join me at Curio Room 🥹

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Toni Kirkpatrick @tonimargarita.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Call for submissions for an interconnected anthology. Speculative, science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural stories. Due 9/15. Payment is $300. More details here! drive.google.com/file/d/1_kLK...

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The Speculative Detective Agency Call for Stories.pdf

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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

white women need to keep doing this shit.

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Today would have been my 20th wedding anniversary and I’m so glad it’s not. Dumping him was the best choice I ever made. You can read my NYT best seller that I wrote all about it. bookshop.org/p/books/this...

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This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

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NPR @npr.org · 25/07/2025

Without federal funding, public media — and the truth-telling, community-connecting role it plays — is at risk. Local stations may vanish. Millions could lose trusted news and vital information. If you are ready to join the fight for journalism, donate now: n.pr/458sOhq

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Katherine @wordwatcher.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

We all need a place where we feel safe… Goodnight everybody. Sweet dreams.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park. New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.

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Lacy M. Johnson @lacymjohnson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Would love to call my congressional rep about this illegal attack but my district has been rep-less since the death of Sylvester Turner in March bc the TX Governor refuses to hold an election to replace him in order to improve the GOP margin in Congress. www.texastribune.org/2025/04/07/g...

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Gov. Greg Abbott sets Nov. 4 special election to fill U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner’s seat

The decision to wait until November means a narrowly divided Congress will be down a Democratic representative for most of 2025.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 14/06/2025

Hey YOU! Have you been longing to be a guest art contributor at @theflytrapmedia.com? Today’s your lucky day, because we are open to pitches!

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The Flytrap Art Contributor Pitch Form | Notion

Made with Notion, the all-in-one connected workspace with publishing capabilities.

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Michelle G Henry @michelleghenry.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

...organizations are required to certify that they will comply with the Trump administration’s executive orders, which bar the promotion of gender ideology or “illegal D.E.I.,” along with any activities that “frame domestic violence or sexual assault as systemic social justice issues.”

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Opinion | ‘It Sounds Really Dire Because It Is Really Dire’

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14/04/2025

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

Old mobile phones and keyboards. Overlaid text reads: FT Exclusive: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The men sent to do hard labor in a Salvadoran prison: - A tattoo artist seeking asylum who entered legally. - A teen who got a tattoo in Dallas because he thought it looked cool. - A 26-year-old whose tattoos his wife says are unrelated to a gang. - A barber whose family says he has no gang ties.

Lindsay Toczylowski
@l-toczylowski.bsky.social
Posting tonight ti shine a light on what the Alien Enemies Act looks like IRL. Our @immdef.bsky.social
client fled
Venezuela last year & came to US to seek asylum. He has a strong claim. He was detained upon entry because ICE alleged his tattoos are gang related. They are absolutely not.
March 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM

Lindsay Toczylowski @l-toczylowski... • 1d
Our client worked in the arts in Venezuela.
He is LGBTQ. His tattoos are benign. But ICE submitted photos of his tattoos as evidence he is Tren de Aragua. His @ImmDef attorney planned to present evidence he is not. But never got the chance because our client has been disappeared.

Solanyer said an ICE officer told her that her brother was detained because of a tattoo that linked him to
Tren de Aragua, a violent gang with Venezuelan prison origins that has spread through the Americas.
She said the tattoo depicted a rose and that he had gotten it in a tattoo parlor in Dallas.
"He thought it looked cool, looked nice, it didn't have any other significance," she said, stressing that he is not a gang member.

Caraballo had multiple tattoos including ones of roses, a clock with this daughter's birth time, a lion and a shaving razor, said his wife.
"I've never seen him without hair, so I haven't recognized him in the photos," she said. "I just suspect he's there because of the tattoos that he has and right now any Venezuelan man with tattoos is assumed to be a gang member", she added, citing also the fact that he has effectively gone missing.
Sanchez said her husband has never been a member of Tren de Aragua.

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@taseenb

People have started identifying some of the 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to Bukele's torture dungeons by the U.S. fascist regime. The brother of one of them posted that his relative is a barber with no criminal record and no links to any criminal organisations.

Anahi انائي @ANAHI1938-1d
Sebastián García Casique publicó en Instagram que, es hermano de uno de los 238 venezolanos deportados a El Salvador señalado de pertenecer a la banda Tren de Aragua.
"Nunca había estado preso, nunca ha cometido un delito, ni en Venezuela u otro país".

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Your painful childhood, your relationship with one parent or another, the illness that almost sunk your marriage, the inconsolable loss that rocked your life at age fifty, are deep and worthy subjects for your pen, but that’s not all you have to write about. brevity.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/n...

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Today is National Essay Day: So Start Thinking

By Dinty W. Moore Though much of our focus on the Brevity Blog is the art of memoir writing, the genre we call creative or literary nonfiction is far wider in scope, and it would be a shame for wri…

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Republicans in Congress are reportedly asking Musk’s permission to hold votes

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Love this.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 25/02/2025

Quit buying shit, write poems, live más

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Folks considering submitting to the BIPOC-only short story collection call: don't self-reject! Even if your collection doesn't have everything in the "things I want" section linked here, that's totally okay. Just shoot your shot! cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Submission Calls

SHORT STORY COLLECTION SUBMISSION CALLSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections by BIPOC writers only. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. Submission window is open until our 2026 …

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Michelle G Henry @michelleghenry.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Sharing here because this is by a writer I greatly admire, someone who I refer to a lot as my first teacher. Right now we need to be real clear on our values, on what we’re willing and able to back. We need more art, more vulnerability, more community. If you’re able to, read, share, donate 💛

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Sometimes you just have to ask for help

and hope for the best

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is really good

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Reminder for today: The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering the event, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

PSA: Words matter They aren’t “layoffs” It’s not about “efficiency”

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Michelle G Henry @michelleghenry.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

"You're losing people that are keeping the bathrooms clean, the trails maintained. You're losing people who are teaching youth the value of protecting and preserving these places for current and future generations…”

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A fired national park ranger lost his dream job. He says the public is losing more

Brian Gibbs was an environmental educator at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa. His job was among those nixed by the Trump administration as it pushes to shrink federal spending.

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Michelle G Henry @michelleghenry.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Yosemite 2/14-2/16. Was lucky enough to hike roughly 20 miles of its 700k+ acres. (During days 1&2 of my period thank you very much 🙃)

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

remarkable bravery

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency. (Photos shared with me)

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The year I turned ten, my mother and stepfather joined Amway. Our lives spiraled into unreality, and we lost everything. I never got my mother back. Our experience prefigured the Trump era, with characters from my childhood later showing up in the White House. My story for the @theatlantic.com.

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How I Lost My Mother

Amway sold my family a life built on delusion.

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The Latinx Project @latinxprojnyu.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The Latinx Project invites you to the opening celebration of our spring 2025 exhibition: RicanVisions: Global Ancestralities and Embodied Futures. Join us January 31 for the opening with music by @djpagansounds and food by @cocotazocateringllc. RSVP: www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/20242025/ric...

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The Latinx Project @latinxprojnyu.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Intervenxions continues to accept pitches on U.S. Latinx realities for the academic year. We're looking for cultural criticism, interviews, and reviews of literature, film, performance, visual art, or any discipline. Learn more: www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/submission-g...

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Michelle G Henry @michelleghenry.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Plucked this out of a longer thread ♥️ As Oscar nominations are announced, I understand the criticism of unnecessary award shows and self-congratulation. HOWEVER, for fucks sake you’re allowed to still enjoy movies and realize that an average movie takes hundreds of people to make.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

the TikTok algorithm is so good that it even served up the perfect video to act as the background for its ban announcement

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Michelle G Henry @michelleghenry.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

From January 6, first movie of the year. Watched it with my 19 year old 😬 Definitely memorable. Side note: he said that aside from the level of melodrama, for a moment it make him want to start a podcast. Ah, 1990.

Pump Up the Volume DVD with a young Christian Slater on the cover.

Grainy menu screen for Pump Up the Volume

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Michelle G Henry @michelleghenry.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Every so often I read something that I know I’ll recommend for years. This is one of those pieces.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

One billionaire couple owns almost all the water in California. In 1994, the Resnicks secretly seized control of California’s public water supply. Now their companies use 150 billion gallons every year while working class people suffer under drought conditions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B19...

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How This Billionaire Couple STOLE California's Water Supply | The Class Room ft. @SecondThought

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Michelle G Henry @michelleghenry.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Let’s see you at 21. Don’t usually do these, but I have this one on my phone! (I was actually 22 here) Senior in college spending a week in London for an international marketing course.

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