iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026

OnThisDay in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe passed away under mysterious circumstances. Of all the artists who gave life to Poe's macabre tales over the years, perhaps none captured them quite so brilliantly as the Irish artist Harry Clarke publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8298154...

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 05/10/2026

Pisces: Scientists discover that you are the best fuel for nuclear fusion today, forcing you to go on the run from Nobel seeking physicists.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.

Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 01/10/2026

I promise you don't want this 🤣

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the beginning was the word and the word was bullshit. —William S. Burroughs

William Burroughs sitting down in a suit with a shotgun on his lap

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 28/09/2026

Virgo: After weeks of training on how to defuse a bomb, you will be stymied when you encounter one that has neither red nor blue wires.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1/7 On Jim Thompson's birthday, here are a few of my favorite lines from his books. “I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.” “Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A reminder for book designers. The job of a spine is to be noticable, interesting and legible in a bookshop. The job of a cover is to be identifiable when someone cool is reading the book further down the carriage from you the tube.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kierkegaarda-Na-Vida

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through.

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L-EEK! @leask.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes sir, got that garden carrot picture. Nice and Akira-esque, just like you wanted

A giant garden carrot with a bunch of ends gnarling and twisting out of it.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

CHAPTER

1

The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Good morning

Ash Parris: "Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with VC Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended."

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I just saw a dog wearing a leash that said “Selectively Social” and now I need to find a necklace version of it for myself.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Guillermo del Toro is a prophet for our time

"Monsters are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they embody the possibility of failing."

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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 17/08/2026

How to win at most all things:

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Chloe Brailsford @comixbychloe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

2015 to 2026 Remember, babes, KEEP DRAWING

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

apologise? unfortunate??? IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S INCORRECT

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 03/08/2026

Libra: Today you will be visited by the Bluebird of Happiness, which will be caught and eaten by the Hawk of Oh Goddammit.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We're giving away 25 copies of SANDMAN SLIM over on Goodreads! Just stop by and mash the button. (US only) www.goodreads.com/book/show/70...

goodreads.com

Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim #1)

Supernatural fantasy has a new antihero in Sandman Slim…

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Isekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 27/07/2026

If you put together the season posters for Reacher they tell the story of a large man who can't remember where he put his keys.

Reacher Season 1 Poster. "Did I leave them in the bedroom?"

Reacher Season 2, "No, I checked the bedroom. Did I leave them in the bathroom?"

Reacher Season 3. "No, I checked the bathroom. Hey, have you seen my keys?"

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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I remember seeing someone say we need a movie with Daniel Radcliffe and Margot Robbie playing a couple who get mistaken for assassins who are played by Elijah Wood and Samara Weaving, and I may not ever stop wanting to see that movie.

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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Reposting with alt text because it's really good stuff

Three extremely grumpy looking fluffy black and white kittens. Text alongside posted by Mansfield Cat Rescue:

It appears we've once again acquired a collection of feral kittens who have absolutely no idea they're only 500g and look like they've been assembled from fluff and bad decisions.
So, we're looking for feral kitten fosterers.

Requirements include:
• Being shouted at by something smaller than your slipper.
• Accepting that every meal is apparently a hostage negotiation.
• Remaining calm while a kitten with all the physical presence of a teabag attempts to convince you it's a tiger.
• Not expecting "thank you" from tiny individuals whose only hobbies are hissing, glaring and committing crimes against your hands.

These kittens arrive with all the social graces of a drunk bloke outside Wetherspoons at closing time. Your job is simply to convince them that people aren't, in fact, the enemy.

It takes patience, a sense of humour, and the ability to ignore being judged by someone who only learned to use a litter tray last Tuesday.

The payoff? Watching a tiny, furious gremlin gradually realise that chin scratches, warm beds and regular meals are actually rather lovely, before heading off to a forever home as a completely different cat.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/07/2026

my answer for frisbee naan vs javelin baguette depends on whether we're using baguette tradition, baguette classique, or if we can harken back to the baguette von Blücher, a specialized and now archaic hardened sourdough popularized by napoleonic mercenaries for its formidable aerodynamic properties

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This one is for you, you nerds

a Borges burglar alarm with the caption:
Intruders will be trapped in an infinite labyrinth of hallways until they forget why they broke in.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

For those of you who don't follow 'breakroom.chronicles' on Instagram, you are missing top tier content, and you should follow them immediately. Today's offering is glorious:

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Thought for the day: It never ceases to amaze me how today's techbros' vision of the future they want defaults to fully automated leopard-face-chomping neo-feudalism rather than fully automated luxury gay space communism.

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Age verification? I have to take an antacid before drinking fizzy wine

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

ok i'm crying, SHRINKING had jason segel & michael urie sing the confrontation scene from les mis bc i immediately thought of when he and nph just did it on megan mulally's talk show like twenty odd years ago (starts at ~35 seconds)

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Confrontation - How I Met Your Mother

YouTube video by robtk

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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I was looking through old photos and found this Accidental Renaissance Painting of the cats

Three different colored cats are hanging around an armchair. their poses are reminiscent of the dramatic, sometimes contorted postures in classical art, but especially attributed to paintings from the Renaissance where these postures convey drama and movement. An orange cat is crouching beneath the chair, his head thrown back dramatically into shadow. Above, on the seat of the chair, a brown striped tabby cat reaches his paw down towards the orange cat, peering at him. Also on the seat but sat stoically on his haunches is a white and brown tabby, gazing away over his two brothers, tail draped down over the side of the chair. The composition of their poses is circular and draws the eye around, and suggests some sort of mythic art as was popular in the Renaissance as well.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Title: My confidence in my understanding of the scientific theory.

A diagram where the confidence is marked in red on an otherwise white figure

Panel 1
"Before I got a book about it."
The figure is red up to about his stomach

Panel 2
"While I was reading the book."
The figure is reading a book. He is red up to his forehead.

Panel 3
"When I had finished the book."
The red level has dropped to around his mouth

Panel 4
"One week later."
Now it is at his chest.

Panel 5
"When I try to explain it to somebody."
The level is back at stomach level.

Panel 6
"When they ask a follow-up question."
The red is so low we can barely see it.

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 12/07/2026

How many AI models does it take to change a lightbulb? That's a great question, which shows that you care about illumination! You don't just want to see - you want to be seen. Unfortunately no such thing as a lightbulb has ever existed or will ever exist.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/07/2026

René Lalique Serpent Pectoral Pendant designed around 1899. mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/8219096...

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Morella — Harry Clarke, 1919

Black and white illustration of Edgar Allan Poe's creepy story of Morella that I hadn't read until just now or narrator a bearded man looks down at the body of his daughter who is identical with the transmigrated soul of his late wife and the drawing is filled with lines with textures filling almost the entire space among them there are many small heads of women probably all also Morella

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 09/07/2026

Oh, have I not told this one here? Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A group of us just did a video for Dragon Con on the role of action in urban fantasy. The talk includes Charlaine Harris, Carrie Vaughn, Kevin Hearne, Gordon and Ilona Andrews, (plus me), and is moderated by Carol Malcolm. www.youtube.com/live/puf5Uht...

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Dragon Con Urban Fantasy Track: The Role of Action in Urban Fantasy

YouTube video by Dragon Con Urban Fantasy

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

people will try to tell you the kakapo is real but this bird was clearly designed by Jim Henson's Creature Workshop.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com #heatwave

Panel 1
A cartoon book with a face, legs and arms shouts out "Beware! Heatwave reading dangers!"

Panel 2
Caption "Binding glue softened by the sun"
Image: The book stands helplessly as its glue drips and pages fall to the floor.

Panel 3
Caption "Dropped while reading in a cooling bath"
Image: The book splashes into the water

Panel 4
Caption "Mislaid by a heat-addled reader"
Image: The book gestures wildly as the reader stumbles away in a daze.

Panel 5
Caption "Spontaneous combustion"
Image: The book explodes in flame.

Panel 6
"Sweaty hands!" screams the book as it runs away from a large pink hand, dripping with perspiration.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A Lego master made this actual Gail minting and it’s making me so happy!

Lego minifig of Gail Simone with X-Men comic

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

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