iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i look forward to being equally enlightened & triggered by this book 😟🙃😭😭🙃😟

tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

once again at my medical doctor's office once again being repeatedly questioned about which illness i have due to my mask-wearing ritual. 'it's preventative' i whisper as their fluorescent lights give me a migraine anyway my new vàccine 12.0 arrives this saturday, not a moment too soon

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

comin' out of my cage* and i've been doin' just fine** stephen stephen colbert has won it all *comedy deprivation chamber **extremely poorly deadline.com/2026/09/the-...

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‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Wins 2026 Emmy For Variety Series

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has won the 2026 Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

open.spotify.com/track/58VHR1... grateful for my spiritual director Julien contributing to this healing song 💜

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Yoke (with Julien Baker)

Medium Build, Julien Baker · Yoke (with Julien Baker) · Song · 2024

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

JULIEN BAKER prolly didn't either but i shall be lining up at cat's cradle to obtain a ticket REJOICE

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

when i’m president my first precedent will outlaw tree destruction — other than innate deciduous seasonal shedding — on ‘private’ property or public without a consensus vote from all in existence within one-hundred miles one mile for each year-ring

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Every family gathers its knots Some untie; others catch & stay caught -- @kevinpdevine.bsky.social

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Brian Stack @brianstack153.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

R.E.M., “The One I Love”. Just saw that “Document” was released OTD in ‘87. Hard to believe. Still sounds brand new to me. youtube.com/watch?v=j7oQ...

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R.E.M. - The One I Love (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by REMVEVO

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

anytime i'm not worried for myself i stay busy hypervigilantly worrying for everyone else in my life goodnight bluets i love you

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

why yes i once again made "baked" potatoes in the microwave for dinner there's a button for it that says "potato" why do you ask? #mentalhellth

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Lane Moore @hellolanemoore.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

where are the Spanx but for holding in your feelings?

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Retsoor @retsoor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

you: [pre-birth] will it hurt? angel: you can't imagine you: will the worst part be the goodbyes angel: plus the foreknowledge you: will the ways we ignore it make it worse angel: exponentially you: pass

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

am listening to music whilst knitting instead of usual tv/knit choice. plz clap. tried Ozark for 1.5 seasons and between forty-five ppl being mürdered every ep and jason bateman saying "okay?" after every sentence exactly like michael bluth, cannot handle any more

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

status: crying because my neighbors cut down their giant pin oak tree (all pin oaks are giant) chainsaws are evil

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

why are my eyes so heavy it's only 930 oh yeah i cried for an entire hour earlier cradle your anxiety & anhedonia

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

wondering what makes a "live" album sound so different, not so clean or polished, more dynamic - is it that the musicians record all together instead of mixing/layering parts later? and but so the albums i listen to the most are Matter of Time I&II & Driving Baby Lips @kevinpdevine.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

happy interdependence day, canada! though it is we who are the great concavity #infinitejest

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

turns out the reason your car AC feels warmer is because you forgot to set it back to the coldest setting i am 45 + 5/12ths years old

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

post-concert letdown is a real illness please need more songs and hugs

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

importing @kevinpdevine.bsky.social greatest hits (that i had saved, there are thousands more i'm sure) rip twitterkins 🧡 re-Bluets:

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Retsoor @retsoor.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

nervous breakdown breakdown: a notification on one device about a low battery notification on another device that was notified you were noticed in someone’s mentions

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

spent the night at church with Andy Hull and Brother Bird (Caroline Glaser) properly benedicted with a Frightened Rabbit song music will save the world yet

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Sometimes a collective desire to smooth over almost unthinkable horror obstructs the human obligation to think and see and respond to that horror anyway. Eyes on this, y'all. In the reply, you'll find someone who lives across the street. #JusticeForSaid

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Video released by Greensboro Police included this incorrect statement from new Chief Afzal. “During this time, the officer had given repeated commands for Mr. Ezzine to drop the weapon." This is false. At no time does Officer Wyatt order Said Ezzine to drop anything.

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

grateful to Ian & Yes Weekly for not just re-posting the police press release. All of the trigger warnings as they also summarize the 11-minute body camera video

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

love to also have to wear my mask *outdoors* when it's 89 degrees bc air quality is bad

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

haven't been to a movie theater in several decades i shall brave the elements solely for Paul Rudd as a rockstar A++ for recliners and large seat developments

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Roe Knows Best @roeknowsbest.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Check out this Madison Community Arts Center (ROUND 2) full performance video WITH BANTER! Just like you were there! Thanks for watching!! More to come :) youtu.be/4xRZpiusvZ8?...

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FULL PERFORMANCE: Roe Knows Best @ Madison Community Arts Center (Madison, NJ) | 01.18.25

YouTube video by roeknowsbest

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 03/10/2012

For my younger viewers, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It's like a blog for people with attention spans. #Colbert

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

adblocker but for thoughts and billboards

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

peace of mind elusive impossible my doctor's internet pass word

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Brian Stack @brianstack153.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Waxahatchee, “Right Back To It”, live on “Colbert” a while back. So great as always. Can’t wait to see her again tonight at The Beacon. youtube.com/watch?v=DDTw...

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"Right Back to It" - Waxahatchee ft. MJ Lenderman (LIVE on The Late Show)

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

everything's the blues and the blues run the game

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

the main reason i'm regretting my large tattoos procured in winter-times

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

oh nothing just continually processing childhood shit but anyway i think Love can only be defined as unconditional and if you have even one condition you shouldn't be allowed to call it "love"

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Announcement: every tv show created after 1990 is Twin-Peaks-derivative 🦉

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

well i needed a new knitting show, started watching x-files, and other than Scully being kidnapped four times per episode, The Man From Another Place just appeared, so i am properly terrified/ \deifirret

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John West @handle.invalid · 25/03/2026

Presenting THE INTERNET WILL DIE, AND SO WILL YOU, out in September from @herebelow.bsky.social, a new imprint doing awesome things. Here's the cover, a lil' excerpt, and the tagline of the press: "Books for the subversive work of being human." herebelowbooks.com/978080288542...

The cover of a book (my book): THE INTERNET WILL DIE, AND SO WILL YOU.

Just one more byte

It’s possible that to store is entirely the wrong verb. Maybe it ought
to be to attend, to give our digital lives the same attention we are
called to give our physical ones. Attention, as a noun, comes to
us through Latin and French, and, from those languages, carries
the sense of to stretch toward, as though my brain, pinned behind
my skull, might reach out, feel the tight restriction of muscle as
it grasps at the world. But, by and large, attention words point in-
ward, not out. We attract it and call it. We can gather it like wheat
in a field or draw it up like water from a well. Always, though,
attention moves from the world into us—except when it’s to be
minted and spent. “Pay attention,” we say, as though it is a com-
modity, bought, sold, and traded by brokers.

The digital world both beleaguers and demands our attention.
The quality of our focus and the metaphors we surround it with
have diminished even as we’re asked to spend more of it. I’ve felt
it, lately, in the very medium of the book, which rests ever more
uneasily in my hands, though I’ve published two, including this
one. I’ve read, I would guess, a couple thousand books in my life.
It’s harder now, harder than ever. And as it’s grown harder, it’s
grown more meaningful, those acts of attentional resistance, as
straightforward as reading a book for pleasure—a refutation of
market logic, a proletarian revolution in even the word attention,
not something I pay for and sell on an open market but, instead,
something I stretch toward.

“Whole strata of reality are lost to us at the speed at which
we live, our ability to perceive them is lost,” Garth Greenwell
writes in his novel Small Rain, “and maybe that’s the value of
poetry, there are aspects of the world that are only visible at the
frequency of certain poems.” Greenwell advances an argument
best advanced in literature, in fiction or poetry, buttressed as it is
by the logic of allusion. This logic stands in stark contrast to the
totalizing, seductive logic of instrumentalism, which would have
us see everything, every act and artifact, as for something else.
Reading under instrumentalism is pointless at worst and a form
of self- betterment at best—merely a way to refill the coffers of
attention before spending it again. Greenwell argues for poetry,
for reading, for all those many varied noninstrumental activities
that demand this “unmixed attention,” to use the philosopher
Simone Weil’s language, which are a species of prayer. I mean
this in the same way Weil does—in the best and truest sense of
the word: prayer not as an attempt to change the world, but as a
chance to attune ourselves to a greater will, one that asks of us,
Be more human.

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

sorry i'm late the live 14-minute version of 'cortez the killer' was on college radio and i'm required by law to listen til the end

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

oh just talking about lament w/ dearest friends & sent one of them a poem i wrote & she compared it to denise levertov so i will try to accept maybe being in the same orbit as her if you want to be reminded of continual world horrors, here's "Advent 1966" gadflypoetry.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/a...

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Advent 1966

Although we’re not even remotely close to Advent at the moment, I love today’s poem from Denise Levertov because of the ways that she manages to use the season of Advent––and the vision…

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Retsoor @retsoor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

An app that changes the word "believe" to "suspect" in all your correspondences

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

just received an ad for këtamine, thx Dr House i caustically luv u

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

i've given up listening to white male pastors for lent ♾️

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

a *few* good men? in this economy?

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

so happy to be required to do this work training goodbye forever "technology is agnostic" "let me teach you about semantics. that may be a foreign term" "you can create what's called a 'template' which means you can use it again" "that white space looks really nice"

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tamara @milquetoast7.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

turns out if you pin seams first they actually look even and you don't have to rip them out four different times #knitteringexceptmakeitcrochetseam #timetofrog

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