iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

This cycle of the Telephone game is almost complete & we need more artists: www.telephonegame.art

telephonegame.art

TELEPHONE

TELEPHONE An international arts game

000

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Making art books is a big commitment—and our poor dining room is a workshop—but I love the meditative process of physically spending time with a book.

020

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Bsky—excited to announce that new art book project is live. www.ninechainspress.com They are only available by invitation — which you can request using form on the site or by DM.

030

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

So great to see tens of thousands at the capitol in St Paul. We are not alone—and we’re not done.

“No Turd Reich” sign raised at St Paul, MN protest.

Massive crowd of tens of thousands at St Paul Capital grounds

050

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Can we just start calling DOGE “Roko’s Basket List?”

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Matt Gaetz has two fingers of vodka left in the bottle and three day old underwear on in his kitchen: “Even I wasn’t gonna fuck up this badly.”

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Remember folks—it’s taken us 300 years to engineer a strainer. It could take even longer to fix some of the rest of this shit.

020

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I gotta confess: “what’s the craziest thing they can do?” has shifted several registers beyond what I ever would have imagined.

020

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Anyone still wondering how that whole Trojan Horse trick worked?

020

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The world would be better served if more sci fi and fantasy entertainment ended in the seventh minute or on page nine: “Ooops: everyone’s dead, forever.”

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

“Space Caligula” is my new favorite… h/t to the crazy geniuses in Josh Marshall’s thread, where Musk was described this way. More important was the discussion: a LOT of GS employees are vets—as any vet who remembers all the GS folks (including friends who transitioned) would know.

020

Reposted by Joel Hernandez

Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

476179815647

Reposted by Joel Hernandez

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

BY EMAIL
Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH)
Mr. Bove,
I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S.
Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General.
In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse.
No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.
There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to,
give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.
Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the
Southern District of New York.
Yours truly,
Hagan Scotten
Assistant United States Att…

818269396378

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Emil Bove is Gustavo Fring’s still more evil twin.

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Who’s looking forward to the Kendrick Lamar post-game show?

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Sunday Poetry prompt: An Odd Number of Stanzas An Even Number of Sentences The Grammatical Mood Shifts on the Volta “Tell me about the weather inside”

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Elon & the Broheimlich Contingent are cordially invited to my next TED talk: “The four dumbest words in the English language are ‘why don’t you just…’”

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Your Sunday poetry prompt: American Sonnet “Riddle me a Turn” “Give the Clues, but Give them Slant”

020

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

“The board has concluded the call.” Among the many uncanny things “Severence” gets right is the seeming non-specificity/absence of agency in many workplace decisions. Like: “who the fuck decided this?” and the answer is just: “The board has concluded the call.”

030

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Your Sunday poetry prompt: 14 lines Title is an abstraction Extended metaphor Volta relies on verb tense

030

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Reverend Budde is the most fearless, inspiring person in America at the moment && this brought me to tears. youtu.be/eXTRASEHXgk?...

040

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Spending some time with Padraig O Tuama’s “Kitchen Hymns” today && they are lovely meditations (& sometimes bitterly funny). To love what does not exist, I suppose, does make the unrequited part a bit easier to bear.

010

Reposted by Joel Hernandez

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Let's see how long Meta's "no fact checking" policy lasts.

673206314119

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

“Yeah—you figure out how to make ‘CATastrophe’ and ‘apostrophe’ work in the same lyric, papa. You got plenty of time, ‘cause I’m not going anywhere.”

040

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Netflix gonna introduce the new late-night euphemism “let’s make some iguanas” to the US. Think I need to switch to Spanish, though: this dubbing is like 70s king fu movies.

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

There is a LOT going on in the world, but Chico is here doing his best orthodox priest from Andrei Rublev: “just make the bell ring.”

030

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Boy howdy is Trump ever going to be surprised by the Québécois.

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The new Squid Game season is philosophically even more interesting than the first (if not nearly as shocking, because we already experienced the first season).

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

RIP Jimmy Carter. It would be hard to find a better human who rose to the level of power he attained — or who wore his responsibility as gracefully.

030

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Watching Trump camp fall apart over H1-B is hilarious preview of next four years. Tech Bros: “Americans are too stupid, we need H1-Bs.” God-Fearers: “Americans don’t need to import talent, but develop our own!” TB: “That’s racist!” GF: “Dude, that’s the whole point!”

020

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It’s a long Sunday editing session—record each poem as part of final edits && am I discovering things my brain can tolerate but my tongue can’t stand.

Photo of microphone, manuscript, and monitors with editing application up.

020

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

“Nature is a haunted house—but Art—is a house that tries to be haunted.” —Emily Dickinson

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Did not have Ivy League frat row broheim on my bingo card, but here we are: everyone is so pissed that even central casting is confused. Now, if he wrote his manifesto using GPT? I’m really gonna be disappointed.

210

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Sometimes you just need your dog to snuggle up and fall asleep next to you.

Chico the mutt curled up and sleeping next to his papa on the couch.

020

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Sundays are generative day for me, and looking over at my drafts, I can hear Al Green whispering: “Baby, when did being this James Wright have to feel so wrong?”

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The Galaxy looked class all season, but especially in the playoffs (which shouldn’t exist). Congrats to LA and their fans—and can’t wait to see MNUFC back on the field come spring. It was especially nice to see Reus pick up a trophy—have loved him in Die Mannschaft and at Dortmund forever.

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

This may not be the greatest business card ever, but then again... it might. Clearly, W. W. Green, fictional or factual, is a PERSON FOR OUR TIMES.

USED CARS — LAND — WHISKEY — MANURE — NAILS — FLY SWATTERS — RACING FORMS — BONGOS

ENTERPRISES, Un-Ltd. W.W. GREEN, President

Wars Fought | Revolutions Started | Assassinations Plotted | Governments Run | Uprisings Quelled | Stud Service | Tigers Tamed | Bars Emptied | Computers Verified | Orgies Organized

130

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It’s July 4th, 2027 and an Amazon Prime package arrives at your front door. If has a pair of very stylish AR glasses that power the new “FAIR Act” (Federal Assistive Intelligence Raybans), which is now a requirement for accessing banking, transportation, the Internet, and other social goods.

100

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

“The temple bell stops— but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers” - Bashō (trans. R. Bly) I love this & esp how much poetic work is going on in such a small space. Prompt: 1 sentence 3 lines “transformation”

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Am I the only one slowly accommodating myself to the future of the US as a set of progressive city states operating independently of a weakened federal government that looks like Articles of Confederation serving billionaires, with lawless rural country between heavily patrolled interstate loops?

000

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Sundays are a good “sit down and write day” for me. I’d love to join a prompt group to keep me going… what are your favorite prompting techniques? What makes a good prompt? I especially love the ones Carl Phillips generated at Kenyon, which always made you think about the “whole body” of a poem.

120

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The in-laws are now speaking entirely in right wing memes—not even complete thoughts, just a shit-stream of nonsense. Little do they know they’re feeding my inner Smedley.

Smedley Butler protesting war profiteering.

120

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hard to believe she’s been gone for 12 years, but my grandmother was a chain-smoking, hard-drinking Marine veteran. As the holidays and the tensions about “those family members” arises, I am reminded that her approach was just to lean back, exhale a plume of smoke, and then laugh her ass off.

110

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

“A poet is a little bit like a detective, who comes to the scene after the historians have left. So the historians have left the scene and this rogue detective—poet—comes and walks and should find whatever was left unobserved and unnoticed.” — Valzhyna Mort

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What a delight to receive these Fitzcarraldo editions in the mail today—truly sumptuous and a reminder of what joy there is in holding a fine book.

151

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Have been crawling through all the poetry craft books I can as I do final revisions on “war | machine” (and get started on next book). These are my most heavily bookmarked. When you teach/want to sharpen your pencil, what do you reach for?

010

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

“The novel is the epic of a world that has been abandoned by God.” - Georg Lukács

000

Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

From the Department of You Don’t Say:

010