iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my phone to take.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 1h

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 2h

WASHINGTON (AP) "yeah we're insane," says America. "Just totally pants and trousers down, screaming at a potted plant, completely bonk-nanas. Remember everything we made up about middle eastern countries to make them seem like bawling, flailing maniacs? That's actually us! All of it!"

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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 2h

Stop ordering things through apps! Go talk to the person who makes your coffee! Make a phone call! Make a list with a pen and honest to god paper! Stop using a computer to mimic what human hands can do! It can’t go on like this. It just can’t.

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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 2h

Be kind. Make things with your hands. Something. Anything. Make a fucking sandwich. Read a book. Listen to a record from start to finish. Literally anything at all that puts us closer to tipping the scale back toward humanity. It sounds trite, but what else is there?

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 2h

Livestreaming executions like some third-rate dystopian movie from the 80s. JFC. So much for my earlier wish for some more good news today.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 2h

This is why I have yet to read Chuck Klosterman's book on the Nineties.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 7h

I will be using neither AI nor SI but PG, which longtime fans will recognize as “Poisonous Grift.”

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 8h

Reinvigorated this morning to the point where I was able to fix a poem (at least fixed enough to send it out via my newsletter). Feeling slightly less hopeless about writing in general and my work in particular. Hey, maybe there will be even more good news today. Anything's possible.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 8h

Timeless, and highly of-the-moment.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 8h

"Let me give you a touch-up." Heh.

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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 10h

Anne Carson , G O A T! Here’s a goodie from Glass Irony and God:

From the book Glass Irony and God by Anne Carson

God's Work

Moonlight in the kitchen is a sign of God.
The kind of sadness that is a black suction pipe extracting you from your own navel and which the Buddhists call
"no mindcover" is a sign of God.
The blind alleys that run alongside human conversation like lashes are a sign of God.
God's own calmness is a sign of God.
The surprisingly cold smell of potatoes or money.
Solid pieces of silence.
From these diverse signs you can see how much work remains to do.
Put away your sadness, it is a mantle of work.

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alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social · 11h

one of my (less shared) faves from Carson’s Short Talks

Short Talk On The Sensation Of Aeroplane Takeoff
Well you know I wonder, it could be love running towards my life with its arms up yelling let's buy it what a bargain!

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 12h

From now on whenever someone asks me how I’m doing I’m just going to say I’m in Iceland, listening to the wind.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 12h

A good one

O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love

Anne Carson
1950 –
I like being with you all night with closed eyes.
What luck—here you are
coming
along the stars!
I did a road trip
all over my mind and heart
and
there you were
kneeling by the roadside
with your little toolkit
fixing something.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 12h

to Nobel winner Anne Carson. Some lines of hers that have stayed with me over the years: "it's a gap in a series the series is you" (The Beauty of the Husband) "TV wastes nothing, like a wife" (Glass, Irony & God) & the complete "Between Us And" & "Dance of the Western Union Envelope"

BETWEEN US AND
animals is a namelessness.
We flail around
generically —
camelopardalis is what
the Romans came up with
or "giraffe" ( it looked to
them like a camel crossed
with a leopard ) or get the
category wrong — a musk
Ox isn't an ox at all but
more closely cognate with
the goat — and when
choosing to name
individual animals we
pretend they are objects
(Spot) or virtues (Beauty)
or just other selves (Bob).

X. Dance of the Western Union Envelope How the Heart Leaps Up More Eager Than Plant or Beast

"Devil's share" is the portion of one's goods that cannot be usefully spent
and so gets sacrificed.
But what if the devil is not so stupid.
What if a devil long after sacrifice
starts coming and going on the borderland—
just a crease in daylight.
Disappearance was a game to him,
my mother
unsurprised

when he did not appear for the wedding
and she was careful of my feelings—care
like a prong.
The wedding cake (stored in the pantry) I ate myself
piece by piece
all of it
in the months that followed, sitting
in the living room late at night with all the lights on, chewing.
His telegram (day after) said
But please don't cry—
that's all.
Five words for a dollar.

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the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 13h

Of course this is how Anne Carson accepts the Nobel prize.

It was a short call, Carlberg said: All the poet would say was she was “in Iceland,” where she was “listening to the wind.”

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 14h

At last. Congratulations, Anne Carson, whose work has meant so much to me. I’m so glad.

The winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 22h

That’s an excellent double feature.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 23h

Now all of these songs are in my head as well. Xo

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What was fascinating to me about that episode was, “To Love Somebody” aside, I’d never heard a single one of the songs, not even “Massachusetts.” The first phase of their career didn’t exist on early 80s radio when I was a young teen.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My newsletter has 171 subscribers of which, on average, ninety or so open the emails. How few of those would support a Patreon? I probably don’t want to find out.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes I think about starting a Patreon but the fear that hardly anyone would sign up for it always brings me up short.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Same. Plus you have two less days, so you better get your ass in gear.

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Boo-face Sicko @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Meanwhile, in France, they're rioting over years of underfunded schools.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And you can still write a novel next month. Go ahead. Nothing is stopping you (though I still maintain November is a terrible choice to try to write a whole novel in).

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Reminded, today, of this poem by Thomas Lux

Plague Victims Catapulted over Walls into Besieged City

Early germ
warfare. The dead
hurled this way turn like wheels
in the sky. Look: there goes
Larry the Shoemaker, barefoot, over the wall,
and Mary Sausage Stuffer, see how she flies,
and the Hatter twins, both at once, soar
over the parapet, little Tommy's elbow bent
as if in a salute,
and his sister, Mathilde, she follows him,
arms outstretched, through the air,
just as she did
on earth.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Such a surprisingly effective B movie. That scene on the raft!

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Over the weekend I was on a panel about AI in books and I said that publishers have always been so careful about fair use -- you can use maybe a line or two from a song but never any more -- and then the tech bros were like, we are entitled to all books. They belong to us now. Fuck you.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today is the 30th anniversary of the launch of Fox News, one of the worst things that has ever happened to to human beings. I will have a piece on this later.

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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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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An October story from Robert Walser (1914)

The Man with the Pumpkin Head

Once there was a man and on his shoulders he had, instead of a head, a hollow pumpkin. This was no great help to him. Yet he still wanted to be Number One. That's the sort of person he was. For a tongue he had an oak leaf hanging from his mouth, and his teeth were cut out with a knife. Instead of eyes, he had two round holes. Back of the holes, two candle stumps flickered. Those were his eyes. They didn't help him see far. And yet he said his eyes were better than anyone's, the braggart. On his pumpkin head he wore a tall hat; used to take it off when anyone spoke to him, he was so polite. Once this man went for a walk. But the wind blew so hard that his eyes went out. He wanted to cry with his candle ends, because he couldn't find his way home. So now he sat there, held his pumpkin head between his hands, and wanted to die. But dying didn't come to him so easily. First there had to come a June bug, which ate the oak leaf from his mouth; there had to come a bird, which pecked a hole in his pumpkin head; there had to come a child, who took away the two candle stumps. Then he could die. The bug is still eating the leaf, the bird is pecking still, and the child is playing with the candle stumps.

Robert Walser, 1914.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The thing about biopics of famous musicians is you could just not make them. You could make literally any other kind of movie.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#RIP Eva Marie Saint 📷 Nina Leen, 1949 “She worked comparatively rarely, and it was no credit to Hollywood that only a few films were worthy of her.” - David Thomson Thomson praises her work in All Fall Down, 1962, North by Northwest, 1959, Exodus, 1970 & Loving, 1960.

Saint in her early years, carrying headshots as she waits for an audition.

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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They’ll do it by laying off a shitload of people, reducing production, selling entire studios for spare parts, and then golden parachuting after all of this briefly boosts growth enough to impress stakeholders. This isn’t fucking difficult.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 06/10/2026

For about the ten thousandth time: the stock market was a mistake.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 06/10/2026

H’as spoken like a traitor, and shall answer As traitors do.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Weary, stale, flat, unprofitable.

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just block AI apologists. Why would you spend actual human effort arguing with somebody who has made outsourcing their thinking/writing to a machine their central passion? Who would you really be arguing with? Might as well put sunglasses on a lamp and spend time arguing with that.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Perhaps every poem is ultimately a blind alley.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So many things I used to love are no longer my thing.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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