iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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tell me the vibe you are seeking and i will recommend you a gay romance novel (pls note if trashy is ok)

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

[edit] The book Venn I am going to suggest: This is WHO: American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein + This is WHY: Caliban & Witch + This is HOW: Capital Is Dead by McKenzie Wark anyone you see missing in that formulation is in: Golden Gulag.

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Infuriating. Loish’s art has been RIPPED OFF by AI, since the very beginning, because she is popular and well loved. Now it’s coming back around to bite her again

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex.

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DLS @forensicgarlic.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Here's Eve Ewing modeling what we all should be doing to Rahm.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This story brought me back to Kara, one of the mothers in my book, There Is No Place for Us. She was homeless with her four kids while driving for DoorDash. They had to pee in bottles so bathroom stops wouldn't make her late. After gas, she earned $6.50 an hour—75 cents less than the minimum wage.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Are You A Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians follows the librarians who kept the doors open when the law said they shouldn't-from segregated reading rooms to freedom libraries to the branches serving our communities now" Rentable/streamable 📚 www.historysplayground.com/are-you-a-li...

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Watch Are You a Librarian | History's Playground

Rent the Are You a Librarian documentary for $3.99 and stream it for 72 hours on History's Playground.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

brad lander with the threatening parentheticals i love it king who're we doing labor law to next

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

if you liked the thread about “everyone on the bus has realized the driver is going the wrong way,” you will love “hundreds of confused Portlanders ditched by crew and stranded in Iceland” I have to go to bed but I need to know if Sarah makes it to her flight!!!

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The second full episode of Liberating Lit is here, and this week, I'm excited to share a powerful conversation with literary advocate and book censorship expert Dr. Emily Knox: www.liberatinglit.com/episodes/epi...

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Episode Two: Dr. Emily Knox — Liberating Lit

For the second episode of Liberating Lit, get to know the work of Dr. Emily Knox. Knox’s expansive knowledge and experience with book censorship across American history informs so much of the work bei...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cf vouchers and housing. demand doesn’t necessarily produce supply WHICH IS WHY THE STATE PROVISIONS THE GOOD.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You can't, and shouldn't seek to, replace public schools or libraries with bookstores. You can't replace a public good with a private business, no matter how well-meaning or well-organized it may be.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have a heavy fundraising lift. I am trying to raise $40,000 for REBUILD to help keep it going: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil... There's so much to say about the people who are being supported through this program. I co-founded it and am an advisor. I believe in this work.

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Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause

REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I mean they could spend their time giving speeches about how outrageous it is that the Fed wage is at $7.25 and that these are starvation wages.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026

This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/09/2026

me normally when a bad guy picks up a nail gun: oh fuck oh no run hero run me when a bad guy in Reacher picks up a nail gun: STOP YOU FOOL, YOU WILL GIVE HIM NAIL HANDS

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ICE activity has been picking up again in Chicago A LOT. If you were previously involved with ICE watch efforts, now is a good time to reengage. I’m going to start wearing a whistle again.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18/09/2026

What this paper is saying basically: is the flu is seasonal, covid is not.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I *hate* this "digital divide" framing for AI; even libraries marshal it to justify their "AI literacy classes," ensuring all have "access" for self-actualization and economic opportunity. Maybe instead some folks are sufficiently literate, and they're instead choosing *principled refusal*.

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m writing a book about teaching reading and what it even means to be “a good reader.” I want to talk to as many teachers, librarians, parents, and students as possible. If you have thoughts about reading, please get in touch at readingmachinebook@gmail.com. (And please pass along!)

THE READING MACHINE By Megan Greenwell
Imprint: Dey Street Books
August 10, 2026
Former Deadspin editor-in-chief and author of BAD COMPANY Megan Greenwell's THE READING MACHINE, a narrative investigation into how policy and profit reshaped the relationship between American children and books, changing what literacy is for and leaving millions of students behind in the process, to Libby Burton at Dey Street Books, at auction, by Anna Sproul-Latimer at Neon Literary (NA).
Rights: kent@neonliterary.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's happening.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yes to the shift in power. You also see consultants moving to new companies, other roles, etc. Similar to the pivot in the right wing influencer space. They’re preparing for the end of Trump but they won’t be going away unless we make them.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

Honestly, "big-name studios can't agree on the premise of the Muppet Show" sounds like the premise of the Muppet Show

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

REBUILD is doing much needed work. I hope that some of you might donate to keep it going: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...

Informational flyer for Darkness RISING REBUILD, detailing therapy services for justice-involved people of color, program benefits, contact info, and impact stats, with green and yellow accents and a woman giving a thumbs up.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026

So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've launched a new limited-run podcast called Liberating Lit that features interviews with literary advocates about the work they do, why they do it, how they got into it, and what keeps them going. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

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Tune In To Liberating Lit, My New Limited-Run Podcast

Liberating Lit is a limited-run interview podcast about literary advocacy publishing Fall 2026 - Spring 2027.

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LooShagBrolly @looshagbrolley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Love great film critics? Make it rain for Jourdain!

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"We grieve the worlds we've known and what it felt like to live in them, and people are part of that. We grieve the fact that someone or something that accompanied us through the world will no longer accompany us through whatever comes next." organizingmythoughts.org/grief-is-not...

“We often misunderstand something fundamental when we imagine people are simply grieving a person they believed to be wholly good.

Often, they are grieving a kind of accompaniment.

They are grieving the way someone's music, art, words, performances, or ideas helped carry them through the world ... They are grieving a bedroom they sat in twenty-five years ago, listening to the same album over and over, or a book that knocked down walls when they were nineteen. They are grieving nights spent with friends they no longer know and conversations they can barely remember. They are grieving their own proximity to death, as marked by the disappearance of someone whose presence in the world always seemed continuous with their own, until it wasn't.” - Kelly Hayes

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Scare-ed Skullnick @jaredskolnick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

meep meep motherfucker

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Cole 🌈 @lilgay.club · 04/09/2026

This is what’s always bothered me about the lab leak conspiracy, it’s chastising scientists for having open intellectual curiosity while pretending it’s not. If they’re only able to debate the lab leak if they come to the conclusion it must exist that’s not actually a debate!

outlets such as the Free Press. Those messages revealed that, while writing the paper in February 2020, they'd expressed openness to the possibility of a leak. To Garry the shift proved nothing more than their intellectual honesty: He'd genuinely considered the lab-leak theory, scrutinized the genetic sequence and found no evidence that the virus had been engineered. As more data emerged over the following months and years, he became only more confident it had spilled over naturally.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2026

The NIH Director confirms they are giving away biomedical research money used to develop treatments and cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens, to the Department of Defense. Outrageous.

Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
@NIHDirector_Jay

NIH funds should be used to improve the health of Americans.
Far from siphoning money away from research, this partnership between @NIH and @DeptofWar focuses on research projects that will drive discoveries to improve the health of American citizens and members of the military.
Led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, all work will be 100% aligned with our public health mission.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I HAVE THE ANSWER I HAVE THE ANSWER there is a beautiful website called PUZZMO that i am a member of and it is (you will not believe me) (I swear this is true) BETTER than nyt games!!!!!!!!

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Megan Sanks @msanks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Puzzmo is the best and I'm able to get access through my library card via Hoopla 🥰

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕

Photo of a brunette with a braid in her hair, standing in front of a sign that says Vaccinated with a count of 30,000.

She is wearing glasses, a Sun Studio t-shirt, and an orange high vis vest.

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Megan Sanks @msanks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bike the Drive is one of my favorite Chicago traditions!!!

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Active Transportation Alliance @activetransportation.org · 03/09/2026

Time for some current day thinking. Every year we hear how quiet the Drive is during Bike the Drive. Our Lakefront and public space deserve more.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Seen a lot of people responding to this with “I’m just going to pirate the show,” and I want to gently remind everyone that the central idea in this piece is that there’s no way to engage with the Potter franchise in any capacity that doesn’t benefit Rowling and her bigotry

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The attempted rehabilitation of Rahm Emanuel by the press is an absolute scandal, and anyone who participates or fails to call it out is a morally bankrupt coward. This man shouldn't be able to show his face in public, let alone run for president.

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

he got him. he finally fucking got him

real-life coyote and roadrunner encounter captured in southern california

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