iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

responses to the latest prompts people are sharing widely: -my 20 year old self would be thrilled with my 52 year old self -my Kentucky Derby race horse name (symptom of mental health condition + last thing you ate) is rejection sensitive dysphoria orange chicken

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Alt: Colin Robinson, Energy Vampire: “we either bore you with a long conversation or we enrage you. We’re the most common kind of vampire”

glad that Björk got 3rd place but my inner emotional vampire is a little disappointed that I won’t get to unmute the guy who hates the Strokes to watch him lose his shit. I live for a good tantrum

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Energy Vampire

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there’s a tattoo fest in a small town half an hour south of here. I was flipping through the options and I’m pleased to see you can get Robert Smith’s head OR an ICP hatchetman/hatchetwoman for the low low price of $90

Tattoos acailable at the off market tattoo fest for $90. Includes a Robert Smith head and a one piece thing and a misfits skull and some D&D business and a hatchetman/hatchetwoman

nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I rarely enjoy book clubs/discussion groups but I do think a 33 1/3 + album book club would be a lot of fun. if someone else would like to take this idea and make something out of it, I would gladly participate or help out or whatever

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ah yes, the famous musician Neil Youthful, of the rock supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Youthful. Friends with the late David Crosby, of the society rock band The Byrds I’ve seen some terrible AI slop books but this one is beyond. And it was a patron request!

Chapter 1: His Biography and Career
David Crosby is a vocalist, musician and guitarist who rose to distinction during the 196os as an individual from the society rock bunch The Byrds.
Brought into the world in Los Angeles in 1941, Crosby started playing the guitar at 13 years old and became associated with the neighborhood music scene while still in secondary school.
In 1964, he helped to establish The Byrds with Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke. The gathering's initial hits, including
"Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Turn! Turn! Turn!",
assisted with laying out the society rock sort and solidified Crosby's place in music history.
In 1968, Crosby left The Byrds and formed the band Crosby, Stills and Nash (later Crosby, Stills, Nash and Youthful with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash.
The gathering's presentation collection, "Crosby, Stills and Nash," was delivered in 1969 and was a business achievement, arriving at the highest rated spot and creating the hit single "Marrakesh Express." The gathering's subsequent collection, "This feels familiar," which was delivered in 1970 and highlighted Neil Youthful as a part, was considerably more effective and
incorporated the hit melodies "Our Home" and "Show Your Youngsters."

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

a big day for both kids: it’s Nutcracker cast list day for the 14 year old and the first issue of the school newspaper came out with the 11 year old’s first-ever published story (a review of the book Keeper of the Lost Cities)

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

every time I get in a Lyft I hear Ed Sheeran and it gets on my fucking nerves. like the drivers see a middle-aged white woman and assume I have shitty taste in music and yeah sometimes I do but it’s not Ed Sheeran-level bad

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quick help me think up a “professional development topic” for Thursday’s management meeting it’s been mostly touchy-feely stuff (what are your short term and long term goals? what is your work love language? Something where I only remember the phrase “be the buffalo”)

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what does “crisp white” smell like anyway?

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time for another @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social party game! for this one, turn the name of any 2001 album—tournament or not!—into an insult mine is “leaves turn inside your mom” Jon’s is “asleep in the back because Elbow is playing”

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

time for another TV appearance and it looks like the zoo has brought NAKED MOLE RATS nothing will ever beat the goats or the snake that shares my name but this is pretty cool

A black and white goat on the set of a tv show

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strolling into the Broadway Food Hall to get some lunch and “Bizarre Love Triangle” is playing

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

so @putnam39.bsky.social and I play in an online trivia league called QUIP, and the second round is the list round where there’s a series of categories and you name something that belongs in one of them as an example, I am good at categories like “novels by Toni Morrison”

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m a great fan of the simple pleasures in life, like seeing a Facebook photo of a high school bully who looks like shit and is wearing a t-shirt advertising that she’s gotten sucked into a sex toy MLM such a girlboss, Ann Marie! go get that dildo money!

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

in a weird ass quirk of high school football scheduling, my daughter’s high school team is playing MY high school team tonight, even though my high school is a 2+ hour drive away

nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

a squirrel made its way into the library cafe seating area yesterday and the security officer who helped escort it out of the building put “small in size, brownish gray coat” in the customer description field of the incident report

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

with @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social 2001 coming to an end, it’s time for some party games! first up is mad libs I need: -a year -two artists who released albums that year mine was 1967, the monkees, the velvet underground Jon’s was 1982, prince, taco I’ll compile and share on Saturday!

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

oh nooooo! Detroiters is the show I put on when I want to watch something that a) I know by heart, and b) always makes me laugh

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

2022? 2022?? (they should have released it digitally in 2021)

nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

today is the 23rd anniversary of my employment at the library! (it is also the 23rd birthday of my former co-worker Andrew’s eldest child. the first email I received on my first day here was his birth announcement)

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

today’s @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social match is between Radiohead and Missy Elliott! it’s been a long time since Missy released a full-length album (I was in my early 30s) but she did give us an EP of new material in 2019 so I’m delving into that Round 5 starts tomorrow! we are in the home stretch!

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Best Album of 2001: (6) Radiohead – Amnesiac vs. (11) Missy Elliott – Miss E…So Addictive

Previous posts:R1: Radiohead, in which Nanette imagines Whiskeytown the faux dive bar and Jon isn’t voting in the Nicest Person TournamentR2: Radiohead, in which Nanette wonders what Radiohead’s Wo…

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

my new favorite place to eat in Champaign. had an empanada and an arepa and they were both AMAZING. everyone in the car is raving about how good it was

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

hmmmm I wonder if I can see the eerie glow of the ridiculously gigantic new scoreboard at Memorial Stadium from my driveway

nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

side D of the best of new order is the best because it contains both “touched by the hand of god” and “world in motion” (“blue monday ‘88” too, but who needs the best selling 12 inch single of all time when you have a goofy World Cup anthem)

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publishing trend I dislike: “advent calendar” books where you break a seal or open up pages each day to read the story I don’t see how these would work in library collections so I’ve not been purchasing them even though there’s a lot out there and I think people would enjoy them

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the last of the limited edition Oreos is here! this is the deep fried Oreo. aroma-wise, it does kind of smell like a deep fryer, so points added for authenticity and subtracted for “smells like my friend Kevin from college after a shift in the student center snack bar”

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Best Album of 2001: (7) Gorillaz – Gorillaz vs. (23) Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera

today’s @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social is between Gorillaz and Drive-By Truckers! I’m inviting you behind the scenes into my life as a public library collection manager as I sift through an absurd number of e-content requests while listening to the Drive-By Truckers also Bob’s back with a vengeance

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Previous posts:R1: Gorillaz, in which Jon doesn’t like the hopelessly generic British indie rock and Nanette withholds her opinionR2: Gorillaz, in which Nanette wonders why a cartoon has jacked-up …

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my oldest was hospitalized for a week (including two harrowing days in the ICU) with RSV when she was three months old. so I love this: “…women who are 32 to 36 weeks pregnant should receive the vaccine to pass protection to their babies during the R.S.V. season.”