iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

💥FREE EBOOK!💥 This book is a transfeminist call for collective liberation. Because there's no liberation without trans liberation Download your copy here: www.plutobooks.com/978074534941...

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

we made a critical error allowing reactionaries to make-up concepts like “biological sex” and frame them as non-ideological when it’s the exact opposite: people who undergo HRT *are literally changing their biological sex.* this is not some philosophical distinction, it is actual biological reality.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Wow the exact thing genAI creators intended, for their users to become psychologically dependent and chemically addicted to their product, is happening, who could have seen this coming futurism.com/the-byte/cha...

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Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot

ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

she’s here, and she’s theorising some of the most pressing topics in the humanities!!

front cover of TAYLOR SWIFT: THE STAR, THE SONGS, THE FANS, published by Routledge

First page of my essay, “WRITE THIS DOWN”: Writing as Motif and Metaphor in Taylor Swift’s Songwriting

Excerpt from the book’s introduction:

Beyond star, songs, and fans, the chapters in this collection also link thematically along other lines, centering Swift as a lens for theorizing some of the most pressing topics in the humanities. One such theme is media, with analyses of material culture in Swift's album artifacts and assets (Watkinson [that’s me!], Carroll)

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VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

its dismissing us all as disposable buzzkills who are too much effort to accommodate in society this last half a decade of pandemicene freefall that's really smashed up what flimsy guard rails on this our already deeply ableist society had. mask off moment in more ways than one unfortunately

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The Cradle @thecradlemedia.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

WATCH | Palestinians prepare for a large iftar, in Rafah, southern Gaza.

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

TAYLOR SWIFT: THE STAR, THE SONGS, THE FANS is now available for pre-order from routledge dot com!! www.routledge.com/Taylor-Swift...

routledge webpage listing for TAYLOR SWIFT: THE STAR, THE SONGS, THE FANS. available for pre-order now, will ship after March 10, price £39.99

review of the book: “You might think there is nothing left to say about Taylor Swift, one of the most scrutinized figures in popular culture. This brilliant volume proves otherwise. Probing the celebrity, sound, and social world of this larger-than-life star, each essay uncovers something new and astonishing about a 21st-century pop colossus.”

—Nate Sloan, Assistant Professor of Musicology, USC Thornton School of Music

Table of contents (too long to include here but given in the webpage at the link); my essay listing is:

Chapter 7. “Write This Down”: Writing as Motif and Metaphor in Taylor Swift’s Songwriting

Nicky Watkinson

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👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

briefly surfacing to post my top 10 books & films of the year

best of the year list:
* the pursuit of love, nancy mitford (reread)
* molly, blake butler
* the ministry of time, ka bradley
* how to do nothing, jenny odell
* mr norris changes trains, christopher isherwood
* persuasion, jane austen
* the time travellers wife, audrey niffenegger (reread)
* confessions of the fox, jordy rosenberg (reread)
* feast while you can, mik & onj
* murder at the vicarage, agatha christie

best of the year list:
* in the mood for love
* 2001: a space odyssey (rewatch)
* kuch kuch hota hai
* jeans
* layer cake (rewatch)
* talented mr ripley (rewatch)
* i’m your venus
* twelve angry men (1957) (rewatch)
* the passion of joan of arc (1928)
* con air (rewatch)

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

old star wars used to reference kurosawa but new star wars references star wars, and you can pretty much apply that to most things now

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 29/11/2024

🏳️‍⚧️ Dora Richter, one of the first trans femmes known to have medically transitioned was thought to have been murdered at the Nazi raid on the world’s first transgender clinic, actually survived, recently discovered documents revealed this summer👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/historians-t...

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Historians thought this trans woman was murdered by the Nazis, but she escaped and lived to be 74

We've always been here, and even in the darkest times - we will survive through them. We'll always be here

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

spent the day on our hands and knees scrubbing our balcony of two years’ worth of sand (don’t ask) and accumulated grime & now it looks like this 🥹 plants to come but we are celebrating with a breton cider and a german cigarette and perhaps this is what life is all about??

a small balcony with black & white matting on the floor and some outdoor tables, an exercise bike, and evening sun rays falling from the top right

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Dr Inigo Purcell @inigopurcell.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

amp.abc.net.au/article/1039... Thought UK followers might find it interesting to see how the cuts in Birmingham are reported elsewhere.

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Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcy - ABC News

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

today my ultrasound technician told me “good job on the bladder!” thinking of developing a complex about it

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

this is just getting more and more unhinged

spotify daylist showing a list of genres: "angst, canon, venting, desiderium, relatable, and overthinking"

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Amardeep Singh Dhillon @amardeepsinghd.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

It is so important that we continue to speak out about British complicity in genocide, but every time that is the main call to action I want to scream that for many people there are material, tangible actions that we can take that go far beyond speaking up.

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

waiting in a cafe before our distillery tour and i sneezed very loudly and the man behind the counter instantly and without comment prepared me a hot toddy

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

cant stop saying “post malone?!!?!!??????????”

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

The reason I can never quit Taylor Swift, no matter how over-exposed she becomes, is because she has a particular, "I MUST RECORD 17 ALBUMS TOMORROW IN CASE I DIE WEDNESDAY" energy that I find intensely relatable. I haven't written a novel yet this year, and that makes me a FAILURE.

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

editing my 1920s-set book and talking about it/reading bits aloud constantly means that krish and i are now wandering around the house saying things like "darling, that's too horrid" when we're e.g. out of lime juice

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

darned a hole in this jumper, feeling invincible

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merman hellville @seafoamghost.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

and we are GO(fundme) - my surgery fund is up! i know january is a lean month for most, but if you are able to bookmark for payday i would love you forever! any donation no matter how small means more to me than i could ever put into words reposts appreciated 💖💖💖 www.gofundme.com/f/help-dylan...

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Help Dylan get life changing surgery, organized by Lizzie Huxley-Jones

This fundraiser is being run by a friend for Dylan who will be receiving the… Lizzie Huxley-Jones needs your support for Help Dylan get life changing surgery

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

been off work all week with the lurgy but i had a big bath and finished this balaclava and, perhaps most importantly, finished the first draft of my book (not pictured) 🌺❤️

nicky wearing a pink mohair knitted balaclava, looking adorable

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cozy @bimbotheory.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

The amount of ontologically evil threads Zuck keeps putting on my Insta feed to try to bait me into posting there is insane, but I am a woman of faith and will not be tricked so easily by that prince of lies 😔🙏

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

reading susan stryker’s “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” and it absolutely fucking rips

screenshot of text from pdf: in reference to claims that trans people are at war with nature, Stryker writes “I do not fall from the grace of their company - I roar gleefully away from it like a Harley-straddling, dildo-packing leatherdyke from hell.”

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Amardeep Singh Dhillon @amardeepsinghd.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Only £400 left to raise! People are amazing ❤️

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social in convo with edith hall tonight - thoughtful, very funny, and resoundingly brilliant 🗡️❤️‍🔥

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Dr. Reed Puc @mediocre.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I have a new manifesto for my art practice

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

my beloved friend @sabotthecat.bsky.social is fundraising for gender affirming care - please help her receive this life-changing and life-saving surgery if you can, either by donating or sharing the fundraiser ! 💓 gofund.me/410f2e60

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Help Clio get life-changing surgery, organized by Clio W

Hello! I’m Clio, a trans woman in my 30s living in North West England. I’m trying to raise… Clio W needs your support for Help Clio get life-changing surgery

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Sam Byers @sambyers.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Very sad news from the White Review, and yet more evidence that arts funding in the UK is in a state of confusion and crisis.

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

saw a van today advertising some kind of service from a company called PAWLUS, and immediately came up with a concept for a children's cartoon about a roman senator who is also a dog. perhaps he is in disguise and no-one knows he's a dog. he wears a little toga.

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

one thing about mary magdalene is she IS going to be serving

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nicky 💫 @nickyjwatkinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

got to see one of my all time fave films today at the bbcan, gloriously restored in 4k, and with a special intro from @thethirdhan.bsky.social on coppola’s life and work 💓💓

Hannah Strong giving a presentation from a lectern in front of a screen showing a presentation

dark cinema with “Sofia Coppola & The Virgin Suicides” on screen (presentation title slide)

full length selfie of me in the barbican toilets, in black trousers, docs, and a pink tshirt which says in red letters “too rad to be sad”

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

You’re either disabled or pre-disabled. Currently vulnerable or becoming more vulnerable. This was true before COVID and is more salient now. And at all stages of this process, we would all benefit from a culture that pursues risk mitigation, community care, accessibility, and disability justice.

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