iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE EARTHSET PHOTO FROM ARTEMIS II. IM SPEECHLESS.

Earth appearing as a bright crescent behind the Moon’s surface

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

“I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that,” Weir said. “I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that.”

“For instance, as a lifelong Star Trek fan, it’s always bothered me that there is a presumed ‘responsibility’ within Star Trek shows to talk about social issues,” the writer added. “I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other.”

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Cybershell @cybershell.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I always smile when I remember this 900 year old Sam & Max fanart, carved into some old twelfth century church in england

A corbel showing a carving of a hound and hare circa 1140 from the Church of St Mary and St David, Kilpeck.

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Zuul Nightingale🚪 @danaenight.northsky.social · 22/03/2026

thing: exists me: hmmm not sure how I feel about that thing: exists and also woman me: this is my new favorite thing

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 15/02/2026

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

servant of imperial messaging upset by anti-imperial messaging, more at 11

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skies (they/them) @skiesofpluto.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

making robots that look like people is almost always a choice to sacrifice efficient form for the feeling of owning a person

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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Dress for the gender you want, not for the gender you have

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 08/11/2025

We joke about the Torment Nexus and all that, but... The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us. "Fear is the mind killer" "Fear is a path to the Dark Side" etc. Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

me to others: it's hard right now. be gentle with yourself me to me: wtf is wrong with you

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/10/2025

You didn’t hear this from us, but the Old English word 'sibb' meant “related by blood.” This is where we get the 'sibling.' And 'godsibb' essentially meant “godparent.” Over time, it came to mean "close friend." Now it is something we share w/ close friends... 'gossip.'

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Aysha 🔜 Cancon @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

i think it's worth it to read Lovecraft, and not just because so much horror canon comes from him. his work embodies an extremely specific kind of modern american derangement syndrome, whereby someone can tell Something Is Wrong, but they aim their fear in the wrong direction, i.e. at minorities.

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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 24/10/2025

I know inflation is bad but if this pricing is accurate and we can find thirty or forty more, we can take care of this nonsense the old school way

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This is how you blurb

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

tolkien: man I'm sure glad my book about how much industrialization sucks has found its intended audience, dudes who build war machines and want to kill the night sky

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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

With great pride and pleasure I offer you this fiercely optimistic tale, informed by how bad everything sucks right now, beautifully read by christianaellis.bsky.social.

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Dr. Nic Junius @quakefultales.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Hey narrative folks my team is looking for a narrative designer to come work with me in Iceland! If you have solid storytelling fundamentals, some technical experience, and live ops or adjacent experience, we are looking for someone like you! careers.ccpgames.com/en/postings/...

careers.ccpgames.com

Narrative Designer

Job Opening: Narrative Designer at CCP Games in Reykjavík.

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WRAITH 👻🍉 @straith.ca · 08/10/2025

GREY GARDENS in space: A fledgling documentarian gets overly entangled with two deposed Imperials in exile on a once-opulent space station. He must choose: launch his career as a truth-teller, or protect these people from the judgment of a hostile audience. #DVpit #A #SF #LGBT #TV #novella

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Hey #DVparty! Here’s the moodboard for my #SpaceOpera WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE. Washed-up alien musician Nesamma Abbas joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire with a martial art of sound. She must confront her pain, master her powers and choose between revolution or redemption.

Mood board of my upcoming Space Opera We Sang Down the Empire. It features ephemeral and evocative art of artist Joshua Mays to convey the spritual element of the martial art of sound that is at the heart of the book. There are women of color in space age futuristic background and magic practices.

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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Important to understand that many lies are not meant to be convincing. When a schoolyard bully steals your lunch money, he says "that's mine." The absurdity is the point. It's an assertion of dominance. It is to say "reality is whatever I say it is. You disagree? What are you gonna do about it?"

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Gen Existential Crisis @ru12bseen.com · 30/09/2025

Home libraries are more than books. When children pass a wall of books and see parents reading, it has the unspoken effect of showing how much knowledge there is to know and how much they don't know. I recall looking through my mom's books wondering what they were all about and created a curiosity.

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Cirice's Grave @ciricegray.itch.io · 28/09/2025

Stop buying Brandon Sanderson's books.

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nora "nora.jewelry is now open" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 24/09/2025

i am gesturing at the democrats as well as the republicans when i stare straight into your eyes and ask you if you're tired of these freaks being in charge of you yet

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

qnews.com.au

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

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HÆLÏCK @ocean37.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

you don't make socially relevant/critical art expecting it to magically destroy all the evil in the world, you make it to let conscious people in the present and future know that they're not alone, to preserve our collective memory

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Star Wars Holocron @swholocron.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

ANDOR creator Tony Gilroy describes his approach to side characters. “There are no subsidiary characters….Every single person who arrives must have something. Anyone of any consequence whatsoever, I want them to be fully realized…. That’s good writing.” (Source: The Bulwark)

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 11/09/2025

When you find out about Libro.fm, an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible that’s 100% employee owned, a Certified B Corporation, and shares profits with 4,000+ independent bookshops 😍

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 08/09/2025

This is not polyamorous peoples fault this is monogamous people doing don’t ask don’t tell cheating sorry

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Morbid Movies Podcast @morbidmovies.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

More of this attitude in film please💓 #filmsky #Frankenstein #GuillermodelToro

Image of Guillermo del Toro on the set of Frankenstein with text "I don't want digital. I don't want AI. I don't want simulation. I want old-fashioned craftsmanship. I want people painting, building, hammering, plastering." Guillermo del Toro on directing 'Frankenstein'

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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

*gently to my cat*: you cant be a little fucker. You have to be good. No more being a little fucker. *My cat, purring*: the Being a Fucker hour draws near

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Surfacing in a deserted inlet on a moonless night in my modified narco-sub that now carries fountain pens and Gundam model kits from Japan. An offloading crew of weebs and middle-aged women waits on the beach.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The real power of writing isn’t in being read. It’s in the act of translating your inner world into language, and realizing you can. That you’re real. That your thoughts can manifest in the physical world. That words have power. That it doesn’t all have to be in your head. That it can come to life.

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

"a good dungeon master learns to say 'yes, and' to their players" "a good DM learns how to say no to their players." both wrong. the real art is learning to say Yes to your players in such a deliberate, long winded or ominous fashion that they change their minds and do something else

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Mera @spinachfoote.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

The neurodivergent urge to remove your flesh

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Hans @vordello.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

“This country is the only country to fight a war to end slavery!” Okay first Haiti is right there, second the other side was trying to preserve slavery and that was also this country.

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nora "nora.jewelry is now open" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 21/08/2025

imagining a world where everything is the same but liberals are obsessed with oryx and crake instead of handmaid's tale

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