iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dada perfection

Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Did you know that Joseph Smith told the Relief Society that part of their duties is to "expound scripture"? When did women actually do this?

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Expounding scriptures to all

when do Mormon women do this?

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

another conference, another zine

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This AI acts as a facilitater between students discussing culture-war topics, somewhat successfully. It helps keep students focused in a discussion and also offers to rephrase their position if it gets too heated. I can't decide if it's amazing or dystopian. swaybeta.ai/faq/

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faq — how Sway works in the classroom

Answers to common questions about Sway — how it scaffolds student disagreement, what the AI Guide does, instructor access, privacy, cost, and research use.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller 09.20.55

P1- SLUGGO AND NANCY ARE TALKING WITH SEVERAL OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS ON A STREET CORNER , A POLICEMAN WALKS UP SHOUTS TO THEM TO LEAVE
POLICEMAN: BREAK IT UP
BREAK IT UP

P2-LATER SLUGGO IS DOWNTOWN AND SEES A FAMILIAR FACE, IT’S THE SAME POLICEMAN FROM EARLIER, TALKING WITH TWO OTHER POLICEMEN

P3- SLUGGO WALKS PAST THE THREE POLICEMEN AND SAYS TO THEM
SLUGGO: BREAK IT UP,
BREAK IT UP

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love Readwise Reader for storing, reading, and searching all the books and articles I can stuff into it. rachelhelps.substack.com/p/my-knowled...

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My knowledge working tools

This year I’ve been thinking of myself as a professional knowledge worker. Here are the tools I use to do research.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I was writer in residence at my local library this year. I got a message once from someone saying she had read my book through her library and then went out and bought 2 copies for the academic institution she works for. Libraries pay for books an introduce people to reading which helps writers.

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

isn't this just straight up quoting Isaiah?

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Shannon Hale is holding Brandon Sanderson hostage. Watch for a downpour of logic-heavy fantasy from her soon

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/08/2026

Never let a writer help you move

A cardboard moving box with EPHEMERA written on it in Sharpie

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10/09/2026

#OtD 10 Sep 1676 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley died aged 66. He was a tailor and the primary theoretician of the Diggers during the English civil war who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8250...

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 09/09/2026

It's DAY 2 of Nintendo news and we launched a beautifully thrilling narrative game in the middle of it! Thank you to everyone who has already played. Please leave us a Steam review so we can reach the narrative sickos! store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...

Encounter screen from Thousand Hells: The Underworldd Heists.

Where Exactly?

Up On Himor
Talk to Plague Victims
Talk to a Gossip

Dialogue in Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists.

The part is at camp, discussing the murdered princes by the hand of their uncle.

"He's not going to be very happy when they show up again."

"I believe the queen is thinking as a mother, not a power player."

Three-headed spirit of a white haired woman expressing anger, fear and pain.

A slight blue cave surrounded by mushrooms. A grey hairy beast with wing stands at the front.

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm very excited for more little indie games on the Playdate! Looks like some are adventure games 👀

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hey maybe I'll get a stereotrophy for writing stereotropey characters

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Meri @meri.garden · 06/09/2026

one of my least favourite leftist trends is people deciding on some moral stance as an individual and then telling people if they disagree they are ‘crossing a picket line’ there’s something so neoliberal about conflating an organised workplace with ~online vibes~

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Traditional freight-painting values" whoa

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hey researcher / author / YouTuber friends: if you've used our digital library for your research, I want talk with you to learn more! Hit me up

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

if this "well, actually..." reply to a line of tennyson's is any indication, charles babbage would have been right at home here

He commented: ‘Sir: In your otherwise beautiful poem “The Vision of Sin” there is a verse which reads – “Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.” It must be manifest that if this were true, the population of the world would be at a standstill. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death. I would suggest that in the next edition of your poem you have it read – “Every moment dies a man, Every moment 1 and 1/16th is born.” The actual figure is so long I cannot get it onto a line, but I believe the figure 1 and 1/16th will be sufficiently accurate for poetry. I am, Sir, yours, etc., Charles Babbage.’

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Some thirty years in the future, aliens have contacted Earth. They're willing to help humans overcome some of their genetic pitfalls, like not being able to see UV light or hating exercise. The partnering human company claims that the genetic modification procedure is free, but there is a cost...

A giant alien holds a doll-like woman up in a stormy sky. The alien is red, with a long black-striped neck. It has one arm that has a blade-like claw. It also has tentacles. It also has a metallic, glowing horn, four eyes, a beak, and large ears like a bat.

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Interactive Fiction competition is live! I wrote one of the entries with my co-author Steve Peck. He's an evolutionary ecologist so of course the name of our game is _Invasive Species_.

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Re-upping this call for folks to talk to me about a time they ordered gaming apparel or merch only to receive a cheap knock off

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

the variable is misspelled. However, this time you do not correct it. It's used in six different passages. You will break something

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In modern Mormonism you can have multiple work wives

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In modern Mormonism you can have multiple work wives

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Gretchen Leigh 🇨🇦 @gretchenleigh.zone · 25/08/2026

This is a game made specifically to murder me

A screenshot from Perfect Tides: Station to Station: Protagonist Mara Whitefish is reading the in-game version of Something Awful forums. She's narrating the experience: "You eat up a little more time refreshing the thread, hoping your retort will be acknowledged and rewarded."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The year is 2035. Flock cameras are everywhere. You step out of your home and hear a voice coming from somewhere overhead, possibly close to the streetlight next to you. It's me. "Collar gap."

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

thinking about how my poor playtesters had to endure one character having three different names because I could not get my act together in the renaming search and replace. and yet somehow they understood most of the story

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(Not the Horror Author) Shirley Jackson @lioninthetrees.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I just noticed this fry sauce recipe on the Utah Trader Joe's reusable bag and it's incorrect. Utah fry sauce is made with ketchup and mayo—not hot sauce. Hot sauce will kill the average Utahn.

A close up of the recipe found on the bag saying to use 1 pt hot sauce and 1 pt mayonnaise.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"the land gently holds the burden of scars" 🥹

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It turns out that early 20th-century fiction has definite ideas about what the Lamanite curse was and how fast it works. Link in comments. rachelhelps.substack.com/p/the-lamani...

Text: The Lamanite Curse in Book of Mormon Fiction: etiologies of race. Rachel Helps. rachelhelps.substack.com.
Background image: a cartoon boy wearing a blue sweatband looks in surprise as his skin changes from light to dark.

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

our secret is that we ask student employees to take the Princeton review survey and they love us

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

this is how it feels when I (6'4") get on an airplane

panel of Kaiji looking all stretched out and profoundly stressed

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The Anti-Christ Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 09/08/2026

"You're blocking out the music of humanity"

The Irritating gentleman painting by Berthold Woltze, with a woman in a victorian train, being annoyed by a man leaning over the seat behind her, except she's now wearing headphones.

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Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Question for my fellow academic librarians: Has anyone been in a situation where a donor to your institution has tried to influence collection development decisions (or override them)? Trying to figure out if something I heard about recently is part of a larger pattern.

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Susa Young Gates wrote a feminist revision of the Book of Mormon in her "Dialogue" play script, published in 1892. Find out more: rachelhelps.substack.com/p/susa-young...

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

please start getting hyped for the game I'm writing for the Interactive Fiction Competition (IFComp)

circus flyer with the following text:
COME TO THE MUTANT CIRCUS
You WON'T be able to LOOK AWAY from our AMAZING circus of UPLIFT MUTANTS.
SEE the humans and ANIMALS who CHOSE a life of performative AUGMENTATION
SEVEN-ARMED SAM can hold FIFTY balls in the air!
SLITHERY SALLY can LICK her own BUTTOCKS!
Horse CLEVER HANSEL can do CALCULUS while BALANCING on STRONGMAN CLYDE!
Ever wondered if a BONOBO can do stand-up? Septimus will have you in STITCHES!
AN EVENING YOU WON'T FORGET

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

those rolling stacks you'll find in any big state school library

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

something horrifying has come to me in a vision

a venn diagram where the three circles are "no one can afford graphics cards," "running out of IP to remake over and over," and "ongoing strangling nostalgia effect," and the central overlap is "upcoming AAA "demake" trend."

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Harrison G. Pink @gilespink.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Narrative design.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The stories in our inaugural Best Of anthology are all wonderful! Including Somto Ihezue's award-winning "We Begin Where Infinity Ends", and so many more. Back us by visiting kck.st/4wtYJ6... or the link in our bio. #SFF #Booksky #backthebook #sciencefiction #fanstasy

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Rachel Helps @rachelhelps.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I've been using on-together and it's a cute way to help me focus! I mean nothing beats the library for body doubling but you can't always have that

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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Reminder that this role closes on Sunday 2 August, so there are just a few days left to get an application in!

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