iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Elaine Hsieh Chou’s short story collection is as top notch as Disorientation and that is saying something.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Coming summer 2026: it's Hamilton x The Boys from Brazil. Foundling Fathers, Tachyon Publications. Happy birthday, America. It's the satire you deserve.

Publisher's Marketplace announcement: Author of NUMBER ONE FAN and the Road to Nowhere series Meg Elison's FOUNDLING FATHERS, about young clones of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin, created by a right-wing cabal and raised in isolation, and what happens when they stumble upon technology they aren't supposed to see, to Jacob Weisman at Tachyon Publications, with Rick Klaw editing, in a nice deal, for publication in summer 2026, by Arley Sorg at kt literary (world English).

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 25/10/2025

We’ve got a seasonal #RomanceColumn for all your ghostly Halloweeny romance needs! Featuring: a haunting short take on Cinderella, a Florida town full of ghosts, a pair of Regency sapphic Gothic novelists, and a stunning romantasy with a witch and a lady knight. (Gift link) #Romancelandia 💙📚

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Romance Novels That Are Spicy, Sweet and Flat-Out Stunning

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

This is several days old. But amidst so much else id missed it. That’s a stunning number. No wonder they about-faced. Reminder of the power of consumers in oligarch era, not subject to the same kind of targeting.

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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

(Stares in first frost was this morning) yeah okay lol

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

DC folks! Will @shanders.bsky.social and I see you at Politics and Prose on Friday? politics-prose.com/amber-102425?

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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

As an Iowan who has stopped eating pork because it makes me sad, it’s tough to navigate work potlucks. Legit a coworker announced she’s just straight up bringing bacon to the next one. No one batted an eye.

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Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

“Let’s go, girls” and “hell yeah, brother” are both gender neutral statements

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Shannon Sanders @shanders.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Today’s newsletter post is a conversation with @somers.bsky.social, whose book THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR is out today! shanders-red-eye.beehiiv.com/p/interview-...

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Interview with Erin Somers

Millennial moms on Millennial moms in the multiverse

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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Sometimes I collect some books I’m obsessed about. Enjoy! Some spooky season reads to fit any level of horror (or no horror) taste rachelmansmckenny.substack.com/p/darker-day...

An image of Chuck Tingle’s Lucky Day, She’s a Lamb, kill your darlings and other book covers with the text “a book review dump to explode your TBR”

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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

seems like a new influx of people have been joining this week so once again here is our BH friends and family starter pack go.bsky.app/2Y8moNK

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

🚨IT’S MY BOOK’S BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!!🚨 You can join me on zoom for a virtual launch event tonight at 8pm ET! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1LXOngHxQIuz7ryxFNJGHA%23/registration

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I wrote a poem

Cycles of the moon or compiled texts from an ex

hey
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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This is extremely relatable and also I’m reading an arc of this book right now and it’s got the premise “what if Bartleby The Scrivener” and perimenopause radicalized a mother and it’s very funny.

Clementine Crane Prefers Not To by Kristin Bair

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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I had fries on a salad last night. Lord, how I missed yinz, Pittsburgh.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 24/07/2025

It’s official! We’ve raised more than $40 MILLION for independent bookstores since we launched in 2020! 🥳📚

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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

“The Subcommittee overseeing funding for the Institute for Museum and Library Services is on deck for Monday, July 21… What this means is there is no more crucial time than now to speak up on behalf of libraries and the IMLS than now”

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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Sometimes I remember that I have a substack. Anyway, I’m writing about ambition at the end of the world. open.substack.com/pub/rachelma...

The front screen of a post on substack called “writing at the end of the world lolsob” about bunkers rabbits and romance novels

“I’m not sure what the point of ambition is when the ice caps are melting, but humans innately have it. Can you imagine Noah being proud of his ark, putting in that final nail and saying, “Hell yeah, look at those three hundred cubits of pretty great work.”

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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I have a short story out today in @pshares.bsky.social about rabbits and the end of the world(?). It was a short story that thought it was going to be a novel and I did all kinds of research at the state fair with rabbit judges. I learned a lot and didn’t need most of it, but look at these bunnies.

A dwarf hotot rabbit in a cage looking moody

A black and white rabbit on top of a cage near its owner

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

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Hannah Cohen @hcohen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

dude I spend all day outside, offline, and I come back to the internet just to find out the USA bombed Iran. I hate it here

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

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Cajun AF Team Normal @cajunasfuck.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Gonna need a bigger bag

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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

If you see something (a dog), say something (hi to that dog).

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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

new nightmare scenario just dropped. I’ll have to call you back.

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

More good book mail: HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE, the greatly anticipated debut novel from @ambersparks.bsky.social, due out in October! Digging into this one this week.

Happy People Don't Live Here, a novel by Amber Sparks

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

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Redirecting to: https://www.youtube.com/@wclivestream/live

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 28/05/2025

This was a really good interview:

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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Just turned in copyedits for my short story in Ploughshares that was accepted for the July print issue by Victor LaValle and what is my life?

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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

(7yo is slamming his sister’s hairbrush into the counter over and over) Me: hey, can you stop? I paid good money for that. 7yo: (stops, gives serious look) there is no good money. money is evil.

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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

How I, as an author, use AI: - bait - complaint - ain’t - aiiiiiiii (the sound of someone jumping off a cliff) honestly, not a bad letter combo (but no, I don’t use it to write books)

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Audible will now allow AI narrators so it’s a good time to switch to @libro.fm! Frequent sales, easy to use app, and your purchase helps an indie bookstore of your choice (here’s my referral code! libro.fm/referral?rf_...)

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Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores

Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

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Librarian by Day 🏳️‍🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Without Funding From IMLS, Iowans Lose: - Interlibrary loans or IA Shares - Bridges eBooks, audiobooks, & Brainfuse HelpNow. - People's Law Library of Iowa. - STEM & Literacy Programs Contact your representatives to save IMLS www.usa.gov/elected-offi... #IMLS #iowa #IowaLibraries

A digital graphic with the heading "WITHOUT FUNDING FROM IMLS, Iowans Lose:" followed by four bullet points in red rounded rectangles. Each point highlights a loss if IMLS funding is cut:

Book & Material Access – No more interlibrary loans or IA Shares deliveries.
Digital Resources – Loss of Bridges eBooks, audiobooks, and Brainfuse HelpNow.
Legal Information – No more People's Law Library of Iowa.
STEM & Literacy Programs – No Summer Library Program, All Iowa Reads, or STEM kits.
At the bottom, a call to action urges people to contact their representatives to save IMLS funding, with a link to https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials.

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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Literally so thrilled for her. You are married to a hot farmer, own your own land, and have singing mice around your property. Like, you are Cinderella but no expectation to throw parties.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Every time I read The Great Gatsby, the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:

"I'm alive!" said Gatsby, roaring past on a speedboat. He'd faked his own death and gotten away with everything. That's why they called him the Great Gatsby. "Out of the way, current!" he yelled at the water. "This speedboat is bearing me ceaselessly into the future!"

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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

they put “pretty hot lesbian sex” in the new york times incredibly generous and thoughtful review of my clown book up today 💗🤡💗 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/b...

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Book Review: ‘Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One,’ by Kristen Arnett

Kristen Arnett’s new novel, “Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One,” follows a woman grappling with grief and love while pursuing her true passion: clowning.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

please enjoy new tingler BISEXUALLY POUNDED BY THE BITTERSWEETNESS OF NOSTALGIA AND THE UNCEASING PASSAGE OF TIME out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1BBNT1N and on true buckaroo tier patreon www.patreon.com/posts/bisexu...

cover for tingler name of BISEXUALLY POUNDED BY THE BITTERSWEETNESS OF NOSTALGIA AND THE UNCEASING PASSAGE OF TIME featuring shirtless buckaroo in the middle standing in living room on left side there is sentient pink cloud and right side there is sentient green cloud

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

No it's not. No it isn't. No they didn't. No thanks.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12/03/2025

Deep exhale. Thanks to everyone who let them know they couldn't fold.

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 12/03/2025

It’s only March. 290 days left for a history-defying reversal.

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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

For @electriclit.bsky.social I wrote about common microaggressions in the ableist writing workshop, ways disabled writers can resist in order to reclaim their stories, and my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE. electricliterature.com/to-tell-my-d...

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To Tell My Disabled Stories, I Needed to Unlearn Ableist Workshop Critiques - Electric Literature

I masked in workshop and on the page, even as it invalidated my lived experience

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Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Mkay, I want more Canadian author recs. Lay them on me.

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