iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The timeless beauty of ancient glass! This Roman glass scent bottle is around 2,000 years old, yet its elegant design feels surprisingly modern! British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a small Roman scent bottle made of cobalt-blue mould-blown glass in the form of a scallop shell. At the top it has a cylindrical neck with an out-turned rim. There is a thin, curved, handle either side of the neck. The top of each handle is attached to the neck, and the bottom is attached to the top of the scallop shell. Bottle dimensions: height 8.5 cm, diameter 5.2 cm. Dated AD 25-100. It is displayed on a circular, clear perspex (?) stand in a British Museum display case. The bottle was bequeathed to the British Museum by Felix Slade in 1869.

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Annual reminder that if you get an email from someone claiming to be me, or a referral to someone that’s supposedly me, and it doesn’t have the Neighborhood Literary email address… it’s a scam, friends. I sure do hate this stuff.

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Rae Loverde @raeloverde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

ah yes "ethical use of stolen material" *nods sagely* sure yup

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Rae Loverde @raeloverde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

ah yes "ethical use of stolen material" *nods sagely* sure yup

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Rae Loverde @raeloverde.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

lol I love waking up to the inevitable "oh shit this blew up in our faces how could anyone have predicted that well here's a blog post to explain to you emotional little uneducated peasants why we know better than you do"

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Sean Wallace @oldcharliebrown.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We’re almost there for our subscription drive: we just need fourteen more people to jump onboard and then our pay rate for authors will go to fifteen cents a word! clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

clarkesworldmagazine.com

Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The way he finished and just looked to the side like “ya dead yet?” Bless

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

C’mon, when REAL fans hate a tie-in novel, they go write a 250,000-word fix-it on AO3 for free. Wusses.

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I think she needs to go to the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too

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Rae Loverde @raeloverde.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

taking the "leopards eating faces" metaphor a little too literally there, guys 😬😬😬 (but srsly wtf is wrong with these ppl)

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 13/10/2026

I don't remember what they served me the last time I spend time in a hospital, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't as good as this medieval grub:

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Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Anyone know a lawyer practicing immigration law in Kentucky? A friend has an emergency situation with an ICE abduction

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/10/2026

Hey, Brooklyn!

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LaurenWalshArt @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Use reference. I’m serious. I get it that somehow you or someone convinced you that using reference is “cheating.” It’s not. You are just hindering yourself.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 12/10/2026

Your daily reminder that more people are playing and buying PC games than ever before. This is a growing industry. The only reason the industry is struggling is because the people are the top are vacuuming up all the money made to divert it to AI in an unhinged all-in multi-trillion-dollar gamble.

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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 13/10/2026

And that means them, istockphotos, all going away basically. Slop will replace the. This is bad. Bad bad.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

i have now seen the straight pride flag for the first time and my jaw genuinely dropped. you're right heterosexuals, strict binarism, black and white thinking, is a kind of imprisonment, 10/10 no notes

straight pride flag, six thick horizontal stripes alternating in black and white

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 13/10/2026

Like a hobby that doesn’t involve inflicting misery on others. Knitting! Birdwatching! Cross country skiing! I don’t care what it is, just stop being Like This.

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 13/10/2026

GET— And I say this with as much antagonistic energy as possible— A GODDAMN HOBBY

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

what if an entire generation was educated like Wimp Lo because of three cueing and AI, we're gonna find out

screenshot from Kung Pow: Enter the First, where a character says "I must apologize for Wimp Lo. He is an idiot. We have purposely trained him wrong, as a joke."

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you need a pickmeup, Ukraine struck and destroyed a Russian data center last night, reducing Russian bot traffic by 50%, dropping online pro-AfD discussion to zero, cratering MAGA traffic, and making Elon big mad. Just in time for the mid-terms. Slava fucking Ukraini.

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Kayleigh McKee 🟡, Blinded my a billion brilliant lights @ghaspey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I can not abide any machine algo made "art" I want my spooky lofi to be made by freaky goth himejos thanks its like a whole part of the vibe

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12/10/2026

Hey folks! @yellowfund.bsky.social is taking their bus down to the coast to make sure those who lost power/cars/homes in the hurricane have hot food, non perishables, diapers, and wipes. If you want to help you can do so here: action.yellowhammerfund.org/a/hurricane-...

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Hurricane Isaias Crisis Support in Alabama

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Spooky Sasquatch @nerdysasquatch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Normalize saying "this isn't for me" about popular media you're not into and moving on instead of jumping on bandwagons to hate something, or blindly repeating bad faith talking points, or starting harassment campaigns. Social media would be less toxic if more people did that.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/10/2026

Forward-Thinking CEO Hoping Company Can Capture New Audience By Making Product Worse In Every Conceivable Way theonion.com/forward-thinking-ceo-h…

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

lmao that's actually so funny?? It's just an app that makes you immediately stupid, incredible

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 09/10/2026

This is also a reminder that several SFF mags *with* author-and-artist-friendly contracts are Kickstarting RIGHT NOW and backing/supporting THEM is a great way to show MRM that they will lose this argument.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

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Rae Loverde @raeloverde.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(I just know some nerd is going to not read the actual quote and try to pounce like WELL AKSHUALLY THAT'S A KHALAI PHASE-SMITH AND--)

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Rae Loverde @raeloverde.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

will henceforth be referring to AI bros as "Tal'darim"

a screenshot from StarCraft 2 Legacy of the Void

Karax: How sad. They are thieves, never knowing the joys of their own invention. How despicable.

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Rae Loverde @raeloverde.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

PSA -- get your flu shot, chickadees my fam's been passing this shit around for a month, and I haven't been this fucked up health-wise since my 2nd round of covid

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Rae Loverde @raeloverde.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

PSA -- get your flu shot, chickadees my fam's been passing this shit around for a month, and I haven't been this fucked up health-wise since my 2nd round of covid

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

hey all, just a heads up to my artist peers- this is all AI slop, I would avoid this. It isn't adobe code, it's just vibecoded to emulate their features.

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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG

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Steve Lieber: Bedrock City Comic Con AA 112 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just read that Informa, the company that owns all the Fan Expo shows, just bought the company that owns Left Field Media (Rose City Comic Con, Awesome Con, Anime NYC, and Anime Frontier.)

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This dude hasn't noticed all the underpaid, exploited workers and IP theft behind the slop he mistakes for knowledge work. And it hasn't occurred to him that his own brain is turning into the radioactive cat vomit he eats and regurgitates instead of doing an honest day's work.

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 07/10/2026

I wish people understood that TV writers: 1. *Have* actually thought more about this than even the most die hard fan. 2. Are beholden to time, money, and owner constraints that fans will never be aware of. 3. Are extremely likely to already be aware of any critiques because (see 1) but (see 2)

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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箕島綺譚 [Mishima Kitan] (they/them)💖Support Black Trans Liberation @mishimakitan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm happy to publicly come forth as the JP-to-EN translator of My Journey to Her by Yūna Hirasawa. It's a great honor to be the first openly transgender & nonbinary native Japanese translator to be credited for the translation of an Eisner Award-winning manga. 😊 Please see my full statement below.

A statement from Mishima Kitan. Due to the word count restriction of the ALT text field, the ALT text is split into two parts. The second part is in the subsequent image in the thread of this post.

Statement Part 1:
"Hi, everyone. This is Mishima Kitan. Today, I'm happy to publicly come forth as the Japanese-to-English translator of My Journey to Her, an autobiographical transgender memoir, by Yūna Hirasawa. My Journey to Her won the Eisner Award for the category of Best Digital Comic in 2025. I'm very glad that this significant book has been released physically as well.

I've been using English as my second language for over thirty years now. It's a great honor to be the first openly transgender and nonbinary native Japanese translator to be credited for the translation of an Eisner Award-winning manga.

At the time of the digital release of this book in 2024, I had some personal concerns about being credited so I requested to be anonymous in the initially released edition. In March 2026, Haruko Hashimoto (the editor of the digital edition) had reached out to inform me that the book was getting a physical release and to ask if I'd like to be credited as the translator. Upon consideration, I replied, "Yes." I felt ready to be credited as the translator and I also felt that this present moment was a historically important timing to confirm the credit.

Having my own fair share of transphobic experiences and having to entirely cutting ties with my blood family in Japan at age 20 to live and transition on my own, this memoir was one of the most emotionally challenging book to translate. But, as with any work that I do, I gave my best effort."

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

liminal horror was born out of the incessant hostility to anyone being anywhere at any time for any reason. Like you can't stay at a cafe for longer than half an hour. all of us rent, and we're barely allowed to personalize that space at all before we're priced out again. shit like that

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