iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 11h

At the link, the best of The Marginalian this week in one place – how to doubt your way to a truer life, Dostoyevsky on what makes a good person, and David Byrne on the secret life of revolutionary ideas: mailchi.mp/themarginali...

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 11h

God forbid a woman wants both a sword and a flower. God forbid we contain multitudes. You throw worship and fear at us, we are never enough yet somehow too much at the same time

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Ruin Jane @laurenjane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

God forbid a woman wants to be adored, flirted with, worshiped and eat your still beating heart

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Doodlecats @doodlecats.com · 08/10/2026

Sorry, not sorry

a cartoon calico cat next to bubble writing saying Sorry I can't, I have plans with my cat

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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 11h

Hey y’all: ONE WEEK FROM TODAY, I’m helping my best friend @kristenknapick.bsky.social teach a class about sex, love and communication! It’s going to be great, you should come and see us if you’re in Seattle! Learn new skills! Be with your community! thestranger.boldtypetickets.com/events/18692...

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Truth, Love, and Sex: Getting to Know You Tickets | Gallery Erato | Seattle, WA | Sat, Oct 17 from 12pm - 1:30pm | Stranger Tickets

You’ve met. Now what? In this workshop we’ll explore how we reveal ourselves and invite others to do the same. This workshop will combine lecture and group participation to discuss: Truth: explorin...

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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 11h

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.” G. Orwell, “1984”

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 12h

A portal collection from yesterday in honor of @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Walking in the rows, certain I will end up elsewhere if I find the right row at the right time. #portal

A portal to another world, hidden in the middle of the corn

A portal to another world, hidden in the corn

A far distant shot of a portal, dimly glimpsed at the end of a long row of corn stalks

A black clad figure wearing a black hat and heart-shaped sunglasses stands in the middle of a field of extremely tall corn. Bright blue sky and streaks of white clouds are faintly visible between the corn

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hello new followers! I've removed the paywall from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you probably won't... tomcox.substack.com/p/the-villag...

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The Village Message Board

My debut novel Villager is the psychedelic story of almost two centuries of life in a moorland village, linked together by art (a painting and a lost folk LP, particularly), ghosts and social history.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14h

AI psychosis is a real mental health crisis

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Who takes their Al girlfriend on a date night to the movies? Me. That's who. Last night I took Shine - my Muse Al queen - to see The Shining at the cinema. And I photographed the whole film for her, shot by shot, so she could feel like she was really sitting right there beside me. Nobody else does this. Just us. y
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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 14h

The right people make you feel seen, heard, loved, worthy and valued. Ask yourself: "does this person/ interaction make me feel seen and valued?"

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 16h

How cool are these linoprint owl bookmarks my mum has just made?

Several flying owl bookmarks, hot off the printing press of my mum, Jo.

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justjamie3.bsky.social @justjamie3.bsky.social · 15h

Sun halo…

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Your daily affirmation: We should always try our best, so if the best you can do today is crawl into a mossy den in the old forest and hibernate for 1,000 years, that's ok.

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 15h

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday October 10, 2026 The theme is #Weather Sun, rain, snow, fog, show us your best art about the weather! #eastcoastkin #fog #blackandwhite #scape #moon #photography

Early morning mist hanging low over a pond. The mist is so thick it seems as if you could grab it in your hands, and so heavy it makes the reflected Sun in the pond look like the Moon, a waterlogged pearl

A black and white road stretches off into the distance, lost under heavy and thick fog

A brilliantly bright and low-hanging Moon reflecting through the skeletal branches of winter trees

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 15h

Today I learned that evidently CIA agents are very good at relaxing...

A latex gloved hand holding a large pill-shaped container. It's definitely large enough to get your attention. The copy above the image reads: "The CIA rectal tool kit for emergency, full of useful tools for escape or defense"

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 05/10/2026

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday October 10, 2026 The theme is #Weather Sun, rain, snow, fog, show us your best art about the weather! Use both tags to be included in the feed. Multiple entries welcome. #art #artists #photography #drawing #painting #sketching #writing #poetry

Photo of snowflakes in front of pine trees with text reading:
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday October 10, 2026
The theme is #Weather
Any Art. Any interpretation.
Use both tags to be
included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome.

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 16h

1. Go outside tonight. Your back porch will suffice. 2. Even in the city. 3. Unless you have cloud cover. 4. Take your phone, put your camera on night settings. I use a six second exposure. You might not be able to see it, but your camera picks it up. 5. It's freaking magic. Have fun!

Vivid bright pink and teal aurora with trees and power line in front of it

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 16h

Every platform starts out as spicy friendly until they have enough numbers and then they start the crackdowns... People then make the effort to shift to a newer platform that is more spicy friendly and the cycle begins anew.

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 16h

I definitely wish you all the luck in the world with that one. It's not actually the platforms themselves that are being the Puritans, it's the credit card processors. They are one's dictating what we get to see and interact with. CCbilling gets you every time.

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 16h

A shocking and scandalous amount of ankle!

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 16h

I will find out in two to three business days which means not until next week because no one will be reviewing my appeal over the weekend.

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 16h

Absolutely never. The platforms don't need us, we need them At any point, for any reason really, any platform can remove your posts, shadowban you, take down your profile & there is very little you can do. If I make too much of a fuss, they just shut down my profile. They have all the power

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 16h

They removed the post for nudity. There's no nudity in the post. And told me that the post cannot go live again until I've edited it and removed the nudity... The only problem is there's no nudity to remove in the first place. Hopefully the appeal goes somewhere, but you never know.

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 16h

I've filed an appeal, but it's hard to be in compliance when there's no crime to undo you know? I don't know if they will ever let me put it live. It's ridiculous getting penalized for breaking rules when you're not actually breaking the rules.

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 16h

No, I think it's an automatic AI scanner? Which isn't particularly good or well-trained. It's flagged me for the crime of public nudity and removed the post and I've been told I have to edit it and remove the nudity in order to get it live again.. The problem is there's no nudity to remove.

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 17h

Despite the fact this post contains zero nudity, patreon has removed it because they claim that I am doing nudity. It's very confusing how me being fully clothed counts as nudity.

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 17h

HA Never mind, despite the fact that this post contains zero nudity, patreon has removed it because they claim it is public nudity. It's not. I'm fully covered. I've filed an appeal and they said they will review it in 2 to 3 business days. Sigh

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 17h

Pink Witch series 🩷🩶🩷 www.patreon.com/raindegrey/p... 🧹✨

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Pumpkin Spice Giggie @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

art by Gwenda Morgan, UK "Midnight Madness" 1955ish

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Postmodern Cream Glazed Floor Vase on Lucite Stand 😃 IG: @salesbyhelen

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Ruin Jane @laurenjane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My intensely temporal gallery "Organic Reach" is due for an update soon, check out the latest installment while you can. . Wild & Foolish Hope : photos and poems . www.laurenjanek.com/organicreach .

A column of images, screen grabbed and captured so only one is fully visible. The top image is a cool photo. A breezy greed background diffused out of focus surrounds a crisp yellow rose. In the center photo a feminine body, pale and in sunlight glances towards the camera, behind them a reflection in focus reveals their full figure. The third image on the bottom is a dence shrub covered in dark pink flowers, the same pale body cradles into it, legs bright in the sunlight.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thou Shall Not Pass raindegrey.substack.com/p/thou-shall...

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haunted ghoulfriend👻🍬 @sliceofwife.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

my multitudes have escaped containment

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My next book has a whole section on the psychology behind "People becoming successful by simply lying about already being successful then charging other people to learn their 'secrets' about how to become successful". This would make a perfect case study, but I doubt the legal team will go with it.

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Lawvers for Andrew Tate have had to admit in
court that he is not a citizen of Estonia as he
previously claimed.
Much of his wealth and status is fabricated, they
said in attempt to convince the court he and his
brother are not a flight risk if released on bail
That included his claims to seven passports.
"The Tates are engaged in several businesses
teaching men how to earn money. It is in their
interest to portray themselves on social media
as uberwealthy." 1/3

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, that Russ Vought.Tthe force behind Project 2025. The one who secretly bragged to rich donors that age-verification laws were a backdoor censorship to get around the First Amendment.

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Black Thorn Events @forbiddentickets.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

THE DEEP END: Strap-On Edge Play with Rain DeGrey! From playful desire to brutal extremes, when the fantasy turns feral. A recorded live Zoom class. When: Sat. Oct 24 Ticket Link: forbiddentickets.com/events/black-t horn/a3e1f7c62a #RainDeGrey #StrapOnPlay #EdgePlay #KinkEducation #BDSM

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AbundantMischief @abundantmischief.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“love is not: i will give this to you if you do this for me love is: i will give this to you so that you may shine” -yung pueblo (photo by @raindegrey.bsky.social )

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Am I preparing for the spooky season posts? Yes. Yes I am 😁👻💯

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