iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Thanks to free calling policies, incarcerated people made nearly 600 million more calls, totaling 6.4 billion mins, than they otherwise would. Call usage jumped 80% in prisons and doubled in jails. This is Finding 1: Increased Connection of our new report. Visit connectfamiliesnow.com/poweroffree.

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Ra Avis @rarasaur.substack.com · 05/05/2026

In prison, the cost of a phone call made me think twice before making one. Incarceration was a financial crisis — every moment of connection had a price. Where I work now, we fight to make calls free for impacted families like mine. Our new report shows what a difference that makes, for everyone.

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Split This Rock @splitthisrock.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Join Split This Rock for Shaping the Pulse of Your Work, a virtual writing workshop where we will explore revision as a path toward uncovering the hidden heartbeat of our poems. Led by Ra Avis on 2/25/26, 6:30-8 pm EST. Open to all levels. Register: bit.ly/4pw3z0z #Poetry @rarasaur.substack.com

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Split This Rock @splitthisrock.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Choose your writing adventure from our newest slate of virtual writing workshops Jan-Feb 2026! Join us to explore modern fairy tales, what makes a poem a poem, how poets can conduct language as symphony, blues poetry & revising to uncover your poem's hidden heartbeat. Learn more: bit.ly/4i3UBEK

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 29/10/2025

before the fire // handcut paper collage on recycled paperboard [mail art], october 2025 #collage #queerart #abstraction #mailart

textured black and white abstract collage

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Today was a hard day. Regulations that we passed unanimously last year, after 7 years of advocacy, were largely gutted. The FCC capitulated to the correctional telecom industry in roughly doubling rate caps for prison and jail calls. I'm truly sorry. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

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F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls

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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine @beautifulbizarre.net · 23/09/2025

Yoshimasa Tsuchiya’s sculptures are so full of wonder and whimsy, I just want to befriend this little guy! #art #beautifulbizarre #yoshimasatsuchiya #sculptor #sculpture #surrealism #surrealart #fantasycreature #artlovers #sculpting

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Ra Avis @rarasaur.substack.com · 14/09/2025

Zine submissions open for Biggest Little Zine Fair -- it works distro style, so there are no fees, and you don't have to be there, and you make 100% minus the 3% credit card fees. BiggestLittleZineFair.com/#apply

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Catherine Bannister @cbannister.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Just noticed this on the checkout notification I get from the Chicago Public Library. I think it’s new and I love it!

You just saved $26.00 by using your library. You have saved $2,160.24 this past year and $6, 122.52 since you began using the library!
Thank You!

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annalise @casualpasta.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

there are over 8 million people in this city and the fact that bananas shit doesn’t happen more often is a testament not to cops or politicians but to the fact that people aren’t as violent or scary as some would like us to think

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Ra Avis @rarasaur.substack.com · 16/07/2025

Me at @quimbysbookstore.bsky.social in Chicago even though I have a whole zine fest worth of zines out here in Long Beach. Was willing to chuck a shirt to make room in my travel bag. 😂

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Ra Avis @rarasaur.substack.com · 16/07/2025

open.substack.com/pub/rarasaur... "I don't know what to do with all this life - a journal entry about not dying after all" (audio reading available)

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I don't know what to do with all this life.

A journal about not dying after all.

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Ra Avis @rarasaur.substack.com · 16/07/2025

Tomorrow 7-9 PM at Page Against the Machine in Long Beach, CA. Megumi's amazing art pieces from her "faces of mass incarceration" project will be on display.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/04/2025

Federal workers: We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your confidentiality extremely seriously. To collect tips, we use encrypted forms and apps, so messages cannot be read by anybody other than you and ProPublica. ➡️ Reach out here: propublica.org/tips

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How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica

Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and catalogued and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like :) 📚❤️

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 13/03/2025

I am now, more than ever, reminded how important art is, for so many things.

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Ra Avis @rarasaur.substack.com · 13/03/2025

BiggestLittleZineFair.com is open to zine submissions from all around the world. Til 3/29 for a fair on 5/31 in Long Beach, CA. Makers get 100% of what they sell, no attendance required, after fees. Check the site for FAQs and the Instagram for vibes. 🙂

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Biggest Little Zine Fair

BLZF is a pop-up all-ages zine market where artists submit their work to be showcased and sold— no need to be there in person! Our small team of organizers runs the event, handling everything from set...

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 22/02/2025

websites are so cool anyone can just make one about anything

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Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Organizing something small and chill and not political on the surface is how to build community and talk to people, which are the two things we need most to do any type of other action. Make a children's book club, truly anything counts.

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Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) @curbprisons.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Read CURB's Overview of the 2025-26 Corrections Budget to learn how billions in wasted prison spending could be redirected towards areas proven to keep us safe 📲 tinyurl.com/25-26proposed In this era of systemic oppression & unchecked tech power, CA must divest from incarceration + invest in care

Same background and footer as previously. Top left reads "Protect California" in small orange and teal block letters. Text on slide in black and red text is a data point from CURB's budget overview.

Same background and footer as previously. Top left reads "Protect California" in small orange and teal block letters. Text on slide in black and read text is a data point from CURB's budget overview.

Same background and footer as previously. Contents of slide include examples of what $1.5 billion dollars saved from closing 5 more prisons could fund including permanent supportive housing, mental health care, and Universal Basic Income. The right of the graphic contains pink graphics of a house, people supporting each other, and hands holding a heart. Scaling numbers are in teal. Descriptions in black text on right side of graphic.

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🌈 #FreeThemAll @stacysuh.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

⚠️ DETENTION 101 TRAINING ⚠️ As the Trump admin threatens to expand immigration detention drastically, understanding how the system works will be crucial to stop detention expansion. 🗓️ 1/29 @ 1pm PT Session will be recorded & posted afterwards @detentionwatchnetwork.org Register here: bit.ly/det101

On orange background, flyer reads:
WEBINAR: Detention 101
Learn about the nuts and bolts of the immigration detention system and its role in facilitating and driving deportations. Develop a stronger analysis to understand various pressure points to dismantle immigration detention in the US.
Date: Wednesday, January 29
Time: 1pm-2:30pm PT
Register: bit.ly/det101
Hosted by Detention Watch Network

Taller Básico- Detención 101
Conozca la función práctica del sistema de detención de inmigrantes y su meta de facilitar e impulsar las deportaciones. Presentaremos un análisis más completo para identificar los varios puntos críticos para poder desmantelar el sistema de detención de inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos.
Fecha: Miercoles, 29 de enero
Hora: 1pm-2:30pm PT
Registrese aquí: bit.ly/det101
Detention Watch Network

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Kory Bing @korybing.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I got really drunk and emotional about comics and art tonight. Make ‘em!! Do em!!! Nothing to it but to do it!! MAKE COMICS. MAKE ZINES!!!

“Doing and making are acts of hope.” -Corita Kent

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Ra Avis @rarasaur.substack.com · 02/01/2025

"The short of this is, I want to read your zine. I want to own it. I want to hold it in my hands and know a little something about you and your world." open.substack.com/pub/rarasaur...

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I want you to make a zine.

And I mean it.

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Ra Avis @rarasaur.substack.com · 25/12/2024

New post, about wanting my loved ones to decide for themselves when to share with their friends that I did time: open.substack.com/pub/rarasaur...

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Fancy Nights

On wanting my loved ones to decide for themselves when to share with their friends that I went to prison.

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Ra Avis @rarasaur.substack.com · 22/11/2024

My friend Evan’s poem about the personal part of restorative practice (Towards Something by Evan Chelsee): youtu.be/Nos8JCzLwaA?...

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Towards Something by Evan Chelsee

YouTube video by No Pulp Poetry Club

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Ra Avis @rarasaur.substack.com · 22/11/2024

My reading of my poem about prison. (Flushed by Ra Avis”) youtu.be/pX-CoaC2u1s?...

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Flushed by Ra Avis

YouTube video by No Pulp Poetry Club

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I just made a free PDF of my Public Collectors publication "The Meal-Based Artist Residency Program" available for download. Thanks to @prisonculture.bsky.social for talking up the project, which gave me the needed nudge. halfletterpress.com/the-meal-bas...

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The Meal-Based Artist Residency Program PDF

We can create informal structures that will enable the positive experiences we want to have in our cities. They don’t have to cost a lot of money and the scale can be whatever we want it to be. To thi...

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Ra Avis @rarasaur.substack.com · 18/11/2024

“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.“ - Rebecca Solnit

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