iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For me it's ~troubled~ love interests (trauma is one thing but if they're an asshole that's not actually attractive)

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the more inconsequential impacts of AI on me personally is a real reluctance to share any creative work. I've been getting into photography recently but do I want to post any of my pictures? What's the point of art that isn't shared, though?

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This month's fundraiser closes tomorrow. Ibtissam's leg is thankfully healing well, but Jana just burned her leg while cooking for the family, and I'm worried about infection in the conditions where the family is living. Please chip in and/or share if you can.

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don't want to alarm anyone but we're getting close to the end of the month and this campaign still has a way to go

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"If LLMs were a toy, they’d be taken off the shelves. If LLMs were a drug, they would be banned." And Zitron argues the end-of-humanity stuff is as overblown as more or less every other AI company promise, which ... scans, actually

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/09/2026

SUGGESTIONS: - Stop making the same mistake repeatedly - Please www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

News headline about a monarch hosting AI executives amid rising threat concerns, accompanied by a close-up portrait of an elderly man in a suit smiling at a public event.

Guardian news page headline reports fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber Cop30 delegations; accompanying photo shows three power-station smokestacks releasing smoke into an orange sky with a small airplane silhouette.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“You can’t “communication skill” your way out of a housing shortage” ~ @drmarcususg on TikTok

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just get an ADHD diagnosis like the rest of us

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What is consciousness? What is sentience? These are philosophical question that have been asked since the dawn of time. How lucky we are to live in a time where 7 people in Northern California realised the answer is “being able to predict the most statistically significant next word in a sentence”

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K (she/her/dr) @kkinsf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm reading this as now people have to worry if their therapist is wearing an apple watch. I wouldn't want it to summarize what I said to any clinician treating me so I assume my patients won't want that either, at least not without their explicit consent! Ripe for inadvertent HIPAA violations.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The first two bullet points in the first screenshot seem to contradict each other. The audio "flows into a protected buffer" but isn't recorded? What's flowing, then?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

I missed this while I was off socials:

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ahem. *gets up to podium* I have a book. You can buy it from me. It’s really good. Very good book. Lots of words. Short stories inspired by Palestinian folklore. Queer, and many people say the words are beautiful. Please buy. soniasulaiman.com/product/mune...

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Muneera and the Moon: Stories Inspired by Palestinian Folklore

There was…and there was not. In these stories inspired by Palestinian folklore, a daughter of darkness, a djinn, pours out her soul to the moon. Time travelers discover that the battle of Meg…

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

you're going to have to read them if you want to write them

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S.L.Johnson @sljohnson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sydney (and Australia) writer peeps: we're trying our hand at putting on a con for speculative fiction writers. Tickets will be live soon. scribes.com.au/consyderation/ Please share.

Fantasy background with the following information on top: Sydney Speculative Scribes and Westwords present Consyderation, a collision of the speculative and the literary. 11-13 September 2026, Old Government House, Parramatta. https://scribes.com.au/consyderation

Image of Siang Lu on a black background with grey buildings. Text reads: Consyd Guest of Honour: Siang Lu. Miles Franklin Award-winning author of Ghost Cities.

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Mutual aid efforts like this have the dual benefit of direct support and vetting of campaigns. I'm in regular contact with Ibtissam. Despite the language barrier, she shares her hopes, fears and even medical documentation with me. She's real and her family (and others like it) needs your help.

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Some of you know that I'm part of a collective fundraising for a growing of families in Gaza. Last month was the poorest response we've had in a while, but it's a new month now and that means a new PayPal pool link. Please donate and/or share if you can. www.paypal.com/pools/c/9shoYR4NHi

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To Gaza with Love

We are a collective based in and around Gadigal land, raising money for 6-8 families in Gaza. Over the last 12-18 months, each of us has formed strong relationships with each of 'our' families - we c...

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Describing his views as "anti-immigrant" is pretty mild IMO.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

VACCINES CAUSE ADULTS

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN JULY 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's June's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

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Some Queer Short SFF - June 2026 | Charles Payseur

Hi all! I’m still a mess in general but the show continues, this month with works from June—and there are quite a few, thanks in large part

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Resident Eden @queerbuccaneer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hey yo any trans folks who wanna learn some Graphic Design basics of me up. I can't find you work, but I can teach you the basics and point you in the right direction.

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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 27/08/2026

Farewell today to the high priestess of polka dots, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026). Her work was unforgettable and for her, a means to survival. It’s playful, psychedelic, compulsive, beautiful and slightly unsettling all at once. Into infinity and beyond Yayoi! 🔴🟡⚫️

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A whole different calculus ❤️‍🩹

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I have also had a good experience with a different GP when I declined the consent for AI, so I'm 50/50 on that front

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

That's awful to be in that position but an understandable choice. This was a random GP who also googled the condition I was there for in front of me and prescribed the necessary medication reluctantly and incorrectly, so it was a lot easier to never go back

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I've already faced discrimination from a GP for declining consent (which she tried to brush past completely inadequately) for an AI scribe, so yeah it's a mess

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Current patient consent requirements and procedures are “not fit for purpose” for the artificial intelligence juggernaut now arriving in healthcare, a national conference on AI issues in radiation and radiation oncology has heard

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Can't wait for the sequel where he does up the strap

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in 2027! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out next year (or publicist), share the link/info here!

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Frogstomp by silverchair, but I'm of an age where cassette is more significant (Everything Changes by Take That)

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I like that song though, coolness is fake

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you can help, it would mean the world to me, and more to Ibtissam. Options: 1. Chuffed (worldwide, takes a cut): chuffed.org/project/alaa-ibtisam-fa… 2. Folks in so-called Australia can contact me to set up a recurring donation 3. Collective monthly PayPal pool (will share separately)

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Despite the language barrier we've become not just friends, but family. It breaks my heart that her life is so difficult, and that support has dwindled so much. But I have to keep trying, so here we are.

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Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I support Ibtissam, who lives in a tent with her husband, 4 teen kids, and mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law is frail and her kids' educational opportunities are limited. As teens, they get few points for cuteness. For more of their story: chuffed.org/project/alaa-ibtisam-fa…

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