iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Journals should now probably be requiring peer reviewers to sign statements that they will not upload submissions they're reviewing into any external AI platform; wondering if any editorial boards are discussing this currently

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 23/09/2026

GUYS I HAVE CREATED THE WORLDS WORST UNBOXING VIDEO! There is nothing polished and filtered and uh...well-groomed about this one. It's the realio dealio

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Texas came back from a 21 point deficit and defeated the Ohio State Douchebags, I mean Buckeyes. No i mean douchebags. Hook ‘em!!!!! 🤘

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One thing I can’t wrap my mind around is that *fourteen* houses decided to offer on it. Fourteen different professional editors didn’t have *any* internalized AI detection?? Or they did and didn’t care and made an offer on it anyway??

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

In two months time, legit nothing will be safe to eat except RFK JR Roadkill Bear Jerky

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As someone who has been afflicted with cyclospora for the last three weeks, it is utterly miserable.

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I noticed my two favorite horror films of the past year (Weapons and Obsession) each have something quite specific in common: snapping a wooden stick in order to possess someone. Make of that what you will 🤷

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Amy Madigan as Aunt Gladys Snaps Twig

Alt: Amy Madigan as Aunt Gladys Snaps Twig

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We couldn’t get into Gene’s bedroom. It’s ok, it’s peggy’s room now

A cavalier king charles resting on top of a quarter of Bob’s Burgers Clue board game.

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Stefon on SNL: “This book has EVERYTHING… the ancient embodiment of rot, an animal-hoarding old woman, a sullen girl with a knife trapped in the woods by 5000-year-old mind-controlling tree, an irreputable wolf, a bear who lost a bet, two herds of bison, three happy endings…” #UnhingedPit #A #F #CS

Screenshot of Bill Hader playing the character of “club kid” Stefon on Saturday Night Live counting off on his fingers everything the book has in it. Over his shoulder, the book cover for They Call the Place Wild by Rae Mariz featuring a painted portrait of a young girl’s face covered in roots and framed with an ornate golden decorative border

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stefan @stefanthinks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

is it a midlife crisis or a crisis of a life that is mid?

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

“Welcome to Haven, child. The folk’s final refuge in this part of the world.” 🌲🪶 Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen Books are thrilled to reveal the cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by @raemariz.bsky.social, with spectacular cover art and design by Misha Chernov 🦋👁️🐦‍⬛ Coming February 2027!

The cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD: A filigreed golden frame surrounds a portrait of a young girl covered in roots. An orange moth sits on her cheek, and one eye has been replaced with a long dark tunnel, through which the glowing white silhouette of her sister is visible.

For Fans of:

Uprooted - Naomi Novik
The Overstory - Richard Powers
The River has Roots - Amal El-Mohtar
The Isle in the Silver Sea - Tasha Suri
Hemlock and Silver - T. Kingfisher

“Welcome to Haven, child. The folk’s final refuge in this part of the world.”

Two Belarusian sisters live in the shadow of the Białowieża Forest, the last of Europe’s great primeval forests. Dasha is the shadow sister, unlovable to all but her shining sister Natalya, who she will follow anywhere.

So when Natalya is spirited away across the forest, Dasha does what she has always done: follows.

Inside the forest she meets the folk, refugees of the industrialized world whose tales were once told across Europe and beyond. Displaced and sequestered in the shrinking forest, their stories have been distorted and forgotten. And now, a strange force known as the Storyteller refuses to let Dasha go, stealing her inner voice and weaving her into the world’s tales. Dasha’s only hope of escape is to reclaim her lost voice and forge her own story.

Dasha hesitated. She stared into the huge raven’s black beady eye, a dark pool rimmed with grey pebbles, until she could name what she saw inside it.
“Wisdom and kindness,” she said aloud. “I almost didn’t know how to recognize it.”
She ran her hand along the glossy feathers of his neck, then swung one thin leg across his back. The moment he spread his great wings and lifted them into the air was the first time she was aware that, if she were ever to leave the woods again, she would be a girl with a story that could never be told.

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Lily's mini-fridge died... can you imagine the agony of having to throw away spoiled food when you're already stressed and hungry? Please help this family eat & get a new fridge TODAY. Every contribution counts. gofund.me/2d8b70f4d Venmo: @Lily-Meade-1 Cashapp: $lilymeade lilymeade.com/donate

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Donate — Lily Meade

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Day one of inspirational #Bob’sBurgers quotes:

Three panels of Louise with a baby bear:

1) “I changed my mind about having kids.”

2) “I’m gonna have one and feed it to this bear.”

3) ‘Cause I love him so much!”

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

BREAKING: Boyz 4 Now have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 Celebration

cartoon image from Bob's Burgers -- the four boy band members from Boyz 4 Now, standing against a nighttime cemetery background for uhh some reason

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Think i’m going to do a daily #bob’sburgers quote thingy here because why not

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

ICYMI FYI something for your TBR for this AAPI Heritage Month (yes, I’m always this obnoxious)

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report

THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by Rae Mariz
Imprint: Violet Lichen

Kanaka maoli and Hawaiian diaspora author of WEIRD FISHES and THE UNIDENTIFIED Rae Maria's THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD, pitched as Richard Power's THE OVERSTORY meets Grimes' Fairy Tales and Slavic folklore, in which a young Belarusian girl searches for her sister in the Bialowieza Forest--the last old-growth forest in Europe--only to discover that the folk from ancient tales have taken refuge there due to the destruction of their habitat and distortion of their stories, to Marissa van Uden at Violet Lichen, in a nice deal, for publication in February 2027 (NA).

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“I have the part of the ceremony that doesn’t require AI” bro it’s a commencement ceremony, there has literally been thousands and thousands done before that never required ai, like 😑😑😑😑😑

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

What is the weirdest speculative fiction book, adult or YA, you've read in the last 10 years or so?

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 23/04/2026

Two siblings enter a world of magic, secrets and twisted loyalties – for those who loved Starling House by Alix E. Harrow, Gallant by V. E. Schwab and A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid. Preorder in print and ebook: geni.us/TheShapeofMo... Listen now on Audible: www.audible.com/pd/The-Shape...

The cover for The Shape of Monsters by CL Hellisen. A crimsons background with a dark stag's head and antlers, with the title between them in gold.

Beneath the cover is the date 24 September 2026

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

A horticulture leason i learned today: Succulents thrive best when you just ignore the hell out of them.

A potted succulent with one snaking tendril bearing a bouquet of small pink flowers.

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Weird Fishes by Rae Mariz “A total cosmic undersea adventure” @ryangebhart.bsky.social “A heart-wrenching tale of underwater mourning, yearning, and multispecies entanglements” @boriscrito.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/weir...

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Weird Fishes

Check out Weird Fishes - <p>AN UNDERWATER TALE OF FRIENDSHIP AGAINST MONSTROUS ODDS</p><p>When Ceph, a squid-like scientist, discovers proof of the ocean's slowing currents, she makes the dangerous as...

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

THE OVERSTORY x Grimm’s fairytales x Slavic folklore 12yo Belarusian girl loses herself in the last old-growth forest in Europe and finds that the folk from ancient tales have taken refuge there due to the destruction of their habitat and distortion of their stories #PosterPit #SO #SPF #FT #C

book pitch designed as a mock movie poster. Black-and-white painting of a young girl’s face with piercing dark eyes and black hair transitioning into the all black background. Book title beneath her: They Call the Place Wild. Logline up top: “there once was a woods lost in a child…” Book pitch stylized as movie poster credits: a Violet Lichen production with Apex Books from the creator of Weird Fishes and The Unidentified a new story by Rae Mariz starring The Shadow Sister, Adolescent Bird Fey and the Ancient Embodiment of Rot as told by An Ecologist Witch, A Giant Raven Mother and The Soul of Białoweiza Forest. Coming Soon Feb 2027. Painting by German artist Moki’s How to Disappear series mioke.de

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Rough drafting an MG for the first time since 2009 🤫

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Swapna Krishna @swapnakrishna.com · 07/04/2026

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

“Writers must accept artificial intelligence” We must? I swear if a product is actually good and stands on its own merits it wouldn’t be constantly forced upon us. But AI sucks ass. It’s an irredeemable dogshit product and now it’s being framed as an inevitably. This is abuser verbiage

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 26/03/2026

THE SECRET I HAVE BEEN (BADLY) SITTING ON IS NO LONGER A SECRET Tor UK have bought the print rights for my Audible Originals The Shape of Monsters and A Million Points of Light! www.thebookseller.com/rights/tor-s...

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Tor snares The Shape of Monsters and a sequel by CL Hellisen

Tor UK, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, has acquired The Shape of Monsters and A Million Points of Light by author CL Hellisen.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

My niece texted me she dreamt my dog was a pony. She had chatgpt create an image that imo was an affront to god, so i brushed off my photoshop skills and made this and ngl i’m pretty proud of myself

A photoshop of a cavalier king charles spaniel’s head atop a prancing pony.

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Over the course of six years, I’ve changed from a person with a general ambivalence about vaccines to GIMME ALL OF YOUR VACCINES, IDC IF THEYRE FOR CAT GENITAL WARTS JUST GIMME

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I’d like to send out a few DMs, but the state of Ohio will not let me unless I upload a picture of my drivers license (and all the personal info on it) to Bluesky, on a “secure” online server. I’m sure nothing can go wrong with that 😐

Screenshot from Bluesky that reads: You must complete age assurance in order to access this screen. Due to laws in your region, certain features on Bluesky are currently restricted until you’re able to verify you’re an adult. Don’t worry! All existing messages and settings are saved and will be available after you verify you’re an adult.

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💙🦋 @humanity101.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

👀👆💯✔️

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Katie @ohweebeasties.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

There is a kind of relief in giving up hope that someone will save us. It means we just work on improving the things we can control, down here on our level.

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

“If I could only have one food to eat for the rest of my life? That’s easy. Pez. Cherry flavor Pez.” One of my favorite movies of all time. Rest in peace, Rob Reiner.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 10/12/2025

I saw a lot of people posting their favorite cover songs and thought I’d add mine to the mix

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

What's going on in YA right now? The category of fiction features increasingly older characters and storylines that drive a wedge between teen readers of the books and adult readers of the books: bookriot.com/whats-happen...

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YA Has Entered Its Awkward Adolescence and It's Teens Who Are Losing Out

What is going on with young adult literature right now? Characters are older, stories are steamier, and there are fewer books reaching actual teens.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.

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A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas

In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…

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Ryan Gebhart (un-DM-able ☹️) @ryangebhart.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Every time i see something about Avatar i get a little sad bc we coulda had a Battle Angel Alita franchise instead. James Cameron chose to dedicate the rest of his professional career to smurfs in space instead of the most metal cyberpunk manga series ever 😔

Cover for the Battle Angel Alita manga showing a mangled cyborg girl with angel wings.

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

My daughter just turned 15, the same age as the MC in my debut YA SF that came out 15 years ago. (Yes, I had a debut novel and firstborn in the same month.) I’m re-releasing a new edition of that novel now. 15 years later. The ebook’s out November 15. (Print coming soon.) books2read.com/b/bpJdnq

Book cover for The Unidentified by Rae Mariz. Stark white background with a 3D rendered illustration of an “unimpressed face” emoji—two white spheres make the eyes and a straight rectangle mouth between—splattered with splotches of bright pink paint. Cory Doctorow, bestselling author of Little Brother calls it “Subversive, cleverly written, challenging and surprising.” New expanded edition.

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I’m independently re-releasing an updated version of my YA SF debut The Unidentified, so I’m going to be real annoying about it for a while so people know the new ebook and print edition is coming out. Tell your friends so I don’t have to! Free peek at my site: raemariz.com/the-unidenti...

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

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OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages

Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.

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