iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 01/08/2026

I’ve had a long break from social media for mental health and just peeking back in. Who are your favorite folks to follow here? 🦋

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 04/07/2026

Two copies of my book Discover Your Creative Ecosystem are still available for the @romancingthevote.com fundraiser! www.32auctions.com/organization... All money raised goes to Vote Riders and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.

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Signed Paperback Discover Your Creative Ecosystem

Auction item 'Signed Paperback Discover Your Creative Ecosystem' hosted online at 32auctions.

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans. If you've got the means, please support them. givebutter.com/F0LNOA

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Keep the Free Press Alive at the University of Alabama

By Media Alumni Seeking to Highlight Equity and Diversity

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 25/11/2025

Two new books for the holiday season! Entwined is an anthology of creativity & motherhood. Ember is an art journal to help parents kindle their creative sparks. Free ebooks available to those in financial hardship. shop.sarahshotts.com/category/par...

Two books and a teal green typewriter. Entwined’s cover is a collage of vintage photographs and painted vines. Ember is a burned wood texture.

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ilfant press • Lisa Hasegawa @ilfantpress.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

new book / zine available now! A Brief Study on 3-Dimensional Typewritten Patterns, Volume No. 1 measures 4.5” x 5.5” folded, 8 pages + cover $20 includes 3-d glasses and free shipping to the states. please dm me to purchase. . #typewriterart #typewriterpattern #artistsbooks

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 06/11/2025

i used millions of files from @archive.org to make a website where you can watch how the internet evolved scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline alivetheory.net

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Okay but hear me out: An abandoned lighthouse that’s converted into an independent bookstore.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 30/10/2025

This book is a holistic approach to creativity recognizing every artist thrived in different conditions. I explain my concept of creative ecosystems here: sarahshotts.com/2022/03/crea...

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What is a creative ecosystem?

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 29/10/2025

Open Call for Genderqueer / Nonbinary / Trans Parents Please share or tag a parent below. Deadline Oct 30 (TOMORROW) ONE DAY LEFT 🔥 sarahshotts.com/ember-for-pa...

Book cover: Ember an art journal for parents. Design is burned wood layered with transparent white paint in drips and drops.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 27/10/2025

Seasonal Affective Friends: NOW IS THE TIME TO GET OUT THE SAD LAMP.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

“Here’s my proposal: It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products. If you can’t do that and still make money, you don’t deserve to make money.”

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book is being republished this Thursday. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 23/10/2025

Open Call for Genderqueer / Nonbinary / Trans Parents Please share or tag a parent below. Deadline Oct 30 sarahshotts.com/ember-for-pa...

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Open Call: Ember for Parents 🔥

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 10/10/2025

This was such a cool zine project to be a part of! abigailschleifer.substack.com/p/free-zines... #ZineSky #Zinester

Digital collage zine cover: Wayward, Wonky & Wandering: a zine by two librarians for any and all researchers. Title is handwritten and letter cut outs on a circle being held by a photocopied hand.

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Mariah Friend @mariahfriend.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

A friend asked me what THE PATTERN SHOP (coming soon!) was about and I totally botched it. 😬 Here's my redo: It's about a nurse who can't save her family or her patients, so she quits and backpacks around the world—but keeps making the same mistakes. 🦋 #writersky #literaryfiction #indieauthor

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 10/10/2025

Thanks so much for sharing Mariah!

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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

"Instead of the dull morality tale I’d expected, I read about the pain of social ostracization, struggling with bone-deep loneliness and emotional dysregulation, and coping with childhood trauma by escaping into idealized fantasies." My piece for Electric Lit-> electricliterature.com/sapphic-unde...

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Sapphic Undertones Littered L.M. Montgomery’s Fiction, as Well as Her Female Friendships - Electric Literature

The renowned author waged a constant battle between doing what was socially acceptable and being true to herself

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 28/09/2025

Thank you for your service. 🫡

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 21/09/2025

So stoked to be featured on the Writing Excuses podcast today! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

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20.38: An Interview with Charlie Jane Anders

Podcast Episode · Writing Excuses · 09/21/2025 · 35m

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 20/09/2025

Will there be a recording if you cannot attend live?

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

My son came out with ‘magic-can’ the other day (instead of magician) and I wiped away a proud tear. The tradition continues.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 31/08/2025

If you’re into Queer Pirates with Magic you should join us! Visit livingstans.com to join the Discord. #BookSky 🌊✨

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 20/08/2025

I have a penchant for UK covers after living in London for a year. I may have to order their edition of this.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 20/08/2025

I rewatched Battlestar Galactica recently and some of the episodes (especially the anti vaccine one) were troublingly relevant.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 20/08/2025

Is this the UK cover? 🤩 I’ve been seeing another one.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Why we call genAI Plagiarism Machine

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 19/08/2025

I am such a weirdo. 🍄 Just ordered and can’t wait to use these. 🥰

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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 18/08/2025

Just looking at some type in the nice light today (it's finally not a thousand degrees and feels like two thousand) This is my Amanita type and you can buy it if you want to print your own little weirdos #letterpress

A close up of letterpress type in the shape of mushrooms set up in an ornamental pattern for the front page of a printed book

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Yes waiter, I'll have a cup of tea, a scone, and if it's not too much trouble, perhaps some precedented times?

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 18/08/2025

Love Obsidian. It’s a subscription I’m happy to pay for. 🖤

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 17/08/2025

Our first time growing gourds of any kind. ✨

Birdhouse gourds growing up gazebo of green pipes (a greenhouse without the plastic cover added) and a white metal house planter I thrifted beyond with morning glory leaves twining through.

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

"Writing an essay is hard because it forces you to use your brain in ways you haven't before, and that is precisely why it's useful." For our August feature, we invited science fiction writer Ted Chiang to respond to a series of questions related to AI and its impact on humanities scholarship.

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The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 14/08/2025

Same. I migrated off Substack last year and am publishing to my blog and sending newsletters via Buttondown.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 14/08/2025

Is there a way to sign up? Your website says “Site Under Construction.”

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 28/07/2025

hi! @toreajade.bsky.social and i want to know what keeps you going in the hard times! what started as a check-in between friends has blossomed into an open call for a zine about taking care 🌻 send us a list, a paragraph or two, artwork, photos, pet pix, etc by august 15th: bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing

Yellow, white and black text on a pink background with a an abstract collage by Torea Jade

OPEN CALL: WHAT KEEPS US GOING

A collaborative since about getting by and taking care when the world is on fire

Yellow, white and black text on a green background with a colorful abstract collage by allison anne

WHAT KEEPS US GOING
Submit by August 15th

What to submit:

Lists, short paragraphs or other written descriptions about what you do to find joy in hard times (150 words or less)

Photos, artwork or other imagery relevant to the theme

No submission fee! Open to anyone, anywhere in the world! If your contribution is selected, you'll receive a copy of the zine.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 13/08/2025

Do you have any left for sale? I can’t DM so perhaps your DM are limited to those following you.

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Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

But there has never been a machine more dangerous than ChatGPT. All machines automate a skill, and once it has been automated the skill degrades in the population. So many people used to be able to SING for the love GOD! So many people could make a chair. So many people could hem a skirt or knit.

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