iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This little thread. 😭 Sometimes I just feel so so old and tired

Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I will never understand why colleges act as law enforcement and judicial system in cases of sexual assault. After 2000, Catholic Churches were required to train all staff and volunteers to go directly to police regarding SA allegations, not to a priest or administrator. This should be the norm.

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This. I knew the hits on this album from my childhood, but digging in during my 20s literally changed my life. It shaped my worldview, gave me a reliable source of joy, and probably directly led to my marriage. It takes zero seconds for me to confidently put this at the top of any album list.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/09/2026

Me confused. Me know cookie inside and out! Now me has to use A.I. for cookie work? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Cookie Monster Tries to Meet His A.I. Mandate

Me confused. Me know cookie inside and out! Now me has to use A.I. for cookie work?

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hadn't really encountered Rich Kids until I went to college and then law school. Of course, they're not all bad. But the ones who are bad are bad in such a distinctive way. Like they are insulated against accountability and are intoxicated by that fact.

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What's a really awesome cozy movie for a day when you have to lie around and have a cold and ask the people you live with to keep bringing you tea?

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Every time I bake something I end up staying up really late to take it out of the oven. Is this a thing? Or is the thing just my own bad time management?

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Taylor Swift's fine and I like some Todd Rundgren songs, but this kind of thinking's why I tune out people when they start carping about TS having no musical ability. It's way too adjacent to "Girls have shit music taste, so if they like it it's bad, and if they don't like it they're stupid."

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know friends will see this and say, "Girl, you love nothing more than telling people they're wrong," and all I can say is, "That's how you know you're in my trust tree. Congrats."

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Being decisively in the 2nd half of life, I squirm a little when I think how much time I've wasted because I operate under the assumption that everyone I work with knows more than I do, and if we don't agree I'm wrong. It's a lot of time.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They want us to give up on each other.

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Taking the Borealis home from Chicago and it is so nice, but I would like to go car to car and give lessons on setting your phone to vibrate.

A view of the Mississippi from the train outside Winona, MN

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Very top of the head, plus shout outs to Broad City, the first few seasons of Arrested Development, Hacks (I'm not done with it yet)and still-too-soon shows Severance and Pluribus.

A NYT interactive ballot of my probably inaccurate top ten TV shows of the 20th century. In no order: 30 Rock, Reservation Dogs, The Americans, What We Do in the Shadows, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Fleabag, Righteous Gemstones, Dying for Sex, Six Feet Under

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We had a super fun time being Riot Fest noobs with our Bad Companions @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social and @angelapugliese.bsky.social, even if we probably all have trench foot now.

Four people in a selfie in a big concert crowd. The two women on the outside are making Angine de Poitrine triangle signs over their heads.

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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thank you Chicago Pope, the Pope from Chicago

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#riotfest report: punks are so much nicer now than they were when I was a high school punk

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Riot Fest Day 1: Panic Shack Mariachi El Bronx Tricky JVB (Joey Valence & Brae) Slick Rick "Sex Pistols" Iggy Pop Gwar (just their last song--Pink Pony Club!) First time at Riot Fest--it is super fun!

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We got a list of dog behavior helpers from our vet but I guess our dog does not approve.

A torn up piece of paper with recommended trainers, recommended classes for reactive dogs, and veterinary behaviorists

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"if Deadheads and date rape had a baby" OMG give this skeet a Pulitzer

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I continue to be at a loss for a Good reason why U2 has fallen so far from grace. When people make fun of Bee Gees or Beach Boys I assume their knowledge of music is extremely superficial. Barry and Brian were brilliant. And Neil Diamond. I know he can be cheesy but that MFr could Write a Song

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm so very 2-drink Shaun right now but I also just got home, so she's totally superfluous.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 12/09/2026

This 👇👇👇 🎨

💚 Your artist and designer friends probably aren't as full of themselves as you think.

Please remember: they share their work and accomplishments all the time as a matter of survival. No one else will be their hype man.

That grant? It's the only thing keeping them going during these slow months.

This flashy opportunity? They have been trying to make it happen for a year with only hope to keep them going and it's finally happening!

That exhibit? It's the only one they got into out of the 15 they submitted for.

That new painting they posted? They kinda need it to sell so they can pay the rent next month.

So be kind in your thoughts. Imagine if your job required social media presence on four platforms to make sure ends meet.

And if you see your friends or acquaintances post art that you like, please share it! It can make all the difference sometimes.

💚

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am so excited to see this in about 8 weeks.

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The person in my life I associate most with 9/11, 25 years on, is a priest who served as a chaplain at ground zero. It radicalized him so thoroughly to love and care for humanity at its most broken and ugly, and he spent years trying to pass that on to everyone he encountered.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be."

The disconnect between last Tuesday’s monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is startling, depressing. The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public. Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a “cowardly” attack on “civilization” or “liberty” or “humanity” or “the free world” but an attack on the world’s self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word “cowardly” is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards.

Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is not afraid. Our spirit is unbroken, although this was a day that will live in infamy and America is now at war. But everything is not O.K. And this was not Pearl Harbor. We have a robotic President who assures us that America still stands tall. A wide spectrum of public figures, in and out of office, who are strongly opposed to the policies being pursued abroad by this Administration apparently feel free to say nothing more than that they stand united behind President Bush. A lot of thinking needs to be done, and perhaps is being done in Washington and elsewhere, about the ineptitude of American intelligence and counter-intelligence, about options available to American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, and about what constitutes a smart program of military defense. But the public is not being asked to bear much of the burden of reality. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.

Those in public office have let us know that they consider their task to be a manipulative one: confidence-building and grief management. Politics, the politics of a democracy—which entails disagreement, which promotes candor—has been replaced by psychotherapy. Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen. “Our country is strong,” we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Picture of the character saw gerrera the rebel leader from star wars overlaid with a post that reads

People who become right wing
because they get annoyed by leftists are weak willed, most leftists are annoyed by leftists every single day.

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's a version of this image, which I'm sharing because it is attached to a great little blog post about Howl's Moving Castle (the Miyazaki film, not the novel--I haven't read it and neither has this author) that expresses a lot about how I feel too. kottke.org/17/10/the-hi...

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The hidden heart of Howl’s Moving Castle

1. Hayao Miyazaki is our Ovid, a fluent, majestic storyteller with a gift for deep connections and sudden transformations. At the end of his career, he’s rig

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Handing your young adult your credit card as she heads to her tattoo artist is a real cross-your-fingers moment. (I know what the tattoo will be, more or less, but I'm nervous about the cost, which I promised to cover, because it's a "family" tattoo.)

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Frank O’Hara

My Heart

I’m not going to cry all the time
nor shall I laugh all the time,
I don’t prefer one “strain” to another.
I’d have the immediacy of a bad movie,
not just a sleeper, but also the big,
overproduced first-run kind. I want to be
at least as alive as the vulgar. And if
some aficionado of my mess says “That’s
not like Frank!”, all to the good! I
don’t wear brown and grey suits all the time,
do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera,
often. I want my feet to be bare,
I want my face to be shaven, and my heart—
you can’t plan on the heart, but
the better part of it, my poetry, is open.

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've had no real odd jobs so Shortest-lived job: Hotel maid (I sucked) Biggest letdown: Singing for a summer tourist act that shut down before it started Lamest freelance job: Writing a heartfelt thank-you letter from a CEO to his workers in an annual report Surprisingly fun: Retail baker

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Choir season has begun in earnest. Phoebe likes to encourage me when I buckle down and practice.

A standard schnauzer is looking up from underneath an upright piano keyboard, pressed up against her human's leg and demanding attention.

A standard Schnauzer is sitting on a piano bench with a bunch of standard house clutter in the background.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Truly nuts to say this while sitting at a state fair attended by 100k-200k people each day for 12 days, some of whom have stood well over an hour in line to look at art commemorating fortitude and generosity in the face of evil, plus

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Crazy timing I know but I do have one State Fair ticket left that I'm happy to give away.

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

NGL, next-day, late breakfast Sweet Martha's cookies are tasty. Bucket brigade, ignore the haters and carry on.

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Moth @walkingminnesota.com · 06/09/2026

Minnesota Pretti fairies of all things Good Minnesota Renaissance Festival

A colorful fairy garden with hearts for Renee good and Alex pretti

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

One more day at the fair with the in-town kid. 5 visits over 12 days is pretty great when you can no longer eat and drink and see everything during one marathon visit. And somehow we spend less overall?

A middle aged mom and dad with their adult kid, who is showing off a sno cone green tongue and an MCR hat, taking a selfie on a bench at the fair

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I had fun tonight reliving my flygirl days with @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social! I have not been to any other shows with shirtless male dancers and apparently I have been missing out.

A big screen on stage broadcasting No scrubs behind several dancers, plus a lot of phone screens reflecting the no scrubs message.

En Vogue on stage singing free your mind. Graphics behind the stage also say free your mind.

Two very warm women taking a selfie at the State Fair grandstand.

Salt and pepa as seen on a big video screen at the State Fair grandstand

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Took this picture at 5:20. Out and sitting in a bench by 6: 05. Saturday night crop art line is not all that bad.

A woman in a polka dot dress taking a selfie in front of the aghort building and Sky Ride waiting in the crop art line

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