iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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cozy @bimbotheory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The mythology of the changeling where a fairy replaces a baby with an identical but intangibly "wrong" copy is easily read as queer bc the phenomena of parents feeling like their child failing to live up to their idealized image is a murder/replacement is a tale as old as time!

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In one of the gravest scientific injustices I have encountered: herrings use gas to communicate, literally they fart to communicate and the effect is called "fast repetitive ticks" abbreviated "FRTs" And NOT PRONOUNCED FARTS. I'm still mad. www.snexplores.org/article/anim...

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Farting fish and tooting manatees — how some animals use gas

Humans think farts are funny — but some animals rely on farts for flotation, communication and more.

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san @shrikeseams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not only am i back on my "fi golfin never saw a balrog before the bragolach" bullshit but ALSO: he would have been personally and politically incentived to downplay the thing that whupped feanor and maedhros

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tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there is a player for the chicago white sox whose last name is meidroth (pron. ‘my-droth’) and as someone with profound carnal knowledge of the elves in jrr tolkien’s 1977 fantasy epic ‘the silmarillion’ i’m like fucking WHOOOOO is up to the plate every time they announce him

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.

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tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my most pre-2020 trait is that when i see people on tiktok and instagram doing fandom on video with their whole face and government name i’m scandalized. back in my day we were supposed to be at least semi-anonymous when compromising the elf’s virtue and you all but have your linkedin attached

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pelegrina tillandsiae, a salticid species so named because they live their entire lives in Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides). A fellow naturalist in Georgia introduced me to these pale children today. We love a highly specialized creature 🤍 #EmotionalSupportSpood 🧪

Pale grey jumping spider with faded brown stripes, chilling on my bright orange sleeve

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Holly Hefner @hollyhefner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hotter tip, create sub folders with update days, and make sure @rosalarian.bsky.social is at the top of your Monday and MWF folders.

A screenshot of a bookmarks folder list organized by the days of the week.

A screenshot of a bookmark folder named “Monday.”

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Remember: if you saw something, no you didn't

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Kell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

*drinks more caffeine* well at least I'm sad energetically????

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Summer grape leaf out here in the skimpiest outfit you've ever seen on a grape leaf Barely covering anything, "heavily armored female video game character" levels I'm here for it, it's cool af

A single grape leaf which is so constricted it looks like 5 tiny maple leaves sprouting from a central chevron shape

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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

my cousins were convinced that manatees were mean because they would occasionally hit them with a jet ski and fall off and this is one of the governing metaphors of life to me

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 16/09/2026

less corruption, more spoonbill. 🪶

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They've been going for weeks now (we're getting regular rain again 🖤) Narrowmouth toads, very happy

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My pettiest academia opinion is that people care way too much about how a citation is formatted. If I can find the paper you're referencing, you cited it fine. I don't care what's bolded and what's italicized and what order the year vs. issue number is presented in. Fight me. 🧪🦑🌎

A leading paper in my field and the very different ways that different journals require the citation of it to be formatted.

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Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I completely forgot that Labour Day was Demonology 101's 27th birthday. Sure makes you feel the passage of time when your first webcomic is pushing 30. 😅

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A SCHEME!

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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Kingfisher 🪶 🐡

Photo of a small painting being held by a hand for scale with a small paintbrush visible resting on the table behind it. The painting is of a female belted kingfisher, a dark blue and white bird with a long pointed beak evolved for catching fish. This bird has the belt of orange-red feathers which gives it its name and indicates it's a female. The painting is soft and a little dreamy with an out of focus grey-blue background.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm winding things down at my current place as I prepare to move, so if you help me out by buying my stuff, you'll get a 40% discount on all the stuff that lives in my spare room. rosalarian.com/sale

A graphic for the moving sale showing some of my books, stickers, patches, and tarot deck

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The Mask of the Red Jeph @ass.golf · 10/09/2026

It's very important to have at least one social group where you're the dumbest person. Keeps you humble and you learn a lot

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 06/09/2026

Status report, "Just Mentioning This..." Redux: I note an uptick in recent days in Discourse on alternative YA material about wizardry. So if you're interested, please note: the 9-book package of these are on #sale! 🙂bit.ly/YWNMESET

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YW New Millennium 9-Volume Box Set

Our New Millennium Editions box sets are optimized for each of the devices appearing under the price listing. Please click on one to choose the format you prefer.The New Millennium Editions of So You ...

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We talk a lot about the importance of voting but in doing so, we romanticize it, and I've come to believe that's a mistake. It's not romantic, it's not glorious, it's not an expression of your ideals or your identity. It's selecting the best outcome for the most people. That's all it is. Do that.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Mountain lions are making American roads safer by frightening away deer. On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where cougars were most active, deer-vehicle collisions fell 76%. Deer kill up to 440 Americans a year; cougars have killed 29 Americans since 1868. buff.ly/9bDfEKZ #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Cougars cut deadly vehicle-deer collisions in the US by up to 76%, study shows

If you’re a black-tailed deer on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington, you’re always surrounded by friends and family. You are free-range, with abundant food to forage in familiar…

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Tired Art Goblin @spaceturtleart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The characters in #Daggerbound are so delightful, I was compelled to do some fanart. Dog Violet & Greathoof. #fanart @tkingfisher.com

a badger-like creature in tattered robes leads an enormous brown and black draft horse on a rope

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Tired Art Goblin @spaceturtleart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Also of interest, the fanart I did for Swordheart after it first came out, because the swords ARE kinda like pokeballs...

A digital drawing in the style of an old school Pokemon Screenshot. Halla is standing off to the left holding a large sword. Sarkis, surrounded by blue light, stands in the center.
Top text: SARKIS, Immortal Swordsman
Bottom text: HALLA chooses SARKIS! Go, SARKIS!

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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 04/09/2026

re last repost: I stand by my assertion that if someone is being "deported" to somewhere they didn't come from, the correct term is simply "transportation" as in the Victorian practise of shipping convicts off to colonies, this is barbaric 19th century shit and "deportation" is a euphemism here

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charlotte brocontë @halenthir.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

listen you don’t have to be happy about it but the inevitable result of elf hypermonogamy is that they were cranking absolute shaft thinking about infidelity and cuckolding. there’s no way to create a taboo that absolute without people giving themselves carpal tunnel thinking about it

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.

A tree - possibly an ent - with legs, arms and an unusually large bellybutton.

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werelibrary.bsky.social @werelibrary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Large Francis Building, from @tkingfisher.com 's Daggerbound

Pen drawing of Large Francis, a giant pillbug carrying a music box, a bag of books, and a sign reading I DO NOT EAT HUMAN MEAT

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san @shrikeseams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Finally reading Daggerbound. Alas! For the Dervish vs Brenner innuendo-off that shall never be.

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is another zine I would pick up immediately if I were at SPX!!!

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They just never really look real, poking out of the pinelands as they do. I gotta stare at them for awhile ❤️ Lilium catesbaei, the pine lily #Bloomscrolling

Very large bright red lily with 6 tepals radiating from yellow innards

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sleepy resin bee this evening. I love them so much 🖤 Anthidiellum perplexum

Black stubby little bee with orange highlights like a smoldering ember, curled up on a dry stalk supported only by her mandibles clamped on the stalk

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ballerinas and horses, balancing on a single toe and performing breathtaking acts of graceful athleticism until one day they experience catastrophic breakdown from the wear and tear.

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Natalie Metzger @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This one’s been on my mind after listening to the dorky Steller’s jays in my backyard try to do the red-tailed hawk call… A LOT. They’ve been cracking me up and I can only imagine what the neighbor hawks are thinking. 🪶 #TerribleComicTuesday

sketchy comic, Panel 1: jay open mouth “SQUEEAA!”, Panel 2: second jay “lol what even was that? It’s more like… KREEEARR!”, Panel 3: both jays, first one “AHHAHAHA! That’s so bad! I got it… SKEEARREE!”, Panel 4: hawk in foreground looking down on a forest, the two jays are dots in the trees in the background, laughing and attempting the call more, hawk says “wtf.”

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.

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san @shrikeseams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Surely some of silm fandom will have some thoughts on this one?

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

okay music-loving bsky - what's your peak, most overwrought, most dramatic 'loyal knight laying down their life for their liege' Kingly song? The one that feels practically Arthurian? Divine Right of Kings, Shakespeare would weep levels of nonsense? yes I'm building book playlists what of it >.>

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Berensreverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I don't know how many "me and who"s I have left in me

Photograph of two water monitor lizards floating in the water while holding each other. It is captioned "true love floating down the Samsaen canal together in Dusit"

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Florilège @florilegeart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I was setting up to paint on a beach in Brittany when a lady walked up to me, "There's an ibis over there! I've never seen one here before!" She had some shaky photos on her phone. I walked up closer and there he was, calmly posing and walking around, I was able to draw him without hurrying #art

A watercolor and ink painting in a sketchbook, showing a sacred ibis walking in water

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Instead of age gating porn on the internet we need to be age gating anarcho-primitivist propaganda. www.reddit.com/r/OffGridLiv...

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From the OffGridLiving community on Reddit

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san @shrikeseams.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sometimes i see art of silm elves with excessive muscle definition, and i start wondering who in aman started drinking starch slurry first.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is why you gotta tell people when they smell. You have to.

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