iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

wild to be living in a world with live-streamed state executions and legal daylight kidnappings, but every time you turn around some loser is saying, hey man, what if art were completely frictionless? what if we killed even the possibility of human connection??

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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whenever I have to speak in front of a lot of people (as I did at a regional booksellers meeting this morning), I always think about this beautifully simple advice from @joshgondelman.bsky.social: "Everyone wants you to do a good job, and no one will be mad if you mess up a little." It helps!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 20/09/2026

Mesa Verde National Park plans to return more than 4,000 sacred Native American objects and the remains of 85 Indigenous people in its possession, marking the largest potential repatriation in the park’s recorded history.

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Mesa Verde National Park to return thousands of Native American artifacts and Indigenous remains to tribes

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Meet Derek.

Screenshots from "The Good Place" of Jason Mantzoukas (Derek) saying: Well I wasn't technically designed for this. But to be fair, I wasn't designed for anything."

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

“You look happier.” “Thanks I wrote my synopsis.”

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 18/12/2025

Join us for a critical conversation on the future of U.S. atmospheric science. UCAR President Antonio Busalacchi hosts this town hall on what’s at stake if NSF NCAR is dismantled. buff.ly/jR6tGwo

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Manda @theweathermanda.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Heads up Colorado: there’s a visibility event planned on Saturday in front of the NOAA building in Boulder to show your support for NCAR

Join us on Saturday, December 20, from 11:00am to 1:00pm in a visibility event. Meet in front of NOAA on South Broadway and Rayleigh. Although we’re focusing on NCAR, this is a highly visible place to show that we demand that NCAR be saved! Bring signs with a “SAVE NCAR” pro-science theme. Please take an RTD bus if you can.

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Amber Carlson @aecarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Happy (rainy) Tuesday, #Boulder. I've got a new story for you all about a new temperature-stable, single-injection rabies vaccine developed by @colorado.edu researcher Ted Randolph. www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...

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New single-dose, temperature-stable rabies vaccines could expand global access

CU Boulder engineers have developed a new method for making vaccines that combines multiple, timed-release doses into a single injection that doesn't require

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library: • Get a library card ⭐️ • Use your library card 🌟 •Visit the library 💫 •Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Most red states are just violently gerrymandered states. AND — as I’ve said before and will say again — if you genuinely care about liberation, you want liberation for EVERYONE. Freedom is not to be hoarded.

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Stephanie Ronco @stephanieronco.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Maggie Smith: "If we’re going to withstand the rise of AI, I think we need to double down on our humanity. We can do things that generative AI can’t do, because we have experiences that AI can’t have. We can dream and imagine. We can second-guess ourselves, doubt, regret. We can hope and grieve."

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Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The only piece of life advice I have in 2025 is if you feel like you’re doomscrolling endlessly you probably are, and the minute you feel that way you should take some kind of action—and this can even just be donating 5 bucks somewhere—and then putting your phone anyway.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19/05/2025

"We’re a tech-forward, future-oriented company that doesn’t shy away from the promise of new innovation—even if that innovation is a Giant Plagiarism Machine™ that copy-pastes existing innovation into fake sentient sentences."

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A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine

Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 07/05/2025

on this date eight years ago, Tom Holland wowed Zendaya on Lip Sync Battle with his cultural critique of impervious surface stormwater runoff.

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Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Did you know that the 2-week #1000wordsofsummer extravaganza starts on May 31, a little more than one month away? Join more than 50,000 people writing every day for two weeks straight. It’s really fun and you just might shift your life a bit. ❤️ 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/about

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About - CRAFT TALK

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day toge...

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

once again: if it weren’t valuable, they wouldn’t be stealing it

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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there 💪

Panel 1: character crying at a desk
Text: this IS hard

Panel 2: character is now drawing determinedly
Text: but I can do it

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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 13/03/2025

For every $1 spent on climate resilience and preparedness, communities save $13 in damages and cleanup costs. NOAA saves lives AND billions of dollars. Trump and Musk's dismantling of NOAA has nothing to do with "fraud" or "waste" — it's just mindless destruction that will make us all worse off.

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The True Cost of Trump's Cuts to NOAA and NASA

Environmentalists warn that the Earth is running a fever and, with the latest NOAA firings, we’ve begun sacking the doctors.

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Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

any way, things are awful, but i will always find solace in people taking time to create things out of sheer joy and love

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 27/02/2025

People to deserve to know when a hurricane is coming toward them and deserve to not die from the flu and deserve to have an egg sandwich sometimes

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Stephanie Ronco @stephanieronco.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I had to cut more than I’d have liked from that excerpt for word count, but man, @joshgondelman.bsky.social is awesome, and so’s his newsletter.

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Stephanie Ronco @stephanieronco.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

If “it took a bunch of strangers… calling my office to tell me how to do [my job], I would widely be considered bad at that job. Many elected officials are not like this. They look for… the threat of losing votes… democracy asks this participation of us.” joshgondelman.substack.com/p/120-people...?

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#120. People Calling Their Reps and You

Hi everyone,

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 18/02/2025

I think we really need to repeat, and keep top of mind - The federal employee firings are NOT ABOUT SAVING MONEY. What is spent on those employees is peanuts compared to most of the money in the government. Firing federal employees sows confusion, depletes morale, and degrades government service.

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Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉 This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share! Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106 Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...

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#MSWL Day 2025: Search Tips & Features

This is "#MSWL Day 2025: Search Tips & Features" by The Manuscript Academy on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Emily Murdock Baker @embeditorial.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Mark your calendars! If you want to make serious progress on your manuscript, there is no better, more uplifting way than #1000wordsofsummer

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

These are very good suggestions, but a few key ones are missing: attend library board mtgs and speak in favor (many are on zoom), donate $, and vote for measures and bonds to increase funding. Patrons have real power. Don't let a handful of bigots destroy your library.

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 19/01/2025

shit's weird out there, y'all, lets make art

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

A good study that shows what many teachers have been experiencing for a long time – even before the pandemic: an onslaught of education technology that just made our administrative load worse.