iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I love my hair color, but black dye speaks to me.

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As a person who constantly struggles not to pick library stickers off, removing wallpaper is SPIRITUAL

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I have started calling my friends who did not have to take a semester off grad school to paint offices “city slickers” and “white-collar criminals.” I understand the appeal.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The English-major-to-real-estate-tycoon pipeline needs to be better studied.

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The best advice for grad students is to have them picture an enormous fire. Their work is on fire. The buildings are on fire. The fire has consumed all and its flames reach into space and consume even the cold and silent moon. Also don’t enter your original work into a chatbot.

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Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Whenever I do anything remotely crafty, I remember how my dad wanted a son and cry a little.

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Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My great grandpa was a muralist. I’m a capitalist.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do you have something planned for #BannedBooksWeek? An event, read in, fundraiser, etc? Share it with us so we can give it a boost!

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Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s time for the horse to get the carrot—sliced or diced, chopped or whole.

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Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Me, my five hours of sleep, shitty poetry, and $8 coffee against the world.

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The Ron-ting of Hill House @grandrevans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Because apparently this PSA needs a constant reminder: if you see someone on a bicycle & they are following traffic laws & are not in immediate danger, for the love of cod DO NOT honk your horn at them. Do not yell “Hello!” at them. You are not being friendly or helpful. You are making them unsafe.

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Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just had the most gendered experience of my life. A man just accidentally rammed his cart into me at Whole Foods. I turned started apologizing profusely for being in his way 😭

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Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Satan couldn’t touch me, so he gave me a love of gardening and cemeteries.

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?

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Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Obligatory post only for you, Ray.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I sent this picture to a friend of my dad building a snowman. “It’s freaky. That’s your face on a little boy,” she said. There’s really no better compliment.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A book arrived (second edition of Johnson’s abridged Dictionary, 2 vols. octavo, 1760) padded in several dozen (curiously clean) chocolate bar wrappers. Respect.

Cardboard box stuffed with paper-and-foil candy wrappers

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Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm helping a friend's little brother with his Common App essay, and it's such a bizarre genre. Just revisited mine. WTF? The pun? Why did my dad allow me to submit this to colleges?

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

James Burke with one of the greatest pieces if timing in Television history as he turns, points, and Voyager 2 takes off from Cape Canaveral in August 1977.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Tooth Fairy is an amazing invention bc it’s legitimately terrifying shedding tiny sharp bones out of your face and yet kids are so excited to do it

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Men Explain Rape to Me.

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Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve seen no one on this app talking about how wonderful Ha Chan, Shake Your Booty is. Top ten film of the year, fs.

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#cemetery sky: I just got vinegar on a headstone. couldn't dilute it in time. wwyd?

I am COVERED in Dawn dish soap from cleaning up some headstones. I really want to jump in a pool and see what happens.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to take a semester off…

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"The show documents an incredibly important but little-known avenue through which people who are incarcerated make themselves known: prison newspapers, produced by and in solidarity with communities inside of prisons." chicagoreader.com/visual-arts/...

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Explore the rich culture of ‘Prison Papers’ - Chicago Reader

“Prison Papers: Organizing Inside/Outside Solidarity” documents an important avenue through which the incarcerated make themselves known.

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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How do you show a whole digitized book in one thumbnail? Modern books have illustrated covers, but in research collections the cover is often a plain library binding. So I made Flipbook: hover over a book from any #IIIF source and flip through its pages. hadro.github.io/flipbook/ #GLAMsky 📚📜

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Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

two serious questions i've asked several men in my life since the cornell incident resurfaced: if you were there, what you have actually done to stop it? would you have tried at all? i feel like if you don't have answers, you're complicit.

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Sometimes when I close my eyes, I see Jeremy Bentham.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The biggest life hack and organizing superpower anyone will have is tolerating emotional risk/ discomfort and learning to repair after conflict. Which is why organizing when everyone has AI robots in their pocket validating their every thought and impulse... is... not great.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I want a psychedelic pseudo history of Daniel Defoe’s life starring Willem Defoe

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Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't think I'd personally ever wear this, but it's so sick if anyone in the market for a long coat: www.therealreal.com/products/wom...

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Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My usual strategy for shopping at Aritzia is to go in looking as rough as possible (wrinkled clothes, Birkenstocks, etc.) so people won’t go up to me and try to sell me things. Today, I failed.

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Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I know I’m insane because I go to Trader Joe’s on Saturdays.