iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The odds that we'll see 2 degrees C of warming NEXT YEAR are getting uncomfortably high. The combination of accelerating global warming and Super El Nino is set to shatter temperature records. Should be dominating headlines. Of course it won't. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’

Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I stand by pulling cast iron out of other people’s trash

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

American Foods I miss 1) sharp cheddar cheese 2) cinnamon rolls 3) kimchi (in Japan it’s too sweet unless I make it myself) 4) chewy chocolate chip cookies 5) Mission burritos 6) New York pizza 7) Seattle teriyaki 8) Tim’s Cascade salt & vinegar potato chips 9) tree-ripe yellow peaches

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Are you interested in the ethics and craft of food writing? Join me, cookbook author @dearclarissa.bsky.social, and novelist Bryan Washington for a writing retreat in Yamanaka Onsen this October. The application is pretty painless and we have a few scholarships available. Apply by May 15!

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Food Writing Retreat in Japan: What is a Recipe For? — MOKKEI

What is a Recipe For? Hosted by Hannah Kirshner and Clarissa Wei, with special guest Bryan Washington Join us for a six-day food writing retreat in Yamanaka Onsen—a mountain hot spring town with cent...

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I cannot recite my phone number in Japanese unless I write it down. The recall happens it in English and when I try to remember the numbers and translate them at the same time I get lost.

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J Sutton @jlsaz.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Drivers blame peds. Peds blame drivers. Everyone hates cyclists. In reality, we should all hate politicians for not fixing the infrastructure.

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This is NOT only for professional food writers. It’s for someone who wants to make a family recipe book or a zine. Someone who writes but doesn’t consider themselves a Writer. Someone writing about other stuff who wants to do more with food. Someone working on their first book proposal...

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Food Writing Retreat in Japan: What is a Recipe For? — MOKKEI

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

It is some real bullshit that Microsoft Word makes you give up privacy in order to turn on autosave.

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I wish more of this could happen in Japan too

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

every time I am tempted to make a snide comment back at another account, I remember I can literally do anything else instead and my dog cannot read at all

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 09/04/2026

Someone on X asks what the writing on these beautiful Shinto toriii gates means. A Japanese user, unwilling to kill the magic and inform them these are the names of individual & corporate shrine donors, replies, "There are things best left unknown."

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Tara Chestnut, PhD @tcastanea.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Although @smithsonianmag.bsky.social hasn’t made any posts yet, I’m delighted to share this article featuring the experiences of a photographer on our Cascade Red Fox team! She made some of the first and most detailed recorded observations at 🦊 den sites www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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Cascade Red Foxes Are Notoriously Reclusive. So How Did This Photographer Capture These Stunning Images of the Endangered Species?

Even the scientists who study the animals rarely see them except on camera. But Gretchen Kay Stuart spent a season documenting them up close

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

It seems like Netflix is using crappy AI translation for the subtitles on FAKE MARRIAGE. メール gets translated as e-mail when they are clearly talking about texting. And 二日酔い (futsukayoi) as ”drunk fir two days” instead of hungover.

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I definitely recommend buying a “cheap” old house in Japanese if you like feeling the outside temperature inside, you would like to wage a lifelong battle against mold, and you are totally cool with parts of the abandoned house next door flying through your window in a wind storm. #cheaphousesjapan

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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The Japanese translation of WATER, WOOD & WILD THINGS is out now, with my illustrations on the cover 🥹🌸🌱 www.kodansha.co.jp/book/product...

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The Japanese translation of WATER, WOOD & WILD THINGS is out now, with my illustrations on the cover 🥹🌸🌱 www.kodansha.co.jp/book/product...

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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 12/03/2026

Beautiful essay from @samhenri.gold about the joy of hacking, disguised as a review of the MacBook Neo. samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

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“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 11/03/2026

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature

The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Before universities opened their doors to women, one woman spent 7 years making a quilt of the Solar System to teach other women astronomy: www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

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Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876

A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Both are very human/humane investigations of new technology, one as nonfiction, the other as fiction.

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

it costs $$ to be considered for awards

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

My friend @alekskrotoski.bsky.social’s new book ”The Imortalists“ is out now in the US and UK, and it pairs well with “Toward Eternity,” by @antonhur.com

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I really want to see how people are using their #hobonichi and other planners for actual planning. the aesthetic journals are lovely, but I’m more interested in the planner as a tool.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

If you haven't alread, pull your stuff from Academia edu IMMEDIATELY, especially if you have unpublished and draft ideas on there.

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

What are your favorite podcasts where artists/writers talk about their process? I’m tired of the ones that are like 90% white men, and some of my old faves no longer exist.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

What are your favorite podcasts where artists/writers talk about their process? I’m tired of the ones that are like 90% white men, and some of my old faves no longer exist.

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Are you hoping to travel to a library for your research? NCC’s Outreach Working Group lists some of the grants that are available to take advantage of library resources! Take a look at the OWG’s page here: guides.nccjapan.org/outreach/gra...

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

There isn't a sigh hard enough for these dumbass headlines. Warriors were a SOCIAL GROUP, and later a legal classification. Gender was not relevant to whether one was part of a warrior group/family/etc. You might as well write: THIS JUST IN: WOMEN EXISTED! www.the-independent.com/asia/japan/b...

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Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking exhibition at British Museum says

‘Samurai’ explores over a thousand years of Japanese history related to the elite warrior class

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

If you wait for a better world to make art, you'll wait a long time.

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

If you have ever struggled to get digital copies of research material from the NDL while NOT in Japan, this is the survey you want to participate in! ⬇️

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

She loves sunshine and soft things.

Photo of a chicken lying blissfully on a cashmere blanket in the sun, inside a home.

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 29/01/2026

Delivery workers are less likely to run red lights, ride on sidewalks and ride without helmets than their recreational counterparts — defying claims that they sow street chaos, according to a new observational study of more than 1,700 cyclists.

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Delivery Workers Are the Safest Cyclists On the Road, Study Finds - Streetsblog New York City

A new study from sociology researchers at Hunter University found that Delivery Workers are the safest cyclists on the road.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I love when my translators have questions. The splendid Mikael Cabon in France needs to know if a river in Written on the Dark flows into the sea or into another river: his word choice will be different. When translators are careful it is a gift to an author AND a reminder to protect them from AI.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🫘👋DRIVING OUT DEMONS👹💨 It is time to gather your lucky beans, 'fukumame' (福豆), for Setsubun and the first day of lunar spring is almost here! Let's drive away misfortune for another year! 🫘👹🚪➡️ "Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!" 🍀➡️🚪😊 "Devils out! Fortune in!" (鬼は外! 福は内!)

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Beans. Once you try Rancho Gordo it’s like you’ve been eating beans in black and white up to that point, but now you know what they’re like in technicolor. Plus, the Rancho Gordo people seem like good folks.

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Really hoping for one of these moments soon

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Imagine being the equivalent of 90 years old, and clearly seeing your reflection for the first time. Tory is mesmerized. Chickens, it turns out, can recognize themselves in a mirror.

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Recently, Tory (our elderly house chicken) has decided that the bed is an ideal place to lay her eggs. She spends the entire morning arranging her nest, which lately includes a lavender-scented stuffed animal.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 03/01/2026

New year, new you, new writing, new etc. Just trying to make it easier for you...

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5 Easy Pieces

[your copyeditorial resolutions for 2026]

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

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