iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 03/06/2026

Tulsi Gabara fired—replaced by unqualified white guy Bill Pulte Pam Bondi fired—replaced by unqualified white guy Todd Blanche Kristi Noem fired—replaced by unqualified white guy Markwayne Mullin White feminism protects whiteness over women & loses to patriarchy every time. Leopards Eating Faces.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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Funny but serious, Chieng issues an AI warning to grads — Harvard Gazette

"Daily Show" star and Class Day headliner is fine writing his own emails.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. -Ursula K. Le Guin

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

“It’s not the painting, it’s the energy BEHIND the painting.” Ethan Hawke — on the limitations of AI art — is very good. 🔥 @vulture.com

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I'm voting no on DHS funding. Masked agents are operating in our streets and hurting people with zero accountability. It’s un-American. If you’re upset and want to help, call your senators and representatives and tell them this chaos needs to stop.

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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Amanda Gorman, once again, speaking truth to power. Speechless. 😭🕯️🕊️ ✊🏼🤝🏼🙏🏼

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PortfolioCarmel @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two- And see what worms are eating At the rind — Langston Hughes 5-year-old Liam Ramos, abducted by ICE in Minnesota, now held in a detention center in Texas.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/01/2026

She is an expert on authoritarian regimes, in case you're wondering whether peaceful protests matter.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Embroidery by the first UK hunger striking suffragette, Scottish artist Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864-1942) #womensart

Embroidery featuring a central standing female figure in a long dress surrounded by stylised birds and standing on a flower covered mound

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara documented the bond between her grandmother, Misao and her beloved cat Fukumaru in a series of many images #WomensArt

Four images of an elderly Japanese woman and her white cat

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Here it is

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PortfolioCarmel @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Watch Sharyn Alfonsi’s 60 Minutes piece on CECOT, axed by Bari Weiss, here—thanks to some Canadians who captured it, and to some Bluesky users who recorded and uploaded it to YouTube (so a Canadian VPN is not required): www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIm6...

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60 Minutes CECOT Segment Axed by Weiss (Aired in Canada)

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PortfolioCarmel @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This is the Solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath — Margaret Atwood Edvard Munch Starry Night . 1893; 1922/24 Edvard Munch Kiss by the Window . 1892

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

This is an amazing essay on empathy and/against AI.

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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Naomi Klein looks to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism. They were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to “pessimism all along the line”, and wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change. www.equator.org/articles/sur... @equatormag.bsky.social

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Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR

A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Oldie but a goodie

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PortfolioCarmel @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

‘One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light.’ — James Baldwin Jimmy, in a Massachusetts classroom, about a year before he joined the ancestors:

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Mary Antonia Wood, PhD @talismancreative.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The Spring issue of Insights is out now! I'm so pleased to have my work featured on the cover, and to have been interviewed about my thoughts on the "Anima," the archetype of life itself, and the theme of the issue. issuu.com/kknightpgi/d...

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Joy Harjo:

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A PROPHECY ‘Mammon and Self in Malice blent, Struck down by arm omnipotent, Pierced by the venom of it's own desires, Writhes in a cloud of darkness and expires’ Text and image: William Thomas Horton, the Way of the Soul, 1910

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Kurt Vonnegut man

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Frida Kahlo, 1935 by photographer and best friend Lucienne Bloch, who said of this day..“We went to a Spanish restaurant and had a kind of strong stuff like Vodka..... We acted most crazy. It was a fine afternoon and cheered Frida up.” #WomensArt

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"But some bonuses, like morning, / like right now."

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

“Το die before you die, no longer to live on the surface of yourself: this is what Parmenides is pointing to. It demands tremendous courage. The journey he describes changes your body; it alters every cell. Mythologically it's the journey of the hero.” PETER KINGSLEY Art: Miriam Eme

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Mary Antonia Wood, PhD @talismancreative.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Taking a moment to marvel at the bigger picture–the much bigger picture...

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Mary Antonia Wood, PhD @talismancreative.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"I get deeply tired because everything touches me. I am never indifferent. Indifference & passivity are impossible to me." ~Anaïs Nin, Journals, Vol. II~ (Nin speaks for all those, especially artists and makers, whose deep attention and sincere caring are non-negotiable.)

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

this

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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 22/01/2025

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Hero.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2025

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19/01/2025

Tuesday the Trump fascist WH starts mass immigrant deportations in Chicago. I'm an immigrant & human rights lawyer. Here I cover: •7 Calls to action to protect our immigrant neighbors •Debunking 6 common anti-immigrant claims •Answering 4 FAQs on dealing with ICE www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...

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Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin

Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda

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PortfolioCarmel @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

‘We just crossed the threshold into Octavia E. Butler’s future. Time has caught up with her vision.’ —Lynell George @lynellgeorge.bsky.social Author of the book, a handful of earth a handful of sky the world of Octavia E. Butler And of this haunting piece, given the LA fires and Trump 🖊️July 2024:

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The Parable Is Now

Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 novel, Parable of the Sower, imagined a future in which California is inhospitable, weather is deadly, wealth disparities are vicious, and a presidential candidate may set the...

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

SOPHIA, holy wisdom, sitting at the base of the tree of life, warns the alchemist who seeks the Philosopher's Stone that he will find it only with her help and never by studying books alone. We need to do the work not just read about it! I love the disapproving look. Art: Jehan Perréal, 1516

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Mary Antonia Wood, PhD @talismancreative.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Freud, Jung, and other depth psychological thinkers, such as von Franz, show us exactly what we're up against: mass projection of a "hero-savior-strongman" archetype onto a psychopath, combined with the thrilling permission to release & glorify the most vile of human instincts–irresistible for many.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"Artists get called a lot of dreamy things. We're 'lighthouses,' we're 'visionaries,' we are 'soothers of the savage breast.' Maybe. But I think we're at our best when we're disruptors. When we rattle self-absorption and the lazy belief that my best interests are everybody's best interests."

Barbara Kingsolver stands at the podium speaking into the microphone.

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Mary Antonia Wood, PhD @talismancreative.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

"When modern tyrannies point out that artists . . . are the public enemy, they are right. But they also pay homage, through the artist, to an image of humankind that nothing, up until now, has had the power to destroy."~Albert Camus, 1957. (Hello to new, and old, friends on Bluesky!)

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