iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Help Crips for eSims for Gaza keep supporting Palestinians on the ground! 💖

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

We are ALL gonna have inconsistent politics. All of us. Either from simple ignorance or just the hypocrisy of being human. But you cannot be better than in seeking to become better. And that is where integrity lies. It’s fidelity to the journey of being better everyday.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

sherman, for the love of god!

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"These are enervating thoughts, the thoughts of despair. They crowd back, unbidden... Whether these thoughts are true or not I find less interesting than the possibilities for beauty they may hold. We are down here in time, where beauty grows." Annie Dillard (1945—2026), "Sojourner"

Photograph of a page from Annie Dillard’s “Sojourner,” showing the passage: “These are enervating thoughts, the thoughts of despair. They crowd back, unbidden, when human life as it unrolls goes ill, when we lose control of our lives or the illusion of control, and it seems that we are not moving toward any end but merely blown. Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end. Even nature is hostile and poisonous, as though it were impossible for our vulnerability to survive on these acrid stones. Whether these thoughts are true or not I find less interesting than the possibilities for beauty they may hold. We are down here in time, where beauty grows. Even if things are as bad as they could possibly be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and wing.”

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When we hit 1 million dead from covid (and we will, if we haven’t already, hit 2 million) nothing was said, no memorial was had, and I wonder how much of that is because we can’t go to war over it.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@librariesftp.bsky.social is completely volunteer-led and run. We have no money and are essentially powered through t-shirt sales: www.librariesforthepeople.org/gear - But over the past 4 years, we have punched way above our weight. And it's been a great pleasure to work with terrific people.

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Gear — For The People

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thank you @swordsjew.bsky.social for Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America which is often a painful read but always an educational read. 10/10 recommend.

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Public Health Action Network @publichealthaction.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A surge of COVID-19 infections is happening in multiple states in the U.S. and has been building for the past month, according to the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative, led by @michael-hoerger.bsky.social. The PMC produces weekly COVID-19 heatmaps of the U.S. based on wastewater data.

Maps of the U.S. from the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative from the past month showing a growing level of COVID-19 infections from wastewater data in multiple states.

It's worth the effort to avoid getting COVID-19 or other airborne infections:
- mask up in public indoor spaces
- ventilate the air
- purify your air with air purifiers
- and move events outside or to virtual

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/08/2026

Normalise saying 'fascist propaganda' instead of 'culture wars'

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Highly recommend following Interrupting Criminalization to learn & act on protecting your community. Abolition is needed for our collective liberation.

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 17/08/2026

BREAKING: CBP just awarded $36 million to four companies to collect fines from people the U.S. has deported. All four had already been paid to locate people for ICE Enforcement & Removal Operations, or check on migrant children for ICE. One held a shelter Tennessee shut down after abuse allegations.

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CBP Formally Hires Contractors to Collect Fines From People It Has Deported

The $36 million effort, spread across four companies, relies on firms already working to locate immigrants for the government's deportation surge.

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Garrett Bucks @garrettbucks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There will be plenty of takes today about what Wisconsin's gubernatorial primary means for broader rhetorical proxy wars. This isn't one of them. It's about what a dad and a son talk about while driving home from a night where their hopes both swelled and crashed. thewhitepages.net/p/what-do-yo...

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What do you tell your thirteen-year-old when you lose

It's never just one feeling

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10/08/2026

From a journalist who's covered abortion for a decade: this is a HUGE deal. SBA Pro-Life America is the top political group in this space. It had so far refused to publicly embrace using the dormant Comstock Act to restrict abortion (like ADF, AUL, Students for Life). That reticence ended on Friday

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Friendly reminder that abortion care by mail is available discreetly in all 50 states and U.S. territories through plancpills.org and you don’t have to be pregnant yet to obtain pills for later- neither does any woman of childbearing age you know. Stock up!!

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PLAN C: Abortion pills by mail in every state

Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill options online.

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There are 15 COVlD hot spots across the US, according to our county-level map of CDC wastewater data. See Alt text for details. PMC Weekly COVlD Report: pmc19.com New Interactive Map: pmc19.com/interactive.php

The US has 15 hot spots. These include central California (Fresno, San Benito, Alameda), northern Oregon (Wasco County), Alaska (Juneau), Hawai’i (Kauai and Honolulu), southeastern Idaho (Bannock County), central Colorado (Summit County), northwestern Illinois (Whiteside County), the northern LP of Michigan (Gaylord area), central Kentucky (Lexington), northeastern Ohio (Ashtabula County), southern Florida (Palm Beach area), southeastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster County), central New Hampshire (Grafton County), and southern Maine (Knox County).

Southern Texas still has an outbreak (Webb County). Most Texas sites that had high or rising levels have not reported since July 11. Central Texas may have higher levels than depicted.

Note that these outbreaks are relatively isolated compared with the widespread high levels in the southern and western states at this time a year ago. Levels are rising but much more slowly than typical.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I consistently remind myself that we know and understand less than 5% of the total matter and energy in the universe. This counters the seduction of despair.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/07/2026

ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES, my book about grief; who is allowed to mourn and how; and why people want to pathologize the experiences that make us human, is available now in print, ebook, and audiobook formats, wherever fine books are sold (or loaned, shoutout to libraries).

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All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...

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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I am so excited to announce the pre-sale for my forthcoming book, The Struggle Is Always Worth It! This is also the first reveal of the table contents, and let me tell you, there are some superstars who contributed to this book. givebutter.com/SIAWI-presale

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Struggle Is Always Worth It book pre-sale

Pre-sale and fundraiser for the edited collection, The Struggle Is Always Worth It, coming out December 2026.

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 18/07/2026

They have a nice site with instructions in multiple languages, and for multiple countries. corsirosenthalfoundation.org/instructions/

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How to build your own Corsi-Rosenthal Box - Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation

Dedicated to providing cleaner safer air for all.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thank you Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov for speaking out against integrating the US and Israeli militaries in the upcoming Pentagon bill - a measure that would reward Israel at a time when they are wrongfully detaining Palestinian American student Sama Safi under abusive conditions.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/07/2026

Holy shit. Buried in that DHS document about its desired “deportation airline” is a request for contractors to procure and maintain 1,000-bed “detention facilities” in foreign countries. Huge scoop from @charliearchy.bsky.social. www.theredoubt.net/ice-detentio...

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Exclusive: ICE eyes 1,000-bed detention facilities in foreign countries

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is looking for private contractors that could help set up "international staging areas" abroad.

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There's still time to submit a comment. I just did so, sharing a family member's health situation that very much needs for research to continue based on science, not the whim of political appointees. Please take 5 minutes to submit your own.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Don't let anyone dictate how you react to this soulless ghoul's death

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chris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

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Cascadia(PNW) @cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’ve been getting questions about how to organize locally or regionally. I want to clarify to folks that there is no boss here. There is no admission process. There’s nobody that needs to approve your participation. Have land? You can offer it for community gardening. 🧵

People often wait for a leader or some kind of structured organizing to join so they can follow instructions. That rarely works. It's better to just build this kind of culture and community where people "understand the assignment". And then you get all those folks together to talk from time to time and rally behind common issues. If you look at my pinned post, it's a kind of a digital example of how this works. It's not the kind of organizing I can really teach anyone via an instruction manual. It's learned just by doing it and being an example to others. Right? Leadership is not being the boss. It's when you behave or act in a certain way that inspires others to do the same. That's leadership. We can all be leaders. We are all leaders here. In our own way

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B-Rye @gorillaengineer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Went for a bike ride passed a Parks & Rec(?) summer camp(?) bike ride on the River Rd path. Kid sticks out his hand, “High Five!!” I reach over and we connect, the cheer that went up among the 20 kids will keep me going all week.

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WA Whistles @wawhistles.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?

Map of ICE sightings from iceout.org, 7/1-7/8, showing Puget sound area between Fort Lewis and Marysville.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 08/07/2026

EXCUSE ME SIR YOU ARE NOT PANTS

Basil the cat looking out from a drawer of pants in a dresser

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Did a sketch but couldn't be bothered to flesh it out. Happy world firefly day/weekend, regardless. May your butts be the light in these dark times.

yellow line drawing on dark blue background showing a firefly from below. its wings are open as if flying, butt glowing bright yellow.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This will be a thread of tips for people suffering through their first god-awful heat wave with no or subpar AC. I'm a perpetually broke Southern Californian so my ideas run cheap.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/07/2026

It's all "ooooh we need a meritocracy" until the wrong people have merit and then it's like "oooh we need to protect us." Trans kids deserve a chance play in sports because EVERYONE deserves a chance to play in sports and nobody should lose that chance because they're disfavored by bigots.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The Prairieland demonstrators got maximum sentences from two Texas federal judges this morning – they're ordered to serve them consecutively. The lowest sentence was 30 years, for a man not at the protest, but who was convicted of concealing documents talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

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Prairieland ‘Antifa’ Activists Sentenced to Decades in Prison on ‘Terrorism’ Charges

Federal judges in Fort Worth handed down maximum sentences to eight people...

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I don’t want to hear another word from establishment Dems about cooperating with Republicans. Don’t want to see another stupid bipartisan photo about “seersucker suit day” on the Hill. Nine people who protested ICE at a detention camp were just sentenced to 50-100 years in prison. WAKE TF UP.

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DFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: prairielanddefendants.com/defendant…

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I don’t know if he intended it to be this way, but Brian Goldstone wrote a book that every education policy person and every educator needs to read. This is why: 1) This is a book about children. They are there in nearly every scene, and every setback in their families’ quest for a home is…

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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Happy Juneteenth! It costs 0$ to repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more! Store: Bibipins.com

5 Oval shaped pins with gold outlines with an oval cutout in the middle with a yellow slideable star:

Spoons: Lavender background
Hunger Scale: Red background
Migraine Scale: Blue background
Speaking vs Non Speaking: Green background

The first one has SHE, THEY, HE on top. At the bottom there's HER, THEM, HIM. White background.

Galaxy and Moon Bunny Compression gloves

Galaxy and Moon Bunny Artist/Drawing Gloves

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

While impressive mutual aid efforts often spring up in the wake of catastrophe, many of those efforts are built under extreme pressure by people who are exhausted, afraid, and trying to invent systems of care in real time. What if we had existing plans for those moments? truthout.org/audio/no-aba...

“Preparedness isn’t just about having stuff. It’s also about reducing the number of decisions you have to make while you’re scared, disoriented, or under pressure. So part of preparedness is asking: What can we decide now, while we’re calm, so that people have fewer decisions to make when they are not calm?” - Kelly Hayes

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 09/06/2026

I don't know how to convince you to take care of your comrades. But Long COVID impacts every fight for justice, every social movement. Honor the energy and integrity of the folks in my latest @thesicktimes.org feature. Be careful with each other so we can be dangerous together.

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Every social justice movement is impacted by the Long COVID crisis - The Sick Times

Long COVID disrupts struggles for justice, as activists and organizers with the disease are forced to suspend or change their tactics, facing a community that largely ignores COVID precautions.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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