iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Vaccines work" isn't a political statement. "Immigrants do not increase crime" isn't a political statement. "Climate change is real" isn't a political statement. "Genocide is bad" isn't a political statement. Stop neutralizing the power of facts by framing them as "politics." Reality matters.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. —Toni Morrison

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨A technical error at the Texas Department of Public Safety has created a major backlog of voter registration applications, with some incomplete records dating back to 2025. If you recently registered to vote in Texas, now is a good time to double-check that your information is actually on file.

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Toni Morrison on book banning: “[Banning] stuck me as a purist yet elementary kind of censorship designed to appease adults rather than educate children. Amputate the problem, band-aid the solution.”

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Lisa Mc @tryingtoread.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ALT text: Statement on AI: If you want to use AI to write your responses and creative exercises, that’s your loss. I won’t go hunting you down. And I don’t really care if you trick me into thinking it's your work. If that’s the type of writer and thinker you want to be, then go for it. Good luck.

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Lisa Mc @tryingtoread.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

With ALT test: a clip from Fox News showing gas prices. Today 6.39, a week ago 5.97, a month 5.44, a year 3.70.

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Lisa Mc @tryingtoread.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In case you missed it, librarians won on one of America's biggest stages. A documentary about librarians standing up against book bans and defending the freedom to read was honored at the Emmys. via @everylibrary.bsky.social

action.everylibrary.org

Librarians Won the Emmys!

We need to turn this moment of recognition into a moment of action.

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Lisa Mc @tryingtoread.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Always read Sarah Kendzior: "AI is the technofascist replacement for life, stripped of the qualities that make it worth living: love, imagination, curiosity, the natural world....a movement against AI [is a]movement for accurate history, environmental protection, and human dignity."

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I Wandered Lonely in The Cloud

How AI is destroying the life of the mind.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I, personally, would never want Ms. Rachel to be disappointed in me.

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Lisa Mc @tryingtoread.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dr. Snyder's wisdom really resonated today and should be required reading before tomorrow.

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Helping the Terrorists to Win

A Quarter Century after 9/11

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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When you allow your party leader to lie about rescuing people on 9/11, you’re not owning libs, you’re selling your soul.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 07/09/2026

On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hegseth has taken out more American generals than Iranian ones.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m gonna need even the politicians who I find exciting and am invested to stop asking me for money every day over text.

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Deanna @deestemteach.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026

For sure! I gave extra credit for kids bringing tissues, etc. my first year. I did that because I saw other do that. Eventually, I realized it was inequitable and did not reflect any content knowledge in their grades. There are so many varying opinions on grades and people feel very strongly

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

whenever I see someone complain about "the excesses of woke," I want to ask them what it means—did some people want ~too much~ equality?

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Lisa Mc @tryingtoread.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Adding alt text: a picture of the Capitol Reflecting Pool on the National Mall where the water is green and ugly.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Mitch McConnell can get 75 days off as a US Senator, but women can’t get maternity leave. Welcome to America.

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dolly Parton’s birthday was 1/19. What if we decide that Dolly Day every year involves gifting books to people? Like St George’s Day in Catalonia. Is anyone already on top of this?

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

COMMENTARY: A whole lot of celebrities are loved. Dolly Parton loved you back.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Fred Rogers and Dolly Parton are examples of what truly loving ones' fellow man looked like.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

with alt text. this is so beautiful 💕

Dolly Partons IMAGINATION LIBRARY

Dear Imagination Library Graduate,

My, how time flies. It seems it was only yesterday when your family and friends read you your first story. You were just a baby. Now you're five years old and about to go to school. How exciting!
This may be your last book from my Imagination Library but you have to promise me you will keep on reading. If you go to your local public library you will find a great number of books just for kids your age. Every book is a treasure and every time you open one up you will meet new friends and take wonderful journeys to magical places.
I hope you have a great time in school. I bet your school will even have a library where you can check out books. You and all of your friends are very special. There is no limit to what you can do or how far you can go.

Just remember the lessons my family taught me - dream big dreams; learn everything you can learn; and care for all those who care for you. You do all of these things and you can be anyone you want to be.

You are terrific, and remember...
I Will Always Love You,
Dolly

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I live in Missouri’s 6th Congressional district. Chris Stigall, the Republican who won the primary to be my next Congressman, has blocked me on social media. If Chris is scared of a retired teacher asking him questions, I think he might be a little too weak for the position in the first place.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13/08/2026

Imagine needing validation so badly that you force your hand-picked board to vote your name back onto the Kennedy Center in direct violation of a court order. The level of fragile ego required to pull a stunt like this is genuinely staggering.

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Climate is a pattern, and the pattern has changed. = Climate Change

Graphic reading, “The difference between ‘There used to be hot summers too.’ and climate crisis.” Below is a temperature-anomaly chart showing mostly blue, cooler-than-average years in the earlier record, shifting dramatically toward sustained red, warmer-than-average years in recent decades. Occasional earlier red bars are labelled “These were hot summers,” while the sustained cluster of increasingly warm recent years is labelled “This is climate change.”

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Lisa Mc @tryingtoread.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Thank you, @piperformissouri.bsky.social. Reposting with ALT text so everyone can consider these great questions.

They've been conducting mass deportations for almost 2 years. Did that make finding a job easier? Did your rent go down?

They overturned Roe V Wade. Did that give women paid maternity leave?

They have defunded public schools and teachers. Has that improved your child's education?

They have attacked trans people for years. Did that make them charge the men in the Epstein files?

They started a new forever war. Did that make your gas prices go down?

They dismantled the federal government. Did that make your food safer or your groceries cheaper?

Republicans are in charge of the Presidency, Congress, Senate, and Scotus. Is your life better now?

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Lisa Mc @tryingtoread.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

YES. Thank you, @mattseybold.bsky.social www.theamericanvandal.com/p/neuroplast...

Deep reading, careful listening, and constructive conversing are harder to do than they used to be. And that is not because of some individual, professional, or generational failure. These things have been made harder to do by structural adjustments to our systems of media, politics, and economy on behalf of consolidated power. These adjustments are being defended and reinforced, but are not inevitable or permanent.

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Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Denver’s last 3 days: 2:30p Monday: 102° (record high) 4:30a yesterday: 47° (record low) 3p today: 96° 55° drop in 38 hours, followed by a 49° spike 34 hours later. Denver just Denvering. #COwx

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Local man suggests jailing own boss.

Screenshot of an Aaron Rupar clip of J.D. Vance saying on Fox News: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"

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Lisa Mc @tryingtoread.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This time, let's believe the Heritage Foundation means what it says. Thank you, Jess, for your warning.

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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I can’t help but wonder if we are headed that way as well — and the new Dark Ages won’t be because of arson. It will be because our society has decided to forgo reading for short snippets of information and AI summaries and influencer content. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

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Firemen Not Necessary

The end of reading

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@Shamlet @shamlet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

finally, we are going to get the full story of the red wheelbarrow and how much depends upon it

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“What are you without racism? Are you any good? Are you still strong? You still smart? You still like yourself?”- Toni Morrison

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/07/2026

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 6 weeks(!) in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave—is now getting all three.

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Lisa Mc @tryingtoread.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Actually, Aldous Huxley wrote it in 1931 in Brave New World.

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Lisa Mc @tryingtoread.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

See Huxley's Brave New World where the embryos are divided into castes...

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Remember when a congresswoman had to bring her newborn to work because moms with newborns weren’t supposed to get special treatment? So where the fuck is Mitch McConnell?

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Because it's not really about The Odyssey. It's about the insatiable craving for outrage and grievance. They are constantly starved for things to be angry about.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Orwell summed up Trump's dream for America: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16/07/2026

every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries

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