iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Not gonna lie, I’m parked out front of CAA waiting for the 15yo to emerge and I wish I was here for a meeting 🥹

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thanks to @awalkerinla.bsky.social, i have learned about these fantastic 1984 celebrity PSAs imploring people to carpool and to take shuttle buses instead of driving and adding to traffic

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(1984) "Olympic Celebrity PSA's"

YouTube video by metrolibrarian

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 7h

I fully expect that when they stop trying to shove ai down our throats they’ll start charging big money to remove it or to be free from having to use it…

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 8h

Today I unexpectedly sketched out an idea for…a horror film?! I have never written straight-up horror before, though I think Excavation is certainly a kind of horror…

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The Onion @theonion.com · 9h

Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 10h

Using data from The Deportation Project, L.A. TACO broke down the nearly 4,000 logged apprehensions in L.A. County by neighborhood and city. The full story: lataco.com/ice-kidnappi... By @eltragon.bsky.social

A shot of the L.A. skyline taken from a park.

Headline reads "ICE Kidnappings By Neighborhood In L.A. County"

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 11h

Back in 2015, not long after Excavation first came out, I was hiking in Griffith Park and got an email that stopped me in my tracks. It was the first time I was contacted about film/tv rights for the book. (Little did I know that it would go nowhere, and I’d get more inquiries like that one…)

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is fantastic cultural geography. Very strong lede. Even if you don’t read it all (you should; remember we are working on our brains) the first three paras do the work. Thanks to the person who shared it. www.queergeographies.com/stuck-on-the...

queergeographies.com

Why We’re Stuck on the Last Ditch

Why does the public delight in watching lesbian bars unravel?

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 23h

❤️‍🩹 From the gofundme page: Poet/organizer Rachel McKibbens (Camacho) has lost her beloved firstborn, Anthone, and this fundraiser is an attempt to alleviate some of the financial hardships anticipated by this sudden tragedy. gofund.me/8c5f961ef

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Donate to Help Rachel After the Loss of Her Son, organized by Erica Fabri

HELPING RACHEL AFTER THE LOSS OF HER SON Poet/organizer Rachel McKibbens (Camach… Erica Fabri needs your support for Help Rachel After the Loss of Her Son

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 30/09/2026

💚 Thank you for reading 💚

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gofund.me

Donate to Help Rachel After the Loss of Her Son, organized by Erica Fabri

HELPING RACHEL AFTER THE LOSS OF HER SON Poet/organizer Rachel McKibbens (Camach… Erica Fabri needs your support for Help Rachel After the Loss of Her Son

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 30/09/2026

💚 Thank you for reading 💚

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 30/09/2026

While I’m waiting for the writing residency that awarded me dates I can’t do (not the dates I requested) + the award of a full fellowship to figure out if they can accommodate the dates I originally requested, the other writing residency I applied to rejected me…

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Emilyingreen @emilyingreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Working from home means I get to witness my cat living his best life around the place while I attend meetings and send emails 😂

A fluffy white cat lounges in the sun on a patio chair while his owner watches from the kitchen window.

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 29/09/2026

It’s very nice to receive a direct solicitation for writing from someone who acknowledges that (in their words) I am “in the psychedelic experience of grief.”

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 29/09/2026

So there are a lot of rabid bats and one “extremely venomous viper” gallivanting around greater Los Angeles today 🥺

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 29/09/2026

Stevie Wonder’s ‘Songs In The Key Of Life’ came out 50 years ago today. An anniversary tour celebrating the double album masterpiece begins next month, and today Wonder shared four previously unreleased tracks from the sessions. stereogum.com/2512942/stev...

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 29/09/2026

“Hello Author, Happy week new , hope it is going great?, I am an editor with Author Credibility.”

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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Using Alt text is so sexy. It shows that you have patience, empathy and confidence, because taking time to describe what you are sharing, to me, shows that you just know what you’re about to be posting is important enough to be accessible to everyone.

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 28/09/2026

It might be because I'm in the middle of estate planning, but mentally going over leaving social media for a year feels like preparing for a kind of death. But, like, a good one 😆

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 28/09/2026

It’s funny how when I contemplate an extended absence from social media, I feel like I want to be on social media much more preceding the absence. My current intention is to be off social media for all of 2027.

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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 23/12/2025

wendell berry QUESTIONNAIRE

Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry

How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred

What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy

In the name of patriotism and
the flag. how much of our beloved
land are vou willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security;
for which vou would kill a child
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

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Annie @chizpa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#FlowerReport Lilies

Light pink lily with deep purple edging and ring around center and yellow center

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 26/09/2026

Someone in first class on this flight is reading Death Valley by Melissa Broder, and I am happy for them. (I’m one row behind first class.)

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

we cannot make the world alone

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 26/09/2026

Walked around this Arkansas airport with my shirt misbuttoned 🥴

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the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NEW LAZY & ENTITLED PODCAST I sat down with KC Poet Laureate Melissa Ferrer Civil to talk radical poetics 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p... Spotty: open.spotify.com/episode/0RTO... SC: soundcloud.com/lazyandentit...

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Poetry as Propaganda with Melissa Ferrer Civil

Podcast Episode · The Lazy & Entitled Podcast · 25 September · 1hr 9min

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 26/09/2026

It’s official. I am The Cool Aunt.

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 25/09/2026

I held a possum today for the first time too 😍 why is there no possum emoji

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don’t know anything about the lesbian bar you’ve all been picking on but I do know the stats on lesbian bars are depressing and that seems more important. www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/rise-...

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The Rise and Fall of America's Lesbian Bars

Only 15 nightlife spaces dedicated to queer and gay women remain in the United States

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 25/09/2026

I’m taking a class this fall and it came with syllabi for previous classes. One of the books listed was Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton. Who I may have known something about long ago but forgot? Anyway, I’m not even halfway through and thought, This sounds like a Taurus (writing about flowers),

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 24/09/2026

I went to my first drive-thru Indian restaurant today (in Fayetteville, Arkansas).

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 24/09/2026

I was gone all day, flying to Arkansas then driving myself around Arkansas…

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Blep

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

sitting down to write a column about how too many minorities are getting nominated for prizes these days is real loser shit like scraping the bottom of the racism barrel loser shit

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 23/09/2026

Alright, I appreciate the details provided that tell me what exactly they’ll be doing to restore this sign that I didn’t know I had feelings about, but I do

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Finding the book you want is instant when shopping online. But it’s vastly more fun to visit a bookstore or library and browse your way to your next great read. The full guide: lataco.com/best-booksto... By Hadley Tomicki and L.A. TACO STAFF

The interior of a bookshop where five people are browsing the bookshelves set against a wall.

Headline reads "L.A.'s Best Independent Bookshops to Support Instead of Amazon"

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 22/09/2026

Came across this in the past few days and have enjoyed reading it slowly and coming back to it again and again —better than a doomscroll (and thinking of the co-author/keeper of the text, Johanna Hedva, who is a Taurus with a Venus in Taurus, apparently): www.twoseriousladies.org/everything-i...

twoseriousladies.org

Two Serious Ladies

A small online magazine to promote writing and art by women.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

HOLY SHIT @mayor.lacity.gov is running ads now saying she stood up to ICE and as a parent who is on a phone chain at a school where ICE was terrorizing parents and showing up AT GRADUATION to snag people I say FUCK YOU FUUUUUCK YOUUUU

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am trying to wrap my mind around the fact that, for the most part, the only books-related posts that get real traction on Bluesky involve the shittiest, most rage-inducing garbage and people. This isn't true for film or music. It feels like there's a real void here, and I hate it.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 22/09/2026

#OtD 22 Sep 1962 Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini punched a fascist who had confronted him outside the premiere for his film, Mamma Roma. Pasolini's radical politics and openness about his homosexuality made him a frequent target of the right stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9526...

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 22/09/2026

Yesterday I looked up the date of the fall equinox and duck duck go’s top search result told me it’s September 23, using time and date dot com as their source. Every source underneath that says it’s today 🥴

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 22/09/2026

Willing an enormous bookcase of books by authors of color to fall on top of Bret Stephens ✨🌝

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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don’t want to see my governor’s visage. Thank you very much.

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