iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

This mf, I went down a rabbit hole learning who he was because I was like, what kind of name is Palmer Luckey, and it’s all yuck.

010

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 16h

“Kittens and Cats; A Book of Tales” by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911 archive.org/details/kitt...

18018

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 16h

October is my birthday month and I’ve considered what lit orgs I’m supporting this year and why. 🧵

141

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 19h

industry is always so gd opaque, and this is another example of how randomly things can happen. To date this is the only one of my books in translation, and it was not a sale generated by my former agent’s doing. I hope I’ll know the full story of how it came to the attention of that press someday.

020

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 19h

Though I had an agent at the time the small press in Korea reached out to inquire about foreign rights, it was 100% generated by the Korean press itself. My former agent managed the deal through her agency but it was not something she or I or anyone sought. I say this because the publishing

120

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 19h

For the first time, I’ve heard from a Korean reader who shared with me that they found the Korean translation of Excavation at the central city library in Seoul! I’m thrilled.

180

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes, SOCIAL DISTANCING will be out on March 2, 2027 from @semiotexte.bsky.social, look at the gorgeous cover!!🌺Galleys coming soon, so let me know if you need an advance copy for any potential media coverage🌺Gorgeous blurbs by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Johanna Hedva, & Amina Cain below, get ready🌺

The book cover for SOCIAL DISTANCING by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, featuring a very tall skinny pine tree stretching at an angle to the sky, trunk bending backwards to avoid the diagonal electrical wires, the photo is cyanotype, so bright blue on white, and then the title is in a magenta diagonal font with sharp letters at the bottom of the electrical wires, author name in white script above the wood slat fence at the bottom.

47425

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 01/10/2026

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 🥹

060

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

casey morell @caseym.org · 30/09/2026

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

youtube.com

(1984) "Olympic Celebrity PSA's"

YouTube video by metrolibrarian

2176

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

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…

020

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

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…

120

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026

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

101875253

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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"

18155

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

Anyway: film/tv rights are still available! Inquire within! 😜

000

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

That first inquiry came from CAA, which I had to look up, and then I was like 😯. Today, my kid is going to CAA for a film mentorship program, and I think it's hilarious that she's going to walk into CAA before I ever will 😆

110

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

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…)

100

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

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?

214250

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

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

❤️‍🩹 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

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

032

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

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

💚 Thank you for reading 💚

172

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

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

032

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

💚 Thank you for reading 💚

172

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

oh and increasing cases of West Nile virus due to the plethora of mosquitoes 🙁

131

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

Turns out I have ongoing family matters to attend to in Arkansas, so maybe I’ll make a partial writing residency out of it next year if this one doesn’t pan out…

120

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

Some residencies let you defer, this one doesn’t. I’m still feeling kinda neutral about it. Like, yay, I got a full fellowship to a residency! 😁 but can’t do it unless they can accommodate me for the dates I requested! 🫤

110

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…

210

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

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.

082

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.”

040

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 🥺

140

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

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...

318355

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.”

020

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

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.

0246

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

(if you happen to subscribe, the Sunday newsletter is arriving today at 6pm Pacific 🤓)

000

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

Perhaps I am doing my own book (and writing) publicity wrong 🥹 but this is what I've chosen

020

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

When I was preparing to leave twitter I delighted in watching the follower count go down as other people left or unfollowed me knowing I or they were leaving. Now I delight in my relatively consistent number of newsletter subscribers because it feels more real to me, and makes me keep it more real.

210

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

When I deleted my twitter account I think I had 10k followers 😬 Here I hover near 3k, which happened over 3 years, I think? My newsletter, when it was on substack, had 600 subscribers. Since moving to Buttondown in 2024, the newsletter has 595 subscribers.

111

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

PLEASE DO 🌸🌻🌸 And who knows, I may even be wild and answer the phone 😘

210

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

I don't want to use Discord but I could, and I abhor group texts. I do have a mostly weekly newsletter 😛 I suppose I expect people who actually have my email or phone number to fill me in on whatever they like...or not 😁 and I subscribe to a handful of newsletters (though I'm culling that down too)

100

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

If you are making me laugh here, I love you too 💫

110

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

I love what you’re doing, keep doing it, if what you’re doing is thinking critically, sharing good/hopeful stuff, sharing art and writing, and speaking loud truth to power. If you are ripping fascism to shreds in whatever way you can, I love you! But the rest of it…nah. I’m out in 2027 🙌🏽

140

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

And Bluesky? Idk. I agree with folks who maintain it’s “not twitter circa early 2010s.” I want *that* back but I think social media platforms have become something altogether different and *that* may not be able to exist on current iterations again. Like, ever again…

211

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

Instagram became the place I learned of events near and far, and groups, and cool spaces—but uhhhh I think meta is just gonna continue getting worse. Like, if I come back to social media in 2028 😬 what will it be like THEN 💀

110

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

Weird anticipatory grief about the people and the random accounts (possum every hour, good trailcams, and other shit that makes me laugh) I’ll miss popping in…

110

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 😆

270

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.

030