iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Your occasional reminder that, if you can afford it, please consider setting up a standing monthly payment to a local food bank. It’s the best way to support the existing systems to help those most in need.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

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Positive Deviance NYC: Building Clean Air Culture

Back our next three clean-air NYC music events in 2027 and join a growing community building a more accessible cultural life.

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The 51st @51st.news · 4h

We go deep on the Revada Arts Center, a new multidisciplinary arts space with a black-box theater and cinema space that opens later this month in Southwest. 51st.news/southwest-dc...

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Southwest DC is getting a radical new arts space

The Revada Arts Center will be home to a theater company, film house, and “anti-opera” collective.

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 9h

There's still time to join us for our spooky season group read! Starting Tuesday, one chapter per day, there will be memes 📚💙

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 13h

Excellent reminder of my plan to write “Studying Early Printed Books: An Impractical Guide” to accompany my Practical Guide

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15h

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan.”

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Am listening while reading Maddy Court’s commemorative zine of her xenaworrierprincess insta, in case you’re wondering why I’m both laughing and crying

A hand holding a small, palm-sized spiral-bound zine with a black cover and… let’s just say an oyster. On the cover is printed “xenaworrierprincess / forever”

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It turns out I am the target audience for Brandi Carlile’s sad gay version of Returning to Myself

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh noooooo I have nightmares about this as both scholar and editor!

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 10/10/2026

Did you know you’re allowed to make new movies. You actually don’t have to remake an old movie but opposite for some reason

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There was a post from @joshuajfriedman.com saying that when you change your name back, the verification will come back!

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh wow almost missed this and yes please add me in! Haven’t read since I was a kid and read obsessively, v excited to revisit

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 09/10/2026

One of my former students just witnessed this on Orange Line in the DC Metro - ICE/HSI abducting someone from the platform of Stadium-Armory. She was scared. She didn’t know what to do. She shouted “ICE is here!” to warn others. I’m proud she did that. And she bore witness.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 09/10/2026

A good time to remind people that Chris Van Hollen is the only Member of Congress to have ever called for European states to sanction the President and Secretary of State, in this case specifically in response to their attempts to destroy the ICC in order to protect Israel.

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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think I’m about to volunteer to do another thing?! I said no thank you and then got a reply accepting that and asking for advice on who else to seek out and now I’m like, oh that sounds interesting, maybe I’m a yes. This whole “no” thing is truly hopeless 😩

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tears on a Touchscreen: An Interactive Tale About Doing Emotional Tech Support Work by by Amy Linville & Justin Unrau. This short interactive game gets to the heart of my library job in a nutshell. From Strathcona County Library, in Alberta. Picture is unrelated librarianaut.com/TouchscreenT... 📚

Illustration of a tiny naked child underwater kneeling on a ledge while two large fish look down at them.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 09/10/2026

Apropos of nothing in particular, certainly not as a prelude to any sort of personal or professional news, this seems like a good time to remind everyone of the existence of the brilliant @jlgittinger.bsky.social 's Academic Publishing Rates Sharing spreadsheet. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Academic publishing rates sharing

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Navi Pillay led the UN commission that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza. It also concluded that Hamas committed war crimes, including sexual violence, on 7 October 2023. It is long past time we stop denying any and all of that.

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I love this! Thank you for creating it! Can I ask if you thought about doing it as a form that outputs to a non-editable but viewable spreadsheet? Just curious, not trying to be a reply guy! (I’m very forms-oriented, I guess) In any case, will add info I have!

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

@eireannmor.bsky.social just making sure you see this because it seems very your sort of thing!

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Imagine the uses for carrying a little printer around with you. The texts you could share!

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here's a funny one - I bought an old receipt printer on eBay and have been using it to print daily poems from the Early Black Press. Got a raspberry pi & button on the way. I'm gonna see if I can make a little poetry machine to take with me around town, events, etc.

A photo of a receipt with the poem "Bury Me in a Free Land" by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper.

Just printing out a bunch more poems by Francis Harper in this photo of my Epson receipt printer

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They're Neo Confederates masturbating to the idea of slave ships. I want it to be more complex and less grossly stupid but they're not special interesting boys, they're Silicon Klansmen.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A return to firing squad everywhere might finally end the death penalty. Why? Because people have to be directly involved in executions (not pressing a button) it’s terrifically difficult to get them to do it. Medieval executions had the same problem!

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If Hegseth really wanted those in service to turn against him, in a way usually unachievable in that kind of power structure, forcing them into a firing squad is a really good way to do it!

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wow all those happy endorphins from the gym are rapidly turning into rage

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 08/10/2026

COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

impeach hegseth should be on the list day one it is not even debatable tbh

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I just…. The government shouldn’t be killing anyone let alone by firing squad let alone livestreaming it. Public executions are state sponsored terror

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Every day more and more things are more and more fucked up

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is fucked up

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I managed to share some good bibliography news and now I have to go away and calm my heart after reading about the AZ congressional candidate who was raped

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Y’all! This was an intense piece to edit—so much learning and such a complicated book. I loved it! Curious about Tonson’s Caesar? About printing books with plates? Books with elaborate patronages to procure? Go read! 📜

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Max Fenton @maxfenton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

DDOS of ISBN was a whole thing I hadn’t considered as the forests of culture are clear cut for the pollution factories

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 06/10/2026

It's arrived!! I gave this book everything I had and I hope there's something in here for you. It's not officially out until 10/20, but @yalepress.bsky.social seems to be shipping orders now. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

A white woman with dark hair holds a book called Seeing Like a Supply Chain: The Hidden Life of Logistics, by Miriam Posner

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The 12th(!) Gender Reveal grant cycle is now open for applications! As always, these funds are for organizing / community projects led by trans people of color. We are particularly interested in funding existing projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, immigrants, etc.

Are you a trans person of color doing rad art or community organizing work? we want to give you $1000! applications for the gender reveal podcast's 2026 grant program are open now through October 31. apply and learn more at genderpodcast.com/grant.

We are specifically looking for projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, and/or other marginalized communities, as well as projects that foster exploration and celebration of gender diversity and trans lives.

We accept applications from anywhere in the world. Collectives/groups are welcome to apply.

Grant recipients are chosen by a paid panel of trans judges of color. Winners will be announced by December 31, 2026.

AI-written applications will be deleted.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Which is all a long-winded way of saying: These debates about Zionism and anti-Zionism are mostly unhelpful right now, and I wish everyone could just drop these terms unless speaking historically and talk about their political vision for the future in other terms.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Extremely excited to share the CFP for the ✨fifth✨ annual #QueerBibliography conference! bit.ly/QB2027CfP When? 2-4 September 2027 Where? Manchester, UK & online Theme: TAKING STOCK Deadline for abstracts: 29 January 2027 Decisions: by 12 March 2027 Submit here: forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWm...

Queer Bibliography
Taking Stock
Manchester, UK and online
2-4 September 2027

Call for Proposals

Since the inaugural 2023 conference, queer bibliography has grown from an interesting concept to a burgeoning field. Our 2027 theme, Taking Stock, marks the fifth annual conference and is a chance to pause and reflect on genealogies of the field, the present state of queer bibliographical enquiry, and our senses of the future. How might we trace queer histories of queer bibliography? How can we imagine critical futures for bibliographical enquiry within and beyond its traditional academic locations? Where do we find ourselves and our work?

Stock also has meaning in bibliography. While “stock” originally referred to a tree trunk or plant stem, and figuratively to the source of a line of descent or even a human torso, it later began to connote an aggregate of goods—in the context of bookmaking, one might own a stock of paper or pasteboard. Towards the mid-nineteenth century, “paper stock” began to connote the raw material of paper itself. “Stock” might refer to the inventories of booksellers, the process of beginning and curating an institutional or personal collection, and the supply and material characteristics of paper. From the raw materials of books to the origins and shapes of personal, commercial, and institutional collections, how does "stock" participate in the production, articulation, and study of queer textuality and textual communities? What is queer about materiality, the ecology of books, and the processes of making and engaging with (collections of) physical textual objects?

We invite participants to engage in stock-taking or reflect on
bibliographical stock, broadly defined. We welcome meta, theoretical, and historiographical work that takes stock of queer bibliography, and we
welcome proposals that relate to “stock” in bibliography, book history, and reception studies.

This three-day hybrid conference will be hosted at the John Rylands
Library, part of the University of Manchester, and online on 2–4 September 2027. The conference will feature two days of panels, conversation, and discussion on 2 and 3 September and will be followed by an optional workshop on 4 September. Conference programming may also include evening receptions, tours of Manchester libraries (including Chetham’s Library, the oldest public library in England), and collection viewings at the Rylands.

The conference welcomes participants from a diverse range of fields and
career stages, including: book arts practitioners, activists, postgraduates,
early career researchers, independent scholars, librarians, archivists, and
booksellers, both in person and via video conference. As in past years, the goal of the broadly articulated theme of “taking stock” is to bring people in and to shape conversation, not to exclude or limit. All submissions that engage with the intertwined relationship between queerness and bibliography are encouraged.

Participants will be invited to submit a 2000-word pre-circulated paper,
before presenting in panels of 10-minute papers. We also welcome
alternative contributions, such as workshops, roundtables, or self-organised seminars and creative presentations, with a pre-circulated submission that provides a grounding for the conference contribution.

Contributors should submit an abstract of 200–300 words, along with a
short bio, by 29 January 2027:

https:/ /forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWmtfjZ8

Prospective speakers will be informed of the outcome by 12th March. Pre-circulated papers will be collected and shared in mid-July.

Any questions should be directed to: queerbibliography@gmail.com

http://queerbibliography.org

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