iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by memento vivere

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

4083520310595

Reposted by memento vivere

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...

For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.

10894345

Reposted by memento vivere

Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's almost like making it dangerous to be public about your sexuality means fewer people are going to be public about their sexuality

65517

Reposted by memento vivere

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration

3433581065

Reposted by memento vivere

Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Democrats still think they are living in the 1990s and that what people want is for the partisan bickering to cease. We are actually living in the 2020s and the people want treason to be prosecuted

220672

Reposted by memento vivere

Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taking children seriously as people, as actual individuals in society not just appendages of their parents or symbols of their communities’ goals, is so important & yet rarely done in public—especially by those in power.

211210

Reposted by memento vivere

Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 22/10/2024

According to too many, there is white and then there is political there is male and then there is political there is capitalism and then there is political there is straight and then there is political there is cis and then there is political there is non-disabled and then there is political

101125326

memento vivere @xianskr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We glory in your cross, O Lord, and we praise your holy resurrection, for by your cross joy has come into the world.

Photo of the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania, which is what it sounds like - a hill covered in thousands of crosses of all sizes, most of them wooden. I couldn't discover who took the original photo.

000

memento vivere @xianskr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

K-12 schools are miserably underfunded, and computerized tests are a cheap way to collect the data that politicians started requiring w/ NCLB and Common Core. By contrast, MIT has an endowment of infinity dollars, and isn't hamstrung by K-12 accountability requirements

000

memento vivere @xianskr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Please share with the elders in your life

001

Reposted by memento vivere

Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Y'know what keeps people so busy and satisfied that they forget all about not liking you? Health care! Civil rights! Contemplative silence found in the absence of a data center! Clean drinking water! Groceries!

09915

Reposted by memento vivere

Atkinson @maddavenport.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Okay, I think I figured out why there are so many cis liberals yelling at the trannies this week Ethical living usually comes down to: do you want to think of yourself as a good person, or do you want to actually do good Actually doing good involves a fair amount of feeling like a shitty person!

312621

Reposted by memento vivere

KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 12/09/2026

Everyone on here is a 38 yo ELCA social democrat or communist it’s amazing

12673

Reposted by memento vivere

BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Grant that we also may be aflame

1113

Reposted by memento vivere

Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If you see this and respond "Good," you are required to actually look up the top 4 denominations and who you're talking about. The trans priests, the lesbian bishops, the Tim Walz guys, the Stacy Abrams women, sometimes the ONLY safe youth groups for queer teens, hosts of Meals on Wheels, NA, and AA

1016441

memento vivere @xianskr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is a pack of lies. They're not expanding access, but drastically reducing it. JKM did *not* merely duplicate items at UChicago. This is a complete disgrace. And there's a reason you can no longer comment on socials from #lstc - God forbid anyone tell them the truth lstc.edu/news/lstc-an...

lstc.edu

LSTC and McCormick Expand Access to Two World-Class Theological Research Libraries Through New JKM Library Transition - LSTC

LSTC announces new hires for 2026

000

memento vivere @xianskr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The way these elevated my blood pressure

100

memento vivere @xianskr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Article aside, this accompanying image is just Wyeth's Christina's World

000

memento vivere @xianskr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"I have seen the Lord." Blessed feast of St. Mary Magdalene, Apostle to the Apostles, to all who celebrate Image credit: www.sarahbethart.com

Watercolor portrait of Mary Magdalene by Sarah Beth Baca. Half of Mary's face is visible; the other half is out of frame. She wears a green veil with a fish motif, and she has a stylized halo of an earthen hill, three wooden crosses, light, and a golden rim that has tiny books depicted around the words, "I have seen the Lord." Behind her is a gray stone tower, alluding to the possible/probable connection of "Magdala" and "tower."

000

Reposted by memento vivere

Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

In light of ICE assassinating another beloved child of God, I am thinking of and praying with the words of St. Oscar Romero. www.romerotrust.org.uk/1980-homilie...

"I would like to make an appeal especially to the men of the army, and concretely to the
National Guard, the police, and the troops. Brothers, you are of part of our own people. You are killing your own brother and sister campesinos, and against any order a man may give to kill, God’s law must prevail: «You shall not kill!» (Ex 20:13).

No soldier is obliged to obey an order against the law of God. No one has to observe an immoral law. It is time now for you to reclaim your conscience and to obey your conscience rather than the command to sin. The church defends the rights of God, the law of God, and the dignity of the human person and therefore cannot remain silent before such great abominations. We want the government to understand well that the reforms are worth nothing if they are stained with so much blood. In the name of God, then, and in the name of this suffering people, whose laments rise up each day more tumultuously toward heaven, I beg you, I beseech you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression."

111533

Reposted by memento vivere

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

THESE COLORS DON’T RUN

26411

Reposted by memento vivere

Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“They should have just complied!” They did and they got killed anyway. “They should have just obeyed the law.” They were and they got killed anyway. “They should have come here legally!” They did and they got killed anyway.

518664

Reposted by memento vivere

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.

13964961918

memento vivere @xianskr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🎶Don't it make you angry the way war is dragging on?🎶 🎶Well, I hope the president knows what he's into, I don't know Ooh, I just don't know, yeah🎶 Chicago, "Dialogue Part I," 1972

000

Reposted by memento vivere

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

there's no "just let ICE go after the 'bad ones'" there are no good immigrants/bad immigrants. there are no acceptable targets, no justifiable victims of state violence. I do not accept the starting position of fascism. I will not compromise when the stakes are someone else's life or freedom.

111606409

Reposted by memento vivere

Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Teenagers are pretty competent at seeing through adult bullshit, and when you tell them "get off your phones and touch grass" and then arrest them for doing that, they understand that what you actually want is for them not to exist at all!

4852276

Reposted by memento vivere

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

stop. if you think the existence of a warrant is part of the conversation in any way, you cannot, by definition, argue that it makes any difference whether the guy they killed had a warrant or not. because right guy or wrong guy, an arrest warrant isn't a death sentence.

5355061277

Reposted by memento vivere

bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

129100011847

Reposted by memento vivere

Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

10477491944

Reposted by memento vivere

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
X.com
If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
11:42 AM • 6/25/26 • 670K Views

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
X.com
And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
CABO VERDE
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 92K Views

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
X.com
You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 62K Views

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

2338661526

memento vivere @xianskr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I hate this exploitation so much

000

Reposted by memento vivere

skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

With alt text

Hand-written poem, titled: DEATH SENTENCES

A WHITE LADY SAID HE WHISTLED AT HER
THOSE SKITTLES LOOKED LIKE A GUN
HE WAS SELLING LOOSE CIGARETTES
SHE WAS SLEEPING IN HER OWN BED
THAT CELLPHONE LOOKED LIKE A GUN
HE WAS GOING FOR A JOG
SHE FAILED TO SIGNAL A LANE CHANGE
THEY SAID HE TRIED TO USE A FAKE $20 BILL
SHE WAS AT HOME PLAYING VIDEOGAMES
HE WAS SITTING ON HIS SOFA EATING ICE CREAM
HE WAS UNLOCKING HIS OWN FRONT DOOR
HE HAD AN AIR FRESHENER
HE WAS IN HIS GRANDMOTHER'S BACKYARD
SHE WAS TRYING TO DRIVE AWAY
HE WAS CELEBRATING NEW YEAR'S
HE WAS HELPING A WOMAN BEING ATTACKED
SHE WAS ON HER WAY TO TEACH KIDS
THEY THOUGHT HIS MOTHER STOLE DIAPERS
-jduquette

13214

Reposted by memento vivere

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

they don’t like being reminded that things like being toxic and violent are choices, which other men aren’t making, because that just draws attention to the fact that they ARE quite deliberately choosing it. they need it to feel biologically immutable and core to their nature to justify it

247358

memento vivere @xianskr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

the nature of God is light, which is both a particle and a wave is this anything

000

Reposted by memento vivere

David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

Remember sitting in history, thinking “If I was alive then, I would’ve…” You’re alive now. Whatever you’re doing is what you would’ve done.

341336383

memento vivere @xianskr.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

There's . . . a lot that I don't miss about librarianship. But this. I miss these moments. "Thank you for making my transition easier." "Thank you for crossing out my dead name." "Because of you, I didn't kill myself." Thank you to every librarian who continues to carry the torch, lighting the way

021

Reposted by memento vivere

Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Thomas Aquinas yn hys car. He doth inserte a cd ynto the cd playere "Telle ME ALL YOUR THOUGHTES on GOD" Thomas Aquinas doth smyle. Thys ys hys favorite song.

218241

Reposted by memento vivere

Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

At the start of my terrorism studies course, I ask students what most terrorists have in common. They always say: 1- Mental illness 2- Religion. They are, of course, wrong. The two most common traits of violent extremists are: 1- Gender 2- History of domestic violence and online mysogyny.

162237768

Reposted by memento vivere

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

6070181614

Reposted by memento vivere

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We don't have a literacy crisis because kids read kidlit. Kids who read read all kinds of books. Kids who are forced to read, who have reading turned into a chore and who aren't given the opportunity to engage with it in their own way, they absolutely stop reading.

1293

memento vivere @xianskr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I'm beyond thrilled that I'm no longer running a library, and it's also incredibly heart-wrenching to see my former colleagues and those I love go through this, to say nothing of the pain caused by the degredation of the academic institutions involved

000

Reposted by memento vivere

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...

slate.com

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

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

253133979735