iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 2h

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, *by the French* Britain didn't gain the region until the Conquest of Acadia in 1710, when Queen Anne was on the throne.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 8h

“Getting social issues off the table never, ever happens—the reactionaries merely up the ante, because what they really want is the elimination of the disfavored group, and we inconveniently refuse to go away.” www.liberalcurrents.com/concede-noth...

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Concede Nothing

Trans people are who we say we are, and we will fight and organize on those grounds.

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Vancouver punk band cancels show after trans member denied women’s washroom access www.thepinknews.com/2026/10/02/punk…

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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 3h

I’m not for purity tests but lads, if you’re not even nominally listening to your leftie environmentalist anti-genocide Jewish friends on the reasons this Zionism is racism motion is so janky, you might want to ask yourself some difficult questions.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 3h

Every time I see flyers and posters like this from the archive I’m even more mad about all those lazy fuckers claiming they need AI to make marketing materials because uwu smol bean no budget:

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The local squirrels have figured out how to open the council's food waste recycling bins. This is causing quite a mess...

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 4h

*sigh* The ONLY people whose opinion matters is the Falklanders, and they voted 99.8% to remain a British Overseas Territory. On a 92% turnout. Only 3 people voted against. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Fa...

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2013 Falkland Islands sovereignty referendum - Wikipedia

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 5h

Props to the photo editor for getting this down to the vast and trunkless legs of stone

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 4h

Very high "Why would I deceive you?" energy

Elizabeth Holmes "Why would I deceive you?"

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James Graham @jamesgraham.theliberati.net · 6h

It is continually humiliating - but emphatically correct - that the UK is now held up as a warning as what will happen the moment a centre left government concedes the culture war talking points against trans people.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 5h

You can just be 38 and decide to start grinding a skill. They can’t stop you #fountainpen #handwriting #cursive

Handwritten cursive, the same message twice, first in mature adult handwriting and then again in slightly wobbly childish writing:

I maxed out my right-handed writing stat, so I prestiged as a left-handed fountain pen user.

(The footer of the notebook page incidentally says “everything is possible”)

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 5h

LOL. Found this on my account and it basically says "paints BattleTech minis and drinks Gin & Tonic". No surprises there!

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 10h

The irony that the cops drive cars like they stole them

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

they always show their asses eventually because the thing is that you cannot truly, sincerely care about women if you don’t care about trans women. the minute you carve off any one subcategory of women you claim are “lesser” in some way, you’ve declared women’s rights to be conditional by definition

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!

A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 12h

Noticing the nights drawing in? 🌙 October brings a big shift, with most of the UK losing over 2 hours of daylight this month. Do you enjoy the cosy evenings or miss the longer days?

Map of the UK showing daylight lost during October by region, with colored bands and city labels and values (Lerwick −2h40m; Stornoway −2h30m; Oban/Aberdeen −2h20m; Belfast/Glasgow/Newcastle −2h10m; Hull/Manchester/Birmingham −2h; Cardiff/London/Southampton/Plymouth −1h50m).

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 12h

Keighley and Worth Valley Railway is a great experience. Some years back I went on their Halloween Special train. Well worth doing.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 19h

You don't have kids, do you Stephen?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22h

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 22h

If anyone still wonders about how Jimmy Savile got away with it, just read all the tributes to Archer that refer more prominently to his charity work than his crimes. There’s a big part of it.

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Ginny Di @ginnydi.com · 06/10/2026

I'm striking out on an adventure because Kevin said I wouldn't. Screw you, Kevin!! 😡 You don't know me!!

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Alistair Carmichael MP @amcarmichaelmp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Much to criticise in this Tory proposal but I am particularly concerned that it rather pointedly appears to exclude most of Orkney and Shetland (and only Orkney and Shetland) from protection...

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 06/10/2026

Robin Ince is both a very talented man and someone who lost a lucrative (by the standards of the British comedy industry) gig by taking a stand against transphobia. Support him and you get good stuff *and* show others that they'll get support if they do likewise. Win/win.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Once again: If Dems do well in November, absolutely everyone should interpret it as a definitive statement that the US electorate rejected a disgusting smear campaign against trans people.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 06/10/2026

I really hate the way “thank you for your attention in this matter” seems to be spreading as a linguistic trope. I don’t need to hear your post in the voice of the orange toddler. Not even ironically.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I, of course, would advocate voting LibDem. But then I would say that, I'm a LibDem member.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

...the Leader of the Opposition gets up to start their mandated 6 questions. You'll also sometimes get other main questions or the order paper, which is why you sometimes hear "Number 6" or whatever, which the PM gets advance sight of, and the follow-up has to be *to that specific question*.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

...would simply respond with "I refer the [right] honourable [lady/gentleman] to the answer I gave some moments ago". The main vestige of the older style now is that the first question is always a backbencher, who formally asks Number 1, and then their follow-up question before...

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's a long time gone now, but yes every question at PMQs is technically a follow-up to one of the (numbered) pre-written questions. It used to be that everyone would simply ask "Number 1, Mr. Speaker" (Ask the Prime Minister to list his engagements for the day), and after the first time the PM...

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's certainly one way of looking at it.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I see" "That's interesting" and of course "With all due respect"

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

10s here; I have a big box of nitrile ones for painting and art use

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 06/10/2026

one thing about me that consistently seems to shock people is that I do actually believe that all people have the right to live in freedom, regardless of their race, gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, disability, or age. like I do actually believe that and I apply it to *everyone*

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Courgette is pretty large, then (also I love how you automatically know your hand size in surgical glove measurements). I have done Gratin Dauphinois aux Courgettes with ones that size before.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Are your hands smol, or is that very large?

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I remember an episode of HIGNFY where Ian Hislop referred to him as "Jeffrey Archer, the liar", which drew the usual "allegedly" response from Angus Deighton. To which Hislop's response was "no, he was convicted of perjury in the High Court, that's a FACT", with great triumph and glee.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I know, I know - fact checking is important, and I actually do care. It's just - ~grrrr and an angry fist shake~ - the fucking herrenvolk wank fantasy about what counts as real jobs. The lanyard is a blue collar, motherfuckers.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh gods, are we actually doing ǝsɹnoɔsıp around "Warhammer is worth more to the UK economy than fishing"? Yes, it depends what you count as fishing. No I do not care. Even if it were just 10% (it's probably closer 40%) the point would still stand about the absurdity of the relative media attention.

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