iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Anna Carey @annacarey.ca · 11h

Honestly the flattening of age-cohort experience online vs the intensity of age-cohort separation offline is one of the sources of weird generational conflict. We socialize, gossip, gripe all in the same places online but rarely interact in "real life" outside of family. Broken social structure.

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Anna Carey @annacarey.ca · 12h

I can hear an analog landline phone ringing somewhere in my neighbourhood and I'm genuinely flummoxed. I'm talking like original rented Bell model with metal ringing mechanism. I haven't heard that sound since my grandparents had to finally replace theirs circa 2002.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 11/10/2026

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What I hear every time there’s a new “rogue ai” announcement is “once more we’ve unleashed malware into the wild to see what would happen. We’re not sorry and we’ll do it again.”

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Anna Carey @annacarey.ca · 11/10/2026

In other news the ravens were back in the wee hours of this morning, at just the right time that the bullfrog-croak song wove its way into my already creepy dreams, which is a Big October Mood.

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Anna Carey @annacarey.ca · 11/10/2026

If you refer to tomorrow as Indigenous Peoples Day and don't recognize either Thanksgiving holiday you're absolved.

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Anna Carey @annacarey.ca · 11/10/2026

I'm in a petty mood but anybody I see refer to tomorrow as "Canadian Thanksgiving" but just says "Thanksgiving" in November should expect to receive a Nemesis Alert with my name on it.

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Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yes. Homelessness is a choice that we make, as a society, every day. If it gets treated as part of the architecture of civilization, that’s only because powerful forces want you to think that way. Finally, it would cost less to house every unhoused person than it costs us to leave them homeless.

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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This isn’t a “controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr,” this is “playing with the lives of vulnerable infants in a developing nation, which is being pushed by malicious grifters who couldn’t care less about the innocent lives they hurt.”

theguardian.com

Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The countless people who glossed over disinformation and normalized MAHA in any way should recognize this the result of their actions. We no longer have to wonder how the Tuskegee experiments were allowed to happen. We are seeing it for ourselves.

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I don't even care if I'm cute anymore, I just want to be less miserable. Why is everything in my size microfiber and plastic. Why are all the hemlines so fuckin short. I spend the cold months in constant simmering rage because of my clothing. The only relief is being in the bath.

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There are many reasons I dislike winter but high on the list is how hard it is to find comfortable clothes. Layers twist against each other, most warm fabrics are itchy and irritate my skin, the air is dry and everything shocks me with static. It's so fuckin overstimulating.

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No, we marinate moose steaks in maple syrup and make stew over open fire.

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I don't know why my links don't pull previews anymore.

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The collective decision to treat extreme antisocial behaviour online as somehow separated from antisocial behaviour offline was a huge mistake. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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You know what I'm going to say: do not watch video of someone being killed for any reason if you don't absolutely have to, and if you do *genuinely* have to, ie for reporting, use every psychological mitigation technique possible: synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/803314.html

synecdochic.dreamwidth.org

Captcha Check

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also you can just...read something else sometimes? How boring are you if none of what you read for leisure can be enthusiastically shared with your kid? There are thousands of books written "for adults" that kids can enjoy having a parent read to them.

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Anyone who sells you a tool that promises to outsource the work of your relationships, or the loving tasks of connecting to our friends and family, is someone who is trying to rob you of your own humanity. For god's sake. Say no to this. Say no to all of it.

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 09/10/2026

Or that the backsliding itself is part of what makes it worse! It's the willful return to things correctly left behind that's especially bad!

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One thing about people citing slower car travel times on Bloor West following the bike lane install is, well, that was kind of the point. Drivers were **averaging** nearly 20 km/h over the current speed limit at spots. Road revamp has brought speeds closer to limit. www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...

Two bar charts comparing average and 95th percentile vehicle speeds in km/h across five Toronto locations over three time periods (2021/23, 2024, 2025/26), with a posted speed limit of 40 km/h indicated by a dotted line.

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The adage "good fences make good neighbours" didn't come from nowhere!

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And yet as a citizen of a country without the death penalty I can still acknowledge that this *is* a different tier of barbarism. All execution is barbaric. Public execution by firing squad is *particularly* barbaric.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/10/2026

The point of their cosmetic work is not to look beautiful, it's to look *expensive.* The more dramatic and unnatural, the more obvious the work, the more visible the wealth required to attain it all is. It's ostentatious and weird by design, and you can see it in all the women in that circle.

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I'm actively enraged that everyone allows them to just go around saying this shit like they shouldn't go directly to jail for unthinkable crimes if any of it is true and also go directly to jail for unthinkable fraud if it's not.

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Anna Carey @annacarey.ca · 08/10/2026

Either you mean it, in which case you should be stopped, or you don't mean it, in which case you've revealed something about yourself you can't take back. Either way, nobody should ignore it.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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No AI for kids. Full stop.

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Anna Carey @annacarey.ca · 08/10/2026

Why are so many men so abusive?

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Salmon in the creek, kids.

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The Old Astronomer to his Pupil by Sarah Williams

Incorrect attribution. This quote is from a poem by Sarah Williams. Not that you care, because you're almost certainly a toaster, but maybe somebody reading this does allpoetry.com/The-Old-Astr...

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Read the full text of Sarah Williams's classic poem "The Old Astronomer to his Pupil." Explore poetic themes, analysis, and share your own critique with a community of fellow poets.

That's just too many things!

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Therapist reminded me today about this poem, Andrea Gibson's Love Letter From the Afterlife, and maybe somebody else needs it today, too. griefcollective.com/blog-posts/l...

Bollywood Taco is Oshawa, tyvm!

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The crows come several times a week, but I never know when to expect the ravens. The crows are neighbours; the ravens are visiting wizards.

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As much as I love my regular host of visiting crows, every once in a while a raven pair appears, and the musicality of their rattling croaky warbles feels a little magic. They make such neat sounds.

Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 07/10/2026

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Anyway, if you have to cut off family, I know damn good and well that it wasn't done casually. Speaking as a Mom--do what you have to, to live your live with as much peace and happiness as you can. Your parents ought to want that for you, it's not your fault if they don't.

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

"Well if that is wrong, everybody is guilty!" Yes. That's why it's called rape "culture."

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briellastella @briellastella.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The AI project has as its explicit goal the reduction of your standard of living. AI companies have been telling you to your face that this is what they want to do to you and you're experiencing it happen in real time. LLMs went mainstream 4 years ago. Where are the glorious fruits of their labors?

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briellastella @briellastella.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Customer service has gotten materially worse. Web search is barely usable. Webpages have become less functional and those that still work are buckling under 100x the traffic. Basic computer functionality we've taken for granted has been trashed. Malpractice has proliferated across every industry.

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As previously said, I don't actually think you're wrong here, but I can see that there are very clear places where your understanding is not quite accurate. That's not an attack, but it is an encouragement to be willing to learn more and adapt to new knowledge, which is what you're hoping will help.

Again not to undermine or accuse you, but to point out that the place you're arguing from is misinformed, and therefore your conclusions are tilted toward a misunderstanding of the situation we're describing.

I'm going to interrupt you here, because this is *not* what "rape culture" implies. It does not suggest that every man is a rapist or even a potential rapist. It means that we live in a culture in which the subjugation of women in sex and relationships is normalized.

Chris Hickie mud fud @cphickie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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CDC October 2026

Orange jacket guy meme (2 panel).

Top panel guy turning away from thousands in US sickened by measles, 7 dead.

Bottom panel: guy expressing interest in one person dead in Russia where the cause might be plague

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/10/2026

They don't want to pay for labour! They want to extract endlessly without having to share! I don't know how much clearer this could be, and yet. Keep funneling resources into the mouths of men who will hoard them until the rest of us and the planet are dead.

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"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.

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I don't even think you and I are on opposite sides, to be clear. You do not seem to be in the violators' camp. But I think you could stand to dig a little bit deeper into how pernicious it all is, and how much women already understand, and have long understood, about the reasons it's happening.

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