iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Be kind. Make things with your hands. Something. Anything. Make a fucking sandwich. Read a book. Listen to a record from start to finish. Literally anything at all that puts us closer to tipping the scale back toward humanity. It sounds trite, but what else is there?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Unlike cheap internet access or 3G phones (the true drivers of the 90s/2000s explosion) consumer AI is a means with no end. You can't sell that to consumers. Only to businesses that misunderstand the relationship between technology and profits/cost-savings. Because to them, it's magic beans.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Once again, for the politicians, business leaders, and journalists still actively posting on X/Twitter: why? You're using a platform that's owned by someone who's trying to break up your country. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/10/2026

“You are infringing on the time and brainpower of people by pushing "your" content that little/no of your brainpower went into” is such a banger

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Jusqu'ici tout va bien 🇨🇦🇨🇵 @philstr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Americans should be (dare I say it?) mandated to read this.

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Barry Beldam @bbeldam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New season of Slow Horses is a new opportunity to be impressed at how that show makes England look like the world's biggest post apocalyptic shithole Like, I know the show isn't set in the aftermath of a massive nuclear strike and the collapse of civil society, but, what would they need to change?

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Barry Beldam @bbeldam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Making good progress on my Nurgle army for TOW. The new Chaos Warrior plastics are fantastic.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/09/2026

"I don't really like the community on bluesky" oh, ok, well just let fascist billionaires algorithmically control your information diet then

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The kickstarter for Lonely Timbers is now live at www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jag... and I would love your support. La campaigne sociofinancement pour Tire-toi une bûche est maintentant active. Merci pour soutenir ce projet franco-canadien et québecoise.

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Lonely Timbers - Tire-toi une bûche

A TTRPG about french-canadian lumberjacks in the early 20th century. Un JDR des bûcherons québecoises du début du XXe siècle.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

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Barry Beldam @bbeldam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When your kids can't think of the right word so they improvise Today was "Sloppy Joe's" -> "Overflow Burgers"

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 20/09/2026

Teaching Neuromancer this semester, and I'm proud to say that a CS undergrad in my class invented this joke independently

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Barry Beldam @bbeldam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Still tempted by the AoS chaos dwarfs (for TOW) though. Not that I need yet another old world army.

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Barry Beldam @bbeldam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All I wanted from the AoS dwarfs was for them to look distinct from Old World dwarfs and not just nicer sculpts. Achieving this by making them look like ass is definitely a choice, but okay.

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Glen Gower @glengower.ca · 19/09/2026

Ottawa Titans sweep their Atlantic Conference Final series and advance to the Frontier League Championship. Attendance 7,192 - a new league record for the playoffs. ⚾️

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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In late July, I started working on a feature trying to figure out where Canadians’ heads were at. Then came another Trumpquake, and a late-breaking story that changed everything. Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9bc9b25...

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When I designed Lonely Timbers, I intentionally tried to focus on French-Canadian history and stories. I really hope that this little slice of CanCon reaches its domestic audience and that a bunch of my fellow Canadian Indie RPG fans check out the campaign. www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jag...

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Coming soon: Lonely Timbers - Tire-toi une bûche

A TTRPG about french-canadian lumberjacks in the early 20th century. Un JDR des bûcherons québecoises du début du XXe siècle.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I can't overstate the extent to which my conversations with self-aware Gen Alpha kids sound like I'm talking to either a future Huey Long or a future scammer so gifted that I might as well give them my money right now and save them the trouble

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

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Barry Beldam @bbeldam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think they did that to make ranking up less fiddly and create space for bigger resculpts; GW as a whole clearly thinks it's a huge problem if people buy models from one line to use in another (eg -> pulling all the 40k rules for Heresy models, their choices of legacy factions in TOW ...)

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Barry Beldam @bbeldam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Looking at the new Age of Sigmar dwarves, it looks like GW is trying to solve the (non) problem of AOS models being bought for use in Old World by making AOS models look terrible. Bold move Cotton, etc.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Things that were taken as a given for the last 80 years but apparently some people thought they knew best

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Barry Beldam @bbeldam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You're also talking about a commodity which is only going to become less and less valuable every year from this point forward with no chance of reversing the trend; potentially dramatically so, looking at what China is doing with transport electrification.

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Barry Beldam @bbeldam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

That said, you can say 2 of 3 of those points about Venezuelan oil as well, so I'm not saying people are wrong about US intentions. Profound ignorance is the water in which Republican fishes swim. More that this is yet another way American pointless self-destruction is playing out.

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Barry Beldam @bbeldam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When talking about how the US is focused on Alberta because they want their oil, remember that Alberta can't meaningfully ramp up production from where it's at, most of it already goes to the US on favourable terms, and Alberta oil can't replace Middle East oil because they're different products.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Canada is worth fighting for. Today. Tomorrow. Forever.

Prime Minister Carney meets with Forever Canadian movement supporters in Banff, Alberta.

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Barry Beldam @bbeldam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Catching up on Ted Lasso and I know everyone knows it's brilliant but they are just constantly doing things that assume the audience is smart and will see that thing they just did there. Love a show that assumes the audience will keep up.

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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Guardians lost, so the #BlueJays remain 1.0 game back. If anyone wants to go to the postseason, the third AL Wild Card spot is kind of just sitting there.

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Barry Beldam @bbeldam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Realizing that I'm running out of time to make custom cards in time for Netrunner Worlds. Good thing I work best under pressure.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026

I do not believe that these guys are about to summon a world-ending superconsciousness from Nvidia graphics cards. But they either believe they can or want me to believe they believe they can. So I think "fuck them" is the only rational response

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Barry Beldam @bbeldam.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

At this point, Canada shouldn't even be trying to negotiate a CUSMA extension. Reducing trade friction with the US is not in our long term interest (clearly) and the US doesn't respect its agreements anyway. If free trade agreements with the US had any value, none of this would be happening.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In which Derek Fildebrandt makes the case for Alberta separatism and says the not-very-quiet part out loud. "Rapid mass migration dilutes our voting power." Sorry, "our"? Who's the "our" here? paulwells.substack.com/p/derek-fild...

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Derek Fildebrandt: Bertasplaining independence to the Rest of Canada

In a guest column, the Western Standard publisher explains why he’s voting to Leave

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Barry Beldam @bbeldam.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My favourite part about owning a 3d printer is when it spontaneously starts doing something weird and you have to spend some time learning about different aspects of its design and operation before you realize why it's happening and can fix it.

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Paolo Bacigalupi @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I used to be really excited about technology. I don't think it's me that's changed.

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Another one for the pearl-clutching Canadian commentators worried about the repercussions of cutting off some-or-another critical supply to the US. They're doing it to themselves! bsky.app/profile/prch...

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