iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 20h

That’s what I find mind boggling about Elon: if he would just stfu up for 5 seconds he would have no public scrutiny Barely any American thinks about: the Devos family, Bari seid, Koch brothers, uhlein family, Mellon, Thiel, etc But musk wanna be on a stage with a fucking chainsaw literally

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 4h

mistakes were made

california post headline: california squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 3h

This is why Carney is pushing for pipelines, isn't it?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026

If you, btw, would like an example of a place where data centres are *actually* being restricted by legislation, go look at Denmark - where they are now last in the grid connection queue, prioritising socially valuable load growth (like electrification, heating, cooling, new homes) first

servola.de

Denmark Puts Data Centers Last in New Grid Law

Denmark's emergency grid law puts data centers last behind households and green-transition projects, formalizing rationing that began in February 2026.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/07/2025

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

disconnect.blog

Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 3h

Candidates should be running because they want to serve their entire community and lift up everyone in the community. Why vote for someone who acts like their community is an irredeemable shit hole? Vote for people who love where they live & who want a better community for everyone.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 3h

This municipal election season challenge any candidate running on "tough on crime" to prove crime is actually rising. And ask them why they're unwilling to fund programs that actually address the root causes of homelessness & crime despite those provably lowering crime rates.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 3h

Crime rates are down in Canada despite what right wing politicians want you to believe. They yearn to criminalize the homeless & other marginalized populations because that relieves them of actually investing money in social programs. Yet those investments would further reduce crime.

www150.statcan.gc.ca

The Daily — Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2025

The Crime Severity Index (CSI), an established composite measure of the volume and severity of police-reported crime, decreased 5% from 2024 to 2025. This marked the second consecutive annual decrease...

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 3h

We don't know how much they're spending on these campaigns, but earlier this year, it was reported the government spent about $10 million on it in 2025-26. Because we don't need that money for anything besides "isn't Doug Ford great?" ads.

thetrillium.ca

‘Protect Ontario’ ads cost one ministry nearly $10M last year: records

Ontario taxpayers were on the hook for millions last year to watch the provincial government promote its own initiatives

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 3h

In Ontario, we get gambling ads & the "Protect Ontario" campaign. It initially promoted the Ring of Fire mining project despite First Nations' & environmental concerns. The most recent phase is straight moral panic tying a fictional rise in crime in the suburbs to homeless encampments.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 4h

Interesting! DM me the info please

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 4h

Genuinely good people know how not to assault or bully others without needing to first do it and then be told by a victim that it's wrong. Women aren't a site for men's personal growth. Our wellbeing is constantly sacrificed for men's potential future better selves.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 4h

So, one time I was in a meeting with HR & a bunch of my colleagues to discuss how to handle a senior executive bullying all of us. And when HR said the bully was in his 60s & needed to learn the old ways no longer work, I said I wasn't some old white guy's Oprah-style personal growth moment.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 4h

I don't buy the "everyone must learn AI" hype having survived the earlier "everyone must embrace crypto" and "everyone must learn code" eras without learning much of either. I learned English grammar & style so I can explain on reddit why "the colours seemed to feel shinier" doesn't work.

static.klipy.com

Peaceful Capybaras Enjoying Water Stream

ALT: Peaceful Capybaras Enjoying Water Stream

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h

Imagine uploading your kids photo to the thing they're using to make kiddie porn.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 4h

They loved the women. It was mostly the visceral horror that did it. I'm the lone horror fan. I usually pick horror or weird literary stuff. It's a nice change from the usual bookclub fare which the other members pick (and which I mostly enjoy!)

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 6h

My bookclub put me under a temporary vampire ban thanks to The Southern Book Club. 🤣

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 6h

The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor has stuck with me.

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Katrina Voll @katrinavoll.bsky.social · 6h

Folks just throwing money into the garbage and investing in AI schemes, but meanwhile my plan to install a second faucet in every household kitchen that dispenses tomato soup on demand just sits here ignored and gathering dust

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 9h

The ultimate own of the United States by Canada would be to deeply decarbonize all energy use by domestic resources, mostly renewables, coupling to sufficient consumption. It’s like us Finns cutting energy imports from Russia almost overnight — not a perfect analogy, but you know what I’m saying.

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Loish @loish.bsky.social · 7h

Dang yall, thanks so much for the support 😭 Usually I ignore the random AI accusations but I wanted to take the chance to talk about how important it is to do your research in times like these. Didn't expect to get soooo many kind comments though! We gotta stick together, my beloved art community ♥️

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 8h

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...

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These people shouldn’t make policy.
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discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 9h

I don't understand how so many Americans continue failing to acknowledge or grasp that we're reacting to the US government keeps threatening to take us over. We're angry. Add in the very real threat of getting disappeared at the border, of course we're not visiting.

globalnews.ca

U.S. mayors ask Canadians to reconsider U.S. travel boycott - Winnipeg | Globalnews.ca

Some American mayors are trying to encourage Canadians to reconsider boycotting travel across the border.

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Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t have data but a male writer I trust was talking about how excited publishers were about getting more bankable male authors. There’s also the question of how & how often male writers are reviewed, placed, how long their shelf life is etc, & how much they’re paid.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 11h

I can't find out anything about the people running in my rural municipality in Ontario. Love how the death of small town newspapers means these people can just not put out any info about themselves or their policies.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 12h

I’ll be on CBC Radio this morning talking about the fake AI-generated journalist who was published by several Canadian media outlets and somehow even became a recurring columnist for the Western Standard Check out Day 6 on CBC Radio with Brent Bambury at 10 AM (or, 10:30 AM in Newfoundland)

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 11h

I assume it's the usual roster of wealthy conservatives and absolute nutters.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 12h

Wait, as someone who is literally an Aunt Bessie, I have to know, is there Aunt Bessie merch (fit or otherwise)?

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 14h

And call me woke, but people who use the term “third world” demonstrate a condescending, colonialist view of poverty and backwardness that sets the speaker in a position looking down upon the developing world. So fuck ‘em.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 18h

We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.

Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 12h

My sister works in an historic house museum & on days when the staff wear costumes, some visitors get so mad that they're not wearing corsets. Health & safety rules prevent them from doing so. Sometimes, you gotta go with close enough.

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Jane B. Kulow @cvlkulow.bsky.social · 13h

“It wasn’t until April 1975 that women had a word for talking about what their male bosses were doing to them.”

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Then it should be used very specifically for specific jobs, with strict guardrails, and not propping up our entire economy, and being forced into everything. The same way I don’t need to know how to use, say, software for dental offices, or a forklift, most people don’t need AI.

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aquila 🍉 most normal frankenstein enjoyer @belllmonts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"dracula is actually about repression" "dracula is actually about bloodsucking landlords" "dracula is actually about assault" "dracula is actually about xenophobia" "dracula is actually about bram stoker being closeted" dracula is about all of those things welcome to the gothic genre

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 02/10/2026

talked about this before and again, i'm speaking as a third generation journeyman trades worker, but working in trades is not something that any of the people who write these pieces, or honestly most of you, respect at all. It's perceived as something you do when all the "good" options are gone.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

These people never talk about the fact these jobs can destroy your body. My father-in-law has had multiple surgeries to repair work-related damage. My dad, grandparents and great-grandparents all had hearing loss due to work. They wanted me to get a white collar job so I'd stay healthy.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of those bands that should have been bigger than they were.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/09/2026

Rising residential school denialism and anti-Indigenous racism have created an environment where white supremacists feel emboldened to target and intimidate First Nations in their communities. It’s disgusting and completely unacceptable.

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David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It was AFTER Confederation, took 10 years of stop-and-start planning first, and the 1881-1885 construction phase went HALFWAY across Canada—just Ontario to B.C.—without labour standards or consideration of Indigenous people. This mythologizing of the CPR is in itself a mark of unseriousness.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here’s AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak last week saying the major projects office — which Carney touted as doing sufficient consultation ahead of naming this oil pipeline in the “national interest” — “don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to First Nations.” TRC day was yesterday.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In short, happy “fuck them whales” and “fuck your grandkids” day to all those who celebrate (which is a scary number of Canadians, based on recent polls)

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/10/2026

“Alberta government and the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation would each own 45% of the pipeline, with … Pembina Pipeline Corporation owning a 10% stake through the construction phase.” Mark Carney said a new pipeline had to be privately financed, but now taxpayers are on the hook again.

cbc.ca

West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC News

The federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati...

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why do I have a feeling this will spark a massive protest movement that will make the 2020 rail blockades look like no big deal?

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 01/10/2026

I spent the summer trying to understand what makes Mark Carney's government tick. What I found is a C-Suite obsessed with efficiency — which is trying to ignore what's deeply broken. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

thestar.com

Justin Ling: Who does Mark Carney really listen to? I asked the insiders

It’s become clear that the prime minister would much rather circumvent problems than fix them.

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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

National interest and such

A Walking Eagle News headline reads: pipelines only bad when Conservatives do it

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