iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

trying to make new friends as an adult

Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

QC is the ultimate hater, and when we needed them most, they were ready

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 28/07/2026

"As a US counterpart told me during the USMCA negotiations in 2018, we are 10 times bigger than you, so we should get our way 10 times more than you do," writes Chrystia Freeland. "The laughably flimsy, constantly changing justifications for the president’s tariffs are in fact part of the point."

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Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ (Gift Article)

Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?

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Johnny “Euro Hoser” Renton @johnnyrenton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If you want some genuine behind the scenes insight into how the US’s economic and imperial warfare against Canada and the EU has been playing out read this article. It’s genuinely fascinating and batshit. You’ll feel better about Canada and the EU response and uneasy about how dangerous the US is

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The Canadian Who Steered Europe Away From the U.S.

Facing threats from Trump, Carney emerged as a central figure in a project to reshape the Western alliance.

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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Nobody: WSJ on a random Tuesday: Canada put the transatlantic relationship like a wounded horse and European leaders are having poly-flavoured little get togethers in dramatic halls of power to talk shit about the guy they all hate and the dreamy ex-banker they love

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026

neither canadian leaders nor the canadian people will ever trust the united states again and they absolutely shouldn’t

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/07/2026

Trump: "Every time I see a crypto guy where they dropped an investigation, I said, 'You're lucky I'm president.'"

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"We are a nation that is too big for simple symbols. Our preoccupation with the symbol of a single national identity has, in my judgment, obscured the great wealth we have in several local identities which are rich in themselves and which are skilled in getting along with others."

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 13/06/2026

Somehow not the Onion.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

KAT WON. FUCK ICE.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The Internet was a beautiful thing for a while. It is now exclusively for people who are mentally ill. One might think that would make it a niche product, but it remains mainstream by making more and more people mentally ill.

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Trish @traffictrish.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Hump Day photo dump around #Vancouver 📷

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democracydefendersfund.org @democracydefendersfund.org · 14/01/2026

BREAKING: DDF calls for an investigation into former CFTC Chair Caroline Pham for potentially shaping crypto policy while negotiating a job with a crypto firm. The public deserves to know whether federal policy served a future employer. READ HERE:

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Press Release | January 14, 2026

Democracy Defenders Fund (DDF) today called for an investigation into Caroline Pham, the former Acting Chairman of the Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC), over potential criminal ethics viol...

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Exactly what it says on the label: The Pope in 1982. He's wearing a black hat, dark RayBans, and looks like he's a member of the Blues Brothers.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Joyce Carol Oates
@Joyce... 17h O
So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the
"most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk
X.com
Oates is a liar and delights in being mean.
Not a good human.

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Beatricks 🎃 @beatrix.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

knowing you served the public well when it hits is one of the greatest feelings I know and you should always leap at the opportunity if you get it because they’re a lot rarer than they should be.

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I love that the ruling is “Chicago fucking rules, fuck the liars and the haters”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/11/2025

if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Woke 2 is gonna hit like Earl Thomas

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

the way Trump and his administration keep going on livestreams and tv to laugh about this, I can’t really compare it to anything political that comes to mind, only thing that comes to mind rn is a serial killer who writes letter taunting family of their victim.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Federal agents tear gassing the Lake View neighborhood.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Immigration agents took a man at Racine and Schubert, video from a source as the Feds raid Lincoln Park area

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Graham Marbles @grahammarbles.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Michelle Wu’s address at No Kings was basically “We are actually awesome, cities like this and LA and Chicago are what make America great and that bothers some people” lol

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

The Supreme Court devalues democracy. Thirty-seven state
constitutions block public funds from supporting religious
entities. Richard Schragger, Micah Schwartzman & Nelson Tebbe,
Reestablishing Religion, 92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 199, 211 (2025) .
The Court aims to federally-repeal these state constitutional
provisions.
The Court's beliefs meddle with local and state
governments. Forcing states to send public funds to religious
entities federalizes public policy. By unprincipled fiat. See
also New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597
U.S. 1 (2022) (zero to superpower).
Taxpayer funds now flow to religious institutions. So, the
government collects money from nonbelievers (under the threat of
jail), and uses some of it to support religion. And since not
all religions will receive public funds, the government forces
minority faiths to support other faiths, or else.
The Court twists text, history, purpose, precedent, and
public meaning to offend the First Amendment's character-of-
government structure and the Constitution's separate sovereignty
structure.
As it steamrolls both, the Court says nothing about church-
state separation and federalism principles. The Court's
nevermind stance to the structural features of the Constitution
"has unfolded with little engagement with, and occasional

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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 16/08/2025

Idea: take the Wolverine from Chicago to Kalamazoo. Bike the Kal-Haven from Kalamazoo to South Haven, then roads up to Holland via Saugatuck, about 70 miles. Stay overnight in Holland and take the Pere Marquette back to Chicago the next morning. 🚲🚂🥊

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2025

one of my tiktok followers made this

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 09/06/2025

insomniac thoughts from last night

insomniac thoughts:
people like mcardle, yglesias, singal, etc., truly believe they are "sensible centrists" and not the lite (or actual) conservatives that they really are. so when people on the right (and far right) treat them well, and when people on the left mock them, they look at it as evidence that the right is "nicer" and "more welcoming" than those mean purist children on the left, instead of realizing that they are simply simpatico.
this is also true of the "heterodox thinkers" and the "i'm politically tribeless" tribe, and it's why all these folks are totally comfortable at the nazi bar but can't abide a space like bsky, which while not an echo chamber, does obvious skew left, and by this fact alone, exposes where they all sit on the ideological spectrum. (it's also why they will extend seemingly endless grace to people like richard hanania, chris rufo, and jimmy concepts.)

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 20/05/2025

Biking Is Therapy. “It demands so much of your attention that you have no option but to live in the present. There’s no time to worry. It’s like meditation while moving.” [kottke.org]

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Biking Is Therapy

Derek Bolz made a video about what biking does for his mental health. A partial transcript (boldface mine): Life has been rough lately. I don’t want to air my dirty laundry on the internet, so I won’t go into detail.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

"No kings, more trains." - overheard on an overstuffed Brown Line car on Chicago CTA.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

“.. these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 08/05/2025

You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Finally, a pope who probably knows who the Smashing Pumpkins are

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 20/04/2025

Former Headquarters of Weyerhaeuser Timber in Federal Way, Washington State, USA r/brutalism

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 16/03/2025

I’m not much of a theologian but I do not believe doing this to people is forgivable www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

You never forget the sight of children starving to death, so I wish White House officials could have been with me on this trip to South Sudan, where 70 percent of nutrition assistance has come from the United States. Malnutrition is common in poor countries — more than one-fifth of young children worldwide are stunted from malnutrition — and near the Sudan-South Sudan border, I dropped in on the remote Upper Nile town of Bobonis, where many children are affected. Staff members of a nonprofit supported by U.S.A.I.D. used to visit weekly to provide an emergency high-nutrition paste to save the lives of young children with severe acute malnutrition — but that program was ended by the Trump administration last month.

So now children in the village are starving. I quickly found a half-dozen children with severe acute malnutrition and getting no help.

Fatima Abdulai, 14, held her niece, Nadia, a severely malnourished 2-year-old, and said the household has been reduced to one meal a day of sorghum mush. It was midafternoon when I met them, and nobody in the family had had a bite to eat that day, including Nadia.

“Sometimes she cries from hunger,” Fatima said. “Then we give her water to drink.”

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I want the names of the Dem consultants and campaign managers who told Tim Walz to stop cooking like this on the campaign trail last year. They should never work in politics again. THIS is the energy we need.

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