iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1h

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Academic: the Recession Interviewer: and this one? Academic: COVID Interviewer: and this one? Academic: mass state funding cuts Interviewer: and this one? Academic: admin trying to replace my field with chatbots Interviewer: and this one?

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🚲🕸️𝖘𝖈𝖔𝖔𝖕𝖘🕸️🚲 @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 1h

Today and everyday, give Ilhan Omar a Gundam

Drawing of Ilhan and the Gundam we are giving her

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The era of rotten dot com is pretty clear evidence that watching execution videos and other snuff does not make you a better person or citizen

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Mariachi! At the Farmers Market

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Two kinds of people in the world

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 09/10/2026

Businesses will spend endless amounts of money on Ivy League MBAs and marketing consultancies that sound like Bond villain front companies to manufacture moments for their products, but none of that bullshit can beat the heat you get from a bunch of goons suckin down Hamms at Stump Party

Several months later, Stomberg learned — along with scores of other online St. Paulites — that The Jacket was a St. Paul Saints merch item dubbed the St. Paul Saints Hipster Corduroy Jacket. Sales exploded during the depths of Operation Metro Surge when a bunch of guys wore The Jacket to a February event held outside a St. Paul queer soccer bar where they took turns chopping away at a stump. (More on that later.)

Just how explosive are sales? Since The Jacket’s debut in the summer of 2025, the Saints have sold of 441 of them and, for now, there are none available for sale. For some context, the team moved a total of 139 jackets — a Pride windbreaker, a skater jacket and Columbia jacket among them — in 2025. For much of this year, The Jacket was the top grossing item across all of Minor League Baseball.

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🚲🕸️𝖘𝖈𝖔𝖔𝖕𝖘🕸️🚲 @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We are witnessing levels of passive voice cop language unprecedented in modern times

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A clever reversal for the *scammer* to take on the role of a bewildered tech-illiterate senior

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, this reads 'processing bad news' to me. When you're so upset that you have to go stare at the ocean for a minute.

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't want to be annexed. What if we just ALSO did the Québécois thing?

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every once in a while I wonder what Levi Johnston's up to these days

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My Minnesota friends have already seen this, but I keep thinking about it and want more people outside our state to, too.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Joyce Carol Oates you have been arrested for crimes against poptimism.

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

More on today’s closed door from Ward 3:

Today, I voted, very reluctantly, in favor of Resolution 26-1659 to appoint the law firm Fisher Phillips as Special Counsel to represent Mayor Her in the lawsuit brought by Chief Henry against the Mayor and the City.
It is my understanding that state law creates a presumption that public employees, including the Mayor, will be indemnified and provided a legal defense in matters such as these unless there is a legal basis to deny that defense. Additionally, the City Attorney cannot represent the Mayor in this case because of the conflict of interest created by her role as both an appointee of the Mayor and a fact witness in the litigation.
Ordinarily, the determination of whether the City will indemnify and defend an employee is made by the City Attorney. However, because of this conflict, the City will retain an outside firm through action at our next council meeting to conduct an independent indemnification analysis and determine, through a quasi-judicial process, whether the Mayor is entitled to indemnification and defense by the City.
Until that determination is made, it is my understanding that the City must continue to comply with its obligations under state law.

Based on the legal advice provided to the Council, voting against this resolution could have exposed the City to additional legal risk by failing to meet those obligations. There is a process in place to determine whether the Mayor was acting within the scope of her official duties during the conduct that gave rise to this lawsuit, but that analysis will take time and could not be completed before this vote. We also have a timeline to respond to the lawsuit that we must comply with.
I am deeply disappointed by the situation we find ourselves in. As a councilmember, I have a responsibility to protect the City from legal risk, but I also have a responsibility to safeguard public resources and protect the City from unnecessary financial harm. I have serious reservations about whether this is an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars. I also have concerns about how this particular law firm was selected.
Like many residents, I am still waiting to see the full report from Resolute Law which I have formally requested. My colleagues and I were forced by legal timelines to make significant decisions without having access to all of the information we would have preferred to review. That is not how I make decisions, and it is not how the City should make decisions.

I know I am not alone in my frustration. More than 100 public comments on this resolution were overwhelmingly opposed to the City paying for the Mayor's legal defense. Our office continues to hear from constituents who are disappointed by the Mayor's alleged conduct and are asking questions that I am still unable to answer. The expectations of our community are not being met.
Trust in government depends on transparency, accountability, and confidence that public dollars are being spent in ways that reflect our shared values and priorities. Right now, many residents feel those standards are falling short.
I remain deeply frustrated by this situation. Our residents deserve better. Our city employees deserve better. And our City deserves better.
I will continue to closely oversee this developing matter and use the authority afforded to my office under the City Charter to pursue the transparency and accountability that residents expect and deserve. In the meantime, I will remain focused on serving Saint Paul and continuing the work of building the city our community deserves.

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Much like an actual first kiss, really

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 30/09/2026

we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I sometimes have to remind myself when talking to my 5 y/o nephew "oh yeah, your world is comparatively small so everything in it feels extremely important"

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You're not stuck in dog traffic, you are dog traffic.

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I suspect part of the reason they both sound iffy is because when you combine them they become a word you absolutely can NOT say

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cold is when I'm cold from the outside in, Cold II is when I'm cold from the inside out.

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

About 23 fps for me but I have like thirty tabs open. Still smooth enough to look good!

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

riddles:trivia ::journey:destination

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Professional tip: establish rapport with your interviewer by sharing your surströmming

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Your salad bowl was also your popcorn bowl? Gross

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It was the popcorn bowl for us!

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x

The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the ai ceos calling for a slowdown because of agi is like when your friend who's really into conspiracy theories is like "and that's why the ruling elite is beholden to epstein" but then before you can agree, they add, "because of satanic rituals"

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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We will greet them as liberators.

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🚲🕸️𝖘𝖈𝖔𝖔𝖕𝖘🕸️🚲 @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You must find your place in The Torment Nexus, you must believe in the vision of The Torment Nexus, if we do not subject our nation to The Torment Nexus, The Torment Nexus will torment us, or worse, China will build a cheaper Torment Nexus that does not pay us dividends

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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