iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Chad Lucas

Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 01/10/2026

Wemby is something else, man

1145752940

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This album is awesome. Listened to it for the first time today and immediately hit repeat

120

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I took a knee in the thigh playing basketball yesterday, and the hills of Halifax are putting me through it this morning.

010

Reposted by Chad Lucas

Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Truly, what a gift to have been able to cheer for George Springer and Max Scherzer as Toronto Blue Jays.

1145

Reposted by Chad Lucas

Kail @vivotranquil0.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This was poignant, beautiful, and also sad. Reactionary viral culture hardly allows for nuance, depth, or understanding. Kudos to her for defending her family and damn she's a good writer

064

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I already own more totes than I need, but I still might need this one

1132

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This was the most fitting end to the 2026 Blue Jays’ playoff hopes: losing a winnable game by going 1-for-14 with runners in scoring position. Maybe next year, if we get baseball next year.

020

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“What even is this?” he asked. And then, “1.4 megabytes? How did you save anything on it?” And I regaled my teenager, who is younger than the existence of the iPhone, with tales from ancient days of yore

A teenage boy holding a 3.5-inch floppy disk from the Ancient Times

1122

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is a great way to answer this question. It’s never a serious question and it doesn’t deserve to be treated seriously.

030

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was fresh out of university, four months into my reporting career on 9/11. I spent that week writing about some of the 8,000 Americans who ended up in Halifax when planes were grounded. Our city converted schools and community colleges to take care of stranded travellers.

020

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Welp, it finally happened: I made it home on the bus before I remembered that I drove to the terminal this morning to avoid the rain. In my defence, being held up for a while on Barrington by a fistfight in the middle of the street threw me off.

270

Reposted by Chad Lucas

alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this is perhaps the best piece of journalism i have ever been involved with

How long have you known Alix Harrow?

Wait, that’s her name?

Yep.

421179183

Reposted by Chad Lucas

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol

2376631727

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When I was 16/17 I listened to Cassandra Wilson's cover of "Harvest Moon" almost every night before I went to sleep. Her voice is so soothing yet so haunting. One of my all-time favourite singers, and a tremendous loss.

youtube.com

Harvest Moon

YouTube video by Cassandra Wilson - Topic

030

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Kids 3&4 start Grade 12 tomorrow, and while I have sentimental feelings about that, I am already dreaming of a September when I don’t get dozens of back-to-school emails and portal login reminders

230

Reposted by Chad Lucas

Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is a story about men harassing women. It's being sold to the public as a story about conservatives protecting women, but it's the opposite of that.

8377104

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm listening to the new Oscar Peterson World Tour compilation that came out yesterday, and this solo version of Place St. Henri is otherworldly. I think if I'd witnessed this in person I would have left my body.

music.apple.com

Place St. Henri (Live at the Detroit Montreux Festival – August 30, 1980) by Oscar Peterson on Apple Music

Song · 2025 · Duration 2:27

020

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think you’re beyond “some guy” status when a whole generation of Canadians hold you as one of their core memories and immortalize you with a statue

000

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I laughed when I first saw this two days ago, but we saw The End of Oak Street tonight and on the way home I realized every movie I’ve watched in theatre this summer was an Anne Hathaway movie.

040

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Berries from the yard season is my favourite season

Three containers of blackberries and one of blueberries.

170

Reposted by Chad Lucas

SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Happy Friday everyone

Drop kick me Jesus through the goal post of life

631562

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The Texas list of 2,200 "dirty" books includes Thanks a Lot, Universe, my first MG novel. There's nothing "vulgar" in TALU, just a gay kid processing his feelings for another boy. I've had dozens of kids tell me that book made them feel seen and understood. That's what they want to take away.

1103

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One of the best things about Nova Scotia is that nothing is far from the ocean, including a lot of farms, and so sometimes cows go to the beach

Cows hanging out at a beach, with sea grass in the foreground and grey clouds in the background.

040

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Russell Westbrook is canonically Brian's favorite NBA player in Thanks A Lot, Universe. Happy retirement to a real one.

Excerpt from Thanks A Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas: "After I put on the necklace, Richie made me open Dad's presents. The bigger box held a Russell Westbrook basketball jersey. He's my favorite player because he's aggressive and fearless, two things I'm not. I slipped the jersey over my T-shirt. It was long and loose, but I imagined Dad telling me I'd grow into it.

000

Reposted by Chad Lucas

burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

i wish there was an option to somehow block all the posts in the category "look how stupid this stupid person is: *twitter screenshot*"

2274

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I spent two hours in traffic on a crowded bus with no AC, but I made it home and ate supper and went swimming in the lake, and now I feel more human and less like fighting everyone in Halifax Transit’s operations division

0220

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My parenting quirk is I genuinely don't mind (and even enjoy?) doing laundry. I have a well-honed system. I like the ritual of hanging clothes on the clothesline. *This does not preclude me from sometimes wondering aloud how certain teenagers go through so many washcloths in a day*

020

Reposted by Chad Lucas

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I think “I am the protagonist of life” is the main psychological appeal of this kind of conspiracism. You risked nothing, you did nothing, and other real people are suffering the things you’re pretending to think are bad, but in the end you’re the great hero for surviving your imagination.

1376081

Reposted by Chad Lucas

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just as I don't want to read a book by someone who couldn't be bothered to write it, I *definitely* don't want to eat food by someone who doesn't want me to see that food in actual photo form. You're advertising a product that does not and cannot exist in corporeal reality. WTF.

1648173

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The weirdest thing about writing fiction in this decade is we're held to a higher standard than reality. We're told to write with nuance, that even villains should have layers, and meanwhile the AI guys are literally shredding art and admitting they want to monopolize basic thinking for profit.

083

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I had this same thought while watching Running Point this week as I realized that the sweet spot for enjoying the show is “I like basketball and Kate Hudson” and not “I’m an NBA sicko who pays attention to the second apron.”

011

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Update: family got the hint, delivered successfully

A copy of Cool Machine, a novel by Colson Whitehead.

020

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'd like to see The Odyssey in IMAX, but there are only first- or second-row tickets left for the next two weeks and that does not sound fun. Online advice seems to be "if you lean way back in your seat, it's fine!" but I am 6'2" and 47 years old and will I just be paying extra for a sore back?

000

Reposted by Chad Lucas

Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Like all Canadian government surveys on AI, this is hilariously pro-AI. But it only takes like 5 minutes to fill out, and at the end you can make it clear that the only focus of the government when it comes to AI and culture is that Canadian artists need copyright protections from AI scraping.

13196147

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This guy’s been hanging around the yard enough that he’s grown comfortable. Didn’t even hop away when I walked past on my way to the bus stop.

A brown rabbit, hanging out in the green grass next to my driveway.

000

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I’ve started S2 of Running Point, and I love that they’ve made Toronto the villainous superteam of their fake NBA, but assuming they parallel the real NBA, the shots of Toronto as a grey, frozen snowscape during opening week — late October — are a bit much.

010

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My 16yo is very chill and I appreciate that about him but this week we figured out he has been casually existing on 3 T-shirts and 2 pairs of shorts. Outgrew everything else and never mentioned it. Riding through the summer on pure vibes.

140

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Extremely considerate of Colson Whitehead to release the final Harlem Trilogy book the week before my birthday. My family has been appropriately informed.

110

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Took the whole family to see The Rise of Skywalker. When it was over, we walked to the van in a disappointed silence until my youngest kid, then 10, said, "That was doo-doo." The drive home with the kids dissecting all the ways it was doo-doo was much more fun than the movie.

010

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Wrote 2600 words this weekend, made myself laugh multiple times. Sometimes the work is pure fun.

160

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

For the good of society, we need to rein in this dangerous and anti-social behaviour.

An enormous grey truck is parked with most of its bed sticking out of a parking space, blocking the lane.

0101

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My ultimate “feedback is subjective” anecdote: When I was querying what is now Let The Monster Out, I got two rejections in the same week where one agent thought I left too much unsaid and another said I over-explained too often.

040

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Severe weather wiped out Canada Day celebrations in Ottawa too. Both national capitals, three days apart. I know it sounds wild, but it’s almost like we should pay attention to the changing climate or something.

040

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I dropped the youngest kid at work this morning and kept going. Everyone else in my family had places to be, so alas, it’s just me, George Saunders, and the Atlantic Ocean.

A copy of Vigil, by George Saunders, next to a water bottle, with the Atlantic Ocean in the background.

040

Reposted by Chad Lucas

John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I don't think people understand the degree to which outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times set back trans rights with second-rate reporting that doesn't stand up now, let alone in the future. They have failed at the most basic journalistic duties.

262650750

Reposted by Chad Lucas

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

this whole story is great but the quote post with further context from the dad made me cackle I’m obsessed with this kid

130857

Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Neighbour stopped by for breakfast

A deer, caught in the act of munching on a hasta.

0102

Reposted by Chad Lucas

Dr Joanna McKenzie @jobob.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I have struggled to put into words how much I dislike the "ban kids from social media" policy. This thread catches some of it.

1289