iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Two job interviews this week. One on Vancouver Island and the other in Golden.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Instead of wars, how about we make leaders go 1v1?

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." —William Gibson

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Okay friends, it’s time to begin Phase Two of Operation: What’s Next. I’ve officially dusted the cobwebs off my ancient LinkedIn profile and I’m asking for a little help from the hive mind.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Sometimes, when I feel petty, I want to call it the “Whine” Industry.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Okay, Internet Hive-Mind, what should my next chapter look like?

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Fairly assessing a decade of one’s own work is a fascinating enterprise. Take, for example, digital footprint—in this case, there is a single potential buyer, but a ton of opportunity cost. How do you value these things?

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I wish we still had an America that wielded the power of principles, instead of one that relishes in the naked principle of power.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

America: "We're doing all we can" Also America: "We can't do a general strike, I would lose my dental benefits"

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Say it with me, friends: The ends don’t justify the means. They never have, and never will. Allowing yourself to think otherwise is how you lose your soul and moral centre, piece by piece.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Fentanyl isn’t a weapon of mass destruction. It’s not a weapon. It does, however cause massive destruction. Trump’s declaration that it’s a WMD to justify the use military force against a “weapon”, when there are many other tools to use.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Forget trans people in sports, we need to monitor spelling bees and math olympiads for Tylenol doping. Isn’t that the very definition of unfair advantage?

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Since it’s my 50th birthday next week, give me your most unhinged suggestions on what I could do for my “mid-life crisis”.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Less than two weeks until my 50th birthday. DM me if you want to be invited. :)

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Microsoft CoPilot is pushy to the point of feeling like a clingy ex. I’m sorry, MSFT, you’re not getting pity sex out of me.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This morning’s medications include: 50mg prednisone 1000mg NAC 10mg cetirizine 60mg biphentin 4 puffs 100mcg salbutamol (ventalin) 2 puffs budesonide / glycopyrronium / formoterol fumarate (breztri) 2 puffs 20mcg ipratropium bromide (atrovent)

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

When somebody tells you they hung out at The Haçienda in Manchester back-in-the-day, you’re clearly in the presence of someone cooler than most of the people you’ve ever met.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The Lord yeeteth and the Lord yoinketh away.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

It’s gettin’, it’s gettin’, it’s gettin’ kind of hectic.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

If I had a nickel for every astrophysicist I’ve met since I moved to Keremeos, I’d have nearly a dollar.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Boundary-setting sucks sometimes, even if it’s necessary.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

In the last few years I’ve developed an awful histamine reaction to all forms of alcohol. An instant snotty, itchy mess. How am I supposed to let someone get me drunk and take advantage of me now?!?

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Was I anxiously attached *before* I married an avoidant on the spectrum? :D

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

End of day three in the hospital for Influenza A + Pneumonia + Asthma = breathing crisis. O2 blood sats are still only 95% with oxygen support, but the infections are clearing and I showered myself today. Huzzah!

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I try do equal labour around the house and in parenting, emotional and otherwise, but also demand to be equal in setting standards and priorities. Women have a lot of social conditioning to let go of, too.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

In Penticton Emerg because my lungs have decided they hate me. Is it out-of-control asthma? A lung infection? Something else?

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

An image of cartoon man in a toque and a flannel shirt with the words “Visit Canada: We won’t throw you into a Salvadoran gulag without due process!”

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Kid finds a nearly 20 year old meme shirt in my closet. Loves it. Chose to wear it to school this morning. Is he cool? I think he’s cool.

Picture of a shirt featuring a black cat with its mouth open facing a white porcelain cat statue. Has the words “I said… you comes here often”?

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The kid is now playing Ween songs on his acoustic guitar. Right now, it’s this one… bad Mexican accent and all. How did my kid get this weird/cool?! Cinco de Mayo for the win. youtu.be/uv-gT9lNa1g

youtu.be

Ween - Buenas Tardes Amigo

YouTube video by leeotubee

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

A friend who is an elementary school educator attended a series of Pro-D presentations yesterday and one sentence went off like a bomb for her: "The first symptom of a learning disability is a sore tummy."

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Took my ADHD meds on a totally empty stomach. Now I feel like I could wrestle a bear while organizing my spice cupboard alphabetically.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

What if instead of arguing on social media, we met in a school gym and went at each other with pool noodles instead?

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Sometimes there’s alternate versions of songs that just change your brain chemistry. Maybe it’s a remix, maybe it’s an acoustic version, but there’s something about it a connect with a deeper place. What’s one of those for you?

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Of all the potential purchasers of the Hudson Bay Company core brand identity, I’m kind-of rooting for Canadian Tire to get it. Or, hear me out, Indigenous ownership.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

In my twenties, there were two music-related minor mysteries that were simmering in the back of my mind: 1) How the hell did Mae Moore end up opening for Morrissey in Vancouver in 1993? 2) How did Spirit of the West end up on a Wonder Stuff album? Yes, I have niche interests.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I used to think the internet was going to connect me with my people. You know, those who could talk for hours about the geopolitical context of “I’m With Stupid” by the Pet Shop Boys. The internet failed me.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

@benbradleyca.bsky.social going to be in the south Okanagan/Similkameen this summer?

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I'm young, and I'm hip, and I'm going to be a Supermodel. Rest in peace, Jill Sobule--you kissed a girl long before Katy ever did.

The cover of Jill Sobule's self-titled album featuring Jill smiling with a yellow scarf and aviator goggles.

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

If you could help yourself to any single object at work and take it home as a keepsake, without consequence, what would you grab? (Something sentimental or representative, not for pure value.)

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A stinking broken freezer, complete political exhaustion, frustrating health issues. And yet, I just checked and my business is up ~60% YTD over same period last year. It's still really early in the season, but holy crap! This might just be the year I've needed to have since COVID hit...

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The aroma associated with discovering a freezer has failed is the worst. 🤢🤮

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Chris Mathieson @cognoscento.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Look, we *just* had an election. Can we maybe take a *short* break from the compulsive political posting? Why don’t we all try to find new hobbies for a little while?

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