iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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TIME LOOPS ARE A GO If you havent backed this you should

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James W. Lackie - Dark fantasy Author @jameswlackie.bsky.social · 15h

Mercutio, by @kateheartfield.com, is so wonderfully weird! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The book somehow manages to effortlessly weave historical events and some of the world's best, most magical stories into something beautiful and terrifying but strangely plausible. I am so happy that I picked this one up! 📚🙂

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 10h

Good luck to everyone doing DVPit today!

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 10h

There is a cat on my lap and my legs are starting to fall asleep, this may be the end, farewell!

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 10h

I don't think Carney deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, but Trump deserves for Carney to get the Nobel Peace Prize.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 11h

Humans do the “make it a question so it doesn’t sound so bad” thing and it still sounds bad.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 30/09/2026

... I'd found a powerful and magical place that I should not mess with.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 30/09/2026

When I was a kid, I found a perfectly round pond in the back woods of our farm that was completely covered with duckweed. I'd never seen it before. I threw a rock in, and where it hit there was a dark circle of water that then immediately closed with green. I was overwhelmed with the feeling that...

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 29/09/2026

BRB, gotta go write a queer normative retelling of the Battle of Hastings.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 29/09/2026

Drain pipe on my kitchen sink broke today and it's not the most stressful thing I'm dealing with right now, how's your day going?

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secretman11.bsky.social @secretman11.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The 2-axis political alignment chart is pretty much useless since there's only 1 real "dimension" to politics Nobody's in the "socially liberal, economically conservative" corner The two dimensions are "government should help everyone" vs "government should lift people like me above everyone else"

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 29/09/2026

One of my favourite movies of all time is "The Castle," which opens with "My name is Dale Kerrigan, and this is my story." Dale proceeds to narrate events that he was present for but had almost no active role in. Every ad or summary describes the plot as being about Dale's father. It's awesome.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 29/09/2026

When you shuffle a deck of cards and draw them, you don't draw any card twice until you draw all of the other cards or reset (reshuffle). If I set my music to play on shuffle, I don't want the same song to come up every second or third song.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 29/09/2026

...using which detector and which ones are or aren't the version of AI I don't want to touch. I'm not saying you're wrong about Pangram, I'm just exhausted by all of it.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 29/09/2026

I mean, the Gen AI companies have been intentionally muddying the waters about what is and isn't AI, and every supposedly ethical tech company has done a hard heel turn, I think people have a pretty good reason to be skeptical. I personally don't have the time or energy to investigate who is...

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 29/09/2026

Fair enough. I am just wary of giving them an inch.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 29/09/2026

My concern on this front (I am not a lawyer) is that my understanding of IP law is that if someone does not protect their IP in known cases of infringement, they can lose the right to protect it in other cases of infringement.

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Tao Wong @taowong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Preorder The First War, the final book in the first arc of the A Thousand Li series!

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 28/09/2026

All things considered, the things I have accomplished are remarkable. The things I could have accomplished... Sometimes I despair.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 28/09/2026

I am 57 and some aspects of my life are really good, but despite my many privileges, I started a new minimum wage retail job last November. I really only started learning what was wrong with me in my late 40s and I am still developing my ability to manage any of it.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026

Literally this, so much, forever, in so many ways that are hard to articulate and reach facets of life I never imagined.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 28/09/2026

If the fact that I take advantage of technological advances that allow me to easily listen to audiobooks instead of the radio any time I want means I live in a bubble, I guess I'm happy to live in a bubble.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 28/09/2026

Whenever I read an AI apology like that, all I hear is an abusive boyfriend saying, "I'm sorry baby, you know I didn't mean it!"

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 27/09/2026

I did not, however, love seeing an oncoming car half in my lane as it came around a blind corner. That it was a cop car did not make it better.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 27/09/2026

The change in the colour of the leaves I see on my drive to work between yesterday and today is breathtaking.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Would you bring an iced coffee to a despot monarch facing the guillotine

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MedSystem helpfully informed me that my performance reliability was now at 58 percent and dropping, which was not a surprise.

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The Card @thecard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bringing an iced coffee to a knife fight.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 26/09/2026

Android wants to update my phone with fucking Harry Potter theme packs because apparently I am not angry enough about the fucking AI they keep shoving at me.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of the worst things about streaming with ads is no humans appear to be in charge of placing the ad breaks. Even shows which originally had ad breaks, where there was an obvious break in the narrative for it, don't have the ad breaks put in those places now

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026

Every day we get closer to this:

Cartoon by the human artist Twonks, showing George Jetson vacuuming the floor while Rosie the robot paints a picture

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 25/09/2026

Also, I was managing a cafe and hiring baristas.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 25/09/2026

When I used to be in the position to interview people for jobs, my first question was always "do want a coffee or something?" Because I am not a fucking barbarian.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 25/09/2026

I prefer Romanscifi (pronounced Romancify).

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 25/09/2026

Good morning! Here is today's newsletter, mostly a look back at my book contracts over the last 11 years. People often ask me how long it took me to write a given book (I was asked last night) and I struggle to answer that because I'm always working on multiple projects.

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Tour dispatch, plus a timeline of book contracts

Hi everyone! I write to you from beautiful Burlington, on the shore of Lake Ontario, where I’m partway through my tour for Mercutio. I’m driving a rental car...

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 24/09/2026

Said as a bad thing: "people increasingly view everything they do and create as property"--yeah I cannot fathom why people who are largely broke with less and less control over their lives, priced out of housing and groceries, might feel ownership of the things they create themselves. Total mystery.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Obviously, there was a big human argument.

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NDP @ndp.ca · 24/09/2026

By taxing the richest 0.3% of Canadians, some 133,000 people, we could raise $1 billion per year to go towards fixing our broken healthcare system, building affordable housing, or creating a national public grocery network to drive down the cost of groceries. No selling of our airports required.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 24/09/2026

People of Cambridge, Ontario and environs! City of my birth! I stopped at Indigo Cambridge Centre as I passed throigh today, and signed stock, including an original 2018 edition of Armed in Her Fashion, which is a rare find these days! (It was rereleased later as The Chatelaine.)

A stack of copies of Mercutio, plus one copy each of Armed in Her Fashion and The Valkyrie.

Kate holding a copy of Mercutio as smiling.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Then Toad felt very tired, and he fell asleep.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 24/09/2026

At this point, I just want to put it somewhere that more than 5 people might see it. More people engage with my posts here than anywhere else.

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