iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐

AP. | Maps and Games @ap-cartography.bsky.social · 18h

I think this is currently my favourite project I've yet been asked to work on - a map of a character's journey, highlighting the birds she has seen and heard while traveling! Being made for "Women's Wrongs" a part Gothic romance, part utopian travelogue and part comedy of manners by Zilla Novikov.

A hand working on a graphics tablet showing a part of a map with a couple of birds

3172

Reposted by Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've just seen the first print proof of Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol 4, so there's no better time to announce the full TABLE OF CONTENTS!!! Join us for our launch at Can*Con on Oct 17 and our Bakka-Phoenix launch on Nov 14 or pre-order your copy now! #booksky

26624

Reposted by Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐

Rich Tate 🎃 @richtate.com · 26/05/2026

The Forbidden Lamp CarmesJocelin

A giant moth clinging to a lighthouse on a pink sunset.

120147543808

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's like Christians telling me I'm going to hell. Why yes, I would rather stay with all the fun people.

32705

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It was very clear why Google search was better than other searches, and GMail was at first quite good at filtering out spam compared with the alternatives. I got an iPhone for reasons that were obvious at the time. No one has presented me with a rationale for LLMs improving my life in any way.

1141

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

if you had pictures of three people on prayer candles who would they be

020

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm primarily concerned that they want to stop kids from talking to other kids on social media so that they only talk to chatbots.

010

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Goddamn that book is so good. It became my personality for about 6 months after reading it.

110

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I really think that it's coming from an unexamined belief amongst the right but also liberals that some people are less human than others. If you think a Palestinian child is exactly as human as you are, you would be able to think of little else beyond the genocide.

052

Reposted by Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐

evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.

431433341

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't know, let's burn down all the data centres and find out for sure if an AI can suffer in hell.

000

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The revelation for me came when I fell down a rabbit hole of reading those forums. Every single one of them sounded exactly like my biological father. It was like they were reading from the same script.

1220

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sitting here on a Saturday night commenting on the posters my Grade 12 students made based on @davidarobertson.bsky.social 's "52 Ways to Reconcile" and it's putting a big smile on my face. So much gratitude for that little book.

050

Reposted by Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐

Kauzigg @kauzigg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's easy to have sort of a low level, background radiation disgust because it's now so prevalent but the degree to which online gambling is pushed and enabled in every facet of our lives is so fucking creepy and people should be in jail about it

1393

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Welp now I have Christmas plans, let’s gooooo.

081

Reposted by Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐

Lisa The Riveter @lisatheriveter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The comments are amazing!

072

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I hope so for your sake. With the exception of one situation where the sound system at the venue wasn't as great as it should have been and didn't do him justice, his performance has gotten better and better each time.

010

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think I have seen him every time he played Toronto, including like the downstairs of some bar with about 20 people at the show.

110

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

haven't listened yet (although I have tickets to see him already!) but I'm bracing myself given the context.

110

Reposted by Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐

Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1:
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”

9186691871

Reposted by Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Folks going to Can*Con, and folks looking for cool mostly-Canadian SFFH writers to follow, I made a starter pack with the folks I could find from the program: go.bsky.app/SE8c2SQ #BookSky @canconsffh.bsky.social

52314

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I had so much fun. Looking forward to tomorrow as well!

130

Reposted by Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐

Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

15786372556

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm so happy that you folks are doing this thing! You've helped me find all kinds of new music, too.

020

Reposted by Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐

MTH @megt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ends at 9 PM Pacific TODAY ... last chance to get a great deal on #fantasy novels! (Including mine!). #booksky 🪐📚

063

Reposted by Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

8585392214

Reposted by Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐

jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US

3053861098

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There’s a concept called affordances and I think it’s worth looking at it through that lens. What does the technology allow people to do with it? A car is not sentient, but that’s not what’s dangerous about a car.

130

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh yes I’m not sure they’re sentient exactly.

000

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I very much wish all the teachers know, but I had someone feed one of my lessons into a chatbot yesterday and act shocked when I was upset by it.

001

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't know. People in schools haven't figured it out.

100

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I genuinely need people to understand that the techbros telling us that AI is inevitable and will change the world and needs to be squeezed into every facet of our lives are in fact unhinged maniacs.

524651

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am trying to choose compassion and not violence.

110

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On this month's episode of Wizards & Spaceships, we drink two bottles of wine with author, marine biologist, and enemy-of-the-state Peter Watts and ask him about climate change and theories of consciousness.

wizardsandspaceships.ca

Season 3, Episode 5: Are We Having Fun Yet? ft. Peter Watts – Wizards and Spaceships

060

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I gave this teacher all of my materials as they are new to teaching the course, and they seem desperate to use AI even though they also took my anti-AI classroom policy.

100

Reposted by Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐

Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...

Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.

And if you want to say something else true that almost no Democrat ever says for some reason you can top it off with a “Every single Republican in our lifetime has sought to make our lives worse in every way possible. I’d like to try to stop that.”

6749161110

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I love it when a book is so vivid that the imagery and vibe for the cover just suggest themselves. It's queer and trans epic semi-fiction poetry set in the 1930s and it will haunt you.

091

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Do Gen Z even know about them? Pratchett, I guess, because of That Show, but I'd wager most kids have their own contemporary icons except for those who are already rampantly nerdy.

020

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

14/10 thread. I'm seeing this in high school now too.

071

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It would be cool if the labour movement could put forth a critique of GenAI as scab labour, but that would require 1) there to be a union movement, and 2) for it to remember that scab labour is bad.

080

Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sujay/Maya (the name change is a long story), one of the protagonists in my Sleep of Reason trilogy. She's a bisexual wizard intern turned anarchist revolutionary in a climate-ravaged future Canada. Cascade: mybook.to/cascade or bppress.ca/shop/ Blight: books2read.com/u/mYVl9P or bppress.ca/shop/

A young brown woman with glasses wearing a green hoodie and black jeans. She's quite short and fat and has long black hair. In front of her is a yellow rubber duck, nad behind her is graffiti that says Mac-Paps.

032