iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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the crazy thing about making time for any creative pursuit is that you literally have to do what you have a gut-deep yearning to do or else you'll see other people doing it, and it WILL make you insane.

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Brittni Brinn @brittnibrinn.bsky.social · 11h

Excited to celebrate the release of this collection and chat with two of the authors! Monday, October 5, 2026 Doors open at 6:30 pm 1531 Grafton St, 3rd floor Halifax, Nova Scotia Hope to meet you there!

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Remembering Vancouver music writer Andrea Warner, who died this week of cancer at age 47 This is a beautiful remembrance that includes many links to Andrea's work. www.cbc.ca/music/andrea...

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Saying goodbye to Andrea Warner | CBC Music

We lost one of the very best on Sept. 27.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

just secured my first round of funding for my startup! it's called OMELAS. Its goal is to make Omelas in real life

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Cat Rector @catrector.com · 01/10/2026

HEY HALIFAX READERS Booktoberfest is THIS SATURDAY and we want to see you there! 70+ authors of all genres are selling and signing books, you can attend workshops and readings, and you can support your local library at the same time Bring a friend, tell your book club, come visit us!

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Booktoberfest 2026. 70+ Nova Scotian authors and publishers. Free Writing workshops and readings. Halifax Central Library. Saturday October 3 11-3pm.

A list of the 70+ local authors that are attending the event

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You really don't have to send me long emails scolding me about the things you think I did badly in my book. That can be an inside thought. Or a Goodreads review.

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One item on the very long list of things I love about my wife is how reactive she is when we watch horror films. She jumps and shrieks at the least little scare. Tonight we watched Obsession. Pretty sure the scream she scrumpt when Nikki broke the car window was loud enough to kill the Gentlemen.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/09/2026

The lie that privatization will reduce wait times is already being exposed, but that won’t stop political leaders from continuing to try to destroy our public healthcare system.

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Sonja Boon @storiedselves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Booktoberfest is coming up this weekend, on October 3! Over 60 authors and publishers plus readings and free workshops: all at Halifax Central Library. Hope to see you there!

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I had a dream last night that bookstores suddenly decided to organize all their stock according to BookTok trends instead of genre and I was wandering through shelves labelled "hot nasty dragonfucking" and "nineteenth century girlboss assassin" trying to find my own book.

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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TriCon @tricon-hfx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

WE HAVE DATES! We are delighted to confirm that TriCon Halifax will be returning in 2027! May 21-23 2027 at the NSCAD Port Campus. And TODAY ONLY we are taking EARLY-Early bird weekend pass registrations at the @halconscificon.bsky.social Stories from the Stars book fair!

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm doing two events in NS next month! The first is a joint signing with Bee Stanton at NovelTea in Truro on October 10. The second is Hauntings and Harvests, an author reading with @tiffmorris.bsky.social, @thisisannick.bsky.social, and Margo Wheaton at WFNS in Halifax on October 24. Come hang!

A poster advertising a joint signing at NovelTea with authors Bee Stanton and Elliott Gish on October 10.

A poster advertising Hauntings and Harvests, a joint reading on October 24.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 26/09/2026

queen victoria told me the northwest passage keeps eating her poorly planned expeditions so i asked how many expeditions she has and she said she just goes to the royal academy and gets a new afterwards so i said it sounds like shes just feeding ships to the ice and then prince albert started crying

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Helen Pinsent @heleninwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It still astonishes me how a man can be so dramatically ill suited for a job that didn’t exist until he had it.

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

is it in poor taste to eat poutine while watching a film about the potato famine asking for a friend

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the main reason i find fantasy lacking as a genre is that there is exactly one fantasy plot worth telling and we already got to it with Tolkien and it is "satan ran across the icy tundra, pursued by the giant spider who wanted to eat all his diamonds"

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Y'ever look at those emails in your spam folder claiming you've been randomly selected as the beneficiary of some fabulous cash prize and allow yourself, just for a moment, to hope?

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This man brushing a crow suddenly stops, but the bird gives the brush back as it wants more. Original post

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

actual photograph of me and my wife (I'm the bush dog)

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ironic that the day after posting this I have such a bad Holes In My Brain reaction to getting slightly less sleep than usual that I end up throwing up in a cab. Maybe I AM a homosexual Tiny Tim.

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unnamed literary agent in @thedriftmag.com's anonymous AI confessional. (love this format.)

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't think I will ever get used to people reacting as though I have mere weeks to live when I mention having MS. Like. It sucks, yes, but I am mostly fine! Please stop gazing sadly upon me like I'm a homosexual Tiny Tim!

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𝔏𝔦𝔳𝔢 𝔏𝔞𝔲𝔤𝔥 𝔏𝔬𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢 @fleurkenstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In just ✨63✨ followers you will become aware of the 𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚑𝚞𝚖. Click *follow* to be enveloped by its ethereal tones and experience true joy. The 𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚑𝚞𝚖 is waiting to show you its glory, you are chosen by the 𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚑𝚞𝚖. Be at one with its light 🫴🏼 Click follow ✨now✨

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The cover for FF#29 by @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social has arrived! Official release date coming soon, when you can read work by @louisinglishall.bsky.social, Sarah M. Saif, Escher McDonell-Maulsby, Natasha Ali, @breewernicke.bsky.social, @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, and @elliottgish.bsky.social!

The cover of FF#29 shows a woman in black veils pondering an orb. In the background, two pillars frame a sun-ish light.

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" is an important aphorism for us all in this age of weirdo fascism, but it is particularly important for me, a person who continually eats things that make her tummy hurt using the infallible logic of "maybe it won't this time tho."

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mulholland Drive (2001)

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

can you feel it in the air?

cover of THE HANDSOME PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF AUTUMN TURNS ME GAY featuring a handsome man on the left taking off his shirt and on the right there is an already shirtless man with a PUMPKIN HEAD there are orange leaves all around them

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Goodreads reviews of Certain Books are windows into an experience of reading that is totally alien to me. Saying "okay yeah the writing is TERRIBLE but this book is SO GOOD" is, to me, like saying "this muffin tastes like literal shit but is actually delicious." I simply do not get it.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Carly Rae Jepsen is great in part because her songs are horny in ways that most musicians can't capture all of. Cheerfully horny. Wistfully horny. Hornnui. She has the horny range.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So thoughtful of your parents to put together their very own fall tv preview! Read it here: www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

Shouts & Murmurs
Your Parents’ Fall TV Preview
By Josh Gondelman
Published 9/17/2026

A photo of an older white couple sitting on a couch watching tv.

“North of South of the Border” on Paramount+

Welcome to El Paso, where men are men and women are cast mostly in nonspeaking roles. Taylor Sheridan’s latest drama stars Mel Gibson as a Border Patrol agent who feels conflicted about his work because his bosses won’t let him arbitrarily deport Jews and Greek people. Sheridan’s shows currently take up so much of Paramount’s programming that there isn’t enough time in the day to air “North of South of the Border” as its own hour-long drama. It appears exclusively in snippets on television sets that characters are watching within the show “Landman,” which your parents refer to as “Yellowstone.”

“Tendershire Farms” (Season 18) on BritBox
Maude Tendershire (Olivia Gingerbottom) works as the caretaker for her family’s historic chamomile farm. That’s about it. The show is so cozy and soothing that the actors frequently fell asleep during takes and can be spotted snoozing in the background. This season, low-jinx ensue after Lord Gilderoy (Hankleton Dunderthorpe III) stops by for a visit, but he’s already eaten so he doesn’t stay for tea. A lamb wanders off but soon returns. And for one entire episode, a gentle breeze rustles the branches of a weeping willow tree as an inaudible conversation takes place nearby.

“Dr. Shaft, M.D.” on Fox
An underground facility known as Drive Shaft, Maryland, is home to the Washington, D.C. metro area’s most cutthroat drag-racing scene—and there’s a new driver tearing up the quarter-mile track. Other gearheads know him as Smooth J., but at his day job, at the Foggy Bottom Urology Clinic, Jason Shafterton goes by Dr. Shaft. Will his addiction to fast driving undermine his commitment to providing affordable penile health care to residents of our nation’s capital? Only time will tell. Your parents really aren’t that interested in the racing scenes or, frankly, the medical stuff. But your mom refuses to miss an episode because the show stars Daveed Diggs from the original cast of “Hamilton.”

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i hold my cat's tiny delicate little head in my hand and he purrs and lets me do it because he trusts me not to hurt him even though i am much bigger than he is and it is so lovely sometimes i have to just do a little cry about it

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 16/09/2026

Timeline cleanse

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

look i think we just need to agree as a society that if you do not have headphones you simply do not get to watch your little videos on the bus

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 15/09/2026

‘Hacks’ star Hannah Einbinder reposts Ed Sheeran’s $400 million net worth: “Ed Sheeran i say this as a ginger. i hope you get a REALLY bad sun burn the kind on the back of your entire body where it hurts to lie down or walk or sit.”

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Carney is using the threat of a far-right Conservative government to advance increasing right-wing economic policies under the centrist Liberal label.

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

a spider should never be SO BIG that I CAN HEAR IT WALKING get out of my HOUSE you CREATURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15/09/2026

I can’t believe the Babadook tweet lady just won an Emmy lmao never tell me online isn’t real

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Biggest thing the Missus and I took away from our time in the UK: beans on toast is actually the best lazy meal.

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

kudos to macklemore here for —right off the bat— the perspective and acknowledgment of who the real victims are

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.

But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

First excerpt from End Times Fascism! So happy The Guardian went for the part of the book about the wonder of THIS world, and the people doing everything to commit to it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear

An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them

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