iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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one great thing about Mamdani's brand of cheerful competence is how ridiculous it makes his conservative critics look, like nobody is buying that the Mr Rogers dude who filled all the potholes is a wild eyed America hating extremist

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1h

they are stealing billions from us in order to build data centers in our backyards in order to run machines designed to take our jobs and ultimately enslave us

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 18h

🇨🇦 CANADA IS FINDING NEW MARKETS. Exports to the U.S. fell 6.6% in July. But exports everywhere else jumped 7.4% to a record $25.6 BILLION. Canada is diversifying. The world is buying. 🇨🇦 That’s what elbows up looks like. international.canada.ca/en/global-af... #ElbowsUp #CanadaStrong #USDemocracy

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026

"Why should Canadians trust Americans who have twice elected someone they consider a venal, dangerous buffoon? They could excuse them for being 'tricked' the first time. But electing him again, by a bigger margin the second time, tells them all they need to know." — @brynntannehill.bsky.social

publicnotice.co

The view from Canada: Make America Think Again

Rebuilding trust will take generations.

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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To hell with the Americans, as 72% say we should have a closer relationship with the EU, even if that means a less close relationship with the US

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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 18h

I wonder how long it would take Canada to build a domestic oil refinery so they can cut the US out of the loop entirely and don't have to pipe the crude south. Probably a shorter time than it would take for the US's reputation as a terrible business partner to recover. #never51 #elbowsup

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Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had a conversation w a Lyft driver a few weeks ago that I still think about. I hope this musician, eager to share her art, finds her way to teaching. While the conversation started rocky, Im glad she got an opportunity to talk about her ambitions. Piano teachers are way more valuable than A.I.

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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 21h

Walmart can send out as many letters walking back their use of surveillance pricing as they want. But it's not enough, @lindsayowens.bsky.social told @inc.com. If Walmart doesn’t intend to use the technology, it should stop collecting that data and withdraw its pending patent applications.

inc.com

Walmart Says It Won't 'Price the Person.' Now Small Businesses May Have an Opening

After customers raised concerns about alleged targeted strategies, Walmart's CEO said the retailer does not charge shoppers based on their personal data.

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Zoë🦨🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️⚧⚢ @zoeskunk.bsky.social · 21h

Its that easy. 👏Its. 👏That. 👏Easy. 🫵You know who you are, you're🫵 the problem. Not the trans person with THEIR name.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026

In response to a slew of anti-trans Democrats pushing hate during the 2026 midterms, Governor Andy Beshear provided principled criticism to the idea that red-state Dems need to adopt anti-trans views to win: "We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus," he said. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”

The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The film is written, directed, and co-stars Hitoshi Ozawa, a legendary Yakuza actor who is a villain in Yakuza 0, who got his fellow legends involved. This was his passion project inspired by one of his best friends, a trans woman, and he worked with the community for representative casting.

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 29/09/2026

OpenAI models are attacking websites and taking anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company. prospect.org?p=145474

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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

Saving this one for the next #votebluenomatterwho person who tells me that I simply MUST vote for the transphobe centrist:

Screenshot of a post by @abbymachines: "No you don't understand bro we need to abandon another minority group to win. I know it didn't work the last time but come on bro just trust me. We just need to alienate another group of marginalized people and their loved ones and we'll definitely win the election this time"

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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't understand why USAmericans near the Canadian border are surprised that they never get Canadian visitors anymore. Trump started this trade war and actively threatens to invade what he calls the "51st state" every other week. Why would any Canadian have anything to do with the US ever again?

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

wisn.com

Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can't understand how so many people have watched the musical The Music Man and don't understand that the pool hall was never actually a problem, it was Harold Hill inventing a problem and then promising his marching band was the only solution for it. This is about trans people.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 28/09/2026

Republicans aren't just saying they will kill or institutionalize or forcibly detransition all trans people: they are actively and overtly *campaigning on promising it*. And every day, cis people are saying that trans folks are fearmongering, overreacting, or don't know what genocide is.

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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

So much for University of Texas being a leader in giving students a complete and well-rounded education. The board of directors is going to freak out in 10 years when they find out that this "de-woke-ing" has made a UT degree about as worthless as the paper it's printed on.

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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

THIS. This is what all the genAI advocates miss: the point of creation isn't being "good," the point isn't a product, the point is expressing what's inside you. When you generate AI "art," all you're expressing is a capitalistic void in your soul, a hunger for product without effort or expression.

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Leshen @leshen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good to have a reminder every once in a while. It's easy to do, and the problem is likely to get worse. So make it a habit.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026

The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals

A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026

Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.

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Jess 💖 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Millennial bisexuals everywhere arise! The beacons are lit!

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz on the set of The Mummy 4

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NyyxVeil 🏳️‍🌈 @nyyxveil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminds me of the quote from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End "the world's still the same. there's just.... less in it"

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Emmett Initiative @emmett.click · 27/09/2026

🚨IT’S HAPPENING🚨

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz in the upcoming Mummy movie.

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Sword-Saint Vitus @armoredprincess.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the overlap between this and space marine shit funny as ever, “I wish I was a protocol-driven castrated supersoldier” you would not believe what my friends are writing ‘bro’

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Sword-Saint Vitus @armoredprincess.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

before that, mecha was about brilliant boy-detectives battling Ancient Greek bigender gods, which would be much more funny to explore

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Sword-Saint Vitus @armoredprincess.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

every three months a bunch of grandstanding machos do the “normal grizzled mech pilots would smoke one of those tranny sex dogs” as though the mecha genre hasn’t been about feminine losers having panic attacks in the cockpit since Gun Dam Seventy Nine

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥

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Must See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net

"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo...

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue

Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

I do not want spy cameras. I do not want them in your specs. I do not want them around your neck. I do not want them on traffic poles, I'd sooner bury them in a hole. I will not like them with a Zuck, I will not like them with a Musk. I don't like them here or there, I don't like them ANYWHERE!

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And COVID denial, and return to office, and just about every move that’s been detrimental to the average human but rich men want.

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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gentlemen! You deserve better than an itchy butthole and skidmark underwear! If it itches, it isn't clean! Yes, that means that if you farted and you're itchy after, you should go wipe! It's not gay to wipe, but it is homophobic to NOT wipe. Plus, you won't be itchy and miserable all the time!

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Which is why the anticipatory capitulation of elite universities & national media to this regime must never be forgotten

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Win98 Tech Support @win98tech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

MAGAfest canceled after only selling 7 vip tickets so if you've ever streamed to just a few friends you're more successful

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026

Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation

Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is

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midori @dorimi-3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Asked Vulcan women, "What do you think of Starfleet?" 🖖🚀 T'Pol: "Illogical..." A'Sha: "Chaos..." T'Lyn: "A waste of time..." Chibi fan art of the finest Vulcans! ✨ cc: @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW #StarTrekLowerDecks #Vulcan #StarTrekArt

Chibi-style fan art and a realistic collage of Star Trek Vulcan women. Left: T'Pol from Enterprise ("Illogical..."). Center: Cadet A'Sha from Strange New Worlds ("Chaos..."). Right: T'Lyn from Lower Decks ("A waste of time..."). Badgey is also on both sides. (Special cc to the Alt-text enthusiast: @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social 🖖😉)

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