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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ

@greynotgrey.bsky.social
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Raconteur, bon-vivant, man-about-town Teacher, media designer, légétébéqouis MTL QC CA 514-1312 FUCK AI

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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We already had "Render Lighting Effects" but it got deprecated in what, 2024? Bring that back instead. It was actually useful. Adobe, cramming dating app slop features into the suite. Is this what our bloated subscriptions are being invested in? #Adobe #Slop www.creativebloq.com/design/graph...
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Photoshop's controversial new AI tool is dividing opinion
Does Relight transform photo retouching.... or turn people into video game characters?
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The city makes its own collage #Montreal #Photography #Art #EastCoastKin
Montreal
Torn handbills on a light post
Emergent implied narratives of collageMontreal
Torn handbills on a light post
Emergent implied narratives of collageMontreal
Torn handbills on a light post
Emergent implied narratives of collageMontreal
Torn handbills on a light post
Emergent implied narratives of collage
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just remember, All Cats Are Babey and pope Clement disbanded the knights Templar in 1312
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Silent Sunday #photography #reflections #EastCoastKin
Ile de la visitation
Montreal quebec

Shoreline reflections
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Slop doesn't sell. "... if the generated imagery simply "doesn't look like the food," it won't work to pull customers in. "I think that restaurateurs are better off taking pictures with their iPhone" #AISlop www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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AI-generated food imagery at restaurants has some customers losing their appetites | CBC News
Diners have taken to social media to share photos of overly-shiny sandwiches and circular shrimp, lamenting the suspected use of AI. But some in the restaurant business say it's helped them reduce cos...
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205TF @205tf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Leopardo, designed by Alexandre Bassi, draws inspiration from rich chancery models created by writing masters of the 16th and 17th centuries, offering a boldly contemporary interpretation. www.205.tf/leopardo
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In the three primary languages of my neighbourhood in Montreal Mohn (מאָן) Pavot Poppy #bloomscrolling #photography #eck
Red poppy in shallow focus
Montreal, Quebec
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Geoff Graham @geoffgraham.me · 17/09/2026
Kevin's one of my favorite people and what he says here is incredibly sweet... and accurate.
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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today in CSS: We all know you can change the highlight colour of selected text, but it's impossible to animate that colour. Unless… the colour was just a variable inherited from the parent element, using @​property to make it animatable… Hahahahaha…
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Damian Lynch 🟧 🇦🇺 Rebellion is Mandatory during times of Tyranny @dpsl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thought I should repost the lemonade stand instructions
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Silent Sunday #Montreal #Cityscape #photography #EastCoastKin
Water tower at the Van Horne overpass
Montreal, Quebec
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
footnote
asterisk scrawled on galvanised metal pole. the pole also has some corroded lesions (?) in the upper left corner.
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Carney went "elbows up" over US trade, but now he's elbows deep selling everything off that he can put on the table for his investment banker friends. 1 TRILLION worth, up for grabs to the highest bidders including US investment firms. #Canada #Carney #CanPol breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys...
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Mark Carney’s investment summit could pave the way to a corporate carve-up of Canada ⋆ The Breach
Bay Street has been on a full court press for the government to privatize Canada’s public infrastructure. The Prime Minister might be ready to do it
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Chris Bolson @cbolson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A CSS-only circular nav using experimental `::scroll-*`, `animation-timeline: scroll()` and anchor positioning. Scroll drives the items around the circle, with anchors handling the current label and prev/next controls. ⚠️ Chromium only. See the demo on @codepen.io: codepen.io/editor/cbols...
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Voila: Elbows-deep neoliberalism sold to the public as elbows-up patriotism - selling off our ports of entry and infrastructure. Carney's neoliberal agenda is to identify & extract all value like a good little international banker. #canpol #Carney #PLC #Canada www.cp24.com/news/canada/...
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Carney looks to open Canada’s 4 largest airports to private investment
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he wants to see private investors operate Canada’s four largest airports — Toronto Pearson, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver.
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
RIP Catherine Ringer, seulement 68 :(
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Undulating" mossy crack in the sidewalk like freeze-frame green lightning #photography ##EastCoastKin ##BlueSkyArtShow #undulating #moss
Crack in gravelly sidewalk full of lush, green moss
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
That time again, Nyew says take it easy. #Caturday #Cat #Photography #Peaceful
Face of a sleeping English tabby resting on a striped blanket over the arm of a comfy chair
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Suicides, school shootings, & ensloppification aside, I feel like maybe actual AI engineers understand what is at risk more than vibe coders who insist AI is the future & that those of us who want it curtailed are doomers and luddites. Just maybe. #FuckAI #AISlop www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
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‘They’re playing with our lives’: AI researcher quits Anthropic
An artificial intelligence researcher who left OpenAI to join Anthropic has decided to leave the industry, accusing both U.S. companies of “playing with our lives” in the race to develop AI models cap...
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As a Canadian, I say let us engage with the world; the Canadian fascination with the USA has been a lazy fallback for far too long. it's all simulacra and tedious nonsense from these American fools.
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is the ultimate truth of creatives using AI: they are completely lacking in original thought, or even the desire to engage with the creative process. AI is the ultimate surrender, admitting that you have nothing to add; even a simulacrum of creativity is more than you are capable of.
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Every right that workers have today was fought for, and without organized labour, we will lose those rights again. Happy Labour Day. Join or start a union. #LabourDay #solidarity canadianlabour.ca/who-we-are/h...
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1872: The fight for a shorter work-week | Canadian Labour Congress
Imagine working at least ten or more hours a day. Every day. That’s what many of Toronto’s print workers’ daily lives looked like in 1872, when the Toronto Typographical Union demanded a nine-hour wor...
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
FCK AFD Gegen Rechts Fick die AFD FUCK AFD #sachsenanhalt #nonazis #fckafd #nazifrei
FCK AFD 

Gegen Rechts 
Fick die AFD
FUCK AFD
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Cosmos were my great-grandmother's favourite, and my grandmother's. They always make me smile, and are my favourite late summer flower. I love how their centres are a cluster of stars. I also love how much bumblebees enjoy them! #flowers #bloomscrolling #bumblebee #nature #photography
Pollen-covered bumblebee at work on a bright pink cosmos blossom 
Montreal, Quebec
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ok there's an apple tree in my neighbour's yard so there's apples all over the street this time of year. There is for the first time ever a groundhog that VERY BRAVELY sits in the street, hiding under parked cars, eating apples all day. I love her so much. #Montreal #urban #wildlife
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
(Via MeFi) Check this fantastic blog post about Tuscan letters (1 of 2) It really opened my eyes to the history, evolution, breadth of motif variation, the relation to more traditional typography... blog.pampatype.com/tuscan-lette... #typography #typeDesign #Lettering
The Victorian fervor for decorative lettering, and Tuscan lettering in particular, spread to colonized territories, including the far West. Nowadays’s ticket office at the circus museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Photo courtesy of Darla Dee Hagensick.
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Okay so the trees in my neighbourhood are already changing colour and I saw a bunch of gees practicing flying in a V last week but I'm still in denial. This late summer. Shut up shut up shut up. There are still summer vibes to be had. #Summer #Montreal #ECK #EastCoastKin
Summer vibes dammit

Lush alley, fire escape garden.
Montreal Quebec
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP
Tim in costume as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
post your getaway vehicle
Mr. Frumble's pickle car

by Richard Scarry
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yup that's some weather coming Beaver Lake #Montreal #storm
Stormclouds rolling in over water
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I'm seeing a lot of #CanCon posts today and it's all great but I think it's important that we also remember the master of body horror in this moment, the great #Canadian, David Cronenberg
Videodrome, 1983The Fly - 1986Dead Ringers - 1988Naked Lunch -1991
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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This beautiful dictionary of colours found in nature dates back to more than a century before Pantone. 🎨 Werner's Nomenclature of Colour was an indispensable resource for Charles Darwin, helping him describe new species. We love these natural colours - which page do you like best?
A page of an old book titled “Blues” with a chart of different shades, naming each shade with an example of an animal, vegetable and mineral of that colour.Another page titled “Reds” with a chart various shades with an animal, vegetable and mineral for each.An old book page titled “Yellows” with a chart citing various shades of yellow with an animal, vegetable and mineral of each colour for reference.Another page titled “Greens” with a chart of various shades of green with an animal, vegetable and mineral of each shade.
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Well yes we all love our cats but did YOUR daughter hand crochet a tiny couch just for the cat? #cats #crochet
What? A perfect couch just for me? Don't mind if I do.Happy cat yawnRoosting on a perfect cat couch
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Again, the state of CSS right now especially in terms of experimental interfaces reminds me very much of what Flash was used for back in the day - it's really become a fun experimental medium in its own right. #CSS #frontend #UIDesign
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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 19/08/2026
Today is Tridi the 3rd of Fructidor in the year 234. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate puffballs. #JacobinDay See today's page
An old time-y illustration of a Puffballs.
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
When I go to a Quebecois fast food joint and see a classic casse-croute peg board menu I know I'm getting the real thing. I like when restarauteurs use AI - it shows that they are cheapass dullards with no taste without me having to find out by trying their food. #AI #GraphicDesign #Business
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Dashboard wahine ascending bodily to heaven on a windshield crack (it's where the light gets in) #photography #eck #EastCoastKin #reflection
Cracked windshield, with ambient reflections of clouds and buildings. A dashboard hula girl missing its skirt is partially visible despite the reflections.
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
DEFINITELY sharing this with my WordPress classes this term. #WordPress #webdev
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 15/06/2024
More clickbait Jira tickets • You won’t BELIEVE what TESTERS FOUND in THIS RELEASE! • This bug is BAFFLING users - can it be reproduced? CLICK HERE • Does your team struggle with technical debt? Check this expert tip on what to plan for next! • You’ll be SHOCKED at where we found ANOTHER DAMN TYPO
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I find it interesting that the Canadian mainstream news keeps reporting on the petition to remove Pete Hoekstra as US Ambassador to Canada but does not link to the actual petition - which is still open for signatures. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #canpol #uspol #PersonaNonGrata
CBC:
Tens of thousands of Canadians have signed a petition calling for U.S. President Donald Trump's representative in Ottawa to be kicked out of the country.

The online petition, which is set to be presented in the House of Commons in the fall, says Pete Hoekstra should be declared persona non grata and the Canadian government should request his removal as U.S. ambassador to Canada.

Nearly 60,000 people had signed the petition as of Wednesday morning, almost double the number of signatures 24 hours earlier.
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It is my headcanon that the 1970s Schneider's 'Dutch Girl' and the 70s Kentucky Fried Chicken Colonel Sanders are a ship. Like the Colonel's Secret Canadian Girlfriend. I am holding out for "original recipe" Kentucky Fried Knackwurst. #logo #design #graphics
Vintage Schneider's roast pork knuckles in a tub sound grotesque, but just look at that perfect mid century Canadian graphic design. By the 70s the original graphic was losing resolution through reproduction to the point that it was becoming organically abstracted while staying crisp through the repro methods.
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Setting a chunk of smoky quartz next to a prophecy stone does create a vaguely mythic implied narrative, for sure #mineral #light
As described, a chunk of smoky quartz and a prophecy stone about the size of a human kidney. Backlit.
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
An excellent example of information visualisation design #infovis #infographic
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
#SilentSunday
Canadian thistle (Cirsium arvense) in Napanee, Ontario
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Montreal street poster #peace
If the bombs 
feel far away
Press your ear 
to the ground

The whole earth
cries for
justice
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/08/2026
After Tobi Lütke’s latest series of tweets support extreme right-wing policies, I was happy to have @rachelgilmore.bsky.social back on the show to remind people what Shopify’s leadership is up to in Canada and why people should be reconsidering their use of its products as a result.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We tend to think that markets reflect consumer choice. But the artificial-intelligence boom has been powered by the investment decisions of concentrated capital rather than by consumer demand.
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Nobody Asked for AI
We tend to think that markets reflect consumer choice. But the artificial-intelligence boom has been powered by the investment decisions of concentrated capital rather than by consumer demand.
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Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast @fnfpodcast.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
NEW EPISODE: Artist and writer @mollycrabapple.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about the Jewish Labor Bund and its socialist, secular, anti-Zionist principles. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/molly-crabap...
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Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Bund
Artist and writer Molly Crabapple joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the Jewish Labor Bund and its socialist, secular, anti-Zionist principles. Crabapple, whose ar…
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @greynotgrey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
At least my Creuset isn't shit. Sigh.
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Cab @cabfolio.com · 20/07/2026
Jim Motté, le cousin Montréalais. #jimothy
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