iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I feel like I should already know the answer to this, BUT…just saw a picture of Superman with a beard. Does he shave every morning? Does he have to laser-vision his stubble?

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 21h

What a surreal nightmare. Was sent a listing of my childhood home; a late victorian house that has been stripped of all of its original mouldings, wood and charm and replaced with soulless grey and white. To top it off, they used AI to "enhance" the photos. I am sad.

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 21h

“Mooooom! Can you come into my room and get something out?! It’s something weird!” (Just rescued a tree cricket from 17yo’s ceiling. Started hopping in the container as soon as I stepped outside and could hear their chirpy brethren)

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

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AiredOnTVToday @airedontvtoday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

35 years ago on September 28, 1991, TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' aired episode "Darmok"

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stunner of a sunset,tonight. The garden is slowing down now that Fall has arrived.

A small backyard full of gardens surrounding a small pond ringed and flagstone and full of pond plants. The sky is covered in a fluffy blanket of purple and pink cloud with a fiery sunset, illuminating the garden in a pink light.

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did I buy a bag of vintage toys because I spotted #muppets ‘ Sam Eagle?! You bet your butt, I did. (There’s a Miss Piggy and vintage Nintendo stuff, amongst other fun finds.)

A yellow rubber-gloves hand holding a vintage pvc Sam Eagle figure over a sudsy sink full of vintage toys

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Straight up if these orcas die, I will never forgive this government. It’s genuinely devastating to contemplate — and make no mistake, the west coast pipeline and port expansion WILL kill them. We have to draw the line somewhere and these orcas deserve to have us fight for them.

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Election coming up here in Niagara. Had someone running for City Councillor come to the house. Her: “Hello. I recognize you. I think we’ve met before.” Me: *has no recollection of ever seeing this person in my life* “Oh?!” (I am absolute crap with remembering names, but faces I can do)

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Plesiosaurs actually flopped up onto land to barf up crustaceans? @fearlessfred.bsky.social My inner Nessie-obsessed 10yo self just went, “well that explains the Spicer couple’s spotting Nessie crossing the road in 1933! She just had tummy trouble!”

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ElectroCeratops @ehrenenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"OWL RLY" Acrylic and paint marker on birch panel. My piece for the Hoot art show, part of the Ottawa International Animation Festival this year. It's up right now for another 2 days at Beyond the Pale Brewing in the Byward Market. Painting is also for sale! #art #owl #retrogaming

An acrylic painting of a snowy owl character playing an original game boy. Bright retro colours and an abstract background. Perhaps a resemblance to an ancient meme.

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Heading out to the Post Office. Just threw my hat on and caught myself in the mirror before heading out the door. I think I have a cartoon character haircut?! What is happening?! Wings!

A woman looking puzzled at the camera. She is wearing a denim ball cap with a yellow smiley face on the front. Her French bob haircut, looks like it is curling up with exaggerated wings on both sides.

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Joanna🌱 @rainbowofcrazy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Introduction post! Reintroduction.. Re-introduction? Hi! I'm Joanna. I make cute things & draw Rainbow of Crazy Comics, a slice-of-life comic about cute rabbits & cats & their awkward, ADHD human who I swear is not based on me @ all. 😌 My very first art market will be @ Bamtori's K-Fest October 17!

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Going through photos from my recent Nova Scotia trip. These are the mushrooms I spotted while attempting disc golf on the ski hill. #mycoblitz #maritimes #mushrooms

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026

Porco Rosso mural, Mexico City

Porco in the cockpit of his plane smoking a cigarette and giving a thumbs up

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World Health Network @thewhn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Steven Spielberg wears a respirator while being interviewed outside the opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on September 19, 2026. Respiratory protection doesn’t have to be unusual or disruptive. For many people, it remains a simple, everyday way to reduce the risk of airborne (...)

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Walked past the sad shell of Toys R Us this afternoon. The property owner sold to a developer, so our local store had to close. It’s been sitting empty for months and months.

An empty Toys R Us. The letters were removed, but you can see the sun bleached the background blue material of the sign, so the store name is still legible.

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just spoke with a sweet old couple about their gardens while out on a walk and the woman called her husband “Daddy” and it gave me hives.

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

keeping kids safe from infection should matter to you, thus the tools that achieve this—from vaccines to air cleaning tech—should also matter. if you care about vaccines, fight for them; in the meantime, mask up, open a window, & crank up those air purifiers—the virus doesn’t care about bureaucracy.

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They banned mini hockey sticks and hoodies at our school. Can you name something that was "BANNED" at your school when you were a kid?!

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They banned mini hockey sticks and hoodies at our school. Can you name something that was "BANNED" at your school when you were a kid?!

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Went to check on the remaining tomatoes in the backyard this evening and was pretty surprised to see this guy.

Two green tomatoes on the top of a plant. A medium sized tomato horn worm is doing a poor job camouflaging on the stem. It is fleshy and the same green as the plant, but has “eye” decorations, evenly spaced down it’s body and a red “spine/horn” on the end of its body.

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Meg @meganroseruiz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Let me teach you about color theory!

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Whoever came up with the idea to put eyes at the end of this decorative grass/garden feature at the park deserves a raise. More whimsy, please.

A row of large decorative grass in an open park space. There are two large, cartoonish eyes on a post at the end/beginning of the row of grass, Making it appear like a large, fuzzy caterpillar, walking across the lawn.

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 12/09/2023

Reducing light pollution at night helps migrating birds. Turn off the lights for them!

Illustration of bird silhouettes with stars overlaid. Text reads "Lights Out For The Birds"

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The ”beware of dog” signs are much less intimidating in French. I was half expecting a weird looking dog to come out. How bizarre is it?!

A white picket fence with a small sign that reads: “attention chien bizarre”

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A collection of armour studies from this year. I’ve really enjoyed these

Digital art, my work. A suit of armour realistic rendered with illustrative snakes

Digital art, my work. A suit of armour realistic rendered

Digital art, my work. A suit of armour realistic rendered with illustrative human skulls and the text ‘cry baby’

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We watched ”Predator:Badlands” today, which I quite liked and I thought was perfect timing as it was Batman day. ?! The first “Predator” property I consumed was Batman vs Predator 3. (No, I hadn’t seen the film yet). So, in my brain Batman/Predator are inextricably linked.

Batman vs Predator3 4/4 comic cover. A Predator is crouched on the giant penny in the batcave,,a spear in one hand and Batman’s torn shirt with bat emblem in the other.

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Watched a large raccoon cross the street ahead of us,tonight.Thought he was going to the community garden to pilfer some veg, but he squeezed into a storm drain, instead. When we got closer, we could see his little footprints. Wondering what’s going on down there. Raccoon FOMO.

A cast iron storm drain cover with the image of a fish on it. Below, on the street are wet footprints left by a raccoon, leading across the street to the other side where there is another storm drain.

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The bottom of this mushroom almost seemed to be “glowing”bluish-white. It wasn’t, but the colour and the texture of it was deceptive. Nature is so cool.

A mushroom growing on the forest floor. The bottom has a bluish white chalky look.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hi if you are in Minneapolis and are this 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog, get medical attention immediately!

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Definitely on his way to the Labyrinth.

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Find you a friend who calls up and asks, “can you come visit and we’ll pack a lunch and wander around the old cemeteries and I’ll show you all of the places where everything happened.”

A vast, mossy cemetery ground, gradually leading up a hill. A woman in rubber boots and jeans, wearing a blue top is walking in the middle-ground. The old cemetery stones are far apart, dotting the landscape. A blue sky with skidding clouds touch the horizon.

Bottom half of the photo is a yellow-green mossy ground, the lower half of the cemetery where the poor were buried. There are hardly any markers because they would have been made of wood in the 1800’s and have disappeared over time. In the middle of the picture is a swath of dark green forest with pine trees poking from the top. Above that a clear blue sky. A thundercloud rises from behind the forest like a cauliflower mountain.

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yer Favourites and coffee, this morning. “Fireworks” giving me life, at the moment.

A hand holding The Tragically Hip’s “Yer Favourites” 2 CD album.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How to visit an art museum with someone who isn't used to visiting art museums:

Two social media posts by @pan_juho (Translated from Japanese):

"I love going to art museums, but when I go with someone who's not used to them, if I say, 'If you were a great thief, tell me later which one you'd steal,' they end up looking the exhibits pretty seriously, and that makes me happy.

"Whether you steal something you like or something that seems valuable -> it opens up endless conversation based on what vou liked about it or where you saw value in it, so it's also great as an easy icebreaker for chats after visiting the museum."

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This Friday! GHOST STORIES OF TORONTO begins! It's on Zoom at noon and it's free — the first talk in my lunchtime lectures series with the Toronto Public Library, diving into the history of ghost stories in our city. More details & free registration here: tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6a...

A photo from the City of Toronto Archives taking around 1908. Two men and a boy sitting at little table playing cards look up at the figure of a ghost — which you may or may not believe is actually a superimposed image of someone standing there under a sheet.

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I asked ages ago but didn’t get much of a response so I’m taking another swing at it. Does anyone following me either know how to read Cree or know someone who can?

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Can you imagine a cryptid garden like this? With a few tweaks, that could be a moth man. Bigfoot would be easy. Nessie, in the grass?! Yes,please. Who else do you want to see?!

A floral sculpture of a Monarch Butterfly.

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you have a kid in college, the meningococcal vaccine is so important. This disease spreads in dorms and can kill healthy young adults overnight.

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 17/09/2026

I practically went RUNNING to grab mine from the shelf and check

My hand holding the accordioned-up baby cart schematic, and the box with the open spine in the background

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The thing about trying not to pick a side is that the nazis *instantly recognize* which side you picked. They immediately identify you as an ally. They know exactly what side you're on. It doesn't fool the victims, it doesn't fool the Nazis, the only people it could possibly fool is centrists.

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Grabbing an egg McMuffin a Union Station has become a weird custom. I had to head up to the street to say “hi”to the city,before hopping on the GO after taking the UP from Pearson. So tired.

A very pleased woman holding up an egg McMuffin with bites out of it, standing in front of Union Station. The CN tower can be seen in the background.

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm back. Very sad I'm no longer in Nova Scotia. AND all of the jam and maple syrup and fancy mustard got flagged and I had to get escorted back through security. It was too late to add another checked bag, so I had to leave all of the stuff at the counter.

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Trey Lawson @tlawson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Well, now I know what Gonzo would wear in Muppet Le Morte d'Arthur

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