iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

It's been a long time coming. Canadian independent bookstores have banded together to create an online book buying source so you can avoid the behemoth in the room. (Here are the titles published by CMU Press, which I run.) Spread the word #booksky! www.booksellers.ca/publisher/cmu-press-18021

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All books from CMU Press | booksellers.ca | Purchase print books and eBooks online

A network of over 100 bookstores, more than 500,000 print books or eBooks, unparalleled expertise. It is possible to buy local on the Web!

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I will accept no moral high ground from a government that refuses to ban a platform that is actively, in real time, right in front of our faces, creating child sexual abuse materials. They're not banning it and there are still government departments with official Twitter accounts. Fuck Carney.

thestar.com

Canada not considering a ban on X over deepfake controversy, AI minister says

The platform, which is owned by Elon Musk, has been embroiled in controversy over sexualized deepfakes of women and children created by X’s chatbot Grok.

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Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The Alberta minister in the Globe this morning responding to whether or not he's read the four books that prompted the wide school book banning: "“I am struggling to find the time to read a quarter of any book, let alone four books." They're graphic novels.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

“…beyond intentional attacks, drivers in cars, SUVs and trucks threaten the safety of our public spaces everyday but we treat the damage they do like the weather: something inevitable that just happens.”

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Shawn Micallef: Vehicles have become weapons by design — and public space is in their crosshairs

A culture like ours weaponizes vehicles — from the way they are designed to the way the roads they run on are designed.

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Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The seasonal market near my house just announced it's opening on Wednesday and I had to come somewhere to post this because the change that makes to my life for 5 months of the year is too big to not comment on.

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Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Lots of great student writing posted recently at Working Draft magazine! Here are few - Georgia Dyck on her first season as a wildland firefighter: workingdraftmagazine.com/chasing-fire/

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Soot-covered clothes, bruised legs, and tangled hair were physical proof of my first season as a wildland firefighter, but what left a lasting mark were the lessons I learned walking through the wilderness.

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Emma Donoghue @emmadonoghue.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

91 results. That's every book I've published since 1993, in multiple languages, scraped without permission to train AI. They're robbing us in hopes of replacing us.

screenshot of search for 'Emma Donoghue' in LibGen

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Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I’m involved with a student magazine, Working Draft (out of Red River College Polytechnic in Winnipeg), and it’s in the middle of publishing its annual edition: workingdraftmagazine.com A sampling:

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 21/03/2025

If you can see the difference between New York-based and New York–based, you may be a copy editor.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

congratulations to poet, editor and lawyer [and VERSeFest 2024 performer] Chimwemwe Undi on her Appointment as Canada's 11th Parliamentary Poet Laureate! / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ; lop.parl.ca/About/Parlia...

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The Parliamentary Poet Laureate - Current Poet Laureate

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David Hulloween 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

"Marley was dead: to begin with." What's going on with that colon? #AChristmasCarol #Dickens #Grammar #Literature

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Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

In my house we just have to make contrarian craft projects. It’s a rule. (This one by the teenager.)

Front view of a gingerbread house with the word NO written in icing across the front. The candy and pretzels decorating the house are mostly strewn about the yard. There’s what looks like a gingerbread person protruding head-first from the front door.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/12/2024

Since yesterday I was talking about Gates McFadden’s struggles to get behind the camera opportunities, it’s time for me to share a story about the Doctor and how she’s one of the reasons I’m a Professor. 🧵 (Here’s us at the 2024 #StarTrek convention #STLV)

A photo of me with Gates McFadden at the 2024 STLV

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Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

In my Catholic high school in the 90s, an official school-sanctioned frosh week tradition was the grade 11 girls dressing up the grade 10 boys for a drag show. Was this common, or just us? Once in a while I scratch my head about this memory. There’s… a lot to unpack.

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Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Saw The Princess Bride on a big screen for the first time-in the 80s I missed it in theatres and saw it on VHS. The cult-movie-communal-experience was spot-on. Wish there were more rep cinemas, at which I spent a lot of time in my youth, but I guess those days are over. The cinemas. Also my youth.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Today marks 35 years since a gunman entered Polytechnique, separated the men from the women & shot 14 women to death. It is now Canada's National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence against Women. Threads suck on this app but going to try and include my thoughts here as possible : 🧵

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Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Untangling Christmas lights with the teenager while she educates me in the full Chappell Roan oeuvre. Actually quite a pleasant evening.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What is the working class? Many invoke it in this election, but no one defines it. How much is it economic, when a plumber can make 10x as much as adjunct professor? How much is it cultural/an identity, or the kind of labor? Why so many 1930s white-guy versions when so many are women and BIPOC?

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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

An end-of-semester reminder of "The Cult of Done Manifesto" by Bre Pettis & Kio Stark (2009)

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Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Complain about autocorrect, but a lot of the typos I make on my mobile device are because the autocorrect is not working correctly. Because it doesn’t know which language I’m using (I use the device for language learning and for emailing my kid’s school in bad French).

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I'm still adding, but for folks looking for all the cool Indigenous folks to follow, here's my growing list! go.bsky.app/MEaiVa9

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/11/2024

"If you want to crank out words at a high volume, dispel yourself of such quaint, artificial notions as 'morning' or 'days.' They are artificial constructs designed by those who want to slow down your writing."

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How to Write 100,000 Words Per Day, Every Day

Most people don’t believe me when I tell them I write 100,000 words every day of my life. If I’m being totally honest, 100,000 is probably just a b...

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Peter Darbyshire @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I had a lovely time on the Turning Pages radio show talking about my Cross series of supernatural thrillers and the importance of knowing when to research the hell out of something and when to let the imagination run wild. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. umfm.com/programming/...

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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Welcome to Walking Eagle News: Journalism so deeply and profoundly Indigenous, assholes constantly dress up like us and go to music festivals. (Eagle cries in distance)

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Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I understand why many stores have a "leave all bags at the counter" policy, but do they have any stats on how many people (mainly women, carrying a lot in their bags) just... choose to skip that store? The money those signs have probably saved me!

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Carmine Starnino @cstarnino.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

go.bsky.app/AVAMxgu

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If i was the richest guy in the world i would just do stuff like give the decemberists 100 million dollars to write a concept album about the hardy boys

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Poets and Teachers: use BardCode.org to generate colourized visualizations of your poetry, revealling internal rhymes and unseen patterns. Here's an example:

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/11/2024

Cash-Strapped Subway Threatens To Reveal Identities Of Customers Who Eat Subway If They Don’t Pay | Onion News Network

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Cash-Strapped Subway Threatens To Reveal Identities Of Customers Who Eat Subway If They Don’t Pay

YouTube video by The Onion

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Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

For folks who just joined, here’s the directory of user-created follow lists (“starter packs”). blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... Just don’t go overboard like I did, and remember you can add people to a list to go back to later instead of a straight follow.

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All - Bluesky Directory

A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

If you like something, then hit the like button. But if you REALLY like something and think other people should see it, then you should hit the repost button. Bluesky works differently than platforms you're already used to. Liked posts don't get boosted to new eyes. The key is reposting.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

the argument that “even if AI gets better very slowly, it will eventually be incredibly good at stuff” rests on a faulty premise that can be exposed by simply asking yourself if social media has gotten better, at any rate whatsoever, since 2007

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 18/11/2024

I don’t need to go on social media to have my worldview challenged I am in theoretical physics I have a new existential crisis daily

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Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Random bands are following me! Forget Early Twitter, I'm getting MySpace flashbacks.

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

bpNichol, "a / lake / a / lane / a / line / a / lone", in Back Lane Letters, ECS, Toronto, 1994. Download the full chapbook here: www.bpnichol.ca/sites/defaul...

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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Heads up everyone - this means they hate how well the blocklists work, which is amazing. But also time to be discerning about which lists you subscribe to.

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LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies. #bydhttmwdi

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a pixel art of a man standing under a rainbow on a blue background

Alt: a pixel art of Levar standing under a rainbow on a blue background

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Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I can’t stop following people. I want to hear about all your niche research, listen to every activist and advocacy community, learn about regional viewpoints, practise reading other languages, and support all the artists in every art form. I’m a lot curious and a little overwhelmed.

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Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I've done Julie's training before and highly recommend!

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Dave Troy @davetroy.com · 13/11/2024

1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).

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