iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 6h

Someday a physicist will discover an alternate dimension where every moment that ever happened continues to exist in an infinite honeycomb of cells, including the time someone had to remind Gwyneth Paltrow that she was in Spiderman, forever.

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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 11h

Can you imagine getting this type of alert for a pacemaker? This is a lifesaving medical device for T1Ds.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/10/2026

And a few more...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/10/2026

Bloomberg allowed me to illustrate the article with my own photographs, which was a thrill for me. Here a few that didn't make the cut.

Rainbow over Rakiura, from the deck of my cottage.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/10/2026

I'm thrilled to share my first foray into nature writing. I describe my travels through Aotearoa New Zealand to see the country's rarest birds—and use this as a vehicle to tell the stories of the islands' evolutionary history and the bold conservation efforts that saved these creatures. Gift link

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The Birds I Waited 45 Years to See

An evolutionary biologist returns to New Zealand to find the rare birds he dreamed of seeing as a child making an extraordinary comeback.

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I learned that the student I worked on the final capstone project of my bioarchaeology program with became a surgeon! Incredible how fast the time went by, it seems like just a couple of years ago since I saw her...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/10/2026

I worked with—and deeply admired—Helen for almost 30 years. She was hands down *the best source* about emerging infectious diseases that I've ever known. My first warning of COVID was when on Dec 28, 2019 she reposted a ProMED mail report of an atypical pneumonia cluster: "This doesn't look good."

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Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69

Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I could make a whole sub-bot based just on programming books with dragons on the cover. (Source.)

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

Someday I will make a video essay on how the brilliance of Backrooms is that is speaks to the universal human ache of those moments of profound and unacknowledged trauma that never get memorialized, have no monuments to them, yet still exist in a space and time with a part of us no one ever finds.

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

Like I could see Warhol dashboards and infographics, Schendel doing demographic vizualizations, Picabia doing process diagrams. Basquiat, immersive cartographer, etc.

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

I absolutely wish Andy Warhol, Mira Schendel, and Francis Picabia were alive and doing information design

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

Ever design something and look at it and think "this is so ugly and basic it's perfect"

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

we have so much stuff happening this week! tomorrow we'll be taking some things to the Boulder Public Library for a Technology Petting Zoo with elementary school age patrons - we'll also be bringing the MTV Karaoke Machine and a couple typewriters

box full of cassette players, handheld games, and speak N spells

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Librarianship.ca @librarianshipca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Creation of the Canadian Public Library System www.canadashistory.ca/explore/arts... Tracing public libraries from their roots to modern times

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The creation of the Canadian public library system - Canada's History

Tracing public libraries from their roots to modern times

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dałdałagamł -Transformation Mask @quaibranly, musée du quai Branly in Paris as part of Premières Nations, Arts et cultures du Nord~Ouest de L’Amérique, 29 September 2026 – 17 January 2027.

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Gander Social @gandersocial.ca · 08/10/2026

A lovely little Gander update landed yesterday. 🌙 Dark Mode: cozier Gandering that's easy on the eyes. 🔇 MUTE WORDS + TAGS! FOR A DAY! A WEEK! FOREVER! EXCLUDE PEOPLE YOU FOLLOW! Oops. Sorry. Volume was on high. ✨ For You Page: tweaks to bring you more interesting convos from further afield.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hamilton is briefly mentioned in my upcoming book “Complexity and Emergence” — she programmed the computer simulations that inspired Edward Lorenz to found modern chaos theory.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/10/2026

Ms Hamilton coined the term “software engineering”.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/10/2026

In our Calling Bullshit course we have a whole lecture about this sort of slop. At least the MIT Sloan Management Review has higher production values.

The Elements of a Meaningfulness Ecosystem fake Venn diagram from the MIT Sloan Management Review

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Gander Social @gandersocial.ca · 26/09/2026

Running dark mode through its paces. Or, as one member of the Gander team described it: “The cozy kind of dark mode.” Right in time for fall.

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Gander Social @gandersocial.ca · 25/09/2026

Groups are coming to Gander. (Once we are done testing them). Open and invite-only communities + cozier spaces for your closest people. They'll even be able to share into the main Gander feed. We’re following the ATProto Spaces alpha design, interop groups are the goal.

Mock-up of the Gander Groups interface showing the “Buy Nothing Canmore” public group. The page lists 3.2K members and 43.7K posts, with a description inviting Canmore neighbours to give away and find free items. Below, a group post offers a solid wood coffee table for free pickup.

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Dark mode and MUTE WORDS are now live in the Gandershire! 🪿🐦‍⬛✨

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Space Unicorns! SPOOKY SEASON is here again! Uncanny Magazine Issue 72 Part 2 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET! buff.ly/39JTYSQ

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 72, "Fluid" by Galen Dara: A femme-coded being stares at us with light and dark blue-green skin and red lips. A read heart-shaped organ is in front of her chest with white tendrils and green sprouts and roots with drops of red and a couple of many-red-petaled flowers. Surrounding her are splashes ofyellow, yellow-green, orange, pink, and green-blue and large similar many-red-petaled flowers. In white text is the "Uncanny" banner, "September/October 2026," Issue Seventy-Two," and the artist, writer, essayist, poets, and Uncanny staff credits.

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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ontario - "What is the most important reason to support the ALTO project?" Speed/Time savings compared to VIA: 13% Provides new train service: 13% Canada doesn't have high-speed rail: 12% Traffic congestion reduction: 11% Jobs/economic opportunities: 9% Others: 42% Mainstreet / Sept 29, 2026

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/10/2026

I'm honored to be opening the Association of Research Libraries 189th meeting this morning in Arlington, VA with an address entitled "Information Foraging in the Digital World".

Silhouettes of airport passengers walking through a hallway with a sea-green background.

"How have we evolved to relate to information? How have our information technologies evolved in turn?"

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

You know where you can find this book in Winnipeg! (It's at Other Places Books)

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

It's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood 🍂

A selfie of the OP wearing new glasses and a green track jacket on a sunny day with foliage in the background.

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

My dream of going on a roadtrip and seeing my beautiful-ass country is within grasp. I need to go east first, I've been west. Then, maybe if I can figure it out, north?

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

And the web version is live now if you aren't ready for the mobile app, I am almost always in the web version now (I never like doing anything on my phone, but that's just me). If you check out the Gandershire let me know so I can connect with you!

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The Shire: Journey Through Hobbiton

Alt: The Shire: Journey Through Hobbiton

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Stephanie I just remembered, don't you have an institutional email? That's the easiest way to sign up and verify. It's similar to Bluesky, and more features are released regularly. Even unverified, you can sign up anyway, though, and see what you think of it. You can view but won't be able to post!

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you ♥️🙏🤗 it meant a lot to me when I was struggling your kind words and support of my work, which I was really starting to believe was meaningless. I appreciate you so much, Stephanie!

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Been broke for so long and it feels so good to be able to splurge again on a knowledge haul for my little resource library. I have more works I want (I no longer live near an academic/research library) but these were long-overdue additions for me:

The Art of Insight: How great visualization designers think by Alberto Cairo

Living in Data: A citizen's guide to a better information future by Jer Thorp

Building Science Graphics: An illustrated guide to communicating science through diagrams and visualizations by Jen Christiansen

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Named by my late aunt Ruth Seesequasis.

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

35) Stella Mike, 36) Clara Bird, 37) Edna Sauve, 38) Victoria Baldhead, 39) Gladys Meechett, 40) Alice Gamble, 41) Philomene Ichmakew, 42) Marie Therese Reentach, 43) Mary Anne Seeyapussum, 44) Marie Therese Paul, 45) Irene Prosper

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Madeline Sutherland, 22) Grace Seesequasis, 23) - Badger, 24) --, 25) Mary Josephine Greyeyes, 26) Flora Greyeyes, 27) Helen Peeteetuce, 28) Antoinette Arcand, 29) Clemenie Arcand, 30) Francoise Wichikan, 31) Marie Redwing, 32) Gertrude Greyeyes, 33) Esther Greyeyes, 34) Annie Bear,

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Morrisette, 😎 Elizabeth Constant, 9) Irene Dunn, 10) Helen Ledous, 11) Anais Prosper, 12) Henritte Napope, 13) Florence Peeteetuce, 14) Jospehine Ledoux, 15) Florence Bird, 16) Mary Rose Seeseequasis, 17) Alice McDonald, 18) Nancy Gardipy, 19) Victoria Dunn, 20) Cecile Redwing, 21)

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On #OrangeShirtDay paying respect to generations of my family and kin who went to St. Michael’s Residential School ~ 1931. Duck Lake, Sask ~ 1) Maggie Bird, 2) Mary Rose Naytowhow (My Kokum), 3) Ada Wolfe, 4) Philomene Peeteetuce, 5) Dorothy Eyahpaise, 6) Mary Anne Seesequasis, 7) Veronique

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Studio portrait of a father and child taken in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan around late 1920s, early 1930s. Almost certainly Chief Joseph Dreaver (WWI veteran, Military Medal recipient, and Indigenous leader), other photos match his appearance as a young man, of Big River First Nation. The child

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you so much, and yes it's chilly today, this seemed appropriate haha!

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

I poured all of my angst into a plate and covered it with pastry.

Three glamour shots of an apple pie on a black stovetop.

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