iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It may only be mid-September but I’m pretty sure I know what my top played song of the year on Spotify is going to be and also that it’s going to be just like, absolutely catastrophically embarrassing. Watch this space…

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bought two highlife/afrobeat albums at the record store today plus one RITA MACNEIL… life is a rich tapestry

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

when Masters s1 taping was delayed a week bc of Ken testing positive for COVID we were given the option of being flown home and back, or being put up in a hotel in LA for the intervening days. even though it’s like a 4.5 hour international flight I went home bc I had tickets to a Jays-Mariners game

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Very very good baseball writing by my pal Amy - so many Jeopardy sickos are baseball sickos too

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Honestly this rocks lol, who amongst us hasn’t spent some quality time in nature and thought about how maybe we don’t want to return to our jobs after all

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

never thought I could feel so jealous of early 80s Dal and King’s students

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

big day in the studio coming up tomorrow though, lots to be excited about… BIG THINGS COMING 😤

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Having the Sunday scaries is very passé… what I have is the Tuesday terrors (dread about my return to the office tomorrow after a week and a half away)

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

nice quick AI take from donna haraway english.elpais.com/culture/2026...

Q. We’ll return to forms of resistance, but let me clarify something: Do you use artificial intelligence?

A. It’s impossible not to use it. Every time I log into Google, I get an AI-generated summary of what I looked up. I have no choice. Do I actively and intentionally use AI? No, I have not. I’m too lazy to learn how. I have artist friends who do very interesting things with it. At some point, I suppose I’ll learn to use it selectively. But, again, it’s not the devil: it’s a set of tools that’s the subject of hyper-investment — with large amounts of capital going into it and not for the best purposes. It’s causing enormous environmental damage. I’m more for a “slow AI” — developing it only to the extent that there are sustainable energy systems, sustainable ecological relationships, and a creative reorganization of work. I’m for slow AI integrated into the world of the kind that I want to affirm. And not the “fast AI” that we are currently being subjected to.

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I think a lot about that time in the 2025 ALCS that Josh Naylor headed the ball, and for the past month I’ve been wondering whether World Cup fever will compel him to do it again

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

big Juve thank you for defending our honour… I do have hate in my heart for the Mariners but I express it respectfully

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Was driving through a town of ~30k people in rural Tunisia today and saw a guy (clearly local) strolling around in a Hockey Canada jersey from like 2006… dudes rock

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned. The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

At a friend’s parents’ cottage for the weekend and was absolutely delighted to discover that when I was last here eight months ago I left a coconut Lacroix in the fridge and a bottle of conditioner in the shower… if you don’t look after yourself then who will

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Chiles is so right about roast chicken being an elite chip flavour… one of the first things I do whenever I go back to NS is buy a bag of Lays roast chicken

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

MAJOR. I don’t own this but thank you for inspiring me to get up and pick my next record (Music for the Masses)

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

it’s one of the blandest and safest-feeling places I’ve been in the US!! genuinely no clue what the hell Bondi is talking about

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Excellent episode of The Hatchet with @arshy.bsky.social. The recent police scandal is not “a few bad apples,” the Toronto Police have been operating like organized crime for generations. They act with impunity, refuse reform, and target and punish their critics: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

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The Toronto Police Has Been a Rogue Agency for Too Long. Rein Them In.

Podcast Episode · The Hatchet · 2026-02-14 · 29m

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

“Right now the focus should be on supporting the community in mourning, not weaponizing this event as hate against a vulnerable group at large.” I hate profoundly that articles like this need to be written when, like Mel says, the focus should be on community. But thank you Mel for writing ❤️

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

the good news is that this guide starts you out with body weight and dumbbell exercises so that by the time you graduate to using a barbell, you’re hopefully already comfortable enough with form/mobility to move a barbell safely and confidently. being nervous is normal but you can work through it!!

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/01/2026

Media often appended it with “Hamas-run” as a way to subtly discredit its numbers. Many experts credibly argue those figures are in fact far lower than the real number today.

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Just updated my four favourites as well so why not share it all… with the cold snap it’s never been a better time to stay home and watch some absolute cinema

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

in happier news I did get to experience many lesbians screaming Dancing On My Own right into All the Things She Said

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Nothing worse than going to karaoke and seeing someone absolutely butcher a song that you know you could body

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Yet another BANGER from Vass Bednar on competition

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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

i’ve never felt this patriotic in my life

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nam kiwanuka @namshine.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

“Serious voices in this country are sounding alarm, warning that this volatile start to 2026 means that Canadians need to stare down the reality that we no longer have the luxury of pretending it’s business as usual.” www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

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Susan Delacourt: Is it time to get alarmed about how Trump is kicking off 2026?

Serious voices are warning that Canadians need to stare down the reality that we no longer have the luxury of pretending it’s business as usual.

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Beautiful, beautiful piece - what a love letter to local journalism and gorgeous meditation on the passage of time

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

took a cheeky selfie outside the broadcasting centre earlier today where I more or less looked like this

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

lmao failed to complete the phrase “the other day” in my initial tweet… brain still fried from the holidays please forgive me

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Had the duty/honour of explaining who Sidney Crosby is to an American who’d never heard of him the other… wish I’d had this article in my back pocket at the time, legendary stuff. Our special Nova Scotian boy

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Sabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

new quarter century more art more good

david lynch meme
okay, let's try that again, but this time good.

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

they introduced me as “from Toronto Ontario Canada” on TV for like a month straight!!

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Alex Shephard from the New Republic what did I ever do to piss you off 😔

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Covered Bridge in Winter Maud Lewis c. 1967

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Jacob Tierney it’s not too late to add a Sadness As a Gift needle drop to e06

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Excited for the cottage episode of Heated Rivalry bc in my experience going to the cottage with your gay love is all about getting too stoned at the beach and then crying to Adrienne Lenker but hey… what do I know

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

hey!! thanks for getting in touch and for sharing this op-ed (sadly timely and necessary). for pitches please reach out to cbcbooks@cbc.ca - I don’t field pitches directly

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404 Media @404media.co · 03/12/2025

Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.

404media.co

The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library

Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

“what’s more virgin than a computer?” I don’t know man, maybe a human person? what the hell are we talking about

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

to buy all the music I regularly listen to on streaming as digital files would be super $$$, to pirate everything would be a headache and partly defeat the purpose of getting off streaming (better supporting artists), so for me it’s all about buying records and getting word of mouth recommendations

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

lol wow meant to reply to this the other day and totally forgot!! mainly for me it’s been about using my physical media as much as possible at home, getting back into listening to the radio to discover new music, and mainly using streaming only to listen to playlists created by me or by friends

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Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

this was so interesting to read, and your husband’s approach is COMPLETELY different from how I’ve gone about trying to curate my listening better - bc I’ve been using music streaming in some form or another since I was about 14 I never curated a big library of digital files to now fall back on

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