iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 13h

I enjoy making my little things

Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 8h

Delighted to be part of this. Delighted to be amongst so many terrific people. Delighted that crowdfunding has done so well. (It's more than tripled its goal!). There's thirteen (eek) hours left for you to pledge to the See You in Fahlstaff Kickstarter! Be part of the spookiest new show in town!

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Every day now feels like it could be the last shorts day of the year.

A view of English Bay, taken from a beach towel on the grass on a cloudy, greying autumn day.

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Every day now feels like it could be the last shorts day of the year.

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Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 05/10/2026

Holy shit, in all this Jacob Geller discourse I forgot that I LITERALLY MADE A VIDEO called "Processing Problematic People" as a way to help people untangle that Person You Like/d from that Thing They Did. And I made it as a way to cope with That Thing That Happened to Me. youtu.be/oFMTNZIK1sI

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Processing Problematic People

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"You must construct additional pylons."

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I swear this is going to be appearing in the next generation's textbooks (or equivalent educational material). Love to live right next door to this. Love that so many of my friends live under it.

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Marina Ryan @marinahascoffee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

weekend vibe

Image of a toy bunny wearing large black headphones, lying down in bed with a large blanket

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's happening AGAIN! It's time to loot our way through space... twitch.tv/paullicino

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

After an Interesting Series of Technical Problems I am live on Twitch with the first new game of October: THE OUTER WORLDS. Because I want an excuse to finally try it out! twitch.tv/paullicino

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The Outer Worlds E3 2019: Character Waves Hi

Alt: A Gif of the video game The Outer Worlds, with a character waving hello.

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I should have clarified as "Both inside and outside of any digital space or screen."

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m @mjjii.com · 30/09/2026

from the zine

Fierce Pigeon Interview

I caught up with the pigeon who's taking Spunkton by storm for being "fierce" (stylish and confident).

What does a typical day look like for you?
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Is there anything you're really interested in lately?
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[digital art of a pigeon walking]

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What percentage of your 2026 do you think has been spent watching or clicking through or working your way around ads?

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's this time of the year, btw.

A view of some of downtown Vancouver, from Paul's balcony, showing green trees slowly turning slightly yellow, apartment buildings wet from rain and skyscrapers disappearing into the grey sky.

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The See You in Fahlstaff Kickstarter has more than DOUBLED its fundraising goal already and still has two weeks to go! I'm very proud to be one of the writers invited to be part of this excellent project and so excited for the world to hear what's coming... 👻 www.kickstarter.com/projects/cur...

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See You In Fahlstaff - An Anthology* Audio Horror Show

See You In Fahlstaff is a multi-season horror anthology* audio show about a city that's a magnet for the strange.

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Saying this again: The first of these is written by me, on a particularly bad day, and I was hoping it would find one or two of the right people, the way random messages can sometimes reach you through the ether. It gets brought up a lot and I'm so glad it's connected with so many who needed it.

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🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

19th Century anti-Canada lies/propaganda as told by American slave masters: 1) You have to give half your wages to the Queen. 2) Ground is always covered in ice, nothing can be grown. 3) Geese will scratch your eyes out. (Farrell 1955)

THE HISTORY OF THE NEGRO COMMUNITY IN CHATHAM, ONTARIO

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'After we began to hear about Canada', said M.J. Lindsay, "our master used to tell us all manner of stories about what a dreadful place it was;
and we believed some of them, we didn't. When they told us that we must pay half our wages to the Queen, every day, it didn't seem strange to us nor wrong; but when they said it was so cold there that men going mowing had to break the ice with their scythes, I didn't believe that, because it was onreasonable (sic). I knew grass wouldn't grow where ice was all the time.' 'I was old before I left Virginia', said Dan Fackart, 'I have heard it as common talk that the wild geese were so common in Canada, that they would scratch a man's eyes out; that corn wouldn't grow there, nor anything but rice; that everything they had there was imported'........82

As Dr. S.G. Howe puts it, "Nothing invited the Negroes to this
cold region, except the still, small voice of freedom."

(Farrell 1955)

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Video games are not realistic.

A screenshot from the video game Valheim, which reads "You can't eat more Raspberries".

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allsee @allsees.online · 24/09/2026

took a little swing by @remedygames.com FBC HQ, everything seems normal here, not sure why everyone was so urgently evacuating around nyc

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No streams this week as I am POORLY, so please look at this picture of my local crow buddy instead.

A photo of a crow perched on a balcony railing. The crow has an oversized, overgrown upper beak that curls downward, possibly from a lack of wear or a keratin abnormality.

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Baby Ghosts @babyghosts.org · 22/09/2026

We're hiring four regional hub coordinators: Atlantic, Pacific/North, Ontario and the Prairies! Five months, November 2 to March 31. $30,000, about 25 hours a week. You can live anywhere in the region. No co-op or games experience needed. babyghosts.org/hubs/coordinators

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Late to fully absorbing this wide-ranging @doctorow.pluralistic.net essay, but yes, absolutely. I'm so tired of the experience of being online also being one of basically having one foot in the United States, one way or another.

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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See You In Fahlstaff - An Anthology* Audio Horror Show

See You In Fahlstaff is a multi-season horror anthology* audio show about a city that's a magnet for the strange.

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

HAPPY FAT BEAR WEEK TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE 🐻

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When you really want a custom plate.

A photo of the back of a van, showing a custom license plate that literally reads "CUSTOM".

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026

Share if you agree

Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls." Pls note the correct use of ā and ṣ.

Graffiti that reads "Ea-nāṣir sells shit copper." It uses the correct ā and ṣ and everything.

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A decade on, Brexit is the gift that just keeps on giving (*extremely* sarcastic).

The "Squidward looking out the window" Spongebob meme, showing Squidward as the UK, watching Canada (Spongebob) and the EU (Patrick) as they frolic together.

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Twenty-year-old Paul wouldn't even know where to begin. I've achieved almost every (realistic) ambition that he had (the rock band one probably wasn't likely), though not in ways I could've imagined or planned for. The thing is, I think he'd be even more baffled by the blue hair.

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again we're capital S streaming the capital N and V New Vegas and, I'm afraid, this is again the only chance to catch me this week because 2026 is forever the year of Appointments. twitch.tv/paullicino

A Fallout: New Vegas screenshot with the text "Are you sure you want this to be your face?"

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh my God! JC! A bomb!

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For ages I've been making this joke about how, if I regain some sort of EU privilege or access as a result of *becoming a Canadian*, then that really would be something. Except it keeps looking a little less like just a joke every day. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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European Union invites Canada to become first ever ‘associate member’

Commission president says EU must ‘urgently reimagine our partnerships’ as she makes unprecedented offer

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Narrative design after my own heart. I love this thread (and the linked essay), the system it describes and the thought put into it. I also feel like I immediately *get* it and think this is such a good approach.

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Pacific drive quote bot @pacificdrivequotes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I didn't think pickles could smell like that - FAX

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Been worried about this for weeks now, but I cannot for the life of me suss out at what size a pierogi stops being a pierogi and becomes a calzone. Or vice versa.

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm delighted both to have been invited to participate in See You In Fahlstaff, alongside such an extraordinary group of people, as well to watch this project just TRIUMPH the moment it was announced! ...and I'm very, very excited for everyone to see what we've been cooking up. 😱

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When you're not brown.

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yeah, that header alone is an accurate description of the fallout of the last twenty-five years. So many more people around the world continue to suffer as a result of the consequences of and reactions to this event. (Or, perhaps, the Florida recount of '00.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Mistakes, mistrust and misdirection: 25 years after 9/11, its dark legacy continues to unfold

The world’s most powerful country responded to the worst terrorist attack in its history by inflicting terror of its own – around the world, and at home

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Suicide Prevention Day kind of snuck up on me and it's not something I talk about every year, but this time around it just feels right to me to share something I wrote about PTSD, about choosing life and about finding wonder in everything from blue skies to MRIs. www.patreon.com/Paullicino/p...

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Six Years - On PTSD and Choosing Life | Paul Dean

Content warning: This essay very frankly discusses mental health, trauma, gaslighting and suicide. It also links to discussions of abuse and

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