iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rebecca Schoenkopf @wonkette.bsky.social · 7h

I took my mom out to lunch today, to a restaurant I'd really been wanting to take her to for a few years now, it's so Topanga Canyon-y. It was nice. She liked it. Within half an hour of leaving the house, she didn't remember that she lives with me and has for four years. Totally new information.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 1h

If anyone here lives in the Toronto-St. Paul's riding, our MP @lesliechurch.bsky.social has now officially endorsed Brad Bradford for Mayor. If you would like to tell her how you feel about that, her email is leslie.church@parl.gc.ca! I, for one, am very excited to do so!

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 7h

And I'm extremely lucky! I'm fine! But god it makes me angry at the politicians in this country who decide what "living wages" mean, and who likely couldn't tell you the cost of a TTC pass or what the average person's grocery bill is or how much a tooth crown costs, let alone have solutions for this

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I turned off my earbuds today just in time to overhear a gentleman on the subway in the middle of saying, "... but you have to vote because the alternative is so, SO much worse" and the way I immediately knew he was talking about Brad Bradford

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Laura S @pickersnext.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am so happy that Judge continues to be injured. Couldn't have happened to a weirder mutant (seriously, do they all need to be so big?!?!)

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am a simple woman, I just don't want anything good to happen for the Dodgers these playoffs

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Laura S @pickersnext.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am also deeply rooting for terrible things to happen to the Yankees, but that has more to do with hating all the players

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Laura S @pickersnext.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another hill i will die on is the guys who show up to Con panels/events looking like they rolled out of bed, but their female counterparts are done up like it's an awards show red carpet makes me incandescently angry

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's always so sad to me when I see Hollywood actors from a movie reunite a decade plus later and the men have aged totally normally and the women look exactly the same, because god FORBID they're allowed to get old. I'm so glad I've never been successful enough to have to deal with that nonsense.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I forgot to post this amazing bit of sports journalism from earlier in the week

Intro paragraph from a post by an allegedly legitimate sporting news website, reading "All four MLB Wild Card series are 1-0 heading into Game 2". In fact, that is the only possible way a series could be heading into Game 2

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael J. Fox receives the Order of Canada 🇨🇦🥰

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

if anyone needs me I will be kicking down the door of the Papal Apartments with the Furby I owned in 1999, demanding that His Holiness issue an encyclical recognizing its eternal soul

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.

An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."

Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 02/10/2026

iso cam on Charissa Thompson as she's forced to listen to praise of a rapist

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In some ways, the biggest difference between me and a person who is "successfull in media" is this clip right here. Thompson is summoning every ounce of her strength to sit there and listen to sports praise of a sexual predator. I'd... lose my shit and get fired.

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 02/10/2026

Who are the judges in the new Game Changer?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

Debating adding "champion amateur horologist" to my bio

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nurtured in Seattle by the same ppl who now employ Jonathan Choe & fund We Heart Seattle. They NEVER stop at homelessness

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Laura S @pickersnext.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ummm...then how come every time the Jays were down at the Trop, it looked like an empty cavern? While every single Jays home game at 40K+ in attendance?

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was born into a family of jocks and spent most of my life in the world of sport. It's why it pains me so, so much that those spaces are so often poisoned by toxic masculinity. Initiatives like this give me hope, though! CU Athletes wrote short stories for boys on healthy masculinities. Go Ravens!

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Carleton University athletes write book to help boys build emotional intelligence, combat toxic masculinity

Eight Carleton University varsity athletes have recently become published authors and have written a book to help younger boys build emotional intelligence and connectedness.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Carney's first-ever project designated as being in the “national interest" is...a crude oil pipeline. That means the oil pipeline can bulldoze past environmental laws, impact assessments, and Indigenous consultation. It can also kill all of Vancouver's orcas. Here's what you need to know:

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Samantha @msspydasam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wonder why Farage is still so opposed to re-joining the EU, if only there was something...

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Laura S @pickersnext.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is literally no one on the Yankees that I would accept a drink from, but Schittler is near the top of the "run away and warn everyone else" list

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The adversity that he's been through." Yes, yes, this poor man had to deal with *dozens* of suits for sexual assault. And here he is, surviving and thriving on the other side of all those settlements. What a brave hero.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's pretty great when a dickhead realizes the importance of consent in the milliseconds that a bullet enters his skull.

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M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

OTTAWA — The actor and Parkinson’s disease advocate Michael J. Fox is set to be honoured at Rideau Hall this morning www.ctvnews.ca/entertainmen...

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Michael J. Fox to be promoted within Order of Canada at Rideau Hall today

The actor and Parkinson’s disease advocate Michael J. Fox is set to be honoured at Rideau Hall this morning.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Before: slept for 15 hours, inhaled nothing but soup, cold meds, and nasal spray After: extremely sweaty, slightly loopy Premier of Alberta

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Since the office of religious affairs is a thing now, here is the new script to protect government servers:

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I cannot watch Gausy's post-game interview. It makes me too sad. Someone call the Pope and ask if he can extend the Almighty's benevolence past the White Sox winning the World Series and into getting Kevin onto a team that gives him some damn run support

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At Camp East Montana, an ICE detainee's death was ruled a homicide after guards "restrained" him. Federal investigators later found missing or destroyed evidence, while the camp's contractor failed to provide required use-of-force and death reports.

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A detainee's death at ICE's largest camp was ruled a homicide. GAO found the evidence 'missing or destroyed'

Camp East Montana opened without the inspection ICE policy requires. Three men held there died within six weeks. Across the country, people shot by immigration agents are often the ones charged.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

History is written by the victors. Thatcher broke the power of trade unions by mass unemployment, industrial restructuring, frittered away N Sea Oil, laid the foundations for the current housing crisis, decimated local bus services, hollowed out local government and introduced the poll tax.

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Andy Burnham seems to remember a different 1970s to the rest of us. Britain in 1979 was utterly broken - ravaged by unaccountable trade union power, economically stagnant, the sick man of Europe.
The 1980s saw a remarkable national recovery based on free enterprise, the rule of law and championing Western values. And it is this that our Prime Minister rails against...

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 01/10/2026

Wemby is something else, man

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 30/09/2026

New pod! open.spotify.com/episode/3Jho... -Trump demands Canada apologize for...something -Carney preps for a U.S. invasion -Eby's election call backfires spectacularly +More

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Free Trade Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry

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Kevin Glew @coopincanada.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Former Toronto Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin (Montreal, Que.) has been elected to the Quebec Sports Hall of Fame. I wrote about it: tinyurl.com/4cwjyjh6

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Russell Martin elected to Quebec Sports Hall of Fame - Cooperstowners in Canada

Former big league catcher Russell Martin (Montreal, Que.) has been elected to the Quebec Sports Hall of Fame.

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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One year ago, the world lost one of its strongest advocates. Dr. Jane Goodall spent years advocating for animal welfare, for community-led conservation, and for youth environmental leadership. She knew that each one of us had an important role to play, and she made sure that we knew that, too.

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