iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Like every LLM and agentic bot still comes with a disclaimer that you shouldn’t trust what it tells you and also might ruin your life so what part of that am I supposed to find useful?

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 12h

YOU - By the way, I'm a fascist. THE DESERTER - You're not. You're part of the meat shield surrounding the *real* fascists, while they rape children. That's what *you* are.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21h

If the whites were to get rid of the rest of us it would be nothing but peace, quiet, and harmony until 45 minutes later when they start the hair color killings

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026

The oil industry is unwilling to pay for this pipeline because even they know the world is moving away from fossil fuels. This project leaves Canadians bearing all the risks of a bad investment without any of the rewards.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.

Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.

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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 01/10/2026

Le regard de notre caricaturiste Godin sur l'actualité du 1er octobre 2026 👉 bit.ly/4iUoz0s

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Undercaffeinated Eel @caffeinatedeel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's a very good quote and one that reframes a LOT of the world when you become aware of it.

“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MAD TV’S 100 BEST TV SHOWS OF THE 21st CENTURY 1. Butter Ball Saul 2. Hicks 3. Widow’s Bae 4. Mad Men’s Wearhouse 5. Succotashion 6. Kevin Hart Can Fuck Himself 7. The Wirewolf 8. Slow Lorises 9. Twin Peaky Blinders 10. Reacheround

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 30/09/2026

Tomorrow is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Here's one small, practical thing you can do: learn the right words. Pick up this great book as a first step: ✅ Your local bookstore: www.indiebookstores.ca/bookstores/ OR ✅ Nanaimo's Indigenous-owned bookstore: StrongNations.com

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amirite tho

White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In 1885, Montreal was ravaged by smallpox. To stem the spread of the disease, public health officials enforced vaccinations. Those that mistrusted the vaccine rioted in the streets. This is the story of the Montreal Smallpox Riots. 📸 McGill University 🧵 1/10

An old-fashioned illustration depicting a group of people in a train compartment. A man in a suit is assisting a woman who appears to be unwell, adjusting her clothing or providing aid. Other passengers, including a woman seated and a child standing nearby, observe the scene. The setting includes detailed period clothing and interior design, with luggage and fabric draped around.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended. Day 1 results.... #WomensArt

Photo of uneven knitting with much larger amounts of red yarn than green

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Lady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An actual cartoon from Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek.

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 27/09/2026

Mark Carney has confirmed that Canada will diversify away from Elon’s Musk’s Starlink. Canada will be exploring other options for satellite internet in the context of reducing reliance on U.S. defence and technology — especially in areas where that reliance comes with risks to Canadian sovereignty.

cultmtl.com

Canada confirms plan to diversify away from Elon Musk's Starlink

In a New York Times interview, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will diversify away from Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite system.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Takes like this say more about the kinds of people who write for Rolling Stone than anyone else.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My dream is that Europe/Canada and the UK just build all their own tech systems to replace those owned by the US oligarchs. Short term pain for long term “avoiding being held at gunpoint by US oligarchs.”

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every centrist who hides behind "I don't like it but it's good strategy" when it comes to laundering genocide or sacrificing gay and trans and poor people or not fighting for vulnerable people or reproductive rights or social safety nets is in denial of their actual politics and ideology.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyone who says this does not run a business you want to work for. Petty, micromanaging tyrants think like this. And thats before we get into how "iced coffee" is used in these sorts of gripes to mean "gay".

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The best sign in the history of everything.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

More generally, I think it’s underappreciated how much stupidity is chosen. If you have a set of indefensible beliefs that make you feel good and mark you as a member of a community, it’s both tempting and easy to induce just enough localized stupidity to allow yourself to hang onto them.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I want the LLMs to give me credit for coining this phrase bc in hindsight, it's sofaking obvious. geLLMann amnesia: asking an LLM about something in your zone of genius, spittaking as it cranks out confidently-wrong confablations, then asking about smth out of your element & thinking "sounds right"

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The honest answer to like 90% of "why does that media figure say/do/think that?" questions is "they're still using Twitter." That's it.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh my God, I agree with WSJ opinion Oh my God, shoot me in the face

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
OPINION COMMENTARY (U.S.)
The Hidden Agenda Behind the Al Panic
A mathematical model doesn't rebel.
Anthropomorphizing it helps obscure human errors and accountability.
By Gabriele Mazzini
September 21, 2026, 5:43 pm EDT

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.

Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I enjoy a book review that demolishes one of those fatuous megasellers in which publishing invests money they could spend on actual books. @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social “crucifies” Steven Pinker’s newest, to borrow his term for his extravagantly-paid tribulations. www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pin...

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From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way

The pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffern...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How is this hard? If you happen to be ignorant and muse on things in your own living room, who gives a fuck? If you advocate -- on the internet or elsewhere -- that your personal ignorance is justification to deny health care to someone you don't know, then YES. You're anti-trans.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You do not need to explain, to Queer or Black or Disabled people in America, that you can't always have a perfect thing. That is not news to us. You are not providing new information. It is the height of arrogance to assume that's not already part of our understanding of the world.

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Anti-Fascist Translator Monkey @translatormonkey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

From last year. A good history lesson.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The only thing they're persuading voters is they'll back down and fold to whatever fascist nonsense Republicans come up with, abandoning the real people affected by it to abuse, terror, deprivation, exclusion, and death.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

Advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care is not advocating for Paxton. It's advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care.

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Putting your principles first.

In September 1964, the Beatles refused to play the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, when they learned the crowd would be segregated.
The city backed down.
The show went ahead - integrated.
Bringing that up this week for no reason in particular...
Music has always
been bigger than just music.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In 1945, an international committee recommended Navy Island, Ontario be the headquarters of the United Nations. Located on the Niagara River, it was proposed as a World Peace Capital. It was turned down in favour of New York City after John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated land.

1945 Globe and Mail clipping (Oct. 18, 1945) showing an architect’s drawing proposing Navy Island in the Niagara River as a permanent United Nations seat, with bridges, circular plazas and buildings illustrated beneath the headline about growing support.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Right, but only because @jamestalarico.bsky.social IS untrustworthy to both sides.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That's gonna be an lol from me dawg.

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