iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kokoro @livelyprancing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

💌 from Ahmed: I’m Ahmed from Gaza. I recently had surgery on both of my legs and urgently need medication and follow-up treatment costing $120. I’m struggling to afford it. Please help if you can, even a small donation or a share could make a real difference. 🙏💔 chuffed.org/project/1696...

Photo of two bandaged feet and ankle after surgery.

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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

💔 My little daughter has a serious heart condition and struggles to breathe She urgently needs treatment and an inhaler, but it's too expensive. Please help save her life in Gaza. Even a small donation can make a difference🙏Don't abandon my child 🥺 Verified: Molly Shah ✅ chuffed.org/project/2038...

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Basic income isn't a handout. It's a head start. 🗨 Arlene Dickinson

Arlene Dickinson quote questioning subsidies to industry vs helping families, calling for income support and real hope

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Private developers & marketing ppl who have used New York City-based themes for #Vancouver properties & re-branding efforts: imagine appropriating some ✨NYC-style #socialism ✨ 😁😂😎 #housingForAll 🏡 #VanPoli

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 28/09/2026

Im not even remotely kidding btw

A gray car with “Arrest Netanyahu Now” written on it in blue letters

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SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is one of the best platforms we’ve ever had. Thanks to the members and candidates for all their input and staff for putting it all together

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The Malahat Review @malahatreview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

5 days left for the Early Bird discount! Get $15 off your entry fee if you submit by Sep. 30 at 11:59pm PST. Regular prices resume Oct. 1 to the Nov. 1 deadline. 🏆️ 3 x $2,000 CAD prizes 🔎 judges: Lareina Abbott (cnf) Ayaz Pirani (poetry) Anuja Varghese (fiction) malahatreview.ca/contests/ope...

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026

I was promised robots that would tackle the dangerous and physically demanding work so that humans could be freed up to make MORE art. Where the hell is THAT future

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Taking deep breaths and reminding myself that runaway anxiety about imminent old woman poverty is not a place from which to make sound decisions

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

😔 I have had such similar moods wrt the hellish #geopoli timeline we’re in. You remember the hopefulness and the good done by ppl gone too soon and you kind of mourn them all over again, but in a way that raises morale somehow

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Very selfish, self-involved election timing by the bc ndp…memories of 2020. This isn’t governance.

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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@mark-carney.bsky.social Canada is STILL trading with Israel, while pledging aid to Gaza??? So our country is basically Ed Sheeran. Why can’t Liberal foreign policy evolve???? Even a genocide couldn’t move the needle.

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Okay, if you’re like me and have abandoned your ergonomic chair for the day, read this whole thread. Starts as situation comedy and swerves into poetry in quite a lovely fashion. #NonFiction

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So it’s the autumn equinox. I looked up the planetary hours to see if there’s a good time for magic today. …uh. No. Nothing is good right now. Going to just give a little “woo, Autumn!” But that’s it.

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I want to know what the line cut off at the top of the page says about fear…!!

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Daniela Elza @danielaelza.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC launches a Parliamentary Petition calling for radical transparency for AI training processes and the works they subsequently produce. See for link of petition in first comment. Please sign and share. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Petition e-7774 - Petitions

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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@mark-carney.bsky.social Why is Canada trading with these monsters?

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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)

a white man, a jamaican woman, an african man, and a black man walk into a restaurant....

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Scholarship” — please. Chicanery, sycophancy, mendacity, colonial sexual fever dreams about Arab/Muslim men. Sleeper cells, weapons of mass destruction, & my favourite Obama-era treat, “countering violent extremism”. CSIS or FBI informants with no life purpose, crashing Muslim student iftars…

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Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Some Thai words of Persian #etymology : Thai กุหลาบ gù-làap "rose", from Persian گلاب golāb "rosewater". (The Persian is also ultimately the source of English "julep", as in "mint julep".) Thai has borowed other words from Persian, including...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Something that PIC abolitionists are attentive to is that you should not build things that you will have to dismantle a few years later because of the harms they cause.

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Canada has normalized this and other colonial settler horrors for such a long time, and punishment against those who speak out (pity, contempt, isolation, repeat) is a deeply unacknowledged part of our social fabric.

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Four months since my 22-yr-old moved out. He works two jobs to support his music practice. No back-to-school pencil-sharpening or prepping lunches for me this week, just reports from all my prof friends of the ransacked hellscape that was once the genteel life of a campus…

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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Albania has been protesting a shady land deal for 90 days with massive crowds in the streets. Trumps has been trashing America, robbing America, bankrupting America, while being a known pedophile, with very little resistance.

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Shazzoir @shazzoir.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BEST EXPRESSION

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Ninety. whole. minutes. of lightning flashes + one very perturbed doggy yelping from across the alley from my bldg

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The absolute wildest forked lightning and thunder #Vancouver has witnessed all summer happening to the south…still no rain yet

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In case anyone here ever wonders whether Facebook is still a thing.

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

basically 2026, if you add dry sinuses from a strong smell of woodsmoke

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Keep your conscience awake. Keep Gaza connected. ☺️

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It’s not just me, then: late aspirational shopping is well and truly dead. Even retail-priced jeans aren’t having it.

Close-up of the waistline of a pair of folded jeans with the words “EX-BOYFRIEND Slouchy Slim” in black print on the white manufacturer label

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just making this a quote post to state how ill I feel

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Finally bought a CO2 monitor + air temperature sensor for my apartment. It’s 26 degrees with all the blinds closed, fans running, & well before the summer heat builds through the afternoon. I should have bought this when I moved here 5 years ago. I must have built up my heat tolerance instead.

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Tiny creature expressing how every level of politics makes me wish I could hide this summer

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Conyer Clayton @conyerclayton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"My little sister asks me" from my forthcoming third poetry collection, the lake-shaped excuse (Buckrider Books, @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social), after @sannawani.bsky.social's "Lately I Am Trying." 💛 Pre-order now 🌅 Check out Wolsak and Wynn's full fall 2026 catalogue here: tinyurl.com/423tf48z

My little sister asks me

after Sanna Wani

if I remember when I realized I could die and I don’t, but I wish I did. Did I even think as a child? Do I even think now? So much of my world develops like a photograph, in the dark room way back and is fully formed before I realize it has been there floating in chemicals I assembly-line walk by. If I think in words, I don’t know them. If I knew I could die, I was okay with it. I tell my sister I feel like I have no memory sometimes – I spit shine my own eyes so they’ll see something. The snow I forgot was falling. The ice I walked on weeks too early. If I realized I could die, I don’t remember it. It’s not my death that worries me. It’s yours. If my lake isn’t solid, maybe yours is. Yours is. Yours is. No one else can die because the ice is just a photograph I took in high school. I made you sit on a pool noodle in the middle of the street while I crouched to get an artsy angle. Your skirt was striped and black and white. I think I need to go home.

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

To me, it is an uninterrupted extension of the (hitting the 25 year mark this fall) global war on terror, which *checks notes* yes, also rape culture

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Can confirm. It’s the weirdest.

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Prose poem of night time in the city.

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

July is a month which, if elected Mohtarma-in-Chief-of-the-Global-Imaginary, I will not only decree everyone HAS to take the full 31 days off, but pay them to do it from the public exchequer. That said, I'm never ever ever running for public office so I made a Linktree. Afsōs. linktr.ee/RahatKurd

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RahatKurd Official: Instagram | Linktree

poet, critic, ahl-e-zubaan ~ academic editor + literary manuscript consultant

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

happy thirty-third birthday sale, above/ground press! , in which an anniversary begins to be celebrated, / @meetthepresses.bsky.social @montrealprize.bsky.social @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/happy-thir...

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

All the fabulous prize-contender titles are ON SALE including THE BOOK OF Z at Talonbooks for the month of July!

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Just got mine! Great idea to take it along on my next jaunt to the beach.

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

CAN someone survive a genocide? We should all hope so. Please share and donate if you can.

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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

American commentators bluntly calling this a murder and correctly stating he should never have been detained after his service to the US. The death of this man brings up SO much of the trauma of the racist Bush/Obama wars which began 25 years ago.

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