iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 17h

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When I'm feeling peckish, I reach for a handful of sliced button mushrooms and a whole artichoke that I enjoy as hand fruit

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Eight Feet Wild: A Treatise on the Conservative Iconography of Recreational Vehicles

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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Damnit, I wandered into the brambles until memory gave way to the here and now and settled down amongst the newly fallen leaves to feel nothing but the creeping cool of autumn again

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everything I read about these weirdos calls to mind Pirsig's descent into psychosis while perseverating on the notion of "quality"

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Its possible to tell roughly what year a Netflix show was made simply by whether the characters have their phones use a ringtone or only vibrate. 2023 or later is almost all vibrate.

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Ray @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026

Weaponized moseying. A leisurely pace, intended to annoy and sabotage.

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

*the opening bars of Massive Attack's "Teardrop" plays*

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The 1991 "Cape Fear" is part of the "Mitchell" extended universe.

Joe Don Baker in a scene from "Cape Fear" (1991) where he is acting opposite Nick Nolte. He looks like an older version of the disheveled doofus he played in "Mitchell" (1975)

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

get weirder 🫵

a digital collage with a pink, purple, green, yellow, and teal gradient overlaid on all the images. the images include a horse carrying a bucket, a cluster of mushrooms, a grub, a birds talon, a cicada, five spiders, two flower buds, a hand with an eye over the back of it, and a microscope slide of atoms. there is white text that reads "get weirder or die miserable." the background is black and there is a slightly grainy texture

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's become clear now that despite some early promise and a few notable successes, on balance, the internet was a mistake

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Absurdity is an undervalued tool, we should be using it more

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"So wait, you're telling me that true crime tv host Nancy Grace has her own space telescope now?"

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Why does this look like a lost Edward Gorey etching? Terror Bird looks like it would join a group of Edwardians taking tea and harrass the governess for digestives.

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 28/08/2026

There's the books I've had the pleasure to work on covers for: @deeholloway.bsky.social's DEVIL CUP @joshuatrentbrown.com's THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN ON US @rogerjva.bsky.social's THE INACCESSIBLE RAIL & others I can't talk about yet, but feel like cousin fictions to my own

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My book is coming out in a couple of months, and I'm so excited about it that I'm going to address everybody's least favorite authorial question: "What the hell are you trying to do here?"

The front cover for The Inaccessible Rail by Roger Vaillancourt. Sort of a digital collage, with the image of a bird within the outline of a bird overlaid against a barren mesa.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Reporter: You haven’t heard her name until now. She’s only seventeen years old. But White House intern Crespa Blumbo has been in charge of all nuclear missiles for the last two years and she just ordered the military to enact Project Acheron

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Travels With Brindle is still composing a silent movie score @travelswithbrindle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What's your favorite bible verse? Wrong answers only:

IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE
GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

R̵̦̜͙̘̝̃O̴̫̙̱̐̔À̸̩̰̩̂͗̚̚S̸̯͗͒̋͌̓T̷̻͈̂̾̇͑́͗̏ BEEF 13ₚ

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Whenever I worry that I'm not contributing enough, I remind myself that the word "queue" has four silent vowels.

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Now that puts a whole new light on Sherlock Holmes's use of the seven-per-cent solution.

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Jenn (Morton) Kirkland @gamermomjenn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My teenager calls that group (38-year-olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on Spotify, nobody here cares about popularity), which somehow includes her 57-year-old mom, "the cool losers."

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

*staggers, hand to forehead, while overwhelmed by Lotus Notes flashbacks*

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

2 THING'S - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKLEATAN GRINNEN HOPING U WONT REALIZE THERE PROBLEMS "IM HJERE TO KICK ASS AND TAKE NAMES, AND IT SUCKS BECAUSE IM VERY WEAK, AND TERRIBLE WITH NAMES " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Chris Nolan, it's time to adapt William T. Vollman's 3,000 page book on the CIA

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Okay I am your book sommelier. Drop $10 ($5 for the zine, $5 for shipping, sorry) on King Ludd’s Rag No. 26, then tell me your favorite poem, book, song, etc., and I’ll pick out a book you might like and include it in your order for free. malarkeybooks.com/store/klr26

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KLR 26 — Malarkey

King Ludd’s Rag No. 26 features stories by Kay Vaindal and Eli Sugerman.

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Count Dorkula @countdorkula.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"Crosseyed and Gormless" is the new Talking Heads track we need as a civilization.

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Rob Cee @therobcee.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

*bumper sticker on Robert Frost's car* THIS VEHICLE STOPS BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

To open door, pound ineffectually on the yellow tape

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/07/2026

- Guy named Monty playing spoons in front of barrel fire - Minor league baseball game on radio in room next door at flophouse, 1953 - Time

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Tom Waits White Noise Sound Options

Rumble of freight trains at dusk Tuesday delivery at scrap metal yard Broom sweeping floor of bar in Sheboygan at closing time

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Abbott and Costello Meet MikeZilla Minus Zero (#15584) @mikeymcfilms.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Do not go gentle into that good night

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In a closed-door meeting, Iran was put on a PIP

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Joey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I'm constantly urging friends and family to use their library services, even if it's just the libby app or whatever, because I'm noticing this weird thing where even people who read a lot see libraries as existing for someone who's not them.

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I haven't been to Seattle in twenty years, but now I want to go see St. Rat.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

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Teresa Ardrey (She/Her) @teresa-ardrey.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It is officially time to start Jularkey! @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. May have to roll a dice to decide reading order. Boxcutters is first only because it is my short story a day collection, atm.

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Preorders make the world go round, although truthfully by “world” one means “tiny press” and by “go round” one means “not go defunct,” which is considerably less catchy. Below are some books that are available or preorder, all signed by their respective authors.

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Disclosure Day is classic Spielberg, and while I was on board with the greys and reading people's gestalts through their retinas, I could not suspend my disbelief when it came to those file transfer speeds.

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

As Amazon buries the world in deals this week, we are bringing back the two books and a t-shirt bundle, at a lower price. The shirts are comfy, made and printed in the U.S. The books, too, are comfy. malarkeybooks.com/store/twoboo...

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Two Books and a T-shirt — Malarkey

A comfy Gildan Softstyle t-shirt printed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by the nice folks at Mythic Press . Choose from three colors, galapagos blue, paragon red, and natural, which is an off-white. The shirt w...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/06/2026

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Thirty years on, I'm still in awe of the precise menace of "dry is good and wind is better"

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Dad loved to listen to the Texaco Metropolitan Opera radio show on weekends while doing woodworking in the basement. Mom listened to The Moody Blues, Steely Dan, and Englebert Humperdinck

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