iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fully support all craetives taking this stance. Though I'd say it's not AI that has put us all here. AI doesn't steal or copy or 'do' anything. The technocrats priveleging their anti-human vision above all are the ones who do this. AI is just a tool. It does not have agency.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yay! Anne Carson is awesome and her body of work truly remarkable.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Every time I see the stuff about how it saves so much time I can't help wondering what that time is for. Like, if you don't want to actually learn and think and write a good essay, what do you want to do with your time? Why aren't you doing that instaed of typing llm prompts?

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This entire thread and alllll the comments brought me great joy. Got on the b boards as soon as I got to university in the early nineties, coded a whole catalogue of rare books in html (nested tables, people) in my first ever job. Have loved what it can be and do always.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well that's an eye-opening suggestion...

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When anyone asks me if i use ai, i say "i try not to use gen-ai, but it's not really totally avoidable" and for a surprisingly large number of people that requires further explanation. It's wild.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Taking the drive to Elk Island on a brisk October night for a talk about the stars by a pair of enthusiastic young parks employees is definitely a 10/10.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 30/09/2026

OH ALSO I forgot to yell about this: cats and video instead of just voices! On @gryftkin.bsky.social 's YouTube! :D Chatting about WICKHILLS and cities and physics and monsters and spies! youtu.be/I6Rb2oJW-Rw?

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Interview with author Premee Mohamed: Wickhills - this city does not obey the laws of physics

YouTube video by Gryftkin

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Unchecked development destroying essential ecosystems in the Cape Peninsula of South Africa. Regulation sorely needed.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Vaccines work" isn't a political statement. "Immigrants do not increase crime" isn't a political statement. "Climate change is real" isn't a political statement. "Genocide is bad" isn't a political statement. Stop neutralizing the power of facts by framing them as "politics." Reality matters.

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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Music/dance/theater people: there is *one week* left to add your voice to the Impact of AI on the Performing Arts survey.

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GenAI Usage in the Performing Arts

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There seems to be a bit of misinformation circulating on social media about my latest @albertaviews.bsky.social column and what it actually says. So perhaps you’d like to read it for yourself and draw your own conclusions. (Feel free to share, it you are so moved.) #ableg #abpoli #Canada #cdnpoli

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Alberta's Referendum Questions - The Noxious Nine - Alberta Views

Nine disingenuous, malicious referendum questions, push-polls, designed to incite social division and undermine confidence in the country.

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Scott Fitzgerald Gray @scottfgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.

theguardian.com

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My kid studied CS because they really wanted to work in game design. Now they work in Home Depot, and fear they will never get to work in a field they love. 😢

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 02/09/2026

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The planet just experienced its hottest August on record, and likely the hottest August in the last 120,000+ years, coming in at 1.64°C above the 1850-1900 preindustrial baseline. Hot times ahead!

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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We have lost one of the 20th century's most important voices for ecological sanity. Wendell Berry, RIP.

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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Everything you wanted to know about bike lanes but were afraid to ask, read budgets and crash data or do math for. aaronpaquette.ca/mng #yegBike

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Movin and Groovin — Aaron Paquette

Roads, LRT, buses, bike lanes, shared pathways and sidewalks, drawn to scale with the receipts attached.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Definitely do not look up what powesmeans in Afrikaans/South African slang. Definitely do not think about how I initially read this perfectly innocent little ditty.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Had the same question. Team granola fts (for the summer...porridge all the way when the chill arrives).

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Farewell to another absolute legend. This week is sucking. #franknfurter #timcurry

Tim Curry as Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Please, somebody check on Patti Smith. Without Dolly, Patti is our only hope....

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I'd be interested to read this but I'm pretty firm I won't use substack. Would you consider, while you're still fresh and it's a relatively easy move, trying a platform that's less problematic?

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

10/10 would read this study and nod knowingly all through.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

And if this means I don't attend events organised by people I am otherwise in sympathy with, it saddens me but nonetheless... (seeing slop posters for climate action events locally makes me both mad and sad). #yeg #aislop

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

For an act of resistance to the tyranny and vanity of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter — undistracted notes on the search for meaning (art, science, philosophy, poetry, wonder) — free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006: themarginalian.org/newsletter

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sunday newsletter

If you yearn for depth and delight without the distraction of a social media feed, if you are weary of algorithms deciding what you see and read and constellate into reality, try the Marginalian Su…

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Climate solutions can do far more than just abate climate change. They can improve lives, support communities, and repair the natural world, too. Here's a place to start: a huge set of opportunities to address climate change *and* extreme poverty simultaneously. drawdown.org/publications...

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Climate–Poverty Connections Report

Download Climate-Poverty Connections: Opportunities for Synergistic Solutions at the Intersection of Planetary and Human Well-Being to learn how climate solutions contribute to poverty alleviation in ...

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Lawrence seems like a fun place to start, especially the 'compact' part. I have the Wilson but want to pick up the Mendelsohn. A bookshop customer who's a long-term Odyssey nut told me it was the absolute best, and he's read them all multiple time.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Don't know if this is today or Saturday but I sure hope all those folk who sat in their hot cars for aaaaages just to get over Groat bridge to heritage fest saw this bike parking lot and had a little think about their life choices.

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

No can donations at #heritagefestyeg this year, but we can still donate in cash. And we know the food bank still needs a lot of help so try to remember to bring a little extra cash to #hawrelakpark this weekend.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The thing about AI bros that I find so unsettling is that you only really have to connect with one great piece of art - stand breathless in front of a painting, lock eyes with a singer in a concert, sob at the end of a film - to understand the value of the humanity of it. And they just…never have?

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

Attacks on libraries, library staff, collections and patrons are ramping up around the world. Anti library campaigners appear to be sharing their playbooks and only need to be lucky once while library campaigners need to be lucky every single time.📚📜

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

FWIW: As a bookseller in a relatively small (though admittedly quite well-read) city in Canada, I can say with some confidence that @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social needed no help to sell her translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad. They've been steady sellers from the get-go. #odysssey

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

BUT we can still buy whatever they have at the farmer's markets. Trustworthy lettuce, some delicious garlic, a few new potatoes. We don't getvthe usual summer bounty, but we get good, safe food and maybe we help save a small farm...

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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

So, here in Alberta the climate crisis has brought us mad rains and most of.our local farmers who run CSAs are struggling to get any crop to succeed. Literally standing at the farmer's market on Saturday mornings crying with small farmers who may lose their farms this season. So no CSAs for us.

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