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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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 6h

Are you sure this isn’t just a game of “6 of these names are made up and one is real - guess the real one”

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 21h

Turns out these guys are real

A fish like a child would draw, no fins, just a tail an eye and a little smile

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 19h

I can’t remember what I came into this room for but I just spotted an actor on the Reacher spinoff and instantly recognized him as “that guy from Corky & The Juicepigs” which was a comedy band from the 90s, so I’ve got that going for me

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Our province and country are very far from perfect, but BC just recently made HRT free with prescription. I don’t know if *all* drugs are covered but it’s a huge step forward.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

She’s now going through doctor-led steroid withdrawal, which has its own set of discomforts. But at least she has answers and is on the right path. Thank god we have an alternative to Big Pharma and all their regulatory bodies tho, right?

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

She audited everything that had changed in the last six months and realized one new constant: the new supplement line her SIL sold her one. She had started taking a full complement daily. And it turns out the whole line is laced with a type of steroid.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

She was developing the classic “moon face” of Cushings syndrome - but it wasn’t Cushings. It looked like she was on steroid treatment, but had never taken one in her life. Finally the Dr tested her cortisol levels—they were at essentially zero. A common side effect of extended steroid treatment.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You know people that say doctors are in the pocket of Big Pharma so they’re only going to take natural supplements? Here’s a story for ya: A friend started showing strange symptoms a while back - skin thinning to the point of fragility, weight gain, change in face shape - like she was blowing up.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

❤️ having now gone thru something similar, this makes my heart hurt for you even more. Sending hugs, Becka.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How may I help you?

Macro photo of a very plump apple green caterpillar facing us head on, reared-up, its six forelegs clasped expectantly.

It is a late instar larva of Antheraea polyphemus.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett! A Watson & Holmes style mystery, but in a completely unique world/setting. It’s my favourite series right now!

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

forbes.com

Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Hi my name is Julie and today I’m making a shared spreadsheet where every column has a totally different justification. This…is Jackass” -my accounting reconciliation manager, probably

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Shorter. He reads a lot taller to me!

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(The first part is clearly a lie)

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I thought I had the world all figured out then I found out Matthew McConaughey is 5’11” and I am unmoored

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North Box Systems @northboxsystems.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Keep that brain safe: Vaccinate, Ventilate, Purify the air and wear an N95 in crowded spaces: #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dr Emily Skeletonpain @limeyemily.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every day I open this app and have no idea what anyone’s talking about. And every night you better believe I’ve developed a strong and correct opinion on those topics

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Glacier Lake or Alpine Lake?

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

alien graffiti can be pretty hurtful 😔

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I…can’t imagine…how lovely and quiet this would be

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you’re looking for a beautiful, funny, charming series that is literally off the beaten path, with some of the most gorgeous indigenous costuming, please check out North of North - the first season is on Netflix and the second is coming soon

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It really is! And the book is truly great. Thank you for continuing with these characters - their stories are my favourite right now, and I can’t wait for the next and the next and the next.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don’t understand why seeing my favourite authors’ books on display feels so unexpected - they’re bestselling books in a bookstore. That’s where books live. It’s probably weirder for them to see me in their home. Anyways here’s @robertjbennett.bsky.social’s new A Trade of Blood & it’s delightful.

A tall shelf in a bookstore with a sign that reads New Foction with four rows of books underneath it.

A close-up shot of the same bookshelves, focusing on two purple books which say A Trade Of Blood on them.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 28/09/2026

The snails They escaped their basket Yes YES The snails are out

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That’s a great analogy! The whole thing really makes me question what they must be like as a person - to be so wildly irresponsible (overconfident? Ignorant? Any other number of things?) with other people’s lives.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s just wild to me - and I’m sure a lot of other foragers here in BC - that she seems to have used a single, rather subjective, ID point (fragrance) and really just ignored all other markers.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I grew up in the Canadian Rockies and I have never been as cold as I was in Iceland in November. The wind is cold and damp beyond belief and I feel like I saw Reykjavik with blinders on because I had both hoods of the two coats I was wearing up and cinched.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We heard new neighbours yelling for their cat: “Mr Pants! Mr SCOTT Pants! Get in here!”

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah like not even just eat them yourself but SELL them.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

True chanterelles are known to smell of apricots- so that wasn’t crazy. The crazy part is deciding to ignore all other identifiers except colour.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As far as I know, everybody was fine the last I heard. Someone saw what she was claiming were chanterelles and drew attention to it

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The discussions going on in the foraging groups were WILD A lot of “if you’re going to BUY wild mushrooms you should be able to identify them” like ok buyer beware but really??

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

She smelled them, gathered them up, slapped a label on them and happily sold dozens of people poisonous mushrooms. She has now been interviewed by the CBC and has sworn to never sell mushrooms again. Which probably should’ve been her plan from the start.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This ID point was completely ignored in the case of this seller. The next ID point is the stipe, or stem. It doesn’t break cleanly - in fact you want to look for its ability to pull apart like string cheese. This was not considered, either.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the case of chanterelles, the most glaringly obvious ID is the gills - they don’t have any. They have folds, which at first glance at a distance can look like gills, but if you look closely and touch them, they’re not. They don’t break when you touch them & don’t have a hard border.

Two side by side pictures of two yellow mushrooms

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you know much about mushroom foraging, you know that many mushrooms require you to match several ID traits, especially if you are an amateur. Scent is a good ID trait for many types, but it should only confirm what you see, not act as the sole ID point.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Armed with a mushroom ID book and a complete deficit in the powers of reason needed to forage mushrooms, she found a patch of yellow-orange mushrooms in her yard. She decided they smelled like apricots - a VERY secondary identification trait of chanterelles, which are considered a choice edible.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This week in local Facebook drama: Local mushroom foraging group reports that poisonous mushrooms were sold as edible over the weekend at a harvest fest market. The market organizer and stall-holder, a VERY amateur forager, decided she was going to sell mushrooms she found.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I would looove the recipes/links to the greens in these pics, if and when you have a moment! Thank you so much!

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thanks for blurring out the stink horn I don’t need that in my feed

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