iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 20h

Everyone better be taking notes

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social · 20h

pardon my language, but fuck that. how absurd.

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social · 20h

so the next version of playstation is going to cost at least $1000 and it won't even have a disc drive? do I have that right?

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

For three + years, teachers, writers, artists, humanities professors and so many others have been arguing exactly this--that this technology only produces an endless ouroboros of bland, sad, grey slop. But we were told that we were/are luddites, reactionary, old-fashioned, angry, etc etc.

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social · 20h

starting my week with a bus ride during which I read June Jordan's HARUKO/LOVE POEMS, and then the cinema for a press screening of WICKER. There seems to be a theme.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 18/10/2026

We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

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Ahuncycle @ahuncycle.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Deux REVeurs sur Henri-Bourassa. #vélo #velomtl #réveil #Montréal

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Caoimhín Ceallaigh nee Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

A closer look at six controversial powers inside Mark Carney’s Building Canada Strong Act archive.ph/XqF18

C-39 makes C-5 permanent
C-39 creates “regions of national interest” where environmental reviews can’t stop projects
C-39 reduces protections for species at risk and opens the door for industry lawsuits
C-39 allows construction to begin on projects before an impact assessment is completed
C-39 allows a designated minister to override project conditions
C-39 cements the federal government’s ability to shut down legal strikes

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Kaleidotrope reopens to fiction and poetry submissions for one week starting tomorrow, October 18.

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Les Misérables: One More Day Before The Storm

Alt: Les Misérables: One More Day Before The Storm

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

This investment signals that for all the Carney gov’t’s tough tariff talk they fully intend to pursue much deeper ties w/ the US & the US tech giants that are increasingly acting as an arm of US foreign & econ policy. While depending on voluntary agreements to hold them in check. Good luck with that

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

There is so much bait-and-switch in Canada’s “digital sovereignty“ (heh) strategy. Bottom line is that building out massive polluting AI data centres to host US tech companies is a form of digital colonialism: they control the tech & the profits, and export the dirtiest, lowest-value part abroad.

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Anthropic revealed as client of $10-billion Canadian AI data centre project

The Nova Scotia site will be used to power the large language models behind Claude.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

every era of explosive artistic creativity you can think of at least in modern times took place in a city during a period where it was possible to live and have time to make art because rent was cheap

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The Liberals, with the Conservatives' support, are fast-tracking Bill C-39, giving only 16 hours to study an omnibus bill that is 240 pages long. I'd like to remind them that the Constitution and the rule of law are not optional. (1/2)

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

so many poems in this Miltos Sachtouris collection are now my favorite poems @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

Life

Night
in a pharmacy
a kneeling
horse
eats
the floorboards
a girl
with a strange
green burn
is treated
while
the phantom
cries
hopeless
in the corner

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Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️ @ellisnilsson.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

A friend (not on bsky) is studying a mid-15th c. MS that collects 119 different theological excerpts, exempla. Any help, experience or suggestion for work on particular relationship between miscellany MSS & a local library, where the libraries (or their catalogues) have been preserved? #medievalsky

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

the entire catalogues of Criterion, Severin, and Deaf Crocodile (to start)

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

This was a fascinating project to be a part of. Check it out and pre-order!

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

We're finding more and more that bad people with power are more like old-school comic book villains that we had thought. They really would tie you to the train tracks just to see your body crushed and they'd twirl their mustache because they like tue aesthetics of being evil.

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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

alt text in the attached image (From quoted post)

A typed-up letter:
Dear beautiful women,
I've started this letter like ten times and deleted it every time because very time I start I cry. So I'm just going to write it.
Your flag matters to me. It matters so much that it's flying at a lesbian household where anyone walking by can see it.
I'm a trans girl so I'm not sure you can relate but I'll try. Most days I'm doing math in my head like which hallway is safer, who I can sit near at lunch whether it's worth saying something or just letting it go. I'm so tired. I don't think people who don't have to do it know how tired it makes you.
I walk past your house almost daily. The first time I saw the flag I slowed down without meaning to. It was just hanging there like it was no big deal but to me it was everything. It felt like the people inside would see me as who I actually am and I wouldn't have to explain or prove anything. My shoulders dropped for the first time all day and I almost cried right there in front of your home.
I know that living here isn't easy for gay people like you where not everyone is kind about it so putting that flag up means risking stares, comments or worse. You did it anyway, and that is the bravest thing I've seen anyone do. Every day it stays up it tells people like me that someone is willing to be brave so we don't have to be alone. Now I look for it. Some days it's the one thing that makes me feel like I'm not imagining that I deserve to be here. When so much of the world feels like it's deciding whether there's room for me your flag says there is. Please keep it up. You might not know it but it's helping me get through the day.
Thank you for your courage, and for leaving the porch light on for the rest of us.

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Desiree Cifre @desireecifre.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If anything, there should be a term for the clients who must pay for a woman to entertain and flatter them because self-respecting women would never give them the time of day for free. Oh, I know! How about “a Shane!”

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Desiree Cifre @desireecifre.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The gym shorts discourse exhausts me because for one thing, I’m sick of the word “whore” being used as a pejorative. As if it is the gorgeous and entrepreneurial woman selling her company, and not the mediocre man so socially inept he has to buy it, who is pathetic and worthy of derision.

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Delaney King (In Yellow) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A reminder that CGI is not inherantly bad looking, but that it is produced by artists under perpetual crunch as fast as possible and for shit pay to maximise shareholder profits. When allowed to properly work their magic, artists can make CGI invisible and believable.

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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 15/10/2026

In my community alone, in the last two year: The NDP housing plan has created 100s of new rentals. We may be up to thousands by now. Heath care: A new hospital. Its first urgent care centre. Many new doctors and nurses. Education: New schools. Horrible job yup /s

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sina @rejectionking.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

the typewriter, the pen, nicotine, and an increasing tolerance to ssris have contributed more to the arts than your local llm

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

does anyone else with GHOST OF YOTEI sometimes just have Atsu ride around Ezo because the sound of the horse's hoofs is the best ASMR or is it just me

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

such a beautiful folk horror game, I played it a few times just to look at it (and also to find all the various items and do the dofferent endings). well worth your time and money.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This thread is an important read. Oh, and how absolutely unsurprising to see the institutionally transphobic @theatlantic.com using AI accusations in racist ways while *also* using an AI tool itself to “prove” its racist claims. So fucking on brand.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 14/10/2026

Legit a great movie that not enough people have seen

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

I'm quite heartbroken to see that one of my favourite authors, Kazuo Ishiguro, apparently puts his seal of approval on this ridiculous document.

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ren they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ @renzaro.com · 14/10/2026

Dozens of Toronto bike riders are occupying bike lanes to block Doug Ford’s order to tear them out. Bike lanes are a highly effective means of saving lives. Keep up with this thread 👇

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“The monster is so hungry it might attack, unless you sacrifice one of your villagers” is a classic fairytale

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

One year after the Gaza ceasefire agreement was reached, more than 100 humanitarian, human rights & other civil society organisations say the ceasefire exists in name only, restrictions on aid, equipment and rebuilding materials preventing families from recovering. www.warchild.net/latest/artic...

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Gaza ceasfire exists in name only, say more than 100 organisations - War Child Alliance

Article- War Child Alliance - We believe no child should be part of war. Ever.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“Why does everyone force introverts to come out of [our] comfort zones but no one forces extroverts to shut the fck up for a while?”

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Authoritarians want despondency and an air of inevitability. Don’t hand it to them.

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is the last time Kaleidotrope will be open to fiction and poetry submissions this year, and I don't yet know exactly how long it will be closed after that.

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am very proud to announce a new chapbook (my first in over 20 years): CO—STAR AND RESPONSE from @robmclennan.bsky.social & above/ground press. Now available to order! What an amazing deal for some wonderful poems! abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/10/new-... #poetry #chapbook

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new from above/ground press: CO—STAR & RESPONSE, by Shelagh Rowan-Legg

CO—STAR & RESPONSE Shelagh Rowan-Legg $6 Destroy with purpose Or perhaps I will force my heart to an earthquake — a ...

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

I've had a couple of cocktails and am about to watch DOUBLE JEOPARDY for the first time and if I don't like it I'm blaming @horrorqueers.bsky.social

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