iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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laeti is back in thedas @laeti.bsky.social · 4h

how my favorite people keep me from spiraling and going insane by simply existing and sharing their vibe with me, the comic:

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 7h

This is great. Makes me wish I could read him again for the first time.

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 19h

Good news; we are currently running a clearance sale for copies of our SF game of memetic horror, After the War. You can pick up a copy for 50% off while supplies last from @ipr.bsky.social at www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/After-...

After the War: Science-Fiction RPG of Memetic Horror

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Dyson Logos @dysonlogos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dunford Reach, dominated by the Washhouse Inn, is the only stop along the Sunderwash river between Ossengrad and Khaldrift. It was built upon the ruins of a city that predates the Serpent Empires and uses the cyclopean architecture of said as piers. dysonlogos.blog/2026/09/28/d...

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Normalise saying "What the fuck is wrong with you?" when other men are out of line.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One way we all die is... this.

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The kickstarter campaign for Lonely Timbers - Tire-toi une bûche is going well but we need more folks to spread the word. www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jag...

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Lonely Timbers - Tire-toi une bûche

A TTRPG about french-canadian lumberjacks in the early 20th century. Un JDR des bûcherons québecoises du début du XXe siècle.

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David R. Slayton (He/Him) @drslayton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Long before you knew me, I was a poet. It's what brought me to Colorado. It's not a voice I use much anymore, but last night provided some inspiration:

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David R. Slayton (He/Him) @drslayton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But no, I have no interest in outsourcing my intellect to the plagarism machine that stole my work, is crippling minds, causing suicides and destroying our only habitat. I believe AI has no place in the arts. Period. I will not argue this. If you disagree feel free to block me.

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 27/09/2026

ICYMI: Shakespeare’s Globe has opened its newly renovated research and collection centre, which features London’s only publicly accessible dedicated Shakespeare library and archive. 👇

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Shakespeare library and archive containing 6,000 books opens under the Globe theatre

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I suspect that this "ignorance" about Rich Kids, as much as anything else, is what prevents truly Leftist politics from taking hold in this country. There really is no danger of a "slippery slope towards socialism," despite what you may have heard.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My wife and I spend a surprising amount of time worrying about how to protect our children from rich kids

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Cornell exists to teach and to educate, and instruction presupposes a student capable of receiving it, which presupposes, in turn, a student who is not afraid to attend their lecture hall. Safety is not adjacent to the educational mission — safety is, in fact, its precondition.”

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 27/09/2026

Be patient and kind to those who are making art right now. We're all self-funded and the richest, worst people in the world are trying to plaster over and erase our hard work.

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TabletopGamingDeals @tabletopgamedeals.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Compose Dream Games is all about brining Canadian RPGs to the World and the World’s RPGs to Canada. Check out the FREE/PWYW Section for some great games. composedreamgames.com/marketplace/...

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Compose Dream Games

RPG Marketplace

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TheAfterwords @theafterwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#DEAL ALERT! Calling all one-clickers because PLATFORM DECAY @marthawells.com is on #sale on #Kindle US for a limited time only! amzn.to/4AyFo7z #PlatformDecay #TheMurderbotDiaries #ad #amazoncom

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The campaign for Lonely Timbers is chugging along nicely so I thought I would talk about the game's origins. This game was originally born from the GameChef competition back in 2017 where we were encouraged to design games around the themes of borders, both literal and metaphorical.

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🍁 Fraser @swordsedgepublishing.ca · 26/09/2026

Looking at the stats for my websites provides some very sad evidence that it's mainly a bot-fest, and the main pages that any visitor seems to have lingered on is the login as they try to hack the site. ¯\(ツ)/¯

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David Rose's WTF Reaction

Alt: David Rose's WTF Reaction

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🍁 Fraser @swordsedgepublishing.ca · 26/09/2026

The current page count of the Intervention playtest document--which is a player-facing document with minimal discussion of rules and applications--is 115 pages. 52 pages of that is Gear--resources including equipment that provides a bonus to the Stress inflicted in a Test.

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It'S A Monster

Alt: David Duchovny (maybe as Mulder in the X-Files) saying "All I'm saying is . . . it's a monster"

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🍁 Fraser @swordsedgepublishing.ca · 26/09/2026

I do not enjoy working with tables in layout programs. None of them seem to handle them well. And Interventions has A. Lot. Of. Tables. My old Adobe CS6 is much better at this than Affinity Publisher. I've gotten used to Affinity, but it just DOES NOT do tables well.

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🍁 Fraser @swordsedgepublishing.ca · 25/09/2026

Posted the intro to The Found & The Lost—a TTRPG I developed but haven't pursued—on the SEP site. The idea is to post the game as it stands now in full. Once all the sections are out, I'll also post a PDF there. swordsedgepublishing.ca/2026/09/23/t...

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The Found and the Lost: Introduction

Over the next four weeks, I’ll be posting the sections from a very short, very simple TTRPG that I designed which I’m calling The Found and The Lost. There is a page that acts as a roug…

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can we *not* bring a martini to a job interview? Explains how I ended up a novelist.

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#bookhistory #histmed 18th Century Literatures job at the University of Alberta! Particular interest in candidates with expertise in Critical Race/Ethnicity Studies; Disability Studies; Environmental Humanities; History of Science/Medicine; and Print Culture/ Book History.

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Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Global 18th -Century Literatures

Location - This role is in-person at North Campus Edmonton. The Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Global 18th-C...

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🍁 Fraser @swordsedgepublishing.ca · 25/09/2026

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The Found and the Lost: Introduction

Over the next four weeks, I’ll be posting the sections from a very short, very simple TTRPG that I designed which I’m calling The Found and The Lost. There is a page that acts as a roug…

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🍁 Fraser @swordsedgepublishing.ca · 25/09/2026

I once posited in an academic paper that some of the differences between Americans and Canadians can be traced back to how each appropriated land. Americans took it independently and latter their government followed. Our government stole the land first and then gave it away.

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What Americans Get Wrong about Canada | The Walrus

Our closest neighbour has never really understood us

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Compose Dream Games @joshuakitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everything is set for our week long annual site-wide sale in celebration of Dave Arneson game day and blackmoor week. If you love #RPGs go to either our UK or Canadian site!

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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm just going to link to Joseph & Frances Giles foundational book on life and work in the middle ages, and ask that, in your world-building, you remember that, for most of history, in most places, families lived and worked together, taking care of each other. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

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Life in a Medieval City (Medieval Life)

Life in a Medieval City evokes every aspect of city lif…

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet

5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When the 75 remaining orcas here are killed for a pipeline and port expansion to the west coast, do the Vancouver Canucks change their logo? Or do we just explain to our grandkids that yeah, we used to have those here, but we killed the amazing, nationally emblematic creatures for short-term cash?

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a very cute clip, but I love it for reasons that the episode doesn't really explore: *All networked technology comes down to chat* Talking to each other is either the foundation of all new networked technology or becomes inexorably tied up with it-- since the early days of the Internet 1/

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Brent Jans (he/they)💜🖤🤍 @dorklordcanada.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

September is winding down and October is coming, which means it's time for Hack n' Yak! If you're an Edmonton game designer, or looking to become one, join us for a casual hang out and snacks @pemetawe.bsky.social on Sunday, October 4 at 1pm! #YEG #TTRPG

Text Reads: Are you a tabletop game designer? Have you ever written or hacked an RPG? Have you ever thought about writing one?
TTRPG Designer Hack n' Yak
Meet Local Designers - Snacks on Us!
Drop In, Sunday October 4, 1-4 PM
Pe Metawe Games 11805 94 Street NW
Presented by Worldbuilders YEG

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🍁 Fraser @swordsedgepublishing.ca · 24/09/2026

I got a chance to play this at Breakout Con in Toronto and it was exactly what I would expect from Jason: elegant design, thoughtful issues, emotional play, satisfying experience. I really can't recommend this enough. Jason always deliver something special.

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The kickstarter for Lonely Timbers is now live at www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jag... and I would love your support. La campaigne sociofinancement pour Tire-toi une bûche est maintentant active. Merci pour soutenir ce projet franco-canadien et québecoise.

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Lonely Timbers - Tire-toi une bûche

A TTRPG about french-canadian lumberjacks in the early 20th century. Un JDR des bûcherons québecoises du début du XXe siècle.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sorry but if your AI criticism doesn't include analysis of how the hyperscale data centre push is actually seeing the biggest billionaires actively worsen the climate crisis and push for more deregulation of and investment in the fossil fuel industry to power those data centres, you're a dummy

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RejectedMuse @rejectedmuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’ve backed this game and am so excited to see what Jason’s been working on. Will you join?

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🍁 Fraser @swordsedgepublishing.ca · 23/09/2026

Over at SEP, I put up the D&D 5E NPC Shaman's Acolyte. They aren't actually a spell-caster, just someone who was following a spell-caster. It's a Challenge 1 NPC. swordsedgepublishing.ca/2026/09/20/h...

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Homebrew: Shaman’s Acolyte

The Shaman’s Acolyte is from a 3rd level adventure, representing a non-magical assistant to a shaman from a nomadic people. The shaman and some others from the nomadic group had come to inves…

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Donald Trump's "deal" with Belarus on potash was an obvious (and empty) bluff. And yet, Pierre Poilievre's MPs were more than willing to believe it -- and blame the federal government and a non-existent carbon tax instead. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/23/o...

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Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives can’t wait to buy Trump’s bullshit

Donald Trump's latest economic threat involves replacing Canada's potash with imports from Belarus. The official opposition decided to blame ... the carbon tax?

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CAPE-ACEP @cape-acep.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The government’s own original plan on real estate holdings, that it had already started implementing, would have seen nearly $40 billion over ten years in savings from reducing unneeded office space. ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

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Federal organizations to spend at least $18 million on return to office

The Treasury Board confirmed that "no specific metrics" were used to determine if RTO-4 would deliver better services.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hi-- My wife is selling off her dad's collection of cameras and camera accessories. Her dad kept them in excellent to excellent-to-mint condition. These are all for a vintage Nikon S2. If you're interested in buying anything, e-mail me at jjnevins@ix.netcom.com Thanks!

Nikon S2 camera body, serial number: 6158222, plus instruction booklet
Lens Nikkor-S.C 1:1.4 f=5cm Nippon Kogaku Japan No. 367079 with hood and original lens cap
Lens Nikkor-Q.C 1:3.5 f=13.5cm Nippon Kogaku Japan No. 261655 with hood and original leather case
Lens W-Nikkor-C 1:3.5 f=3.5cm Nippon Kogaku Tokyo No. 426869 with original cap and leather case
Lens Nikkor-P.C 1:2 f=8.5cm Nippon Kogaku Japan No. 404330 with hood, original cap, and original leather case
Nippon Kogaku Japan 13.5cm accessory viewfinder for Nikon S-series rangefinder in original leather case
Nippon Kogaku Japan 8.5cm accessory viewfinder for Nikon S-series rangefinder in original leather case
Nippon Kogaku Japan 3.5cm accessory viewfinder for Nikon S-series rangefinder in original leather case
Nikon Flash Unit Model BC-5, with instructions in original box
Bel-View filter set for Nikon: four filters in original leather case
Vivitar red filter 43mm
Three reusable 35mm metal film cassettes/magazines for Nikon rangefinder, two likely brass
Vintage Japanese shoe-mount selenium exposure light meter with hinged photocell cover, exposure calculator, maker/model unknown, with original leather case
Minori mechanical camera self-timer / delayed shutter release, made in Japan, PAT. 23650/DSG.9550 in original leather case
Voightlander VC Meter II, new light meter, probably used with Nikon S2, in original box
Pleasant Auto-Up I Super Nooky for Nikon S2, Nikkor F1.4
Tiffen All Purpose Series #5 Adapter Ring in original box
Beseler Camera bag

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 22/09/2026

Stephen Harper’s biggest mistake was not running as a Liberal

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 22/09/2026

It's great to see economist @justinwolfers.bsky.social making the case that AI has given new urgency to the case for universal basic income, calling it "a payment society is owed rather than a form of redistribution." ALL of us trained those AI models. It's OUR work and OUR data being fed to them.

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