iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

alexander @varney.me · 02/08/2026

Turns out it was my DNS - sorry!

alexander @varney.me · 30/07/2026

hey I think the podcast feed might be broken, I haven’t been able to download episodes on any client or network I’ve tried in the last couple days

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alexander @varney.me · 11/07/2026

The 90% THC dab pens are a different beast entirely

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alexander @varney.me · 30/05/2026

How in the loop are you on those runs? The idea of letting it run doing stuff for 12 hours is wild to me. How much planning do you do first?

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 24/05/2026

See what I was saying about the need for weekend GO trains to/from Kitchener? Now we need more of them

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

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alexander @varney.me · 23/05/2026

the worst genre of posting is when two people both kinda have a point and just explode talking past each other

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Here's a little demonstration of the challenges of data mapping when it comes to Canada. Here's a hypothetical election map. Pretty simple question: which party won, green or yellow?

A map of Canadian federal election ridings created with MapChart (https://www.mapchart.net/canada-federal-ridings.html) where, to the naked eye, pretty much everything looks nothing but green

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 13/05/2026

Is Bluesky dying? Is it the community's fault? Should people here refrain from criticizing journalists who think J. K. Rowling might have a point? The thing is, it doesn't matter. Because the answer isn't to make Bluesky change. It's to take advantage of Bluesky's tech to build something else.

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The Thing About Griping About Bluesky - Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Let a thousand mutually suspicious communities bloom.

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alexander @varney.me · 09/05/2026

Mine upped mine exactly 2% from an even, memorable number to something ending in .74 cents and I’m still salty about it.

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alexander @varney.me · 07/05/2026

“Tennessee is a Conservative State and we’ll make goddamn sure nobody else’s view are represented.”

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alexander @varney.me · 29/04/2026

Shit now my Jeopardy backlog is spoiled

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alexander @varney.me · 29/03/2026

it’s that miserable grey time before the plants start to come out

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Make sure to rotate your pronouns periodically, so that if your gender becomes compromised, attackers can only access it for a short period of time.

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 23/03/2026

The conservatives we need: we’re going to unleash the private sector, boost our economy, and fix the housing crisis by building productive new cities around GO Transit The conservatives we have:

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alexander @varney.me · 10/03/2026

paying 1800/mo to live in a motel with presumably no kitchen is a really bad situation to end up in 😬

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄

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alexander @varney.me · 21/02/2026

This is a slightly different problem but it speak to the news orgs wanting to push their own direct subscription over any other model even when it doesn’t make sense to consumers.

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alexander @varney.me · 21/02/2026

Maybe one day the market dynamics will align to make this a possibility. For now I’m pretty happy paying $15/mo for Apple News+, but nobody offers a way to “open article in Apple” when you go to a website with a paywall, even if you’ve already paid thru News+. Super frustrating!

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Was talking to @mconcagh.bsky.social about this: i genuinely think we underestimate the possibility that the Conservative Party of Canada splits back into the PC wing and Reform wing again: the Western alienation crowd clearly want a AfD/MAGA New Right party while the Bay street types want Toryism

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alexander @varney.me · 21/02/2026

Thanks for the share, I think the cause is just that everyone wants recurring revenue. I won’t give random local paper in another country $10 a month forever to read a single article, but I would pay to get past the paywall once. Stripe taking 30c of the transaction is irrelevant.

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alexander @varney.me · 21/02/2026

Something I’ve been thinking about… do you think there’s a model where we can pay about $4 per article? IMO anything under a fiver is basically free as a one time cost but the hassle of a subscription is too much friction for a single article

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alexander @varney.me · 21/02/2026

After the tenth time reading this I still cannot comprehend how weird this dynamic is. What the hell even are these people?

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 20/02/2026

unbelievable things are happening in glasgow cuisine

an advert for a curry served in a garlic naan bowl

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alexander @varney.me · 18/02/2026

No thinking! If you don’t have a talking point prepared and immediately queued up you’re not qualified to be an elected representative. Governance is dead, doesn’t she know her job is to be a soundbite? /s

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 17/02/2026

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 09/02/2026

“Mr. Beast Salesforce ad” - they’re calling it the least appealing phrase ever assembled in any language. They finally did it

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

leaking my soul doc

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alexander @varney.me · 26/01/2026

That’s making a lot of assumptions… I highly doubt the guy knows what or where a prefrontal lobe is

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alexander @varney.me · 24/01/2026

Unfortunately that’s how I read it in my head too

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alexander @varney.me · 22/01/2026

No comment besides acknowledging that Saya album is a banger

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alexander @varney.me · 20/01/2026

oh god are we all already stuck in gas town !?

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

*Sully Sullenberger starts sweating*

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alexander @varney.me · 30/12/2025

Fair, and TO should definitely do congestion pricing, toll the gardiner (rip to that idea), and generally make driving alternatives better. I do think there is an inevitability that randomly closing lanes will create bottlenecks, and letting construction companies close lanes for years is bad too.

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alexander @varney.me · 30/12/2025

This is a single sentence in an article about a city job being filled and the linked article in the section you highlighted is very balanced and includes a bunch of useful context around road closures and presents the pro-development side. This isn’t awful journalism.

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alexander @varney.me · 17/12/2025

there should be two types of zoning; mixed use residential/commercial, and industrial. anything beyond that is govt overreach

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alexander @varney.me · 15/12/2025

Horseshoe theory at work again

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alexander @varney.me · 29/08/2025

I, for one, think this is a great development in the canon of the Catholic church

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alexander @varney.me · 30/06/2025

Pretty sure it was more about managing Trump and not an expectation of picking a fight on literally every issue.

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alexander @varney.me · 04/05/2025

They think they are the Sovereigns

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alexander @varney.me · 03/04/2025

I'm betting stuff from the US goes up in price, things imported from around the world stay the same or go down with decreased US demand.

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alexander @varney.me · 30/03/2025

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alexander @varney.me · 30/03/2025

this should also be a reason to get put on the no-fly list sorry, you clearly can’t be trusted anywhere near an airplane

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alexander @varney.me · 30/03/2025

my god what is wrong with people

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alexander @varney.me · 30/03/2025

That sounds pretty lit actually (the only thing I know about the guy is that he was the lover of the Russian queen)

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herbie @squorch.com · 29/03/2025

300 kts at 800’ inside class B airspace is insane Wings-yanking insane

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alexander @varney.me · 28/03/2025

vibe coding on deez nutz

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