iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 59m

I was once talking to a meteorologist at a conference. She told me, "Every ten years we get another day."

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 7h

Nailed it

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 3h

Rhododendron. I have no idea what the h is for or where it might go. But I do know that there is one.

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 7h

1.2 x (that of the CEO), please.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 10h

oh my god I was going to joke "he's actually centre-left" and turns out he IS

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 7h

Yup. Writers are (unfortunately) cheap. Not only ads, but also every film set before about 1970 should hire some grumpy old fart writer to give the script a once over and remove all the anachronisms and grammatical errors.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 13h

If I worked for Andy Burnham I'd reply "Yes, Prime Minister" to most of his remarks but every so often I'd say "Don't be disgusting, Jerry" to keep him on his toes.

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 23h

Would that they were. Would that they were.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm elderly, and have a large house, workshop and paddock. On the other hand three generations of my family live in it and use them. I suppose I am a full nester...

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pensioners refusing to downsize is good for younger families buying houses. Downsising drives up the price of smaller houses.

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We should also own the copyright in our own DNA (explicitly shared - half with parents and siblings; quarter with grandchildren etc; below, say, 1/16 the right stops).

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Many people vaguely think that the UK is roughly the same latitude as New York City. Lisbon is roughly the same latitude as New York City.

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not sure about this. Being able to say, "A.I., book us a table at that place you found that we went to about a month ago for seven thirty," seems like a reasonable use.

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

You'll only drive it underground.

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ogre-g 👹 @libidinalspaces.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

she's got that joie de leave

A thin, red leaf on concrete. It's on its side such that it looks like a pair of lips

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Normalise charging a deposit on booking.

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An elderly acquaintance, who's husband is a Freemason, "Oh. He's off at his Tufty Club again."

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

First use of the car heater today.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 07/10/2026

A very happy 50th birthday to our patron Tim Minchin. Thank you for the music, the laughter, and these really lovely words on living, happiness, and finding meaning in the here and now. Happy Birthday, Tim!

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They certainly got through a lot of cloth back in those days.

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We are just out of a summer with five record breaking heatwaves which literally killed thousands and bought climate change up close and personal for millions for the first time. This should be the Greens' big moment in history. But instead they're doing this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

I won't accept exclusion within Green Party, says Polanski after criticism of Zionism motion

Labour MPs and the European Greens have demanded clarity from the Green Party over a "Zionism is racism" motion.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

getartcraft.com

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Maybe. But the big thing about releasing the source free is that, though the lawyers may go after the originator (to what purpose if their total assets add up to $568.55, incidentally?), that source can never be closed off.

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes. But what is that on his head?

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was once walking the towpath of the Cam. Stephen Hawking was trundling towards me in the other direction in his wheelchair. We did that left-right, right-left thing until I realised that ending up with him on the river side would be very very wrong...

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Education has nothing to do with "improved economic and life outcomes". Its sole purpose is to get people to the point where, in almost every situation, they ask the right question.

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How do you pick it up without getting all sticky?

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When you're undecided about the whole possessive apostrophe thing...

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

von Neumann doing clever things and going mad Hamilton and Dawkins: altruism out of selfishness Charpentier and Doudna: CRISPR

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There are few things more annoying than being told to calm down by someone. But, curiously, it works if you tell it to yourself.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Happy tenth anniversary to the time the Reading Chronicle didn’t know what a plant room is.

Crane disruption
AN enormous crane that will lift a room full of plants into a 14 sto-rey building will close town cen-tre roads in October.
Station Road and Garrard Street will be shut and Friar Street and Blagrave Street reversed between 5am October 15 and 5am October 17. The temporary measures will allow contractors working on the Thames Tower to install a 500 tonne crane that will put a prefabricated plant room onto the roof of the building.

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reminds me of the time the owners of a livery yard left my daughter in charge of the yard, twenty horses, three dogs, and ten younger children while they left for lunch. She was eleven. Mark you, by that age she was perfectly capable of organising D Day...

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I resigned from the Greens because Green nimbys opposed local solar farms, then was confirmed in my stance by their stupid and immoral anti-zionist vote; however now they are coming round to nuclear power. But for the zionist thing, I might have rejoined... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power

Party in England and Wales ditches commitment to phase out nuclear in major shift in its energy policy

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Larry Niven wrote a whole series of stories predicated on the idea that magic is a natural resource that gets used up (hence why we have almost none in the present day).

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Theatres and the opera very often do that too.

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The chocolate will still be shite, as it has been since Kraft took Cadbury over.

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So the first fifteen minutes of the film are continually interrupted by buggers too disorganised to get there on time tripping over your knees.

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems that the lesson here is that not only can the World's Strongest Military be defeated by a third rate power that happens to be right beside a critical sea lane, it can also be defeated by some blokes just out to nick red diesel. I'm sure terrorists won't take any lessons at all from this...

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yup. First computer program written by punching holes in bits of cardboard. Latest one by correcting mistakes made by an AI. I could explain how it (and the AI) work from doped silicon crystals up...

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On the other hand, I bet they know the exact years when their parents were born...

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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#SundaySmile ✝️⚓️ What the Bible says about bath time

Biblical babies taking a bath

Jesus - stands on the bath water
Moses - parts the bath water
Noah - fills the bath with pairs of bath toys
Jonah - is inside a toy whale in his bath

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