iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tarkin: "You would prefer another target? A military target? Then name the system! I grow tired of asking this. So it'll be the last time. Where is the Rebel base?" Rebel: "They're on Yavin IV." Tarkin: "You may fire when ready." Rebel: "No wait, that was just my AI!"

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Deathstar Death Star

ALT: Deathstar Death Star

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This guy has totally got Hitlers apocryphal ball in a jar displayed somewhere.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Things the UK has a competative advantage in: knowledge creation, higher education, creative arts, independent news, film and TV production Things the UK doesnt have a competative advantage in: manufacturing, energy production, infrastructure projects Can someone let the government know!

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daniel holmgren 🫠 @dholms.at · 23/09/2026

i think we need to do a permission sets push... permission sets are mainly for giving nice human-readable, user-friendly descriptions of resources! if your OAuth screen looks like this, consider publishing/using permission sets. this is scary/useless/non-sensical to users

an atproto oauth screen that has the generic "repository - public changes" and "authenticate - perform actions on your behalf" resources

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are bigger things to be angry about but tech's pivot from "no more ads if you pay" to "fuck you, pay and get ads anyway — and by the way the ads are so much worse now" always feels outrageous

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is nothing stopping those businesses taking on young people and training them.

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How about instead the government pays for the degree of anyone who teaches for 5 years so we get the best people becoming teachers?

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Why don't we just send 'em down the mines at 12?

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 19/09/2026

people constantly confuse being smart with being right and it’s killing us all

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've worked with Accenture... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Guess which ethnic minorities this report didn't ask perceptions of? This report says 'tackle all forms of racism' while ignoring Romani & Irish Travellers & the racism they face. Very typical structural racism

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Joachim Mergeay @jmergeay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Silent but dramatic loss of genetic diversity unveiled using museum specimens #consgen

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AI might mean everyone 'could' make software. I don't think AI 'will' make everyone a software developer.

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As a parent of a child who was twelve weeks premature and spent that time in neonatal care I feel incredibly uncomfortable about the idea of 'cot cams'. As a parent I do not want the first interactions with my child to be recorded by the state.

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think you'll find my snobbery is because I have less so that people less fortunate than me can have more.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Donation donations. For some reason been thinking about the rich idiot who hires Bane today.

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Bane's Shoulder Touch

ALT: Bane's Shoulder Touch

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

mathandai.org

Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If someone does this to me I will obliterate their watch with a mallet.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

‘Last year teenage homicides in the capital fell to their joint lowest level (similar to 2012) in almost 30 years. In 2025 you were twice as likely to be stabbed to death in New York as in London.’ economist.com/britain/2026...

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London’s approach to knife crime is working

Sadiq Khan has mainstreamed a public-health approach that was previously fringe

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

(It's mad but) They think asylum seekers don't have to try, they've got the easy pass. They're just jealous of those crossing on small boats, so they're play acting as them. Fox Mulder - "I've always wanted a peg leg. It's a boyhood thing I never grew out of. I'm not being flippant; I've given this

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

People have been giving away their data on the internet for the last 30 years without a seconds thought... but one poll created on Bluesky and people are loosing their minds.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026

A large group of co-ordinated, masked men blockading a piece of significant infrastructure is a security threat and should be dealt with as one. There should also be serious questions about why police/intelligence services didn't pick up on it in advance.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I feel like we need to invent treason against the human race. If Elon Musk wants to go play with his machines hard drives perhaps it would be better if he was on Mars.

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Is it possible to narrow down what made this hole (no other signs in the area)?

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

After the C4 news Reform UK exposé last night, I was sat thinking how we fund our political system to get rid of all the corruption and our self-serving politicos. Cos we know they’re all at it (eg Burnham won’t cap donations cos Labour have too much to hide). This seems pretty spot on to me 👇🏼

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Reform show how fucked up political finance is. But I guarantee Labour will be embarrassed over some skeevy donor at some point. Failing to act on this is just inviting scandal, resignations, distrust and collapse of govt. Again. So here are some interconnected ideas to fix it.

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Does anyone know who/what this is? Can't find any web presence or Charity Commission listing, and no names of anyone involved.

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now if we're going to hound anyone...

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

First it's you weren't born here. How long before it's your parents weren't born here?

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Norfolk nature people I'm looking for some outdoor work volunteering for my 19 year old son. He had a taster day for an apprenticeship with the broads authority that he unfortunately didn't get (they were doing brush and tree clearing) but he enjoyed the work.

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Evelyn @kandake.africa · 28/08/2026

This is why localfirst+atproto is so critical to the future of the Internet, we can't rely on the whims of hyper scalers who decide ngo grants aren't profitable

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Many years ago, I wrote down this bit of a speech Obama gave to an audience in Silicon Valley. Because it absolutely NAILED the difference between government and business.

The final thing I’ll say is that government will never run the way Silicon Valley runs because, by definition, democracy is messy. This is a big, diverse country with a lot of interests and a lot of disparate points of view. And part of government’s job, by the way, is dealing with problems that nobody else wants to deal with.

So sometimes I talk to CEOs, they come in and they start telling me about leadership, and here’s how we do things. And I say, well, if all I was doing was making a widget or producing an app, and I didn’t have to worry about whether poor people could afford the widget, or I didn’t have to worry about whether the app had some unintended consequences then I think those suggestions are terrific.

That's not, by the way, to say that there aren't huge efficiencies and improvements that have to be made.

But the reason I say this is sometimes we get, I think, in the scientific community, the tech community, the entrepreneurial community, the sense of we just have to blow up the system, or create this parallel society and culture because government is inherently wrecked.

No, it's not inherently wrecked; it's just government has to care for, for example, veterans who come home. That's not on your balance sheet, that's on our collective balance sheet, because we have a sacred duty to take care of those veterans. And that's hard and it's messy, and we're building up legacy systems that we can't just blow up.

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Alan Britain will legalise kicking Restore voters in the balls.

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I've always made software like pottery. I wonder if that's because I've always worked in small companies.

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I'm assuming this is just a box of mayfly specimens.

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My lacebug find was almost immediately eclipsed when I spotted a very small, dark shieldbug. I recognised it from previous online posts as Ochetostethus nanus, a recent arrival to the UK, albeit one with several Norfolk records already. #SweetBriarMarshes

A small dark shieldbug with marks on the wings. It is sat on a green mullein leaf along with some pale sand and small stones.

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

And he wants to destroy you because he hates that you are smarter than him.

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daniel holmgren 🫠 @dholms.at · 20/08/2026

so excited to get this in folks' hands and to see what people build with it! it’s been a lot of work getting here & i'm proud of where it's at check it out, bang on it, break it, see where it doesn't work. let's make sure this is something we're all excited about & can take pride in building on

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The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live

Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"X is a social construct" does not mean "X is not real". Anyone who disagrees with me is welcome to give me all their money.

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Says the person that went on Ben Goldsmiths podcast.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Now new generation adults are appearing, here's a quick guide to the 5 species of Great Diving Beetle found in England. This is the common one, Dytiscus marginalis, distinguished by broad pale margins on all 4 sides of the pronotum, the plain, unstriped brown underside and the rounded hind coxae.

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Alan Bradbury @alanbradbury.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#atproto what is the idiomatic way of calling an unauthenticated atproto xrpc endpoint currently? Just a plain fetch, with a library?

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