iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21h

this is insane at every level; the UK's determination to institutionally harass trans people is deeply evil.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 15/10/2026

Mushroom picking in Ukraine is a whole different experience.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.

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Emma Howard @emmahoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After a poultry plant shut down in July's heatwave, the UK's meat industry trade body called for processing sites to have "continuous access to water, irrespective of wider pressures on local supplies". When those sites use more water than Brighton, that matters. www.grilled.media/data-meat-in...

grilled.media

Data: Meat plants use more water than the population of Brighton

As meat processors demand priority access to water during drought, exclusive data reveals the industry's water use

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/09/2026

Wonder if the real impetus for changing the law is going to come from companies like this/their insurers when they start getting hit with the subsequent claims for discrimination.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The evil AI copied itself onto the internet! No stoping it now! That's just Skynet or Ultron. Those stories rely on magic, and the audience suspends disbelief because the plot is cool. Makes no sense for AI that needs giant datacenters or live connections to them. Can we deal with reality, please?

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/09/2026

If every statement about Extinction Rebellion had opened with "Climate change is the single biggest issue facing humanity, and we understand why people have legitimate concerns the world isn't doing enough to tackle it…" this approach might be *faintly* defensible. But they didn't, and it isn't.

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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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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 05/09/2026

It's instructive to compare genocide denial in Israel's case with that in Russia's case. People like Walsh would never dream of disputing expert allegations of genocide against Russia. Yet, here they are issuing the same inane apologias on Israel's behalf that tankies do for Russia. 1/2

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Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Response from Burnham will be important. These are actual fascists. They must be treated as such. Not 'concerned citizens'.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 01/09/2026

⚡️Breaking: Germany officially blames Russia for drone attack attempt at Leipzig airport. "We have clear indications from our intelligence services, as well as from investigations in Germany and in our European partner countries, of Russian involvement," German Interior Minister said.

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Breaking: Germany officially blames Russia for drone attack attempt at Leipzig airport

"We have clear indications from our intelligence services and partner agencies, as well as from investigations in Germany and in our European partner countries, of Russian involvement," German Interio...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Glancing as estimated casualty figures, it is also the case that wherever Russian troops arrive, a lot of Russian troops cease to exist. Still, well worth remembering how total Putin's aim of destroying the Ukrainian nation is.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tolkien gave up on writing a sequel to the Lord of the Rings because he imagined the youth of Gondor forming 'orc-cults' who would imitate Mordor and found it too depressing; a remarkable feat of imagination when it came to predicting people who still worship the Soviet or Nazi empires today.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

a) you don't need a single dead body for the crime of genocide, per the Convention on same, b) 3.5 percent of American dead, for perspective, would be more than ten times the country's losses in World War 2.

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Giddy vice-signalling. These are just the worst people.

Facebook ad for a Julie Burchill paper with a picture of her and the pull-quote 'I deserve every penny of my PIP, most people don't.' The facebook quote reads "Opinion | "In the present day, the rush to 'be kind' to those with mental health issues, the physically disabled and ill – who PIP was invented for – are in danger of becoming the poor relations, without the reserves of energy and entitlement mental health champions often possess," writes Julie Burchill"

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A Serco employee has been charged with misconduct in public office, over sharing the addresses of the houses of asylum seekers, with people who wanted to target those people. Serco says it is cooperating fully - but can not comment further while the case is active. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Man charged with sharing asylum seeker addresses in Thetford

The 62-year-old man is remanded in custody and will appear at Norwich Crown Court on 14 September.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

PCPSR polls: -70% of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza support some version of the two state solution -10% support a single democratic state between river and sea. Support for armed struggle is falling (27% compared with 41% Oct 25). 1/ t.co/vKsWZAuWRI

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https://www.pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Poll%2097%20English%20press%20release%2012Aug2026%20rev%20%28002%29.pdf

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Pretty much everything you need to know about the British Right in two images.

Arday was a stupid intellectual poisoning Britain

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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A safe and stable Syria is not only morally right but an obvious European strategic interest. The fact some EU countries still bend over backwards to excuse and ignore endless Israeli aggression is madness.

turkiyetoday.com

Trump halts Israeli Syria strike request as Türkiye expands influence: Report - Türkiye Today

Trump reportedly blocked an Israeli request for another Syria strike as Türkiye expanded its influence there, according to Israeli media

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The position of the Israeli government is the same as that of the American and British Right; that a state having Muslim citizens with a stake in the body politic is inherently illegitimate.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

it has been an exercise in how a directed propaganda campaign can be highly effective, and seeing otherwise liberal people fall for it has disgusted and outraged me. People who lived through and fought against an extremely similar campaign of homophobia in the early 1980s, even!

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We’re rapidly approaching a situation in which it becomes legally hazardous to express any criticism of “gender critical” views. The combination of well-funded lawfare and well-funded media moral panic is extremely dangerous to free speech for everyone, as well as obviously to trans people’s rights.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

They will not stop until it's illegal to be trans. They will have to be stopped.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm in Vyshneve. I'm not doing well, to be honest. Half the streets are closed and smoke is still waiting through the town. Most buildings don't have power.

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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Old Soviet joke about Kaliningrad: Why has Kaliningrad oblast produced more cosmonauts than any other part of the union? Because space is the furthest away you can get from Kaliningrad.

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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

An interesting thing about Westerners is how they will mention something like "Russophobia" and their best example of that is that people are saying you should stop reading Dostoevsky (you should) Meanwhile, Ukrainians who barely escaped mass murder are discriminated against in several EU countries

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 30/06/2026

I see Putin's useful idiots in Stop The War are being useful idiots again.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

MARINE ECOLOGIST MONA
KHALIL HAS PASSED AWAY
AFTER SUSTAINING INJURIES IN AN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Anglophobia is the American left’s comfort blanket

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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

You're not going to believe this but I think Anas Sarwar should resign. The best time for him to resign was immediately after losing a second Holyroor election after running a presidential campaigm. The second best time is now, after "legitimate concerns"ing race riots.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is *such* a consistent feature of living in the UK - the actual day to day experience of people in this country is so much nicer than what the press or our leadership cadre would have you think - it is remarkable in a somewhat destabilising fashion just how stark the difference is.

I posted: "Honestly this little anecdote is for me just emblematic of something I really believe: the British public are genuinely much nicer and more decent than either our political or media class are themselves, or would have you believe." I am quote tweeting a reporter Jessica Elgot noting that Labour MPs were finding people on the doorstep remonstrating with them about letting Reform in.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.

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MaxPoetic @maxpoetic.online · 24/05/2026

accidentally ordered tokusatsu instead of tonkatsu at this restaurant and now this guy won't stop doing stunts. The waiter can't even take him back because whenever he tries the guy strikes a pose and a bunch of explosions go off behind him

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Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The guidance issued yesterday is a disgrace, and shows just how low Labour have sunk since the days when they believed in equality and human rights. But this is far from over. Legally, politically and practically, this can and will be fought. greens.scot/news/ehrc-gu...

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EHRC guidance update is a troubling rollback on inclusivity

EHRC guidance update is a troubling rollback on inclusivity - The Scottish Greens will continue to stand up for trans and non-binary people’s rights today, tomorrow and always.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/05/2026

helen lewis has an article in the atlantic today begging everyone to read discworld and I am going to suggest she start by rereading monstrous regiment and think about how that might apply to trans issues

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Wow: “The tooth’s hollow had been scooped out by a stone drill rather than by natural decay or wear… The findings indicated that the prehistoric patient underwent a deliberate Stone Age root canal, a discovery that pushes back the earliest evidence of intentional dentistry by more than 40,000 years”

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Neanderthal Dentistry, and the Scientist Glad Not to Have Experienced It

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Hughstergeist @hughster.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This. Normies urgently need to understand that this country is becoming an extreme outlier on trans rights and they can't rely on the domestic mood music in the media and online to judge where "normal" is any more

ILGA 2026 Rainbow Map Scores - Legal gender recognition

UK in red, alongside Russia and Hungary, with all its nearest neighbours in green

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