iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

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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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think a very clear point has been Reform's embrace of basically wanting to do ICE that they just announced: an obviously counter-productive policy that's only going to alienate the voters that they need and is only popular with the most hardcore support they have. But it sounds cool on twitter.

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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think ironically, the far-right cause has become even more internationalist in form than the left. Everyone is basically just cosplaying as USian fascists, in part because of where the money comes from, but also just because that's where the cultural weight seems to be.

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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Like a lot of things that the UK far-right is doing that are clearly tactically incorrect, this probably derives largely from US funding. Well, and also the stupider reason: that being that they're all still on twitter and are just parroting the omni-chud cause.

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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think in the Maoist case it's something that relates to pretty specific social dynamics (stuff like having an actual peasantry in a state of low central authority with limited repressive apparatus outside of military occupation) and tends to not especially seem to work outside of that.

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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...

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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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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It is a weakness on the part of UK unionists that they don’t ever seem to argue with actually existing nationalism, but with their own imagined fantasy of what it must be. They don’t seem to ever actually respond to the discourse in real pro-Indy culture, and i cant imagine it helps them.

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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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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Trump's been put onto peptides by one of the concubines. Skin looking dewy af

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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Do you think anyone who said that even remembers that they did? That was at least 1000 discourse subjects ago. None of this is real to them, it's just stories.

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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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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Like Americans are complaining about "CanCon" in the same way that free traders complain about state subsidies being unfair to the free market. That's really all it is. There's sort of an implication that other cultures are just illegitimate in some way...

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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

In the face of globalised culture, it's kinda important for countries that actually do want to preserve some of their cultural distinctness to have some protections or funding for them, and in light of superpowers making efforts to undermine neighbouring cultures even more so.

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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There's something telling in how both Americans and Russians believe that a country subsidising distinct cultural works is in some way illegitimate and evil.

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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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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

To be fair, it isn't just the twitter fascists who reduced it. Given that its biggest institutions world wide for a long time were effectively just one of the pillars of the policeman of Europe, and its largest denomination today is also an openly corrupt, borderline fascist, state backed one.

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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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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The issue is that the americans basically don’t have speed cameras. So it’s all just down to the personal enforcement of a cop. Every argument against speed tickets that isn’t just selfishness sorta just comes down to that. Obviously the answer isn’t to just get rid of them.

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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I really despise how many mechanical elements from DnD are just baked into how people view modern fantasy. The idea that say class is actually just a shorthand and a game mechanic and doesn't exist diagetically any more than hit points do is just such a depressing lens to view the genre through.

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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

DnD was once intended to be a system for playing the classic heroic fantasy of the 60/70s, so the media it produced like Dragonlance is still in that mould. LitRpg stuff is basically trying to write the story of an actual play podcast that doesn't exist.

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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

DnD as a literary movement has always served as a creative lobotomy for the fantasy genre, but at least the examples of it in the past did once attempt to model themselves after original fantasy works. Now they are all just copies of copies, and they get worse with every new "success."

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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.

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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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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yes, modern scholarship has posited that the R source may likely be an extrapolation of mythic narratives that initially developed from 'Snapewife' mystery cults.

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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Furthermore, the damage to subsequent layers due to the use of antiquated excavation methods involving dynamite mean that the contexts relating to the 'original Dobby' are likely irrevocably destroyed. It's a real shame in the field.

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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Genuinely, social democrats should suppress "true" crime stuff. It's such a socially corrosive genre.

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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A lot of left wingers tend to basically just resort to placing their generic reading of geopolitics over it all where of course, the wicked euro jews must be the problem, and of course the middle eastern jews are totally just about to find their kinship with the Palestinians. It's politics by meme.

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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is always a pretty easy tell for "does not actually understand Israel/Palestine outside of memes." I don't think anyone could look at the political currents of Israel and argue that the Mizrahi are somehow the people who will find common cause with the Arabs...

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Alex Mann @alex-mann.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I think whenever you try and categorise genre in political terms so tightly it tends to be total bullshit. It's really just an exercise in academic brain rot, where the opinions and tastes that make up your personal universe must be outwardly universalised.

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