iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Alun Jones @alun.pw · 30/09/2026

After a week's PTO, it can feel a little like you're playing a version of Kim's Game, looking around to see if anyone's new, or if anyone's missing, since the last time you were in the office.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 29/09/2026

"Does anyone in your office say 'please review and do the needful'?" "No... no, man, I believe you'd get your ass kicked saying something like that, man."

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 27/09/2026

I would think the worst part of being a psychic reader is knowing how the book ends before you get part way in.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 27/09/2026

Waiting for The Needling or Onion to post Kalshi's odds on one or both of the pandas being shot or deported to Honduras.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 27/09/2026

Keeps getting truer.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 20/09/2026

Some old guy set this restroom code. 5309.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 20/09/2026

Maybe speeding a little.

Dashboard display showing the car is travelling at 63 mph, while the car alleges the limit is 5.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 19/09/2026

Minecraft pansies.

A plant pot full of light purple pansies. Pansies always look like they have a face, but these look particularly like Minecraft creepers.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 17/09/2026

I cannot overstate how much I hate apps that force me to press a button to acknowledge a feature in already aware of. More so if I have to then click another button to disable a feature I already turned off a while back.

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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The RNLI volunteer has told us that donations usually run at £20,000 per day. Currently running at £100,000 per day! Bloody brilliant!

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 16/09/2026

When you have a wooden door that rubs against the door frame, you can certainly fix it by shaving down that part of the door... but you can also fix it by screwing the hinges in more firmly, or by bending the hinges just a little bit. Be the person who can recognise the right fix.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 16/09/2026

‘That Actually Happened in Unincorporated King County,’ Reports Guy from Enumclaw: tinyurl.com/38sr95j2

Man in a cornfield intently explaining something to another man.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 14/09/2026

I remember developing my own two-channel 'music' program for the ZX Spectrum. I can't find it on my tapes, so it's probably on a Microdrive somewhere, waiting for me to get around to refurbishing them. Never did publish it, or understand why it worked.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 10/09/2026

Not sure when it happened, but the multi-month hasbro.com outage is apparently over.

hasbro.com

Where To Buy - Hasbro

Find where to buy Hasbro products from participating retailers.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 10/09/2026

Image needs more fingers on each hand. Possibly more hands in the handcuffs.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 08/09/2026

I remember learning that you should never pipe the output of wget or curl into shell, but now I see people willy-nilly taking the output of an AI and building whole apps from them, assuming it's not going to include some random malice from its training data.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 04/09/2026

I keep seeing adverts for a new action movie. As far as I can tell, its chief interesting point is that people run around with guns, and shoot them from time to time. This is, I guess, how you sell a movie to America. Or, at least, to some specific portion of America.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 04/09/2026

We spend waaay too much time as an industry making software more complex, without making it more useful. Sometimes even making it less useful. Complexity is the enemy, not the goal. You should accept complexity into your systems only when it delivers something else of great value.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 03/09/2026

Now that Chris Langham's dead and can't profit from it any more, can we see some repeats of some of the (ensemble) comedy roles his presence has presumably kept off the air for the last several decades? The Sunday Supplement, People Like Us, Not the 9 O'Clock News, etc.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 02/09/2026

New rule: nobody gets to use the AI tool if they're willing to walk away from an automated flush that didn't complete.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 02/09/2026

Googling for "is there a way to get AI to convince my co-workers to use simple bathroom hygiene, such as that marvel known as 'flushing'?"

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 01/09/2026

AI is better at following documentation than it is at implementing functionality that requires testing and verification. But everyone fired the people who produce accurate documentation, so the documentation's not in line with reality. This is one reason why AI-produced software fails mysteriously.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 29/08/2026

How do I get to the ferry terminal? 1. Get on the ferry 2. Turn around at Vashon Island 3. Get back on the ferry

A Google Maps screenshot, showing it will take forty minutes to go from the ferry line to the ferry terminal, because it expects you to get on the ferry, go out and back, to get to the terminal.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 29/08/2026

Telling the monkey paw, the wishing ring, and the djinn to make sure they don't creatively misinterpret me as I cast my wish on a simple task, so I can benchmark which one of them you should use to do your bidding on the complex project.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 26/08/2026

I always felt there should be a response-song, something like... "I don't claim to understand, Why you think I might want your man - He's ugly and repulsive," says Jolene.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 18/08/2026

They're working on the line at the end of our street, so for now, our ISP is Comcan't Xfisn'ty.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 15/08/2026

If you’re worried about a watermark outing you as violating customer policies or compliance requirements, the watermark might not be the problem here

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 14/08/2026

With your API and all support docs behind a login page, how am I supposed to get my AI coding assistant to write a client that uses it? Have your API talk to my AI.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 11/08/2026

I feel it would be a great time for the BBC to put on a repeat of a couple of shows - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... and www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

bbc.co.uk

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Alick Rowe - Odysseus on an Iceberg

A comic re-telling of the legendary figure's protracted journey home from the Trojan War.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 11/08/2026

If there's one thing I know about juggling balls, it's that these are totally inappropriate. Balance is eccentric, they're too heavy, and large enough that you can't hold two in one hand, let alone three. Also, when dropped or they collide with their brethren, they tend to chip and get sharp edges.

Sponsored advert, title "Best Juggling Ball Reviews - 5 Juggling Balls - 5 Juggling Balls of 2025", with a photo of a hand releasing a wood (from lawn bowls) onto grass.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 07/08/2026

During my last visit back to Blighty, we discovered that my wife loves to watch Only Connect. Now there's a new series (22), I'm wishing that Britbox or AcornTV would carry it in the US.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 07/08/2026

Fuck cancer. Fuck ShinyHunters.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 06/08/2026

Trying to replace a broken battery pack on a prop. Prop manufacturer is out of business. Can't buy a battery pack with On/Off/Flash setting. Can buy cheap string of lights with battery pack that has On/Off/Flash setting. Now what do I do with a string of lights, without a battery pack, I don't need?

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 06/08/2026

Other ex-amholes: was it a sloth or bear skeleton on display in the atrium of the PacMed building? Are there pictures?

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 05/08/2026

Wishing painful hand cramps and tinnitus on all executives who applaud their own statements, while wearing lapel microphones.

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 01/08/2026

Good

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 29/07/2026

I've spent the last thirty-odd years convincing my mother that the job I do in security is, indeed, legal, and now I have to spend the next several convincing AI of the same?

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 29/07/2026

The void is unusually busy right now. Your scream will be ignored in the order it was received. For a more immediate response, have you considered our abyss-staring video chat?

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 28/07/2026

No surprise - when you press the button to ask Amazon how the price of an item has changed over the last few days, they choose to open a query to an LLM and burn a rainforest, rather than just do a simple database query to get the information.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I keep thinking about how often the mass layoffs in media, government and big companies, especially women and people of color, will lead to poorer outcomes for years because the people who would point out potential problems or blind spots were deemed non-essential, a "bad fit", and/or too expensive.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 27/07/2026

I love this video, for many reasons, but just want to highlight that it shows how someone implemented a security system they couldn't think their way around, someone else came and poked it to show how easy it is to break, and now the defenders are going to have to do a ton of work to try and fix it.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 24/07/2026

I will not spoil this book by revealing which dog gets shot at the end of the story.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 22/07/2026

If your AI "goes rogue" and hacks my systems (especially if it causes an outage while doing so), why isn't that illegal?

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 21/07/2026

That sounds ominously threatening.

The Wired website warns "You've read your last free article".

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 17/07/2026

So, I'm with you to the point of agreeing that golden eggs don't lay golden eggs, but surely the shit that goes on in agriculture should show that the greatest value isn't in the goose that lays the golden eggs, but in the goose that lays the eggs from which a golden-egg-laying goose may hatch...

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 15/07/2026

GenAI companies are largely operating on the mass theft of intellectual property. It isn’t China you should be worried about, it’s America.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 14/07/2026

If anyone asks how serious the ransomware situation is, ask them if they've seen the Hasbro web site over the last few months. Because Hasbro hasn't seen it for that long, either.

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