iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please join us this Friday for our last Summer School session of the season! We are hosting a SELF-PROMOTION CLINIC. Bring us your problems. Bring us your hesitation. Bring us the little voice inside your head telling you that you aren’t worthy. WE’LL CRUSH THEM WITH MALLETS!

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Self-Promotion Clinic

We will help you get out of your own way and put your best self out there.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Had a dream last week which involved rewriting Kate Bush’s “running up that hill” to be about Face/Off and I have had it as an earworm ever since. It went: “If I only could, it make a deal with god, get ‘em to swap our faces I’m taking off my face, I’m putting on your face… The face/off machine”

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

A stunningly good newsletter in general - but this week, one that hits home, being, as I have been for a good few months, in a constant watchful state about the balance of my own small things/big things/mental health and creative process. This is a beautiful vocalisation of all that.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/06/2025

the enemy of my enemy is not my friend but watching them smack each other in the nuts is still very funny

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 16/05/2025

I hardly ever use the notes app on my phone but had cause to do so tonight, and found this, which I have no recollection of writing but wholeheartedly stand by

Manifesto for the improvement of football

Two balls
Penalties only
All players have had 3 pints except players who don't drink alcohol, who must have had 10 rocket lollies
Goal the entire width of the pitch with 4 goalkeepers
Half time cryptic crosswords or Guardian quiptics for second division or below
Washing up liquid on the pitch so they slip around more
Ballet pumps
Ball goes honk when kicked

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I don't know who or what it was that reminded me of this 13 year old video but our entire household has been yelling "Fenton! Jesus Christ! FENTON!" at random interval for about a week now, so thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRS...

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JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD

YouTube video by JAGGL113

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Even linkedin is starting to get it

↳ They are heavily influenced by the last conversations they had.

↳ They contradict themselves, pretending they aren't.

↳ They politely apologize for their mistakes, but don't take any real steps to fix the underlying problem that caused them in the first place.

↳ They tend to forget what they told you last week, or even one hour ago, and do it in a way that makes you doubt your own recall of events.

↳ They are victims of the Dunning–Kruger effect, and they believe they know a lot more about the job of people interacting with them than they actually do.

↳ They can make pretty slides in high volumes.

↳ They're very good at consuming resources, but not as good at turning a profit.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Happy to provide that content as a service now though, in case you're now worried sick about how things worked out with Jim.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This pile of British teen magazine annuals, for example. I can’t remember if I was planning on balking at the diet and dating tips or had an even more complicated plan to revive the lost art of photo stories (probably both?), but still, here they sit, taking up room on my shelf…

A pile of Annuals from the British teen magazine “Jackie” that I randomly picked up on eBay during lockdown

A picture from a feature entitled “none of these girls are a perfect size 12!” Which seemed to want to prove that with 89s fashion, you can look terrible no matter your body shape!

A couple of panels from a photo story in which a girl is looking puzzled while thought bubbles reveal that she’s trying to work out if there are any good parties she hasn’t been invited to. (Spoiler: there are)

A photo story with around seven panels half visible. The main one is a teenage girl saying “wait Jim, don’t go…” in a speech bubble, while a thought bubble reveals her to be thinking “it’s no use, I’ve ruined everything”. Which is pretty typical for these. However, all dialogue is in all caps, so it all seems a bit shoutier.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I have no desire to mark the fifth anniversary of the start of lockdown, but I *do* think it’s probably time to admit that if I haven’t started on any of those 43 different projects that I bought random shit for that year and then was too depressed to use, it might be time to let them go.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

For me it's also the lack of documentation or reflection *at the time*. Like, I will write through most things or create *a project* to process as I go but very few people I know (inc me) were able to start chronicling an event that had no end date. So it's all just one long day in my head.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I love your writing, Wojtek. This is such a great post about two games I knew literally nothing about but am now on my way to download.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Fine. I admit, I looked in a lot of villagers bins without their knowledge and stole what I found in there. It's a fair cop guv'nor.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Wait, maybe I missed something. Is "Youth" now generally classified as under 35? That feels onerous. Am I meant to be now in early adulthood? That feels in some way correct but also I am bored of adulthood so I don't want to be in Early it.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Buying tickets to go see a Chekov play in rep nearby at a big theatre for the family. Discovered, to my surprise, that there were youth tickets. Youth was classified as "under 35". Live theatre here is very fucked.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Rationale, eh? I like your spirit. But my take on it was that the writing around the app should have as much of the feeling of writing in the app as possible, given that the app itself was part of the conversation But mostly not my area of circus

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

There appears to be a TV show called "WAGs to Riches", which is half-arsing it, tbh. I want a show called "WAGs to Witches" in which a group of women who previously were identified only by their sports boyfriends find community, collective strength and communion with nature through their coven.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

It's not that I don't *like* snow, I just think it's kind of weird that it's basically tiny solid clumps of air lying around on the floor everywhere and we're all just FINE with it, y'know?

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Oh no another podcast I will now have to listen to (also: yay! another podcast I will listen to!)

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Overheard in San Francisco, a man who walked by talking to his child, who was probably about 5: "…No, well, you see, it doesn't really MEAN anything. Not really. "Agadoo" isn't even a real word." [This was post for three people who probably won't even see it because algorithms. Thank you.]

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

When Facebook said "It's X's birthday! Say Happy Birthday!" it would make me consider if this was someone I spoke to often or cared about enough to do that. And if they weren't, I'd act accordingly. So what I used Facebook for was mainly unfriending people on their birthday. Anyway I don't miss it.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Also the glass of wine in that illustration looks like boiled piss.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Wait no I do. Because one day this form of alcohol marketing will be gawped at with horror and mocked along with old ads for quaalude predecessors that also promised to placate and mollify women. But no. Here we are. Feeding the narrative that chemical numbness is not only desirable but necessary…

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I don’t know where to start with the number of ways I hate this bullshit.

A bottle of wine called “Happy Mommy”, which instead of a grape varietal is just labeled “girls night white”. There’s a silhouette of a woman in an armchair surrounded by children’s toys with a speech bubble that says “It’s ME time”, and honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever seen something that looked like it was cooked up in a marketing department staffed only by men more than this. No that’s a lie I’ve seen lots of things. This is fucking awful tho

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Normalise saying "No is a perfectly acceptable answer" when you invite them somewhere or to do something. The time gained in not having to think up excuses or field polite refusals is lovely. Soon I may just start sending out scraps of notebook that say "do you want to do this thing: YES/NO"

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Unless we're talking about a sudden brassic state of your patella, yes I think so.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

As a person who has used "Oh sorry I can't, I have a hurty knee" as my first-line excuse to get out of everything. EVERYTHING. From team building activities to making phone calls, from hiking to remembering someone's name, now I actually DO have a hurty knee I honestly don't trust anything I say.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I saw a tesla driving around the other day with a personalised numberplate that read "TAXMSK" or some variation and I have been trying ever since to work out the thinking behind it. Buyers remorse? Change of heart? Split mind? Couple for whom this was the compromise?

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Also: Objectively and subjectively, the turkey is the worst of all birds.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This is not a blanket statement, lots of people in those groups are doing the opposite, etc etc. But just a small noticing — that it just feels weird to role-play being american this year when you're not (or only just).

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Like, in most other years, we would be with people and do roast turkey or other approximation, with a combination of weird american sides and actual edible ones. This year, people seem to want the good bit, gathering people we love, but not to play-act on all the trappings of the holiday.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

My friend group in the US is split into two approximate groups: * People who are from here — gathering with family or not, but generally eating turkey dinner. *People who are not from here but settled here spending it with friends/chosen-family and eating anything BUT turkey. Which is unusual.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Fancy. Woke. Fillings.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

People seem to be anxious for Bluesky to be the new hub for consuming media and rigorous political debate and let me be very clear that is NOT what I want, I just need somewhere where funny people hang out and also to whine about the stinking cold I have because my family are already bored of me.

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

actually, invalid handle is the name of the scientist

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Please advise me of your favourite folklore podcasts, that sounds ideal. Also I should make more soup.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

For a week I have been ignoring news, and comfort binging: Miss Marple mysteries, Doctor Odyssey, and the Philosophize This podcast archives. I am now qualified to address: moral quandaries in country houses, locked-box murders on luxury cruises, and broken penises in Ancient Greece. Or something.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Honestly, I'm probably just trying to recapture the days when I didn't follow every mundane observation with the thought "BUT WHAT DOES IT MATTER, EH? EVERYTHING IS ALL FUCKED!"

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Oooh what if I just populate this feed by copy-pasting all my tweets from my deleted archive from the start. Sure it might confuse the heck out of everyone about why I'm continuously on a commuter train to and from Brighton, but, like, seems a shame to waste the content.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Best argument for psychedelics I've seen

Tech bro saying too many Silicon Valley founders have "quit their jobs as CEO within a year" of "psychedelic self-discovery trips"

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

The other day I got a notification that this here social media considers me one of the top 1% of its users* so I am going to start posting on it more and see if this ranking improves**. *ok fine it said I was in the *first* 1%, not top anything. **it will not change anything, but one can hope.

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Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

I honestly have forgotten how to write things on the internet and just publish them without fear. And yet here everyone is, typing random stuff like the world isn’t waiting behind a bush ready to leap out yelling at them for typing it.

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