iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I should probably keep posting this in case anyone's missed it, as it is at least one thing actively reducing stress levels atm. Obvs no obligation, people have been incredibly generous already but I would be letting Flo down if I didn't keep reposting it on her behalf www.gofundme.com/f/flo-and-rob

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Donate to Help Flo and Rob with Flo's Stroke Recovery, organized by Emma Leadley

Flo is an artist, sci-fi and fantasy writer and regular attendee at conventio… Emma Leadley needs your support for Help Flo and Rob with Flo's Stroke Recovery

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Klaxon for @wiloverton.bsky.social cover art on this month’s Retro Gamer!

Retro Gamer #290 cover art (subscribers’ edition). By Wil Overton!

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Had to explain to a chronic fuckwit earlier today that a PhD isn’t the ‘basic’ degree that anyone gets for going to university. Really pushed my patience, that did.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Head Over Heels! I didn’t even play it to start with, but watched my parents play it, both taking turns, and my mum mapping it on graph paper. I later got the hang of playing it. Pretty epic arcade-adventure with early elements of what we’d now call a Metroidvania. Wonderful pixel art too.

Head Over Heels (1986), the first screen/room.

Screenshot is of the Amstrad CPC version. I actually played the ZX Spectrum 48k version as a child, but the CPC version looks nicer. And is technically the ‘prime’ version of the game.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What a surprise, Russia using misinformation to rig an overseas election in favour of their (far-right) client party.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My proposal: • hard reboot, only keeping core concepts and (for merch reasons) the TARDIS. • rarely travel outside Earth; use certain British historical sites and outdoor museums for location shoots. • no Daleks; they’re boring. • total ban on “end of the universe” stories. • new, modern theme tune.

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New opportunity: Doctor Who invitation to tender

Deadline for initial submissions: 2 October

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Pete Prodge @peteprodge.com · 16/09/2026

We now go live to Piddington.

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

National and Internal Borders 2029 might look something like this

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A history of the oddest comic strip I have ever researched. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/09/davy...

Dare-a-Day Davy attempts, unsuccessfully, to resist a dare, and runs off holding a boot-horn and a cauldron of porridge, exclaiming "Ha-har-r! He's dead right! - Where's a blue-bottle? I can't resist a dare!"

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Seeing live music tonight? Yes.

Flier for a live gig where Jon Anderson is playing a set of Yes songs with his backing band which he discovered on YouTube.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Don't forget that if you don't like something you probably shouldn't repost it.

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Byproduct of cash-strapped broadcasters cutting back on fresh programme commissions plus most of what remains of the active 'indie' sector producing the likes of Bake Off/Big Brother such as All3Media are basically major US corps (Warner Bros. etc.) in disguise www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...

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Tiny cash buffers leave small UK TV firms at risk of going bust, analysis finds

Median £42,000 in reserve not enough to cover filming overrun or delay to series, industry body warns

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Dan @danofthewibble.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Tip for Reform: if you don’t want people conducting sting operations to potentially entrap you into committing crimes, don’t agree to commit crimes, as then they wouldn’t successfully show you are potentially willing to commit crimes.

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Following @ricardoautobahn.co.uk 's post about the UKIP Calypso guys made up chart, I offer you some of the secrets of Independant Local Radio in the UK before Greatest Hits fucked it over:

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 26/08/2026

BLOG UPDATE: According to Discogs, there have been 6,997 albums released in the UK with "Greatest Hits" in the title. But which of those use the term most tenuously? I've been through the lot of uncover the 20 Least Great Greatest Hits in UK Chart History. brokentv.uk/2026/08/26/t...

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The 20 Least Accurate Greatest Hits Albums Ever

A few days ago, there was a thread doing the rounds on BlueSky asking for nominations on the greatest Greatest Hits album of all time. As could reasonably be expected, that basically just became a …

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 26/08/2026

I feel really downbeat about this Manic Miner remake. Games should be developed with a passion, not using "AI". And it'll probably end up being another title where downloading a legitimate copy of the original online to play will be discouraged, and fair use will be restricted by IP.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

At one point, it would have been owning one of those computers with a floppy disk drive, mouse and (where applicable) dedicated monitor. Plus a colour printer, for mega-posh points.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hate to go all “dead serious corner” this early, but I despair that we’ve seemingly imported the American discourse whereby a medically recognised condition cannot possibly exist because companies produce medication for that condition, and doctors earn money by specialising in that condition.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Another email in my inbox from someone I know obviously written by AI. It’s that vague, inhuman prose style, and the message being at least twice as long as it needs to be. Didn’t used to write like that. It’s like Invasion of the bloody Body Snatchers, you just don’t know who’s next to be ‘turned’.

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NikkiJay is making Shards Of A God @nikkijay.games · 18/08/2026

Want to make art as easily as if you were prompting AI? It's SIMPLE! Type what you would have typed to AI, send it to an artist, pay them (like you used to do for tokens!) and hey presto, you get your art!

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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A history of a comic strip about some anthropomorphic germs. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

The editor of the Beano is delighted to meet three anthropomorphic germs, who can take over the page previously starring Dennis the Menace's pet pig.

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Suggested alert noise for when the bomb is about to drop.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Can I suggest that The Government have different alert sounds for the severity of the situation? Full klaxon sound for “the big one”, and a lighter customer service announcement with xylophone chimes when they want the public to stop twatting about with barbecues?

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

FFS, don’t scare me like that on a Friday evening , The Government!

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I remember when we did a marathon re-watch of Deep Space Nine just before The Plague, and my girlfriend was convinced that the Klingons were based on British people (“they just drink and fight and go on and on about The Empire”).

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Hot weather has ruined summer.

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Philip King @felipefelop.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

When AI is taking the jobs of many writers and artists it’s hard to understand how this happened . I know the concept of an AI writing about a book about and AI could be seen as “fun” but it overlooks that current AI is little more than a plagiarism machine. It’s not an A.G.I as AM was written.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If you see this, reply with a picture that illustrates what it’s like living in the UK

Don Estelle making an in-store appearance in a Woolworths in Rhyl, circa 1982.

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Malc Seventyfour @malcseventyfour.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Really happy to be able to preserve these titles. Folks, if you have a collection of disks or tapes, do have a look through them to see if there’s anything that might need preserving. Hard to believe, but these sat on my shelf for 20 years before I realised how rare they were.

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

To put it in context of how mental it all is. One company owns the name Austin. Another owns the Metro name. And another owns the design of the Austin Metro. And nobody other than a few saddos actually wants to buy a new Austin Metro and nobody under 45 even cares.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Freeview switch-off is a terrible idea for many reasons, not least that the signal is much, much more reliable than broadband and isn't subject to DNS attacks.

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NikkiJay is making Shards Of A God @nikkijay.games · 03/08/2026

Little known Star Trek species Species 4291: capable of disguising themselves as telephones, or puppies.

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Heatwave weather again today, according to the Met Office forecast. Best of luck, everyone.

Screengrab from Terminator 2; a wall of fire reducing a human to a mere skellington

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is pretty good news – this week’s Arcade Archives release is Tatsumi’s TX-1, the predecessor of Buggy Boy (aka Speed Buggy). Hopefully Buggy Boy will also be released as part of AA fairly soon!

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Arcade Archives TX-1

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Does “being an embryo” count as an occupation?

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Wil Overton @wiloverton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Apparently it was #worldtigerday yesterday. Nobody told Neko.

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Puke is already a Halloween Name @puke.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I think it flew under the radar before people started locking in, but Argonaut has a lasting relationship with Palmer Luckey. They've partnered with that filth since they returned to the scene. Both Croc games also did it Just so you know it's not new

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 25/07/2026

Hello all, as with one of my previous requests i'm currently pulling together a BBC radio program on the growth of the games industry, I have a few devs from the 80s and 90s here who can hopefully help me and also maybe connect me to non-UK devs from the 80s and 90s too? Cheers

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In the original Bug-Byte release of Manic Miner for the ZX Spectrum, Matthew Smith accidentally left in a section of Z80 code that he used to control a prototype nuclear fusion reactor he built in the garden shed of his Wallasey home. The reactor disappeared after Smith moved to Amsterdam.

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Maywood The Computer Game, Waalsoft (1985): Play Alice and Caren in an armed pop quest to take over the charts. 2 player action where the final battle is against each other in court. Joz Bignel of Swizz 64 described the game as "Appalling derivative trash".

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Spooky Robb from 8/16/32bit @81632bitretro.com · 19/07/2026

Well, that's a result. Not 100% sure I believe them (given how much GenAI crap is all over their site). Plus they don't agree with the unauthorised use of other people's work? They might want to stop selling those Batocera SSDs with 15,000 ROMs on them then...

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Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Andy Burnham unveils his new Minister for AI.

Death’s Head, the Marvel (UK) comics character. Created by comic writer Simon Furman, Death’s Head is mechanoid anti-hero, and very mid/late ‘80s in ‘attitude’. He crossed over with Doctor Who, Transformers, Fantastic Four and various other Marvel comics properties.

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DeadGamerUK @dadgamer.uk · 19/07/2026

Disgusting. Retrocade is a business to avoid.

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