iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An iPlayer glitch watching an old episode of Dr Who gave me this oddly encouraging message:

An entirely black frame with the words "Things must stabilise soon" in small white letters.

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Gavadon @gavadon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I skipped high school to buy tickets for The Phantom Menace. The following day my Dad asked ," how was school?" I replied, " It was fine " He then threw this newspaper at me and asked , " how the fuck would you know?" He was so pleased with himself that I didn't actually get in trouble.

Newspaper where I am on the front page, in line for Star Wars tickets , having given the reporter my full government name

Closeup of the photo from the Newspaper where I am on the front page, in line for Star Wars tickets , having given the reporter my full government name .

As one pal put it, " a very John Conner look "

Closeup of the text for the photo that says

" Ticket wars

Left: The line of area residents waitinng for advanced ticket sales for the May 19 release of "Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace" stretched outside the Grand Central Mall's Regal Cinemas onto the sidewalk outside. Above: Inside, Jordan Baker, Joe Peyton, Mat Lyons, Josh Lemley and Steve Roberts passed time by playing Star Wars Trivial Pursuit as they awaited the Lucas epic.

Photos by Tony Kemp

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To paraphrase the author, they’re like a couple which keeps getting together, hating each other, breaking up and getting back together again

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

God bless Toxic Old Man Yaoi 🫡

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m not surprised that this year I’ve read two books about quirky immortal androids in a will-they-won’t-they-ship chasing each other up and down history. I AM surprised that the one I preferred, in almost every way, was the Warhammer 40k tie in novel

The Infinite and the Divine by Robert Rath

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026

Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt theonion.com/mr-autumn-man-walking-…

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Big Sainsbury’s please provide me with gooseberries i need them for the SEASON

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Growing up in a hippieish family really gave me a false sense of how easy it is to find gooseberries

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I love how there's a perfect correlation between this perspective and the argument that medieval serfs had it good because of all the religious holidays. "Oh, they only spent a third of the year working on their Lord's fields" okay, what did they do about their own fields?

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anyway this is my covert pitch to be cast in the second movie: I want nothing more than to voice an animated beaver who really makes a meal out of “Aslan… is on the move”

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I grew up on Narnia, I’ve read the books, seen every filmed adaptation, there’s one audiobook of Wardrobe that’s basically burned into my brain. I really truly do not need another ploddingly faithful adaptation thank you

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Starting with The Magician’s Nephew (deeply weird dreamy cosmic prequel) always suggested they were doing something interesting but has me sicko laughing, it might have the sauce

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My retirement plan is to move to the Norman village of Estry and open a bar called the Bayeux Tap.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The dril candles tweet but it’s me staggering out of the British museum gift shop carrying a mountain of merch

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yes, it really is that good.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What I love about the people answering “negative” is they are basically saying “the last thousand years? I don’t care for them”.

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Papa, did you have short form video as a child? Yes, son, we did. Harry Hill would come on TV and show you the short form video. People would send it in to him and he would compile the funniest possible content

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/09/2026

A friend sent this to me.

man in a flat cap
In those days, the Internet was in black and white.
It was only on for three hours a day.
We used to get dressed up in our Sunday best to log onto it.

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ok cmon this is just silly

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I should declare a conflict of interest in this arc: I have been reliably told that I have “big Noel energy”

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Really need to plug that Swanboy is amazing and everyone needs to be reading it

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you’re looking for TikTok “tests” to figure out if your partner is right for you I would hazard a guess that you know the answer

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As ever when these kinds of things bubble up, I just want to hold people’s hands and tell them “you don’t have to date people you don’t like”

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In case I haven’t mentioned

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A few years ago I went to a pig sanctuary and most of the pigs were stoned from eating green acorns. This one, Wilbur, couldn’t stand up and was too big to lift, so the staff had to leave him in this bush and wait for him to sober up.

Wilbur, a stoned pig lying in the dirt and unable to stand at Pigs in the Wood sanctuary, Huddersfield. I later adopted him.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Scrooge was confronted with his deceased business partner, sentenced to wander the afterlife in heavy chains for all eternity because he sort of had a point” is a hell of a take.

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

still working through this book of norse myths with the lads. loki sure takes every possible opportunity to dress up as a chick doesn't he. drop of a hat

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18/08/2026

about to leave the house and looking at my little jackets for the first time in three months

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Awestruck by the marketing genius who thinks “watch 43 hours of this stuff before you go to the multiplex” is a good marketing strategy for either their new movie or any of these things.

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is truly a post for nobody but myself

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

M John Harrison should write a sequel to ‘The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again’ where everything gets really really dry and the vibes are equally terrible

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Phoebe bridgers dropping an album while im on the Glasgow-Edinburgh train is an act of psychological warfare, she should know that’s when I’m most vulnerable

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

And I’m someone who REALLY LIKED season 3!!!

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Was just thinking they should do this with Killing Eve and accidentally made myself irrationally mad by remembering how that show ended

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Aran @aran.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that Ted Lasso had an incredibly definitive ending, that was so crap that 2 years later they just decided it wasn’t. It’s like if in 2022 HBO announced “Game of Thrones Season 9: The White Walkers are Back, Actually”

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026

if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi

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cones @coneshotline.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

just got the best photo back from our wedding

local bride poses smiling with a knife, husband terrified

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

a man can read all the theory he wants and battle all the stereotypes all he wants but put a grill and a piece of meat in front of him and he's instantly reduced to Og cooking mammoth for the tribe

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I don't have, like, a ranked list of contributing factors to the decline of men's interest in literary fiction, but I'm pretty sure none of the top ones are addressed with a "fellas, try the romantasy" admonishment.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/08/2026

The cover for this week’s issue is “Outside Art,” by Eric Drooker. See what’s inside: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/gmGO1n

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