iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

print ad (1987) archive.org/details/your...

a place that sells programs/games for various systems via mail.
text:
(styled graphical header font): wizard of the north

...through the purple mists of time, out of the ancient
land called founderness... come the wizard bringing
gifts and spells and magicke lights to delight your eyes.
mercurial (speedy) supply of software & accessories: order it now!
(this part is a little graphical with a starry robed, pointy hatted wizard on the right, waving his wand at system names & peripherals in rectangles on the left)
ql
spectrum
atari
apple
electron
ibm
commodore
bbc
amstrad
business software
books
joysticks
educational software

more regular caps text font:
25% off all progs at £5.95 & above!
to order deduct 25% from r.r.p. of prog (s) required & send cheque/p.0. to:wizard of the north, thimble hall scorton,nr preston,lancs. pr3 1ay. or send s.a.e. for catalogue and details of free programs please tell the wizard your name, full address & computer make & model also state whether you need tape,rom or disk (if disk, give size etc) prices inclusive for uk orders. add £1 for europe and £1.50 elsewhere
or phone (0524) 791266 for prices now

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the big sleaze, zx spectrum (1988) www.mocagh.org/loadpage.php...

old timey gangster man, looking cool as a cucumber, smoking, playing cards and holding a gun with a very long barrel (smoking). on the card table is a tipped over glass of liquid. a blonde woman is standing next to him, wearing a black dress and red sleeves (long gloves?). behind them is a bar with a bartender and a man in front of the bar with his hand over his heart, blood stain beneath it, deathly look on his face.

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 10/09/2026

Closing out the rally, @nershly.bsky.social beautifully speaks about her experience being fired by Rockstar and how they try to use fear.

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My uncle works for Anthropic and he's got a chatgpt 10 with all the games / humanity-eradicatong superintelligence

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I saw this on a t-shirt once and it's driving me crazy that I can't find it again

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I condone every action of the characters in the media I consume, and my dearest wish is that one day their crimes will be my owm

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Software engineer (derogatory)

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Exactly, my point is that AI slop doesn't provide any way for you to learn about this yourself. It's more concerned with providing an authoritative sounding answer than encouraging curiosity about knowledge production

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Congratulations again to both of you!

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

people love going down a wiki rabbit hole and this is the complete antithesis to that and it fucks me off so much

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

oh she lived off barley and lentils? how do we know about past diets? we just do, fuck you

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

this is peak slop because a curious person's first instinct would be to fall down a rabbit hole about any one of these details, but by design ai is fundamentally incurious

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hey if you are at #eaa2026 make sure to say hi to this guy, whose archaeology project signed a missile sent to Gaza. 🏺 www.instagram.com/p/DcmVUnBjS7...

A screenshot from the linked Instagram post that shows a shirtless man in front of a tank with the words “few meters from Gaza, ahh finally the smell of gunpowder powder”

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

always a delight to a) be pointed to niche crossovers of your interests and b) find they're way more popular than you would have imagined

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

me: I must be immune to nostalgia. to live in the past is to deny one's capacity for action in the present me: I bet Need For Madness would fix me though

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up”

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

but BEN the roof is TOO STEEP

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

they say he's taken the pills that make you read Gene Wolfe

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

it really does look like they gentrified The Bottomless Hole music.youtube.com/watch?v=xHlI...

music.youtube.com

The Bottomless Hole

YouTube video by The Handsome Family - Topic

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rachel @nershly.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I am so proud of my colleagues who have continued the fight - and immensely grateful too. without their support there's no way us dismissees woulda made it this far ✊ solidarity works!

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I've been thinking a lot about this quote from Riot Medicine lately

A screenshot of the book Riot Medicine, a medical textbook designed to teach principles and practical medicine, organising and activism at actions. The quote reads:
"The main conflict had moved away, and when the coast was clear, we all slipped out and went on our merry ways. While it sucked that we all got gassed and some people required more than cursory treatment, it was actually a very sweet moment. Neighbors who couldn’t join us on the streets helped us out, and the injured took care of each other.
There is joy to be found in the struggle."

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Kara but have you considered: I am an uwu smol bean who shouldn't face consequences for my actions 🥺

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

there is only one hope for humanity- the synthesizer

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

that field structure strongly suggests that it was created by enclosing land once held and worked in common, kicking out the locals and forcing them to leave their homes to seek work in the factories. the soil of Sandy Lane Farm is fertilised with horseshit and the blood of the rural working class

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My attitude to my Warhammer+ subscription is basically this

A panel from the webcomic Achewood, in which Roast Beef is explaining that he wrote "Oreos" a $10000 check because he "wanted them to have a little walkin' around money"

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I am afraid so, how the bastards get you etc etc

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Worth watching the behind the scenes if you haven't already

A screenshot from the behind the scenes of Adam Troke and Eddie Eccles of Warhammer TV, who are described by a caption as "power armour interpretive dance aficionados"

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

my ex went to UEA and I was always thrilled any time I got to visit them because it meant staying in T H E Z I G G U R A T

student halls of residence at the University of East Anglia, the iconically stepped ZIGGURATS made of concrete with large glass windows

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Manchester Art Gallery is a good time, some of the NMM they got going on is nuts

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

lots of photos of the #warhammer equivalent of jumpers for goalposts

a game of Warhammer age of Sigmar being played on a floor, with the edges of the playing area demarcated with black tape. the majority of models are unpainted grey plastic.

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

chatting about a game and a hobby that has occupied a load of mental space for five(!) years now. it's a good read! go read it!

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

engaging, though-provoking, and like all the best podcasts uses a single topic as a window to shed light on the depth and breadth of human experience. They're all excellent but episode 1 and 2 are especially engaging open.spotify.com/show/2kCYrRK...

open.spotify.com

5 ½ Moments when Alcohol Shaped the World

Podcast · University of Sheffield Player · A historical podcast series about human interactions with alcohol.

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I would love to say Flush Five but in my heart of hearts I know it to be Two Pair

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Meet Dominic Sandbrook, historian and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society making an argument here for continuing to drink from skulls. The context being that Worcester College academics had been drinking from a cup made from the skull of an enslaved Caribbean woman born ~ 225 years ago.

The TImes, Saturday April 26, 2025
Dominic Sandbrok: Drinking from skulls is a noble tradition

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

extremely funny to see all of seven (7) terfs at today's protest. truly, there are many many more of us than you

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

[only reading the first sentence] I'm extremely excited to base large parts of my personality on your new media franchise and get many tattoos that are lifted directly from it

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I can't look away bsky.app/profile/worl...

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

[opening antiquated tomb] hm. this promises "death shall come on swift wings". but I'm built different

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Nick @archaeonick.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

world heritage site world cup, you say...?

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