iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you like hillforts AND Brochs, here's a fantastic combo for #HillfortsWednesday Edin's Hall: a Late Iron Age broch inside a rectangular enclosure inside an earlier Iron Age bivallate 0.9ha hillfort Scottish Borders / Crìochan na h-Alba Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011 🤩 #HillfortsWednesday

Aerial photo looking down at the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with circular stone broch on the left and trees beyond

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm honored to deliver the 2027 Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh. Across 6 lectures, On Science, Technology, and Social Values, I will work through the claim that what we build and how we put it to use carry commitments about who counts and what matters in collective life cahss.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The "chatbots might be actually sentient" discourse in the other place is, in fairness, causing me to question whether AI-pilled American elite types are sentient.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The sadness of the end of the cricket season.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

John Coltrane’s centenary finds me listening to Interstellar Space. One of my, er, favourite things.

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy 100th birthday to John Coltrane, born 23 September 1926 in North Carolina. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll3C...

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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme [Full Album] (1965)

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here's how to support Radio Lento ❤️ Donate - ko-fi.com/radiolento Subscribe - www.youtube.com/@RadioLento Rate / review - wherever you get your podcasts Share / promote - in your newsletter or socials Comment - we love to hear from you.

green hops growing on a bush next to the River Stort in Essex on a sunny September day

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Do not confuse wealth with intelligence.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's time. Time to write about this style of writing. Which I've done here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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What is LinkedIn?

The rise of mindful slop

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Chilling to Dub Syndicate. On-U Sound in the area.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hello and a warm welcome to new followers. We're a podcast of sounds from quiet places. No ads. No AI. No music. No talking. Explore 300+ episodes from places across the UK and beyond. Find us here - Podbean - radiolento.podbean.com Apple Pod bit.ly/LentoAp YouTube - youtube.com/@RadioLento

the curve of a river in September, trees still green. on a sunny day. no one else around.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Never mind Artificial Intelligence becoming sentient. The real breakthrough will be if tech billionaires ever develop self-awareness.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The New Weird was actually invented by Anthony Powell in Hearing Secret Harmonies. Take note, hipster buffoons.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s exhausting being shouted at all the time.

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland

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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 12/09/2026

As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...

A sample of neo-Nazi posts by the @ParallaxOptics account, displaying grotesque antisemitic caricatures and violent Jew hate.

The @ParallaxOptics account's banner image depicting Adolf Hitler.

Post by @ParallaxOptics of an article anonymously written by Nina Power and Daniel Miller: ON CULTS II "If we're proposing the the Left is a cult, the first question is what do cults want in general?"

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As you know, this is an Arnold Bennett stan account.

Photo of the cover of Arnold Bennett novel Clayhanger.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have only now discovered Cate Le Bon and oh my. Fabulous.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just in time for the start of the law school year. Handy!

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If 33 1/3 want a book on Motǒrhead’s No Sleep Til Hammersmith, they just need to ask. I’m here and have notes.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Working on my KLF-Dolly Parton mashup What Time Is Love? Always. Designed to be looped endlessly.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The glass is half full. Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Philip Glass: half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Worth reading the thread that led up to this.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A man whose sole contribution to culture is recycling the primary research of others and opining about it is clutching his pearls about the decline of academic standards.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Very good thread this (much better, in my view, that the Substack that prompted it):

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Telibarb 🐾🐾 @telibarb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Oh. 🙁 RIP Frank.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

1. M. Hulot’s Holiday. 2. Repeat step 1.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It’s so depressing that something so rare and expressive of human history and wisdom, that would be a prized possession if only I could afford it, is treated either as trash or a competitor product that must be destroyed by these obscenely wealthy parasites.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So much AI slop on Spotify. So many new releases “by” famous artists that aren’t by them at all.

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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 07/08/2026

Terrible news. RIP William Orbit.

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Following the success of Volume One, today Andy Miller launches INVENTORY Vol. 2, D-H via the Backlisted Patreon. Your support is hugely appreciated. www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! For today’s bad idea David talks to literary critic and memoirist Catherine Taylor about what’s wrong with romantic heroes, from Byron and Heathcliff to James Dean and Jack Kerouac to Bridget Jones’s Mr Darcy and Andy Burnham. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In Search of Space/Doremi Fasol Latido/Space Ritual.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Finally catching up with the Prog Rock Prom. My word, it’s great. “Classically trained”, no question.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Actually quite angry reading this. I know it’s a bit passé to talk about “why don’t politicians crack down on people not using headphones on the bus” but I think we do need to reckon with platforms that incentivise people to completely disregard the norms of civil society and get away with it.

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TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using Meta 'smart glasses'

The "content maker" published videos of encounters with young women and a female Sikh shop worker where he talked of a plot to "breed out the white race".

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Incense boxes in the shape of Mandarin ducks • Meji period Japan •

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Can’t wait to see the new Odyssey film.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

That record you all went on about 2 years ago has just come off my New Things That Are Being Hyped embargo and I am now willing to allow is quite good.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 25/07/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word: A Line Dance to the Music of Time

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Kevin Keegan. Toon hero. He may have done other things. RIP.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Two days before he takes over, and I wake up to “Burnham out!”. What a complete joke of a country we are.

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I heard a joke about Sappho but he nc l ne g t st

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Someone I follow here and respect said “you can’t legislate for vibes”, but because I am weird my instant reaction was to think yes you can actually, it’s called Fourier analysis. And _then_ I started thinking about the _other_ Fourier, the one with the utopian ideas. I really need a holiday.

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