iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/06/2024

everyone raise your hand if you’ve done this yes, even you, I see you over there pretending you haven’t done this, get your hand up

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 26/09/2026

He’s NOT a wizard. NOT A WIZARD. Sigh

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In addition - the sketches are not racist, and it is a sign of a broader malaise that we now treat “jokes about racists and racism” as indistinguishable from “racist jokes”.

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 18/09/2026

We have lost one of the stars of the greatest ever sitcom, on any medium, ever. Her turn as Carolyn in Cabin Pressure was an absolute tour de force. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Stephanie Cole: Tenko and Doc Martin actress dies aged 84

She was best known for playing the character Dr Beatrice Mason in the 1980s BBC wartime TV drama

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 22/08/2026

Nothing tests how well you have remembered your school French quite like trying to convince a mechanic in Calais to change a tire for you at 11.50am on a Saturday. We muddled through together.

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 25/07/2026

The headline is entirely accurate - but unlike the Times’s motivation, it should instead be read as a reason to put more time, resource and effort into Net Zero to smooth over the risks during the transition period. Just like every other major societal transition in human history.

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 19/07/2026

Instant unfollow for anyone mindless enough to think this is entertaining.

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 13/07/2026

You join me at Kronborg Castle, where I have been reminded of an identical message delivered to me by a Master of the Bench during my pupillage advocacy weekend several years ago.

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Guided By Gumbo @guidedbygumbo.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The movie holds up. As does this great anecdote courtesy of Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum.

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 22/06/2026

Proceedings in relation to potential contempt by Raj Menon KC to continue www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 17/06/2026

This is insane, entertaining, magnificent football.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Nightmare for a friend of mine in London. Please share.

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Ishan Kolhatkar @ishankolhatkar.com · 12/06/2026

Ramón Freiza Atelier with @benrowe.uk for a pre-stag dinner. Entirely deserving of its 2* status with several dishes easily hitting 3*. Top night. Selected highlights below. Review on my website to follow when I get a moment. Everyone else arrives later today for the main event. Vamos!

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 10/06/2026

If you support the quite mad waspi campaign you aren’t a serious politician.

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 09/06/2026

Not allowed to reply to your post (no idea why) but I’d recommend the Podkin One Ear series by Kieran Larwood. My very similar child loved them.

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

really hard to be a more dismaying world cup host than Qatar and yet so far the US absolutely smashing it

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Wife wonders why I get up so early to take the dogs for a walk in the woods. I tell her I love the bird song. In truth, I want to be the dog walker who discovers a dead body; macabre I know but I love true crime.

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

They should build loads of data centers all over the place that contain huge quantities of books that people can borrow for free if they fill out a form to get a data center card and promise to return the books on time and don’t make too much noise in the data center.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Higher taxes that most people will pay? Or spending cuts that most people will feel? That's it. Pick one. If your answer is "government waste" or "tax the rich", then you're part of the problem. The strategy of taxing "other people" has run out of road.

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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

"we're going in a new direction"

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 16/05/2026

Bit of a hint in the Raven station at @paultonspark.bsky.social about what’s coming next year. Drakon… Raven and… some kind of sea monster. 🤔

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Fay Roberts @fayroberts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

{HYPERVENTILATES} IT'S HERE, IT'S HERE! @benrowe.uk and @tegabbidonvo.bsky.social absolutely SMASHED it. @lee-alder.bsky.social and @erikseguinte.com did audio WIZARDRY, @helenargh.bsky.social ensured we didn't stray, and @gentlemoth.bsky.social & @gemaydin.bsky.social assisted linguistically.

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Law of Names Media @lawofnames.com · 15/05/2026

Henry Thorne is played by @benrowe.uk. This episode was written by @fayroberts.bsky.social, edited by @lee-alder.bsky.social, and sound designed by @erikseguinte.com. More information about the show thisaddressdoesnotexist.lawofnames.com Join the LoN Discord discord.lawofnames.com

thisaddressdoesnotexist.lawofnames.com

This Address Does Not Exist

There is a House. There has always been a House.

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 04/05/2026

Moved two weeks ago from a town to a nearby village. We’re on a quiet road, with five other girls close to our daughter’s age. After school and at weekends they knock on each other’s doors, ride bikes, climb trees. I didn’t know this life existed any more - we have rediscovered something precious.

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Law of Names Media @lawofnames.com · 13/04/2026

*This Address Does Not Exist* An anthology of epistolary haunted house stories. Premiers Friday, May 1, 2026

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Law of Names Media @lawofnames.com · 13/04/2026

*A Function of Power* Featuring @benrowe.uk as Henry Thorne and @tegabbidonvo.bsky.social as Bella Warren Written by @fayroberts.bsky.social Edited by @ash-alder.bsky.social Sound Designed by @erikseguinte.com

A vintage post card with the words "Post Card" at the top right in green block script.

On the left side of the post card is written "Ben Rowe as Henry Thorne, Tania Gabbidon as Bella Warren"

The right side reads "A Function of Power, written by: Fay Roberts, Edited by: Ash Seguinte, Sound Designed by: Erik Seguinte"

There is a blue postage stamp in the top right corner that reads "This Address Does Not Exist"

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 11/04/2026

Unless Christina Koch is part of Artemis IV, and by extension the first woman on the moon, I am going to have a serious problem with some of the people at NASA.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands

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The Bar Council @thebarcouncil.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

We have postponed our upcoming Dubai event and encourage UK lawyers in the Middle East to register with the FCDO and follow the travel advice for the country, the advice of the local authorities and from the relevant British embassy or consulate. www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/mid...

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Middle East crisis - Bar Council statement

We have postponed our upcoming Dubai event and encourage lawyers affected to register with the FCDO and follow the travel advice for the country, the advice of the local authorities and the relevant B...

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 05/03/2026

My son’s school - first 10 mins of every lesson today is quiet reading time. The final lesson will be everyone getting a chance to talk about a book they love - either their current book or one they’ve read before.

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Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Scott Adams is just another example that people are complicated. His best cartoons were superb. You're not obliged to dislike them because you dislike his politics.

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 09/01/2026

Being able to make countless minor mistakes in my teenage years and early 20s and not have to worry about them following me around for decades. Being forgotten is one of the truly great privileges we have lost over the last couple of decades.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

JAMES MERRILL
CHRISTMAS TREE
From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks,
That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me,
The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep
Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining —
Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver,
A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song
Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead
Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals
Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear,
Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin.
Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting
About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully!
No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's
Dusk room aglow For the last time
With candlelight. Faces love-lit,
Gifts underfoot.
Still to be so poised, so
Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.

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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

6.12.15 Liverpool beaten 2-0 by Newcastle - this season is so bizarre I'm starting to think we may actually have a serious chance of the title, because no one else seems capable of mounting a consistent challenge at the moment. #LCFC #Impossible10YearsOn

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

this makes me so profoundly patriotic

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 19/10/2025

We were in the adjoining gallery at the time. Lots of initial confusion followed by quite an orderly evacuation. Astonishing that even the Louvre can be targeted by armed robbers!!

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Fay Roberts @fayroberts.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I live alone, and talk to myself aloud quite a lot. In unrelated news, my partner recently bought me a novelty teatowel featuring a mutual friend's face. Thus it was that I found myself considering aloud during a domestic task that "No, @jamesrosscomedy.bsky.social doesn't go in the tumble dryer…"

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The cat’s tracker has a leaderboard of local cats and their activity and if my next book is late it’s because I’m watching him closing in on Pablo.

A leaderboard of cats. Pickle and Tonk have been left behind. Pablo is under pressure. It’s only been 24 hours.

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WOE.BEGONE @woebegonepod.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Episode 208: The Crab (starring Ben Rowe!) shows.acast.com/woebegone/ep...

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208: The Crab | WOE.BEGONE

I'm already rich, Tex, 'cause I ain't ever lose.

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 23/06/2025

Absolutely first class insight from my client this morning, who had a trial listed in late 2029: “What happens if the Third World War hasn’t finished by then? It’s going to start any day now!”

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 21/06/2025

If I were Andy Farrell I’d wake up this morning and beg, beg, beg for someone to find me Jamie George’s phone number.

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 09/06/2025

Hands up if you had to stay overnight away from home for a hearing this morning and the hotel waiter spilled hollandaise sauce on your suit trousers and now you have to decide between navy shorts and light blue jeans in the local Crown Court? Anyone? Anyone else?

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

As Liverpool win the Premier League for the second time, they complete the opening of a quite remarkable sequence, 33 years in the making. #Fibonacci

A table showing the number of imes teams have won the Premier League in ascending order.
The sequence goes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 - the first seven terms of the Fibonacci sequence.

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 26/04/2025

Had a magnificent dream that the Vatican knowingly selected the *entirely fictional* Cardinal Tedesco as the new Pope. It was the role of a lifetime for Sergio Castellitto and he lived up to it wonderfully.

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gem @gemaydin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

when @benrowe.uk first DM'ed us about being a guest on 400wah, I freaked out in the crew server so much. I forgot about that, ofc, until Ben joined the crew server only to search his name. he knows I am, in fact, very unhinged, so he didn't put a restriction order against me. thank god.

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 03/04/2025

If I had a case to refer to the CCRC, and was absolutely adamant that it wasn’t just a publicity stunt, I probably wouldn’t issue a press release stating that I was going to personally hand deliver my documents to their offices. I’d probably just email them, or stick them in the post.

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The Kingmaker Histories - Audio drama @kingmakerpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE - DIMINISHING RETURNS - DROPPING MARCH 21ST In which the gang run into a small problem, emphasis on 'small'. with @benrowe.uk, @addisonpeacock.bsky.social, and @celestielleva.bsky.social

Eisen, Colette and Telesphore shrunk down to the size of insects, while Ariadne and a young Aleister Crowley loom over them with a magnifying glass and a big needle.

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 23/02/2025

Danse Macabre at @efteling.bsky.social is easily, easily the best flat ride I’ve ever been on. It’s worth a trip to Efteling just to try it out. Just first rate.

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Ben Rowe @benrowe.uk · 25/12/2024

Got my awful children a Bop-It for Christmas. Let them have a go. High score of 12. Pathetic. I set a high score of 83 and told them that I’m not going to look them in the eye ever again until they can beat me. #ParentingDoneRight

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