iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 5h

Talk about “elite capture” of planning, well that’s airport expansion in a nutshell

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Ella Maillart @ellamaillart.bsky.social · 9h

"Then the Chief invites us to enter his yurt after making sure the women are ready for us. The whole family observes us with calm, grave faces. The man of the house has a scanty beard, narrow eyes, a white felt hat and feet in lambskin boots: the wool inside and laced at the ankles." #EllaMaillart

A nomad family in the Tian Shan (Heavenly Mountains) region, near Karakol, Kyrgyzstan relaxes on woven floor carpets next to a traditional reed screen (chiy) which lines the inner walls of their traditional felt yurt to insulate against harsh mountain weather.

The father sits alongside his two children wrapped in winter garments. In the background, stacked geometric felt textiles, woven reed mats (chiy) and personal gear line the curved wooden lattice frame of the yurt.

The photograph preserves the memory of the traditional nomadic lifestyle of Central Asian families right before the sweeping geopolitical transformations of Soviet collectivisation in the region.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 9h

Good morning. Today I shall be mostly putting up curtain rails, cleaning, doing garden chores, shopping for curtains with/for daughter and www.europeana.eu/en/item/401/...

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 9h

Farage of course needs to be in jail for treason for acting for foreign interests, not helped by "plots": "The BBC contacted Reform UK for comment and a party source said: "This is exactly why Nigel needed £5m to protect his security for life." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Widdecombe suspect charged with planning acts of terror against Farage

Counter terror police say the further charge comes after a "hugely intensive and complex investigation".

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Loubielou32 @loubielou32.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is not how civilised countries behave. And you pro life cu*ts can go to hell if this is what you think a child’s life should be like after they are born. You aren’t pro life, you’re anti women, anti choice and supporting a government of paedophiles, abusers and racists. Shane on you all.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We need more men calling out misogyny, willing to stand with women, and take action. goodlawproject.org/s/748822

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It’s time for men to speak up - and act | Good Law Project

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why is so much development always boxes with postage stamp, sterile gardens? Wouldn't apartments with decent balconies be better, with people then able to walk/cycle/play in the unspoilt green wedge? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Hundreds of homes approved for Derby green wedge

A 20mph limit could be introduced to mitigate the impact on nearby roads in Blagreaves ward.

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Stop the A38 Expansion @stopa38expansion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We don't need bigger roads; we need transport infrastructure that works for people and planet. The alternatives to road expansion are available and pretty obvious. We included the suggestions of more than 200 supporters in our response to the DfT consultation.

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our paywall is down until Monday, which means you can read @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social's always beautiful column (which will make you think anew about living life) for free www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/lives/...

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Mindful life: My annus horribilis

Looking for patterns in catastrophic events is a deeply human tendency

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Morning. Daughter volunteered to help show parents of potential new pupils around her school yesterday and had a whale of a time. She has also been selected for a trial with Derbyshire country cricket Under 13s 🤞🏏 www.europeana.eu/en/item/1550...

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CAFE PLENDL; ERSTKLASSIG. MÜNCHNER CAFE UND CONDITOREI

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Move along, nothing to see here "Police had initially given the dual UK-Iranian national's age as 27 and said a second man had been questioned under caution, but in a later update said that this was not the case." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Dual UK-Iranian national arrested over RAF Fairford incident

The 25-year-old man was arrested in Westminster, London, marking the sixth arrest in connection with Sunday's incident near the airbase.

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Infinite Monkeys @infinitemonkeyshq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Writer to writer.

:A letter from Ernest Hemingway, to F.
Scott Fitzgerald:
Key West
28 May 1934
Dear Scott,
For Christ sake write and don't worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what.
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit.
I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it-don't cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist.
I'd like to see you and talk about things with you sober.
You were so damned stinking in NY we didn't get anywhere.
You see, Bo, you're not a tragic character. Neither am I. All we are is writers and what we should do is write.
But Scott, good writers always come back. Always. You are twice as good now as you were at the time you think you were so marvellous. You know I never thought so much of Gatsby at the time. You can write twice as well now as you ever could. All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is. Go on and write.
Anyway I'm damned fond of you and I'd like to have a
chance to talk sometimes.
Always your friend,
Ernest

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Democracy is very much a continuous process. There are no end points.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The timeless beauty of ancient glass! This Roman glass scent bottle is around 2,000 years old, yet its elegant design feels surprisingly modern! British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a small Roman scent bottle made of cobalt-blue mould-blown glass in the form of a scallop shell. At the top it has a cylindrical neck with an out-turned rim. There is a thin, curved, handle either side of the neck. The top of each handle is attached to the neck, and the bottom is attached to the top of the scallop shell. Bottle dimensions: height 8.5 cm, diameter 5.2 cm. Dated AD 25-100. It is displayed on a circular, clear perspex (?) stand in a British Museum display case. The bottle was bequeathed to the British Museum by Felix Slade in 1869.

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ANJEC @anjec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This week marks 64 years since the publication of SILENT SPRING, Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking book that brought the dangers of pesticides into the public consciousness and sparked the modern environmental movement in the US. Pick up a copy and discover the words that helped launch a movemen

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Happening now. At our "Lampedusa keeps on happening" event, @meron.bsky.social is telling us the stories of the people who perished. The stories of the human beings behind the statistics. You can still join us by registering at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Meron, with a photo of an Eritrean woman and her children. With a caption that says "Helen, who died alongside her youngest three children in Lampedusa."

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1/2 Sorry, one more reparations post today: some express astonishment at the calculation that Britain could ‘owe’ $18 Tn to the Caribbean (reparations campaigners aren’t demanding this - they’re not stupid & know it’s impossible). But just think how easy it would be to solve the

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 01/10/2026

On this day of action against Palantir, here’s a handy thread of the Nerve’s ongoing Palantir investigation. From the web of gigantic state contracts to the revolving door between government/ civil service and their top team, with a manifesto for technofascism along the way… 👇👇👇

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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

VIRTUAL EVENT TODAY: Refugees experience some of the most harmful impacts of AI and surveillance. What would it look like if technology was designed to support them instead? Register on Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Coming October 7 for World Cotton Day - some incredible stories www.cottondiaries.com/whomademycot...

cottondiaries.com

#WhoMadeMyCotton — COTTON DIARIES

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI is neither super or intelligent, and neither is Trump Hope Slovenia cleans up financially with the domain names though. Perhaps they can give Trump a Slovenia Special Domain windfall prize? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website names

The president wants AI to be called super intelligence - or SI - the same initials used by Slovenian domains.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Bedford Incident/Dr Strangelove, 2026 version

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

After a year of many experiencing the brutal reality of climate change, not least in Nepal, COP31 will happen & could provide an opportunity to bring the urgent need to massively accelerate global action on climate change back in focus- maybe - we'll talk about it: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/21370...

the poster announcing the event, same text as in link

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Ella Maillart @ellamaillart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The nomad's life enthralls me. The Kirghiz are simple, hospitable and, above all, free. It was that quality which made its deepest appeal to me. Wherever I go, it is always the secret of such simple, straightforward races that I seek ..." #EllaMaillart #Photography #Kyrgyzstan #TianShan #Nomad

A shepherd and his children in a traditional nomadic encampment surrounded by traditional yurts (yurta or ger) at a summer jailoo (high-altitude pasture) in the Juuku Gorge (Djuuku Gorge), Tian Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan. There are horses grazing in the background.

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benvenceremos.bsky.social @benvenceremos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s not a bad point really, it’s not like we don’t know which is the better option: we tried Brexit and it was shite and we’re all poorer for it. Evidence based policy and all, and there is a tonne of evidence!

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Like the music or not, I was working in an inner-city music project when they came along. They really did empower girls in music judging by the effect it had where I worked www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

bbc.co.uk

Eras - Spice Girls - 1. Wannabes - BBC Sounds

Rosie Ramsey follows the Spice Girls as they take their first steps toward superstardom.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Jobseekers to be forced to choose between eating and spending their benefits on bus fares, Tories say". There's a name for this kind of "love" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Conservatives pledge 'tough love' benefit rules for under-25s

The party says it would bring in new work requirements for young people claiming Universal Credit.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dear children, most jobs are crap, don't pay enough, and suffer, in Britain, from some of the world's worst managers. Was Milburn a Blairite? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Employers should teach primary-age children about work, Milburn says

The author of a major report into youth activity in the UK says children as young as four should be learning about careers.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Note to Andy Burnham - any referendum on EU membership will not only suffer foreign and self-interested billionaire disruption but also be turned into a referendum on how much people can be made to hate immigrants/yourself/the poor/greenies, etc. Just do it #RejoinEU #NoFuckingReferendumNeeded

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have you read this (by me) yet? #Auspol

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 01/10/2026

For our friends in Aotearoa-New Zealand as they head to an election on Sat 7 Nov 🇳🇿 👉 Make sure you’re enrolled to vote: https:/:vote.nz 🚨 Enrolments close October 25!

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Realising how closely related Tony Blair & Donald Trump are in their use & abuse of political power & that their kids are going to do everything to protect & extend that power is pretty depressing .

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Uzbek Forum for Human Rights @uzbekforum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📢 Our September newsletter is out! Sign up for a roundup of our reporting sent directly to your inbox every month (click on link): tinyurl.com/5a87s23t

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

True story: I once sat on a plane next to someone from the Economist Intelligence Unit who was going, like me, to Benin. Her job consisted of spending the week in the most expensive hotel waiting for informants to come to her.

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s not just the UK. Read this shocking report from The Lever into US, Dutch, Italian and Indian communities where people are sick, farms wrecked, dying young from forever chemicals the producers have known were lethal for decades. We can *never* trust business. www.levernews.com/the-global-s...

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How Chemours Moves Toxic PFAS Waste Around The World

A landmark settlement confronts decades of PFAS pollution — but not the corporate system that keeps moving the toxic waste elsewhere.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Management logic: "The shake-up is expected to cost the firm about £60m, including disruption costs and redundancy payments. It said the plans would save it about £20m across the 2028 and 2029 financial years." Guess either shareholders +/- bonus recipients benefit? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Greggs to shut four factories and cut 740 jobs

The company says it needs to "keep evolving alongside changing customer expectations".

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