iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I have found the Worst Website in the World. It is the official Indian Railways ticket booking site. After the 96 step sign up process, it randomly throws you out; it requires repeated entry of information it already has, and occasionally just throws […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Error!
Http failure response for
https://www.irctc.co.in/eticketing/protecte
d/mapps1/allLapAvlFareEnq/Y: 401 OK

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Finally, a CAPTCHA that doesn't require me to instantly know what American fire hydrants or school buses look like.

A grid showing 16 different Roman busts, with the rubric "Please click each image containing an emperor of the Flavian dynasty
If there are none, click skip"

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Your valiant boy about to head into the European commission to meet a Big Tech Gatekeeper about the insane request by European commie users to run software they choose on devices they own.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

In the midst of a wasteland of flaky buttery monstrosities and sweet cakes, I have found a cafe filled with Arabic blokes and elderly French speaking men playing chess where real breakfast is available for 6 Euro.

2 fried eggs, black and green olivew, a warm brown bread roll, some cheese and jet-black coffee

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I'm ay Kilburn tube station, which seems to be the place to buy heroin or participate in a gun fight.

A wall with an embedded street sign "shoot-up hill"

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Orf to fakkin Laaaaahhhnnndaaaaahhn (you slaaaaaaag) for SINNERgies tonight and a Suitfest tomorrow. (Hopefully I’ve booked a better hotel room than the rabbit hutch last week)

Me looking folorn in a tiny crap hotel room not much wider that the single bed, with rickety furniture and fucking WOODCHIP wallpaper

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

A tasty shakshuka in a Palestinian cafe before my train. It's been too long since I've had this pleasure.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm in a hall with loads of stained glass windows and portraits of Lord mayors and worshipful aldermen of the city, surrounded by people who bill by the nanosecond.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

If you thought the departure of Tim Cook would see a new caring "Consent is a human right" Apple, think again. Not-Steve-Either has been in post 10 minutes, and they're forcing 22GB of AI on you. That's the equivalent of 32 shit U2 albums.

macOS version 27 Apple Intelligence 22.28 GB

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I did, however, expect that my feedback on his fashion ensemble would remain private. But he'll Dress to Impress (in CSS 'n' JS) on Oct 1.

Screenshot of Big Al Russell and the title of his talk "Loathsome Choices"

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Ireland has long been a fiefdom of Big Tech, and now it has the EU Presidency, this leaked non-public document shows they have submitted a presidential amendment to allow AI free reign over your data. Yay […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

"The processing of personal data in the context of the development and operation of an Al system or of an Al model may be carried out for a legitimate interest of the controller"

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I'm having a proper Churchillian breakfast, with mushrooms and lots of white pepper and Henderson's Relish, as soon I'm meeting His Majesty's Most Valiant Competition and Markets Authority about the Big Tech's dirty tricks.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@Edent I was very proud of my test card! Thanks for the suggestion.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Apple Music is approaching blasphemy by mixing up two of my all-time favourite films. Evidently, Apple Intelligence is in a HAL 9000 mood.

Apple Music showing the soundtrack to "2001: A Space Odyssey" with the cover art of the "Blade Runner" soundtrack by Vangelis

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Here's the speech from Chi Onwurah MP yesterday in the Commons introducing her Digital Twin Bill, to outlaw surveillance profiling of individuals hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-…

Among the many consequences of the 40 years of neoliberalism repeatedly called out by the Prime Minister is a libertarian attitude to technology. We are told that Governments are too slow and too stupid to shape tech, and that the market knows best—the market will ensure the best, most innovative products and services are delivered to the people who need them and keep them safe in the process. I hope that we can all agree now that neolibertarian complacency has not worked.

The tech giants are hubs of amazing innovation but, as my Committee has heard, they are controlled by a small number of extremely wealthy men without the usual corporate governance or competitive constraints. We need to limit their power with our democratic power to protect our citizens. What better way to do that than by giving people the power to control whether we are being copied by companies looking to make money out of us? There is only one you, Madam Deputy Speaker—we need to keep it that way.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Tomorrow in Parliament, Chi Onwurah MP will introduce a 10 minute Bill called the Personal Data (Digital Twin) Bill, to crack down on tech companies turning people into algorithms. It will also cover deepfakes and personal likeness […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Tech platforms and AI chat bots make models of individuals based on hundreds or
thousands or millions of data points from friends to content likes to purchases to
streaming preferences.
These “digital twins” are then used to predict our behaviour, to target advertising
and, in some cases, to groom extreme behaviours in ways outside of our control.
This stealth twinning violates the fundamental principle that a person should have
control over their likeness, and enables vast revenue streams, the pseudo
humanisation of AI and the sycophantic nature of chatbots amongst other harms.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Loads of fighting age people in burkas invade our coast and cause massive disruption. I thought Patirots hate that?

A crowd of black-clad men in balaclavas marching

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I'm enjoying the caption of an MP's comment as KKKermit (aka Nigel Farage) returned to the Commons after spaffing away taxpayer's money on a needless by-election.

Farage enters the Commons. Subtitle: "See you next time"

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Of all the different equivalents of "Once upon a time" and "they all lived happily ever after" in various languages, Turkish has the best ones.

Once there was, and once there wasn't. In the long-distant days of yore, when haystacks winnowed sieves, when genies played jereed in the old bathhouse, [when] fleas were barbers, [when] camels were town criers, [and when] I softly rocked my baby grandmother to sleep in her creaking cradle, there was/lived, in an exotic land, far, far away, a/an...

Lastly, three apples fell from the sky; one for those who know to keep their inner child alive, one for those who know to listen and think before they act, and one for those who never lose the love and hope within their soul. And with that, they* all achieved their hearts' desires. Let us** now step up and settle into their thrones.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

To punish Microsoft for its self-preferencing its own browser on Windows, I have signed an executive order renaming U2's guitarist to "The Vivaldi". Thank you for your attention to this matter.

A picture of U2's The Edge, with "The Vivaldi" written above it in Trump's handwriting, and his signature.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Oh, hello real Blink-based Chromium on my test iThing! I've been running it for a couple of hours and my credit card hasn't been maxxed out, my bank account is still in credit, ISIS haven't stolen my pancreas and my house hasn't burned down. And that's […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Screenshot of "how fugu is my browser.dev" showing 66% of APIs supported on Chromium iOS

Screenshot of "how fugu is my browser.dev" showing 25% of APIs supported on Safari iOS

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Multi-column layout that ensures columns never require scrolling (writing goes from col 1 to col 2, they always fit the vertical viewport). Very, very cool. @rachelandrew shows you how rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/08…

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

I don't want to come across as a Thought Leader, but if you want to persuade your boss of something, it's useful to have data to prove your point. I've found this data to be especially convincing, so feel free to take it and use it.

Some diagrams and equations, all without any context.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Microsoft built a Windows app to install extensions in every installed browser to change the search engine to Bing. "Wait! don't change it back!" begs the extension. I've no love for Google search, but Clippy farting in the face of the user's wishes is […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Change back to Google Search?
The "Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search for Chrome" extension changed search to use bing.com
Change it back
Keep it

Wait—don't change it back!
If you do, you'll turn off Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search for Chrome and lose access to Bing search and wallpapers
Select Keep it to continue searching with Microsoft Bing

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

… And this fuckwitted greyhound that has at least not (yet) attempted to digest a housebrick or the car.

A fuckwitted greyhound, too large for the two-seat sofa that has monopolised.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

We have this evolutionary regression of a Useless Dog staying while La Daughter goes on a holiday I'm amazed she can afford a staggeringly expensive op to remove this peach stone that had completely blocked said dog's intestines.

A crap French bulldog astide a brown teddy bear, suckling its nose.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Blimey, nearly jumped out of my skin when my phone started blaring with this latest alert.

Severe Alert
Issued by the UK Government
There is a very high risk of wildfires nationally. Residents, landowners and visitors should not undertake any activity that could start fires or waste water, including constructing A.l. data centres, flying private jets, or watering golf courses for more than 12 hours in any 24 hour period.
Follow official updates and report signs of fire immediately by calling 999. Search

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@patrick_h_lauke I saw this in Stratford on Tuesday night, and instantly thought of you.

A shop front, with an awning that barbarically mutilates the Italian language by offering "Panini's"

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

In Stratford to watch Kenneth Brannagh in a hilarious knockabout comedy called The Cherry Orchard.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Sigh, I've tried 3 different software systems to report my tax under the stupid new 'Make tax digital' system, all of which tell me there's a problem with the HMRC side. After an hour on hold, HMRC tell me that it's the software side. Meanwhile, I'm […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

422-117-49. HMRC has a bug with the income source. Wait a week from the date of the error, then submit your Income Tax quarterly update again.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Happy 90th birthday to Margaret Hamilton, who led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer. Here she is in 1969, standing next to listings of the Apollo guidance software she and her MIT team produced.

black and white photo of a woman standing next to a stack of paper taller than she is.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

I'm waiting for Shirin, my glamorous Iranian barber, to rip these out to remove my old man's nose hair.

Me with 4 wax-covered cotton buds up my nose.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Today's Vivaldi desktop snapshot includes an indicator in the address bar if a website is an installable PWA. This is because we 💕 web apps. Sadly, the lovely button I personally crafted was vetoed by our design team in a jealous rage […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

screenshot of Vivaldi offering to install my own website's PWA

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

I can't believe that this obvious front for money-laundering criminal lowlifes has been allowed to open on our High Street. And right next to a barber shop that gets used by young kids, too. Disc race.

A Reform UK HQ shopfront next to a barber/ wet shave shop.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Yay, my print of a Kerala-themed variant of Richard Hamilton's 1956 "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" has arrived and is framed and on my office wall.

A collage Bodybuilder in Kathakali Attire, a Kathakali dancer on a sofa: Bollywood poster; an antique harmonium.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

I see the that the Arschlochtruppen of a group calling themselves "White Vanguard" were demonstrating in a town near me over the weekend, wearing black shirts and niqab.

7 men wearing black, only one with face uncovered, standing behind a portly man in black who is mouth-farting at a group of pensioners.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

This is the best photo of Sid James riding a Chopper past a statue you'll see this weekend.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

This is the best picture of Sid James looking slightly bewildered while driving a go-cart you'll see today.

Sid James in a grey suit looking slightly bewildered while driving a go-cart

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

This is the best photo of Sid James and Barbara Windsor on a moped you'll see today.

Sid grinning, behind Babs wearing a headscarf, both riding on a small moped, followed by a scrap metal merchant's van.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

After yesterday's triumphant picture, here's the best photo of Sid James smoking a pipe while sitting on a Chopper you'll see *today*.

Sid James, in blue jeans and groovy pink shirt, riding a Chopper bicycle in Pinewood studio, smiling, with a pipe clamped between his teeth,

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

At @Vivaldi we 😘 the Web, so are looking to make Web App installation more visible (on all platforms that don't think they own the machine that you bought). I mocked up a button design that I felt gives PWAs the prominence they deserve, and dev genius […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

A dialogue thingie for installing a web app from URL bar, with a massive gradient green button, with a purple drop shadow, and "Install the Web App!!!!!! NOW!!!" in red text.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

The best photo of Sid James smoking a pipe while sitting on a Chopper you'll see today.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

All done except for the hand. 4 hours is enough for one day!

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Having a day off so La Daughter can colour in my Fathers Day tattoo

Me lying on a bed, La Daughter prepping to tattoo me

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