iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Rosie @brumrosie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If we could harness the energy of awkwardness created when contestants are made to sing on Only Connect, we’d save the planet

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Rosie @brumrosie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Also, I like being bad at things.

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 14/09/2026

You will be hearing literally nothing about this horrific Lancashire rape gang from any of the usual suspects, because only one of them has a Muslim name. BBC News - Man admits drugging and raping wife for 20 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Even the rich immortality guy is giving up

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 03/08/2025

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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Rosie @brumrosie.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Some British heatwave observations: a) it really brings out those annoying competitive people who have to “win”everything, totally disregarding people’s bodies and houses are built differently. You didn’t win the heatwave because you’re not on SSRIs, or menopausal, or living in a new build flat.

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

BBC: “So what advice did David Hockney give to you?” BBC Guest: “Fuck everyone.”

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/06/2026

reading about the May government for a thing and mad, mad, mad that a Conservative Prime Minister said this nine years ago, I hate how much we've lost since then! I hate it so much! www.theguardian.com/society/2017...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

this is a masterpiece

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Rosie @brumrosie.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Can’t wait to start describing myself as “under-babied” when people ask if I have kids

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 05/05/2026

This has had a lot of quote posts but the first two sentences are just insane. Telling it that it has great intellectual firepower doesn’t somehow bestow it with any greater ability. Why would you do that? It’s like worship. A mad prayer to kick things off

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 04/03/2026

‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’ No notes. as.ft.com/r/65cf2b43-6...

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The influencers leaping to Dubai’s defence

[FREE TO READ] As missiles streak across the region, unfazed residents insist they ‘know who protects us’

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Rosie @brumrosie.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I wonder if they’ve tried more blue book covers

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Rosie @brumrosie.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Totally ridiculous rule. Almost had a personal hyperventilate about coming trip until it clarified Irish citizens are exempt.

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Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Christmas CANCELLED in London 💔🎄

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/11/2025

if you can't savor the villains losing you've lost the spark of beauty and ingenuity that makes life worth living

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Rosie @brumrosie.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Remember, back in the day, when the general consensus was strong enough to shame these guys/make them too fearful of being pilloried if they said guff like this in public. Let’s go back to that.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

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'Give your money away,' Billie Eilish tells billionaires

The singer called on the mega wealthy to donate more to charity, during a speech at the WSJ Awards attended by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and George Lucas.

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The bitterly ironic transformation of the iconography of the poppy, from sombre reminder of the senseless futility of a war in which the British ruling class systematically ordered the wholesale slaughter of millions of working-class men, to 'War Christmas', says everything about the current crisis

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Stacy King @stacyking.com · 27/10/2025

FYI for Google Drive users.

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Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat

In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.

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Rosie @brumrosie.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Wouldn’t it be nice to have Reform and Farage called out like this in actual Britain, by say… the Prime Minister

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Realized Frankenstein is just this

A Reductress headline reading Uh Oh. Friend Clearly Not the Victim in Drama
Being Described

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

In the end, it's going to come down to whether you believe it's important that a song, or a poem, or novel, or whatever, was made by another human; whether you believe that's what art *is*, an expression of our shared humanity. If not, well, goodnight and good luck I guess.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21/08/2025

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I have not heard anything at all from government ministers nor the opposition nor many media outlets about the dangers of this epidemic of sweeping casual racism. It is sometimes seen as comical - as with Rupert Lowe and the rowers - but it is dangerous and dehumanising

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Rosie @brumrosie.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Nothing like having access to limitless social media and getting a published newspaper article to decry your loss of free speech 🙃

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

Headline: BBC under pressure to pull Sally Rooney dramas over vow to fund Palestine Action

Headline: Tory minister Robert Jenrick pictured with former Nazi terror chief at far right protest.

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Rosie @brumrosie.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

You’d think the spokesman might just have googled to see Sally Rooney is an Irish citizen, living in Ireland, and realised their law can do diddly squat to her before embarrassing themselves like this

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Extraordinary to roll out the red carpet for plagiaristic, energy-guzzling AI companies while telling ordinary citizens to save electricity

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I love to go to Chat GPT 5 with its alleged “PhD level expertise” and an ask it about my MA thesis work and see that it really cannot do that level of academic work whatever. It can do a SIMULACRUM of that work, which might fool you if you did not have any expertise.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

What the ever loving fuck is wrong with the ghouls at the Telegraph, and likes of Laura Trott, when they are complaining about kids being compassionate and caring towards people trying to rebuild their lives in safety after fleeing unimaginable shit? 1/2

Schoolchildren as young as five write Valentine's Day cards to asylum seekers

Concern over pupils in Birmingham being encouraged to create heart-shaped messages to welcome migrants

Aaron Newbury

08 August 2025 6:00pm BST

Schoolchildren as young as five have been asked to write Valentine's Day cards to asylum seekers.

The activities in Labour-run Birmingham were co-ordinated by the Schools of Sanctuary Network, which includes an estimated 1,200 primary and secondary schools across the country.

One group of children created heart-shaped messages with slogans such as "You are welcome here!".

Laura Trott, the shadow education secretary, said that "children as young as five shouldn't be used to push political agendas".

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Rosie @brumrosie.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Honest to god, I would dump anyone who used AI to text me. Spouse, family member, friend, I don’t care. Binned.

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Rosie @brumrosie.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Apparently “women-only spaces” now includes…M&S shopfloors. Any male workers, partners, dads etc are going to be compelled to leave lingerie departments too then, not just trans people? Right? 🙃

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Horrible story. Apologising because a trans employee had the temerity to interact with a customer. What are we becoming? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

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Rosie @brumrosie.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I had been thinking this summer felt like it was missing something, and I just realised what it is. An Olympics. Craving a bit of climbing or a peloton or beach volleyball for a treat.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

$[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]$

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 20/07/2025

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

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Rosie @brumrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

This show surprised and enthralled and uplifted me. A beautiful portrayal of friendship and dying.

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Niche @mr-n-wood.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Interesting observation: and why the education sector needs to understand the effect of cognitive outsourcing on the outcomes of education itself. There are no short cuts to 'doing the work' #EduSky #UKEd

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Even linkedin gets it

Mark Butcher

1) Sandra used AI to write a report
2) Bill used AI to summarise the report
3) Bill used AI to write questions about the report
4) Sandra used AI to respond to the questions
5) Bill used AI to create a presentation about the report
6) Jane used AI to take notes from the presentation
7) Jane’s team used AI to summarise the notes she shared

No one wrote the report, no one ever read the report, no one understood the questions or the answers.

No business value was achieved

But but but AI adds business value

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

James Acaster has mastered chat shows like nobody else in comedy. This is a tour de force 15 minutes, Seth Meyers is fighting for his life 🤣 youtu.be/pTbALzICA6c?...

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James Acaster Says Seth Stole Jokes from Comedians for His Stand-Up Special (Extended)

YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers

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Rosie @brumrosie.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Guys like this are why I quit the gym years ago. Toxically insecure, cranking up the speed in case a woman is faster than them 🙄

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