iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Admitting they can afford the tax, but they simply don't want to pay These rich dickheads have forgotten that taxing their wealth is the moderate option

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

There is no child out there identitying as a hologram, the only way they could put that in a newspaper is to get an attention-seeking dickhead to say it. And even she couldn't bring herself to pretend to have direct experience of dealing with the child.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Say what you will about Sisyphus, he had a real grind mindset. Dude was locked in. Absolutely bouldermaxxing.

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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Carter: Colonel! O'Neill (p90 pointed offscreen): come on, Daniel, what does it say? Daniel Jackson: well if Im reading this right, they worshipped a being named "Miette", who had the power to imprison you for... one thousand years... Teal'c: I believe it would be most unwise to awaken this "Miette"

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Catharine McLaren @catharinemc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

some more fibre dyeing 💖 400g of Faroe Islands fibre in pink 100g of Cheviot in blue #spinning #fibrearts

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

ramm, m.n: a ram (animal); an instrument for pounding or battering. (RAHM / ˈram) Image: Aries in a Psalter; England, 13th century; @trincolllibcam.bsky.social B.11.4, d. ii r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript image of two rams, one brown and one white, butting heads against a strange looking tree.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

We live in Rip Off Britain. We have to lower people's bills and tax wealth fairly. This morning I'll be starting to lay out our vision of how to do this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Basics’ of life in Britain have been sold for profit, says Polanski

Exclusive: England and Wales Greens leader outlines economic policy including help to meet rising energy costs and water re-nationalisation

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Hartford Yarn Works @hartfordyarnworks.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

We just did another restock on popular styles of our subversive Cross-stitch kits, and added their book and some new styles! Find them at hartfordyarnworks.com under “other goodies” #subversive #Crosstitch #Crafts #Resist #FiberArts #subversivecrosstitch #ShopSmall #ShopLocal #SupportSmallBusiness

A photo of a hand holding up a subversive Crosstitch kit with the theme “what a fucked up time to be alive “ designed to resemble old-fashioned Crosstitch samplers with some cute animals and decorative lines.

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Catharine McLaren @catharinemc.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

my latest yarn. some Corriedale I think? it's the finest I've ever spun and I'm already so happy with it 💖🧶

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Catharine McLaren @catharinemc.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

why is this country obsessed with back bacon? there's to much fat, it never goes crispy enough, it's just a bit shit. give me streaky bacon any day

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

ok but can I just......

before and after pictures of a cat very sad and bloody in the snow, and then asleep under a blankey in bed

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

theguardian.com

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony

Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

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Folderal Conspiracy, Esq @folderalconspiracy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke. This is not a joke. We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.

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Boolassa @dalassa.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Now I am convinced this lady has never spun yarn in her life.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A surprising number of Israelis seem to have already forgotten that they're the ones who started the war.

Elad Simchayoff on twitter:

I interviewed two Israeli Air Force pilots who are part of the operation in Iran. When I asked what it felt like to enter Iranian airspace for the first time, one of them said:
“You find yourself thinking, what do these people, so far away from us, actually want from us? They have a huge and beautiful country. Right now full of snow and lakes. Truly a very, very beautiful place. What do they want from us, this small piece of land? It’s such a strange feeling.”

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/03/2026

British politics, more than any other, has an unrivalled streak of paternalism where marginalized people are easily dehumanized as spoilt children who must be sternly punished and managed and whipped into shape. Our advocacy is simply seen as as tantrums.

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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

We should probably have a long and frank discussion about the concept of forcing evacuations in countries you're actively engaged in bombing and dropping white phosphorous on.

Israel’s military orders residents of four southern Lebanese towns to flee ‘immediately’
Israel’s military has issued another forced displacement order for parts of southern Lebanon, this one directed at four villages in the Nabatieh governorate.

In a statement on X, Israel’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee urged residents of Arnoun, Yohmor, Al-Sharqiyah and Zawtar al-Gharbiyah to “immediately evacuate” their homes and head to the north of Nabatieh.

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James A. Palmer @jamespqr77.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I mean, I talk a lot about how everyone is bending over backwards to make AI seem inevitable, but this is pretty intense.

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Important thread providing more of the detail than I could be motivated to add. The '10 studies' do not merit detailed analysis of everything they get wrong - & thread is just the tip of the iceberg in what they get wrong, but a useful starting point nevertheless.

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Adam Smith @adamndsmith.com · 09/03/2026

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

i simply cannot believe what i am seeing

orange cat upside down with his tongue out

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🎃🍁Evie Lyn Devers🍁🎃 @sinebadger.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful. Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

It found there was not enough good quality evidence to conclude overall whether the drugs benefited young people or harmed them, so NHS England will not issue new prescriptions while it continues to consider responses from advocacy groups and healthcare professionals.

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 09/03/2026

I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs. This video is lowballing it.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

A randomly selected average sized oak tree in the Kingdom of Kent, with an average sized citizen at 6 foot 6 inches for comparison 🥱🌳

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Something something your da something

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scott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 08/03/2026

“I did not expect THE IRISH to care about my fascism” is the most tourist thing that ever touristed 😂😂😂

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Jackson O'Lantern-Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

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Catharine McLaren @catharinemc.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

so i got a spinning wheel yesterday 💕

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez and her two kids—one of whom has severe disabilities—were kidnapped by ICE last Tuesday. Ms. Gutierrez is a Colombia asylum-seeker. She was arrested after reporting for her check-in at the Tehama St. ICE office. Lawyers have been unable to locate Gutierrez or her children.

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 06/03/2026

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life.

Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent.

That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship
Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026

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Caroline Keep @ka83k.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Oh and #adhd ... British Journal of Psychiatry whole bunch of experts Professor Tamsin Ford, Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge leading ⬇️ www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

cam.ac.uk

No evidence ADHD is being over-diagnosed, say experts

Experts are warning that far from being over-diagnosed, people with ADHD are waiting too long for assessment, support and treatment.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Croydon’s famous House of Massive Dildos. Never out of the papers with its celebrity customers.

Croydon Advertiser: KEVIN COSTNER
LOVED MY SHOP.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Ok but was the baby a knob?

Headline: An old woman called my baby a knob - I refused to laugh it off

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Olivia @oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The overpoweringly sweet smell of the hawthorn is produced by the chemical trimethylamine. This is also one of the first chemicals exuded from a decomposing corpse. Perhaps explaining why hawthorn and its blossom has long been linked with death in British & Irish folklore... #MorbidMarch 🎨VanGogh

Pale blue sky and a flowering hawthorn tree with pink and white blossom.

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Catharine McLaren @catharinemc.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

hate how hard it's getting to spot AI now.. this took me too long

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

An alarming feature of the British polity is how far to the right the establishment parties have moved. The UK Labour govt is now further right than Thatcher & using buzzwords & policies derived from the 1970s British National Front. In England, only the Greens are normal politics*.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Happy #WorldBookDay2026. The French writer and philosopher Voltaire once said 'Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.' 📚 He also drank up to 50 cups of coffee a day, often mixed with chocolate. I think we're onboard with this.

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Rosie @rosies-thread.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Tiny pigeon has officially landed 🐦✨ My newest cross stitch pattern is now live on Etsy~ Perfect for adding a little urban chaos to your cozy nights ~ #CrossStitch #CrossStitchPattern #Embroidery #EmbroideryPattern #Pigeon #BirdArt #ModernEmbroidery #HandmadeBusiness #SmallBusiness #EtsyShop

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