iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Iiiiiiit’s happening!

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oct. 12, 1926: The smallest and the largest speakers at the Chicago Radio Show are exhibited by Miss Denver, Deloras Conrad.

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Classic Movie Hub @classicmoviehub.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Born Today, October 12, in 1916 Lock Martin -12 roles but probably best remembered as the robot Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) :) Did You Know? Before playing Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still, Lock Martin worked as a doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. #botd

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BoschBot @boschbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Temptation of St Anthony

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You can’t really understand yourself from your own choices. I suspect most of us don’t even know what those choices would be. We measure ourselves by our varied reactions to fixed culture. And we can discuss that between ourselves, to understand one another. Anything else is thick as mince.

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Tonight’s show is in an actual cinema so my head has never been more ginormous.

Me a long way in front of a cinema screen on which my huge face is displayed.

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In Beverley this morning saw a family of Hull City supporters in full amber and black regalia leaving the Minster. If they beat Everton this afternoon it’ll be down to divine prudence.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Suella Braverman too proud for benefits... Went to university for free Studied in Europe using the heavily subsidised Erasmus program Claimed ALL her rent, energy, council tax bills for at least 5 years Millions of pounds in expenses claims She just doesn't call them benefits

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Me for two years of English A Level.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oct. 9, 1926: This is believed to be the shortest toll bridge in the world. The portable span over the Bude River at low tide in Cornwall, England, is operated by William Brinton (right), who asks pedestrians to chip in a penny when they cross.

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BoschBot @boschbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Garden of Earthly Delights

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

YOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s

A poster featuring an image of a plate of baked potatoes radiating a Heavenly light. underneath, a couple of line drawings of chefs in tuques respond with delight

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just remembered the time I found this in the 1851 census for Greenwich. The enumerator must have knocked at an inconvenient time as he found the resident with “a common prostitute called Dandy Liza”. Relationship to head of household: “whore”, emphasised by suitably appalled squiggles.

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Overheard in Chester: “You can’t go wrong with a tea towel.”

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The maddening thing is that the BBC can, uniquely, offer the opposite of AI algorithmic recommendation. We can get that anywhere. It’s not what people want. What’s missing is expert, human, curation. Knowledgable people you trust *telling you* that something’s worth watching. That’s what the BBC has

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Six days left to listen to this Radio 4 series based on the Bayeux Tapestry I wrote with Simon Armitage in 2001. Simon wrote the kings, I wrote the soldiers and peasants. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Bayeux Tapestry by Simon Armitage & Jeff Young - 1. Bosham - BBC Sounds

An oral dramatisation of the Bayeux Tapestry. Stars Christopher Eccleston.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 07/10/2026

nobody finishes a book and concludes “that was great; now I shall never read another one.” other writers are your teammates and coworkers, not your competition.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea

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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tickets are now on sale for my tour. These performances will be like my Edinburgh show but bigger, better, and with an interval for ice cream. Tickets here - www.TheUmbrellaManShow.com

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tried them on, wouldn’t stay on my nose.

Glass tumbler on a shelf, one of a pair, with price sticker reading ‘pair of glasses’.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The only ‘no go zones’ in Britain are gated communities, country estates full of, or owned by rich, largely white folk. And don’t get me started on the villages they’ve basically ‘enclosed’ on the north Norfolk coast.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A nonfiction book written in, let’s say, the year 1795, is most likely still around in a library somewhere and every other work it referred to is probably accessible in some archive as well. A nonfiction book written in 2007 probably cites a bunch of urls that are dead or rotted beyond recognition.

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New book innit. Coming in the spring from Head of Zeus.

Cover of Making Tracks: A Journey Through the Itinerant History of Britain by your pal, me. Illustration of lots of itinerant things: stagecoach; railway, canal boat, rum looking cover in red blazer and a jaunty yellow derby

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt

Print featuring a flock of birds in silhouette flying over a hedgerow in a purple sky

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New book innit. Coming in the spring from Head of Zeus.

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BoschBot @boschbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Garden of Earthly Delights

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dundee, 15 February 1959. Pic: Michael Peto

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Rich Neville @richneville.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can’t see a plan in this flaw

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delighted with this review of the absolute ship show in Scarborough last night. Fair made me blush, it has. yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/A-To...

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dublin folk, do not miss this. Saw it in Edinburgh and it’s amazing. In a lovely venue too - honestly, you can’t lose.

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

99th performance of Attention All Shipping tonight. You’d think I’d have got the hang of it by now.

Me photographed in dressing room mirror in stage clothes of vintage suit with braces.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is insane. Local radio is the bedrock of the modern BBC. It is near the top of the things it does best: serving local communities.

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They probably won the war again.

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trying to explain what podcasts are to older family members is a task and a half. "It's a bit like the radio but without travel news" is the best starting point

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The whole point of humans as a sociable, tribal species is we should eject people like this, so they starve in the wilderness alone. There are consequences to sociopathic behaviour. Somehow the abstract idea of money has short circuited our basic evolutionary safeguards.

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Spike Milligan seen here performing a feat unparalleled in all human endeavour: making Van Morrison smile

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A reminder that we're launching Fay Musselwhite's new collection in Sheffield on Wednesday (30 Sept): mostly booked, but there are still a few places available (see Eventbrite link below)

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You’d think with all the snazzy technology they have nowadays they’d have worked out how to show a game on a sunny day without the shady parts of the pitch being in total darkness. Scotland’s penalty area might as well be down a mine shaft.

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The sun’s setting behind a wind turbine and I feel like Martin Sheen in the opening scene of Apocalypse Now.

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