iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Crikey. Even bulldogs were once proper dogs. Feel sorry for the modern ones I see now, and for all the snuffling flat-faced breeds. Staffie crosses for me, though ours was formally a dog-home foundling whatever, though clearly half staffie. Find modern dog breeding absurd & creepy.

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 23h

AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.

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Claire @clairepull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I've worked all my life and paid into my pension and now it's being taken away from me" NOT TRUE! There is no giant pension fund. What you paid in for all those years paid your parent's and grandparent's pensions. The youngsters of today are paying your pension. State pension IS a benefit.

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lately I've been thinking a lot about Terry Pratchett's "Reaper Man" and AI. He was so ahead of his time in so many ways - or maybe squarely in his time but so many missed the very obvious signposts of where we were heading. Gonna be spoilers in this thread for a 25-year old book.

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

UPDATE: it was an existing fan script that was fleshed out with AI graphics, so not 'AI generated' at all.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 30/09/2026

5 4 3 2 1 Thunderbirds Are Go! Filmed in VIDECOLOR and SUPERMARIONATION. Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's Thunderbirds started 61 years ago today on ITV. @gerryanderson.bsky.social

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So not binding at all then. The AI companies have no morals. Also they're not going to self police when there's the potential for great profits, or (more likely) continued venture capital investment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump announces vague ‘morally binding’ AI deal among tech CEOs for ‘tremendous self-policing’

US president also issues executive order officially rebranding ‘artificial intelligence’ as ‘superintelligence’

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world. Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Batteries based on sodium promise to be cheaper, safer and much more environmentally friendly than lithium-ion cells. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world

Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Some researchers say they could ultimately be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium in electric cars and other energy applications.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026

I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk

A grid of twelve illustrations featuring music designs, architecture designs, books, retro abstract designs and swimmers. Bold and colourful.

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He has no evidence, especially when people are saying they were stealing diesel. Whether or not it’s true, @theguardian.com should do better than to repeat propaganda www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford plot

US secretary of state, who offered no evidence for claims, also says many people ‘disturbed’ that five suspects released on bail

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Of all the things that facebook ruined, it was all the small clubs and events moving their online presence there. No more niche websites or forums. Just the dreary homogony of everything in the one same place - and assumption you were on facebook in the first place.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Perfectly captures the insanity that is the political geography of the British Isles.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you are building a house in a location where it cannot be insured, the problem is not really the lack of insurance

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An American government politician has said something about Fairford. We should totally ignore it.

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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yet another reason not to use these "AI" agents.

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This morning, #r4today is reporting that dropping the pension triple lock would be "electoral suicide" for Labour. It's stated as a fact. No evidence offered. So let's look at what the evidence actually says. 🧵

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Farage is certainly no friend of working people ...." via Wanda Lozinska

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Security services are still trying to gather information on a potential huge terrorist incident. This is a critical time for them. Nigel Farage is publicly criticising them for not releasing information. He knows the law, he knows they cannot. He is palpably unfit for public office.

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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just booked an appointment for a thing at my local pharmacy. A few minutes later I get a text just telling me to download an app. Naturally I didn't as a) it was marked as a possible scam and b) there was no indication of what the app does. Cont'd

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A Verdade @averdade351.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And now we discover: "Five men arrested over RAF Fairford incident are all UK nationals aged 23-25"

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The police have asked everyone to please not speculate about the RAF Fairford incident, so naturally I'm going to waste no time in making up total bollocks to suit my own agenda.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: The Cult Are Not The Country Every time Farage or Trump is caught out, the cameras find the true believers and tell us nobody minds. We do. We're just never asked. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/the…

A noir illustration of a battered megaphone lying on the floor of a vast arena under a single spotlight, orange sound waves spilling from it, while tiers of faceless figures fill the stands and a crowd in silhouette watches from the front.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dear god 1,500 people. Just grant them the residency status and move on. No one apart their family and friends will even notice.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 27/09/2026

Millionaires who breathlessly announce that they are leaving the country because a social policy subject risks mildly inconveniencing them should never be allowed back over the border.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The government, banks, utilities and similar services MUST make it easier for those with Power of Attorney to manage stuff online. I find I'm having to do a lot of stuff by phone. It's like being back in the 90s except without the 90s infrastructure to help.

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Irish Unity @irishunity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Renewable Energy is cheaper than oil. Renewable Energy is more securely available than oil.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'It's a mystery, isn't it' via Christopher Warner

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Should the U.K. rejoin the EU and reverse Brexit? Get voting! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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chloew1656.bsky.social @chloew1656.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He's not an anti-migrant agitator, he's not a migrant activist. He's a far-right thug and yob just as the BNP used to be in days gone by. Stop trying to legitimise his actions as some noble cause.

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Carl Winberg @winberg.ie · 25/09/2026

Remember when we all thought super-villains had to be smart?

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

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Hey Jude @judew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am guessing that Reform have never studied public law. No Parliament can bind its successor.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just me saying that any effort to tackle misinformation must be an attack on Reform, thereby admitting that Reform are helping Russia to spread far right narratives and create dissent and unrest.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh, we're still on the "significantly reformed EU" nonsense are we? Like the UK has the power to dictate terms as a returning hero or some such? Same EU as per the last 40 years at least. Be part of it or not. Full stop. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Every year, HMRC, by its own estimates, fails to collect 46.8 billion of tax. See webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/202606... How about hiring more people to retrieve this avoided tax before suggesting funding defence by cutting welfare to the poorest and most vulnerable? Just saying.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In all the grandiose discussion about colonising Mars, I don't see much about how the soil is poisonous to us. This was only discovered in 2008. It contains perchlorates, which are environmental toxins here on Earth. Any human contact with Mars dust? Super-bad news in the long run. 1/

NASA image from the surface of Mars, showing its red dusty surface with rover tire-tracks running across it.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You're going to be needing specialists in: languages, narrative, history, psychology, information, mythology, conspiracies, etc, etc. then? #humanities #socialscience

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026

This is amazing and I have personally seen this one and I love so much that it exists. Save lives. Save money. What's not to love? We should have more, everywhere.

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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Side note: the NYT will edit out the filler words of every single male politician in a quote, but here they’ve left in every “like” and “kind of” in her vocabulary. Which is a choice, and not one I like.

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