iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Murder He Wrote @coombsy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sometimes you just have to get rid of the gamer gunk with some good ol’ isopropyl alcohol.

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high

11418199

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Len @len.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This might be the funniest achievement Paradox has ever added.

Papal Bull
Make your Puppet Pope sleep with your spouse

51657372

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 28/09/2026

We have something very cute to share with you today 🦉 This summer, a pair of barn owls successfully reared four owlets at Kedleston Hall, marking Kedleston's first known breeding success in over two decades.

Four young barn owls jostle onto the small wooden ledge of their nest box, fixed to a huge oak tree behind them

A young barn owl in flight, its wings stretched up above it against a blurry green background, its white heart-shaped face facing the camera

A young barn own in flight, a blurry oak tree behind it, its huge white and brown wings beating downwards as it looks at the camera

A barn owl swooping down with its wings fanned wide across a field of long purplish grass

534677

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Matt Flip Flop @mattflipflop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Glass of Jizz anyone?

2614750

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Everyone, stop what you are doing. I've discovered there is a politician called Teresa May running for city council in British Columbia. And this is from one of her campaign videos. Never have two people with the same name had such different vibes.

59741124

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

281173380

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 20/09/2026

Oh this is *awesome*!

05217

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Morty! Morty. I’m Alan Cumming, Morty. I’ve got a [BELCH] sparkly kilt and everything.”

The Traitors promo image where Alan Cumming is wearing a Statue of Liberty style crown, the spikes of which resemble the hairdo of Rick, the character from Rick and Morty

121903217

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I always come back to this whenever I see this point made on either side of the Atlantic or in any country. If the left are a sufficiently powerful bloc that them not voting for you means you lose. You have to give them some of what they want.

111122

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm sorry, rabies is really serious so I shouldn't laugh but worrying your dog might "get autism" is so fucking funny. He already has hyperfixations, carol! He's a fucking dog!

58121

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So the BBC has cancelled Drag Race UK, I Kissed A Boy/Girl so the message is if you’re LGBTQ and pay the TV licence fuck you

412840

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Drag Race UK leaving the BBC Financial challenges to blame, but boy has a lot of queer content come to an end all of a sudden. variety.com/2026/tv/glob...

variety.com

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK: All Stars’ Set to Premiere on WOW Presents Plus (EXCLUSIVE)

'RuPaul's Drag Race UK: All Stars' is set to premiere on WOW Presents Plus in 2027.

814849

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve reconciled myself to being to the left of any Labour government in my adult lifetime, but I didn’t anticipate that I’d also wildly diverge from them on whether masked gangs of fascist thugs should be allowed to break the law with impunity in the service of inciting racial hatred

16552103

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 09/09/2026

Even Northern Ireland politicians know you have to at least condemn it, even if you're going to do fuck all about it

37714

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.

Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’

23743331490

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The first rule of privilege is that you get to be unaware of your privilege! It’s so nice and comfy to believe you’re just really good at stuff and earned it all by your diligent labour and inherent virtue

10471107

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

it's because she hates you but she loves your money

151442338

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Orin 🚀🦏 @orinoxide.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Do Not Engage. The UK media are not in the business of presenting subcultures and minorities in a positive or even sympathetic light. If you are in any way outside the mainstream you are a potential target for the next moral panic.

2121311185

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just going to repost this Times journo talking about how Labour ministers and party hacks have, behind the scenes, been working very hard on the explicit project of “creating a permission structure for Labour to make welfare cuts”.

Josh Glancy @joshglancy • 13m
X
Alan Milburn and Pat McFadden are creating a permission structure for Labour to make welfare cuts. When the time comes, they must take it, or watch Farage/the Tories do it their way
My @thetimes column

719477

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One of my all-time favorite rules, from Pea Ridge (1980). The designer's great-great-grandfather fought in the battle, and if his unit takes damage you roll a die to see if he survives. If he dies, the designer is never born, and the game doesn't exist, and so automatically ends in a draw.

7443172

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry should also be remembered for featuring in the best between takes photo of an actor in recorded history.

Tim Curry in full clown make up holding an umbrella between takes during the filming of the tv miniseries of It

50107332683

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly passing in the same week, rough time in particular for homosexuals of a certain age.

2951071001

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm escaping to the ONE PLACE not corrupted by capitalism. Heaven.

224350

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Neutral in the culture war"

111155785317

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

$Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies. The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop. Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning. In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds. So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!). Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs. The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia. It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet. Sheila Hayman Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK$

14487264

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just massive, *massive*, amounts of political life in the UK is explained by the extremely bizarre fact that our intelligentsia, political class, and even much of our business elite, feel aching insecure about faiilng to meet some imagined ideal of Authenticity they attribute to the volk.

291071111

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just imagine a political system in which small extremist parties end up dictating the policies of the larger parties

45748164

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I think that if you understand the British press as basically a shit mafia who have repeatedly shown they can puff up or completely destroy anyone they want, on a whim, just for fun - celebs, royalty, actual Prime Ministers - then that will go a long way to explaining why this country is like this.

18219

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

jon christian @jonchristian.net · 21/08/2026

my guy you're talking about one of those immersive dementia wards

Meme that says

"Hear me out... we make new 'Amish' towns, but instead of 18th-century customs, it's the 90s forever

There's Blockbuster Video, Radio Shack & Pizza Hut, no social media (but you can use AOL Instant Messenger).

5565

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 21/08/2026

"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.

Part of a thread from some bluecheck:
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.

I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X."

I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie).

I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.

20760061289

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I will never in my life get over the line from Dragon Age: Inquisition: "Beg that I succeed, for I have seen the throne of the gods, and it was empty!” It's just so fucking good.

47227

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

TL:DR - We fucked the country into the sea chasing the approval of aging crank reactionaries, because our ruling class believed they could control and channel those people without it causing a disaster, or not caring whether it would. Well, the crisis is here now, and none of these people are happy.

316022

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Every actor justifying their role in harry potter

121985492

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The modern conservative hates winning more than losing. There are no games journalists left, all the devs have been fired and everyone in a position of influence is terrified of offending reactionaries. They got what they asked for, and they still hate it! Because a woman said a thing!

343293640

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If nothing else, the Dead Rod Liddle/Actually The Neo Nazi Is Fine scenes this week helpfully made it very clear what the British political/media system is. Yes, it is that. No, nobody is seriously working to change it. Yes, it is going to be like this at least until most of these people retire.

27820

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

An underreported part of UK Transphobe Lawfare™ is that when they lose, they just... say they won. For all the regrettable sway they do have in courts/govt etc, their real power is in the press. So if they lose, they just pretend they didn't and their press friends print the lie. It's ubiquitous.

171456548

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.

23247472019

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Anyway, TL:DR - many of the Times’ most reliable Senor Labour-Sources have been fired and lot of them are going to go right back to shirt-tugging, falling over in the box, pretending to be injured, trying to get opponents booked and running the ball into the corner, because they are malicious people

0365

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: The South Bank Show profiles not yet famous RADA hopeful Maxine Peake, as part of which she and drama school friend Diane Morgan take private elocution lessons.

13334132

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

She is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. She is the Carrion Lord of the (not so) vast Imperium of Britain for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day so that She may never truly die.

335489

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I wish him a glorious retirement carrying on with the crack habit he's clearly taken up.

1191

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.

These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need.

In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

3729491268

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ok i found some of the untemp posts. if you don't know about the untemp - he was a temp, he got made permanent, and this ⬇️ was the sort of stuff that was continually making my life really entertaining but RUINING my work day so. before he was the UnTemp, he was just... the Temp 🧵

35310

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

binface vs farage vs lawrence fox is like el classico for “different ways your mate’s dad could end up taking the divorce”

4830228

Reposted by Murder He Wrote

John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

fascinatingly* the French news is translating "Count Binface" as « le Compte Tête-de-Poubelle » rather than « Visage-de-Poubelle) which is, in fairness, more accurate (his entire head is a bin, not just his face) typical British media not asking the important underlying questions * ta gueule

Screenshot from Le Parisien. A photo of Count Binface, a man in a sort of black Darth Vader suit but with a silvery grey cape and a bin on his head with eye slit and mouthhole.

Headline:

Législative partielle au Royaume-Uni : qui est le « Comte Tête-de-poubelle », principal adversaire de Nigel Farage ?

Subheader: Ce candidat fantaisiste devrait être l’un des seuls à disputer le siège de Clacton-on-Sea au leader de Reform UK, pris dans un scandale. Les autres partis boycottent le scrutin.

32645204