iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jeff Goddard @jeffgoddard.bsky.social · 11h

I found some glossy photographic printer paper at work and decided to try it out and, well, damn. I don't like to really toot my own horn, but I'm so chuffed, I've never had full size (A4) prints of my stuff before and I'm so happy with how they look 😍

Picture shows five prints of Doctor Who digital edits.
Top, l-r: 13th Doctor blended with a cyberman. 13th Doctor and a wheel in space cyberman.
Bottom l-r: picture inspired by I, Davros, 1st and 13th Doctors in the tardis, 1st Doctor surrounded by Daleks.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic

Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173

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Dale Smith @dalesmithonline.com · 11h

Oh well will you look at that? Can't wait for you all to be able to read this one, and something I really hope brings a lot of good thing to the lovely people at Dream Theory Media.

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Dale Smith @dalesmithonline.com · 20h

Absolutely this. I have two careers, both decimated by AI and both filled with people saying "I know, but look: this can actually be helpful to those of us who know what we're doing". The people you're selling to don't want a middle man to "craft" a prompt for them.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 20h

I’ve seen the pitch document for The Day Today and it’s about a paragraph long. I paraphrase but: “This show worked brilliantly on the radio and we know what we’re doing.” A world in which that is a viable pitch document is something that we surrendered without a fight, which is so sad.

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Dale Smith @dalesmithonline.com · 20h

We visit Cygnus Alpha in #Blakes7 and we're so very nearly at the end of the extended pilot - by my count we've got Blake's 6 if you include Blake himself, which I'm not sure you should but how will we ever reach 7 if we don't? Toos and Ycranos run a hokey religion that needs followers.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23h

Time for this classic again.

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Chris Luxford @luxfordc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember electoral reform being in the 1997 Labour manifesto, they then got a massive Parliamentary majority and promptly forgot about it.

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Dale Smith @dalesmithonline.com · 29/09/2026

If they won't pay taxes, why would we want them to stay?

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Dale Smith @dalesmithonline.com · 29/09/2026

This is true, if subscriptions to use microwave ovens were currently being given away for free to force vendor lock in with companies run by some of the worst people in the world. And cost so much to run it's hard to see where the profit will come from, but if there isn't one the economy goes ping!

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is one welfare payment that does not demand that level of evidence. Source: www.gov.uk/government/s...

DWP’s graph showing 13.3 million people receive the state pension, far more than the numbers claiming universal credit.

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Dale Smith @dalesmithonline.com · 29/09/2026

Look, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say they know it's not a key-holder. Same as those other companies know they're not "back massagers".

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 29/09/2026

i must warn you: my penis could be too big. the pleasure it gives might tear society apart. our scientists just aren't sure yet

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Áine ☽𖤐☾ @whoa-magic.lol · 29/09/2026

This is what happens to hackers. This is what should happen to the C-Suites of AI corporations when their products hack. Prison.

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Dale Smith @dalesmithonline.com · 29/09/2026

Finished S2 of #BrokenVeil yesterday and am still a little shaken. It's a beautifully crafted modern folk horror - the kind of thing that would appeal to people who loved Small Prophets but wished it was a bit creepier. It's about borders and ambiguity, from the narrators being real people down.

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Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm just a guy who works for a non profit, but this seems bad. Is it bad?

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 28/09/2026

🚨SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN🚨 All submissions will be accepted through our Submittable page. The portal will close at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on Sunday October 11 or when we reach our cap of 500. buff.ly/Wugh39V

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Submissions remain open. We are looking for science fiction and fantasy stories 5000 words and under. Although our keyword is fun, don't self reject - our readers and editors have a very wide definition including tragic elements - if the story is good translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

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Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Dale Smith @dalesmithonline.com · 29/09/2026

The UK benefits system asks at every turn "How can we take this away from you?". Navigating that system effectively enough to live is one of the most taxing job s a human being can do, let alone to it fraudulently. Benefits are the ticket to an easy life for precisely no-one.

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🦇🤘 Miscreant Jennie 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 28/09/2026

And people VOTE for them. "Oh he's a bit boring, but he's a safe pair of hands". It's infuriating. WE DON'T NEED A SAFE PAIR OF HANDS TO CARRY ON DOING THINGS THE SAME WAY WHEN EVERYTHING IS FUCKED.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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CareyArt @careyart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The fact that the 50th was, in my opinion, a masterpiece, even though it was written under the most trying of circumstance makes any flaws in Name and Time of the Doctor far more forgivable

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CareyArt @careyart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's my understanding that Moffat didn't even know if he had Eleven for Day of the Doctor, as his contract ended with Name. His back up plan was for Day to be Clara's search for the Doctor (she was the only one still under contract). IIRC, the last scene of Name was filmed alongside Day

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We also never see how they get out again. The stakes are given that once Clara goes into the Doctor's timestream, she won't be able to leave, but the story doesn't show us how they get out and there's never a reference to it.

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I sometimes wonder if it was some casualty of the 50th rewrites, maybe one of his original ideas, because really the set up for a 50th anniversary celebration is right there.

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David Pattie @davidpattie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

True- the next Clara arc (accepting new Doctor/ falling in love with & losing Danny/ becoming reckless/ dying) is better handled.

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CareyArt @careyart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very true- I like Moffat’s hyper compressed storytelling but Both Name and Time of the Doctor would have benefitted greatly from being far longer- a 2 parter in the former’s case, an entire season for the later

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The way I look at it is: 10 ‘saves’ River because she matters in his future, but he has no real understanding as to how and why she matters. Once he as 11 has had some of that relationship and understands it, he knows the ‘save’ isn’t enough.

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CareyArt @careyart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It feels like a criticism of female objectification but ends up feeling like its sexist as both times the gaze is from a male perspective. It’s a theme best examined by a female writer, in my opinion, and the reason I hope the next primary Dr Who writer is a woman

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CareyArt @careyart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Or contrived: Davies runs into exactly the same problem with Ruby’s arc. Thematically it works: the arcs are about how the audience (represented by the Doctor and Sutekh respectively) invest the companion with such unnecessary importance that it literally distorts the world about them

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CareyArt @careyart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I genuinely like Name of the Doctor and appreciate what Moffat is trying to do with the Impossible Girl story arc, but also recognise its inherent faults. The problem with having a character arc that ends with the revelation that they’re nothing special is it feels dramatically unsatisfying

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Dale Smith @dalesmithonline.com · 28/09/2026

OK, so the one nobody really remembers much about until someone who is very obviously John Hurt even from behind and at a distance turns around and is John Hurt is #DoctorWho - The Name of the Doctor, the lead in to the 50th anniversary celebrations. So, is it something to celebrate?

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Baroness Raine Von Screamski 🎃 @rainesz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Coming soon from @obversebooks.co.uk: You thought Forgotten Lives Volume 3 was the final volume? Think again! Back by popular demand, a new collection of stories about the so-called "Morbius" Doctors. Cover designed by Cody Schell; artwork by... me! #DoctorWho #ForgottenLivesDoctors

The cover of Volume 4 of the Forgotten Lives series, with a collage of the eight Doctors, cover designed by Cody Schell, artwork by Raine Szramski (that would be me.)

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Brian and Charles alert! Brian and Charles alert! If you've not seen it, do so, it should be held as highly as Paddington in the British consciousness.

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What do we want? Stories*! When do we want them? Before submissions close on October 15! * Please read the guidelines before submitting! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

translunartravelerslounge.com

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ardwick Empire, Manchester, painting by Arthur Delaney (1927-87).

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 26/09/2026

Friends - we are soft launching our It’s a Superpower?? season 2 Crowdfunder on here before we release it into the wild next week so our most dedicated listeners have a chance to make us look a lil popular first. If you have the means, we can’t overstate how helpful your pledges are.

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It's a Superpower?? Season Two

To fund season 2 of It's a Superpower?? the first audio sitcom by & for autistic people - & pay our amazing team an industry rate

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As #SapphicSeptember draws to a close, here's a compilation of Solaris' Sapphic recs to help you #ReadQueerAllYear! Whether you want you sapphics in space, in fantastical worlds or horrifying situations, we've got you covered! @lavanya.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social MK Hardy & more 1/4

Solaris Recs for Sapphic September and to read queer all year:

REDSIGHT by Meredith Mooring
The FLAVOUR HACKER duology (INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF and INTERGALACTIC FEAST) by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
THE ELYSIUM HEIST by Y. M. Resnik
CRY VOIDBRINGER by Elaine Ho
A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY by R. A. Sinn
NETHERFORD HALL by Natania Barron
CODE AND CODEX by Yoon Ha Lee
KNOCK KNOCK, OPEN WIDE by Neil Sharpson
THE WATER OUTLAWS by S L Huang
LADY EVE'S LAST CON by Rebecca Fraimow
SNOWBLOODED by Emma Sterner-Radley
THE NEEDFIRE and THE HAUNTING OF AVIS LOVELOCK by MK Hardy
METAL FROM HEAVEN by August Clarke
RAGWORT by Sam K. Horton

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 26/09/2026

For all of you Doctor Who fans out there - my dear friend @monstermaker.bsky.social made this cool wee animation based on the opening chapter of the Target book DOCTOR WHO AND THE DINOSAUR INVASION www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNRf...

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Dinosaur Invasion: London Alert

YouTube video by Doctor Who Literature Podcast

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Regarding the AI skin people are calling an “actress” Studio types would LOVE this to succeed, so the skin is being featured and anthropomorphized in the mainstream press. Remember, movie producers left money on the table pre-1910 and refused to credit movie actors

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Dale Smith @dalesmithonline.com · 26/09/2026

Nobody had PTSD before 1980, and since then cases have skyrocketed. Bloody Generation X snowflakes.

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Who's He? Podcast @whoshepodcast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Coming on tomorrow’s podcast, is the first part of an interview with model making genius Richard Ashton, who built the new Liberator (amongst other things) for the #Blakes7 updated effects on the blu ray boxsets.

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Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A number of family and friends who have had life improving changes post diagnosis. That doesn't mean they needed PIP or indeed bucket loads of meds. A lot was just understanding how their brain works. The last thing discussions on neurodiversity need is uninformed idiots mouthing off.

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