iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That could be true, but it could also be a political move to reinforce the Republican narrative that the uk is an ungovernable mess lurching towards Islam under Labour

010

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hope it all works out well for you.

050

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘Relevant’ here meaning ‘palatable to people like me’ (again)

000

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But the status quo has hidden costs. Those in middle age having to fill the care gap for their parents are financially stressed, less productive and possibly even more of a drain on the NHS. Reducing that could in the long term help pay for this but not in an easily measurable way.

131

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Quite. I still remember the first disillusionment with the Blair govt was when they pushed through a benefit cut to single mothers, saving a tiny amount of money, because reversing it would have ‘sent the wrong signal’.

060

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you’re an octopus enthusiast you’ve probably got this already, but if you haven’t, it’s brilliant! Loads of amazing stuff in here

The cover of ‘other minds’ by Peter Godfrey smith

160

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was hoping you’d go there. I made a trip out to see it when I was working in Newcastle - it’s stunning

010

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Not so sure. It doesn’t break any rules but the ends of lines 1 -3 sound like the stresses in the harmony don’t match the barlines. And line 4 just sounds bad in bars 13-15 though the final two bars on their own are fine. (Make the last chord in bar 3 a dim7 on C sharp and it sounds like Bach!)

230

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yes, that will definitely work

010

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I don't think this is real. The title makes no sense, but there's an actual painting by Hopper of a boat with that name. Also the lights don't look right, and the train indicators look too modern.

4741

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Could be, or it could be that it’s just like us saying ‘hired a taxi’ ie the ‘it’ is just the thing itself

070

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Also cornfields (or anywhere agricultural)

140

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Doesn’t he candidly admit at one point that ‘chance without merit’ got him the job and that makes him determined to deserve it? Most people would probably have just taken the money and bluffed their way through.

120

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I saw this when it came out and remember it being a really beautiful piece of work. I don’t remember the details (I’d even forgotten Depardieu was in it) - would love to see it again.

120

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

That took an unexpected turn

170

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Do you mean the composer, or the way it’s performed?

100

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The only upside of that appointment is that it’s made my decision about whether to switch my vote back to Labour a lot easier.

172

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I enjoyed it once the family classics scholar had explained it to me

010

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

He seemed to spend quite a lot of his time persuading parliament to pay sailors properly.

110

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Sounds implausible but it happened to me. I had a (genuine) history of what they used to call grumbling appendix so I knew what the symptoms were, one day didn’t want to go to school so recited them all again, taken to doctor, he said it’s happening too often, off to hospital and that was it.

000

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

With that menu you should open a restaurant

030

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I think Flash Harry was Malcolm Sargent, not Barbirolli.

120

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Is that a niche Klemperer reference?

130

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It’s amazing isn’t it? And a stunning building as well

110

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

And don’t assume you have to stop when they’re old enough to read for themselves. Mine still loved it for quite a while after that, and the ‘older’ books are even more rewarding to enjoy together

000

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The quotes just mean that she used the word herself. If they hadn’t used the quotes, it would have looked like the BBC were speculating that it was burnout, which would have been worse surely?

100

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Maybe it’s a US thing? I always associate it with the weird ‘sovereign citizen’ movement. Never heard a young person use it here.

330

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Using the term ‘government name’ is a red flag for any credibility here

230

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Not just cultural though - polls on policy show that reform voters are quite left wing on economic policy (in favour of water renationalisation, wealth tax) - which is probably why the leadership doesn’t talk about its economic policies, and why it might be good to shine a light on them

030

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Decidedly. Which is a shame as the rhyming is just brilliant. But yes, the ‘plot’ is dodgy to put it mildly

110

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

‘Then it flashed through her mind what her mother had said With her antepenultimate breath ‘O my child, beware the wine when ‘tis red, Be prepared for a fate worse than death!’ Flanders & Swann ‘Have some Madeira, m’dear’

110

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I think she won the insult competition

1210

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

We’ve all been there Sam

030

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I don’t think he’d survive long in Wigan, assuming he even knows where it is

110

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I think she’s the new companion/maid for Mrs Pepys

010

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

See also - there were lots of good things about the 60s/70s/80s but none of them are what the crap nostalgia accounts ever mention

010

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

‘Wants change’ - very informative

010

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

And ironically the economic regime in the 70s was more left wing than it is now, with higher tax rates for the rich, more generous welfare etc - reform aren’t going back there.

020

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

There is no way those photos are the same person 10 years apart. Unless he used an old photo in 2015?

000

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

No doubt more energy will be devoted to finding the source of the leak for this story than to investigating why he was appointed

070

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

On a youth orchestra course when I was about 14 they showed us all One flew over the cuckoo’s nest. I didn’t know cinema could be so viscerally powerful - I was blown away by it. But officially too young of course

010

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The feature on the Today programme this morning seemed to me to be very much focused on immigration advisors behaving improperly, and not suggesting that the idea to do this had come from the asylum seekers themselves.

220

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I can forgive his lack of empathy on this occasion, having had his groin cut open without anaesthetic.

010

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Musicians who don’t like Mendelssohn are like people who don’t like dogs - although they’re probably ok there’s something not quite right somewhere

020

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

And they wonder why they lose votes to the Greens.

010

DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Clearly they’ve stopped worrying about the threat from the Green vote already. Hopefully they’ll get a rude awakening at the local elections.

100