iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

BokDraken är tillbaka, men utredningen om exakt vad problemet var pågår fortfarande.

010

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

bokdraken.se har tekniska problem just nu. jag ska kolla på det snart, behöver bara bli klar med en jobbgrej först.

002

Reposted by nixie

Tor Lillqvist @tml.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Yesterday I visited the National Gallery of Scotland, and the neighbouring Royal Scottish Academy. The former has Scottish paintings (and a few sculptures) from around mid-1800s to mid-1900s, and European art from late mediaeval to early 1900s, or so. The […] [Original post on mementomori.social]

John Duncan (1866-1945)

Saint Bride, 1913
Tempera on canvas

Known as 'the foster mother of Christ', Saint Bride is being carried by angels across the Sound of lona in the Inner Hebrides, to Bethlehem. In the distance is the silhouette of lona Abbey. In Celtic mythology Bride corresponds to Brigid, the bringer of light. To evoke this fusion of pagan and Christian symbolism, the angels' gowns feature Celtic knotwork and New Testament scenes. Duncan's inspiration was a story by Fiona Macleod, the pen name of the Scottish writer William Sharp (1855-1905).

James Cowie (1886-1956)

A Portrait Group, 1933/ about 1940
Oil on canvas

This painting originally featured four pupils of Bellshill Academy near Glasgow. Cowie taught art there until 1935. Despite their proximity the figures appear disconnected, both from each other and their
surroundings. Cowie made detailed studies of the individual elements before arranging the pieces in an imagined landscape setting. This created a strange collage-like effect that was later intensified when Cowie decided to replace one of the girls with the image of an adult woman whose portrait he painted in 1935.

John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961)

Eástre (Hymn to the Sun), 1924 (cast 1971)
Brass

This striking, modernist sculpture represents Estre, a pagan goddess of spring and fertility. The stylised features and highly polished surface reveal Fergusson's engagement with European avant-garde sculpture. It is likely to be a portrait of Margaret Morris, Fergusson's long-term partner. Morris created a dance called Hymn to the Sun with music by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908). Photographs of Morris dancing Hymn to the Sun in 1925 show her wearing a shiny, fitted turban with decorative roundels over her ears.

William Bell Scott (1811-1890)

Una and the Lion, 1859-60
Oil on canvas

Pre-Raphaelite artists were fascinated by the complex imagery of the early English poet Edmund Spenser (1552/3-1599). His best-known work The Faerie Queene is an epic chivalric allegory (story with a hidden meaning) dedicated to Elizabeth I. The heroine Una is surprised by a lion which is tamed by her innocence and beauty and becomes her protector. The figure of Una was partially based on a young painter, Alice Boyd of Penkill Castle in south Ayrshire. Scott had recently met her at Newcastle School of Design.

101

Reposted by nixie

Minervas_uggla @minervas-uggla.social.spejset.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

Vad heter ni på bokdraken.se? Eller på annan bookwyrm instans.

102

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

BokDraken har uppdaterats! Säg till om något blev konstigt :)

Skärmdumpen som visar mjukvaruversionen 0.8.5

001

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

VMA: Jag kommer att uppdatera BokDraken om en kvart; det blir ett serviceavbrott i ett par minuter och sedan får man integrationen med Libris.

000

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

VMA: bokdraken.se behöver fixas och det kan förekomma serviceavbrott. ursäkta röran. (för de tekniskt lagda: ssl-certifikatets förnyelse skulle ha genomförts per automatik, men något funkade inte i bookwyrms kod, utredningen pågår)

000

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

I want the radio in my car to switch between different episodes in my podcast queue and my music library roughly sorted by genre. So like one “station” is just playing all the podcast episodes on history, another station is with the funny ones, another with job-related stuff; then there would be […]

mastodonsweden.se

Original post on mastodonsweden.se

000

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

On the one hand, I hate how much random furballs my cat left all over the house including hard-to-reach nooks and crannies. On the other hand, I'm catching up on so many podcasts with this extended cleaning session

000

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

That feeling when you have to say “no, don't implement a lisp compiler” to your partner ...again

000

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

Can confirm that BankID works on crdroid 12.7 (android 16) with MicroG (and without any google stuff).

042

Reposted by nixie

Anette S @anettes.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

Nybloggat, det är ju snart #bokrea. 📚 Tyvärr är det lite magert när det gäller praktisk #byggnadsvård på rean, men desto mer #kulturhistoria och #arkeologi . byggnadsvard.wordpress.com/2026/02/…

byggnadsvard.wordpress.com

012

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

här kommer bokdraken.se: typ Goodreads fast användarägd och integrerad med mastodon. här kan du dela och hitta #boktips från andra som läser böcker på svenska (man behöver dock inte läsa *bara* på svenska). admins: @doktorzjivago och jag. BokDraken är ny och inte helt färdigställt men […]

mastodonsweden.se

Original post on mastodonsweden.se

349

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

current status: closing the work laptop and waiting for the big snowfall to start in an hour :) aaaahhhhh. this is what winter is supposed to be.

000

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

"Stories from a South African childhood" is an apt subtitle for this book. It's not an autobiography in the full sense, there's nothing about the career in comedy here, but a lot about South Africa. I'm not familiar with Trevor's work, but this text sounds […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

The cover of "Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood" by Trevor Noah: a portrait of the author painted on a chipped wall, and a black woman walking by and looking at it

001

Reposted by nixie

Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 11/11/2025

Bonfire Social looks like everything a fediverse platform should be. The values, the features, the plan. Somehow I'm just the 82nd backer of their very modest funding campaign, and that should change. @bonfire www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfi…

206

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

why doesn't github show potential duplicates when you're creating an issue? this would save everyone so much time

000

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

Just got a B for my essay, and the only negative feedback about it was "you didn't use our (paid, digital) textbook as one of the sources, and it's obligatory". The access to that thing is cheap (150 SEK I think) but I find it weird that my grade should depend not on my knowledge PR skill but on […]

mastodonsweden.se

Original post on mastodonsweden.se

000

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

I really wanted to like this one, and it's highly recommended in many places, but this book wasn't my cup of tea. Most of it felt quite trivial. There were two chapters towards the end though that were more meaty, especially the one describing failure modes […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

cover of "Thinking in systems: a primer" by Donella Meadows. white background, rainbow-colored slinky.

012

Reposted by nixie

Alex Voronov @alexvoronov.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Christian Lindell och jag skriver en bok som spräcker myter om invandring och ekonomi. Det blir en handbok för dig som vill argumentera mot skrämselpropagandan och behöver pålitliga siffror, källor, relevanta infallsvinklar och förklaringar. Vi ber om ditt stöd. Donera och sprid info.

kickstarter.com

Bok: Sverige går inte sönder

Myter om invandring, jobb, bidrag

29286142

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

what are people using these days to read mastodon on android? I've been on Fedilab for a while and it's great, but there's one bug that makes the timeline jump like crazy, and I run into it every single day.

000

Reposted by nixie

En Björn @nollbok.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

"Current AI is a very complex hammer that doesn't understand what it's doing, or what nails are. And we're letting it add new shelves to the library of human knowledge." Som vanligt förklarar Kurzgesagt väldigt bra vad som händer och vad det får för konsekvenser. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN...

youtube.com

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

073

Reposted by nixie

Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

"Alla ser riskerna för korruption, utom lobbyisterna själva" Nytt blogginlägg om OECD:s skarpa budskap till Sverige: Inför ett lobbyregister! tankesmedjanbalans.se/oecd-infor-e...

16629

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

weekly cleaning status: haven't really taken care of the kitchen sink but have put away the bag from last year's book fair and the photos that were laying at the edge of my desk for a month

000

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

"Be the market leader" is not a strategy, and yet it pops up on so many company's websites. I think intuitively we all know this book's central message: an actual strategy is a guiding policy applied to a diagnosed problem through a set of coherent actions […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

Cover of "Good strategy, bad strategy: the difference and why it matters" by Richard P. Rumelt

001

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

like a library but loud and the entire country is there :) #bokmässan

a picture of a bookfair floor with booths, books, banners, crowd

001

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2025

the benefits of shopping locally during one's lunch break

a fox is standing on a dirt road leading to some countryside houses (it's a farm with a shop)

000

Reposted by nixie

Johan Karlemo @karlemo.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2025

Idag på Ukrainas självständighetsdag vill jag tipsa om fem Ukrainska metalband. 1914 - doom/blackmetal. youtu.be/NKdG3xT3Lws?si=bZ1aaua0aB-… Jinjer - heavymetal? youtu.be/U6rv5qi8-8s?si=ggHz9FR0EdY… 0%mercury - metalcore. youtu.be/UfkMn6L2gwg?si=wKjym1YwYl7… […]

mastodon.nu

Original post on mastodon.nu

003

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2025

the librarian doesn't know, but i feel happy when she decides to purchase the book i request for our library instead of borrowing it from another city. it's as if she's approving my choice :) today this happened with Fanny Nilsson's "Åk till akuten". looking forward to it!

000

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

how to stay focused in all-hands meetings

a piece of dark fabric embroidered with different stitches in concentric circles

020

Reposted by nixie

Sjukhusläkarna @sjukhuslakarna.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Vill du veta mer om nedmonteringen av Sollefteå sjukhus och vilka följder den får? Är du intresserad av tillståndet för Sveriges mindre sjukhus i stort? Lars Rocksén, styrelseledamot i Sjukhusläkarna, gästade podcasten Sjuk(a)vården och pratade om detta ämne. (Länk i kommentar.) #svmed #svpol

111

Reposted by nixie

Mats Henricson @matsh.eurosky.social · 25/07/2025

De flesta av oss har fått lön igen. Har ni lite över så skicka gärna lite till Ukraina via deras officiella donationskanal u24.gov.ua Man kan välja om man vill att pengarna ska gå till försvar, minröjning, sjukvård, utbildning & vetenskap eller till landets uppbyggnad.

u24.gov.ua

UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine

UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...

012

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

so far the biggest challenge with workouts this year has been the heatwave. unfortunately the Norwegian weather forecast (which tends to be better than the Swedish one, go figure) promises +33 tomorrow. I see icy footbaths in my near future

000

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

The lesson of the day is "don't buy sketchy #sewing patterns from etsy". The good news is that after finishing the shirt and looking through a bunch of posts and videos I think I can improve the pattern. Now the question is whether I have enough fabric left for another try. Insert the "I can fix […]

mastodonsweden.se

Original post on mastodonsweden.se

030

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

(from a book club) I think it's a divisive read (some reviews said 'woke'), but for me it was definitely useful, and I'm happy I read it. It's not your average self-help book. And it does what it says on the cover: after the first third with dissecting […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

the cover of Martha Beck's "Beyond Anxiety: curiosity, creativity and finding your life's purpose". blue sky with some white fluffy clouds is overlayed with a bold stroke of a paintbrush in pink, orange, and white.

001

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025

love me some random French words repurposed in #Swedish. from Svensk Ordbok: EXEMPEL: hon bara sjöng rätt upp och ner, utan choser och märkvärdigheter HISTORIK: belagt sedan 1691; av franska chose 'sak'; ur lat. cau´sa 'orsak

000

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025

The most similar books (feeling/theme-wise) I remember are "I who have never known men" and "The memory police". Identity, memory, that sort of stuff. Or, as I put it to my friend, "Groundhog day, but make it Nordic noir, and without the crimes. Ugh […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

The cover of the Swedish translation of the Danish book which in English is called "On the calculation of volume". By Solvej Balle. It has a photo of a woman with her back to the viewer, she's sitting at a table with some household items. The photo is separated into seven vertical strips.

001