iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h

Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.

Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 14h

The only book I have ever bought for its cover alone - £1.49 well spent.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“As I have often said, England is in reality a despotism—this despotism consisting, not of an autocrat, but of an oligarchy—not of an individual, but of a few hundreds of aristocratic families.” --- G. W. M. Reynolds, The Necessity for the Ballot, Reynolds’s Newspaper, 22 June 1851.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Local story takes quite a swerve just before the page turn.

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Odi et Amo @darllenwr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dennis Potter died in 1994 and Rupert Murdoch is still with us. youtu.be/lnVrK38xI-A

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A Parting Shot from Dennis Potter

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Odi et Amo @darllenwr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

c.org/jPLbmRsmHP Business with a dodgy environmental record and no connection with this area (and some fishy politics around the consultation) sees an exploitative opportunity.

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Menai Data Centre - SAY NO!

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Odi et Amo @darllenwr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Man in Piddington says it’s time to take the country back after declaring his village a principality.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Odi et Amo @darllenwr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

These are my generation and it feels like I’ve grown up with them. At 70 the importance of family transcends everything - no one wishes they’d spent more time at the office on their deathbed.

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Odi et Amo @darllenwr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reform Wales making the headlines for all the right reasons

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

‘Our Welsh leaders have been the guy arrested on suspicion of assault, the guy who went to prison for being a Russian agent, and Mark Reckless. But the less said about him the better.’

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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Remembering Amy Winehouse on her birthday. 🤍

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's eight years tomorrow since we posted on Twitter that Sting had been in to return his books.

A shelf on the book return trolley. The titles of the five books are Every Breath You Take, Every Move You Make, The Bonds That Break, Every Step You Take and I Am Watching You.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

From the new Private Eye

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Essential thread.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Farage was - once again - lying when he said counter terrorism police had delayed his speech because of threats. West Midlands police confirm they gave no such advice.

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Odi et Amo @darllenwr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Looking after a homesick dog. Clearly not 100% enjoying the visit.

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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026

I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Valerie.vg @valerie.vg · 24/08/2026

Last week The Lancet, arguably the most trusted journal in medicine, published an editiorial condemning attacks on LGBTQ+ healthcare and vigorously reaffirmed the necessity of gender-affirming care for both adults and minors. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’ve posted a lot on social media about Akihiko Okamura and his remarkable photography of Ireland during the Troubles. Now there’s a fascinating documentary which is well worth watching vimeo.com/1197413135

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The Memories of Others: Akihiko Okamura's Ireland

A short documentary film uncovering Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura’s extraordinary work in Ireland during the Troubles, and the artistic and emotional impact of its recent rediscovery. After a ...

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I googled her name and she’s a health policy researcher who writes think tank reports about gambling harms, we have found the patron saint of UK Bluesky

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Odi et Amo @darllenwr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Just learned that my wife’s uncle failed his driving test in 1950 and the examiner told him he had to ‘pull his socks up’ and I’m loving that attitude.

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Odi et Amo @darllenwr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

St Asaph/Llanelwy Think I might get one of these for the head of the table…

Wooden seating structure with ornately carved crown above. ‘Residentarius’ written in gold on the rear panel.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

we don't champion Ray Mears enough, as a country

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