iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 10/10/2026

Throughout nature, an army of genes gives rise to a very limited number of cell types. How does this selection process occur? www.quantamagazine.org/how-does-lif…

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Dave Garbutt @davgar51.bsky.social · 5h

I am starting to realise my whole family was ND… and luckily I found something I could do well —computer programming— so no-one noticed really. I did all those bird piece collections and for a long time I wore a BTO ring from a gull I found

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 10h

& woods beyond the pasture going ginger (side of the lane a thrush's killsite strangely abandoned) & the lochan holds water colour of rusting bracken sun below treeheight by 16.30

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Dave Garbutt @davgar51.bsky.social · 14h

and the great thing for starters is you can just pull the nib off and push on a new one. And the nibs are about $7 so you can try several till you find what suits you best. personally I find a stub is best, it makes my writing bigger and more legible.

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Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) | Goose & Swan Monitoring (GSMP) @webs-gsmp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🪶It’s Plover Appreciation Day! These lovely birds get a whole day to celebrate their diversity and beauty💚! You can help us track how plovers are fairing by taking part in WeBS▶️ bto.org/webs-vacant-sites If you're out birdwatching, keep your eyes peeled for plovers! 👀🕊️ #UKbirding #Ornithology

A photo of a Ringed Plover on mossy ground with sparkles around it and the title 'Plover Appreciation Day!'

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Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) | Goose & Swan Monitoring (GSMP) @webs-gsmp.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) and Goose & Swan Monitoring Programme (GSMP) are now on Bluesky! 🦢 We'll be sharing our latest research findings, how to get involved & vacant survey sites. We’d love to know what you’ve seen on your surveys too, so tag us in your posts. 🦆 #Ornithology #UKBirding

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Dave Garbutt @davgar51.bsky.social · 15h

it is perfect for carrying a couple of small lenses too (in my case 60mm macro) and a side pocket with peanuts to give the crows :-)

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Dave Garbutt @davgar51.bsky.social · 15h

I know! A friend gave me a Nikon vest and it has great lens pockets, shoulder clips… but it isn’t Olympus :-(

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Carole Bromley @carolebromley.bsky.social · 15h

Ghosts and Ginnels spotted in the wild today

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#AcrosticOctober #TARDY @daveashleypoet.bsky.social Full disclosure, IN NO WAY autobiographical toward evening his family sees him stagger across the finish line breaking wind but no records for his or any other age group doing this marathon was never about glory yet he feels like a champion today

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Robert MJ Thompson @wh0n0z.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

symbol V flying peace fingers or victory? geese gotta be free

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#Poetry is ‘about’ our multiplicity, our unfixedness, our fluidity. About how we are modified by the ancestors and the ghosts, taken possession of by the invisible guests. Voices also need a house to sleep in. - #Breytenbach, ‘Intimate Stranger’

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of men:

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Matt Healy @matthewdhealy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

To call live-streaming an execution barbaric is an insult to barbarians.

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Tomorrow #Poetsofdoom host is the uncompromising and all round disco dancing champion @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

At times like this, the mask really comes off the British media. There is no pretence - at all - about their impartiality or objectivity towards the Green Party. It is a blatant naked partisan cross-media assault against the Greens.

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Ali Jones @aliskjones.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

beechmasts on tarmac harvest of the neighbourhood for squirrels and mice #dailyhaiku

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

1/ 50 years of @webs-gsmp.bsky.social 🥳 Here's what we've found out with the help of our amazing volunteers ⬇️🦆 #WorldMigratoryBirdDay @webs-gsmp.bsky.social is coordinated by @btobirds.bsky.social in partnership with RSPB Science & JNCC

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Dave Garbutt @davgar51.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It is complicit; unless the author can bear the breaking of it

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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Through mist of morning trees emerge from the hilltop— tinkling bells of sheep 🌫️🌲🐑 #haiku #morningmist #hilltop #sheep #cowbells #SwissAlps #BlueSkyPoets #photography

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Merril D. Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Good morning! My poem for #PoemsAbout #Bites is a revision of a poem I wrote for Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social ekphrastic challenge with art by @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Thank you as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I'll be back later!

Poem:
Choices: Divergence, Convergence

In the woods, you choose a road,
this one, or the other,

perhaps they are the same—or not—

perhaps you meet a snake with jeweled
lapis scales,

perhaps he offers
you this or that,
his tongue flicking words
you catch poison-sweet
on your tongue--

perhaps instead
you see a wave of wildflowers,
nodding their heads,
scenting the path

just before the strike, the bite.

Art work by Karen Pierce Gonzalez, a snake in spring green, aqua, yellow, and orange, studded with round blue jewels or buttons. Black background.

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Skeets App @skeetsapp.com · 08/10/2026

Skeets 1.32.1 is out. No more surprise sign-outs when the app goes to the background, your content filters apply to quoted posts and a post's own page again, and notifications load in the background and keep your place. Plus two dozen other fixes.

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Skeets for Eurosky & Bluesky App - App Store

Download Skeets for Eurosky & Bluesky by Sebastian Vogelsang on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Skeets for…

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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Alt-text: A tree on a city street with a sticker on it that looks like a stop sign, but says "SLOP" instead of "STOP".

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Remember, if there is an EMP attack on the US, Microsoft Teams won’t work

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Dave Garbutt @davgar51.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A lovely day Tuesday at Fanel in the central valley —lots of birds

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Dave Garbutt @davgar51.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, it’s such a hippie vision of the world 😆

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🖼️ Jay Crosby

Two magpies perched on branch overlooking a bear and two cubs strolling through the forest from above. ‘ALL THAT THE SUN SHINES ON IS BEAUTIFUL
AS LONG AS IT IS WILD’
JOHN
MOIR ~ carved into a branch.
Painting.

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

From Ariel: “It wasn’t until I was about 23 years old that I identified and foraged my first wild mushroom which quickly catapulted myself into the wonderful wild world that nature is. My interest in nature really started with mushrooms, but the more I learned about them ... (2/3)

A tips graphic on a cream grid-paper background with four mushroom photos and hand-drawn arrows. The top photos show a red-capped mushroom from the side and its underside held in a hand. The bottom photos show a cluster of orange mushrooms up close and growing on the forest floor. Text reads: "How to photograph a mushroom: advice from an expert identifier. Take clear photos of the top, underside, and side of the mushroom. Make notes of what you found the mushroom growing in, whether it's sand, soil, grass, mulch, wood, etc. If it is wood, list the tree type if you can! Take a photo of the environment you found it in. Seen by arielbonkoski on iNaturalist."

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Jim Whittington🔥 @jimwhittington.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Happy Republic Day to all my friends in Portugal. It’s always worthwhile to celebrate the overthrow of a monarchy.

Early 20th century poster celebrating the overthrow of the Portuguese monarchy and the declaration of the new Republic.

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good 🧵 here

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Dave Garbutt @davgar51.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I guess it is so middle seats are taken by seconds of couples — they will pay more to sit together, and singles will sit elsewhere...

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Storm Faerywolf @faerywolf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Devil with a Silver Tongue: A Spell to Bring Eloquence

The image of a red-skinned devil sticking out his silver tongue, the background is hand-written pages and a fountain pen. Text reads: "The Devil with a Silver Tongue: A Spell to Bring Eloquence"

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 05/10/2026

#LiftToTheSky Monday asks for generosity, not perfection.

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Birdingprof @birdingprof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Marvel of the day was, well…NFG #494 Merveille du Jour. An absolutely box-fresh slice of Mint Choc-chip if ever I saw one. Another Moth I’ve only ever previously seen at Lakenheath. It’s also new for the tetrad. 🔲 #teammoth

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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On political parties and antisemitism. Worth remembering this Yougov/CAAS poll carried out in 2025. On the statement: 'Jewish people chase money more than other people do.' Green supporters agree 7%. Reform 24%. Conservative 17%. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/CA...

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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#Inktober2026, Day 4: Prompt word: #Cactus "Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus" is a well-known (in Germany) song from 1934 by the Comedian Harmonists. Kaweco fountain pens, de Atramentis and/or Kaweco ink #Inktober

An ink drawing shows a small cactus on a balcony. The lines suggest the cactus is about to fall.
On the left side of the drawing are the words "Inktober '26 prompt word: cactus", and below the balcony is the text "Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus steht draußen am Balkon...", a song by the Comedian Harmonists.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At a time in history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy, and decency, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction — fawning over the most dangerous authoritarian America has ever witnessed. Do not forget this.

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Lundy Bird Observatory @lundybirds.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

2 Yellow browed Warblers caught and ringed today. 509 birds processed in Millcombe with lots of migrants. In addition, 3 Firecrest, Snow Bunting, 2 Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher etc

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

all day long meeting demons meeting buddhas - #Santoka

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm slowly realising how many people would rather give no help to people in need than give help to people in need and also maybe a few who don't need. They would rather punish the deserving than risk helping the 'undeserving'.

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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today - October 4th - Is world #Animal day. So a very broad spectrum... I want pawed #poetry, Feathery #prose and Noah's Ark #Artwork Give me fish, fowl, bug and beast, so much to choose from, get #writing #SomethingEveryday #prompt #writesky #5amwritersclub #blueskypoetry #writingprompt #writesky

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Ali Jones @aliskjones.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

on a fallen twig in sympathy with the moon lichen makes craters #dailyhaiku

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His Royal Huwness 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺 @litterygeniarse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#NeverAgain by anyone to anyone The fascists have learnt from history. The rest of us not so much especially our corporatist politicians.

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