iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mark Howells-Mead @permanenttourist.ch · 28/09/2026

“The new $2,000 foldable iPhone folds just like a wallet that used to have $2,000 in it”. #OH

David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Been looking for wall/art lighting for my basement redesign, and stumbled upon these: 10w or 20w CRI90+ LED, switchable K-temps, 15-60 degree zoom heads, AND fresnel fronts. 😍 All on common, type-H rails. $139 for 6. Could not be happier. amzn.to/3VhsSJt

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Seen on Rednote: a render of what someone in China is suggesting that Nikon should make. Honestly, I think a mirrorless Nikon Z body that paid homage to the original S2/S3 series would absolutely kill. (📷: 玩物有智的爽司, via Rednote)

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If your vintage camera is missing a hood—or maybe you just don’t like the current plastic tulip hoods—you can buy a metal version for a song on AliExpress. Right diameter, right focal length. This one was $6.85, shipped. a.aliexpress.com/_mL7pdqj

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

100% endorse, and a great travel hack. I keep a playlist on my Spotify with lots of cinematic pieces just for times like this. It’s like a ✨see the magic✨ filter for your mind when you’re walking around. (Especially, with a camera.) #1 easy gateway into this vibe: Joe Hisaishi.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’d like to imagine that this is pretty much what happens whenever two actors from The Wire run into each other these days. 🐐 @audacityofdespair.bsky.social

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Prediction: 100k returning young people, very pissed off at what endless wars and tax cuts for the wealthy has cost them.

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Bold Strategy Cotton - Dodgeball

ALT: Bold Strategy Cotton - Dodgeball

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Chris @cjthered.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also - for reasons not really understood yet - the shingles vaccine appears to reduce dementia risk. By a lot. Honestly you could call it a dementia vaccine that also prevents shingles and not be very wrong. sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Shingles vaccine linked to 24% lower dementia risk

Older adults who received the Shingrix shingles vaccine were 24% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over four years in a study of more than 500,000 people. Researchers estimate the difference c...

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Very thankful to not be driving a big diesel truck right now. 🛵

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Strobist’s main theme was that it is worth taking the time to intentionally design the lighting in your photographs. And if this is true for your photos, it’s doubly true for your home: Think once, enjoy forever. (1/x) strobist.blogspot.com/2015/12/remo...

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And we live in a country with an administration that doesn’t even have the moral integrity to acknowledge what it did. One hundred and twenty three dead girls = fake news.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A newly emerged male monarch butterfly flaps his wings to build up the necessary internal hydrostatic pressure before taking his first test flight.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

To my fellow lighting geeks who are now similarly applying their skills to their living spaces: Rednote app -> hashtag #NoMainLightDesign -> expect yourself to be unavailable for awhile.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Once again the White House Correspondents Association, which had a celebratory dinner with this guy just months ago, looks like stupid craven fools. Good call idiots.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🤯 Game changer for wedding, sports, and event photographers. And yeah, I totally second the recommendation for Photo Mechanic to best leverage this added new speed.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Old enough to remember when buying a camera didn’t require a mortgage

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The United States Senate is the republic’s august upper chamber, where one hundred senators shoulder the weight of history over the laws, treaties, appointments, and great questions that shape the nation’s destiny. Also, the United States Senate:

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I never thought the day would come when I would unfollow @npr.org. But I really don’t even know who they are anymore.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For the record, I’ll happily pay $7/gallon leading into the midterms.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hooboy. Deep breaths. It’ll pass. You don’t need it in an XP2 version. You don’t need it. You don’t need it. zerka-studio.com

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I could watch these all day 📷

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Important to remember that $25,000 is only about $16,000 after taxes. Just saying.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

After Hitler took power in 1933, the Nazi regime began Gleichschaltung: bringing German institutions into alignment with the new political order...

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A little moment of Zen for your Sunday morning.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Friday night in the listening room: Jiro Inagaki. Whole album’s great. But this track is cooler than the other side of the pillow. 🎷🪊 🇯🇵 open.spotify.com/track/3zf2Q4...

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

TikTok users discovering that the most efficient way to ensure you are buying non-MAGA-rancher beef is to simply buy Halal beef.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Okay, this one stings a little. Fifty years ago today.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If your day needs a boost, search “Cybertruck trade in” on TikTok.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

China watching as Trump destroys all of our trade alliances

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Non-zero chance we’re about to bomb the 30-year treasuries www.mediaite.com/media/tv/wha...

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Stressed? Overwhelmed? Amaro Freitas’ Vila Bela is a deep-tissue massage for your psyche: A wave of foreboding melancholy that builds over 3m50s, before being released with a series of beautiful chords. 💔 open.spotify.com/track/5D3PlA...

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Vila Bela

Amaro Freitas · Sankofa · Song · 2021

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Deleted a post complimenting some nice product photography light. Didn’t notice it was AI-generated. Tough time to be a product shooter.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Not sure which I like better: how consistently expert mode Mamdani is, or how much Fox News is gonna LOSE THEIR 💩 when they see this.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I’m mesmerized by these vintage lens overhaul vids posted by Tokyo-based camera tech Mao Yamada on TikTok.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Love me some low grade spite.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Cleaning out old photos. Video still from 1994, while on a WBAL-TV (Baltimore, MD) panel advocating for cameras in courtrooms. Thus, the Leica M3 in-hand.

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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 02/08/2026

Visiting with Liza Loop, Apple’s first user. She still has her Apple-1.

Two smiling adults wearing green lanyards pose for a selfie inside a modern building with large windows.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Not particularly a #BTS fan. Nothing wrong with it, just not my genre. But I’m a HUGE fan of the principled stance they just took against the Grammys, and “othering.” 🙌

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mike @vagabondvivant.com · 28/07/2026

The estimated combined net worth of all Americans is roughly $174 trillion. If you distributed that evenly among every person in the U.S., we'd each have about half a million dollars. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1...

fred.stlouisfed.org

Households; Net Worth, Level

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Looking forward to seeing the movie. But, holy crap, Ludwig Göransson’s soundtrack is incredible. Heavy use of period instruments, some of which he built, adds such a layer.

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