iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Monzo unwrapped trolling me for eating £2.50 jerk chicken rice 72 times in the last year 🥲 FYI Cumin Up in New Cross is 💯

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

It’s my birthday today & for my trip to Prague I was suddenly compelled to buy and read bell hooks. I’m so transfixed by her work when I googled her, I discovered we share the same birthday. What an honour! ☺️

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Asides the anachronistic costumes and rituals, PhD Graduation was a VIBE @SOAS

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Im at BODIES IN DIGITAL TRANSITION conference at Goldsmiths hosted by DiSCo. I founded DiSCo back in 2020 and handed over leadership to to see @aprilw.bsky.social last year. To see DiSCo thriving into new projects and areas is truly amazing. Well done April 🧠🫁🫀🦾👀👂

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Received an email from Your Party @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social + @zarahsultana.bsky.social new party with links to Tw, IG, TK + FB. Surprised they are not launching on BlueSky. Also, i think we have to start calling it "X" now

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Reading Character Limit, unsurprised by the hubris of Musk, but 100+ pages in & Dorsey isnt coming off so well, surprised he goaded the acquisition against the board. Anyway, its given me motivation to give Bluesky another go. fyi the ethnographic writing is great @kateconger.com @rmac.bsky.social 👌

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Bloody hell. Discovered an "alt-LLM" - made by Brighteon.ai - that is trained on conspiracy theories/disinfo. I asked it was covid a hoax 😱

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

friend asked me when my bday was - 25 Sept. they then sent some copy from some crappy astrology website. never been into astrology but that is changing. what a write up !

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Struggling to set up research interviews with alt right content creators but have noticed these posts/ads from what i'd call "growth hackers". Have reached out to two of them on Rumble & they are super keen to participate in my ethnography. Feels like i'm about to be scammed some how 💆🏽‍♂️

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Haven't quite figured what BlueSky is for yet so thought id share photos from the weekend's hike along the Kent coast from Folkstone to Dover.

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

According to Novara on X Zarah Sultana has resigned from Labour after 14 years, joining forces with Jeremy Corbyn to launch a new political party. She says the two-party system is failing Britain—and vows to offer a real alternative. “In 2029, the choice will be stark: socialism or barbarism.”

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

First draft manuscript "The Digital IRL: Twitter, Sri Lanka & the place of ethnography" submitted for Anthropology Now journal. Feeling confident rn but sure those peer reviewers will put me in my place 🥊

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Draft almost done on this journal article for Anthropology Now. Based on PhD thesis, the story of Elon Musk's takeover Twitter during my fieldwork in Nov 22 feels more relevant than ever

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

looking to buy a bell hooks book for my sister's birthday and then there's this waterstone review. who should buy then if im after radical??

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Looooong shot. Anyone got a pass for SXSW London next week? It's like gazillion ££ a ticket and i only one see this one 30 min talk

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

After 4yrs PhD on activism on social media in Sri Lanka, yday was my first public presentation for my new postdoc world of politics on social media in UK. Cant say it's easier studying one's home country, but it definitely feels like i'm on to something with digital banter 🤌

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Splendid days research today. Interviewed a photographer of activists, & inspired by convo went to the Face Magazine exhibit at the National Portrait gallery. Can’t recommend it enough, all your heroes are there

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Surprised to find Bitchute, UK's biggest homegrown alt-right platform, closed for UK users due to demands of Online Safety Act 2023. Its still accessible for UK users but they cannot see/post content to other UK users (international audiences are fine). fyi I'm hanging there for research obvs 👀

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

🏕️ Starting fieldwork about contentious speech on small platforms & my first port of call is the anti-Elon Musk protest in London tomorrow in North West London. Numerous "Telsa Takedown" protests are happening across the UK tomorrow. Find our more & come along! www.teslatakedown.co.uk

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

losing my discord account because i didnt realise it was registered with my old soas email. i manage 5+ servers so the migration is going to be cumbersome. if you receive a friend request from a lonely dr.rydez on discord, it's me, not my doppelgänger

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Meta’s news Ai tool on WhatsApp *isnt* an annoying addition to an already over-stimulating app

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

celebrating a very personal milestone this weekend with a splendid trip to lake eibsee (south of munich) ☀️

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

So im hanging out on alt-right platforms (for research oc) & i find people complaining about a anti-musk poster campaign in north London. it's pretty excellent. #memescumalive

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

why do they make syncing ical and google calendar so terrifying?

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Why is my Bluesky 95% cosmic images. I have zero interest in this stuff

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I’m not vegan but I’ve made vegan chocolates for my non vegan family. Christmas is a time for subliminal political messaging

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Dr. Craig Ryder 🚴🏾‍♂️ @drryder.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

What’s all this 7c feels like 1c bs? Obviously being factious but if there was a climate expert here, I’d be happy to be skooled

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