iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

1. Happy Fly #botober2026 is a very tiny language model run locally on @janelleshane.com computer, and trained solely on racehorse names… which led to a My Little Pony theme!

A drawing of a yellow pony with grey wings, mane, and tail, with black spots on its behind and grinning red lips

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Only in Glenrothes can we have such an international police chase!

Police chase in Glenrothes just passed my window in Macedonia near Iceland

(Macedonia being an area named after an old farm, and Iceland being a shop)

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Talked loudly about how good the Worst Witch books are while walking past The Elephant Cafe in Edinburgh. #doingmypart

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Grudging Signup @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Probably the most photographed artifact in the whole museum 😏

A small ceramic hot-water bottle labelled "The DAINTY Muff Warmer"

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In a window in Edinburgh, Scotland. The great pumpkin

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It is better in here when we're all talking about a good person rather than a wicked one. Maybe we can learn how to do that more.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger for power became known to more and more people, the demands to do something about this outrageous man became louder and louder"

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The hills are now full of dead bodies. Please henceforth choose to die in a valley.

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Really pleased to come across these books in a charity shop yesterday, to add to my collection of works by illustrator Tony Meeuwissen

Songs and Dances of Scotland (grouse/pheasant?), Songs and Dances of Ireland (harp), Songs and Dances of England (window)

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Reminder that Scotland has been doing the whole "weird man made of tree parts thing" long before Wicker came along. Probably not a good idea to try the vigorous sexy time with this lad though, those burrs are jaggy.

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I finally got around to seeing the Burry Man, who parades through South Queensferry each August!

A man dressed in a suit made of plant burrs, covering his whole body and face. He holds two staffs of hydrangea flowers with yellow lion rampant flags. He has a crown of flowers, and some berries on his body

The burry man flanked by two assistants in kilts

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

to have your men eaten on one island may be regarded as a misfortune; to have them eaten on two looks like carelessness.

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The hilarious bit is that she had dyed her hair again since the photos, so I only recognised her because she was sitting at a stall with her name on it!

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Doing the very neurodivergent thing of screenshotting photos of someone I haven't seen for a few years, so that I’ll remember what she looks like if I see her at an arty thing this week

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Is it ‘what books you like’?

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

And whilst this wasn't the heaviest carrot, it certainly made up for it with its personality.

An extremely grumpy looking carrot. I can't quite explain how a carrot actually looks grumpy, but it does.

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Edinburgh Reviews @edinburghreviews.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The sci-fi geek in me approves of this typo. Actual Edinburgh signage. ~G

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I did not expect to see this today!

Bride, in white wedding dress and long veil, sitting on a brown horse, with members of the wedding party in various colours of dresses

Bride, in white wedding dress and long veil, sitting on a brown horse. A lady in a brown dress leads the horse, and a lady in a blue dress is standing on the pavement with a large dog beside her

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Can you see my orb? It’s that big yellow thing in the sky and it’s going to fry you all 😆

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This evening’s reading, 33p from a charity shop!

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I saved a picture somewhere of someone describing their work look as “corporate hobbit”

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Neil Slorance @neilslorance.com · 10/07/2026

my dumb stickers turned out great 🦭

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We become creatures of the night, sleeping through the heat of the day in air-conditioned pods, in people warehouses. At dusk, we emerge for our manual work, all around us brightly lit LED screens advertising AI created books and films, all that's available to us since the Culture Wars.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A heatwave cartoon for @newscientist.com

1. Title: The North Wind and the Sun quarrelled as to who was the stronger.

2. The Sun says: "I propose a wager: See yonder traveller, let us see who can make him remove his cloak."

3. The northwind blows on the traveller, the sun says: "You blow yet he only wraps it tighter!"

4. The sun shines on the traveller, saying: Observe! . The traveller mutters "nice and warm"

5. The Sun says "See, my kindness brought results!" The traveller has removed hos cloak and begins to sweat. "Fair enough, you win." concedes the North Wind.

6. "Tremble before my gracious heat!" says the sun, smiling bradly. His heat has started a fire. the traveller flees. The North Wind says "I think that’s enough."

7. "Let the world burn with my cleansing benevolence!!" blazes the sun madly, now grown huge in the sky. The land is a burning fireball. "Now you’re scaring me!" says the North Wind anxiously.

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The figurative blood, sweat, and tears of this working week has become literal on all three fronts over the past 24 hours. Hoping to get the harder stuff finished this week, have a slightly less intense week next week, then 3 weeks holidays!

Base of thumb with a tiny prick of blood

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

they call it "single sign on" because you have to sign on every single time

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 06/07/2026

The media; "Today is Bikini day because it's the anniversary of the invention of the bikini in 1946!" The past; "You wot mate?" #NationalBikiniDay

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 06/07/2026

why are people only ever described as "no-nonsense", what if you're a nonsense person, what then

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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 04/07/2026

"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...

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Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learni...

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Why is Stephen Pollard writing an entire Telegraph article about Bluesky? We're a complete fucking irrelevance over here. It would be like publishing a searing thinkpiece about the dangers of Mothercare or some shit. My dude, nobody gives a shit about our riz-less website. Enjoy the Nazi app tho m8.

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just me attempting to get myself banned from a Facebook group 🤣

Picture of some stickers of Edinburgh/Scotland with me commenting “Sadly the art comes across as having a wee bit of an Al vibe - I know that as a photographer you'll be against the use of Al in art, and have drawn them all by hand or hired an illustrator, but the style of the coos in particular has a similarity to the sort of thing that Al comes up with, so that may be something to consider.”

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I’m just now realising at 55 that I was wrongly assuming all cathedrals are catholic… my brain went cathedrals=fancy=catholic

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Had an incredible meet-up yesterday with a friend I was really close to in primary school, but haven’t really kept up with since we left high school. We got on every bit as well as we did back then, and talked for 4.5 hours!

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I’m kind of shocked that this is happening! We were told at my school years ago that we shouldn’t photograph or film pupils on our own devices, for safeguarding and data protection reasons

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

TREES ARE GOOD but to the tune of Ebeneezer Goode

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Yeah as someone who had a hysterectomy I am actually an alien wearing human lady skin

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harpy 🦋🌙 @lunarharpy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Your AI poster is trash. Your AI logo is tacky. Your AI profile pic is pathetic I'm so sick of seeing slop fucking everywhere. Why is your work truck covered in AI images? Why is your menu showing me food that looks disgusting and doesn't exist? It's cheap and unprofessional looking.

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another morgan @mheslin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Creme Eggs *have* got smaller. You may say they are, and always have been the size of hen’s eggs, but this just proves hen’s eggs have also got smaller.

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Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The cones are spreading! #edinburgh

Elm row copper pigeons with tiny traffic cone hats

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