iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Weapon of Geography — A Marxist Geography workshop for graduate students, organizers, adjuncts, and independent and junior scholars, Feb. 6-7, 2027, New York City — Call for Participants, deadline Nov. 15, 2026 marxgeog.commons.gc.cuny.edu

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Steve Bowler @gameism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Neal Stephenson: In my book I invented the Diamond Age as a cautionary tale. Also Neal Stephenson: At long last, we have created the Diamond Age from my classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Diamond Age.

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The only way Nigel Lawson could've been more narcissistic is if he'd called her NigelB.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A gut-punch of a statistic, reflective of what's happening throughout the entire natural world. But using the word "stocks" to describe a wild population of one of Earth's most breathtaking, magical species indicates precisely why we've reached such a predicament. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

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Ireland’s wild Atlantic salmon stocks down 80% since 1970s

Public consultation launched amid fears ‘iconic species’ could be lost entirely from Irish rivers

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 23/09/2026

Poorly disguising masks have fully fallen and fascists are no longer pretending to be anything else and yet our public discourse is still filled with hedging takes around "anti-immigration activists", "legitimate concerns" and "populism"

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Footballer Paul Gascoigne has arrived at the scene saying he is a friend of Ed Sheeran.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026

It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media

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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚲 NEWS: More bikes than cars on Leith Walk in morning rush hour; record cycle counts and record cycling modal share on multiple routes in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Delve into the latest data from Cycling Scotland traffic surveys and cycle counter analysis: buff.ly/IoWdSMB

People smile and chat to one another as they cycle together on a protected cycle lane in Edinburgh.

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is a juicy bit of research on an aspect of the afterlife of Hardt and Negri's Empire that I'd often wondered about. Very glad that there are people looking into this stuff.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/08/2026

Yes, I support putting a "kick me" sign on my own back. It's called having high-minded principles and I wouldn't expect someone who looks down their noses at every wallet inspector they encounter to understand.

Yes, I support academic freedom for racism, eugenics, Maoism, a belief in violence for its own sake, Murder Jason Lee Byas Thought, support for ISIS, support for total human extinction, and whatever else you have in mind.

"Academic freedom but just for good people" is not a practicable principle.

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coward @coward.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

pain is health leaving the body

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Democrats have consistently failed to campaign well and have made disappointing, even devastating, choices that injured them politically. They cannot credibly blame their own political failures on unrealized demands from the left."

organizingmythoughts.org

Woke What? Let's Be Fucking Serious

Our politics are not the politics that have detached this country from reality, or normalized increasingly inhuman policies.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

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zeet (irrigation engineer) @zeet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This is an amazing descriptor

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans

Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I've written about Neets for the LRB. It is odd listening to recent debates about this completely ignore the overwhelming fact of this current crisis, that it is one of inactivity, disability, mental ill-health and neurodevelopmental disorders (as I discuss) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

lrb.co.uk

William Davies · Young People Are Different: What do Neets need?

The majority of Neets are not looking for work, but living outside of the labour market and the education system,...

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"I can't be depressed. I'm enjoying my hobbies." I say as I export the project I've worked on every evening for the past month; a 40 second wav file that is unlistenable.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is from the editor of the "Economist," and with all due respect, I do not think this is a surprising conflict at all. It's just typical fascist reactionary modernism, going back to Marinetti and the Italian Futurists.

"But then the last part got a lot of attention. I think an important side of Elon is his political side — his role in the Trump administration but also his interventions into European politics.

I was, and am, genuinely baffled by the gap between the extraordinarily expansive view of humanity that he shows when he’s talking about the future, and interstellar travel, and being a multiplanetary civilization, and all that stuff and then the kind of tribalism cesspit of social media that he’s in. He says that the most important thing with AI is to ensure that it is truth seeking and curious. Then you look at the stuff that he propagates on X and it’s not truth seeking, a lot of it. It’s caricature. It’s dystopia."

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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

[listening to of montreal this morning] theres too much discourse about male loneliness and not enough discourse about male hysteria

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"Oh but it's only symbolic" and what does it symbolise? Symbols matter, otherwise monarchists wouldn't cling to them so tightly.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Environmental campaigners have rallied outside of Downing Street ahead of Andy Burnham's first speech as Prime Minister He is expected to speak about the North Sea and has been urged not to approve new drilling licenses

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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Sharon Graham is a climate criminal, Sharon Graham is up for re-election this week, if you are a Unite member kick her out!

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Save the philosophy department at Dundee university: c.org/bn4gxkkzM6

c.org

Sign the Petition

Save the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 04/07/2026

Leith Central is said to be the largest rail station built in the UK in the 20th c. [citation needed]. It was the last gasp of largesse resulting from the competition between rival Glasgow and Edinburgh-based companies. A colossal white elephant, it shut before its 50th birthday 🐘🚂

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Working at an American institution I will add Zs to words where an S would suffice but I will not suffer the indigity of calling them "zees".

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 16/06/2026

If you want to understand what the US is doing to Cuba right now as a result of the complete energy blockade since the beginning of the year. apnews.com/article/cuba...

The survival rate for children with cancer has fallen to 65% from 85% before the energy restrictions began in January, according to the report released by Cubadebate. It also said 100,000 children younger than 7 are no longer receiving the daily liter of milk previously provided by the state and that the country’s 16-vaccine immunization program for infants is “at risk.”

Additionally, it said, another 100,000 Cubans are on waiting lists for surgery and the treatment schedules of nearly 3,000 patients requiring kidney dialysis have been disrupted. Regarding medication, 300 of the 395 essential medicines produced on the island are unavailable due to a lack of chemical components required to manufacture medications.

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

But not Bluesky 'cos nobody under 30 uses this app.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

we’re so desperate for good news we've accepted the scaffolding as our wire mother

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ross🌊 @snakeloch.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

image that only gets funnier as time passes

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Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team · 30/05/2026

in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Next do The Street in Kirkwall.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

politico.eu

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

lots to be mad at in the world but google sheets just updated their icon, in line with increasing pathetic evil levels

The virgin new sheets icon
-are you *blushing*?
-what is lurking behind you?
that's ai isn't it
-minty. evokes gritty mouthfeel & inauthenticity
-horizontal rectangle sez "I fell over"
-lower right: weak, finished

The chad old sheets icon:
-solid color, solid character
-upper left: where our culture begins its work
-upright square of competence
-not trying to distract you

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Reading on the train but shaking my head the whole time etc.

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Nolan could do a biopic of Elon Musk in which actors are all gay or one of the races he despises

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I know nothing about the politics of renewables workers in Orkney and I'd love to see some work on it.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

He was accused of not being racist so they suspended him.

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Conservatives won 31 seats in 2021. Now Tories and Reform combined have 29. Focus on Reform breakthrough in Scotland obscures reality that the right in the Scottish Parliament just lost a few members and changed colours slightly.

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Malcolm Offord was clearly half cut at his own count and all the BBC commentators, even during their own interview with him, pretended they hadn't noticed.

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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Still a couple bits of data for DEP to compare, but can I just say how immensely proud I am of myself today. Look at this: I, a little nerd, doing this myself, for love of the game, did better than all the fancy MRPs at predicting the election. I'm actually having a small cry about that right now.

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 08/05/2026

Edinburgh and Lothians East Region: List MSP Allocation #1: Kate Nevens (Green) #2: Angela Ross (Reform UK) #3: Irshad Ahmad (Labour) #4: Miles Briggs (Conservative) #5: Q Manivannan (Green) #6: Katherine Sangster (Labour) #7: Kayleigh Kinross-O'Neill (Green)

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 08/05/2026

I believe the Real Greens have just been IGV'd out of a second seat in Mid Scotland and Fife. Huge questions for Electoral Commission to answer after two elections of this.

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Malcolm Offord, Inverclyde declined.

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Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

What a joke. The BBC don't even have a space on their Scottish Parliament election live updates page for the Greens.

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 07/05/2026

🚨🕖 | Polls close tonight at 10pm. If you have not yet voted you have 1 hour left.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

IT. IS. HAPPENING. China's State Counsel has announced that provinces will be graded on their efforts to peak emissions before 2030. "Authorities ranked as making unsatisfactory progress ... could be subject to disciplinary processes if issues aren’t rectified." 💥 🧵

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CLIMATEWIRE | China will begin a major campaign aimed at accelerating climate action by local authorities, warning regional officials that they will be held accountable for failing to make progress toward President Xi Jinping's green targets.
Starting this year, provinces will be graded on efforts to ensure China's carbon dioxide emissions peak before 2030, and on objectives to lift clean energy consumption and to limit the use of coal and oil, according to an official document published Thursday by the Xinhua News Agency.

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