iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

Reading Whispers Under Ground. I’m quite glad I took so long to read the Peter Grant books, I think I would be faintly embarrassed at how much I enjoy them if I weren’t a late adopter, they really feel written for me specifically.

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Rogue @rogue.site · 9h

The newest Crusader Kings 3 expansion mines the lurid history of Christianity for drama www.rogue.site/editorials/c...

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The new Crusader Kings 3 expansion dives into the wild history of Christianity

Finally, a game that lets me make my spouse fuck the Pope.

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Tremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 10h

This is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 9h

According to him, this is not about preemptive strikes but deterrence: a potential aggressor must understand that hostilities will not remain confined to Swedish territory.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 14h

I have nothing against industrial estates in Bonnyrigg for the record, they're great places if you happen to want to start a light industrial concern. They're just not accessible compared to a city centre (it's a 30 minute walk from Eskbank station or 40 minute bus, every half hour, from Edinburgh)

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h

French President Emmanuel Macron on the UK rejoining the EU: “If the British want to take a first step in this direction, I think it is very good news both for their country and for Europeans.”

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13h

🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 14h

This is your semi-regular reminder that pensioner poverty: a) is real b) is significantly less prevalent than working-age poverty and half the rate of child poverty, and c) is such that a pensioner is statistically more likely to live in a household worth over £1 million than to live in poverty

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Harry Redknapp doesn't think Man City should be punished for fiddling the books. That's Harry Redknapp who opened a bank account in Monaco in the name of his dog to avoid tax.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 18h

Trump and US tech oligarchs signed an AI agreement that misspelled their own country’s name. Nobody outside the US has to call AI “super intelligence”—the document isn’t legally binding. Trump, whose name appears thousands of times in the Epstein files, called it “morally binding.”

The image shows Donald Trump's signature alongside a humorous typo that spells "Unites States" instead of "United States".

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Nick @finch4077.bsky.social · 18h

Good PMs = Good Teachers and Good Communicators.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18h

How is it possible? Because he told a personal, emotive story, sure. But also he told a moral story: using the funds to help establish a care service. It feels fair. And the decision to opt for a branded institutional structure with strong echoes of the NHS makes it tangible.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18h

This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 29/09/2026

But back to your original question, no. Make it a filter instead, but I think even then, it might matter more who they are working with for some. People will likely have different lines in the sand and they will shift over time. Filters give you more flexibility as the industry shakes itself out.

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As the academic year begins, I’m happy to report it’s been a very productive summer. Yesterday I finished a very intense round of edits for my next book, my most ambitious to date. I can’t wait to share it — out next June 💫

World war zero—how colonial wars made our world printed out

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It isn’t talked about enough how traumatizing even “minor” racist encounters can be for the targeted party I’m thirty-two years old and still tryna process shit from when I was like 15

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Nick @finch4077.bsky.social · 21h

Here here, and they can butt tf out of political discourse too

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You can get anything* you want at Alice's Restaurant. *Arrested for international terrorism and risking extradition.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 29/09/2026

This hat pisses off fascists. Get yourself one at the link below! shop.rnli.org?srsltid=AU7g...

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

John Atkinson Grimshaw (British, 1836–1893) "October Gold", 1889. Oil on Canvas, 59 × 44.5 cm Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨🚨IT’S OFFICIAL! 🚨🚨 WW1TV is returning with GWG at the helm. First episode drops next week, with self and Henry Spilberg but you can visit the link below to see what’s scheduled/subscribe! www.youtube.com/@WW1TVchannel Thank you @ww2tv.bsky.social!

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Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The only way guardrails will be put on AI is if the people in charge experience criminal consequences that are not just monetary. Start pressing charges with jail time and guardrails will be installed before the trial gets to jury selection by multiple companies.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now we need to see similar energy behind a commitment to get dirty money out of politics, clamp down on donations, greater transparency over lobbying, Lords reform and an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying. Only then will we have a politics people can truly trust

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County Road Bobblers @cbobblers1878.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A decade of Everton Football Club and their pursuit of the Cartel 6.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bonnie Blue, the Vengaboys, Ms Frizzle...your profit margins took a hell of a beating.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They should reveal that care workers have a 10% chance of wiping out humanity, and raise the investment that way.

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Nick @finch4077.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On this and so much more. Liz Truss has a lasting impact

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A general appeal. If you are an author of any book or books available from Irish publishers (via Gill Distribution, Áis, Poolbeg etc) we'd love to (a) sell your books (b) publish your thoughts on your books, publishing, writing - anything - on our shop blog. (1/2)

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Hideinplainsight @profusional.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Woof wish I could watch this live instead of working

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."

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Christian Wolmar @christianwolmar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well done Sadiq ..took you 11 years after I suggested it at the first mayoral hustings in Chelsea

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Labour Movement for Europe @labour4europe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Ever since we voted to leave, the debate has been: What do we want from the European Union? And the answer has tended to be significantly more than they’re willing to give us” said @anandmenon.bsky.social , Director of @ukandeu.bsky.social at our Conference Rally on Sunday

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Nick @finch4077.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Time to start charging execs with Cyber Crime that is the only way this shit stops.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The lurch to the far right by the Torys has been fed by roubles for sometime. Again, surprising how little examination goes into where funding for UK parties comes from these days!* [Until the UK media decided to take down Farage recently - when it suddenly became a thing!]:

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FinCEN Files: Tory donor Lubov Chernukhin linked to $8m Putin ally funding

Leaked files show Lubov Chernukhin's husband was secretly funded by a Russian oligarch.

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Matej Rafael Risko @matejrisko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not only that, capacity – these have their own problems (they must be command-guided from the ground, and de-confliction is very difficult), but it is simply an available, cheap solution and, in some operational areas (South), more usable (and waaay cheaper) than the rotary wing.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's never "AI agent breaks containment, cures cancer, does a bit of tidying up and puts the kettle on", is it?

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The Conversation with Nadine Matheson @theconversation.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You’re always learning something new as a writer. It doesn’t matter how many books you’ve written. My full conversation with Abir Mukherjee is available now. We talk about his journey from finance to crime fiction and what he learned whilst writing his award-winning book Hunted. Links in Bio

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

how do we get the anger people felt when the sycamore gap tree was cut to translate into anger towards, I dunno, everything else?

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The fact that OAN is reporting this … (a) damn!, and also (b) this sort of thing is very good for democracy because it prepares the most partisan Republicans to understand and (maybe) accept election results that go against them

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

also I think that with systems like that, rather than coming up with bespoke defensive solutions, the key is to lean on existing shorads, which tend to be cheap and already geared toward threats of that speed/altitude profile tons and tons of stingers floating around, for instance

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“With all these resources — human resources, natural resources and underground resources — they could have a very prosperous country. “So our question is: why does America have 39 million people below the poverty line? “Why are millions of people homeless?”

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Bet" - The United Federation of Planets (2161-)

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Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘We want you to give us $1 trn to make something that could kill us all’ is one of the silliest pitches ever. Best case: frame it as ‘someone is going to make this stuff and you want it to be us not the other guys’. Then it goes from investment pitch to blackmail. Either way: shut them down

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

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