iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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doc @docseuss.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Society parried the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K back to back and instead of going "wow, parrying is badass" a lot of people went "society didn't even get hit so I guess there's no need to learn how to parry" and instantly took a thousand hits

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My horrible violent novella got accepted to #SFINCS4!!!! Honestly stoked I made it this far, I was pretty late to submit something so I'm just happy to be on the list. I hope I meet some cool writers during judging.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For any confused Americans, dogging is a traditional British term for walking the dog, if you're ever over here and see someone with their pet make sure to tell them how much you love dogging. That nothing makes you happier than seeing that wagging tail and panting mouth out on the heath.

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Interestingly, I've noticed AI fans approach almost every interaction like this. They're hilariously thin-skinned, seething at the indication that you're not going to fawn over them. Makes them easy to spot early, at least.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Have you talked about your book yet today?! Drop and give us Title: Nil's Shroud Genre: cyberpunk/splatterpunk Word count: I can't remember, like 29k-ish Funniest moment: The number three adaptor (you'll get it if ya read it) 🔗: fixeroptional.itch.io/nils-shroud

The cover of my novella, Nil's Shroud. A glitchy, harsh, black and white picture of a wrench smeared with an unidentified dark fluid. Teeth and wires are also scattered.

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Keep forgetting this shit cuz we hate marketing, but I (Abi, half of FxOx) wrote some sickass cyberpunk novellas you might like. FFO: Gibson et al, Palahniuk, outlaw comics

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 25/09/2026

“Story after story has emerged where senior civil servants or politicians, who are meant to hold Palantir to account, have instead held alarmingly cozy relationships with the company.” www.wired.com/story/the-uk-governme…

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tired: imperial boomerang Wired: imperial predator drone

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reason 2 why we use a creaky old unmonetised platform instead (reason 1 is "fuck you that's why", reason 3 is we don't think you should pay to hear our shower thoughts)

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

no, see, that's in fact extremely NOT what you are, that's just a cute poetic metaphor. this is an extreme diminishment of what a human is (also dualism again, "you" aren't only inside your skull but also the skull and all the other body parts)

Plus like, I don’t know, sometimes I see people say actually the models don’t do anything because it’s everything they’re trained on, and sure, but also I’m the sum of my own experiences and observations and stuff too, not just the stuff inside my skull.

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Skill issue. Right wingers have been attempting to make art, many of their films have been very heavily publicised, as have a few of their books. The only tyranny at play is that of public taste. No one wants shitty art, sorry.

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We keep yelling about this. More people are noticing

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can no longer see the post this was in reply to (lol) but this is something for everyone to keep in mind when you encounter "smart guys" making outlandish claims. What's the angle? What incentive do these people have to be honest? Are you being a sucker right now?

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Cognitohazards” are the funniest idea. Tech people are so disdainful and ignorant of anything creative that they thought of the idea of a scary story and went “fuck! What if this destroys the world!!!l”

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The system that created Epstein, protected him, and let him thrive for decades, still exists. His market of powerful monsters still exists, and they're still being protected. There is definitely, right now, someone serving the same role he did, being protected the same way by the same people.

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"I made myself insane on purpose because I can't let my child grow up" is a wild thing to get paid to write.

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deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The bots shoot anything that don't have a uniform.

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Andrew Blair @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026

The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Two chapters away from having typeset our first full length release. After that, just a bit more admin bullshit to go and we're ready to launch. All that off the sweat of our own brows (and the artist we paid to do the cover — it's a special occasion after all). Every day is a good day to DIY.

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Gutted normie media creeps came up with "deathslop" before me

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Publishers: “Short stories don’t sell and are impossible to market so we are not going to take the risk of publishing them.” Also publishers: “What can we publish to fit this era of reduced attention spans when people are reading fewer novels?”

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In case you missed it, this is exactly the type of swivel-eyed jackboot polishing freak shit we were talking about. Can't even get a trim without the government throwing a paddy fixeroptional.co.uk/2026/09/01/y...

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You are losing your freedoms right now.

Britain is a hellhole. Your ‘feed’ is being manipulated. You are losing freedoms on how you want to live and what kind of person it is legally acceptable to be. Everyone hates each othe…

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In case you missed this last week, you may be disheartened to learn that the situation hasn't changed and the UK is still an authoritarian shithole. Here's how your algo is helping drive that: fixeroptional.co.uk/2026/09/01/y...

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You are losing your freedoms right now.

Britain is a hellhole. Your ‘feed’ is being manipulated. You are losing freedoms on how you want to live and what kind of person it is legally acceptable to be. Everyone hates each othe…

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The pints pints pints larp politicians in this country do is especially stupid to me. Not only is it so obviously fake, as a former bartender and recovering alcoholic, I've seen how people who live this gimmick really are, and I don't want them anywhere near power.

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Obviously this should go without saying, but if you buy any eBooks off us, they're your files. We're not going to swipe them back off you because we're not brainrotted money-grubbing halfwits.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

On one side: a thick stack of all the endless paperwork necessary for a disabled person to fill out over a year to get housing, food, meds, etc On the other side: a few pages of paperwork necessary for MAiD. As long as no one works to reduce the former to zero, the latter will *always* be eugenics

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Blair's got him a job lined up, bet you

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

As ever, if these people genuinely believe AI to be conscious and still hold it in the role of an unpaid servant, I think we've got a word for that.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

Living in a fascist surveillance state means that ultimately everyone falls into one of two categories: police or criminals.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

Steal all the world’s information; compel people to turn their thinking over to our subscription service; raise a bunch of kids we imagine as genetically superior with traditional proven parenting methods; concretize our eugenic vision of the world through this critical inequality

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's not the ~worst~ thing tech bros have done, but I hate how they have absolutely killed any enthusiasm I've ever had for robots I should ~love~ little metal guys and instead I now roll my eyes and go "ugh" every time I see one because I know it'll be bringing some new terrible bullshit

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Fixed my lighter flint with my phone key. The street finds a use for things.

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Wondering what Gordon Ramsay's body of work would have looked like if he'd gotten into kung fu movies instead of James Bond

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Reading Orwell should really be a prerequisite for making Orwell references.

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Thinking about the confessional scene from that one episode of Kitchen Nightmares UK

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Looking forward to the next decade or so of "neurology critical" becoming a thing.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You will notice that the organically arising resistance to austerity was ruthlessly destroyed; the existing power structure was rescued; the public realm has been visibly crumbling and increasingly non-functional and yet the relentless hateful screaming has hugely intensified, rather than relenting.

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 17/08/2026

Going to do a Beatles Cinematic Event Marathon where I attempt to get thrown out of all 4 in a single day for different reasons.

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

At the "seriously considering learning Japanese for this" stage of enjoying haiku

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