iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 4h

And digitally coloured. And that’s that. #Shiptember done and dusted. Bit of a cheat from me because all these were drawn ages ago - still not able to draw because of tendonitis. Which is REALLY becoming a fucking chore.

A pen drawing of a spaceship. Digitally coloured in yellow, ivory, and red.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 9h

Shiptember No. 30. ‘By Your Imagination, To The Stars My Friend'. #shiptember #Drawing #Scifi #Spaceship

A pen drawing of a spaceship. A long hull with a big engine at the back. Underneath, strange protruding bits and pieces. To one side, three figures stand silhouetted.

The captions reads: By Your Imagination, To The Stars My Friend.

#Spaceships #Shiptember #Drawing #Art #SciFi #Thisnorthernboy

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 15h

The role will close to applications on the 21st of October. To apply, please read the full job posting and follow the link to the application form from there; there's significantly more detail, especially on what we can offer as an employer.

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Writer and Narrative Designer (Senior/Mid-Level)

We’re looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join our small in-house team at either a senior or mid level, working specifically on Fallen London.

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 15h

Because Fallen London is primarily a narrative game and more oriented towards prose than dialogue, we find it benefits from conventional writing skills, of the kind that would be helpful for writing a novel or short story.

Our writing is also denser in choice and consequence than is usual in video games. We use an approach we call quality-based narrative. Qualities, in our parlance, might represent any of the following (and other things besides):

A character’s capabilities which we can test when the player attempts challenges – for example, how persuasive they are, or their skill with Shapeling Arts.
Complications and menaces. These might track how scandalised polite society is by a character’s behaviour, or mounting peril on an underground ocean.
Currencies and resources. These might be physical, like souls in bottles, or abstract, like terrible secrets.
Aspects of world state that reflect the progress of their current activities, like a complex theft or archaeological expedition.

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 15h

We’re based in the United Kingdom, but as long as you can be available during our core hours of 11:00 to 16:00 UK time, you don’t have to be.

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 15h

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Saying isn't doing. But Burnham lifted the omertà on: Electoral reform Wide-scale nationalisation Triple lock pension Brexit So now they're all in play. And that's all positive

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Why485 @why485.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've never seen this version of "CPU is too fast to play this old game" before. If your CPU runs at faster than ~4.29 GHz, something in Independence War 2 integer overflows and it thinks your CPU is actually super slow. This really sucks 😭

So what’s actually happening? the game tracks time using CPU cycles, and somewhere along the way, it casts the frequency into a uint32_t. When the frequency is too high, that value overflows, and the game ends up thinking the CPU is way slower than it actually is. That messes up the internal timing. As a result, the engine compresses too many physical and gameplay events into each tick. And because the CPU is still running fast, everything in-game goes into hyperspeed.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It only feels “radically progressive” because we’ve spent 40 years normalising radically regressive ideas. This was broadly how Britain worked from 1945–79, when average GDP growth was 2.6% a year — compared with 1.9% in the post-Thatcher years. It works www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Burnham gambles on radical progressive plan to help Britain ‘rise again’

PM accepts some of his plan could be difficult and admits he ‘may pay a political price’

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21h

our pets, and russia is burning us one by one. I would love to have a life without all this. Without fear, without war.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21h

on fire right now after a russian strike, and I don't know if the people inside escaped the strike and fire, or if they, too, are trapped in there. And how we are all essentially just trapped by this war, together with our lives, our homes, our towns,

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21h

How much I would love to have a normal night's sleep again, instead of staring at the ceiling and thinking about how russia struck a school today during the day, and an animal shelter at night, where poor dogs and cats had no chance of escaping their cages. How a private house in Kyiv is

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have said before and will again: any electoral reform commission must NOT rule out a change of system BEFORE the next election if needed. We cannot risk a minority vote handing a huge majority to any party that would take a shredder to democracy itself.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Survival crafter where you're a Mermaid, and you start by nailing the Ecco movement physics, but ONLY THE COOL MOVEMENT not the jesuschrist difficulty, and let me zoom around and build a cutety patooty house under da sea Please Someone make this I want to put hats on my tiny fish friends 😭

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Brilliant from the Govt. but will not be achieved without acknowledging that the Home Office is directly responsible for pushing people into homelessness. NRPF, high visa fees, bureaucracy in applications, lack of access to legal aid etc. all contribute already. The changes will make this worse.

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bedford Avenue, London WC1B Cast concrete building with large glass frontage at dusk #reference #materialreference #buildingreference #lightingreference

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rathbone Square, London W1T Glazed tile arched tunnel foot path #reference #materialreference #buildingreference #lightingreference

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How is it free? Because the absence of tax and overheads allows a vast investor bubble, which will burst and cause a financial crisis like 2008, when we haven't even recovered from that yet. You think the far right came from nowhere? No, it came from a financial crisis. Which we are still in.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The big risk isn't AI nuking us. The big risk? In the 80s 1-in-10 were employed for 18 months and we had riots What happens when 1-in-4 are unemployed forever? What policing could possibly contain that?

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just tax the compute. Datacentre? Cool. Fund your own power generation and water reservoirs, and then pay tax for every computational act your datacentre does. And we'll use the tax income to offset societal and job damage. Overnight, AI becomes something AI giants are desperate to restrict.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And as a reminder - vaccine innovations can & have ended the threat of many diseases over the last century (at least technically, barring the hopefully temporary outbreaks caused by anti-vaccine paranoia).

Chart from Our World In Data showing the many vaccine innovations since 1880, in some cases technically eliminating diseases entirely, like polio and typhoid.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bedford Avenue, London WC1B Cast concrete building with large glass frontage at dusk #reference #materialreference #buildingreference #lightingreference

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rathbone Square, London W1T Glazed tile arched tunnel foot path with recessed lighting #reference #materialreference #buildingreference #lightingreference

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 28/09/2026

Monoculture is dead. There's no such thing as being in touch with the zeitgeist anymore, it simply doesn't exist

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rathbone Square, London W1T Glazed tile arched tunnel foot path with recessed lighting #reference #materialreference #buildingreference #lightingreference

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And again with a splash of digital colour… #Shiptember

A pen drawing of a spaceship coloured digitally in blue and orange.

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

let's go tiny cats!! i love you so much!

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Sen @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026

Part 2 - "Darkstar" dresdencodak.com/2026/09/27/d...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.

Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%

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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From computing history, blaming “rogue” AI’s is B.S. Robert Morris Jr unleashed a worm program that caused more trouble than intended, but far less dangerous than current AI’s. *He* (not worm) was convicted of felony. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_... I used to see him at Bell Labs w/ his father.

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Morris worm - Wikipedia

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

2/ Politicians have been too keen to pit nature against development in recent years, says Luke Tryl. It was a mistake for the former Chancellor to lean so heavily into the anti-newts rhetoric. The public just reject this binary - they don’t think environmental regulations are inhibiting development.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

82% of Britons say protecting nature is important to them, new polling by @moreincommonuk.bsky.social shows “You don’t often get that degree of consensus” on any issue, says @luketryl.bsky.social - speaking at an event at Labour Party Conference with the heads of the big nature NGOs

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GrahamTG @grahamtg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Still down the GiTS rabbit hole, watching the series on Amazon( recommended) and re-reading the book. "Thermoptics" rendered in #Lightwave3d and kludged in Photoshop. Does it work ? Not really but it was seriously fun to do and that's all that really matters these days 😊 #Scifi #ScifiArt

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Phillip M Jackson @jollyjack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Panic-merchants are claiming indie games are "cooked" because they saw footage of an AI-generated Mario Kart knock-off. It's a knock-off. Just like all the AI generated images, music and text before it.

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Raph @raphdee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I thought maybe I was just getting too woke or something, but no. I had a proper feeling. Misogyny is on the rise and this is according to the UN. Straight up one of the reasons I had to stop streaming for a bit. It's so fuckkng stupid. news.un.org/en/story/202...

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Women’s rights are regressing worldwide, warns UN gender equality chief

As an increase in conflicts leads to a significant spike in gender-based violence, women across the world face a “justice gap” with discriminatory laws reported in most countries, according to a repor...

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ai companies want you deskilled to be dependent on their tools and paying the subscription for everything so good luck I guess.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Second, Russian diesel has been under sanctions for almost five years and is not sold in the U.S. The recent price spike is driven by the war in Iran. Finally, Zelenskyy never agreed to stop strikes, nor can such an agreement happen without symmetrical de-escalation from Russia, whether

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trump: "I spoke to Zelenskyy, I said, 'You got to take it easy on the refineries as much as you can.' Because we're causing a world problem." First of all, the right thing to do is demanding that Russia end its invasion, rather than asking Ukraine to stop defending itself.

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Ailantd Sikowsky @ailantd.com · 27/09/2026

Sporty flying car?

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Raph @raphdee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Treating this bs with more respect than half of the world's population

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Rob Williams @robwilliams71.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Somehow, all the bloody Skywalkers returned.

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Raph @raphdee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"It knows what you want and where you want to shop." The ads targeted at me which place me in a consumer category do the same. Basically you're saying this "revolutionary tech" is really good at being an ad? Woah. Totally worth destroying our world.

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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I had the utmost pleasure of painting the cover illustration of @marianavcoelho.bsky.social 's debut novel 'Truthteller' for Transworld/Penguin Random House UK! ⚖️ Out March 2027!

Cover illustration by Eleonor Piteira for the book 'Truthteller' by Mariana V. Coelho, featuring a woman with a golden headpiece that covers her eyes and fans out behind her head like rays. She is wearing a red and elaborate outfit with multiple layers and gold embroidery with gemstones. She is holding a scale in each of her hands, while the scales' chains wrap around her hands and forearms and go up towards the sky. Some of the chains are breaking, one of the scales is tipping down and gold liquid is running down.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Choose a side, I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️

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