iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the speed at which human beings move from "this terrible thing exists" to "everyone just has to learn to live with it" is truly alarming and illuminating. Immediately moving to compliance. Watching this in real time is incredible.

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Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The guy fixing (or attempting to fix) the pipe in the basement keeps yelling "Ah, motherfucker!" and "God fucking damnit!" either at the pipe or at himself. I like listening to him while I'm working. It's like ASMR.

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This has got to be ragebait, surely. It had never occurred to me that someone might not butter both slices, much in the same way it has never occurred to me that I could walk around with only one shoe on.

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you think "but how am I supposed to do this without a car?" you should ask yourself "how do people in similar circumstances but without access to a car do this & what does it mean for them if the answer is that they can't?" Because for someone else that's not a hypothetical question.

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve probably exhausted everyone’s generosity now but anyway, thank you so much. www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

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My Walk 100 Miles in October Challenge

Help Jane Hill raise money to support Ovarian Cancer Action

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Folkyhel @folkyhel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mainly remember it for being terrified of copper sulphate crystals - I think children were dying after accidentally ingesting them from chemistry sets bought for them for Christmas, or something. We never had a chemistry set but it's good to be aware.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Being like "I just use stuff I've got kicking about & my regular clothes as Halloween costumes" then realising maybe most people don't have a horned helmet & a cat face & ears balaclava kicking about & regular clothes so costume adjacent that they dressed up as Orpheus & Paddington Bear by accident.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Face covering bans are incredibly discriminatory for lots of reasons. I get that a lot of people have a gut response to "masked far right thugs!" but many anti-fascists also cover their faces to protect their identities & all sorts of people wear them for health &/or religious or cultural reasons.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I still love Halloween so do I no longer covet the Halloween tat in the Halloween tat aisles because the general standard of the Halloween tat offering has got shittier or is this what is called Personal Growth?

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Folkyhel @folkyhel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My big bugbear in lockdown was that the public toilets were closed. You want me to keep doing capitalism but you won't accommodate my IBS? Jog on.

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Benches are important mobility aids - they allow people to take frequent rests, enabling them to walk greater distances, by breaking them down into stages

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"It's too late to fix it now so why bother" & "government & industry don't want it so forget about it" are doomerism. "We have to try our best but we know it won't be quick or easy" & "this would be a fuck of a lot less difficult if we didn't have to fight supposed allies over it as well" are not.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Jamie Oliver decked a bairn who asked for chips" is ICONIC

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Point of order before anyone says it: This is not doomerism; this is a desperate plea against the heel-dragging soft doomerism I see even among progressives and radicals. A lot of real bad stuff is baked in but there are things we can do to make those things more survivable & not make it worse.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're so totally fucked & we're not even doing what little we could do about it now because the super rich are completely unaccountable & don't give a single fuck & even everyone else is like "I know we're so totally fucked but that doesn't make it ok for me to be mildly inconvenienced about it." 😭

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Despite AI, there is still art to make and there is still art out there - new and old - that can light up your brain like a million watt bulb and change you forever

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 01/10/2026

AND we don't believe what happened to them. We paint other stories in our collective minds and conversations so WE don't have to reckon with what has actually happened. But when survivors do it in order to literally survive, we OF COURSE use it against them.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 01/10/2026

Then we act like it's suspicious that they didn't want to believe what happened to them, that they painted another story in their own minds so they don't have to face that disbelief, that scrutiny, that intense shame. Those are HUGE hurdles to accepting the harm someone has done to you.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 01/10/2026

We live in a society that punishes people who are assaulted. We question them, we shame them, we disbelieve them. Many survivors instinctively do that societal work for us. Survivors question themselves, they shame themselves, they don't believe their own version of events. We've trained them!

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Your city might not be as far gone as Birmingham, but no matter where you live, you're likely to find familiar many of the aspects of @sarahchaundler.bsky.social's brilliant and now publicly available short film "City of Cars." Stop what you're doing and watch this.

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City of Cars: shorter version

Please be aware that this film contains scenes which show the impact of road traffic collisions, which some people may find upsetting.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also: a lot of otherwise good, safe, responsible drivers drive to hospital when they really shouldn't be on the road. I've heard several say things like "I don't even remember the drive to the hospital" - & by no means just in emergencies. But if it's the default, they don't think, they just do it.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dependable comprehensive hospital transport (i.e. including for people for whom active or public transport is not a suitable option, either temporarily or permanently) would benefit everyone. Even if you drive, what happens if you're too sick & there's no one to drive you, if your car craps out, &c?

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Here lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people.

Joyce Carol Oates says: “This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to
different consumers.“

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Folkyhel @folkyhel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That thing where you realise you should probably whip the fan heater out 'cos the landlord hasn't put the heating on yet and your washing smells mouldy 'cos it isn't dry. Then you remember the rules of the tenancy agreement have been retrospectively changed since you moved in to ban fan heaters...

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is absolutely tragic. & the people who yell loudest about banning "ebikes" will be the ones who most roundly reject the notion that the vehicle & the culture surrounding it played any role. Deaths like these are avoidable but only if adults act like grownups in addressing cars & road danger.

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Teens who died when car entered River Wear named

Jackson Duke, Luke Etheridge and Zara Shaw died when the car they were in ended up in the River Wear.

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Folkyhel @folkyhel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Heard a ghost sobbing. Didn't know it was a ghost until after when my mum said to my sister "who was that crying offstage during your theatre show?" Sister said "oh that's the theatre ghost. She died around the place you were sitting. She also plays the piano sometimes when we're rehearsing late".

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When I see videos scrolling by of people who are amazing singers, artists, musicians, I could weep. The thought that AI billionaires hoovered up all human creations & now can replace them = bleak. Humanity isn't always humane, we do so much bad on the world, now what beauty we have made, is erased.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Yes, I fell for the "Got your nose" trick, but that shouldn't distract us from the real issue of nose theft in our society

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Someone who knows their stuff told me there's a big swirling mass of nurdles out to sea just south of the mouth of the Tyne. For context, 'our' nurdle spill of 17 tonnes is a tiny part of the estimated 1000 tonnes of nurdles spilt in global seas and oceans annually.

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Of the approx 17 tonnes or nurdles spilt, 5.14 tonnes have been recovered (by professional teams and volunteers). Scientific modelling "indicates that many of the nurdles released into the environment are likely to have dispersed beyond the Tyne estuary out into the North Sea".

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Scientific advice to inform next phase of nurdle recovery operation | North Tyneside Council

Partners who have been working to clean up plastic nurdles lost from the cargo ship BG Orange following a collision in the Port of Tyne are reviewing the latest scientific and technical advice to help...

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Info about the nurdles, how to clean them up, etc. here: nurdle-hub.vercel.app (on the community-created and -maintained info page)

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you’re remotely local and have an hour to spare today, please do try to head down and clear up some nurdles - there are equipment boxes on most beaches.

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The nurdles on our Tyneside coast are back with a vengeance today, both depressing in and of itself but also a clear indication of what will happen periodically over the coming months and years and tides and winds bring some of the many millions of plastic pellets still swirling around in our seas.

Thousands of white nurdles (plastic pellets) strewn across Whitley Bay beach, amidst seaweed and sand.

Thousands of white nurdles (plastic pellets) strewn across North Shields Fish Quay beach, amidst seaweed and sand.

Thousands of white nurdles (plastic pellets) strewn across a beach, amidst seaweed and sand.

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Spooky Scaryshire @chrissyd-comedy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: We had a SERIOUS TALK™️ about how the Lambada was banned at our upcoming infant school roller disco.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Let’s not forget that the precautions we associate with Covid (clean air, PPE like masks) were *lessons* more of us learned in the earlier stages of the pandemic. Lessons that, applied, can protect from many other viral illnesses and create greater access for immunocompromised people.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When this study came out, that 95% of college-age men surveyed admitted to using coercive tactics with women they *knew did not want to sleep with them,* women who had *already refused*, their response was to nitpick the methodology. Fuckers, 5% would be horrifying.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Where were all the men? I can tell you where they all were *after* these atrocities were exposed: Nitpicking the membership numbers.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How many men knew about these groups and said nothing? Where are all you supposed male protectors? Silent, because men aren’t protectors. They’re just territorial.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ALL men benefit from male violence, because it allows you to think you’re a good person because you haven’t assaulted a woman. That does not make you a good person, but you have collectively put that bar in hell.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” 32,000 men in an Italian Facebook group devoted to drugging your wife and taking nonconsensual explicit photos of her and sharing them. It didn’t get shut down until a woman discovered and exposed it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Anger in Italy over non-consensual photos of women shared online

The My Wife Facebook group had 32,000 members before it was shut down for violating adult sexual exploitation policies.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” Thousands of men in group chats about how to drug women and rape them (#eyecheck, #sleep, and #zzz trends), and a woman had to expose them. So out of all the men who came across this, none of them cared enough to try to expose it. wearethemeteor.com/the-women-wh...

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The Women Who Exposed the "Rape Academy"

The Meteor spoke with Saskya Vandoorne, Niamh Kennedy, and Kara Fox, about how their extraordinary investigation came together.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, truly I have never seen a place with "mask totalitarianism" or anywhere close and it really maps closely with "they're transing everyone" and other fever dreams used to excuse bigotry.

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it's always positioned as "no masks ever" vs. "mask totalitarianism!!! oh no!!!" (mostly by the people who feverishly want "no masks ever") but abled people can do a lot for themselves and disabled people, too, with just a little bit of *thoughtful, situational* effort

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fuck ableism.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sigh. I manage, and there's some decent folks and spaces out there, but it sucks and it absolutely didn't have to be this way.

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