iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19h

Paddington is polite, kind and full of integrity and loved by just about everyone he meets. Maybe she doesn't have a clue...

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12h

Trump: "Today is Vladimir Putin's birthday. I'm sure you're going to celebrate it. Are you going to celebrate his birthday? I have a call set up." What the hell is wrong with you?! Celebrate? You sure? The birthday of a butcher responsible for murdering 25 people in Ukraine today?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19h

From the new Private Eye

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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 22h

Ministry of Truth

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 22h

A very happy 50th birthday to our patron Tim Minchin. Thank you for the music, the laughter, and these really lovely words on living, happiness, and finding meaning in the here and now. Happy Birthday, Tim!

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 22h

“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏

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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights

Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22h

Liz Truss? Liz fucking Truss!?

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why are the Tories talking about inheritance tax? The economy is riddled with real problems that need attention, but the Tories are talking about their goal of widening the wealth divide. Why? youtu.be/R27sj9UZj3w?...

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Why are the Tories talking about inheritance tax?

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What will I get for 74th birthday today? Tea & sushi🫖🍣 Vodka & pistol🥃🔫 Ticket to Hague🎫🛫 Does of plague🦠🧪

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

People are apes. We need touch. Love. Warmth. Communication. A dog. A cat. A budgie. Not a talking hairdryer.

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 05/10/2026

'It is rooted in absurd defence of Adolf Hitler!' @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social and @mrjamesob.bsky.social dissect the 'childish' questions that Tucker Carlson asked Jacob Rees-Mogg.

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

2027 Calendar - available to preorder now! First 100 orders come with a free exclusive Cold War Steve Christmas card, signed and dedicated to you (or the recipient of the calendar) 👇👇👇👇 coldwarsteve.bigcartel.com/product/grea...

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Plusses: Can start mobilisation Minuses: There isn't any fuel to get them to Ukraine, and those not in a petrol queue have the plague.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hundreds of Russians are not in hospital with the plague. It is a "special medical operation". I remain a master strategist.

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tax does not pay for government spending. So what is it for? Instead, it controls inflation and shapes our society, and understanding that could transform how we manage our economy. youtu.be/BTqN9V58ugw?...

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Tax does not pay for government spending. So what is it for?

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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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Tuta @tuta.com · 05/10/2026

"If they want my data, they can pay for it!" Thomas Ryberg, Professor of Digital Learning at Aalborg University shares his journey of leaving big tech: ✅ He switched to Tuta Mail ❤️ ✅ Replaced Twitter with Mastodon ✅ Doesn't use Meta products & More! Read his story😍 👉 tuta.com/blog/intervi...

screenshot of a LinkedIn post that Thomas Ryberg posted, "The slow journey towards a more sustainable digital ecology - latest steps: Tutamail

Like many others, I am slowly trying to filter myself out of digital ecologies that are not sustainable. I'm not so fond of the vocabulary about Big Tech or the Tech giants, because I think it blurs the fact that it's the business models and the underlying economic logic that are the problem. This also means, for example, that we have an unsustainable agriculture and that we make a large number of choices that may provide a short-term economic gain, but in the long run are not very sustainable.

I'd like to move towards technologies that are open-source, ad-free, that don't collect data (monitor) to increase profit, or use design devices that unnecessarily try to maximize usage (again to maximize profit), etc.

So now I've created a Tuta email and want to see if I can't start using it to phase out my use of Google's services (have been using duckduckgo as a search service for a long time) and also switched from Twitter to Mastodon - Bluesky is certainly more going forward, but is dependent on investors who have to show a profit, So it's probably a long time before it will suffer from the same problems. I left Facebook in 2016 and have not been on any of Meta's services (instagram, whatsapp etc.).

I have an old computer, which I have to see if I can revive it with a Linux installation. There are lots of services I still depend on, e.g. through work (Teams, Co-pilot, Office365, etc.), and it's not easy to change that (but it's actually something that the Danish universities should really start looking at). Will probably need some help with Linux, so if anyone knows of Linux parties in the Aalborg area, please give a hint.

It's going to be a slow movement, and you just have to admit that it's hard to do it all at once. Slowly but steady!"

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cable Street 1936-2026: Not Then Not Now roughtradebooks.com/products/cab...

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question

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Cryptomator @cryptomator.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

🔐 Cybersecurity is a shared responsibility — but who can actually read your files? Your cloud provider secures the servers. Your organization sets the policies. You handle passwords and sharing settings carefully. And yet one question stays open: who holds the key? For European Cybersecurity […]

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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South Downs National Park @southdownsnp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October can only mean one thing... spooky season! 👻 Do you have a favourite spooky spot? Let us know in the comments! 📷: Iping Common by Richard Murray

A weathered, leafless dead tree with twisted branches dominates the right foreground, standing over a mist-shrouded meadow with a solitary living tree and faint forest beyond.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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ET Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.”

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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South Downs National Park @southdownsnp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you to these amazing Exmoor ponies, who did a grand job at Mill Hill Local Nature Reserve near Shoreham. The ponies munched their way through overgrown vegetation, helping to restore flower-rich chalk grassland 🪻 📷: Adur and Worthing Council [1/2]

Three brown ponies grazing on a windswept, dry meadow; one stands in the foreground facing the camera while two graze near shrubs under a cloudy sky.

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The UK doesn't need an IMF bailout youtu.be/ZDbZgBiMp_8?... The Financial Times and others are asking if the UK might need to turn to the IMF for a loan - which is absurd, because nothing could be further from the truth.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This was such a pleasant journey into my memories and I got very enjoyably lost in them my9games.net/en/edit

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rare opportunity to invest in no future.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Each week you think: Braverman will never outdo this. She'll never say something madder than what just came out her mouth. And each week, she proves you wrong. Just the maddest fool on earth.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When I said they were Iranians arriving in small boats, I meant British nationals living in London.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Police: 'Don't speculate about Fairford' Farage: 'Here's my speculative theory...'

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

through an energy ceasefire or a complete end to long-range strikes.

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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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South Downs National Park @southdownsnp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The last few days of September are upon us. What a beautiful and uplifting month it's been! 😊 As we head into October, have you got anything planned in the National Park? If not, it's time to plan an autumn adventure! 🍂 📷 "Contours of Calm", taken at Firle, by Sam Moore

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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy to say that I have some of my art in an exhibition alongside an upcoming new artist called Banksy. I think he’s going places. The exhibition starts next month and there’s lots more info over at the beautiful The Minories. www.theminories.org/event/out-of...

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is no such thing as taxpayers’ money youtu.be/4AyhV70BDwE?... Anyone who claims the government spends taxpayers' money is talking total nonsense. The problem is that almost all our politicians do.

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There is no such thing as taxpayers’ money

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Tuta @tuta.com · 26/09/2026

The has never been a better time to #DEMICROSOFT. With constant AI integrations, unwanted features & price hikes, it truly has become 'Microslop' Luckily, excellent alternatives exist. Make the switch. tuta.com/blog/microso...

App icons of popular Microsoft tools and alternatives. Replace Windows with Linux, Ms 365 with Nextcloud, Outlook with Tuta Mail, Google Calendar with Tuta Calendar and Google Drive with Tuta Drive.

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South Downs National Park @southdownsnp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The South Downs has been lived on and worked by generations of people for over 5,000 years. From Stone Age tribes and Iron Age people to Romans, Saxons, Normans and Victorians, they’ve all helped shape the landscape we see today. 📸: James Ratchford [1/2]

Golden late-afternoon farmland with a lone round hay bale in the foreground.

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