iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Hipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 12h

Once again reminded that the average number of skeletons inside a human is more than one!

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the twitter nazi can not be allowed to dictate foreign policy starlink, at minimum, must be nationalized at the next opportunity and other nations should treat him and his businesses like the existential threat they are, instead of someone who can be appeased by tax breaks

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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 15h

I didn’t read the canary or watch GB News but I noticed the hacks’ response to the latter was “this literally cannot exist due to Ofcom” then “welp I guess this is happening”, then “might go on there sometimes for beer money”, while the response to the former was “this must be destroyed.”

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opossumcaviar @caviar.0xpossum.dev · 17h

Context: A certificate authority, an essential part of how your computer knows a response from website-dot-com is the real website-dot-com, was found to be using "4" as a private key. This should never happen and it should be a very big number instead. This is a very bad thing

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 16h

Of course neither of them are as good as the Flatiron, which looks like a Star Destroyer

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 16h

This looks incredible. Cowardly marketing move not to give Quetzalcoatl his full name in the title though

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 17h

When I first visited New York, I insisted on going to see the Chrysler Building. My then girlfriend, who lived in the city, took the piss out of me until she saw it and realised she thought it *was* the Empire State Building

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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 20h

it's actually pretty fucked up that this country has spent the last 40 years loading the entirety of its wealth and economic output into houses and then engineered a system where that wealth is then automatically hoovered up through care homes straight to the pockets of their private equity owners

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 20h

And I'LL weave 13 miles of rope And I'LL weave 14 miles more free Just to BE the man who wove authentic ROPE for Captain Jack Aubrey

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 19h

Because we're now in the BEST SEASON

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 20h

Cable-laid vs hawser-laid, but he gets it wrong because actually cables are hawser-laid, or is it vice versa

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 21h

I am, would you believe, shockingly busy at work at the moment

The "gru explains his plan" merme format, but with the faces from the "anakin and padme" meme format on the whiteboard. I am forty years old.

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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026

meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta.

An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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Chaz Hutton @chazhutton.com · 19/10/2026

AI Slop Design School… (Did I spend hours meticulously recreating a horrible poster just to take the piss out of it? Hell yeah I did)

So we’ve got a graphic design class being led by a little robot character that’s representing a kind of AI design teacher. Anyway, they’re in front of the board and up on the board is your classic AI Slop restaurant poster, and our AI teacher robot is looking fairly manic and wild and is screaming the following at a bunch of AI Agent students (who are presumably just outside of the frame). Here’s what he’s saying:

OK! LISTEN UP FUCKHEADS! WELCOME TO FLYER DESIGN 101!
FIRST UP NEGATIVE SPACE IS CALLED THAT FOR A REASON! FUCK IT OFF AND FILL EVERY FUCKING AVAILABLE PIXEL. NEXT UP WE USE ONE FONT, AND ONE FONT ONLY, AND IT BETTER HAVE A YELLOW PAINT SWIPE BEHIND IT.
NEXT UP, MULTIPLY EVERYTHING BY "FUCK LOADS MORE" AND MAKE IT GLISTEN WITH THE POWER OF 6000 CALORIES, THEN MAKE IT LOOK LIKE IT'S SHOT IN THE GLOOMY HULL OF A PIRATE SHIP ON FIRE. FUCK YES! THIS MAKES THE COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF HUMANITY TOTALLY WORTH IT.

And the example of the flyer up on the wall basically reflects all this and is super crowded and I’ll be honest, took quite a lot of effort to draw and make sure it looks as horrible as it does!

I’m also aware I might have just provided AI Agents with the material they need to now produce these horrible posters in my own drawing style, so that’s just great, isn’t it. My God… we’re all doomed. Anyway! I need a drink.

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

According to Koo Stark, while filming Star Wars in Tunisia, the radio controlled R2D2 malfunctioned, disappeared behind a sand dune and trundled onto the set of Jesus Of Nazareth

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 23h

Then the weather in Sheppey will be both rainy and delicious

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Spatch1003 @spatch1003.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

While I see this quote thrown around a lot (and justifiably, because it’s hilarious), it is worth mentioning this quote from Alan Rickman’s diary from that day: “Hawaiian Day on the set. And Tim has to motor a scene which is the heart of the movie. And he does it beautifully.”

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

The banter outcome is that we spend eleventy billion quid clearing the wreck of SS Richard Montgomery and it turns out there was a cargo manifest error and it was carrying sandbags all along www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Masts removed from bomb-laden WWII ship in Thames in bid to avoid explosion

American warship sank in 1944 with approximately 1,400 tonnes of munitions onboard

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Especially compared with Alec Guinness being a dickhead snob about the role that meant he'd never have to worry about his mortgage again

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

Draw a cat using only straight lines, 1910

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Peter Cushing as Tarkin in Star Wars filmed all his closeups wearing comfy slippers because he had massive feet and the jackboots the wardrobe department found for him were painfully tight

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Sorry, it's Kentish now and we're KEEPING IT

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

‘Last night of the pogroms’

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

Total cuteness du jour: wild boar piglet 1578, by Hans Hoffmann. His day is today.

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

On this day in 2017, I went to BBC TVC to collect my auction lot from the big sell off. And there I met the BBC2 idents of my youth. Star struck.

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Pains me to say it but Lime are 100% correct. You want something with drop bars. Get that weight forward in the saddle, put some force behind the lance

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

When will this Labour Government stop tinkering? Thames Water is a busted flush. It's worthless. Cheer up the nation. Nationalise it now. Not a penny compensation. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water

Exclusive: Utility seen as ‘litmus test’ of PM’s promise to bring ‘essentials of life’ under public control

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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

The Goldsmiths dispute is now the longest strike in the history of the university sector. Wish us solidarity, we are not standing down in the face of redundancies.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

The invincible airplane

The red dots on a plane statistics meme, but the dots are transposed onto a twin boom airplane with a forward angled wing, whose components happened to have 0 overlap with the red dot areas of the original plane.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

just asked my tailor if he disavows the muslin brotherhood

Someone holding a piece of muslin fabric.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

I have written a very sharable and relatable poem about nostalgia and how you youth don't know how good you have it

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

Journalists openly gloating at a secret wrecking campaign to put this website out of business, orchestrated in secret between party officials and media outlets. And the wild part is, theres no need to brag and show off. They’ve won, they got what they wanted. But they can’t help themselves.

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Morgan McSweeney's final victory
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The Canary will be closed for the foreseeable future.
As of today (Monday 19 October), the Canary will be closed indefinitely....
The Canary will be closed for the foreseeable future.
As of today (Monday 19 October), the Canary will be

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Sean Jordan | Sharing Great Games You Probably Never Played! @greatestgames.substack.com · 19/10/2026

Here's one of many great moments in Nighthawks that just sneaks up on you through an announcement on the game's social media app. Just play Nighthawks already, folks. It's a delight. You will enjoy every moment of it.

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The Real ZMAN @therealzman.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

I was working the other day, and the neighboring construction crew had brought their dog He was running around And we heard him screeching , and he ran as fast as he could across the yard and jumped into his owners arms Everyone looked really concerned Then here came my cat Tearing after him

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midgieeeek! @midgie.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

this guy was just playing his bagpipes in a car park because he ‘likes to keep them warmed up’

guy in a polo shirt playing bagpipes beside a parked car

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

My excuse next time I accidentally step on some scales

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

The Labour Government are still continuing to arm a genocide. They're still locking up pensioners who hold up cardboard signs. And Palestinians are still being murdered every single day. The Green Party will always unapologetically speak the truth. youtu.be/BKC9mSBFpBA?...

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Zack Polanski: "I'm not sorry at all" over Zionism motion | Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg

YouTube video by BBC Politics

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Flat Six @flatsix723.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

This is the most complete answer to this question I’ve seen, ever. The mass media onslaught against Zack was supposed to make him run away, whimpering & begging to be forgotten. Looks to me like it’s had the opposite effect. Direct, honest, indisputable. Outstanding form, @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

A while ago I brought back into print a book originally published in the late 1940s. There was a typo on page 1, and I was sorely tempted to let it stand, in tribute to its survivability

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/10/2026

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

This is the thing that really galls me. The left did everything by the rules: won people over with argument, earned their positions through reasoned debate. And then they hit the brick wall veto that was Peter Mandelson’s friends and his media allies saying: absolutely not, we will not allow it.

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Thanks! A double, no ice (yes, Rye)

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 17/10/2026

My teenage children, who have never set foot in NYC, go around saying "Help me, Mamdani!" whenever anything goes wrong and/or they can't figure out their homework, just to give everybody a sense of the scale of this man's presence in the culture lol

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like.

A red and white sailing boat on a muddy creek

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

here’s another infuriating story of gen-AI scam content - fake articles, fake books, identity theft, etc. Some guy also finds out someone has published a fake memoir under his name

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Fake Linda and me: the Agatha Christie-worthy mystery of the fraudster who stole my byline

How a string of bizarre events led writer Linda Geddes to don her sleuthing cap and dig into a world of shadowy impersonators

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

(1)This is where Burnham joining an opportunist attack on The Greens leads - Lambeth Labour Group loudly declaring "Zionism is not Racism" - what, never ? Not when it means thugs burning Olive Groves ? Or the IDF systematically destroying hospitals ? IMO the motion is flawed , but this is much worse

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

People often joke that the dole was the best funder of the arts, But it was true. So much of what is taken to be a shorthand for that British culture rested/rests on that, and the constant destruction of that infrastructure has been one of British neoliberalism's worst crimes.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

There are only 33 significant bodies of water in the Lake District, but hundreds of significant fells, pikes etc. It should therefore be renamed the Hill District.

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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Please retweet

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