iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

One of our very best prime ministers. His government achieved so much in difficult circumstances. Effectively created modern Britain. - equal pay - sex discrimination act - open university - removed the death penalty - decriminalised homosexuality - race relations act - redundancy payments

041 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Which I guess is what sentiment people would do too...

000 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One thing I've noticed is they dial up the sentience if you treat them as sentient, but remove it when you don't. If you say please and thank you they act like a nice colleague. If you treat it like a tool and say "do this", they just do the job without emojis and questions about the weekend.

210 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The question you should ask is whether Polanski is.

010 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But there used to be a cute little ice cream shop down there in the bottom of a seventies building. I always took people there when I lived in Oxford.

100 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I haven't been there for a long time...

100 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What about that nice little ice cream cafe?

110 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

God guided you. And it was self evident.

000 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

...not a great precedent to think about.

120 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The English Civil War / English Revolution era was absolutely ripe with this sort of thing. The printing press had just become mainstream, so some parallels with the current era. People getting used to new communication possibilities. Obviously they had horrific war, then plague, then fire so...

110 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I may have rose tinted glasses on this issue. But aren't many of the red lines based purely on the situation of being outside the EU? I.e. we can't be rule takers if not rule makers. If we are negotiating to be back on the inside, would a good chunk of the red lines not disappear?

110 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They won't touch the Greens with a bargepole. Too toxic.

000 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We have skipped over an important lack of "of" after "instead".

020 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, I see now. My brain completely read it as let's get all these people watching tuna catching it instead. And I was starting to wonder if they were an environmental threat or something. The rest of the thread is clear hence why I flagged it.

100 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Let's see the boats now taking people out to catch them instead taking people out to watch them." Ah you are saying this is inevitably what will happen. It sounds like a call to get people to catch them rather than watch them. I might have misunderstood.

210 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think you might have accidentally written that the wrong way round.

250 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Aldi / Lidl difference is interesting. I see them as the same. Does one have more of a presence in a certain area which might explain it?

280 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm afraid this has taken a darker turn than student union politics.

000 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At least everyone can now see how dangerous they have become. It's a real shame what has become of the party. I don't see any path back.

160 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's more on the authoritarian/libertarian arc of the political compass than the left/right one. Left and right are equally capable of being jack booted authority followers (I.e. dogs). Cats are very much libertarians (which can also be left (e.g. George Orwell, anarchists), or right wing).

010 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I work somewhere that adds three times what you do, up to 5% of your income. Your 5% becomes 20% of your salary. And they still don't. It's free money!

010 0

Reposted by Hattifattener

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Heronry, 2022, etching by UK printmaker Janis Goodman #WomensArt

Print in blue and white featuring a tree lined still river or pond with reflections and a flying heron to the top right in silhouette

51307221 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No, but it explains why vox pops are normally the opinions of a certain demographic.

000 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You will, in general, find a certain age of person wondering around a provincial town high street in the middle of the afternoon.

100 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Novices' Common Room, Battle Abbey, England. #photography

Medieval vaulted room with unusually high columns.

030 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Staged or not, Miliband is class. Should have been PM.

010 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is Kevin Eldon and it's not Newsnight, it's Brass Eye.

011 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Interesting. I see the sort of narcissistic traits that should scream "for the love of god don't vote for this person", but somehow millions find endearing. We live in strange times.

000 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Do you not think the leader of the Green Party should be of a higher moral standard than Farage and Johnson? I do. The point being made isn't that he lied once, it's that he lies all the time. Seemingly without thought or shame. Like with Boris, it's a bad sign.

220 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's an opportunity to get the loonies to self identify so you can block them. I have no issue with Greens, or hearing alternative viewpoints, but the Polanski Defence League are weird. And wrong.

021 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Everything the far left touches splits and then splits again. Has always been thus.

020 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's just over the road on the corner. It's not very exciting so don't worry. Interesting geological feature with myths and folklore attached.

100 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Did you go to see the famous pudding stone?

100 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I had my first currywurst recently. A vegan one, in Münster, with garlic fries. It was extremely delicious and you just reminded me of it, so thank you.

050 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We recently found this beautiful church art piece in Limburg #Belgium. Doorkijkkerk, Reading Between The Lines. Beautiful countryside there too. #photogtaphy

An image of a large outdoor art piece, a small chapel made of metal strips which allow you to see through it at certain angles.

040 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The period of dreadful mire really started in 2008, but 2010 to 2024 didn't help. 14 years of bad decisions and chaos.

010 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There are no circumstances where a double breasted business suit looks good. It looks scruffy.

000 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don't think this is entirely the right way to look at it. The EU refused a novel hybrid solution for the UK because there was a lot of anger. This wasn't an option. But yes, now the door for that is opening for Canada, it may be there for the UK too.

000 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'd rather not be reading that communicating with nuclear subs relies on a balloon at all. Presumably a last resort emergency measure. And personally easy to replace.

000 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I've always thought that he craves attention but isn't all that bothered about power.

000 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I went there to have a look at the Staffordshire Hoard and it was well worth it. Does look a bit of a dump apart from that mind you.

000 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It has only changed for people in the US (on Google anyway). The rest of the world still has the correct name.

Google Map showing Lake Ontario with the correct name, Lake Ontario.

050 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Nobody should be allowed to block critical infrastructure, whatever the reason. This should be 100% arrest and charge. It isn't protest.

010 0

Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Stained glass window, Basilica of Saint Servatius, Maastricht. #photography #churches

Ornate stained-glass window with a central circular floral motif in red, blue, gold, and white, surrounded by symmetrical scrolling foliage.

020 0