iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Ian Dennis @ianindentdesign.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@olliedouglas.bsky.social Next Friday we’re going to see the concert in the Great Hall on London Road at Reading University. Our chances of surviving are uncertain. Suspicion will inevitably fall on the curator of farming implements at MERL.

021

Reposted by Ian Dennis

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 15h

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

251542320

Ian Dennis @ianindentdesign.bsky.social · 14h

The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/

campaignforthearts.org

Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts

Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.

020

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 18h

Early stroll. The evolving moon. ROAD CLOSED sign as metal metaphor. A jacket hung on a fence. A man stands beside a white van, arms folded. That cat, splashed by streetlight.

38717

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 18h

I carry the papers into the shop. They’re heavy because they include tomorrow’s magazines. I snip the bands. The boxing poster is out of date. The Bloke With Two Dogs comes in. We laugh when I claim my £1 lottery win.

61196

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Ian Dennis @ianindentdesign.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On it now. A little later than planned, as Jo went off-piste on the Thames Path at Sonning. Waiting for a possible callback from a bank scammer. Planning to tell him to hold on while we feed our goldfish.

111

Ian Dennis @ianindentdesign.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

021

Reposted by Ian Dennis

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Absolute Units returns! This time, we discuss a bunch of things we've been up to lately, our news, and a bunch of important tangents. Including: - Rural life at Versailles - The ratio of an absolute unit - Brother, may i have some öats? And more. Listen nöw: merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

merl.reading.ac.uk

Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life

Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

19115

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A poem from my new @carcanet.bsky.social collection Red River Valley

65613

Ian Dennis @ianindentdesign.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

111

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Britain really is beautiful / Cocklawburn Beach, Northumberland

041

Reposted by Ian Dennis

The Book Vault @thebookvault.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lots of new books coming in. Never mind the signed Michael Douglas, much more prestigious is Red River Valley from @imcmillan.bsky.social I think my colleague's already read most of it, chuckling as I type. #booksky #choosebookshops

A photo of Ian McMillan's Red River Valley, two stacks of the book side one, with a copy propped up face-forward at each end. Magenta cover with the author's name of letters in different bright colours, and a blue graphic of a river running down the centre of the book cover with the title in yellow type within the river.

1164

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Early stroll. Those grey bins might have been brown bins when they were younger. A single drop of water falls on to my head. Puddles as popup art. A TV as big as an arthouse cinema’s third screen. The moon wears a loose cloud-blouse.

511512

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s raining when I get to the shop so I leave the papers in the box until the shopkeeper arrives. She arrives. I carry the papers in. We both look at a poster for a boxing match that is happening tonight. The till isn’t working; we wait for it to work.

0995

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So good to get a frame at last for this wonderful birthday gift from January of one of my favourite poems by one of my favourite poets.

3517

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George is quite right on this. I discovered via FOI requests that just 5% of all woodland creation grants go to support natural regeneration of trees, and 95% to tree planting. I’ll continue to push DEFRA to fix this. www.theguardian.com/environment/... bsky.app/profile/geor...

theguardian.com

Government ‘failing to support natural regeneration of trees in England’

Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting

16389121

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Streets of Closed-down pubs: The unlit suplands

813033

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Early stroll. The watchful moon. Leathery fallen leaves. I’m ten minutes late so the road is busier. Time never hesitates, but sometimes it seems to. A silent man silently walks a silent dog.

112118

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I carry the papers into the shop; the bands seem loose so I don’t need the scissors. As I leave, Doug arrives. He peeps his horn at me. He asks if I watched the England match; I say no. He says they struggled, saying it in the Barnsley way: Struddled.

0958

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 710: In this, as in everything worthwhile, remember: No one ever promised you it was going to be easy.

511216

Reposted by Ian Dennis

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

These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.

107952153

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."

41066292

Reposted by Ian Dennis

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

Yeah. So that was the best conference I have ever seen. I never dreamed I would see a prime minister with the bravery to do what he just did.

4169461

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Storming speech from Andy Burnham. I expect Chris Mason will be along soon, to get Nigel Farage's opinion on it.

2053073

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My Building a Healthier America Policy Agenda. 🌱🧑‍🌾🍏💧

17262642253

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Ian McFee @ianm45.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@imcmillan.bsky.social I seem to know less & less these days, but one thing of which I'm certain is that I couldn't have had a happier weekend than I did thanks to you, @yeoflittlefaith.bsky.social, colleagues & guests at Contains Strong Language. It was unsurpassed soul, interest & entertainment.

041

Ian Dennis @ianindentdesign.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@artleuk.bsky.social Shamefaced Tuesday 2s for us. Thought the colours looked very typical at 1 but guessed a work I knew was listed.

110

Reposted by Ian Dennis

Artle.uk @artleuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not massively instructive, this first glimpse of today's artle.uk, but maybe enough for you to identify today's subject? #artle

021