iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better

@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

Ian Wacogne @ianwac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

48 years. Blimey. I remember finding the whole reaction to this movie vaguely baffling in primary school. (we barely went to the movies) It's nostalgic about a period about 20 years earlier, which is equivalent to a movie now being nostalgic about 2006...

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Mark On A Bike @mtonabike.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well these are eye catching from Better Streets for Liverpool

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The hilarious truth from Denmark about the new Greenland deal with Trump! 😂 🇩🇰 🇬🇱

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New cartoon: The RNLI

Cartoon titled “The RNLI: Some of the people they help,” showing six scenarios involving people rescued by the RNLI. Including a man caught by the tide, a YouTuber swimming without preparation, a middle-lane driver, a neighbour with different political opinions, a superyacht owner who forgot to refuel, and people crossing the Channel in a small boat. The final caption reads, “All human beings – all deserve saving.”

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Probably one of the greatest speeches on kindness and intelligence ever given! 👏👏👏 [SOUND ON 🔊]

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Ian Wacogne @ianwac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Googles "disordered sleeping in an elderly person"

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Ian Wacogne @ianwac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And I've lost confidence in the ability of the "average" billionaire to have any sense of self awareness, let alone empathy and compassion. When your accumulation of money reaches this level of pathological I'm not sure the rest of us have much to learn from you. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

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Ian Wacogne @ianwac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The "master deal maker" gets pretty much what they already had, at no cost except further trashing of international reputation. "Deals" are pretty easy if you never pay attention to the impact they have on every other deal you want to make for the next 10 years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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US and Denmark reach deal over Greenland's security after Trump threats

Trump says the agreement will give the US "permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland", though specifics have not been confirmed by Danish officials.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wow. ... Carney. Weimar. Goethe. Faust. Buchenwald. 1945. 1956. 1989. Today. ... The eternal truth that freedom in life must be earned (and fought for) every day. ... For anyone aware of these things, this is like tasting water after a ten year old drought. #Humanism 🇪🇺🇨🇦🕊

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 15/09/2026

*Every* school should have all through roads festooned with Zebra and Puffin crossings and every side street made a school street. No consultation, no debate, just implemented. And yes, inconveniencing and slowing down traffic is *THE WHOLE POINT*. It shouldn't be controversial or difficult.

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Ian Wacogne @ianwac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Some lovely thoughts here.

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

nationaltrust.org.uk

Annual General Meeting

Your Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Put another way, it’s not “Now do cars.” It’s a question of whether or not drivers are asked to take collective responsibility for the behavior of all other drivers in the way people ask of “cyclists.”

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Ian Wacogne @ianwac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Billionaires giving money just emphasises how little anyone really needs that much money. Sums that no reasonable person could spend in a lifetime. Of course, they could donate to any number of good causes but their sociopathy means they donate only in order to eventually get even more money...

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Ian Wacogne @ianwac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The album passed me by a little when released - and to be fair I had a bit of illness around then. But this masterpiece includes at least two of the greatest tracks ever recorded... What an album.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie's "This is Information" from the 2002 9/11 Tribute Anthology comic is one of my favorite comics ever – its metaphorical approach to narrative had a profound influence on my comics making. I share bits of it in class frequently, but worth revisiting on this day...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you use your phone while driving, even once, there is no hope for you.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.

The front page of The Onion's September edition from September 2001 featuring the headline "U.S. Vows to Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With."

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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Ian Wacogne @ianwac.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Pointed out to a driver in a queue, who didn't see me until I tapped on his bonnet, that he shouldn't be using his phone. He shared that he was "using the satnav" and I that I should "Mind my business." When does something become my business then? Something off about a "private" space in public.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Law of the Internet says that every time you see this story, you have to share it. And here we are again.

THRASHED BY A LADY CYCLIST.
WHO IS NOTED FOR HER ATHLETIC POWERS.
[SUBJECT OF ILLUSTRATION.]
An extraordinary scene was witnessed on Saturday morning in Peel Lane, a thorough-tare connecting Little Hulton with Tyldesley, in which the principal participants were a young lady cyclist and a youth of nineteen or twenty. The lady was riding at a good pace, and when in a quiet part of the road the young man, who-had apparently been imbibing, stepped into the roadway, and addressing some insulting remarks to. the cyclist, made as if he intended pulling nei off the machine.
She immediately alighted
caught hold of the astonished youth, and gave him & sound thrashing, using her tists in scientific fashion, to the delight of several colliers who were passing.
The young man
made of and the list, who is believed to be a Bolton lady noted for her athletio powers, rode off towards Tyldesley.

Picture of said scoundrel being thrashed by the lady cyclist, who is known for her athletic prowess. Several gentlemen stand in the background cheering her on.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Maybe the rules are just dandy Nige... maybe the problem lies with someone else

Farage says Reform UK's bank
account has suspended several
times, claiming this shows money
laundering rules too strict
Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, has
revealed that his party's bank account has
been frozen several times.

In an interview with the BBC's political
editor, Chris Mason, Farage said this was
evidence Britain has become a
"complainant society' where too much
time is spent in investigating unfounded
allegations.

Farage was responding to a question
about why - as the Sunday Times revealed
in July - Reform UK had its bank account
frozen for two weeks ahead of the 2024
general election over concerns about
potentially illegal donations.

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Ellie Saurus @elliesaur.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Reasons to ride a bike: - Bikes are fast and get you places on time - Gives you a nice butt - Most energy efficient way to travel - Get to go whee the whole time - Virtually immune to traffic - The going whee thing, but again

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A woman was rude to me on the train today, so I Googled the book she was reading and told her who the murderer was.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

On the one hand, some people want to make it so that kids and other people aren't crushed to death by cars. On the other hand, some people are upset that they might have to pay attention, slow down or be inconvenienced by about 15 seconds. So you can see how it's a "war on cars."

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Birmingham 20mph limit: a 'life saver' or 'a war on cars'?

Birmingham City Council is proposing the city becomes England's first 20mph city.

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Bear Claw Billie (1590/5000) @bearclawbillie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

HEY THIS IS JUST A PAINTING OF A THEATER SHOWING COYOTE VS. ACME

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

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Ian Wacogne @ianwac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The folk who say "It never did me any harm" are often revealing the degree of harm it did them...

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

Wow, it's the 5th anniversary of the #9ReplyGuys thread on Twitter, posted by me & @shrewshrew.bsky.social. #WomenInSTEM who post about harassment & sexual misconduct get a lot of misogynistic replies. We (a woman & a man in science) tried to categorize them. THE NINE TYPES OF REPLY GUYS 🧵

The Nine Types of Reply Guys: A thread by @shrewshrew.bsky.social and @sbarolo.bsky.social.
Originally posted on Twitter, 3 September 2018

1: LIFE COACH
2: TONE POLICE
3: GASLIGHTER
4: COOKIE MANSTER
5: HIMPATHY
6: SEA LION
7: MANSPLAINER
8: THE PRESTIGE
9: TROLLS, CREEPS & FOOLS

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 23/08/2026

This Substack post is gloriously written and made me laugh out loud three times

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/08/2026

“Is the national leader talking like someone who would be capable of convincing a bartender that he can handle another drink, y/n?”

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Heres’ a poem for all the pedents.

Pedents

Foot soldiers in the War on Error,
they’re here to save us from ourselves,
with Fowler’s Modern English Usage
(first edition, nineteen twelve).

They scrutinise each word we write
for typos, gaffes, et cetera,
correcting all our dumb mistakes
to make our grammar betterer.

They sigh and tut and tell us off
for the rules we have forsaken
and chart this nation’s steep decline
by the care we should of taken.

Custodians of the King’s English,
they merely serve to keep it pure
and restrict, they hope, the ignorant
to three mistakes or less.

In doing so, they hold no fear
they will deprive a thing of life:
for it’s not important what is said,
what matters is that its right.

Brian Bilston

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Ian Wacogne @ianwac.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Two immense talents. As far as I can tell, in one day. And they left in all the (very minor) fluffs because, well, when a genius fluffs, it is still genius.

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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Happy Caturday… TRUTH

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Ian Wacogne @ianwac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Ooo - I know this! Is it because people can be fucking fuckwits?

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 14/08/2026

The asylum seekers? Absolutely fine. They sit in the garden. They have no devices to amplify music. We've had no problems at all with their interfering with us. I suspect most people in our situation don't realise they're in it. And I imagine we're not the only ones for whom it's a refreshing change

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Andy @andymb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So if a ban on zero hours contracts could cost businesses £3bn a year, presumably working these contracts is currently costing low paid workers £3bn a year.

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Ian Wacogne @ianwac.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This bottle of soda. Is it in the room with us at the moment?

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Ian Wacogne @ianwac.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"This is the hill I will, um, build a little shed on." Yes please.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Everyone should just stop dying on hills. Life is glorious, impermanent and we only get the one. Just chill. Live on your hill. Build a little shed. Feed the squirrels on you hill. No one needs you to die there, friend.

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Ian Wacogne @ianwac.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

That act on #totp who had "never before performed live"? They still hadn't after that miming...

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