iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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David Durant @bowsy.co.uk · 01/10/2026

I thought this was slightly cool until I zoomed in enough to see the sweeps happening in real time. Absolutely amazing.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On this day in 1940, Harry Jerome was born in Prince Albert, SK. As a sprinter, he won bronze at the 1964 summer Olympics and set seven world records in his career. He also co-created Canada's Ministry of Sport. He is a member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. 📸 Sask Sports HoF

Harry Jerome sprinting toward the camera at dusk, captured mid-stride wearing a jacket with a maple-leaf "Canada" emblem on an open field with trees and utility poles in the background.

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Stefan Czerniawski @pubstr.at · 29/09/2026

"Quite often the technology is simply the place where a much messier organisational problem has chosen to make itself visible." @sharonodea.com in characteristic top form on what ineffective search demonstrates about intranets and their organisations - much of which resonates much more widely

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Intranet Findability: Why Employees Can’t Find Information

Better search won't fix an intranet nobody can find anything on. Here's why findability fails in complex organisations, and how to diagnose it with research, card sorting and tree testing.

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Last Will and Testament Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

American CEO: “We can’t control it!” American CEO 2: “It will destroy us all!” American CEO 3: “The apocalypse!” French CEO [hitting a Gauloise, exhaling slowly]: “C’est une issue de skill.”

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James Arthur Cattell @jacattell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Looking to speak to anyone who's migrated their organisation from @microsoft.com to #Linux, especially end user devices, please. #opensource

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

had my thesaurus stolen today. made me not only sad, but very sad.

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Dave Burton @ideasintheround.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can I volunteer to be in the band?

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Gillian @gilliandy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Smart people want to share information. Insecure people hoard it.

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Dave Burton @ideasintheround.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I saw this at the Lowry in Manchester on Sunday. Brilliant. Fun, colourful, inclusive, high-energy and with a beautiful sweet heart.

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

The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.

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Dave Burton @ideasintheround.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is real but in Cambodia it was $500 when I was there. Your extravagantly ket-addled tourist paid for the cow whether they hit it or not (and this was Cold War-era explosives, no practice shots, you are not hitting the cow). Nice little earner when the minimum wage was about $200/month.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Smoke me a kipper, Arthur - and none for those greedy pilots, they don't deserve it" RIP Stephanie Cole

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Dave Burton @ideasintheround.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I lived in Cov for a year. Odd year. But it's stayed with me for a long time, and I'm very grateful for it. This is a lovely little thread that captures what you're probably overlooking about Coventry.

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Debbie Blanchard @debblanch44.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Very here for this. One Team Gov gave me the gang I never knew I needed and the confidence that I wasn't on my own. I might have missed the first one but I made up for it! Bring it on!!

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James Arthur Cattell @jacattell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

29 June 2017 was the first #OneTeamGov unconference. Were you there? How did you feel? Wanna do it again? #OneTeamGovAt10 #OTGAT10

An event schedule board for an unconference event, laid out on a large white poster grid with colorful sticky notes detailing different sessions.
The vertical axis on the left lists venue room names, each paired with a historical portrait photo and maximum capacity:
* Fry (40)
* Pankhurst (40)
* Butler (35)
* Hill (25)
* Stopes (20)
* Wilberforce (20)
The horizontal axis across the top features bright pink section headers showing time slots:
* 11:00 – 11:45
* 12:00 – 12:45
* Lunch (spelled out vertically down a central green stripe)
* 13:30 – 14:15
* 14:30 – 15:15
* 15:30 – 16:15
Each cell in the grid contains handwritten yellow, green, or orange sticky notes detailing speaker names and pitch topics, such as "Gov Depts: Evolution or Revolution?", "Digital & Policy", "BREXIT", and "Policy as Code".

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The ‘we’ is always fascinating here. There seems to be a self-comforting belief that William Wilberforce woke up one morning and said ‘Guys, slavery is bad, m’kay?’ and everyone just went ‘oh wow, you’re right’ rather than, you know, decades of campaigning, vitriol and fierce pushback.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 26/08/2026

I've written a briefing note on 'Know Your Agent', aka how should services prepare for their users/customers sending AI agents to act on their behalf. Much to mull on. d1rnadml6vbx0i.cloudfront.net/Know-Your-Ag... It's rare to do proper research & end up *less* certain about how things will pan out.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. —wendell berry

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Dave Burton @ideasintheround.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ooo this is cool (for a very obscure definition of the word cool, but still) - a little time capsule, not only in audiobooks being described as "exclusively for the blind", and (sweetly) Mann saying this was the highest honour the book received, but in the fact that it took *forty-four* discs!

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I would love to breathe new life into this little gem… but I NEED funding! I may well eventually turn to you good people, but if there’s an arts-loving benefactor out there who fancies putting their shirt on a passionate, highly-qualified player, then do give me a shout.🙏🏻 Please RT, folks! x

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David Durant @bowsy.co.uk · 27/08/2026

I'm not a person of faith but I find Ben's writing deeply powerful and moving as well as insightful. Please read this, it's great.

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Dave Burton @ideasintheround.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The 5 Simpsons lines I've uttered most: 1. "Helleau" (as a spiv, on top of a pile of sugar) 2. "I...don't...know" 3. "I amma confused." 4. "Let's blow this fascist popsicle stand" (only for use when leaving museums, galleries, National Trust properties...and so forth.) 5. "...and so forth."

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peacockpete @peacockpete.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The 5 Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most off the top of my head: 1. Please mash the keypad with your palm now 2. You’ll never lose appealing to the lowest common denominator 3. Hot stuff coming through! 4. You might say the secret ingredient is salt 5. Monorail, monorail…

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Gillian @gilliandy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The world is held together by people who take pictures of the menu for google restaurant reviews, are the first on the street to put their bins out, and accept cookies on gov.uk sites

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Ian Ames @ames.world · 23/08/2026

I now wish all journalism was in Australian.

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Another great morning sharing our work with colleagues from other gov departments 🙌🏻 We don’t expect anyone to carbon copy what we do, but if we can help accelerate their progress then we will try to do so! Relatedly, we’ve recently made our web app repo public 👀 Hopefully blog post coming soon!

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 18/08/2026

infrastructure as code? *looks at code* n..no thanks

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just seen someone noting that “Augustine came from Berber peoples like Zinedine Zidane,” which is true but somehow also extremely funny to me. Now imagining Augustine as Zizou, though I bet he wasn’t as useful in midfield.

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Dave Burton @ideasintheround.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My grandpa was a Chief Petty Officer on HMS Devonshire in WW2. He then became a bank manager and volunteer treasurer for his local Royal Naval Association. Liked cricket. Smoked a pipe. I think he would have refused to confirm anything about this characterisation of the RN, whilst smiling broadly.

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Dave Burton @ideasintheround.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Been trying to find a way of saying what's special about this album, and this is pretty good. It's about meetings and thresholds and the gift of learning across cultures. Also it slaps, in about 6 different genres. It's not naive but it is beautifully open-handed and sincere. Give it a go.

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Dave Burton @ideasintheround.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wanuskewin is extraordinarily special.

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Simon Morgan-Wilson @officeofwilson.com · 15/08/2026

Don’t mind the idea of emergency alerts. Do mind if they’re badly written. If you’re going to say there’s an emergency say it clearly, unambiguously. (Did it cross the “it’s an emergency” threshold for another thread, bound to be a few out there already. Maybe. BlueSky seems dead these days.)

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Chris Jones @chrisjones1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In case of need

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It is impossible to be optimistic with a Brummie accent.

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Benjamin Welby @bm.wel.by · 14/08/2026

The end of this left me sad. To walk the world is an extraordinary achievement...but to choose that feat over showing up as Dad to your five-year-old son changes the complexion of it completely for me. I don't know if the achievement can compensate for what they've both lost as a result.

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What walking around the world taught Karl Bushby about humanity

Karl Bushby left his home in Hull in 1998 to walk the longest continuous pedestrian journey in history. Now he's on the final straight

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

inside me are two wolves. I was hungry. Next time leash your wolf.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/08/2026

‘Complete the research’ no that’s literally what assembling the ‘dataset’ is. that’s the research. Wtf lmao do you think historians are just sitting down with a pile of magically appeared books and summarising them

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I updated my total eclipse webcam viewer for today's eclipse! Once totality begins you'll see a live-updating umbra, so you can race to the next webcam and see the eclipse happen over and over again. jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse...

A map showing the path of the 2026 total eclipse over Iceland and Spain, with markers showing webcams and a countdown until the eclipse begins, and it hitting the first webcam.

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Dave Burton @ideasintheround.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Lived in Bangladesh for 3 years, and Cambodia for 7. This is completely true. Don't care about looking good - you'll look a complete fool - but nothing compares to the joy of placing risk ahead of self-consciousness and being greeted with generosity. And it is so normal an experience.

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Dave Burton @ideasintheround.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Onion is a bsky native publication and sometimes it shows beautifully

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UK Gov Camp @ukgovcamp.com · 11/08/2026

You voted, we listened! UKGovCamp 2027 is officially heading to Manchester. Want to help shape the event or have venue ideas for 200 to 250 people? Reply here or email organisers@ukgovcamp.com to join the conversations.

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

W[A]HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sanjeev Kohli @govindajeggy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Platitudes I don't mind so much. But don't be serving me no plongitudes

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