iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We quite often see a sacred kingfisher sitting on our clothesline here in North Queensland. Beautiful birds. And lots of blue-winged kookaburras of course.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hell is real and its name is “Moving House”.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Awesome. I wish Australia would deprivatise (is that a word?) more. It’s how we used to be when I was young. Oddly it was Labor PM Paul Keating who started the privatisation trend.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are they tailored for you or off the rack? I ask because I lived many years in Korea and could never find any off the rack clothes that fitted.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Crossed it several times back then. Used to tape up all the doors to keep the dust out and sweat terribly in the hot car. No aircon.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I watch it quite often. I remember in the 70s it was a popular movie to watch stoned.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s not spam if it’s true.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am told 23rd was the cut off.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Found this tool to find out when someone joined Bluesky. Seems I’m just a week or so short of being labelled an “elder”. bluecrawler.com/tools/bluesk...

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I had the privilege of meeting Ustad Imrat Khan and his brother, Ustad Vilayat Khan in Bombay in 1986. My teacher, Nayan Ghosh introduced me to them, and also Zakir Hussain. I have a brochure from Nimbus records somewhere - am moving house now and everything is packed. Did they carry Dinkar Kaikeni?

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is it possible to find when I joined? Could have been in ‘23. Don’t recall.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have a sehtar. I have to admit I have neglected my music for years now. Considering retirement at the moment or at least part time work and hope to pick it up again. My main music however is Indian. That’s a surbahar in my profile photo.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tintypes, in fact any wet plate photos, have a haunting quality of depth about them. I’ve messed around a bit with daguerreotypes which are also magical but far to expensive to make mistakes with. I think I need to learn wet plate.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I replied to every one of these unsuitable applicants, giving them advice on Korean expectations of employees. The replies I got were mostly abusive. I made a shortlist for the boss. He ended up hiring someone who just walked in off the street. The guy was a disaster.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One fellow sent a photo of himself, dressed in a singlet, holding a can of beer, and standing in front of a sink full of dirty dishes. I kid you not. Several women sent photos of themselves in bikinis. One sent a photo of 3 women, with no indication of which she was. Continued…

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I once worked at an English school in Korea. When I left the job the boss asked me to recruit my replacement. I placed an ad & received dozen or so applications. Now, Koreans typically ask for a photo to be included with resumes. Some of the photos, most actually, were unbelievable… Continued…

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There’s talk of the merits or otherwise of taking an iced coffee to a job interview. Frankly no one with any dignity should drink takeaway coffee, least of all iced. SIt down and enjoy a proper cup. I would not hire you on that criteria alone. Continued…

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No wonder Eric Idle has had enough of him…

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I saw much worse in Korea. Will make a separate post…

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m not sure what qualifies one as an elder, but Bluesky seems the same as it’s always been to me. If by “bits” you mean genitals, I’ve not seen any of that here thankfully.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why? What do you think has changed?

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Chuseok to my Korean friends. Have some SPAM.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s also Chuseok, Korean Thanksgiving.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seriously, the more I see Christians, the more I like Islam.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

More house moving finds. Back in the 90s I lived in Port Moresby. Unable to listen to my favourite radio program, “The Daily Planet”, I asked someone in Australia to record it for me. I still have dozens of the tapes. Great listening eclectic music presented by @luckyoceans. Keeping these. #music

A box of cassette tapes, labelled “Lucky”, followed by a date.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’ve done more than that so far today. Might take the test of the day off. Seriously though, what are his dietary guidelines?

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2 of 2… I kept some of the recordings I have made myself over the years. I used to tape classical music concerts in India. I also kept recordings I made in India of old Indian classical music records. Rare recordings.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Moving house. Just took two boxes of cassette tapes to the tip. I used to buy record, tape them, and never play the record again. But now have CDs and Spotify. STill have my records too. But decided it was time to dump the tapes. Kinda hurt though. 1 of 2…

2 cardboard boxes. One partially open to show lots of cassette tapes. Their labels are all hand-written.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is incredibly beautiful and inspiring. I’ve nursed a desire to do embroidery for years.. decades… I think it’s time I started to learn.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’d have sent you a lot more if the postage costs were not so crazy high. Maybe will make it an annual thing — your unbirthday.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks Alfie. It’s a worrying time.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I feel it. My spine started to give out when I was 45. Nearly 70 now and spine is part titanium. Brain still developing. Heart… I’m not sure. So far so good.. إن شاء اللہ

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That’s still cheaper than fuel was here in Australia 10 years ago.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What’s he done now? Seems every morning there’s more news of his idiocy.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Saw an exhibition of her work in Seoul a couple of years ago. Fascinating eye she has. Always a bit of an outsider- looking on, though often reflected somewhere.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My mother saw the last Tassie tiger in Hobart Zoo when she was a girl.

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اسد علي @jayavant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

1989. My Kombi on the Barrier Highway between Broken Hill and Peterborough. The boat is a Payson car-topper I built myself. I still have it.

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