iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My chum Joe has a new season of his excellent vocabulary-based game Word Dungeon up on Kickstarter. It’s cheap, fun, and ready for you to download, print and play as soon as the campaign is over: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...

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Word Dungeon Two

More wordy adventures in the Word Dungeon universe. Three brand new maps: Rumpledonk's Ruins, Dragon's Castle and A Day at the Zoo.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They really do make hovercraft-specific eel removal spades, huh?

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh bothers. I was pondering moving to Vodaphone from O2 for exactly the same reason. Drat.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My wrists are mostly OK and I occasionally hire or borrow a bike. But it turns out I’m completely lacking in talent. Still fun, though marginally less so when you’re lying on your back in nettles watching your bike about to land on top of you.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

By the end of the month there’ll be a bike park trail called “Pelican Humper,” and like five people will understand why.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worse, I think it might be… a fixie. That’s the trouble with diffusion models. They’ve no idea when a trend is over.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m starting to think my TV-to-academia career trajectory may not have been the wisest choice.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Absolutely loving the achingly hip new deli next to campus, which is doing a roaring trade for students who haven’t yet realised that none of us can afford a £6 iced vanilla cold foam matcha.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Looks about right. Also: how dare you omit The Good Place, Deadwood, and the pinnacle of televisual craft that was How2?

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Aw, but the little chuckle of satisfaction makes it. 😀

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The only problem I have with this is that the ghostwriter is clearly OK with lazy stereotypes. Honestly, the books may be popular but the ones I’ve looked at absolutely suck.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today, I ordered a boxed set of Brett’s Holmes series. This sort of thing is why.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hey Siri, what’s the EV equivalent of ‘field to fork’? Siri:

A wind turbine, with a blue Enyaq apparently plugged directly
into it.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I do hope @alomshaha.bsky.social receives statutory funding for his dal recipe being forcibly rolled out to all primary schools.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

/me: adds ‘mushy peas’ to the shopping list. /iphone: adds ‘mushy owls’ to the shopping list. Close, Siri. Close.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This just makes me wonder if Claude’s internal monologue goes “haxXing is cool and hard and l33t, I feel all powerful.”

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyone else notice that wasps are getting smarter? Thirty years ago you had to coax them into a glass or they'd be in your face for hours. These days they find their own way out after a few minutes.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Trying to convince my kids that I can time travel. I’ve lived my entire life in the past, and I’m spectacularly consistent at entering the future at a rate of 1 second per second.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also: just accidentally played that through a pair of HomePods. Woah, baaaaaass! I think I’d never realised how my entire experience of 8 & 16-bit games was mediated by crappy amps and tiny TV speakers.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Me: "How's the new laptop?" Her: … Laptop: "An unexpected error has occurred" [reboots] Her: …? Me: Was it something I said? Oh, Windows. You had one job.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Telepresence schadenfreude is either the killer app VR goggles have been waiting for, or an awesome band name.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That is, unfortunately, about the measure of it.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There’s a moment where a senior Reform staffer names a bunch of people who donate to the party through their children. All the names are bleeped out. It’s jaw-dropping.

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

channel4news.substack.com

Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This should be the end of the Reform party. But it should also prompt a complete overhaul of the polling industry and the Electoral Commission. The priority has to be securing domestic politics from foreign influence. That that’s happening is no longer a hypothetical, it’s demonstrated.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’m just here for the #housegawp. Anything else is bonus.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

From the UK, this doesn’t even show up in search. 👍

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’ve never really worked with Martha, but would like to. She’s awesome. Contract her now so I can’t.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Fair point. Perhaps the better comparison is supermarket checkouts?

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Remember when we said the same about welders on car production lines? The thing about robots is that they don’t have pension plans, and you can save on the HR department too. 😳

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Yep, very similar here. And I _think_ it’s defensible, though I have concerns about how the ‘next’ framework/language/whatever gets bootstrapped. The need to write a broad training corpus seems highly problematic, given how ghastly so much documentation still is. So how is the LLM trained?

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

😀 I’m hardly a novice, but honestly, I was better at surface mount than this!

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Soldering a beginner circuit. So far, I’ve had to remove the IC holder (missing some pins), got an electrolytic cap the wrong way around, then soldered the desoldering braid to the board. I’m four components in. FML.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 24/08/2026

The first question the professor posed to her new invention, the consequenceometer, was: "If I can learn the consequences of decisions before deciding, will I be more decisive?" "No," the device said, "you will probe the consequences in ever greater depth, indecisive." She never used it again.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What? No! Why? That’s my entire MO.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Boss move: Canada starts referring to Lake Michigan as Lake Snowflake President.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The adventure playground was closed. “Take a good look, children. Inside that fence is freedom!”

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Is that… a Nixie tube? Hilarious!

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You’re awesome and your work makes my life better.

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