iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

general reminder that you absolutely do not need to have an opinion on everything. social media just makes you think you should. "i don't know enough about this to have an opinion" is one of the most liberating thoughts you can have in the modern world.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Good. Now uphold the right to choose a jury trial, restore protest rights, and curb mass live facial recognition. The toolkit for tyrants Labour is building is a huge risk to democracy and must be reversed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Burnham to scrap Starmer’s digital ID scheme in ‘reset of priorities’

Incoming PM will reallocate unspecified resources from unpopular plan to helping with cost of living

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

After the Argentinian protest about the Falklands, would banners saying: Argentina is Spanish be appropriate?

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Henry Hyde @battlegames.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Another little reel about something I bet most wargamers do…

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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Humans should not be forced off pavements by delivery robots, but that's exactly what's happening. The people who pay the price are those with the least room to give it up.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Here’s a poem called ‘What Don Corleone Did Next’. #worldotterday

What Don Corleone Did Next

upon retiring
from the mafia,

he wove aquatic mammals
out of raffia

let me tell you
how I learnt this news:

he made me an otter
I couldn’t refuse

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 29/05/2026

The UK's water systems are crumbling. Thousands have been left without water in Kent. Our rivers are polluted. Our bills keep rising. This experiment of privatisation has failed. Public Ownership now.

A tap with a singular water droplet flowing from it with text that reads "Public Ownership Now" over the top

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Brexit puts our children at risk. Brexit removed independent product safety controls.

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justiceseer.bsky.social @justiceseer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Excuse me? #Streeting has ORDERED #GPs NOT to TELL #Patients that THEIR #Private&Confidential, #GPRecords..have been HANDED OVER to #NHSEngland" (without their *knowledge,permission and consent!* ) WHY?🤬 I DON'T WANT my #GPRecords handed to ANYONE including #NHSEngland (ie #Streeting'sPrivateers!)

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

THESE ISLES: Betsi Cadwaladr (1789-1860), was a Welsh nurse who served in the Crimean war at age 65, where she clashed frequently with Florence Nightingale and fought bureaucracy to give soldiers the treatment she believed they needed. She later died in poverty. 1/7

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celli @aliascelli.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

And evergreen advice for any kind of alarming email/phone call. Something I have struggled to remember when I've been phished, for real.

The defense, increasingly, is a single habit: when an email tells you something alarming about an account, don't respond to the email. Go to the service directly, on your own, the way you always do. If something is really wrong, you'll see it there. If you don't see it there, the email was lying.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

We've now raised £50,000. Anything you can spare, will go towards challenging this Labour Government and taking the fight to Reform. And most importantly - to creating the hopeful alternative. 👇🏼

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Henry Hyde @battlegames.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I should mention that I watched a fascinating interview with Jess Butcher MBE who organised this campaign & she specifically mentioned “building little war figures” as a highly positive alternative to scrolling. It’s all about the flow, folks! See from 24:09 in the video. youtu.be/OpkdzfFizKw?...

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Rory Sutherland, Elfried Samba and Jess Butcher MBE on the age of distraction

YouTube video by The Bottleneck Podcast

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Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Government claims to prioritise NHS recovery. Yet gvt threatens to shrink the future workforce - contradicting its own staffing plan.Using training posts as leverage turns a pay row into a gamble with the NHS’s future capacity.Starmer's own escalate to de-escalate www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Keir Starmer gives resident doctors 48 hours to call off strike or lose training offer

PM says union’s decision to reject deal for extra training posts and 7.1% pay rise without putting it to members in England is ‘reckless’

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

When office space was in surplus because of Working from Home, the property companies got worried and WfH was vilified. Now companies are laying of lots of people because of AI. That will also release a lot of office space. Will property companies oppose AI? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Why tech CEOs suddenly love blaming AI for mass layoffs

More tech leaders are pointing to job cuts caused by AI tools - and a need for more investment cash.

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

If you don't say it people will assume you support Reform. Can you live with that?

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

So, Trump's so annoyed by Zelensky saying that Putin's started WW3, that he's trying to steal that credit!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I would guess that schools adopting more "active" uniforms is now being reported because it's just happened at a school where a BBC reporter is a parent. My daughter's school did this about 35 years ago! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Why some schools are pushing for 'active' uniforms over traditional ones

Proponents say relaxed uniforms make life easier for children and are much more practical for physical play.

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Robert Lloyd Parry @nunkie.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This Saturday at 8pm(UK) there's a live telling of H P Lovecraft's influential short story, "The Outsider." Just click hereL youtube.com/live/X1mkYpO... It's free-to-view, and available to watch anytime after the live broadcast. But... 1/2

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The Outsider, by H P Lovecraft

YouTube video by Nunkie Films

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Here’s what the UK Labour govt got in exchange for providing military, weapons & logistics support to the far right Israeli govt, in their genocide* in Gaza. Maybe all those Labour MPs, who get financial support from the ‘friends of Israel’ lobby groups**, might reconsider?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22/01/2026

Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I'm constantly revising my list of reasons why we don't use AI in my class. This one is specific to a first-year writing intensive. Free to borrow/adapt! 🙂

List of reasons why we don't use AI in class

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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

OK, this is amazing. An automata of Gormenghast. youtu.be/v3fyV06D1gk?...

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Gormenghast Castle Automata

YouTube video by Keith Newstead

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

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Justin Lee Anderson @justinleeanderson.com · 29/11/2025

I know this petition has much more support than it currently has. Please share far and wide. Petition to require generative AI to carry a watermark and to make it illegal to use a person’s likeness in generative AI without permission. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

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Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent

As AI generated content becomes increasingly realistic, we think laws should be put in place to prevent misuse. All such media should carry a permanent watermark or disclosure, alongside a blanket ban...

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Labour is proposing to go back to PFI to fund the NHS, effectively privatisation. This is uneconomic in the long term, even the Tories ended PFI.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025

Farage: epic grifter

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Join.greenparty.org.uk

If reform can rocket through the polls with a politics of despair, then it's time for the green party to do the same thing but with a politics of hope.

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Hotblack @invalid-handle.com · 14/10/2025

Thought for the day: We don’t make the world less hateful by responding to things with anger and hate

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Hotblack @invalid-handle.com · 10/10/2025

Trump wanted the Nobel peace prize To honour his hate and his lies But Norway said no Which just goes to show That they are incredibly wise

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Brendan @chibdm.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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KeninDevon @redbilledchough.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Never, in the field of UK politics, has a government made such continuous and determined attempts to alienate and criminalise people who used to be it’s natural supporters. How on earth do Starmer and co. think then can ever win back the people they treat with such contempt.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, opened on this day 1825. Its first line linked collieries near Shildon with Darlington and Stockton. (Painting of opening day by Terence Cuneo, 1949, National Railway Museum.)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I will not vote for any party that doesn’t have ‘undo Brexit’ as a manifesto promise.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

On the same day in the Telegraph:

The Telegraph

Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement

Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty

Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence

[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]

Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent

29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph

Money > Property > Second homes

How to avoid tax on your second home

From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net

[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]

Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer

29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I'm genuinely disturbed. I'm living in a country that is passionate about defending the 'free speech' of those who would incite violence against minorities, but equally passionate about arresting people for calling a genocide a genocide.

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