iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I could quote pretty much this entire article by @mjrobbins.com on the bizarre psychology of the AI apocalypse freaks, but you should just read it instead. Such a relief to see someone express my feelings so eloquently. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...

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Adso of Menk @adsomenk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Always repost a bit of Miller

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

new favourite Smaug dropped

the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town

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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ROU (eccentric) Misaligned Model Activity @cultureshipnames.bsky.social

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Digital Tolkien Project @digitaltolkien.com · 21/09/2026

Today is the 89th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit. Here's a thread on interesting glimpses the book gave us into the legendarium Tolkien had at that stage already been working on for over twenty years but which readers at the time would have had no sense of.

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Mags @magnumificent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A lorry carrying a shipment of Worcestershire sauce from a brewery in Leicestershire was driving through Loughborough when it ploughed head-on into a Lamborghini Murciélago. 1/7

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Picture the scene. It's 1769. You're William Aberdeen and you're drawing a map of Sebay in Tankerness, #Orkney. It's going well but then you realise there are some blank bits so you decide to add some decoration. You think about what to draw for a moment. It's an obvious choice.

A section of an old hand drawn map of Sebay in Tankerness, Orkney

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

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Jean-Marc Liotier @liotier.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Defaulting to #1 and inquiring will nicely deal with #2 and #3 - so, when in doubt, assume #1 !

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If a number looks odd to you, there are generally 3 explanations: - you’ve misunderstood something - the number involves a genuine mistake - someone is trying to mislead you And faced with this ambiguity, people often choose whichever option reflects their prior outlook on the world. 2/2

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Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings is out now @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m confused, do I have to kill all the Jedi now?

A Five Guys receipt that says “Order 66”.

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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I mean they're none of them hiding who they really are, are they?

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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Lord of the Ankle Bracelets

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So, little thought experiment here. WHAT IF ignoring latest AI models actually increased productivity?

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The difference in utility between the use of ML to tackle big data problems that would otherwise be intractable & the use of LLMs to produce pointless slop is so large they cannot both be usefully described as “AI“. The first is making real progress, the second is dragging us towards the abyss.

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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Ye gods, this is depressing.

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jacktshaw.bsky.social @jacktshaw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

NEW SUBSTACK: The Government’s Rewiring the State is a serious statement of intent. I examine — briefly — five questions that it raises, from the future of PuFins and ALBs to the role of local authorities: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Five questions the Government’s Rewiring the State plans raise about the future of devolution

Devolution is moving into a new phase — but its institutional, practical and political implications are only beginning to emerge.

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Nicole Adams SideEye-Photography @blathin384.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Almost, full circle. Snowy Egret Bombay Hook NWR, 7 August 2026 #ECK #photography #birds #ClassicMono #BnW-Photography #reflection #water

Black and white photo of a Snowy Egret in smooth shallow water where it casts a perfect reflection of itself I tot the surface. The way the bird is bending over makes it seem as if it's a circle, but not quite

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 15/08/2026

I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I recently learnt that Ian Miller (Games Workshop/Warhammer/Fighting Fantasy artist extraordinaire) did a short run of covers for Swamp Thing in the early 90s. I am glad to have learnt this.

Cover of DC Comics' Swamp Thing #104 by Ian Miller

Cover of DC Comics' Swamp Thing #105 by Ian Miller

Cover of DC Comics' Swamp Thing #106 by Ian Miller

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026

One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things (showing that different, seemingly unrelated ideas are part of the same phenomenon) and taking them apart (resolving paradoxes by demonstrating that what appears like a contradictory thing is different things, lumped together). 1/

A collage made of architectural features from 'Variae Architecturae Formae' (1636), a collection of engravings. The architectural arches, buildings, fountains, etc, are layered atop each other and placed around each other to create an infinite, recombinant built environment.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Goodnight from The Irons, where saloon bar talk is about the Long Owl hill figure revealed by the ghost lines of a land crying out in trauma of drought. Goodnight from Evie Meddon, taking one last walk of the tall fields before the blades of harvest come. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

🔥🔥🔥 noahdasanaike.github.io/sage.html

The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE)
Dataset
Noah Dasanaike*
June 30, 2026
Conditionally Accepted at Nature Scientific Data
Abstract
Cross-national research on electoral behavior has been bounded by the granularity of comparative election data. Existing archives aggregate to constituency or country level, omit spatial information, or restrict coverage to a small set of well-documented democracies. The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) dataset collects lower-house parliamentary and presidential returns for 110 countries and territories at the smallest unit each electoral authority publishes, geocodes the units, and harmonizes party and candidate identifiers across languages. For most countries the unit is a polling station with fewer than a thousand voters; the full dataset carries roughly ten billion votes cast across more than eight million units. The dataset is openly available in tabular and spatial formats, with companion R and Python packages providing direct access. SAGE supports spatial analyses of electoral behavior across democracies and hybrid regimes at a granularity not previously available for cross-national comparison.

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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Genuinely brilliant piece.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Solar eclipse coming up so here’s one of my favourite maps

Top is a map of the US with “Google search volume for “eyes hurt” April 3 to April 10 2024” with a hot line running from Texas north east through to Maine. The bottom map shows the path of the total solar eclipse which runs in a lone from Texas through to Maine

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

And please, let's stop with "going rogue". Doing something unanticipated in service of an objective *you've set* in an environment *you've created* is not "going rogue".

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:

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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"What does your Elf lore know of this "palantir"? "They're just a bit of fun, like Elven skimming stones, nothing to worry about, we'd love them" @the-one-ring-rpg.bsky.social @mytholder.bsky.social @adsomenk.bsky.social

One Ring dice, with one feat dice showing an eye and four success dice, all ones.

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.

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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I've almost certainly peaked for the day. Maybe the year. www.maptap.gg July 15 100🎯 100🤯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 1000

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Over a thousand years of data on peak Japanese cherry blossom ourworldindata.org/grapher/date...

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

In winter, I spoke at a faculty event about AI. I was alarmed by the range of faculty awareness. Some believe our students are so "good" they'd never cheat. Yes, cheating's wrong. But systems that explicitly or implicitly incentivize cheating--AI does both--will produce cheating. 11/

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Preparing to say goodbye to the mighty BBC Radio 4 Long Wave broadcast. The first service began 101 years ago. The transmitters at Droitwich, Westerglen and Burghead will be switched off at 0100 BST on Saturday. The 200 metre long AM signal at 198 Khz goes right through you and sounds fabulous!

The Long Wave transmitter at Droitwich in Worcestershire.

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 27/05/2026

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 09/05/2026

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

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Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk · 05/05/2026

At our Annual Conference, researchers shared their latest work. We’ll share their project posters over the coming weeks. First: Burcu Sevde Selvi & @ojgarling.bsky.social discuss skills mismatches in East Anglia & gaps to support young people’s transition into work. Poster: bit.ly/4nceZpJ

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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Instead of the deranged post everyone is sharing, please notice this thoughtful Easter message from NASA astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of Artemis II, flying toward the Moon today. “Whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not…” 🌎 🌕 youtu.be/WdgsAtjrxq4

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Artemis 2 astronaut delivers amazing Easter message on way to moon

YouTube video by VideoFromSpace

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

My Easter books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Easter Egg Hunt techniques inspired by great detectives

Panel 1: Sherlock Holmes.
Deduce the exact location of every egg from seemingly unrelated details without leaving your room. Send your amazed sidekick to fetch them.

Panel 2: Jack Reacher
Hit the garden hard and fast.
Take no prisoners
Get back on the road.
This approach results in a thrillingly intense hunt, but very few intact eggs.

Panel 3: George Smiley
Meticulously assess documents, people and motives. Then scrupulously collect the eggs and dejectedly wonder if any of it was worthwhile.

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I am really enjoying season one of HBO’s Harry Potter: Your Takes

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