iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 14h

Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter

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Andrew O'Neill @andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

WOLVERHAMPTON tonight! www.andrewoneill.co.uk/shows

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Iron Maiden Pub Quiz @impq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good morning! Sad Wings of Destiny is now available to stream. It’s in the correct order too. Diamonds and Rust is stuck on the end, for some reason. Great song, though. music.apple.com/gb/album/sad...

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Sad Wings of Destiny (50th Anniversary Remixed & Remastered) [DJ Mix] by Judas Priest on Apple Music

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Dave @kirkie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#nowplaying #metalsky This is so, so good. And its Bandcamp Friday so you know what to do. wraithstorm.bandcamp.com/album/revenant

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Revenant, by Wraithstorm

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Wraithstorm @wraithstormmetal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are rumors circulating a rogue agent may press the button at 8pm EST We are looking into this The Melodeath can't be contained Are you ready? wraithstorm.bandcamp.com/album/revenant

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Revenant, by Wraithstorm

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The Wildlife Information Centre @twic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

iRecord September Highlights 🦋 Thank you to everyone who submitted their wildlife sightings last month, we received over 6000 records in September 🧡 Get involved! Snap your sightings and submit them in iRecord or on our website 📸 #WildlifeRecording #Nature #CitizenScience 🌍️

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Has anyone asked the obvious question about dogging

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why Haydn Is Best episode 6 now available! Warning: A major can be unpredictable and may not be a suitable key to adopt if you live in a block of flats. shows.acast.com/6a4a6c1a5ef1... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w... on.soundcloud.com/8imEPUchzBaI...

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6. Symphony 65 | Why Haydn Is Best

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Michael Legge @michaellegge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Enid Blyton’s got edgy.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

L-R: Virtual XI, Actual XI.

The cover of the Iron Maiden album, Virtual XI.

Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China

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Yann Bigant @yannbigant.com · 27/09/2026

Meta, one of the world's largest wildlife market, settled for billions of dollars and agreed to change its apps for child safety. As Facebook provides all the key functions wildlife poachers and traders need, Meta should do the same for wildlife. gitoc.substack.com/p/metas-171-... 🌏

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Meta's $17.1 billion settlement could reshape Facebook's wildlife market

Meta can redesign the systems that enable several harms at once, or adopt narrow privacy measures that give traffickers better cover

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Dave @kirkie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just found this on bindweed in the garden. I think its a Convolvulus Hawk-moth (Agrius convolvuli) caterpillar. Huge. #teammoth

A photo of a large caterpillar upsidedown on a plant stem. It is dark on top with a cream coloured belly and black sopts along the side

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Big Papa Nito @bigpapanito.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today I learned of a film called Spandexorcist and now I can't think of any other films. Its perfect. The synopsis: After her aerobics aunt dies, Penny discovers a cursed spandex outfit that unleashes a powerful demon. Possessed by the ancient evil, Penny's body becomes a vessel for chaos.

Poster for the film Spandexorcist. A figure in front of a pentagram wearing gym wear and sporting a demonic face

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Coyote vs. LinkedIn @knabewolf.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

They doxxed the fucking Prodigy crab

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De La Soul @wearedelasoul.com · 21/09/2026

Wishing a Happy Heavenly Birthday to our brother David Jolicoeur aka Trugoy The Dove 🕊️ aka 🔌2 #DaveAlways

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft flew for the first time on the 12th of August, a 27-minute test flight over upstate New York that cost about five dollars in electricity. Heart Aerospace’s 30-seat prototype is a big step toward a commercial version. buff.ly/i3f0PhR #ShareGoodNewsToo

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The largest all-electric plane ever flew for 27 minutes, on $5 of electricity

Heart's X1 demonstrator flew for 27 minutes from a regional airport in upstate New York, running on battery power the entire time. The aircraft reached 1,100 feet...

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Dave @kirkie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just went for a walk in a different wood to my usual woods. Didn’t like it, the squirrels treated me with suspicion.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Dave @kirkie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What kind of lizard is this please?

A photo of a tabby cat laying in a newly constructed black wooden reptile vivarium

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Dr Fortunate Mafeta Phaka @dr-mafeta-phaka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A celebration of South Africa’s natural and cultural heritage. #HeritageMonth Print ready multilingual frog posters available for free download. figshare.com/articles/pos...

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Allfather @allfatheruk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ffo of Svalbard if they were a hardcore band

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Dave @kirkie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#nowplaying Soul Revivers, a UK collective featuring legendary reggae artists. “Holding it Down” from earlier this summer is also great #reggaesky soulrevivers.bandcamp.com/album/on-the...

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On The Grove, by Soul Revivers

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Dave @kirkie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This Is My Demo was a great album. This is very sad to hear.

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Iron Maiden Pub Quiz @impq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Some big Judas Priest talk happened today.

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Dave @kirkie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Young male Ornate Uromastyx this morning. That adult colouration is becoming vivid now.🦎

A photo of the head, forelegs and body of a lizard sitting on a rock. His colouration is blue, yellow stripes and dots of red

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Chester Zoo Science @chesterzoosci.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🌺 UK Gardens provide important pockets of biodiversity in agricultural and urbanised landscapes, but just 38% of people are willing or able to make their yards more wildlife friendly, a new study finds. www.chesterzoo.org/news/better-... #conservation #UKwildlife #UKspecies #zooscience #gardens 🌍

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Better planning could help gardens support UK wildlife, study finds | Chester Zoo

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Raquel 🌈✨ @aistear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ep.5 of Why Haydn is Best now available! Contains strong references to Terry and June from the outset. shows.acast.com/why-haydn-is... via @acast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w... on.soundcloud.com/CpmzHKutlfIP...

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Dave @kirkie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Not really the point but one person in the article compares herself to the obviously french womble Madame Cholet, who one would assume emigrated from France to Wimbledon Common.

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Stoo @stoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Shout-out to the brave motherfuckers chopping the collapsing, rusting masts off the SS Richard Montgomery on the bottom of the Thames between Southend and Sheerness today. If it goes badly, we're all going to very much know about it. Fascinating, also terrifying stuff youtu.be/R9u41aeItss?...

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Unexploded Bombs off the British Coast: the SS Richard Montgomery

YouTube video by Tom Scott

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Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart @smnstuttgart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sometimes they even make it clear who survived. @garybugsyou.bsky.social

An Egyptian goose is perched on a dinosaur model

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Iron Maiden Pub Quiz @impq.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Brand new episode out today and it’s BLOODY BRILLIANT!!!

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

With the collapse in advertising, and the post-pandemic shift towards corporate podcasting, there is literally zero reason to make podcasts any more, unless you’re behind a paywall. But nobody’s quite worked out how to tell everyone this. Thanks to anyone who understands!

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New followers: Thank you. I post a lot of wildlife photos that I've taken here and there, and always with ALT info. Here's a Pyrenees Asp (Vipera aspis zinnikeri), observed out in the open on a cool and foggy morning in NE Spain last year. More deets in the ALT. #herps #snakes #NaturePhotography 🌿

A top-down image of a coiled snake resting on open ground. The snake's ground color is a grayish-brown, with darker brown markings running from the neck to the tail. These markings consist of short transverse bars that are connected by a stripe of the same color. The result is a zipper-like effect. The snake is a viper, and as such has a solid, stocky body, together with a triangular spear-shaped head. It is perhaps 20 inches (51cm) in length. The snake was encountered crawling in the open on a hillside trail, and immediately drew itself into a defensive coil. Thanks to its small size and my protective footwear, the shot was achieved by leaning over the snake with a 12-60mm lens.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NICOLAS CAGE IS THE NEXT DOCTOR WHO

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Iron Maiden Pub Quiz @impq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We record the next episode of IMPQ on Wednesday, so get your dream setlists in. Don’t make Cyndy angry. ironmaidenpubquiz@gmail.com

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