iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Roses are redde Violettes are blue Narratyves of inevitable acceptance of technologye Are an ideological tool

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Andrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Flipbook of the Rings - recreating The Fellowship Of The Ring through individual artists hand drawing frames from the movie

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Flipbook of the Rings "Chill Edition" (the first 11 minutes)

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's a good apple year this year... as usual stuck to find homes for them all

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Musselburgh scrubbing up well in the September sunshine.

A view across a rough grass meadow, past trees, to a church spire set against distant purplish hills. A few figures walking in the meadow, high clouds in a bright blue sky.

A shiny metal feather sculpture set on a rock. Scale is difficult to tell from the image, but it is around a foot or 30cm long. The feather curves to reflect a blue sky. Glimpse of scrubby grass and a tarmac path beyond.

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ElizaB @figandpen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If we are serious about stopping ‘rogue’ AI agents, we need to create one that seeks out and erases debt - student loans, medical debt, mortgages, car finance - all of it. AI would be on the shortest of leashes before you could say ’interest rate’.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Once again, speaking as a professional archaeologist: "English" is not an ethnicity in any meaningful sense. You only have to go back about 1,000 years before everyone in Europe has the same group of common genealogical ancestors. Humans have lived on the British Isles for almost a million years.

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don't know anything about this, but I hope any clinical underpinning is more accurate than that awful so-called 'picture' of so-called 'Edinburgh'....

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's not a matter of free speech. X is a machine built to deliberately spread misinformation and disinformation and run by an overtly political trillionaire who delights in encouraging it and the far right Nobody who cares about truth should be on it regardless of their political leanings.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go.

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Am I not able to type even a three line posting without 1 stupid typo I don't spot till after the first notifcation????

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fed up of ppl who think & write as if there are hive-minds based on geog accident; as if arbitrary lines of maps mean everyone living within them thinks the same way, has been brought up the same way.

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I see that even the House of Lirds no longers considers ties to be essential wear. Dear God how much our school uniform policies are behind the times....

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm not sure about this AI stuff, y'know...

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fill this in. It doesn't even take 10 mins

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Most women aren’t walking around thinking about trans+ people as a threat. Trans+ people are just getting on with their lives, going to work, looking after their families, seeing friends and dealing with all the same everyday things as everyone else.

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Edinburgh collection is remarkably good, and I have seen well-curated exhibitions which show it well. All too easily missed oug in a city that holds national treasures, it is well-worth a visit and so easy to pop in, even between trains!

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I need you all to promise me that when this all happens, you never stop clowning them. Never ever. no matter how much they plead for understanding or try to pretend they were never into it, don't ever let them fucking forget

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Down in Carberry Woods today....

A mushroom or toadstool. Leaf litter around gives a scale of around 5cm high. A nearly round white cap on a white stem. The toadstool and the top of the stem are covered in tiny spikes. Evenly spaced amongst the tiny ones is a regular pattern or taller spikes, tipped with pale brown.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Repoost yf once upon a tyme you were a denizen of a diale-uppe BBS and wyth your entyre soule you remembir the birde-screeche-dissolvinge-ynto-static noyse

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Glaciers collapse, disasters ensue. And then we’re expected to ignore all that because we can make fun AI images and google can badly summarise Wikipedia. Seriously. AI - Fuck off.

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have regrets about the money I gave to the RNLI last week. I regret that I was not able to give more.

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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There is no such thing as an illegal asylum seeker. If any of us had to flee for our lives international law recognises that we may not be able to get visas overnight or at all, have money, have passports, fly out of a national airport...so we'd have to go however we could.

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Marcus Houlden @mhoulden.uk · 08/09/2026

The RNLI saves lives at sea, regardless of who they are. Sometimes the crew doesn't come back. To me that sounds a lot more patriotic than getting ballied up and chanting inane slogans at people trying to go on holiday. rnli.org/about-us/our...

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Why does the RNLI launch to small boats in the English Channel?

RNLI lifeboat crews have always launched to the rescue without judgement or preference. Men, women and children in danger in the Channel are no exception.

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sleep Action Sleep Counsellor Conference today! Alyson O'Brien presenting the Scottish Sleep Support Line Impact Report and the life-changing differences sleep support can bring.

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One of those days when East Lothian is just SHOWING OFF....

Sand coastal grass and a rocky shore in the foreground. Then a green blue sea glecked with white. An island (the Bass Rock) sits on the horizon. Blue sky with scudding clouds above.

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Traprain Law in britmap.app today. Something to save my blushes....

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The daily British history map puzzle.

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well dang, should’ve just memed it in the first place

An illustration by Gustave Dore for Dante’s Divine Comedy that shows two silhouetted figures standing on a tall summit gazing up at a great celestial conflagration of souls in heaven. Text reads “We already had free art for people who are broke or bad at designing things. It’s called the PUBLIC DOMAIN”

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I absolutely love these. Knowing the mostly East Lothian locations is just a bonus.

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Sleep Action @sleepactionorg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Our Support Line helps more than 700 families each year, but demand is growing rapidly and we really want to help more parents get the support they need. Your donation can help us reach more families sooner and provide tailored sleep support that changes lives. 💙 Please donate: buff.ly/BRb2kz5

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026

If anyone is interested in grabbing a copy of the cards I have put together so far, you can download them in US letter size and A4 page size here: teenlibrarian.co.uk/2026/08/20/c... 📚📜

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Cards Against AI

I am currently building a deck of cards based on Librarian Jessamyn West’s www.librarian.net/notoai/ page with extra cards about the risks inherent in AI/LLMs to help people help others disab…

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Richard Dalton @zx23.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’ve posted Emma’s stuff in the past. Her fact checks of spin and misleading news stories are amazing. This is not that. This is WAAAAAY more sinister.

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First Steps Nutrition Trust @1stepsnutrition.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🥜There has been a flurry of recent allergy-related news regarding the introduction of allergenic foods and whether the current public health recommendations should be revised.

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Fumop to this morning's adventure when the Scotrail app refused my payment: went to the station, bought a ticket from the machine, jumped on the train, opened my emails to find a ...

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I am so late to this party, but: New Scotrail app- wtf??? Glacially sliw, unintuitive and it has rejected two cards from two accounts so I will have to go in early and buy a ticket from the chunga-chunga machine. Not impressed.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026

I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Oh, I see the mistake, but this theater is actually showing the new “Avengers: Domesday”, it’s a detailed account of land holdings and tax disputes in the Marvel Universe…

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

East Lothian in August. ❤️

A golden field of harvested wheat stalks. In the foreground right, a few remaining ears of wheat and some heads of thistle down. On the left horizon a clump of distant dark trees. Blue sky with high wispy clouds and a few bigger ones in the distance.

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Kirsty @kirstynicol.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What was extraordinary about yesterday even was not the eclipse. It was the vibe. We visit Blackford Hill regularly and I have never seen so many as a TENTH of the people there yesterday, and I have never experienced a crowd quite like it. No-one....

The top left of a face. Cropped so just a bit of nose, cheek and ear visible. Wearing a floppy brimmed beige hat, solar glasses covering the left eye. Long grass and bushes in the background.

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