iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 24/06/2026

In Porto and they have a nice bridge, but it’s no Pontcysyllte. #justsaying

A bridge in Porto crossing the river Douro

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 23/06/2026

There is a festival in Porto where you get to walk up to strangers and hit them with hammers. I am here for this challenge.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 08/06/2026

I found this 3d model of an "ammonite" over the weekend. The "author" wrote: "This model is generated by the state-of-the-art 3D GenAI tool, Rodin Gen-1.However, its ideas and creativity originate from the human author." Clearly the "human" has decided that the animal will never leave the shell

a 3d model of 3 circles with groves in them

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 02/06/2026

This came into my LinkedIn feed today. This guy is "bragging" that he has posted up to 900 posts he wrote with ChatGPT in the last 12 months on LinkedIn.

A screen shot of text that reads:

I’ve written 800–900 LinkedIn posts using ChatGPT since May 2025.

Which also means I’ve spent an unhealthy amount of time in front of a screen.

So recently, I switched to using ChatGPT voice mode while going for walks instead of typing prompts.

And honestly, I underestimated how good it is.

I now brainstorm ideas, refine posts, think through business problems, and dump random thoughts while walking.

Without trying too hard, it quietly added 1 to 1.5 hours of movement into my day.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 05/05/2026

It was on the menu as Beans on Toast - ON TOAST This is a little cafe. I blame #masterchef At least it wasn’t on a slate

A pot of baked beans on a plate with toast and butter

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 22/03/2026

This is mildly terrifying. Someone created an image with AI given a location and time (in history). The output is an image of the “Crucifixion”. I don’t want to offend anyone’s faith, but this tool appears to uncritically accept that the religious book of a faith is a historically correct source?

A linked in post showing how the author created an image set in the past at a specific location. In this case the model as created a very westernised “Messiah” during the crucifixion.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 30/01/2026

do you have this set? ( i only have one card)

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 08/01/2026

It’s getting a bit slippy here. Also no gritters…

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 01/12/2025

Time to break out the advent calendar

An advent calendar showing a man falling from the tower at Nakatomi plaza.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 20/11/2025

Nice, not Westminster, but nice.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 17/11/2025

Having a beer by the bridge

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 23/10/2025

I preferred the original (cc @davecormier.bsky.social and RIP Mark Stiles)

Journal paper reporting on VLE's and if we would see the end of them, the paper reflects on will they have to evolve or become extinct in the light of technology developments and student expectations. It reports on an online symposium organised by Jisc in 2008.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 22/09/2025

Doing some social network analysis around #REF2029 using @nodiux.bsky.social some really interesting themes coming through.

A network diagram of social media posts and a list of hash tags

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 11/09/2025

Excellent night watching Macbeth at the Minack

A coliseum type open air theatre - The Minack, in Cornwall

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 23/08/2025

Penkridge Festival Fail this looping for 30 minutes

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 23/08/2025

Penkridge Festival. Only just arrived so thankfully missed Timmy Mallet. Next up Big Country.

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 05/07/2025

Cutting Crew at Brit Fest “if you don’t know the words make them up, that’s what I fucking do”

Image of the band cutting crew on stage at Brit Fest

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 01/07/2025

This morning this was in my in box. I don't know where to start!

screenshot of an email from Academia.edu saying that an AI wrote a review of my paper

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 31/05/2025

I believe that Home Bargains have sets of these in stock. (No, you can’t have mine)

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 12/05/2025

Alternative views of Spaghetti Junction

Canal boat going under a motorway system

Canal boat going under a motorway system - lots of graffiti on concrete pillars

Canal boat going under a motorway system in the sunshine

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 08/05/2025

For those people wondering why I’m vegetarian - this is what we had in the Black Country growing up

Advertising chocolate veal from the Black Country Living Museum - no it’s not a thing Veal was the name of the shop owner

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 07/05/2025

Going up, next stop Gas Street

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 05/05/2025

One of the things we’d lose is seeing people decorate their canal side gardens with this weird shit!

Two mannequins dressed in pink, one is riding a fairground horse

Two petrol pumps topped with plastic skulls

Mannequins in a garden dressed in red waterproofs. Wooden painted figures of Snow White are in the background

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 05/05/2025

Status update: moving at 4mph

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 28/04/2025

you were in that first small group to see the workshop!

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Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · 28/04/2025

Excited we'll (me, Peter Bryant and @donnalanclos.com) be delivering the next iteration of the "University of Banford" workshop series at #RIDLHE25 - and looking forward to seeing @nicwhitton.bsky.social All your usual characters plus a few surprises... hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/ridlhe/

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