iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 2h

37 members who think they know better than physics and biomechanics. 37 members who think dead and injured constituents are a fair price to pay for nominally driving a bit faster.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 5h

*Well, you've got company, there have always been "hylozoic" philosophers here and there *Even *cybernetic hylozoic" guys en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylozoism

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Elizabeth James @lizijames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"You know the famous Orwell review of Mein Kampf… maybe Mr Hitler has understood something that we don’t. We’re worried about medical care for all and fair treatment of everybody, and what Hitler understands is what people really want is guns, flags, and loyalty parades" substack.com/@nickcohen/n...

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Anne Applebaum on Trump’s Empire of Grift

Podcast with transcript

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Elizabeth James @lizijames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In July the UK govt launched a public consultation on controlling pyrotechnics🎆🧨 I read all the blurb [www.gov.uk/government/consultations…] and d/loaded their form but it was Read Only...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Elizabeth James @lizijames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🗞Move to rejoin EU among options for UK, says Burnham 😀 An ephemeral dream but nice while it lasts

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Karl C Krumpholz @karlckrumpholz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This weekend!! I’ll be exhibiting at @comicartfestival.bsky.social in Kendal, Cumbria, UK! This will be my first of two UK shows this autumn. Had a blast at last year’s show and happy to be back, get to explore Kendal, see friends, & find some new art & comics. Come by and say hello. We’re nice!!

An illustration listing all of KCKs autumn expo appearances

‘I’m an exhibitor at the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival, 2-4 October 2026, Kendal Cumbria.’

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*Should we, maybe, be pondering some kind of moral framework for the way we treat maps of fruit-fly brains *Maybe as a cautious lab rehearsal for what might reveal itself as a big issue some day interconnected.org/home/2026/09...

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A new prayer for the fruit fly connectome

Posted on Saturday 26 Sep 2026. 1,568 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.

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Elizabeth James @lizijames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Read Philip Roth's The Plot Against America when it was published. Favourably impressed. But all I recalled was Lindbergh became president and certain families were relocated. Rereading it now, and am surprised by its richness. #📖

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-Boulet- @bouletcorp.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Un autre @zachweinersmith.bsky.social pour la route ?

Une main transparente marche sur ses doigts dans une ville en ruines envahie par la végétation. elle pense: "Les cheetohs sont à 7$. Le taux d'emprunt immobilier grimpe de 1%. Le S&P 500 baisse à 476,23..."

La légende dit: "Après que l'humanité se fut auto-annihilée, la main invisible du marché continua à parcourir le monde, ajustant tristement les prix."

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Elizabeth James @lizijames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'How could someone go from Silicon Valley-data-surveillance-technologies-are-a-threat-to-democracy to pass-me-my-pay-cheque-please?' broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...

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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

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Concretebotany @concretebotany.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) shot in the 12th. #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers #Flowers

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Elizabeth James @lizijames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

pure gold✨️ #Habitat #Sprawl 'I wonder if Robert Moses thought about the mythic aspects when he picked this site for the new city dump, a place where the used-up vessels of our lives would be sent across the river in slow-floating barges to become the underworld.' open.substack.com/pub/edgeland...

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In the Burial Mounds of Eghquhous

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Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hampstead Heath, 07:48

A crow perched on the back of a park bench, against a background of trees, with the tops of some of London's tower blocks rising in the distance.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I see a lot of people complaining about the undoubtedly stressful conditions at present on London's roads. But I see few people complaining about motor vehicles. Yet in the last 24 hours three vulnerable road users have died after being hit by people driving motor vehicles.

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Paul Gilster @gilster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sakurai's Object is a rarity, a star changing so fast that we can detect changes year to year. Highly unusual and a laboratory for processes involved in stars like our sun transforming into white dwarfs at the end of their lives. www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/09/24/s...

centauri-dreams.org

Sakurai’s Object: A Stellar Rebirth | Centauri Dreams

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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People are eating weeds in Oleshky because there is almost nothing else left to eat. There is no electricity, water or gas. Some people eat only once a day. Leaving means facing mined roads, with no agreed humanitarian corridor. Around 6000 people remain there. At least 200 of them are children.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Croatian Tales of Long Ago — a seminal collection of short stories by the acclaimed children's author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić. The illustrations in this 1922 edition are by Croatian artist Vladimir Kirin: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c…

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Elizabeth James @lizijames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This fell off the parcel that arrived after a much-delayed journey. #irony 😥

A piece of a cardboard delivery-box with the text reading 'Please handle me gently. Deliver me safely. Open me carefully'.

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James Bashford @wrenandbee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’ve seen some Vestals before but never one as fresh and vibrant as this 🤩 #NatureWithin

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Polémix @polemix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"I am the best margarine. Everybody tells me I am the best margarine. Nobody is better margarine than me."

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Bastiaan Brak @bastiaanbrak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Q. for (British) botanists: is this just a tiny Field pansy or is it possibly Dwarf pansy? #wildflowerid

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Rick Williams @woodlandsundial.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Equinox ! The 9/22 Equinox occurred at 5:05 PM PDT. A Polar Sundial shows the gnomon shadow to be right on the midline of the east-west equinoctial line at the moment of the Equinox, proof that the dial is calibrated correctly. See woodlandpolarsundial.com , Topic “March Equinox” for details.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds, 1871.⠀ ⠀ One of several hummingbird / orchid paintings by Martin Johnson Heade. This and a couple of other Heade works available as prints in our online shop here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-ar…

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New Spinal Tap sequel.

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mohammad bin Salman's head must be spinning from all this www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...

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Future Revisitations @futurerevisited.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Celebrated author Keith Roberts was born OTD 1935. Still best known for his superb alternative history novel ‘Pavane‘ - although I was delighted to discover that there’s a whole body of work that‘s equally captivating. One of the few authors to have ignited the ‘completist’ gene in me.📚📖📚🙂 #booksky

Four recent editions of books by British author Keith Roberts - ‘Pavane’, ‘The Furies’, ‘The Grain Kings’, and ‘Kiteworld’.

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Elizabeth James @lizijames.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cheery flowers on the dreary, car-infested street🌼 #PavementBlooms

Orange marigolds have escaped the garden and made it through the gates and onto the pavement.

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Elizabeth James @lizijames.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My tv was not replaced when it literally melted down a few years ago, as nothing but opinion-massaging programmes are shown. No matter, only a certain proportion needs persuading for it to work.

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Peter Zeihan's Hair @zeihanshair.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Is this just the vulgar acme of reality teevee? Is it helpful public service propaganda? A little of both?

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Elizabeth James @lizijames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The tricks these "developers" get up to ~ 'The housebuilder wants the study to cover one thing: the nutrients 216 households would send into the Burry Inlet catchment. Traffic, flooding, wildlife, noise and six other topics would be left out.' The naked cheek of it!

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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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Peter Zeihan's Hair @zeihanshair.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

US finally re-fortifying Palau. "At a community meeting last month, US officials explained the port’s benefits by showing images of cruise ships, not warships. But when a resident asked where the passenger terminal would be, the reply was the US Navy didn’t require one." Classy. SSDD Via AFP.

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Dave Petley @davepetley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Incredibly helpful updates have been posted online on both the 2026 Nepal-Tibet landslide and the 2023 Teesta Valley GLOF:- eos.org/thelandslide... These are two invaluable pieces of work by Praful Rao of Save The Hills in Darjeeling-Sikkim, India and the Youth Innovation Lab in Nepal.

Before and after image of the 2023 Teesta Valley GLOF, posted to the Save The Hills blog by Praful Rao.

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Concretebotany @concretebotany.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of today's Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) blooms. #Bloomscrolling #RoseOfSharon

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/07/2026

ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES, my book about grief; who is allowed to mourn and how; and why people want to pathologize the experiences that make us human, is available now in print, ebook, and audiobook formats, wherever fine books are sold (or loaned, shoutout to libraries).

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All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A year before his death, the artist Howard Pyle set off for Italy, leaving unfinished on his Delaware easel his final painting *The Mermaid* — a profoundly haunting work of art: publicdomainreview.org/collection/p…

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

RE: techhub.social/@NSFVoyager2/1172749… Voyager 1 is only 11 minutes shy of a full “light-day” away from Earth! #voyager

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

On why 'road violence' is the right way of describing automobility. In the style of what you get after merging the comunist manifesto and a haiku poem.

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