iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Everybody’s dead, Dave.” “Edward the Confessor’s dead?” “Everybody’s dead, Dave.” “What about Harald Hardrada?” “He’s dead, Dave. Everybody’s dead, Dave.” “Not King Harold?” “Yes, Dave. King Harold’s dead, Dave. Everybody is dead, Dave.”

A post from BBC Lincolnshire with the headline “Digital reconstruction reveals Norman Conquest man’s face”. The digital reconstruction is an older, balding man’s face against a black background, and looks not unlike Norman Lovett playing Holly in Red Dwarf.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The mastery of artist: Harry Wingfield ‘Moonlight’ (1970)

A view from suburbia looking up towards a marvellous cloudy night, lit up by a crescent moon

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

A plastic dolls house sitting on a wall, taken from an angle which makes it look as if it might be one of the houses on the street.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Dioramas by the Miyazaki Mecha Modelers Club (today at the Modelers Dungeon event in Japan)

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey. I've been for a walk, our balls are cold today. They'd be dry and warm if they were in L.A. #SaturdayMorning dreaming on an #Orkney autumn day. 🍂

Wet balls and fallen leaves out the front of Orkney Library and Archive

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Judi Dench on working with Frances Barber

As for Frankie's gift ... The play, among other things, is a discussion about unconventional sexual acts and so Frankie Barber, as a first-night present, bought me a double-ended dildo. It was about two metres long and all bendy - you could wear it as a scarf, which I did once when the company gathered for director's notes. But I had no idea where to keep it. I couldn't take it home, where my young grandson often came to stay, so in the end I hung it over Diana Rigg's portrait in my dressing room. My reasoning being that any visitors would be so arrested by the beautiful image of Diana, they wouldn't notice this massive penis dangling down each side of the frame.
But then one day I knew the cleaner had spotted it because when I arrived in my dressing room for that evening's performance, it was coiled up on my make-up table like a Cumberland sausage.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

FUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This raises a really important question: A) Moby Dicks B) Mobys Dick Or C)Mobies Dick

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 01/10/2026

Science news! Discovered in Scotland in 1984 and described in 1990, Westlothiana lizziae—nicknamed “Lizzie” for its lizard-like appearance—was considered one of the earliest known reptiles. Now, a new look inside the 345-million-year-old fossil is revealing a very different story. 👀

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Famous "First Reptile" Fossil Wasn’t a Reptile After All | AMNH

Study uncovers gills and fish-like teeth in 345-million-year-old fossil, upending long-held ideas on origins of reptiles.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 24/09/2026

I'm going to bump this, because I spent two hours this morning, using specialist tools*, to be able to write it. *Excel and a 40-year-old maths O-level** **Grade C

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La Brea Tar Pits & Museum @tarpits.org · 21/09/2026

New fossils are discovered daily and the number of new fossils from Project 23 is in the millions, enough to double the collections!

Fossil crates from La Brea Tar Pits' Project 23.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well, let's get the bad news over first. Got a parking fine in Aberdeen yesterday.

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Darwin Brandis @darwinbrandis.com · 20/09/2026

Up until about 10-15 years ago (when stabilized, remote heads because universally standard) i'd still encounter old Citroen cars that were converted into camera platforms due to their incredibly smooth air suspension system. I remember a push to electrify some of them, but the tech was too new.

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Spooky Old Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Need to harness the power of Bluesky, so reposts are appreciated. If anyone here, or anyone you know attends Bangor University (the Welsh one) and needs a room for the upcoming year, get in touch. One of my son's housemates has dropped out at the last minute, so their house is one short.

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's eight years tomorrow since we posted on Twitter that Sting had been in to return his books.

A shelf on the book return trolley. The titles of the five books are Every Breath You Take, Every Move You Make, The Bonds That Break, Every Step You Take and I Am Watching You.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Roses are red HERE IS THE NEWS

WSJ headline: Marmots Are Terrorizing California Hikers and Stealing Their Shoes (plus photo of marmot about to choose violence)

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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine @beautifulbizarre.net · 29/08/2026

Pure fairy tale magic in this vibrant, furry neon creature brought to life by Anya Boz.

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The Nightingales @nightingalesuk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

KING ROCKER - NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM King Rocker, the film by Stewart Lee and director Michael Cumming about Robert Lloyd and The Nightingales, is now available to watch across a range of platforms, including YouTube (for a limited time only), Prime Video and Apple TV. filmhub.com/t/xwpg-8h3j/...

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King Rocker (2020) - Filmhub

Stewart Lee and Michael Cumming explore punk outsider Robert Lloyd, frontman of The Prefects and The Nightingales, in King Rocker, an anti-rockumentary linking his life to Birmingham’s forgotten King ...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/08/2026

The Empire State Building went pink at exactly 9:25pm for Dolly Parton. Because of course they made it 9 to 5. That’s how you honor an icon. 🩷

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Coercive nuclear threats under domestic dissonance: How public opinion shapes the nuclear credibility of autocracies and democracies doi.org/10.1080/1352... Paper in @cspjournal.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Research Fellow @samseitz.bsky.social & Fellow @laurensukin.bsky.social

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.

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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bambeanos (1973-1977): A line of roasted, flavored soybeans, sold in cannisters like peanuts, marketed as a lower-fat snack option. Available in salted, onion, barbecue, and garlic. A cheese flavor was added to the lineup in 1976. However, this snack was also at the center of a major lawsuit...a 🧵

A black and white ad for Bambeanos. The copy reads "Less fat for le$$" above an image of a cannister that reads "Salted Snack Bambeanos" and a pile of soybeans. A coupon offers 20 cents off now, and 50 cents back later

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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Obviously this heat is unbearable but it has gifted us this entirely excellent sentence

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Royal Navy’s Steam Gunboat (SGB) was an attempt to combine the attributes of MTBs and MGBs in a larger vessel which could help counter the threat of German S-Boats. Although useful, SGBs were produced in very limited numbers and had a number of limitations which reduced their effectiveness. 🧵1/8

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 12/08/2026

😻😻😻

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 11/08/2026

The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org

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Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet

“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sad to see this.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I don’t know if this really happened. But if it did, I salute you Alan.

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 08/08/2026

wake up babe, a brand new John Wyndham apocalypse idea has just dropped.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If you saw over 30 cats steal a boat, no you didn't

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

Comic page depicting how the did the scene in the Muppets Movie with Kermit playing the banjo in a swamp

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 31/07/2026

"More than just a metaphor: the 2026 slogan."

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 29/07/2026

An Azerbaijani court has sentenced nine journalists, media workers, and civil society activists to between 12 and 15 years in prison. It's the harshest verdict since the government began its ongoing crackdown on independent journalism.

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Azerbaijan Jails Prominent TV Journalists, Media Workers

An Azerbaijani court on July 27 sentenced nine journalists, media workers, and civil society activists to between 12 and 15 years in prison.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 29/07/2026

Even though the film inevitably skips over a lot of material given the scope of the subject, it was good to be reminded of important things—such as the fact that the US requested that the brave Black soldiers of the Free French Army not take part in the libération of Europe.

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Libération de Paris : où étaient les combattants noirs de la 2e DB ?

Lors de la Libération de Paris, un seul soldat noir faisait partie de la 2e Division blindée du Général Leclerc. À la demande des Américains, l'armée avait été blanchie un an auparavant en prévision…

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Whatever they are paying the photo editor, it’s not enough.

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Aardman Films do John Cooper Clarke’s Evidently Chickentown

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peter haverin morrison @remotecore.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

New work by @jawcooper.bsky.social fuck AI and the five legged horse it rode in on.

Photograph of human artist JAW Cooper, pink haired and mischievous. On the wall behind is a framed print of new art, which shows a mighty black horse, smearing out into oil tinged rainbow colours. Across the image is text "FUCK AI AND THE FIVE LEGGED HORSE IT RODE IN ON".

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get.

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