iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing?

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

Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet

“We apologise for the Princess Diana page one headline DI GOES SEX MAD, which is still on the stands at some locations. It is currently being replaced with a special 72-page tribute issue: A FAREWELL TO THE PRINCESS WE ALL LOVED.”
Statement published by the National Enquirer, August 31, 1997

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.

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Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It would be a terrible shame if this resource was lost for want of an archive - this stuff is still of major interest to policymakers today and is a crucial part of the social history that made the Britain of today (HT @municipaldreams.bsky.social )

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Two of these people around Farage were in and out of the Russian Embassy discussing Gold and Diamond deals. The third has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for taking Kremlin Gold. How does anyone believe Nigel didn’t know?

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Richard Kaczynski @richardkaczynski.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Discovered this amazing mural while running work errands today. For a moment there I actually thought the figure on the ground was a live person touching up the mural. It’s that good (or my glasses are that bad 😂).

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026

The expanded class action suit accuses X “of shielding child predators by obstructing police investigations into Grok-generated child sex abuse materials (CSAM).” CW for descriptions of child harm and sexual assault.

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Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself

More young girls sue X over Grok CSAM; X accused of shielding child predators.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Just another day in autodestruct mode.

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Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Brace yourselves a fresh new hell of SEO jamming is coming.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 29/06/2026

Checking in on MAHA day at the American State Fair. Managed to get pretty close to the stage

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Enjoying this press tour so far. www.avclub.com/ben-collins-...

AVC: A lot of Heidecker’s work is focused on this kind of mocking portrait of American right-wing masculinity. What do you see as the overall satirical target of the new InfoWars?

We live in the final boss of this hyper-masculinized grift economy. It’s not even masculinized. It’s this performative, over-the-top GI Joe-style grift economy, where everything you put in your body is a temple, even though you end up looking like a fucking bowling ball. The most insane, over-the-top stupid shit. And we live in that world. We live in the endgame of this where we have a Health And Human Services Secretary that carries around sauerkraut in a fucking Ziploc bag everywhere he goes. The guy eats the ingredients to diarrhea every day, because that’s what he read on a blog. And that’s what he heard on YouTube and TikTok from a guy who he thinks looks more jacked than him. This world that we’ve inherited is one that leaves you desperate for some answer that you can solve within yourself by buying a supplement or hating the right kinds of people or, you know, exterminating whole swaths of people that don’t look like you. And that is the InfoWars mantra.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...

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Revealed: Nigel Farage is breaking British company law

Farage’s personal company has almost £2m in cash but has not filed key documents

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

PERSON OF THE DAY. 16 June 2016. Labour MP Helen Joanne (“Jo”) Cox (aged 41), was murdered by a far right extremist in Birstall, West Yorkshire. She was 1st sitting UK MP to be assassinated since the Conservative Party’s Ian Gow, who was killed by an IRA car bomb on 30 July 1990.

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Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

As oil literally rains down in Russia, a reminder that no military can reasonably or effectively strike millions of solar panels across thousands of miles. That’s actual energy security…

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David Lance Callahan @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

X users: "Fair enough, we'll just generate our own under-16s" ...

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the

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Mark @marksalad.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The response video is brilliant

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Mark @marksalad.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Almost too perfect: 1. The problem is "fragile stud holes". 2. "Poor sales mean that only 173 of the stainless steel pickup trucks will actually need to be recalled." Also, in profile it looks like some weird canopy light for a kitchen extension

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Mark @marksalad.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Trade negotiations must have been wild in the old days. There'd probably be a tariff on smallpox now.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

What American's die from vs What US Media reports on... by @OurWorldInData

This infographic from Our World in Data, titled “What Americans die from and the causes of death the US media reports on,” compares actual causes of death in the US in 2023 with media coverage of those causes by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. On the left, a stacked bar chart shows heart disease (29%) and cancer (27%) as the top causes of death, followed by accidents (7.8%), stroke (7%), lower respiratory diseases (6.3%), Alzheimer’s (4.9%), diabetes (4.1%), and others including homicide (<1%) and terrorism (<0.001%). Three adjacent charts show media coverage percentages for selected causes: The New York Times covered homicide (42%) and terrorism (18%) most, despite their low mortality; The Washington Post similarly focused on homicide (46%) and terrorism (12%); Fox News gave the highest coverage to homicide (52%) and drug overdose (9.8%). All outlets underreported leading causes like heart disease and cancer relative to their actual impact. The note clarifies data is normalized to 100% across 12 common causes plus drug overdose, homicide, and terrorism, which together account for over 75% of US deaths. Sources include Media Cloud (2025), US CDC (2025), and Global Terrorism Index.

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Mark @marksalad.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Nothing can prepare you for who's singing this National Anthem (via lpaulfranklin / TT)

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Libritos Jenkins (Frunobulax) @frunobulax.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Impresionante e hipnótica exhibición de animación stop-motion tradicional aplicada al diseño gráfico, obra de TOMOHIRO OKAZAKI 🙃

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 02/05/2026

So, friends: I promised I'd tell the story. Now I shall. Let a (former) psych nurse tell you the true (gods help us) story of a night in a big-time NYC emergency room: and the arrival of The Man With The Bloomingdales Bag. (1/n)

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The mob reaction in Epsom to something that - it turned out - never happened is a depressing tale of populism and misinformation, often by people who should know better. That’s the pattern. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73184/...

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The mob reaction in Epsom paints a dark picture of chaos and populism

The protests and violence that followed an alleged rape that never happened were the result of far-right agitators galvanising fear on our streets

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Mark @marksalad.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Son of Mustang Ford - Swervedriver Stones - Sonic Youth Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr Gesture - Matthew Shipp Good Times - Chic This Time - DJ Shadow The Silent Orchestra - Hamilton Leithauser Daddy's Car - Eno/Hyde French Press - RBCF Shaker Loops - John Adams Top ten of yesterday is the best I can do

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🔴 NEW: Reform UK's £4m crypto donor Ben Delo has dismissed his US conviction as a "non-crime" But we got the court docs - and found a different story US federal prosecutors said he "thumbed his nose at the law" and had led a "criminal enterprise" democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-4m...

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Reform's £4m donor "thumbed his nose at the law", US prosecutors said

Ben Delo has called his US conviction a "non-crime". Prosecutors said the Farage-backing crypto billionaire was a “leader of a criminal enterprise”.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Tamar but spooky @heartinamber.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It's always just 'the examples of what not to do you get in your anti-bribery training at work'

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

People in the UAE now want to get rid of the American military bases on their territory. The timing is not coincidental now that Ukraine has signed 10 year defense agreements with the Gulf states.

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Mark @marksalad.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Organized "family book buying" most likely.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

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Mark @marksalad.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Literally a group of adult males applauding the world's most powerful dotard for managing to remember his own name. I wonder if any of them were this enthusiastic about their kid's homework.

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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f...

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Encountered a pretty impressive postbox topper in Claygate today @artefactual.eurosky.social

A knitted post box topper with lots of different birds sat in tree branches

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

"Stop overreacting, they're never going to do that."

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Mark @marksalad.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Did I miss some "optics are for losers" memo or something?

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Sara Joy ☠️ @sjoy.lol · 31/03/2026

I dislike the "CSS zealots" line (I probably am one), and found it hard to really understand what's going on when the main conversation is within an X thread I cannot access for myself (deleted my account there years ago). But! This helps a lot: denodell.com/blog/youre-l...

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You're Looking at the Wrong Pretext Demo

Pretext went viral for its beautiful canvas demos. But the community is showcasing the wrong feature.

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