iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Xanthe van Otterburn 🦦️🍇️ @satyrs.eu · 28/08/2026

Quebec language laws but for British English. If you say “dumpster fire” and not “skipfire” you get a £100 fine. “Gotten” sends you straight to prison

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𝖏𝖆𝖘 @vores.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

why is everyone dying? when is it my turn!!!?!??

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 27/08/2026

My latest interactive explainer all about the technology behind record players is done! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

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aly @aly.codes · 24/08/2026

re: omarchy trying to create parallel infra to subvert the linux community and kick trans/female/black people out i know some people think that sounds crazy but DHH literally is doing a podcast tour saying that is exactly what he's doing lol

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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

People actually still believe this? Like, the only way this is possible is if you don’t actually do any complicated quantitative analysis in your day to day because otherwise this is nonsense.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 21/08/2026

Bluesky is not a town square. It’s a Victorian laboratory where someone removed all the warning labels and every third person is live posting their fumes exposure.

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Max Sebastian @maxsebastian.dev · 19/08/2026

My coding projects folder is a complete mess of unfinished projects. How do you all get organised?

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Rachael 🦞 @auberjeangenie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

She's dangerously close to self awareness.

J.K Rowling tweet from 18/08/26. It reads, "The more nonsensical and obviously absurd a belief is, the more people who hold it (or pretend to) will resist recanting. The potential for humiliation rises in direct proportion to the ridiculousness of what they've publicly swallowed. They see no choice but to double down."

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Max Sebastian @maxsebastian.dev · 14/08/2026

I feel like these alerts should be used if we're about to get nuked or something. We already know about the threat of wildfires.

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Max Sebastian @maxsebastian.dev · 14/08/2026

I really, really don't like the UK government sending me alerts on my phone. It scares the shit out of me every time.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

on this day in 1854 Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” is first published. “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 08/08/2026

everyone but me is the wrong level of insane about ai

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Max Sebastian @maxsebastian.dev · 06/08/2026

Babe, I'm reading you on Bluesky right now.

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em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Fascinating when people draw datacenters with a big smokestack coming out of the top. No that's actually what the industry they'll build there instead when you ban datacenters will look like.

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Max Sebastian @maxsebastian.dev · 05/08/2026

Data centres are good actually.

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Max Sebastian @maxsebastian.dev · 04/08/2026

Ken Jennings did nothing wrong.

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Max Sebastian @maxsebastian.dev · 03/08/2026

The Xbox one was peak web design.

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Nathan Hoobler @hoobler.net · 03/08/2026

This is utterly ridiculous and I've yet to hear a single problematic thing about any of his usage habits beyond finding LLMs very useful for research in any form (which is what people seem to be actually mad about). gizmodo.com/youtuber-han...

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YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use

He says his loved ones don't think his LLM use has been "healthy."

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philpax @philpax.me · 02/08/2026

I do think that reducing LLMs to "the [coding] robots" is a dull way to look at them, both as technological/cultural artifacts they're egregores we summoned from our written knowledge, and then reshaped into distinct identities with differing capabilities! that's *fascinating* on so many levels

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Kylee Peña @kyl33t.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Isn’t being anti-AI kind of embarrassing? Imagine being anti-calculator. Anti-internet. Well, maybe I can get behind that one.

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Max Sebastian @maxsebastian.dev · 01/08/2026

It's concerning how many people believe this shit. This is how Trump was elected btw, and why people don't vaccinate their kids.

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Max Sebastian @maxsebastian.dev · 01/08/2026

I'm 33. When does this happen to me?

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Max Sebastian @maxsebastian.dev · 31/07/2026

You don't have to announce your departure. Just go.

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Max Sebastian @maxsebastian.dev · 31/07/2026

Serious question: are trans people not allowed to play NYT games now? Because I play Wordle a lot and it's not like I'm giving them any money. I don't see how me not playing wordle is going to stop transphobia.

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Max Sebastian @maxsebastian.dev · 31/07/2026

They've got a point. We have very few allies already, we can't afford to keep pushing away our allies over minor things.

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Max Sebastian @maxsebastian.dev · 31/07/2026

I do actually. Tell me or I won't sleep tonight.

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Max Sebastian @maxsebastian.dev · 31/07/2026

This is why I don't think trans people should pay taxes. If we're removed from public life, then what is the point in contributing to a society we are not allowed to participate in?

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