iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 41m

I cannot tell you how much my day improves when I open my email and see JP Brammer has written a new post

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 2h

I got my Covid jab today and I had my flu jab last week, so I think all I need now is the rabies jab and I'll feel safe for 1-3 weeks

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 7h

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 10h

I'm genuinely wondering if the person who wrote this is in one of my author chat groups cos jesus it's an assemblage of everything that's been said in there. Well, not everything. Sometimes we talk about dogs. www.thebookseller.com/comment/who-...

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Who holds publishers to their promises?

We need accountability for the gap between what publishers promise to authors and what they deliver

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 10h

I'm out of library books and none of my loans are in so I'm going to have read a book from the pile of unread books I own, like a rube

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 11h

Woke up with the realisation that when you say "Taipei Story" aloud it sounds like "Type A Story" and hot diggity damn if that isn't a tremendous introduction to our main character

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 29/09/2026

I'm reading R.F. Kuang's Taipei Story and there's a bit where the MC visits an exhibition comparing steeping tea to the birth of creation: organic matter steeped in primordial soup and life sprang forth, ergo steeping is a genesis. So every time I take a bath, I'm getting back to my primordial roots

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 29/09/2026

Well, well, well, if it isn't segue, my old nemesis

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 29/09/2026

I keep having to explain that I don't need something acting as a go-between for me and my life because I'm actually quite keen on living it. It isn't a series of goals to be achieved or completed - everything I do makes up who I am. I don't want to outsource any part of my life to something else

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 29/09/2026

Don't know about yous, but I'm getting a little bored of the "Oh no! Our AI did something completely on its own and it's going to kill us all and the only way to stop it is to give us more money. That's the only way. The one way. Please. More money. You'll definitely get a return, swear down."

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 28/09/2026

Down to only the bedroom window open all the time now. The season's turnin'

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 28/09/2026

This has nothing to do with anything but I'm tired of it being in my head: I despise the term 'fake news'. I think it's ugly and infantalising

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 27/09/2026

So listen, I finished THE KEEPER and I loved it BUT I am very stuck on the fact they live in this world and have cell phones and know about Reddit and Snapchat and data centres but at no point in time did anyone think to use their phone to either audio record or video anything that went down

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/09/2026

paranormal podcaster: today i’m speaking to a man who says he regularly feels the presence of spirits. mysteriously, two of them appear to be related - a father, and a son. i’m meeting him today in his place of work. richard, hi. catholic priest: sorry what kind of podcast did you say this was?

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 26/09/2026

All the local pubs posting about their Sunday roasts starting up again from tomorrow, so I think it's time I finally put in motion my idea of trying them all and creating the definitive Hastings Roast Ranking

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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 25/09/2026

Notable how my tea consumption switches from mint to breakfast when I'm in the throes of a Tana French novel

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 22/09/2026

I feel like the Booker is between The Disappearers and May We Feed the King. Not a bad showing at all

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 22/09/2026

I will date anyone who takes me to the woods in autumn so I can see Amanita Muscaria and who will also drive me to the nature reserve at various times of the year so I can have tea and a teacake and get new birds on Merlin

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 22/09/2026

I'm trying very hard to ignore the fact it's 24 degrees because I want to make mushroom stroganoff and have a bath with autumnal scents to prepare for the equinox

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 22/09/2026

I've added a line to my email signature that explains I am not angry, I've just stopped using exclamation points in emails unless they're really, REALLY warranted (that's never, then)

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 20/09/2026

My cinema screened Metropolis today with a live piano (improv!) score, complete with intermission, and let me tell you people went BANANAS at the end. Two hours and twenty-eight minutes of the full house being locked into a silent, almost century old movie. What a film

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As there is a new cat, so is there a new mouse. The cycle is unbroken

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 20/09/2026

Too much rabies in the news lately. It's giving me the willies

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 19/09/2026

Today I saw the Almeida production of Golden Boy and let me tell you, it was sensational. Absolutely mesmerising

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

if you aren't cool with trans people I'm not gonna brake when I see you crossing the street. bare minimum position on this particular matter by the way

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 19/09/2026

I would rather, one thousand times over, that if we have to have remakes then I want remakes that swing for the fences instead of just treading the same old ground

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Anthony D. Herrera @aherrera.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Your face is just a mask your skull wears because it's shy.

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 18/09/2026

I went to a Michelin starred place in Cheltenham and I liked the bread so much that I raved about it to the waiter... Who brought me more. Which I duly ate. Then they brought more. I ate it, to be polite. And this went on for about six rounds and I was essentially the Bruce Bogtrotter of posh bread

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 18/09/2026

Finally, someone has fully understood the female gaze, because as everyone else has pointed out, that is Lesbian Christopher Walken and that is EXACTLY what women want

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 18/09/2026

Big News from the library. They're switching from Libby to Borrowbox. Does anyone use Borrowbox? What should I be getting excited about?

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 18/09/2026

I'm sad to hear of Stephanie Cole's death, I always thought of her as my TV Nan. Me and my actual nan used to watch Waiting For God together; she thought Diana was an icon. Funnily enough, today is the anniversary of my nan's death too so I hope wherever cool old broads go next, they get to meet up

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 18/09/2026

If I was the Pope I would put fairylights inside my new green globe and a make a feature of it in a gloomy corner of the Vatican

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 18/09/2026

Back on the porridge train but keeping it quiet on Instagram so a bunch of people don't slip into my DMs to tell me how I'm doing it wrong and actually their porridge is the best porridge

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 16/09/2026

I'm skiving off work early today to see Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (a film that was challenging to book due to my ISP deciding I wasn't allowed to look up Teenage Sex) and I'm going to eat cinema nachos and M&S Percy Pigs - maybe even Reversy Percys - while I do. So now you know

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 16/09/2026

Completely forgot I had theatre tix for Sat until I got the email reminder, which I think is normal except these are Golden Boy tickets and how in the hell does one forget an afternoon with Josh O'Connor??!?!????!!!?!?!

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The people of Piddington have spoken. I say, grant them independence. Border controls. Visas to cross into the UK. Tariffs on goods. No GBP. No NHS. No benefits or pensions. Let us know when your little lilywhite enclave has gone all Mad Max and you started eating each other. BUH-BYE!

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 15/09/2026

You can do this every day in Germany. People will just stare at you and you can just stare back and if it means something to anyone involved, it is never spoken of

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Words From Darran @shinraalpha.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it's getting DARKER and COLDER so i think it's time we all agree to suspend work until spring so we can focus on being cosy.

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 15/09/2026

I am trying to improve my German before Christmas and it got me thinking about how many languages I do know - not just English and French and German, but also the language of knitting and crochet and music and cooking--there are lots of little languages I have learned

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am so fucking chagrinned right now.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I hope I escape.

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 15/09/2026

Listen, Bluesky, I think you'll get a kick out of these eggcups

A small, pale blue stoneware plate, on which thick slices of brown bread are smeared generously with butter. There is also a small, rectangular tin of smoked Maldon salt, but best of all are two thick glass eggcups, in the shape of chickens, holding two brown eggs with very golden yolks

A close up of two thick glass eggcups, in the shape of chickens, holding two brown eggs with very golden yolks

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

She’s an Emmy winner!!!

@katiedippold tweet:

TBT to Halloween when I dressed as the babadook but my friend's house had more of a grown ups drinking wine vibe

(Image of Katie in full babadook costume and makeup surrounded by people in casual clothes)

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 14/09/2026

Proust's madeleine, but it's Melinda's chicken Kyiv

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 14/09/2026

The annual ritual of buying a candle scented with 'pumpkin spice' or 'autumn leaves', burning it once then never again because the smell is disgusting and it's given me a headache

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