iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 02/10/2026

I eat their queen chickpeas straight from the jar with a dessert spoon. I don't know what they put in them and I don't care. I only know if I don't eat a jar every three days everything is terrible

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 02/10/2026

On the way home and deliberately not looking at the foxes who pause when they see me so they think I haven't seen them and they're mad stealthy and sly. I want the local foxes to feel they're good at being foxes

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 01/10/2026

I had my first mince pie yesterday. I'm ready to look festiveward

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 30/09/2026

I briefly shared a lift with Pamela Anderson but then her security team made everyone get out so she could have it to herself

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 30/09/2026

With one hand, JCO giveth and with the other, JCO taketh

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 30/09/2026

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

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 30/09/2026

I'm not allowed to use DMs because I wouldn't show them my ID, so please can I email you instead?

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 30/09/2026

I would love to claim a copy of Ghost Wall! I had a copy and lent it to a man and never got it back!

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 30/09/2026

If I was rich I'd buy all the vaccines and have them whenever I wanted. That would be my weird billionaire quirk

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 30/09/2026

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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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 30/09/2026

This is Executive Level thinking. I am honoured you've shared this with me

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 30/09/2026

I guess I'll have to buy some more to top it up!

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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

It's the worst word in the world

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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

We're being held hostage by men who never learned how to be people

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

I truly think sunk cost fallacy is one of the biggest and most underestimated threats to us as indivuals and a collective society

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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

Obviously all the windows are opened for at least five minutes in the morning for Lüften, I'm not an animal

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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

I think of this all the time! I work so hard to get my characters into situations where their phones can't help them because they're such a plot-killer if they're fudged around and honestly, so much of this book could have been solved by a secret recording made in a pocket when people gobbed off!

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

There are three particular scenes where if someone had the brains to use their phone for something other than texting, they'd have had all the evidence they needed to deal with the situation at hand!

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

BUT, talking of cheese, I've some Pevensey Blue I liberated from my friends' fridge (they're off to Greece) and I've potato cakes, so I feel like there will be Pevensey Blue cheesy leeks on potato cakes in my future

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

I don't like the spelling of cheesy at all now. It doesn't look right

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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

Cauliflower cheese = good Cheesy leeks = better

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

Any pub that does a lamb roast gets an automatic 7/10 before I've even sat down. Every pub that includes a Yorkshire pudding regardless of meat starts with an automatic 5/10

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

I'm going to double fist IKEA hotdogs. Mustard on one, ketchup on the other, and as I sit in front of the interviewer I'll lock eyes with them and slowly press the hotdogs together so the mustard and ketchup mix, before I take a bite from each; an allegory for me and the company coming together

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

I've never seen a villain origin story being born before. This was an honour

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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

I loved the Dublin Murder series but the Ardnakelty books have my heart

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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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