iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That’s brutal, Martin. Wishing you some relief today.

010

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People who make bean fudge deserve bean fudge. Literal just deserts.

010

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Even if that’s your thing, still WHY BEANS?!?! Nuts are sitting right there!

110

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rosaries are the original fidget spinners.

0183

Reposted by Mel Selfe

Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remembering the delightful Edward Everett Horton on the anniversary of his death (September 29, 1970)

0247

Reposted by Mel Selfe

David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today would have been the 80th birthday of the Third Programme - BBC Radio 3’s remarkable predecessor. My latest for the BBC marks the occasion with a dip into the programme archives, unearthing some forgotten gems from the Third’s early years…

bbc.co.uk

The Third at 80 – a brief history of the unexpected

Weird and wonderful highlights from the early years of BBC Radio 3’s celebrated forerunner The Third Programme

24926

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Public transit archive gold lurking at the back of a bookshop. @norloll.bsky.social, imagine!

010

Reposted by Mel Selfe

𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

americans on bluesky: 🤯🤯🤯

5471

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh no. That kind of thing does not belong in a Billy Wilder movie. Ace in the Hole is the full 20 minutes, and its fans like it that way.

010

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There was that time I sent an email denying a student’s request for a retrospective extension, and accidentally missed out the ‘l’ in my own name, so signed off ‘Meanie’.

020

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Stranded in Iceland in a surprise emergency stopover. Scroll to the top and enjoy this vicarious travel nightmare saga from the safety of your couch. British Airways does not come out of this tale of chaotic crisis management, terrible coms and snooty service at all well.

111

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Also cheese. I don’t know who first thought ‘Perhaps this cave could have a better use than being a dark damp dwelling. Perhaps it can help turn this old milk into tasty lumps of solid joy’. But it was probably a woman.

010

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love a brightly painted terrace.

010

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Love it! Wooden builds are less common in mainland UK, but due to the Scandinavian influence, they’ve become quite popular in the Northern Isles. We do paint rendered stone/brick houses in bright colours in a lot of seaside towns though.

110

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

1970s construction is often pretty great in the UK. It’s after the advent of building regulations but before the arrival of Thatcherism. Textured wallpaper choices and artex paint got everywhere though.

010

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Does that mean it’s one of those early 20th C American wooden bungalows, and you get to paint the outside a fun colour too?

100

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is fab news. Willing it ever upwards.

010

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

But in every US AirBnB I am still freaked out and a little horrified by the phenomenon of the American ‘comforter’. Why isn’t it a proper duvet? Why doesn’t it have a natural fibre slip cover I can wash at 60 (140 in your money).

030

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We had a few different trends going on, on shiny and sateen, one more earthy and scratchy. Both were A LOT. So much too much we were punished with two decades of ‘tasteful’ neutrals.

140

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We didn’t get the so much of white wicker in the UK, but Mediterranean colours up the wazoo. So much terracotta red and turmeric/mustard yellow. Any wicker or bamboo tended to be natural.

000

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Home decor in the 90s was basically feral. I blame 1980s faux marble rag rolling closely followed by 1990s home makeover reality TV shows.

280

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I had to look up the possible candidates on Officialcharts. They only had one top 40 single in 2000. We tolerated less than 10 secs.

011

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In my defence, the boss was forcing me to work at speeds incompatible with building standards compliance.

000

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Incompetent wall construction.

110

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Whereas a dipsomanic one, who sees fairies in the morning, can be part of a great supporting cast.

010

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It resists RomCom while teasing it. No one pretends to be anyone else—the Potters, who are casting RomCom gold, loudly protest that they are not the Porters. Ultimately it is hard to build a really fluffy comedy around a dead mother.

120

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Now My Man Godfrey, on the other hand, takes many of the same class and family dynamics and whips them into a comedic croquembouche.

010

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is why i have to admit that my beloved Holiday fails to fully push all the RomCom buttons. There is much silliness but the central premise is not utterly absurd.

230

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I mean, if a pub attracts known thugs, always has lots of agro, and its a become a hotbed for dealing in fake stuff and plotting crimes and social disorder, I suppose it might come in for some scrutiny, come license renewal time.

020

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Any future independent Scotland needs to not do this.

000

Reposted by Mel Selfe

Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This made me smile, attached to an ordinary cast iron drainpipe on a house in Durham. #TinyJoys

A cast iron drain pipe going down the side of a white-painted house. A crest of red feathers and a bright orange beak made from something solid have been attached around it. It looks remarkably like "Feathers McGraw", the evil criminal penguin from The Wrong Trousers.

231969412

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I feel a letter to my MP coming on.

000

Reposted by Mel Selfe

Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My first morning in the Omaze house. I didn’t sleep. I could hear crying from behind the door I’m not allowed to open.The only thing to eat is frozen prawns. I went for a wander round the 4 acre garden and found a box of VHS tapes marked ‘For the next one’. I’m sure it’s fine. I’m sure it’s all fine

18842218

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

He has coped very well with the perils of child stardom. It destroys many. But everything he now has, including a recent Tony, is his own.

0220

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The very talented and now much awarded Daniel Radcliffe had already played David Copperfield in a major BBC adaptation and been in a John Boorman pic before HP. And his mum was a casting director. Sure, doing HP cushioned his bank account. But it also probably slowed his path to a serious career.

1340

Reposted by Mel Selfe

HippFest @hippfest.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Featuring the following sensational titles: 🍿Sat 26 Sep QUEEN KELLY (1929) 🍿Sat 17 Oct SPEEDY (1928) 🍿Sat 24 Oct FAUST (1926) 🍿Sat 7 Nov MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (1929) + Shuttle bus from Linlithgow Station - Hippodrome for those traveling by rail! 🎟️ Book: www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/tas...

hippodromecinema.co.uk

Taste of Silents

001

Reposted by Mel Selfe

peterkwells @peterkwells.com · 08/09/2026

A statistically significant amount of white smoke!

15111

Reposted by Mel Selfe

Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A perfect example of what AI is really for: removing consent, removing the social safeguards that used to keep the worst ideas at bay, and doing racism at scale. theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...

theplaylist.net

Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”

Paul Schrader explains why he turned to AI actors for ‘Three Guns At Dawn’ after Black actors rejected the original roles.

351662669

Reposted by Mel Selfe

Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I love re-upping this: for decades the main library at UCLA had the generic name University Research Library because the person most responsible for getting it built was an English professor named Hugh G. Dick and the university refused to name it after him.

713005833

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Jack Pullman’s previous big BBC adaptation was War and Peace. The outdoor filmed sequences with loads of extras and military kit clearly cost a packet, but added absolutely nothing aesthetically or narratively. The constraints of a smaller budget for I, Claudius were a blessing.

010

Reposted by Mel Selfe

Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

People have really not grasped how laughable & outrageous the two announced Cambridge 'investigations' are. One is extremely narrow--what support measures were available to Jason Arday (hint: they'll find all boxes were ticked). Second is so broad as to be meaningless: how senior hires are made. 1/n

54619

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I would love to have a cat again, but I can’t provide outdoor access, so I don’t. Because it would be sub-optimal for the cat and very selfish.

000

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Part of the problem is the Americanisation of the discourse online, which leads people to justify weird catnapping behaviour. In the ideal UK scenario the cat has a catflap and comes and goes as it pleases, and the neighbours are not dicks.

cats.org.uk

Cats Protection Glasgow | Adopt A Cat | Support Us

Looking to adopt a cat in Glasgow? Want to fundraise or volunteer? We’d love to hear from you. Find out more about Cats Protection Glasgow.

010

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is a UK publication. Best practice in the UK (where there are no coyotes) is to provide outside access (away from busy roads). If you can’t do so, you are unlikely to be considered a suitable adopter for most cats by any of the major charities. Just check a few posts. www.cats.org.uk/glasgow

cats.org.uk

Cats Protection Glasgow | Adopt A Cat | Support Us

Looking to adopt a cat in Glasgow? Want to fundraise or volunteer? We’d love to hear from you. Find out more about Cats Protection Glasgow.

120

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This looks fabulous. Hope it gets a UK release.

010

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That’s a really great suggestion. Putting other reviewing expertise on editors’ radars helps everyone.

020

Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s OK to say no. If you can suggest a good alternative reviewer, the editors might appreciate it.

010