iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 09/10/2026

“Come on, Donald. Jump! You almost had it!”

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Next time I find Winston Churchill in my garden I'll give him a saucer of milk

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Given the shit that the likes of the Sun and Mail publish, very few "journalists" will have to lower their professional standards to work for Reform UK Ltd!

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW | A corrective to the obituaries… HERE LIES JEFFREY ARCHER The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...

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Here lies Jeffrey Archer

The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In WW2 the egg ration was 1 fresh egg per person per week. You could always have had an omelette made from powdered egg instead (yuk!)

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

She's more of a moron than Piers Moron

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Obviously not great but not Nation States

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They should probably take Newcastle off the Saudis whilst they're at it. It will save time later

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For someone who is supposedly so worried about the effects of immigration on the "indigenous" population he has sacked or adversely affected the working conditions of lots and lots of them - see Grangemouth, Seal Sands, etc.

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think it's banned itself.already

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Todd Kendall @alpinemigrant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@roberthutton.co.uk synthesis of Where Eagles and modern insanity; what's not to like?

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵:

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Basically the proceeds of money laundering then!

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Into? It's already far beyond!

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Gross but hardly surprising!

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026

As Canada is learning (the hard way), the "art" of all of Trump's deals can be summed up in a single word: "renege": pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/t... 1/

A Canadian flag, its elements replaced with circuit boards. In the foreground, a bent-double, exhausted Uncle Sam trudges over rocky terrain, shlepping a giant sack on his back. Centered in the maple leaf is the word SORRY.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

$Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies. The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop. Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning. In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds. So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!). Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs. The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia. It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet. Sheila Hayman Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK$

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

He should drop the "io" from his name and just become plain Marco Rube!

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

You do realise that Love Actually is fiction?

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"emerging"? has he only just attained sentience?

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

They're wearing the cats.....

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

There is no such thing as "indigenous ancestry". Humans are no more indigenous to Britain than rabbits!

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Since when did "peers" mean everyone on the bus?

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is an incredible anecdote about George Dantzig. Source: jstor.org/stable/2686279

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Another "former" Revolutionary Communist Party grifter

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

a midfielder who can play a simple 10 yard pass might be a good idea too!

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Presumably that means that he is in favour of low wage Americans

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Maybe the first of a series - Fry's Flys (his fishing fly collection), Fly's Fries (his favourite fried foods), Fry's Highs (narcotics and natural), Fry's Pies, Frys Sky's..... The list is endless. Hope the publisher has taken an option 😂

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Snap! Ich... nichten lichten 😂

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

He's been shit as has the whole England "midfield". Donkeys

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Solstice sunrise at Crammond beach earlier today

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Brilliant! Unfortunately I couldn't make their gig at Barrowland the other night but from the videos on YouTube and comments they are still amazing and it was wild?

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

He probably pisses in it and RFK then drinks it!

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

TBF that would probably have been better than the actual WW1 - 22 million deaths + countless maimed for life, followed by 50+ million deaths from Spanish flu, both of which contributed to the rise of Mussolini and Hitler!

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Mick Kemp @mickkemp.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

All their "regrets" were obvious to anyone at the time! Ruining prospects for me and my children because they bought into petty grievances and believed lies on the side of a bus. Fools!

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Wrighty @wrightsnake.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Nice thing to see on my way home.

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