iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵

evitable
adjective
uk /ˈev.ɪ.tə.bəl/ us /ˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/

able to be avoided or prevented:
He believes that world war is evitable.
Inevitable suffering due to persecution is to be distinguished from evitable sickness.

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 24/08/2026

The UN has again warned the UK against the implementation of the EHRC code of practice ⤵️ Read our full report: www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-the…

The UN has again warned the UK against the implementation of the EHRC code of practice, which recommends the segregation of Trans+ people
Human rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council have warned the UK's EHRC code of practice "risks institutionalising discrimination against transgender and gender-diverse persons" - UN OHCHR

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 14/08/2026

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Check out those Reform voters! (Source: www.ft.com/content/4932...)

Graph showing that a large majority of UK voters link hot weather to climate change, the only exception being Reform, where only a minority do.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This is the equivalent of asking how a £1.5m turnover company is going to pay for £100 of drinks at the Xmas party.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's driving me insane. The govt spends £1.4 trillion a year. Borrowing estimates are often by tens of billions over a year. But we're supposed to imagine money is budgeted to the last penny.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Given how many academics magically “pivoted to AI” when it seemed like a good career decision, it’s shocking & shameful how few are intervening in slop journalism like this. How’s this “AI”? Isn’t this just a decision tree? Why are we calling it AI? How does it work? There’s no content here, just PR

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NHS app to use AI to determine which service best for patients

The update will be available to all users in England by April 2028, the health service says.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I’ve been thinking long and hard about who should be in Andy Burnham’s first cabinet, and I’ve come to the conclusion that they should all be Muppets (except Andy Burnham, the token human).

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Ben Gilbert @minkmaguari.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Should anyone else need me to explain why just saying 'we made it through 1976 without all this fuss' is a terrible take, I'm here all week. Just the three today. 😁 #UKheatwave

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Deep Time Ecology group @deeptimeecology.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This #PrideMonth here is our Progress flag made from photographs we took of marine invertebrates: soft corals, nudibranchs and octopus with many thanks to James Reimer for the blue ringed octopus

Colourful marine invertebrates making up the Progress flag

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My (mostly) macro photo flags - I try to make new ones every year. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A Pride Flag with stripes made of macro photographs: a red beetle, orange centipede, yellow spider, green beetle, blue beetle, and purple flower with a fly.

A Trans flag with stripes made out of photographs, all but one macro: blue sky with a spider and web, pink petals, a slender spider against a white background, another pink flower, and a blue sky with a soaring hawk.

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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I’m just so glad about how happy he’ll be and how sad they’ll be tonight.

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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The President of the United States is insane. That’s KIND of the only thing that matters right now, isn’t it…? I mean there’s other stuff going on but I rather feel that fact that *the President of the United States is insane* needs to be addressed as a matter of priority.

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Ben Gilbert @minkmaguari.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Very much not what I expected to see when I went out birding this morning - lovely Leach's (Storm) Petrel at Idle Washlands (Misson). #birds #birding #wildlife

A Leach's Petrel - a black and grey bird with a white rump - flies low over a lake

A grey and black Leach's Petrel sits on the surface of a lake

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Ben Gilbert @minkmaguari.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Another mammal star of the Sierra de Andujar - Iberian Ibex. I'd seen the species wild before in the Sierra de Guadarrama, but a different subspecies, so this was still technically a lifer of sorts..! #ibex #goats #mammalwatching #wildlife #andalucia #cabramontes

An Iberian Ibex balances on a rock face in a near-vertical pose

An Iberian Ibex stands on the edge of an unpaved road

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Ben Gilbert @minkmaguari.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The lagoon of Fuente de Piedra, home to one of Europe's largest colonies of Greater Flamingos. The least sunny day of the Andalusia trip but the flamingos shone. Also with guest White-headed Duck..! #birds #flamingos #greaterflamingos #fuentedepiedra #andalusia #andalucia #birding #wildlife #spain

A swimming greater flamingo passes a White-headed Duck

A group of greater flamingos flying overhead with neck and legs outstretched

A wide view of a lagoon with hundreds of greater flamingos

A group of Greater flamingos feed in a lake

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Ben Gilbert @minkmaguari.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Just back from 6 days in Andalusia. Sometimes you come back having seen wonderful things you probably have to be quite nerdy to appreciate. Sometimes, after 6+ hours on a viewpoint with ibex and vultures and a trickle of similar nerds, you end up seeing an Iberian Lynx. #lynx #cats #mammalwatching

A tawny and spotted Iberian Lynx peers up from the side of a rock

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 03/03/2026

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

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Ben Gilbert @minkmaguari.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

100%. This has been a problem for a long time now in UK political journalism. Every election, every decision, every bill, every vote - it's reported in terms of what it means for politicians. For this party, that PM, those MPs. Politics as sport rather than as the means to effect real-world change.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I’d love news coverage to talk about how political events will affect me as a person, rather than how it’ll impact politicians / parties. Given the nature of their political stance, the consequences of a Green Party win for *humans beings* seems more important than its effects on the Labour Party.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 09/02/2026

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Ben Gilbert @minkmaguari.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Bit of Wood Mouse action at North Cave Wetlands today. #woodmouse #mammals #rodents #mammalwatching

A brown-and-white Wood Mouse squatting with paws brought to its mouth to eat

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Ben Gilbert @minkmaguari.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The Ring-necked #Duck at Straws Bridge (Ilkeston) at close range today, livening up a slushy kind of day. Visible even before getting out of the car - luxury! @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social #derbyshire #birds #birding

A grey-and-black Ring-necked Duck in alert pose on a like

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 09/12/2025

We have to listen to bigoted handwringing about how we have to abandon trans people and marginalized communities and immigrants while the clearest election winning message is right there.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣

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Ben Gilbert @minkmaguari.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Cheeky Sunday lifer in the fog at Rutland Water - my first Baird's Sandpiper. #birds #birding #wildlife #rutland

A Baird's Sandpiper, a small bird with a long bill and scale-patterned feathers on the back, wades in shallow water

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Ben Gilbert @minkmaguari.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Last 3 months I can't get near the #Yorkshire coast without running into #dolphins. Been regularly visiting this stretch for over 10 years on shore and by boat and never seen them before. Porpoises, often. Minke Whales twice. But not the dolphins. Now - can't escape them! #wildlife #mammalwatching

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Ben Gilbert @minkmaguari.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

A slow day for migrants at Flamborough and Bempton yesterday but amply counteracted by the antics of the local 'regulars'. Pictured are Grey Seal, Common Bottlenose Dolphin, and Northern Gannet. #wildlife #mammalwatching #birding #birds #seals #dolphins #Yorkshire

A large number of Grey Seals lie spread out on a beach below the camera

A small group of bottlenose dolphins breaking the sea surface

A Northern Gannet in flight over the sea

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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

What Reform are promising is abhorrent, as is the fact that we’re at a point that a mainstream political party in the UK could even consider it as a policy position, as is the fact that Labour are seemingly only arguing against the fact that the sums don’t add up

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Ben Gilbert @minkmaguari.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Excellent treat today before the rains came - the juvenile Eurasian Dotterel near Fox House. #birds #birding #derbyshire #wildlife @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 02/09/2025

Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.

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Ben Gilbert @minkmaguari.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Full day of #Anglesey #mammalwatching today - European Red Squirrel and Risso's Dolphin the targets and both lovely and showy. #dolphins #squirrels #mammals #ynysmon

A red squirrel sits in a tree clutching a nut it is eating

The scarred fin of a Risso's Dolphin breaking the surface of the sea

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Posted a thing

Over the past couple of years, I have seen Generative Al creep rapidly into the television industry, and am not fond of it.
I don't want a machine to write my scripts. I don't want a machine to make my concept art. I don't want a machine to tell my stories. And have yet to hear an argument in favour of the technology that has any actual merit to it beyond the capitalistic need for cheap and quick output with minimal input. It's here to stay' That isn't enough for me to just wave away the contributions to the climate crisis, the plagiarism and copyright issues, the *horrific* ethical consequences, the workforce ramifications, and especially importantly for me asa science communicator, the fact that it is, by and large, the world's greatest misinformation engine. For anyone else working in science TV specifically - listen to the scientists you work with. Listen to your most dedicated audiences. Listen to the artists who have historically visualised your ideas. Adoption of and excitement for this technology is nowhere near as universal as it seems.

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Ben Gilbert @minkmaguari.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Furthest I've been: S: OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg E: Near Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah W: Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco N:... The public toilets by the station car park in Lossiemouth...

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Kevin Daly @kevinddaly.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Farewell to the brilliant Tom Lehrer. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

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Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

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Ben Gilbert @minkmaguari.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The non-animally parts of a glorious Easter weekend in #Czechia across Prague and Pilsen. The Easter markets were a great surprise and an excellent place to stock up on green beer and sausages.

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