iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026

if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Apparently the commander of the International Space Station brought her dancing pants to space with her

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 10/09/2026

I believe less in AI as a global threat a la terminator and more in people using AI as an excuse to make decisions that then create global threats (cutting workforces, cutting human decision making out of the use of war weapons, generally encouraging people to not think for themselves...)

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"[T]he U.S. Forest Service (USFS) ended up in [DOGE's] crosshairs. ... U.S. Forest Service firefighters have reported extraordinary shortages of staff, with many firefighters this year having to put in 1,000 hours of overtime to try to plug gaps when major fires break out."

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Niall H @niall-redh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Oh, please, I'm in the UK and we have issues with right-wing ownership of the papers, both-sides-ism meaning that Reform gets national air time despite having a tiny minority of MPs, and a slew of unrepresentative transphobia in all kinds of publications: the White House crowd are lost in the SNR

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

it’s honestly paradise to go in grocery stores in other countries

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 28/07/2026

WE START TWELVE YEAR OLDS ON HORMONAL BIRTH CONTROL HRT IS FINE

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

In surprising computer game news: Sir, You Are Being Hunted finally made it to console, just fourteen years after release on PC. It's out now on Switch, PS5, and Xbox. (And Steam and GoG, of course.)

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Sir, You Are Being Hunted: Out now on Switch, PS5, Xbox (and Steam, of course.)

YouTube video by Jim Rossignol

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 13/06/2026

The goal isn’t to replace the work of humans. It’s to make a case for its devaluation.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I can't speak to the traditional beliefs about it, but I can say that it's a neat reminder of how our brains use context cues like shadows to ground objects in reality. When we experience a moment that doesn't fit our mental model, we 'glitch out' & well... "the sun rests on the brains" FITS.

A yellow construction level has been placed on a sidewalk vertically so that it casts no shadow at Lahaina Noon in Hawaii. From a physic forum.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

From a Reddit forum, a photo of a can of coconut milk with a blue label, papyrus text and a flip-top, on a sidewalk. It seems to hover because there's no visible shadow. The pavement is sort of unevenly colored, with bright spots, and the grass along it is green and lush.

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I blogged about last week’s viral video of the pervert on the Scottish train filming some quiet teenage girls, and why it matters for the debate on young people and smartphones. I didn’t share it anywhere, but it’s top of Hacker News. This happens to me a lot. heatherburns.tech/2026/07/08/t...

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The kids (with phones) are alright – Hi, I'm Heather Burns

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Crisis @crisis-uk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🚨 Breaking news: from today, it's no longer a crime to sleep rough in England and Wales. The Vagrancy Act has finally been repealed. For more than 200 years, this archaic law criminalised people for sleeping rough or begging. But no more.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Hungary has signalled it will drop its long-standing opposition to Ukraine’s bid for EU membership, allowing it and Moldova to begin formal negotiations to join the bloc in the coming days, four diplomats told POLITICO.

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Ukraine and Moldova on course to start formal EU membership talks in June

Hungarian officials have signaled they intend to drop their opposition to Ukraine’s EU membership bid, diplomats told POLITICO.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Oxford is getting (another!) new bookshop. Bad Girl Books will open at 29 Walton Street, Jericho, next month as a romantasy (romance+fantasy) bookshop and gift store. Proprietor Starlin Marot says she wants it to be “a place where people can make like-minded friends in a fun, judgement-free space”.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"Why are people so negative about the economy?" Consider this. There are two possibilities: 1) He's right and my livelihood is screwed. Maybe not 18 months but soon. 2) He's full of shit, it won't happen, and AI is a giant bubble that will crash the economy. Why would I feel good about either?

Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 27/05/2026

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

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Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 25/05/2026

sunshine? on a bank holiday? what the fuck is this

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Matroushka is active again; they're all real accounts that got compromised and should be dealt with shortly www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...

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Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda

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🫜🫚🌶️ Caitlin Spice 🌶️🫚🫜 @catespice.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Just a reminder that there is zero evidence of sex self-ID being abused in New Zealand after two and half years of it. Nor any evidence of any attacks by trans women on cis women in women’s spaces in NZ, ever. Stop trying to create solutions for problems that don’t exist.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

There’s no medical reason to reduce the use of SSRIs just for the sake of doing so. They save countless lives daily, including mine. The HHS preoccupation with reducing their use is an intentional misdirection away from the true problems facing mental health: the world they’ve created is unlivable.

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Niall H @niall-redh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Congratulations to @rosierawle.bsky.social on getting re-elected! Go you, Councillor R !

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

JFC I am having another episode. Left: AI colourisation. Right: Original Details in ALT. Bottomline, we cannot trust this technology, it is a thieving hallucination machine. #fuckai @garius.bsky.social @curatorian.bsky.social @rafhistory.bsky.social

Comparison of an AI-generated colourisation with the original. The original picture shows a group of Luftwaffe airmen and a Fieseler Storch liaison plane with a Junkers 87 that force-landed on 11 July 1942 west of the Alamein position. The AI colourisation has imagined the Ju 87 to be a Ju 88, and given one of the three men a hat he isn't wearing in the original.

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Wilhelm @wilhelmhistory.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Celebrating the One Rabbit Year 2026 is the year of One Rabbit [Ce Tochtli] according to the Aztec calendar. The deities celebrating this year are collectively called Centzon Totochtin, or “countless [400] rabbits.” They are gods of pulque (octli), drunkenness, and fertility.

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Liz oOooO ~Promaja~ OOoO Roderick @talesfrompurgatory.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 20/04/2026

Everybody will have their own ways of handling this. You should do whatever works, there's no right way (unless the way that works for you is to put poison in the city water system or something. Anyway, I say out loud "Yes, it's going to be terrible. Doing it anyway." And then I start writing.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Feminists for ages: we are not just vaginas and baby making parts. A trans woman enters the room. Those same feminists: we are only vaginas and baby making parts. Fucking clowns.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18/04/2026

"CAPTCHAs help separate bots from humans. But what if you only want your content to be seen by humans in their 30s with passions for subway tile and posting JLaw reaction GIFs in Slack? For this purpose, we have created the Millennial CAPTCHA."

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The Millennial CAPTCHA

“CAPTCHAs help separate bots from humans. But what if you only want your content to be seen by humans in their 30s with passions for subway tile and posting ...

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Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This novel is the sum and summit of who Vonda was and what her work was about: all of us, imperfect, and doing our best. It’s an alt-history that feels like the beginning of the world. A world we could still have, if we’re lucky.

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Mia Moore @miamoore.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

AGAIN AGAIN premieres at the Seattle International Film Festival May 11 and 12!!! I'm so excited to finally put this beautiful heartfelt movie out into the world. Grab your tickets before they sell out! www.siff.net/festival/aga...

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Again Again

Aberdeen-raised director Mia Moore’s debut film, executive produced by Lilly Wachowski, is a heady, romantic sci-fi starring a trans woman who enters a new day after ten years stuck in “the loop.”

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The owners of Virgin Media O2 say that they will be spending £4.3m on new full fibre broadband connections in Oxford, to an estimated 27,000 homes. Nexfibre, their network business, is buying independent broadband provider Netomnia. Seven community centres in the city will receive a free connection.

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‘stina is a spooky spectral one 👻🧛🧟‍♀️🐈‍⬛🦇🎃🧟 @stinapag.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Years ago, I sat in a bar one March with a friend who owns a costume shop. I asked him if he was busy. "Oh, yeah. Blood and Bunnies season." "I get the bunnies, but blood?" "Yeah, crucifixion reenactments. They order gallons of blood." Happy Blood and Bunnies everyone!

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Sol St. John @stjohnsol.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Heard through the ceiling of my apartment tonight: (cat wailing) Person: No!! (cat wails some more) Person: You do not want that! Spit it out! (even louder wailing) Person: That is a potato! You are an obligate carnivore!! #ahcats #lifeinapartments

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Industrial action is to take place at Oxford University Hospitals including the JR from Tuesday 7 April until 7am on Monday 13 April. This is part of an ongoing dispute between resident doctors and government. Patients with rescheduled appointments will be contacted directly by the hospital.

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Industrial action at OUH - Oxford University Hospitals

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/03/2026

You could literally just read the Victorian era texts if you want to do this. Just read them. They’re available. You don’t need to read them mashed through a meat grinder and re-extruded into something plausible.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Folks sharing the Western Journal article about an interview with Andy Weir: WJ is a right-wing rag, and the quote being attributed to Weir about “wokeness” is taken from the person interviewing the author, not Weir (it’s right in the text). The title is rage-bait. Don’t fall for psy ops.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I’ve been sending out literary agent query letters over the last month or so and EVERY SINGLE one of their websites has a dire warning right on the homepage about this new cottage industry of impersonation scams, but someone else might fall for this because it doesn’t ask for anything fishy up front

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry

Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 16/03/2026

Sinners’ director of photography Autumn Durald Arkapaw has become the first woman to win the Oscar for best cinematography

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Sinners’ Autumn Durald Arkapaw is first woman to win best cinematography Oscar

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Mythic 🦊 @mythicalredfox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning “AI weapons” could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said “there are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,” and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/02/2026

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 18/02/2026

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

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The Mask of the Red Jeph @ass.golf · 14/02/2026

Just finished my first reread of Iain M Banks' USE OF WEAPONS in like a decade and holy shit, what a book. Even when you know what's coming, the ending is still a kick in the fucking balls.

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 12/02/2026

We need to talk about the price of Mini Eggs this year. What the devil is going on?

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