iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 11h

today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996

A colorful retro computer setup featuring a purple keyboard, a small teal touchpad, and a teal circular CD-ROM drive with a matching keypad-style controller resting on top. The hardware is arranged against a dark background in a vivid purple-and-turquoise color scheme.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 12h

I know this has been covered in various component aspects that I understand and have understood but I'm still having a very mild lightbulb moment that AI agents probably sound a lot more revolutionary if you've never done a task yourself without handing it off to your PA

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 16h

I like that Magyar is just calling the de-Orbánisation process ‘Operation Purge’. No pissing about with cutesy names like ‘Renewing Hungary’ or ‘Building our Shared Future Together’. Just ‘Operation Purge’.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21h

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20

Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I briefly met Harlan Ellison a million years ago, he was signing books in a university bookstore. I asked him what he was going to do that night. “Sit in my hotel room and stare at the wall,” he said.

"Wasting time" might be one of the strangest accusations we've ever invented. Apparently you can waste 2:00 p.m. by sitting under a tree doing nothing. The afternoon was going to pass either way. The Earth was going to rotate either way. But because you didn't convert those hours into money, errands or improvement, we decided the time itself was wasted. As if simply being alive isn't enough to justify an afternoon.

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Monks of New Skeet @amagire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

grazing animals' eyeballs rotate when they lower their heads to keep their pupils aligned with the horizon. you know this now. you're welcome

a sheep with its head up and with its head lowered to graze, showing the freaky eyeball thing

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To my mind, it’s all about optimizing v. experiencing. The optimizers firmly believe that they can improve or even perfect life processes. Experiencers don’t see life this way. Culture pushes us towards optimization, but this is just not consistent with how we act or what makes us happy.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I don’t have much in the way of historical anniversaries for 29 September. I mean, this was 11 years ago today, but... somehow, it seems to have lost some of its entertainment value in the intervening years

Donald Trump RT, 29 September 2014: “@feckhead: My parents who passed away always said you were big inspiration.Can you pls RT for their memory?” Attached is a picture of serial killers Fred and Rose West

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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh, swallowed button batteries are life-threatening medical emergencies. See xrays of them routinely. I don’t think anybody said “Let’s invent a battery that somebody will want to swallow,” but “Let’s invent a battery that if a child swallows it they won’t be dead in 24 hours.”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the world is a rough place these days, but there are tiny glimmers of light everywhere if you know where to look for example, my sister just texted that their youngest decided to take up the trumpet and was honking away all evening in the garage, driving them nuts, and that did bring me real joy

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Streets of Closed-down pubs: The unlit suplands

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks

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Tomas @m0byduck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Shabana Mahmood driving around local dogging spots, shouting "YOU'LL NEVER DEFEAT US" then driving away.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I am a barrister who once spent time seconded to the CPS serious crimes unit making charging decisions. Today, you can pretend to be one too and work through the decision-making framework in a very serious case. The police have multiple suspects in custody and the phone just rang. 👨 👨 👨 👨 👨 📱 👮‍♀️ 🚨

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026

I had a diagnoses for over 15 years before I got prescribed stimulants and that first week was the first time I understood that other people can apparently think "I should bring this to the kitchen" and then they can get up and bring something to the kitchen. just like that. like magic.

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Sunsette / Cynthia Skye @sunderedmarches.com · 27/09/2026

The era of the CRT almost feels like a fever dream in retrospect. "We have put enough lightning into a gun to kill you and it shoots tiny images at you impossibly fast" feels like a Rube Goldberg solution compared to "tiny crystals change color" until you understand the materials science challenges

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_... The Battle of Holbeck Moor in 1936. Oswald Mosley (whose grandson runs Palantir UK) tried to start nazi shit in the Jewish quarter of Leeds. *30,000* antifascists showed up to tell him to eat shit and die, pelting him and his buddies with rocks til they fled.

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Battle of Holbeck Moor - Wikipedia

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 27/09/2026

Morning nerds! Who wants breakfast?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026

My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛

a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings down

two crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish sky

a crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extended

a crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

cuth pube

A sign that attempts to spell out "the Cube pub" by shifting the B in Cube down with the PU right before it and TH before the E.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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The Barbarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

now with alt-text

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is beautiful writing about what happens when strangers on the internet narrativise you, based on 30 seconds of video 👇

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Amazing investigation by TaxWatch into an offshore tax advice network that appears to be linked to Craig Whyte, the disgraced former owner of Rangers. The network may be fake. The advice is bogus. Anyone following it is going to end up in a bad place.

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edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When was the last time anyone was gruntled, realistically?

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/09/2026

this kind of outcome was predictable the moment so-called "agents" became productized. the Spam Economy azhdarchid.com/imagining-th...

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Imagining the Car but not the Traffic Jam

Your typical example of how AI can make life better is analogous to saying

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Nick Fitzsimons @nickfitz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You tell young people nowadays that there were violent disagreements about changing the terminology around database replication from “master/slave” to “primary/replica” and they just nod and say “Yeah, some of you old farts are a right bunch of cunts.”

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Nick Fitzsimons @nickfitz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Walkers have done something to their crisps in the last few months that makes all their flavours taste weaker than they used to. I suspect they’ve reduced the salt level; all the flavourings rely on salt to give them some oomph. Might pop across town to their factory and protest outside.

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Nick Fitzsimons @nickfitz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Many replies say “Just tell them how you want it cut” which misses the (to me) obvious point that that’s the tricky bit if you don’t know the terminology. I know 1 is extremely short and higher numbers less so, but that’s the limit of my knowledge; and what if you don’t want just clipping all over?

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk · 25/09/2026

I've got to stop getting sucked in by "easy DIY" videos which are only easy if you already have a complete workshop with about £10k worth of power tools.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The woman who makes my Subway sandwich looks at me the way that hotel receptionist, played by Sally Phillips, used to look at Alan Partridge

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This old wall on the banks of the Clyde in the East End of Glasgow might not look like much, but it's got a great story behind it, and its one that still has an impact to this day. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory #harviesdyke #publicrightofway

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘While Hamlet delivers his soliloquy, the ghost of his father hoovers in the background’.

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BedWords @snacklesbian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i'm still seeing this get shared so just a reminder, this article is wrong in many places and london daily is one of those fake ai newspapers

screenshot of the london daily about page. it says:

Welcome to London Daily, an innovative and unique news experiment driven by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Our AI system conducts extensive research and fact-checking, presenting a non-biased and diverse perspective on each topic.

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 A reminder #OTD that 'Hardrada' makes no sense in any language. The Norwegian king who died at Stamford Bridge in #1066 was called Haraldr harðráði in Old Norse. Such bynames or nicknames can (and should) usually be translated. His means something like 'Hard Ruler' or 'Stern Ruler'.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

OK this description made me LAUGH go.bsky.app/JKv3BWU

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

sidenote but I discovered recently that the four-year-old thought plaques on benches marked where people had actually died, casting Crystal Palace park as the site of a horrific massacre

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Every photo of Altman looks like he just got caught jerking off in the ball pit at Chuck E Cheese

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But with a few tweaks, a thriller can be a rom-com and a rom-com a thriller. Stalking, lying, deranged schemes… add some Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra music and it’s charming. Use shrieking or ominous strings and it’s suspense

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 24/09/2026

We are a very old building. We have lots of keys. We have lots of keys that don’t open anything. Join us for a one off installment of, “Keys of the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall that are pretty but completely useless”. 🔑 🧵

We are looking at two pewter plates with an assortment of large brass and iron keys in various shapes and sizes.

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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thursday.

Sign is a pub window that says "We're currently closed. Sorry for the apologies."

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Nick Fitzsimons @nickfitz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My Dad and Tony Booth were in the same class at school. Mysteriously, by the time my Dad was in his early forties, Mr. Booth had somehow managed to remain in his late thirties, according to the tabloid newspapers of the day.

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