iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Nicki Stephens @nicki2910.bsky.social · 3h

This cheeky little chap fits the brief for #BirdOfTheDay. 🤗🥾 West Dean, West Sussex.

A Pied wagtail observing me observing him her? White face , striking black , white plumage and a very long tail .

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The war on empathy isn’t Christian. Elizabeth Bruenig has a compelling new piece in The Atlantic on the right’s crusade against compassion, which Bishop Robert Barron has now joined. She calls its bestselling manifesto “a guidebook for ignoring human suffering.”

theatlantic.com

Why Empathy Is Now ‘Toxic,’ ‘Suicidal,’ and a ‘Sin’

According to Gad Saad and his powerful acolytes, compassion is a recipe for “the collective suicide of the West.”

53215

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

511628667

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Weird of Mouth @anpatric.bsky.social · 20h

I'm sorry but 'disingenuous bastards' is the only phrase suitable to characterize the behaviour of disingenuous bastards. The gulf between the compassionate instincts of its citizens and the hypocrisies of government have never been more clearly or deeply defined.

0127

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is truly no comparison between the blood on Yoo's hand and that of Pike's. Yoo has participated in far more brutal atrocities and it's not even close. The fact that he's on TV and she's been in a cage is not an accident of the US legal system — it's the point

28425

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 23h

🔴 Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years Exclusive: Reform UK’s Sam Journet branded “Britain’s worst councillor” as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council bylinetimes.com/2026/10/02/r...

bylinetimes.com

Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years

Exclusive: Reform UK's Sam Journet branded "Britain's worst councillor" as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council

7296130

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The literal argument here is that you're not assimilated if white people are racist against you because of who you are or how you look. bsky.app/profile/jame...

261020194

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Paul Pharoah @paulpharoah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you accept this as her view, then it makes no material difference whether you are English or not. She clearly thinks you don't need to be English to be Prime Minister or any other senior job, so we can welcome all non English into society.

182

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

jocelyngould.bsky.social @jocelyngould.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay chosen by @helenbennett.bsky.social is #BestBeaks Celebrating any bird with a bill that has striking colours, bold profile, or an interesting shape. Alt theme: #YellowElements, the colour yellow found on a bird. 🪶❤️ Here are my choices. #birds #ukbirds #westpalbirds #birding

Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa (winter plumage), the Mere, Martin Mere, 13th Feb 2025.

Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata (juvenile), Woodend Marsh, Gordon Taylor Hide, Martin Mere, 5th July 2023.

Black-headed Bunting Emberiza melanocephala (male), farmland, Eastern Turkey, 14th May 2014.

Red-headed Bunting Emberiza bruniceps (male), western Kazakhstan, 4th June 2018.

1273

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

phunksta.bsky.social @phunksta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#BestBeaks #BirdOfTheDay This beak's S'tork of the Town

3232

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To love, to lose, to keep going… Clinical Psychologist Dr Matilda West pens an open thank you letter to a former client. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

bps.org.uk

To love, to lose, to keep going | BPS

Clinical Psychologist Dr Matilda West pens an open thank you letter to a former client.

033

Nicki Stephens @nicki2910.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wouldn’t want to upset this tattooist. They hold onto grudges for an awful long time. 😵‍💫 Edinburgh, Scotland #BirdOfTheDay #BestBeaks

Black raven - perched on a metal bracket in Edinburgh.

1200

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I still remember Esther Rantzen on That’s Life holding up a small ad from a Local Authority in the early 70s advertising for an Equal Pay Officer but offering a lower wage for women. I’m part of generation of teenagers mildly radicalised by amusing trivia.

828854

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good morning folks. Today is @helenbennett.bsky.social turn to host #BirdOfTheDay and the themes are #BestBeaks, striking colours, bold profiles or interesting shaped beaks. The Alt theme is #YellowElements, yellow found on any bird. #birds #ECK #CanonR5mkii #ukbirding #BirdLife #birdphotography

1818526

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I spent far too much time and money in my late twenties and early thirties making sure I could accommodate guests before realising I really don't like having people in my house

1146218

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The estimated total amount of rubble in Gaza is 61m tonnes. It is [about] 20 times the amount of rubble generated in all wars across the world over the last 18 years,” Jaco Cilliers, the UNDP’s special representative in Palestine told the Guardian last month." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.com

New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza

Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire

001

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They'll try and reverse the result of the Civil War before they're finished.

173

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

354203484866

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can you just imagine, for a moment, if this had been done to Tel Aviv, New York, London or Berlin? The repercussions would be immediate and devastating. But since it's only Palestinians who refuse to leave their homeland of Palestine... not even sanctions. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.com

New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza

Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire

613041

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Asked about 58 deaths in his camps, ICE boss: "we're not Holiday Inn" No mate, you're not providing Holiday Inn - ICE are 'providing' crimes against humanity which should put you behind bars www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

thecanary.co

Asked about 58 deaths in his camps, ICE boss: "we're not Holiday Inn"

No mate, you're not providing Holiday Inn - ICE are 'providing' crimes against humanity which should put you behind bars

76223

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The cope from some Man City fans is that the sham sponsorship income meant the club overstated revenue and so overpaid corporation tax. So they are due a refund! Awesome! Um, no. City paid *zero* corporation tax because they lost buckets of money. The receipts:

619051

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

Brian Bilston

21544177

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Are those Zionists really supporting this mass of evil? And, oh, fuck Tom Watson.

0153

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lack of diagnosis of #MECFS meant that I wasn’t informed that exertion was dangerous. This year I pushed myself beyond my limits and ‘crashed’. Now every thing I do is planned: standing up #POTS, walking, working at my desk. My world is very small now but my memories of wild places keeps me going.

0154

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"A big petro-state did it and ran away"

1013938

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

John Looker @johnlooker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I find it extraordinary to hear e.e.cummings read this poem. I discovered his poetrywhen I was young and loved it. I would never have imagined this poem spoken the way he enunciates it himself.

262

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this extremely expensive vehicle has an array of radar and ultrasonic sensors and this driver is a complete irresponsible fuckwit

11072

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Listen to that CRUNCH. Absolutely delicious. #WorldBollardAssociation

1151891290

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'As men in balaclavas try to stop lifeboats saving people, something different is happening on the coast of North Devon. In a community changed by an asylum hotel, new friendships are being forged – and a group of refugee schoolgirls are learning to surf like the locals.' 🏄🏽‍♀️ youtu.be/cP5JCtqOgnM?...

youtu.be

The refugee girls from Afghanistan and Iraq who escaped the Taliban learn to surf Devon waves

YouTube video by The Mirror

1419666

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People support clean energy but think others don't. People support clean air but think others don't. People support low traffic neighbourhoods but think others don't. And they think others don't because vested interests and right-wing media work hard to create that impression.

17040

Nicki Stephens @nicki2910.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Time out …🥾😎 Amberley, West Sussex

Rich green grassy fields in the foreground, with a line of various green bushes and trees , a small white building under a bright blue sky with white clouds.

050

Nicki Stephens @nicki2910.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

www.hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hit... One of the biggest risks to the British public is the spread of political corruption. While politicians scape goat petty criminals who many would benefit from rehabilitation, the real criminals “ tax evasion “ walk away with the swag. It’s not “ what you know”…

hellorayo.co.uk

Tories: Early release scheme an ‘insult to victims’ as prisoners set to be freed

The Conservative Party said the Government is putting the public at risk as it...

010

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:

611036439

Nicki Stephens @nicki2910.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

www.gbnews.com/news/early-r... Lock em up and throw away the keys “they chant, but not our pals who are linked to street violence,and aggressive anti-migration activists. Lucy Connolly pleaded guilty to inciting racial hatred and received a custodial sentence and yet Reform pleaded for her release?

gbnews.com

Convicted criminals to flood Britain's streets today as first part of early release scheme begins

Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy said the controversial scheme was an 'insult to victims and a danger to the public'

030

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Might you have been dropped on your head repeatedly as a child?

Bizarre speculation from Isabel Oakeshott, speculating that UK national suspects re the RAF base somehow have diplomatic immunity

4851788

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A photographer in Australia captured a poignant moment: a male koala embracing and squeezing his deceased companion. This heartbreaking scene demonstrates that animals experience and suffer emotions in a way similar to humans. 🐨💔 National Geographic

1001677376

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Ben Shapiro's Eye Merkins @toxidrone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Isn't it weird how a stone throwing Palestinian child merits lethal force, but a pogrom doesn't? Palestinians who so much as responded in force to an attack on their *own homes* would be drone striked by the dozens and then the responders. Much to think about in the vibrant oasis of democracy hmmm

11311

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#tdih 1919 #RedSummer Black sharecroppers met in Elaine, Arkansas to organize for fair pay for cotton. More than 100 of them were massacred by a white mob. Twelve Black men were sentenced to death for “riots.” #Terrorism #TeachOutsideTextbook 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/el...

zinnedproject.org

Sept. 30, 1919: Elaine Massacre

Black farmers were massacred in Elaine, Arkansas for their efforts to fight for better pay and higher cotton prices. A white mob shot at them, and the farmers returned fire in self-defense. Estimates…

32625

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Updates: the Ethiopian army is in control of the city of Alamata, after 3 days of fierce fighting on the city's outskirts. At least 50 people in the city died, many from artillery strikes, per medical sources reached by the BBC. A strike that targeted the city's marketplace killed a dozen people.

bbc.com

Ethiopia fighting escalates in Tigray killing 52 civilians in Alamata, medic tells the BBC

The deadly fighting has also spread to neighbouring regions, stranding tourists in Lalibela.

14934

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is so wrong, it's hard to know where to start. But how about here? Acid house was people 'misusing' an instrument and coming up with something new. Hip hop was people imaginatively subverting/repurposing existing recordings. Punk weaponised distortion and sloppiness as an existential statement.

8205

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Tree Staunton @stauntontree.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So 9,000 Palestinians are being starved and tortured in Israeli prisons for being Palestinians. Thanks for letting us know. Is anybody going to do anything or does Israel continue with impunity? How long can we stand by whilst this is ongoing? Who in the world has any authority over Israel???

011

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Why just £60 billion?? Make it £400 gazillions, you lazy fuckwit! Go big or go home!

041

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

𝚼𝖆𝖑𝖉𝖆 @yal-da.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maryam Goodini, a 20-year-old arrested during the nationwide protests of 2026, is being subjected to torture and pressure to make a forced confession at a security detention center in Karaj. She has been denied contact and visits with her family, as well as access to a lawyer of her choice.

132

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

𝚼𝖆𝖑𝖉𝖆 @yal-da.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Abbas Amir-Qeshlaghi, 27, was executed. #StopExecutionsInIran

1138

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

Johnny Ninefingers @johnnyninefingers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We try to cover all the bases here: bsky.app/profile/john...

052

Reposted by Nicki Stephens

CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WhitmanWednesday 🌾 "Genuine belief seems to have left us. The underlying principles of the States are not honestly believ'd in, (for all this hectic glow, and these melo-dramatic screamings,) nor is humanity itself believd in. What penetrating eye does not everywhere see through the mask?"

• Cover photo source: Ed Folsom, Walt Whitman. Democratic Vistas, 1871: The Original Edition in Facsimile, University of lowa Press, 2009. Source: Project MUSE, Johns Hopkins University.
• Text source: WALT WHITMAN: POETRY & PROSE
Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y., 1982.
Published in the United States by Library of America.
Twenty-second printing, 1982.
• Reference: The Whitman Archive

0141