iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Olivia

Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 4h

A definite sign of ageing is that you cannot impress me with "over 20 years" anymore. Am I expected to think this sauce is ancient, because it's as old as Nelly Furtado's Maneater?

Marks & Spencer in-store signage for a tomato sauce that says "The same Calabrian recipe for over 20 years"

933236463

Reposted by Olivia

Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 5h

Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s…

Beware the
alibi of photocopies ! Photocopies are indis-
pensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap: as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is, before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

321790551

Reposted by Olivia

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Cage is reaching an age (he's 62) where it's very difficult for a movie star to continue having the same kind of star career Cage has enjoyed for 40 years and a huge part of how he's stayed relevant is exactly this "I want to get with someone doing something cool" attitude

111393182

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Is there something secretly lucrative about giving a (presumably) chunky advance to an unpopular right wing politician that I don't know about? Or is it just people who work in publishing doing a favour for their mates?

000

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hannah Fry knows the stats about who gets eliminated first #celebritytraitors

020

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mad Men is honestly one of the best hangout shows ever made

020

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's plenty of issues with the policy, but I have to admit, I'm quite excited to see how Kemi can reconcile it with "the state should be doing less"

1120

Reposted by Olivia

Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Help I've accidentally become too important at work and it is burning me out” #celebritytraitors

119027

Reposted by Olivia

Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey guys! I'm Burke, he's Hare, and before we get into today's unboxing video, we just wanna talk a little about today's sponsor, Surfshark

7472148

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He's definitely taken the unlikeliest path to national treasure

241

Reposted by Olivia

Shahan Miah @shahanshahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've just declared myself as a traitor by mistake #CelebrityTraitors #TheCelebrityTraitors

436183

Reposted by Olivia

Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I'm here because I sniff out liars for a living" is a bold play for a host of the Today programme #CelebrityTraitors

515027

Reposted by Olivia

Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you! If you’re a writer, sign up — you may be due royalties on your work 👇

33119

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unfortunately for a lot of students the customer brain is terminal. Tuition fees totally warps the relationship between staff and students into customer relations and impairs their ability to learn and ours to teach

030

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Doesn't face any consequences" uh, doesn’t he die???

010

Reposted by Olivia

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 25/09/2026

Probably should've started with a 5K

3231

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is exactly as boring as I thought it would be

010

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Soooo... they're classes?

030

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Also, I haven't had to have this conversation with a child so who am I to judge, but it does seem like it's really REALLY important not to give them the impression that Dad might come back if they stop eating

080

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When my parents moved to Switzerland in 2007 they could have a joint account but my dad had to set an allowance (he obviously set it to max)

010

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is one of (many) problems with Silicon Valley - it is bullshitting on easy mode as long as you get your "weird genius" act right (see SBF)

050

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yeah, it gives me exactly the same feeling as every dogshit Disney remake, but half of those have been wildly popular!

021

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I believe she has a rider that any spin-offs have to be written by her

140

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My favourite one of these was the season of You set in the UK, where Joe has a spacious bookcase-filled apartment that would be at least somewhat plausible on a professor's salary in New England, except he's a lecturer in London

000

Reposted by Olivia

joyce’s monster 🎃 @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

if you are a gay icon STAY INSIDE!!! it’s DANGEROUS OUT HERE!!!!!

2450241043

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

oh yeah, I saw the Solnit thread! and yeah, such a simplified narrative

111

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I only saw this after you deleted the initial thread, so sorry if I'm missing context, but yeah, there's a whole chapter in Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex about the abolition of the family which also explicitly calls for the abolition of the age of consent

120

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's gotta be Love on Top, every time you think it's the last one she finds another

060

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Also one of the dads used to work for Nestle so that was quite awkward

010

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Most of my NCT group were pretty sound but there was one guy who was really appalled that vaping was treated the same as smoking re SIDS risks. Unsurprisingly fucked off 6 days after the baby was born

110

Reposted by Olivia

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Quite weird to hear BBC News describe Jason Arday as “the black professor accused of plagiarism”. Is every story about a white professor going to include the relevant adjective?

532056338

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I hear there's a movie of Last of the Mohicans, even

140

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

These books were all me and my homies could talk about in middle school

010

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The ability of viva examiners to spot plagiarism is really dependent on their familiarity with the literature - given that (usually) the student and supervisors recommend examiners, it's entirely possible that whoever was chosen wasn't the most relevant or accomplished

120

Reposted by Olivia

Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper

7164731571

Reposted by Olivia

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In terms of "fanfic premises where you get a magic sex tattoo on your wrist at 18", I rate this a B-. It's better than your future soulmate's name, but not as good as magically revealing whether you're a dom or sub and sorts you into the matching bom or sub house at BDSM Hogwarts

510016

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm fine with the premise, it just seems like the wrong move to do any sort of diegetic explanation for it

110

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This should really be more surprising from Will Gluck, but somehow it feels like the natural endpoint of his whole deal

000

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Finding out this is a genuine phenomenon should've ruined the pile-on, and yet

010

Reposted by Olivia

Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Sharks own the beach now. They wear fishbowl breathing masks. Humans have been forced into the water. They wear fishbowl breathing masks. The humans remember centuries ago when they owned the beach and they have returned, hungry.

1721613

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Not a book but I am really looking forward to Woody Allen kicking the bucket so I can watch Hannah and Her Sisters again

050

Olivia @oliviab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I remember reading it as a teenager and even in 2005, I found the "pagan people are good and sensible and feminist, and Christians are evil and patriarchal and terrible" quite pat

100

Reposted by Olivia

skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

new political axis just dropped

732822714