iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 01/05/2025

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

For anyone saying that nobody saw this coming. That's quite apart from both #45 and #47 clearly (ok, *incoherently*) stating their intentions. #Constitution #RuleOfLaw #USA

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Every time I use Paypal, I feel like I'm slithering on some vile and toxic underslime of Thiel and Musk. I imagine that's what driving a Tesla feels like…

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 02/04/2025

Somebody needs to sit down with the EC and patiently and slowly explain how encryption works and that there is no way to access encrypted data without breaking encryption for all users, not just the baddies.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 27/03/2025

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The day many feared would soon come is already here, with the White House openly defying direct orders from federal judges on deportation. I take us through what happened and why the stakes have been upped considerably once again in my piece: open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Sometimes oldskool still comes in handy… trying to run libre office from a waypipe ssh session failed miserably, and yes, it took a blind typed “stty sane” to get the disconnected terminal back 🙂

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

#Hodge on my lap, from a fortnight ago, for no better reason than that I love this pic of him 🙂🐈‍⬛ #Cat #BlackCatsOfHull

Close up photo of Hodge, a black cat, sat on my lap.

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Absolute best editing tool? That'd be reading the damned thing aloud 🙂 #Poetry #Editing

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Rackaback Morris @rackaback.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

We are trying to bring Morris Teams together into a lovely Starter Pack for everyone. Let me know if your team needs adding. Come & Enjoy the Dance. go.bsky.app/Bzq1Qin

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Dishes done, bed innabit. Photos of #Polleh in my shoulder this morning, and #Hodge on my lap tonight (with incidental side order of @ass.golf; I'm in sight of catching up in my re-read of all of #QC 🙂)

Tabby cat, Polleh, perched on my shoulder.

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Hull Libraries @hulllibraries.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

And this is why the world needs librarians...

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Angela Avera Selter @artemiskick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

"Home defense troops are left in drag as their Christmas charity performance was interrupted by a coastal alert near Gravesend" 1940 ©John Topham / TopFoto Location: Gravesend, Kent, Great Britain This is a colorized version of the original black and white. More information in the comments.

Vintage image of six British soldiers at a defensive outpost. They're dressed in drag–some of the men are wearing helmets with their frocks and they're moving a large gun into position.

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

OK, UPS win the prize for the (hotly contested) accolade of most appallingly bad delivery service. And worst web site for attempting (failing) to fix things so my package from @dcorsetto.bsky.social be delivered to my door. A phone call to a human being has (hopefully) redirected to a pickup point…

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Cooplands don't run a delivery service for triple chocolate muffins 😢

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Dance; dance from the heart of you, with radical honesty. It's good for what ails you, and also dancing helps delay that moment (that will come) when your limbs no longer.

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A while back, Mish asked for suggestions of songs to cover on their Patreon; this was mine 🙂 (Only a taster snippet here, but enough to convey the idea. You can give yourself a free sub at www.patreon.com/mishkinfitzg... if you want to hear the whole thing 🪗)

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Sharon Graham @unitesharon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

It's a disgrace that @sainsburys.bsky.social is happy to jettison its dedicated workers while paying telephone number salaries to top bosses. Its sheer greed is there for all to see – handing out bonanza bonuses for rampant profiteering while workers and customers suffer the consequences.

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

“still”, from last October; the stanzas form a cycle, I've changed their printed (and probably read) order this morning, but overlaid on Whitby Harbour, you can pick your starting point and direction 🙂 skydancer.org.uk/worms/still.... #poem #recovery #emergence #perception #healing #love #stillness

Photograph of Whitby Harbour overlaid with words, “still”:

the silence gathers
hidden clouds gather weight
great weights swing wide
arcs slicing close
pulling gravity
dark light curving perception
cold winds in the void

the wind carries voices
whispers voice secret fears
freed past shutters
an answer to loss
reconnection
casting for hope in a vacuum
recreating worlds' love

the world moves
the Universe moves around
around a single still point
deep within me
a dancing point
that itself moves in its stillness
like a silent storm

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

skydancer.org.uk/worms/1957.h...

1957

I emerged
squalling (I presume)
from my mother's body
three days after
after that first Sputnik
rose started going
peep … peep … peep … peep
as it circled around
this world
its womb

I was born
into the Space Age or
so I thought it's been
a disappointment
but at least we do have
Dick Tracy watches
now in this Brave New World
and scorching Earth
and another
demented king

(original photo: Eric Long, Sputnik, hanging in Milestones of Flight, National Air and Space Museum, Public Domain)

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Nothing to see here. Just move along. Move along…

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...

weownit.org.uk

Tell Wes Streeting - NO new PFI in our NHS!

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Last Saturday, five of us went to Whitby from Hull, ostensibly to take photos, but mostly for a day out. David Robinson and Derek Taylor took photos of me, I took one of all of us 📸🙂

Close up photo of my left eye, through my glasses.

Me, photographed from behind, squatting on the Whitby harbour wall taking a photo.

Five on a day out in Whitby; sat in a café waiting for lunch.

Me, holding a full pint of beer and smiling, in the dusk at Whitby Brewery.

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

As is so often the way, this (from @brianklaas.bsky.social) will not be read, let alone read and understood, by anyone who actually needs to. #resilience #fragility #society

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Just misread H1-B visa as H1-B virus. Gonna infect MAGA, and they'll not accept any vaccine… 😄

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Mattress on the floor Lips brush gently softest skin Smiles warm deep inside

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

No arguments here; easily as good as his first album, "On the Ballast Miles" (better would, I think, have been an achievement beyond even him).

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Lou D-H |Red Guitars (currently Undead Guitars) | MD ANT 🥇 @loudhailer.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

This is the video for my Christmas single, ’Belle of the North’. I was inspired by the life of women & families who live above the arctic circle in harsh conditions where the temperature regularly drops to minus 50, surrounded by ice and diamond mines. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fES5...

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'There and Back' Track #11. Belle of the North

YouTube video by Lou Duffy-Howard

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Old Skool paper ticket collected, and packed (barring toothbrush and tamsulosin) for my weekend with Al in Moretonhampstead. Hull Trains, TfL, GWR and Country Buses on Friday 13th; what could possibly go wrong? 🙂

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

UnitedHealthcare, *redefining* toxicity for a new age 💀

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Listen, and download gratis from @bandcamp.com, but even if you don't, please give what you are able, to help and support #refugees. Links are on the YouTube page. @loudhailer.bsky.social #RedGuitars

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I had pancakes and bacon for breakfast, before we set off home; to accompany, I could have mixed berry compote (or "jam" as it's otherwise known), or maple syrup and sugar, which is what I had, absent the sugar, because who needs maple syrup *and* sugar? That way lies madness. And dental caries 🙂

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Correlation isn't causation, but it's hard not to conclude that the Great British Public are racist #Strictly

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Been a lovely couple of days in #BishopAuckland with @ramtops.bsky.social. Yesterday we walked the castle #Àglow, which was lovely, and quite long; today we explored #AucklansPalace itself, and the #FaithMuseum, and it was good. #Strictly results now, and back home in the morning to face the 🐈🐈‍⬛… 💕

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The 🚫 Anti-Prime 🚫 sale starts now. Free delivery is Go! Buy books and support independent bookshops with us at Bookshop.org

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Correlation isn't causation, but after a week on #amantadine (prescribed for possibly #MS related #tiredness), my #prostate thumbed its metaphorical nose at my #tamsulosin, and now, coming up to another week off them again, flow is back to normal-for-me. No noticeable help for energy levels either.

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The dinosaurs in woolly hats on the hob appear to have been transformed into a small tub of dried yeast.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Two vital pieces of info b4 Black Friday: 1. Price trackers have proven that Amazon has been slowly hiking prices so they can pretend to slash them on Black Friday/Cyber Monday. There are no actual deals. Just the appearance of them. 2. Amazon workers are on strike www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...

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Amazon workers in 20 countries to protest or strike on Black Friday

Workers and their representatives to press US retailer to respect their rights and take action on the climate crisis

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Past time for a techbro-specific vaccine. I imagine Rentokil could clear an infestation, but pre-emptive protection would be good.

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Not going to bed. This cough *may* be manageable sitting up tonight; I know from past experience that lying down isn't an option. Also, sneezing. Missy expects me in bed of a night, she'll have to come to terms with me under a blanket on the sofa… 🐈‍⬛

Missy, black cat, in a cat tree hammock.

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Fed up. Stinking cold, horrid night last night, and today my entire right leg aches ankle to hip, and stabs in what I think is called exquisite pain if (when) I move it wrongly. Also, my brain is completely fuzzed up. </whinge>

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

In unrelated news, bzzzt! Tonight, in lieu of a meal out in Penistone, we've eaten (some of) a Chinese takeaway. Not all Chinese food (or stock cubes, or cupasoups, or …) are laced with MSG, but I'm pretty much an instant detector if those that do. Thankfully, the effects don't last long 🙂

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

@ramtops.bsky.social and I ventured to the Pavillion Café in East Park for brunch, it being a perfect late autumn day. We watched latter day dinosaurs dancing on ice as we strolled round the park after 🦆

Birds on, and reflected in, a frozen lake.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Today’s poem is called ‘She’d Dance’.

She’d Dance

She’d dance like no one was watching
although she liked to think he was.
The kitchen was her grand ballroom;
her partner was a mop.

She’d foxtrot among the pots and pans,
she’d paso doble to the sink,
and as she swept across the floor,
her mind danced, too. She’d think

of how he’d held her in his arms
at the Locarno and the Ritz -
whirling, waltzing, a world apart -
in the years before the kids,

and longer still before the shadow
the doctor spotted on his lungs.
How dazzlingly they had danced!
How dizzyingly she had spun!

Her neighbours saw her sometimes,
shuffling bent-backed to the shops.
But at home, she’d dance like no one was watching
although she liked to think he was.

Brian Bilston

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Pete Jordan @outersquid.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Sat downstairs working on a laptop; it's relatively unfreezing here compared to the office; I may light the logburner innabit too… Cold perception is an odd thing; I felt less chilled cycling home from friend Keely's last night, well subzero, having visited after @rackaback.bsky.social practice.

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