iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

and settlement three and a half!

070

if she does the small boulder the size of a large boulder meme she'll go up 15 points

020

yeah this is pretty confusing. most people who settle and go on to naturalise are on family routes. not having to *do* anything specific other than be in a genuine relationship is baked into their being here. if my wife had never worked or stayed indoors forever she'd still be eligible to naturalise

030

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 23h

she's just lucky he didn't ask if we'll need a smaller and more agile defence system to protect the larger and less mobile defence system

270

shipping in an m-vave fm-1 from china, and after weeks of waiting it's almost.....*almost*......here

020

lmao the big amazon prime sale for cameras is basically 80% surveillance/cctv/body cameras, and a big pile of scameras (typically rehoused mobile cameras housed in shoddy "movie camera" bodies which claim to be 5k/8k/15k but are all garbage, and £100+!) thanks for the dystopia, jeff

4314

the key clue here is that you reply to me with "ukraine?", and i did not mention ukraine because another person in the thread did. i promise you that there are several people in this thread, and none of those other people are me!

me circling the word "ukraine" in big red colours

240

just saw a teenager on an ebike fly across a side road at full (default?) speed close to miniboyd's school, and only the driver's reflexes stopped him having a really bad day

060

my wife can't go outside for a week every time there's a race riot. I am long past caring what any actual racist portion of residents think, and will get myself banned if I explain in detail what they can go and do with themselves

271

maybe I am incredibly wealthy and dynamic, but you're confusing someone with a banana colander hat and xmas beard for someone who is not wearing a banana colander hat and xmas beard

120

also: glowing interpretation? I just answered your question!

130

come on, everyone can parse text and intent and you 100% intended a slam dunk of "nobody can answer this", because otherwise it's a *very easy* thing to answer with a quick dive into a search engine. the actual surprise is seeing it asked in the first place!

250

"i was wrong, thanks for the lists everyone" is much quicker to type

280

being desirable doesn't make the rules easy though, unless i'm misunderstanding your point? the very fact that my wife's spouse visa cost around 14 grand over 5 years, as opposed to about £100 in the philippines, is just one very overt signifier of "this is a hellride"

120

i mean there's almost certainly loads above 10%? australia, canada, ireland may come close, a bunch of places like qatar, UAE, bahrain etc. net migration is fairly meaningless when what actually matters is settlement, and most visa holders leave. everything else just bounces up or down

181

our rules have been some of the tightest on the planet since 2010, if not *the* tightest*, and far in excess of other tight nations in almost every visa criteria you can think of. conflating number of visas issued as evidence of easiness while ignoring rules applied to *individuals*, is very silly

2153

sick of the press genius-laundering the blandest, most inevitably vacuous commentary tech losers for most of my adult life. are we on mars yet elon? oh, you got sam altman to pose dramatically on a cliff? should we tell everyone ai is sentient? should we throw a party? should we invite bella hadid?

3130

gonna butlerian jihad this 64 bit application. the time of computers howling in pain is now

060

i love computers [slowly loads shotgun with oversized magnum rounds] computers are great [waves shotgun in direction of computer]

2110

wasted about 3 hours of editing time due to ujam's central updating tool deciding to turn off the "store all music samples on the external drive" option, and no matter what i do none of the VSTs work after re-enabling it. full reinstall and lots of face palming required

260

we went around like this for several minutes and I'm still none the wiser. so what the hell, I'm going to the GP on thursday to see if they're randomly chopping off an arm or something

7340

laura - yscmab out now on steam!! @freezydorito.lol · 03/10/2026

lmao the GP receptionist just called and told me I needed to come in on thursday for surgery me: ... surgery? what am I having done then? him: i can't really say me: maybe...you should?? what?!? him: i don't really know me:

7410

Reposted by Chris Boyd

movie about a time traveler going back to 1999 to convince everybody working in y2k prevention to just let the computers die

338589

plug in a second controller for more visa posts

120

I was the first person to like a @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp post, so now he has to put me in his next game

3110

but if we don't lazily conflate net migration stats with a tiny cohort waiting on asylum decisions, who knows what might happen!!

040

does he think we have half a million refugees "dumped" annually? or does he mean visa holders get dumped somewhere?

1121

dune awakening is about the only survival game i can think of where literally everything comes down to one resource. you're not juggling 30 types of food and drink, it's just water. that's it. and it's also used for everything from crafting to help keeping your base running. i just think it's neat

180

where you're going, you don't need eyes to see the list of 879 advertising partners

050

the prison is located in the gravity drive of the Event Horizon

190

the latest reddit mobile update has broken the x in the top left hand corner, i keep getting a non-closable gemini popup asking me to start editing images, not a single mobile site is usable unless you like pop-ups or paying to bypass cookies or whatever. everyone responsible should be in prison

3221

right so I reckon the next episode will run about an hour, with the rest coming in at about 30 minutes each. this is such a change from the usual OH GOD AAAARGH pace we usually make these at

010

quick shout out to my fashion and textiles module in art school (the world was not ready for my homer simpson car clothing equivalent)

020