iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

New post on my Blog! Wonders will never cease. Just don't ask what the ratio of emacs-lisp changes to actual new content on the blog is. bofh.org.uk/book/adrian-...

bofh.org.uk

Service Model, by Adrian Tchaikovsky // Just a Summary

A robot valet kills its master for no apparent reason, then heads off on a _Pilgrim's Progress_ to understand his malfunction.

030

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

FUCKING APPLE! IF YOU SET THE PATH IN /etc/zshenv THEN DON'T FUCKING DO IT AGAIN in /etc/zprofile AND OVERWRITE ANYTHING IN ~/.zshenv YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING MELTS. They had fucking unfucked this once, but no, they've decided to refuck it all over afucking-gain. Fuckers.

030

Reposted by Piers Cawley

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

All the protected powerful men

aswinn
It is truly bizarre to me
-- not just misogynistic but like bizarrely
deranged -- to live in a world where you believe that hundreds of women are lying about one man who must be telling the truth.
MY VOICE MY CHOICE

018927

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Every year as my birthday approaches, I need to update bofh.org.uk/wishlist/. Updating it for this year took about an hour. Updating the site to work with the latest Hugo has taken two and a half days so far, and the Github Actions based deployment system is still broken, so I'm deploying by hand.

bofh.org.uk

Wishlist // Just a Summary

Things Piers would quite like as birthday or Christmas presents

130

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Given the iOS Safari web inspector (which despite this moan is *marvellous*) a hard stare. "No. Those two images, which you claim are 256px wide, are not the same fucking size! Get a hold of yourself!" This is not helping me track down what I screwed up in my stylesheets to fuck up the sizes.

010

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Grandad brag: Younger [step] grandson got a bunch of A*s and into his first choice uni. Elder one has a play on at the Edinburgh Fringe. www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

edfringe.com

280

Reposted by Piers Cawley

LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 13/08/2025

it's time for the most fiendish literary quiz of the year. "Who said it - John Wycliffe or Wyclef Jean"

36633

Reposted by Piers Cawley

Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 19/07/2025

This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice

Screenshot:

No room for wokeness!
@Wokenessisevil
Notice how no one, not a single soul, has ever complained about the female gaze in entertainment.

[photos show Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) and Alan Ritchson (Reacher) with ripped muscles]

1326251613532

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Watching #TOTP the morning after. Downsides: You've all already done the best shitposts. Upsides: Fast forwarding through so much shit from the late nineties. How on earth did Wes get into the charts? I'm not complaining at all, just surprised.

020

Reposted by Piers Cawley

Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 09/07/2025

One hill I will always die on that the cultural left is correct about is you cant give a fucking *inch* on bigotry. I dont give a fuck about "free speech" being called "woke" or none of that goofy shit. Fascists push-in the boundary lines of community to create outgroups to attack.

217139

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Fuck. RIP Matt “mst” Trout. The world was a better place with you in it. Fuck. Forty fucking two. Fuck.

030

Reposted by Piers Cawley

Avian Face-Tool 🦡 @beakmoo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I see Greggg Wallace is saying it's his autism that makes him a cunt. Mate, this is an insult to every other autistic person and makes you twice the cunt you were before you said it.

923539

Reposted by Piers Cawley

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

You guys I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say I don't think Jack Dorsey is super bright

1620023

Reposted by Piers Cawley

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 07/07/2025

You owe it to yourself to develop your own interpretation of a text, & there's no shortcut to doing that but sitting & going through all of its words & absorbing them.

128649

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Why have I only just learned of owlsintowels.org ?

owlsintowels.org

Owls in Towels

364

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The mighty In The Roud has reached the best ballad: Tamlyn (Roud 35). The first half has great insight into its history from Amy Leach and then there’s an hour out so of me waffling on about it too. I think at one point Matt asked me a question and off I went for an uninterrupted 20 minutes.

192

Reposted by Piers Cawley

Ben from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

"We're recruiting for a great engineer who's crazy about AI!" Well I'm recruiting for a cambric shirt without no seams nor needlework. I'm recruiting for an acre of land between the salt water and the sea sand.

39417

Reposted by Piers Cawley

Amy McNally @infamousfiddler.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

*deep breath* Okay, bluesky. It's been a tough weekend for the whole damn world, even me. I performed 6 hours of fiddle this weekend and it's only been 12 days since surgery. I'm gonna need y'all to remember the Rules. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brq-...

youtube.com

Tom Holland's "Umbrella" | Lip Sync Battle

YouTube video by Comedy Central Asia

06736

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Yeah… my sinuses and my mouth are still in communication. Deep joy. Dentist has advised me not to do aggravate it by singing I'm afraid. Definitely no Friday night #folkSong streams for the next few weeks.

020

Reposted by Piers Cawley

Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

It’s a Nazi bar.

632226598

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Yeah… no #folkSong stream again tonight. Another Friday of no spoons again, I'm afraid.

050

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

No #folkSongs stream again tonight. Spoon supply is disgustingly low, I'm afraid.

030

Reposted by Piers Cawley

The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

If you’re a cis man worried that trans women will assault little girls if they’re allowed in the women’s restroom, you’re just telling on yourself, ya fuckin creeps.

640031

Reposted by Piers Cawley

The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Oh you’re not comfortable sharing a public restroom with trans people? Well I’m just not comfortable sharing a public restroom with bigoted creeps who are constantly thinking about other people’s genitals, including children’s.

15906142

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

No #folkSongs stream tomorrow night, I'm afraid. The sinus communication thing is still messing with me, and the less I put pressure on it by talking and singing, the better the chance it has to get better without surgery and I've got enough going on in my mouth right now to want more.

020

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

It just occurred to me. Mebbe we're supposed to pronounce t' name o' t' Marvel supervillain who did t' *snap* like we're proper Yorkshire tha knows. I'll get my coat.

030

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Threesomes or nothing from now on, eh?

010

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Continuing the series of sorry excuses for not streaming #folkSongs on a Friday night: Today, I feel like shit. Everything aches and my nose is running like a tap. The only reason I don't know whether or not its COVID is we don't have any tests in the house, and I don't feel up to going to get one.

110

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Boll. Ocks. Went to set my Mac mini up for tonight's #folkSongs stream only to discover that the external SSD I was using for my home directory and apps has gone tits up, and I really don't have the spoons to deal with that right now.

030

Reposted by Piers Cawley

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

433145153644

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Terry Pratchett. Just a lovely man.

060

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

"We need a leftist Andrew Tate!" you say? Nah mate. Heroes fail. You, my brother need to step up and be a fucking mensch. Don't worry about "boys today," but take care of the kids you know personally. I don't care how you do it, but you need to fucking do it. Now.

020

Reposted by Piers Cawley

Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Half of my friends have been girls/women my entire life. The structure to do that is called "friendship" and has always existed.

011

Reposted by Piers Cawley

Cecil Sharp House @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

STATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY

461964441

Reposted by Piers Cawley

David Gallows @davidgallows.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

all this.

021

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Yeah, children. Like the schoolboy who murdered a girl at my school after she dumped him. More than forty years ago now. Or the assholes who gunned folk down at Columbine. Just because they're kids doesn't make them harmless.

140

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Sorry folks. Today has taken a surprisingly large number of spoons to get through (for no good reason I can tell) and I don't have enought for streaming #folkSongs tonight. Next Friday. Sorry again.

040

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

No #folkSongs stream on Friday because dentistry is happening, after which I'll have all of four (the front four) teech in my upper set, so god knows what it'll do for my diction for about three months. So, I'm going to stream on Thursday at 8pm UK time, in case it's my last chance of the summer.

230

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

No #FolkSongs stream tonight I’m afraid. I sang into a cold last weekend at seshfest and I’m still paying for it. No stream next week either, I’m afraid – dentistry is happening.

160

Reposted by Piers Cawley

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Well, at least this has the benefit of clarity. So let me be clear. Keir Starmer and the Labour Party are dead as a progressive force. They don’t care about working people, poor people, marginalised people, or human rights. What on earth are they for? www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the legal definition of a woman should be based on biological sex.

2428987

Reposted by Piers Cawley

Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 22/04/2025

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social Your statement on trans people having to use toilets that will literally risk them being assaulted mean I will never vote Labour again. A party that is prepared to throw a vulnerable minority under the bus is a disgrace, no matter what rosette they wear.

1353481

Reposted by Piers Cawley

Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 21/04/2025

The ONE THING people with large audiences refuse to do to fight fascism is stop publishing on Substack. People are starting to publish on Substack—this month—because Substack keeps paying people to ignore their own moral center. You can’t fight fascism in a Nazi bar. You. Just. Fucking. Can’t.

10727282

Reposted by Piers Cawley

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 21/04/2025

According to the DWP, Pope Francis is still "fit to work".

0115

Reposted by Piers Cawley

Aravelle @aravelle.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I’m old enough to remember when being obsessed with other people’s genitals was considered creepy, weird and often a criminal offence. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

228742

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I was running a "Songs to bother god" session at seshfest yesterday when someone came in, confirmed what the session was and sat waiting their turn. A song or two later, the singer apologised because two years on T mucking up their pitching and their was all over the place.

230

Piers Cawley @pdcawley.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

No matter how much I wish I could un-read Harry Potter, I can't. However, I remain convinced that Nymphadora Tonks was AMAB and there's nothing the author can do about that.

050