iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The Portal Bookshop @portalbookshop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And of course, our actual permanent shop 😁 Come visit us at 5 Patrick Pool, YO1 8BB, every day of the week!

A postcard sized print of artwork depicting the shop front of Portal, with signage in the windows for refugees welcome and Pride

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Portal is such a cool place and indeed community, if you're in or near York then check it out.

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 27/09/2026

Jane Wickline somehow found a way to make Dario Amodei’s whole deal funny youtu.be/-Nvne3LzBls?...

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Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.’s Threat to Humanity - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 19/09/2026

…NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Yeah, so as the 'academic freedom is important and in the past there has existed a from-the-left chilling effect on campuses'...this ain't that. UGhent is saying this guy just didn't do the work he was hired to do and instead was doing turbo-racism and...yeah, that's gonna get him fired. Buh-bye.

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intlguy56.bsky.social @intlguy56.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Continued proof of the differences in Russian and Ukrainian attacks: Russia hits a consumer shopping mall, targetting civilians in repeated war crimes! Ukraine targets oil infrastructure, military bases, the warehouses of Wildberries, which also ships military prod www.reuters.com/world/ukrain...

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Ukrainian drones kill at least 10, hit warehouse of Russian online retailer Ozon

The strike is the first on Ozon after weeks of drone attacks on its larger rival Wildberries.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 19/08/2026

Finally! You have no idea how long I’ve had to pretend I didn’t know all this! #murderbot #murderbotseason2 #booksky

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Be like Super Godzilla.

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Can I please invite you folks to sign both of the petitions on this webpage? When I say ‘invite’, I actually mean ‘insist’. Or, to put it another way: sign it, or I’ll send the boys round. aprs.scot/data-centres...

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APRS AI Data Centres Campaign - Action to Protect Rural Scotland

Data centres are the biggest threat to Scotland's net zero target and to our countryside. Join our campaign!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/08/2026

Ohhh noooo

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20/02/2026

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:
The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter -
PAUL McMULLAN:
Oh, yeah -
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- which is one case that you truly do regret.
PAUL McMULLAN:
I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station.
Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:
And you offered her 50 pounds -
PAUL MCMULLAN:
Yeah.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for.
PAUL McMULLAN:
No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:
So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless?
PAUL McMULLAN:
I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I?
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself.
PAUL McMULLAN:
Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.

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Fraser @fraserwrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Lovely Bluesky! I’ve got £205 to raise at ko-fi.com/thelaoichverse so we can take the film CALL OF THE LAOICH to the Toronto International Film Festival market! For £5 you can own a digital copy of the comic so please support us if you can! It’s Scottish. It’s magical. It’s original!

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's today! Which is why I'm not at Nottingham Pride (messed up the scheduling there, hey ho). It would be lovely to see anyone in the area at the Geek Retreat this afternoon (not the "Greek Retreat", as the BBC Radio presenter repeatedly called it - but I had just been talking about The Odyssey)!

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Burnham chapter begins. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog assessing Burnham and Burnhamism, plus Farage’s fortunes, and the rancid reactions to the alleged murder of Ann Widdecombe. Long, last post of the summer: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

Image of the opening paragraphs of the latest blogpost

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’ve had a few queries from new followers asking which of my books belong to which series. To help, I’ve prepared this quick reference guide. I hope it’s useful.

Standalone novels. Jitterbug and future’s edge.

The embers of War trilogy. Embers of War. Fleet of knives. Light of impossible stars.

The continuance series. Stars and bones. Descendant machine.

Collected short fiction. Who will you save?

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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

To mark London Trans Pride today, we’re shining a light on our Rainbow Sisters and sharing some of our favourite photographs from Pride over the years. 🏳️‍🌈✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ In Rainbow Sisters, every woman is celebrated and loved for who she is. 1/4

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Vera Brook @verabrook.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Hi. I am launching my first short story collection, APARTMENT WARS AND OTHER STORIES, on #Kickstarter. ✨✍️✨ It’s my first ever KS campaign, and it would make my day if you checked it out. 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ver... #Booksky #Books #ShortStories #IndieAuthor #ApartmentWars

A smiling Vera Brook posing with the first paperback copy of her short story collection Apartment Wars and Other Stories. With additional images of the interior of the book, including the table of contents, author’s story notes, and a black & white illustration. All on a warm yellow background.

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Gwyn @gwynt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

@joannechocolat.bsky.social @tomrobinson.com @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Something needs to be done to help stop the devastation of wildfires in our beautiful country. Please could you consider reposting to your many followers ( I don’t have many 😔)🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

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Petition: Ban on sale of disposable BBQs

We want the Government to introduce a nationwide ban on the sale of single-use disposable barbecues. Disposable BBQs are increasingly linked to preventable wildfires, which poses a serious risk to pu...

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Milford SFF Conference @milfordsff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

There's been so much news about how creatives have been fighting back against AI that sometimes it gets lost in all the noise, so let's revisit a post from the end of last year on why the fight is a marathon and not a sprint: milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/w...

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Why can’t we sue the techbros for stealing our work? – by Juliet E McKenna

Reposted from Juliet’s blog July 2025 I’m often asked, since I’m on the board of the Society of Authors, why legal action isn’t underway in the UK to hold the big tech companies to account fo…

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Rayén @yayenn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

NOOOOOO JAJAJAJAJAAJ

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DEGOUGES.NET @degouges2024.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🤚📺▶️| Desde Gaza... 😉

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Rayén @yayenn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Ay memocioné ❤️‍🩹

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 09/07/2026

“At one stage I even flew to Australia to get him to answer my questions” Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on her loooong decade investigating Nigel Farage* *including first raising questions about George Cottrell in 2018 🤔

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

These books are all absolutely woke trash and they're on deep discount now.

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

LGBTQ+ Pride Month is over but it is still Pride Specifically it is Disability Pride Month The perfect time to grab a bundle of 33 sci-fi, fantasy & horror books by disabled authors for $33 - that's just a buck a book itch.io/b/3751/disab...

Disability Pride Month flag overlaid with the words “Disability Pride Month Bundle - 33 Scifi, fantasy, and horror books for $33 - July 1 - 17” and the covers for Moonshadow’s Guardian, Inarora's Excursion, TEMPEST, TAKE ME HOME, Beyond Bringers, A Stage over Ruthless Stars, Sidetracked Part 1, LET THIS UNDO YOU, Where We Converge, The Old Goat and the Alien, Their Village, Their Fortress, Valyo Rising, A Study on Magic and Crystals, Behind the Mask, Carved by Water, The Tenderness of Being Alive, GULA: A Poem for the End Times, Haunting the Scavenger, Lessons in Life & Love among Centaurs, Abominations: Poems of Feminine Monstrosity, Transformation, and Horror, Enemies to Enemies, Testing Grounds, Demonic Resonance Therapy, and more

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 04/07/2026

We reject their sick perversion of this historic day. We reject the very idea of claiming freedom of speech to obliterate *all* the constitutional rights of people they hate and exclude by force—via ethnic cleansing (“remigration”) or other weapons. WE define ‘nation’. WE define ‘patriot’.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Agree with Bernie Sanders.......

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Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A petition has been launched, stating, "We, the Irish dancing community, voice our unequivocal support for transgender dancers". Read 👉 buff.ly/rIn57fX #GCNnews

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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 04/07/2026

Bloody hell this is good.

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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 04/07/2026

Want to raise money for voting rights and get something cool for yourself in the process? Romancing the Vote auctions are still open, and you can still get some props from Leverage, for example...

32auctions.com

Leverage Screen-Used Props

Auction item 'Leverage Screen-Used Props' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Absolution just made GoodReads' top 50 most popular SF novels of the past three years! Thanks very effin much to readers, booksellers, and libraries!

Absolution Jeff VanderMeer author of Annihilation.

mutated gator cover with distorted sunflowers

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Did you miss the Pride Bundle but still crave gay books? Well, good news! My little collection of queer books is available on itch, and each book is eager to be home with you. Read about mecha lesbians, thieves, mad science, or necromancers! devynpk.itch.io

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Alp Beck @alpbeck.com · 04/07/2026

After the fed. gov shut down Climate. gov #NOAA, former staffers refused to let decades of science go dark. In response, former program director Rebecca Lindsey and a coalition of laid-off employees launched. #environment #science www.climate.us

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Climate.us Home

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

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iunidalatina.bsky.social @iunidalatina.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

🌖 ¡No te lo pierdas! El próximo 12 de agosto, el Sol nos hará un guiño único, Nos lo contará @JavierGorgas, de la @unicomplutense 📅8 de julio a las 19h 📍Sede IU Latina - C/ Sesena 9 Una oportunidad para aprender, disfrutar ¡Te esperamos! 🚀Trae tu curiosidad! #ElGuiñoDelSol

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 04/07/2026

A grim reminder this 4th of July: The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration. Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”

Graph showing that the U.S. incarcerates people at a rate of 614 per 100,000. This is at least 4x higher than any other founding NATO countries.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This is the best fireworks display on planet Earth. Astronaut Sophie Adenot filmed a stunning timelapse video of an aurora from the International Space Station earlier this week.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/07/2026

Some awesome things you can do to celebrate Independence Day and support the dream of equal rights for all without getting heat stroke! First, check out the @romancingthevote.com auction and buy some fun stuff while supporting voting rights! www.32auctions.com/romancingthe...

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Romancing the Vote 2026

Silent auction 'Romancing the Vote 2026' hosted online at 32auctions.

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 04/07/2026

Saw this ad for a goat on Facebook. It’s perhaps the greatest advert I’ve ever read. It’s just superb.

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VoteRiders @voteriders.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A person's gender identity should NOT affect their right to vote. Still, some people face discrimination when the photo and/or gender marker on their ID doesn’t match their appearance. Read how we’re empowering trans & gender-expansive voters at the ballot box: voteriders.org/article/prot...

“Having documents that validate your identity is one of the most important things in a trans person’s journey. Once you have that, it’s like, finally, you can breathe.” — ASHLEY FIGUEROA, Co-founder Gender Advancement Project

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scaryKB @sorrykb.myatproto.social · 04/07/2026

Celeste is good people. Let’s help.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

After getting tariff relief. Happening right in front of us.

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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy Independence Day

A drawing of Patience and Fortitude, the stone lions that guard the entrance to the New York Public Library. Between them is a quote from Kurt Vonnegut: "The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

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