iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I’m trying very hard to not buy new things until the last project is at least basecoated. This is inordinately difficult and I deserve a medal

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 8h

(I do find my tendency to sort of decide that some people are too “cool/interesting/beautiful/whatever” to want to engage and thus close myself off so as not to bother them incredibly annoying)

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 8h

Self-sabotage is really quite irritating. Two playwrights sat down at my table at the coffee shop and then, rather than getting to know them better and learning about their rather awesome line of work, I decided to engage in pleasantries and nothing else so as not to bother them

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 21h

You know what has plot (of highly variable quality) by the absolute boatload - the Horus Heresy. Make it you cowards (not you James, I accept this is beyond your gift).

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 21h

Incredible breakfasts! I definitely miss the waffles (with bacon and maple syrup, natch)

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Is the peace prize thing just because Obama got one or is there something else that makes Trump whine consistently about it?

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jeffcentaur.bsky.social @jeffcentaur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Home on the RNG is a proud supporter of @desertbus.org. We've just released our annual promo episode for the event, with special guest @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com Find it here: player.captivate.fm/episode/a4b7... Or wherever you listen to the Home on the RNG podcast.

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Well she was doing some economics modules when I knew her, I *think* it was a pure economics degree? I mostly chatted with her about theatre and film

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

She was indeed, I think she was a fresher when i was in my 2nd or 3rd year of my PhD and we got chatting at Nero’s there

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Tbf she’s been quite mad for a long time - I knew her at uni, weirdly, and she was a little odd but within a few years she’d started heading off the deep end

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

While I continue to strongly dislike LLMs this seems like it would be very bad for basically everyone (and not stop LLMs being used all over the shop)

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Russia's ally Iran has so thoroughly achieved what it set out to do against the USA that it has forced the USA to make a massive concession to Russia in its fight against Ukraine. I'm struggling to process how embarrassing this is. It's almost incomprehensible. Imagine if Biden, etc etc etc...

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Notjarvis @notjarvis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This game is fun, but my chaotic thoughts win, and I just try to find the most bizarre combination Don't know what it says. My Raunchy Body Horror, directed by the guy who did "Magnum force" could be a winner Honeymoon of the Flesh — Career ender, 8/100, $40M tentpolegame.com/m/rnvZf4vQcyTo

he second honeymoon is under it.
Honeymoon of the Flesh
A henpecked honeymooner (Jesse Eisenberg) checks into a desert gland-rejuvenation clinic where the couples' hormone therapy works too well, leaving him molting, swollen and insatiably amorous in front of his bride. The clinic's folksy founder (Bill Pullman) preaches that the shedding body is the honest one, while the resident physician (Omar Sharif) quietly catalogs six previous honeymoons gone the same way. The resort's breathwork instructor (Amber Heard), mid-transformation herself, teaches the couples what their new skin can feel.

Jesse Eisenberg · Bill Pullman · Omar Sharif · Amber Heard
a Ted Post film
PG
for thematic elements, brief suggestive humor and comic body transformation
Some material may not be suitable for children
“Pullman says 'your body is just the first draft' and nobody in my theater laughed or screamed, we just checked our phones.”
r/horror user
“Eisenberg sweats through a full-body molt in a hot tub, and the film calls it romance.”
Critic Review

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I see we continue to try and destroy one of our core competitive advantages for some reason. I assume because people with degrees tend not to get “real” jobs like “miner” or “welder” or something?

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

However much you hate Trump, and the system that enables him, it is not enough. A total betrayal of an ally.

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Can’t believe I was sat in the Waterstones cafe on Tottenham Court Road reading my new Space Marine Codex last night and not even one single woman asked me out. I really should have chosen the Emperor’s Lads in Gold

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I guess the thing we’ve always known with Trump is that he very strongly believes that the “powerful” should be allowed to take whatever they want from the less powerful so his move to import diesel from Russia isn’t exactly unexpected. It is absolutely disgusting though.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Glory to Ukraine

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Jeremy Kun @jeremykun.com · 09/10/2026

New fraud dropped: arxiv.org/abs/2610.10072 > The result is also contained in a paper released by OpenAI on October 6, 2026, in which the proof strategy and specific choices of notation are identical to a preliminary version of the present paper that was uploaded to ChatGPT on September 8, 2026.

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Invariant Primes in Lubin-Tate Space and Hovey-Strickland at Every Height

Let $H_n$ be the one-dimensional Honda formal group of height $n$ over $\mathbf F_{p^n}$ and let \[ R_n=W(\mathbf F_{p^n})[[u_1,\ldots,u_{n-1}]],\qquad A_n=R_n/(p). \] We prove, for every height $n$ a...

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

like, this isn’t even an “AI could create that much value” versus “no it can’t” argument - let’s grant the premise, let’s say it does in that world, with these people in charge, unemployment and poverty explode and no safety net is built to handle it

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I realise this is something that most people won’t care about but the bog-standard edition of the latest space marine codex is a really lovely thing. Absolutely excellent production and gives a great feel for the angels of death

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think some of it is that the most visible content creators are either wealthy *or* give the impression of being wealthy in a society where it feels like stability in almost any career is impossible. In some ways it feels like the aspiration to be a premier league footballer for millenials

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just coming out of a 36 hour migraine and, you know what, it sucks. Would not recommend 0/10

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fundamentally, Palantir is a fairly boring piece of software that is quite good at consolidating old incompatible databases which the public sector is full of, but it is just visibly a national security concern to embed a hostile power into every bit of the public sector, come on.

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Sonic Spookhammer 🎃 @sonicsledgehammer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Warhammer in its many guises is at its best when it's Weird Little Guys.

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don’t know if people play it much but “The Old World” is Warhammer Fantasy Battle and the Cathay minis are amazing

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Based on this skeet, I’m predicting Labour will launch a relentless attack on Games Workshop

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop.

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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Avengers: Doomsday is one of the da-" You bolt awake in the suburbs of Paris. You are not online. It is 1895. You are Léon Gaumont, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The Lumière Cinématographe must be destroyed.

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Don’t know if anyone else has noticed but this “Athens” place might be quite good

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can’t really believe this is happening in our country. And it makes me very angry people aren’t doing more to stop it. An entire group have had their civil rights gutted, and are having their lives made unliveable (especially children who are most vulnerable). And what’s anyone doing about it?

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Fwank👻 @gaymerotter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Starting a challenge called oktober where for the whole month everything is going to be ok

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Love this take, people are cool and engaging with things they create is good actually!

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I mean, yes designing cyberattack software does have some downside risk

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Public Service Broadcasting HQ @psbhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Big thanks to Mike Palmer for the footage here, Thomas Coe-Brooker for the edit and everyone who came along on Saturday and helped make it such a great night.

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You came into power and raised the cost of employing people, especially for entry level jobs and have been non-stop talking about how amazing AI is to boost productivity, which in reality comes through reducing entry level roles, and now have decided the cause of youth unemployment is welfare

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It really is impressive how much Google is attempting to utterly torpedo its reputation for some reason

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

More to put on my big pile of “I do not trust these companies with literally any data whatsoever” and yet HMG seems pretty happy pushing AI use (seriously, if we’re going to use these tools the UK really needs sovereign AI for anything remotely sensitive)

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Continue having a rough time so back down on South Bank and London was looking pretty moody earlier

Grey skies over St. Paul’s, The City and the OXO Tower from the South Bank of the Thames

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It really was something very special!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 25/09/2026

M&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed food One jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint @willyandbill.bsky.social

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M&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed food

One jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It seems to me that a solution to encouraging AI 'alignment' would be to hold AI companies and their executives legally liable - criminally, if relevant - for what their AI agents do.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Something something splicers something

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