iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Beefcake Dad @jeffsreturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The right to blair arms

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fairest way to decide how Manchester City should be punished is to open it to a national citizens panel. All ideas can be considered and we can all vote on the top 16. I’d like to pitch in “no relegation but they have to play every game for 5 years without football boots on”

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm a few days late to this, but it's worth noting as amid all the years of deeply weird discourse about low-traffic neighbourhoods this is perhaps the most unhinged thing I've ever seen. [Plus: they're not "Sadiq Khan's LTNs". They're done by councils.]

Sadiq Khan’s LTNs made me flee Britain, says millionaire philanthropist

Sir Peter Lampl claims mayor’s traffic policies make London unsuitable for ‘wealth-creating entrepreneurs’

“To do all that, I needed to be able to get about,” he wrote. “I needed to be able to meet people, make deals, go campaigning, chivvy politicians into action. I needed black cabs and roads they could get down. And I needed to be able to get home at the end of the day without spending an hour stuck in a single lane of traffic on Park Lane.

Sir Peter said the expansion of bike lanes in London and introduction of traffic calming measures, such as 20mph speed limits and low-traffic neighbourhoods, had created “a capital city in which we literally can’t get around by taxi”.

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hadn’t heard of it or heard it.

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Charlie! I host a climate psychology podcast. Would you consider being a guest to talk about this ?

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Alastair Harper @alastairharper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thomas Edison in 1910. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves on this net zero business, lads

Someday some fellow will invent a way of concentrating and storing sunshine to use instead of this old, absurd Prometheus scheme of fire.
I'll do the trick myself if someone doesn't get at it....
This scheme of combustion in order to get power makes me sick to think of—it is so wasteful.... We should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh no; we burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel.
We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property. There must surely come a time when heat and power will be stored in unlimited quantities in every community, all gathered by natural forces. Electricity ought to be as cheap as oxygen, for it cannot be destroyed.
Now, I am not sure but that my new storage battery is the thing. 167

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There are other reasons to do it, but tbh 'wrecking ball to the gambing industry' is enough incentive

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now, just personally, I would have considered the crocodiles

The assessment did not consider the crocodiles but instead looked at "how the course would perform under a range of conditions, weather patterns, water levels and flood risk at both Games time and throughout the period leading into the Games".

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

or to put it another way, good news for first time buyers

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dear God what happened to you

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tough next game away to the Moon in the Europa League

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

today's BBC live football feed brought to you by Hobbits

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

This is very very good

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Does my cat’s nose look like a Klingon Bird of Prey?

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Let’s get real about how complicated climate change is in our brains, says Renee Lertzman in my latest Your Brain On Climate. pod.fo/e/56671c

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Does my cat’s nose look like a Klingon Bird of Prey?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
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4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
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Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Rarely a more appetising thing served

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Flooding and a targeted campaign response can lead to a noticeable (but small) effect on voting.

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

He doesn’t turn out to have a soft tickly side then

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Hope it’s a banging day sir.

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

You should be a Brentford fan then!

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Oh this looks epic! In my old hood too.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

She hints at what her plan will entail - nature, nuclear, flood defences, markets and innovation - but all this is already being done. If free markets and innovation (without carbon pricing) worked as an adequate answer on their own to the climate crisis the problem would be solved already.

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The most coherent argument is one about tax revenues and local jobs. More drilling gives you those things to an extent. It’s not a reason to sustain a polluting industry (and to be clear I don’t support more drilling!) but at least it’s not the lie that more drilling has any impact on energy prices

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I need persuading that “climate impacts” will ever galvanise people / politics to that kind of transformational moment. For 20 years the likes of us have said: if this climate stuff continues, in X few years it will really reshape politics. It, substantively, hasn’t.

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

One billion plastic pellets about to go up the gullets of fish off the coast of England. A Martian would ask: I mean someone’s going to prison for this, right? Right?

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The Economist @economist.com · 28/07/2026

Donald Trump’s net approval rating has fallen to a record low of -25, according to our tracker. Explore the data

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Donald Trump’s approval rating

Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Whoever designed this Times front page has a dark and wicked sense of ironic humour. Hyper-sensitivity to predictable technical challenges of energy transition. Meanwhile, Europe burns.

Times front-page combining net zero scare story with photo of Europe burning

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's driving me insane. The govt spends £1.4 trillion a year. Borrowing estimates are often by tens of billions over a year. But we're supposed to imagine money is budgeted to the last penny.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I think they got these two the wrong way round

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