iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The only book I have ever bought for its cover alone - £1.49 well spent.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.

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William Carlos @dionysusxerox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Laughter is linguistic: in conversation it helps manage turn-taking, marks awkward pauses, eases social tension. it has rhythm, pitch, and tone that communicate emotional meaning and different writing systems translate the sound of laughter into unique text conventions ( hahaha etc)…

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Living Dead Girl @jillblacksheep.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not all who wander are lost, but they are in my fucking way

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RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

listening on R4 to Scottish kids asking questions directly via radio to a scientist on the ISS as it flies over and it's genuinely moving.

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RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

how many fucking oil refineries did Russia have????

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RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The human race's tenuous future rests upon the neurological trait inherent in the species whereby fast and unexpected death = bad but slow and boring death = who cares

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RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

chapter a million-and-four of The French Don't Fuck About has just been published it seems.

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RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For anyone who finds (like me) Harry Partch's work a tricky proposition for the beginner, this video is a wonderful guide to his instruments - and since they are distillations of ways of thinking about music - his philosophy on making music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UZj...

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The Harry Partch Instrumentarium

YouTube video by DansoundSeattle

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RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Something strange. It's relatively unusual to find a video on youtube of Georges Perec actually speaking himself. Everything has been dubbed over. The best place to find anything substantial is the ever fecund UBU.

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RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I seem to have just watched this six times www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknr...

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Lole Montoya por Bulerías

YouTube video by Roberto Bermejo

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RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It was either Saphire & Steel, where there's a railway station haunted by a dead WW1 soldier, or it was the Tomorrow People where some weird luminous symbol came floating toward the camera out of a dark cave, or it was Peter Egan being sinister A.F in The Dark Side of the Sun in 1983.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy birthday Steve Reich appy birthday Steve Reich H ppy birthday Steve Reich Ha py birthday Steve Reich Hap y birthday Steve Reich Happ birthday Steve Reich Happy birthday Steve Reich Happy irthday Steve Reich Happy b rthday Steve Reich Happy bi thday Steve Reich Happy bir

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Paulo da Fonseca @paulodafonseca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this has been sitting on my hard drive for over two years and I decided to put it on the internet two weeks ago. if you fancy the whisper of an old organ drowned out by the natural acoustics of an old church, this might be for you. as per usual, you name your price. xo #bandcampfriday

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Fermata, by pä

6 track album

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Myq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I like to wrap potatoes in aluminum foil because I don't want the government to know what my potatoes are thinking.

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Liz Jarvis MP @lizjarvis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Many years ago I interviewed a woman who had witnessed the execution of the man who had killed her son and daughter in an armed robbery. She said it gave her no comfort at all, and spent the rest of her life campaigning against the death penalty.

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anti-leaf blower account @eboldy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

we have strayed so far from god’s light

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RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This might sound contrarian/churlish but I've always been sound centred - how much noise do these things make? I lived in a top floor flat in Soho and the aggregate noise from rooftop A/C units was immense. I worry slightly for her neighbours www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The zero-bills home: how one family is beating the energy price hikes

The Naylors’ four-bedroom home in Milton Keynes acts like a mini-power station after retrofitting solar panels, a battery and a heat pump

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

COMMENTATORS: Why won't Labour do this. LABOUR: We shall do this. COMMENTATORS: Not like that.

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RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So far: Dogging Hooky red diesel drop Fly Tipping any others?

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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 28/09/2026

I remember the day after Brexit. I watched British-born women, doctors and nurses in hijabs being told “we voted for you to go home”. They were home. So spare me the fucking revisionism about what that moment unleashed. 🧵

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a frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe @supermathskid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wrote "ouch" on a piece of paper and sent it through the photocopier. What happened next chilled me to the bone

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Looks like God is up. Step into his open mouth.

A Catholic Church (St Bernadette’s, Whitefield, UK), which has a face-like set of windows and doors, backlit by a vivid red morning sky.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 27/09/2026

[1963] Snow – Hypnotic British Transport Film showing the efforts of railway workmen to keep trains running in hazardous snowy conditions.

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Lonely Tower Film & Media @lonelytower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Really excited to be working with Dry Water Arts in Amble to tell the story of Rapper Sword Dancing and the brilliant Frank Lee, the last of the Rapper Sword makers! Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, The Morris Federation, Redhills Durham, Beamish Museum and Bailifgate Museum

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RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

bluesky somehow thinks I'm interested in football. If everything that ever existed that had something to do with football were, by some quantum entanglement weirdness, just to be erased from existence, I wouldn't notice.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New Protomartyr album has landed.

New Protomartyr record and accompanying lyrics book

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So far I've seen Captain Gak Sparrow, Captain Thugwash, Wrong John Silver, and Gakbeard. Any more?

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William Carlos @dionysusxerox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ovid tells of men turning into animals, Darwin of animals turning into men.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Painting by Gustav Klimt. ‘Beech Grove I’ 1902. Oil on Canvas. Size 100 x 100 cm.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hoshi-wajo standing wooden statue. 11th century, Japan. The wooden flesh of his forehead and nose splits open like a parting curtain, unveiling the calm, serene face of a Bodhisattva emerging from within the mortal shell. In his right hand, raised in a gentle gesture of instruction

Carved from a single block of timber, a monk standing in solemn monastic robes reveals a miraculous inner metamorphosis through a deep vertical cleft down the center of his head and face. The wooden flesh of his forehead and nose splits open like a parting curtain, unveiling the calm, serene face of a Bodhisattva emerging from within the mortal shell. In his right hand, raised in a gentle gesture of instruction, and his left hand, holding a slender ritual water vase (suibin), the figure exudes a quiet, poised presence. The aged surface of the sculpture is etched with deep vertical wood grain, tool marks, and age-worn fissures that catch dramatic, directional light, capturing the physical tension between the outer human countenance and the divine radiance hidden within.
Dating to 11th-century Heian-period Japan, this extraordinary wooden sculpture depicts Hōshō Wajō (the Chinese monk Baozhi, 418–514 CE), a renowned Buddhist master of the Southern Liang Dynasty celebrated for his eccentric wisdom and miraculous deeds. According to Japanese Buddhist folklore recorded in collections such as the Konjaku Monogatarishū, when Emperor Wu of Liang sent court painters to capture the monk's portrait, Baozhi used his fingers to rend open the skin of his face, revealing the Eleven-Headed Guanyin (Jūichimen Kannon) beneath to demonstrate that true Buddhahood cannot be captured by superficial physical likeness. Sculpted in the ichiboku-zukuri (single-block wood carving) technique, this work represents a pinnacle of Japanese religious monozukuri (artisanal mastery), translating a literary legend of spiritual transfiguration into a startling, physical masterpiece of sacred art.

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RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today's listening: The sound of guinea pigs bullying the fuck out of each other to James Tenney

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Shane Parish @shaneparish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have some shows coming up in October, my final tour dates of 2026. EU dates in Portugal, Paris, Austria, and Poland! Eastern US shows with Sunn O)))! UK dates culminating in the London premiere of Autechre Guitar at ICA London!

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Matt Valentine @childofmicrotones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

RIP mike beigel 🎛️ 🖤 (INVENTOR extraordinaire of the mutron III, bi-phase, octave divider & a myriad of other pedals, devices, synths…) thx for everything 💚✌️💫💚 we love u

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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Nandipha Mntambo, South African artist known for her sculptures, videos and installations #womensart

Photo featuring the head and shoulders of a Black woman to the left next to a sculpture featuring a figure with horns

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RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Nicest: Joe Strummer Rudest: Robin Hitchcock

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RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

there's a thing on BBC2 called 'Love Songs with Michael Ball' and my mum is pretty deaf and it's so loud and holy fucking shit I'm beginning to panic

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Bodega Pop @bodegapop.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

SOUND ON: Ripping some rare gems from Iraq, Vietnam, Sudan, and Indonesia for next week's show. Seta Hagopian, "I'm Not Satisfied," from Volume 2 of a 3-volume best of compilation (yellow cassette in the middle).

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RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I always admired The Books more than loved them - a bit too clever somehow. But this is still one of my favourite plunderphonic tunes ever... www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv_u...

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Be Good To Them Always

YouTube video by The Books - Topic

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