iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I *did* have 2 mins of pondering what I'd select but then... I overthought it and started wondering if you can trust people who only choose 9 🤔😄

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Pasha Paterson @zer0bandwidth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Need any other reasons to abandon all Meta platforms immediately?

Two posts from Laura Bassett.

"Someone just sent me a Chase ad that features an AI version of me. What do I do?"

"Okay. Apparently Meta updated its terms so that they can use your photos and videos to generate AI versions of you that your friends can see in ads."

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask.

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

PSA: You may already have seen it by now but if you're a music nerd who uses Last.fm, and you're using Spotify, the latter will now require reconnecting to external services every 6 months. (Glad I hopped to Tidal) Here's what the scrobbles on an artist page look like since the change...

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 16/06/2026

NEW: A global movement to defend the open internet 🌐 #StopKillingTheInternet brings creators, communities and civil society together to say: the Internet must remain open, private and free. ORG is joining the movement as the UK moves to ban social media and scan devices. Find out more ⬇️

openrightsgroup.org

Stop Killing the Internet: New global movement launches

Stop Killing Games has teamed up with global rights respecting organisations, including Open Rights Group, to form Stop Killing the Internet, a global movement defending the open Internet.

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 15/06/2026

The social media ban for under-16s does nothing to sort out the harms caused by platforms. Harmful content is a product of a business model that uses data to drive engagement and target users with ads. Digital ID checks feed more data into this system, while leaving the engine for harms unchecked.

openrightsgroup.org

Starmer’s social media ban fails to address root causes of online harms

Open Rights Group has responded to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s announcement that the Government will ban social media, including gaming sites, for under 16s in the UK.

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Kaiser of Crisps @kaiserofcrisps.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This guy hits the nail on the head...

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

If someone had told me 20 years ago "In 20 years you'll be using a much shittier, buggier version of photoshop, but you won't own it! You'll rent it for a quarter of a thousand dollars every year!" I would have murdered them

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Biomekkanik are back and I had no idea until I was checking out the WGT running order - absolutely giddy - there was a new album teaser in 2017 and then I assumed that they got kidnapped by technosapiens or something but always held out hope we'd see something new. #synthpop #EBM #Biomekkanik

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Ah!!! That's awesome! (And also extremely cool to know :) )

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

... Dr Eve-alanche ;o) I did not know they had a drum machine for a spell though. Always a big fan of their sound - the big toms always felt like a teeny bridge to Big Country (especially The Seer).

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Happy World Goth Day to you, good sir :o) May your laundry be black and your music ever spooky. :o)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/05/2026

Google is justifying a move to default AI search by saying it "removes friction." The problem is that friction is a necessary part of life and this incessant need to rid ourselves of it is going to lead to so many problems we can't anticipate.

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

NEW POST: If You're Listening, Come In: An Afternoon with Melissa Auf der Maur www.quartersooner.uk/if-youre-lis...

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

New post: Ctrl + Alt + Reconsider: A Work In Progress Tech Stack www.quartersooner.uk/ctrl-alt-rec...

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Ctrl + Alt + Reconsider: A Work In Progress Tech Stack – QuarterSooner

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 24/02/2026

not only do you not have to watch you can log off and not read any of the posts about it you can read a book about wizard detectives bake a cake hug your dog paint a picture go to bed early get a drink with a friend plan your garden start a jigsaw puzzle knit a scarf do some stretching take a bath

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Wildly :D it's a .co.uk one which are rare beans. Migrating to Proton fully from my other services atm (all of the aliases! It is unbelievable how hard some companies make it to change your email) Worth keeping for the comedy sextortion emails and Russian women seeking peen. Poor Tatiana.

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Aw, meanwhile my 25 year old Hotmail is getting unhinged emails from Photobucket that sound like a desperate stalker-y ex! Actual subjects: "Who were you back then?", "We've got something that belongs to you", "Remember these?". Waiting on "YOU THINK GOOGLE PHOTOS UNDERSTANDS YOU LIKE I DO?!"

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I know it was probably terrible for the environment in some way, but why did we give up on fun coloured plastic like this?

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Fuck it I don’t care anymore

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I could write so much about what this man's music means to me. I got to play one of his old guitars live last year and... it just... Wow. The hope in his music makes me so desperately sad that it was out of reach for him.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Here are some of the scary jack o'lanterns I've made for our cats over the years. First: the cone.

Photo of a glowing jack o’lantern sitting in a dark room. It is illuminated from within so you can see that a cat wearing a surgical recovery collar also known as Elizabethan collar has been carved on the surface.

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I feel this in my bones, dude. Thoroughly recommend Mastodon (and the Fediverse). If the CEO of your instance turns out to be a ballbag, you just change instance and take your data with you :)

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Chiming in to say... 1. I also see a blocked post. 2. Mastodon (and Fedi! forever) (I feel a little unsettled here because I know it's not actually decentralised. Plus I have to use a VPN as I live in the UK and don't want to verify my age by giving my data to some random US company.)

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Imgur is now blocked in the UK. Easier for them to just block than try and comply. The OSA is a shameful law that has no place in a country calling itself civilised. The switch looks to have been flipped on at 9pm. #imgur

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

My trans friend from Massachusetts came to visit me here in England for a few days. On the drive back to the airport on Monday night, I asked for a contact number for their father in Canada and their dog sitter, just in case of border issues - the anxiety is very real. What fucking timeline IS this?

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Steves 🌱 @stevesdotfun.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Here we go… this is what they really wanted from the Online Safety Act. A way to blanket ban VPN use entirely.

Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 06/08/2025

Parts of the Internet are going dark since the Online Safety Act heaped weighty duties on platforms. Sites are geoblocking the UK, overmoderating content, age-gating access or shutting down completely. We need your help to track how content is being censored ⬇️

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Online Safety Act - shutdowns and site blocks

Report incorrectly blocked sites on UK ISP and mobile networks.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 11/06/2025

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

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It matters. I care.

It matters. I care.0:00/295.5529711× Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. “Who cares? It d...

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The kind of poetry to ruin low carb 😗👌 *adds cookies to shopping list*

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Just gonna say those state initials changed :D that's wonderful! I hope the in between isn't too long job wise and something awesome is round the bend 🤞 I am good! Got into IT - service desk, but it's good learning :) Aside that got more cats and got married :) still nerding and gothing 🤘

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

@findmeinthecreek.bsky.social OH MY GOODNESS! TABBY!!!!! :D How the devil are you?! (I thought I had lost you to the void of cyberspace after the first Xodus a few years back. Tried your old handle here recently - my timeline has been devoid of Seeming, cats and fossils for too long T_T)

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

NEW POST - RIP Alexander Julien aka Vision Eternel. I was fortunate enough to interview Alexander for @regenmag.bsky.social last year. A rare soul indeed... www.quartersooner.uk/rip-alexande... #visioneternel #alexanderjulien

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

There is very sadly an actual woman (and brilliant voice artist/proud Scot) behind the original recordings who has had her voice stolen. Illegally too, which makes it worse. ScotRail are behaving appallingly.

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Stitch @quartersooner.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

GO LEAFS! 🍁 Please destroy the Panthers 🙏 Sincerely, A Bolts fan⚡️

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