iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 4h

Pain Lethargy Abscesses Gland swelling Unconsciousness Expiration Mnemonic plague

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 16h

Ninety years ago today... No pasarán! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

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Battle of Cable Street - Wikipedia

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I kind of preferred the more controlled of clearsky, but I guess it's the best for now.

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How are you seeing that these days? Clearsky has been busted for me for the last week or so.

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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t need fuck you money but it would be nice to stop having fuck me money

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Commiserations. This looks like a really badly botched series of updates. I hope it's not too much agony getting things back to where they were.

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livia 🇵🇸 @livartz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

listening to dvorak. no clue how he played this on that weird keyboard

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A person is allowed to have a life, but insisting on a *specific* life, over the objections of people who would be harmed by it, is the same kind of attitude as was demonstrated in the first place.

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

*chips, dammit. Well, the point stands.

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Jamie Oliver decked a bairn who asked for ships" Why are people still giving that tired old bigot Gervais money to make things while comedy talents like this go unacknowledged?

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The 'explored each other' fragment has me fascinated.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey guys! I'm Burke, he's Hare, and before we get into today's unboxing video, we just wanna talk a little about today's sponsor, Surfshark

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On pre-order, our very Welsh Kickstarter project. They Are Still Here features stories of resistance and resilience in Welsh community, with a little help from our supernatural friends. wizardstowerpress.co...

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd).

The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left.

Art by Josh Arklin.

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Please it's 'helico pter', for 'spiral wing'; this should clearly be a helicophallus.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Press Release: Wizard's Tower to Publish Beowulf in Hel by Adam Roberts wizardstowerpress.co...

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You mean to say he's 'Lay's for Pay'?

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The vibes radiating off that guy were immensely rancid.

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typing pumpkin 🎃 @typingloudly.zip · 30/09/2026

i'm done being civil a cohort who were cosplaying as coders their whole career is trying to convince you that the future is deskilling down to their level they are allergic to taking accountability for their own output and want you to outsource your thinking so you can be as useless as they are

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Ciaránavirus @sarklor.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

do you think Shrek's dick looks like his little trumpet ears

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'treat'. Your treat for today is an extract from 'Incoming' by JL George, one of the many fine stories in They Are Still Here, on pre-order now: wizardstowerpress.co...

Her people lived beneath the waves. They had done for centuries, since her father left dry land. Rhys Dwfn was his name—Rhys of the deep, the wise, the long-lived. He’d warned them to stay away from the world above. Land-dwellers had never done him any good, and surely they’d treat his daughters no better.
But Rhys had grown set in his ways. The longer he lived, the more adamant he was that the human world would never change.
He was not exactly wrong. They saw the evidence of that every day, washed into the sea—all the land-dwellers’ waste, plastics that never rotted as live things do, nets that caught up the creatures of the sea and throttled the life from them. Oil, sometimes, an acrid, clinging poison. And sewage, choking clouds of effluent that lingered in the water for days, making the sea-dwellers sick, so that they came to dread the rain.

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Handy conversion to know - one US god speed is approximately one British ludicrous speed, or 0.8 British god speeds.

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are too many potential Bits and not enough hours in the day.

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The power grid got Sean Beaned

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My music career never took off. I used to perform as 'Werther's O G'. I had a bit of trouble opening for that shiny golden rapper.

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Bwillett Comics, Monster Boyfriend Specialist @bwillettcomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also not all of us wear n95s for *just* Covid. 'Just a cold' causes me month long lung infections. I like not spending 1/6th of my year in bed with a fever and barely breathing. I'm kooky like that

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@mattround.com How does one go about contributing an image to ButtyStock?

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This month's story is a bit of a banger, I contend. A little bit alt history, a little bit horror. Free to read, as ever, although feel free to pitch in with a subscription as my redundancy date gets ever closer. www.patreon.com/Queex/posts/...

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Story: Unsporting Strategies Division | Queex

Story: Unsporting Strategies Division by Queex on Patreon. Join Queex's community for exclusive content and updates.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe take a backup, start a new game, save, see where the new save appears? Maybe there's a metadata file somewhere that's gone awry.

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've written nearly 6000 words today. I think that's a record for me. Writing the SFSwap (run by @glempy.bsky.social) story seems to have dislodged a block and I got pretty much this entire story drafted in one day.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

language model programs have no conscious intent or ethical understanding and they never will. you can program them to say they do, but they fundamentally cannot

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Like an octopus, the Rationalist spews ink when threatened

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Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My post for #SFSwap which I technically uploaded this morning but haven’t posted here yet. Prompt from @queex.bsky.social rogueverbumancer.com/2026/09/27/s...

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The website has changed since then, but it still has "AI assistant" under features. It's just less prominent. I don't know how tightly integrated it is, but I don't use any software unless I can forcibly neuter any genAI component.

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is what they mean by 'desktop tower'.

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Spooky SazCaz @sazcaz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"I want Burnham to succeed and keep the fascists out" seems to be a mantra for people to repeat while they entirely invent a man and party that doesn't exist

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Point of order - the button is too stiff for you to push to turn the tables on the doppelganger, and many people think that means you need oil. BUT actually you get the thorn from elsewhere in the game and leave it on the lower level, then walk across the top to make his tread on the thorn and die.

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last time I saw a SCART lead, it was tying a farm gate shut.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Me: So it turns out Americans pronounce it "Gram", so this whole time they were talking about *Graham* Crackers! The rat skeleton who has been my only company since I fell down this well: ...

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The British Opinion Columnists make sense when you realise they're a clique of Year 10 girls who've all decided to call Kelly From Maths a bitch and a crybaby and a virgin and a slag until she leaves school (one way or the other), except they're 55.

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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Frasier: And I hear by the drums in the deep that it's time for my show to come to an end, and hand over to my esteemed colleague— Bulldog, a goblin: Go Sea-Orcs! Oou oou oou! *Frasier leaves the booth* Frasier: And how are you today, Gil? Gil: Old Tom Bombagil is a merry fellow—

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