iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Listened to it at full blast on an empty motorway at night.

One thing I've learnt from years of reading prescient futuristic literature (that turned out to indicate some verity) is that the infrastructure for the future is always being built and we bend ourselves to its construction. Bleak future.

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 29/09/2026

New & Notable: The London artist refines his hard-edged synth punk through expanded production and a sharper, more streamlined songwriting approach.

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The Intermittent Signal, by The Sick Man Of Europe

8 track album

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Listened to it at full blast on an empty motorway at night.

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just did my first (and so far only scheduled) interview for my upcoming book and had lots of fun. If any more of you media/pod/zine types want to hear me blab enthusiastically about Japanese indie music culture, contact me or Awai Books and we'd love to sort something: awaimedia.com/Tokyo_Doesnt...

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Awai Books | Tokyo Doesn't Exist

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I DARE you to read this Pochetinno quote without Adam Curtis voice in your head

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An absolute tour de force of riparian revelry. A sunken cathedral whose prayers are yearning to surface. Immediately slots near the very top of the Belgian school of the Strange.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Will share this one last time as I think it captures a moment of the early 21st century, where a combo of neoliberal economics penchant for repetition + the emergence of consumer big data started to guide decisions. Gallows were the real deal, but the waters they found themselves in are fascinating.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The thing I recognise now reading Jack Kerouac isn't rapidity of prose or ecstasy of character, but the sheer vastness & depth of space. The USA as great unimpeded (psychic) zone. How easy it is to become entirely lost and how lost you become becomes how far you have to go to find yourself again

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bought this solely on the synopsis. Also I think Alicoha is the name of one of the characters from The Brothers Karamazov, which is a *sign*

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In a way, my attempt to navigate what I believe to be the best question asked in music journalism (by Greil Marcus), "were the Sex Pistols a major event in history?"

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The life-giver river of the Scheldt, taken this morning on a run.

The Scheldt (de Schelde) on the 27 September 2026

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This mini-motif of dreams as the only way angels can communicate with us is so goddamn good.

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Today is the birthday of T.S. Eliot (1888-1965). Here are ten artworks of him and others inspired by his work. First up: "Only Those Who Risk Going Too Far Can Possibly Found Out How Far They Can Go" - Dongni Hou (2021)

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's my belief that a literary work can't be considered a genuine masterpiece unless it contains at the very least a paragraph with an obtuse theory about Shakespeare and/or his works.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This mini-motif of dreams as the only way angels can communicate with us is so goddamn good.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love the new Gilla Band album, but I'm not IN love with it.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In a way, my attempt to navigate what I believe to be the best question asked in music journalism (by Greil Marcus), "were the Sex Pistols a major event in history?"

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is an even better read now the recordings are available.

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My paperback of the week in @theobserveruk.bsky.social is Simon Critchley’s brilliant deep dive into Heidegger’s Being and Time, “the most important philosophical book of the last 100 years”. Excerpts below, whole thing here: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wrote about something quite formulative for me for @thequietus.com, watching a real outlier record be merged into the mainstream. I found it fascinating to live through & even stranger to remember. This was Gallows & Orchestra of Wolves. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

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"Me and you, we are not the same." Gallows' Orchestra of Wolves at 20 | The Quietus

Gallows were the unlikely band to match Sex Pistols' "breach in the pop milieu" which along with their ace debut album came with a price tag.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Packing away all my books for painting and can never not be happy when I see this.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People are saying it's the most AI non-AI image of all time.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hell yeah! I very much enjoyed Flower Factory and its anterior history approach to the 21st century. While I'm not imagining this is the same millennium that they are walking into, I am saying that @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social has an uncanny ability to make triptychs/ polyptychs out of his work!

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh hell yeah. My favourite type of writing: Far-reaching ambiguity that is artistically ballasted by the roaring potential of the internet that is a great unknown canvas that will SURELY make sense of everything.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

*Listening to Bruce Springsteens Born in the USA* what if we made a movie about this?

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ghent number three. Not surprised. Things could always be better, but it is a paradise

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Went to SELL books but stumbled upon an old freak bookseller who had a new place and traded a few for these two. Not bad for Ghent, Belgium. Traded couple of Nabokovs and Infinite Jest.

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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

learning another language is such a good way to expand your mind, and learn that everyone just calls places "Big Hill"

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When walking with Iain Sinclair last year, he asked what I did and I told him I was working on innovation within toothbrushes. He asked 'are they connected, the toothbrushes?'. I said yes. He chortled and said 'yes, well of course, everything must be now'.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As someone who has worked extensively in this industry (no, really), I'd be inclined to fully centre the 'id' within all of this & I'd probably go full Freud dream analysis. Repression manifested as RRP for OHC. Dentist as shrink. Crumbling teeth in VR dreams. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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The rise of Big Toothbrush: how did our mouths become such a lucrative market?

People in the UK are more interested in oral health than ever - and you can now buy prebiotic toothpastes and brushes that cost up to £600. Yet we remain in the midst of a serious dental crisis

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 22/09/2026

lea scratch perrins

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is always 100% pure comfort reading. What an endeavour.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We got Don Delillo acknowledging and re-releasing his horny field hockey novel from the 1980s before GTA6

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I received an advanced copy of this and it is absolutely astonishing. A blend of Marcus Schwob, Anna Kavan, and The King in Yellow. So rich and strange, with the riparian tides of the short sections coaxing. Only read the Cathedral Of Mist short stories before, but this eclipses those.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pretty sure Gabby's Dollhouse just referenced Warren Zevon in its new season.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 20/09/2026

"We ask, are the universities failing? We’re all being replaced by machines and eventually robots. We don’t even think anymore. We can barely read. All of these prognostications of doom are so centred around universities.” An Interview with #MissouriWilliams buff.ly/QzmOtXn

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Watched The End of Oak Street yesterday (very meh), but had this stuck in my head since then youtu.be/biQXG-Djm8Q?...

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Low - Dinosaur Act

YouTube video by starsandspit

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I respect Tom Odell. He has one mediocre song that people can get down with in a sun-drenched park every mid-summer and he appears to just ride it, never too down that no-one cares about his other like six albums - presumably because that one song is $$$. In many respects, the true millennial dream.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There aren't many English language writers writing with such abandonment of convention. The Doloriad in particular is utterly beguiling. Vivisectors is peculiar in the way Kavan, Kafka, and Djuna Barnes are peculiar. I'd really recommend checking them both out (+article). She knows what she's doing.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I hate you so much Tottenham Hotspur.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Each review comes with an additional review by Wayne Rooney. This is genius

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 18/09/2026

Carlo Ginzburg’s 1979 book “The Cheese and the Worms” compiles the testimony of a sixteenth-century miller and amateur theologian accused of heresy by the Inquisition. As @emmaclairefoley.bsky.social writes, it reconfigured our idea of what gets to be historical.

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Carlo Ginzburg, 1939–2026 | Emma Claire Foley

Carlo Ginzburg’s work centered and subverted the very idea of insignificance.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Book lovers, go to the website and find the obscure goodies that await when it is relaunched!

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