iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20h

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 15h

Poll: Which Sally Rooney Book Made You Join Hamas? waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/10/1…

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Brand! New! Reading thread for 2026!

A beige cat getting pet while reading a book

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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Today was a great day for spotting Shield bugs! Very colourful little characters.

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

PSA for any PhDs required to submit their dissertation to ProQuest: The only way to stop them from adding your work to Turnitin and iThenticate is to opt out of making your work “discoverable through Google Scholar and other major search engines.” It doesn’t actually say Turnitin anywhere 🤷‍♀️

Submission screen in ProQuest ETD Administrator with the option: “I want to opt out of making my work in ProQuest discoverable through Google Scholar and other major search engines.”

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Søren Have @handle.invalid · 03/08/2026

Reminded me of this brilliant Letzte Generation come-back (from around 2023): ‘We are allowed to do this. We have a tractor.’ 👌🏻👏🏻

3 climate activists blocking a road. One to the left sitting on a plastic, toy tractor. One to the right holding a drawing of a tractor. One in the middle holding a cardboard sign saying (in German): We are allowed to this. We have a tractor.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Agree, we need to be specific about what “AI” means! (or better: avoid the term entirely - see this thread & paper by @emilymbender.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/emil...)

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Nigel Pugh @nspugh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Feeling the extreme heat? Surfaces beneath tree shade can be over 20°C cooler, this makes a massive difference to life quality and more. Are you living without trees, check your postcode 👇 www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/protecting-t...

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

for the england match it's time for irish people to grow up a little and get over the performative hatred of an old enemy it's ancient history at this stage, we're kinda related to a bunch of them too so the posturing that so we're different is a bit crass let's put the viking raids behind us 💙🇳🇴❤️

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/06/2026

I think they're perfectly aware that they are convincing more people to read *Careless People* (you should read it, it's genuinely excellent): us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 35/

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Careless People

#1 New York Times BestsellerA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AN...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/06/2026

TY @ktoussaint.bsky.social for covering the extremely urgent shift required in media coverage of deadly fossil fuel disasters - go read the full article, it's an excellent summary of this problem (and share it) www.fastcompany.com/91563140/sto...

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There's a deadly heat wave in Europe. Experts are begging media outlets to stop making it look fun

Images of crowded beaches or people swimming in pools are known to make extreme weather seem less dangerous.

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

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⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org · 05/06/2026

$Thank you. Hello from Sweden. Let me start with something I did last Friday. I moved my own Bluesky account to a Swedish provider, hosted in Finland. Every single follower came with me. Nothing broke. *It just works\!* Because on an open protocol, we take our community with us; it doesn't belong to the host. That, to me, is the heart of it. In a democracy, no single company should own the public square. When one company owns the room where we talk, the conversation gets *prematurely optimised* for engagement and capture, not for the public good. And a captive audience cannot hold power to account. The open social web changes the incentive: it gives people a credible exit. If we can leave and take our followers with us, the platform has to *earn* our trust instead of locking us in. Exit is what keeps voice honest. As we heard in the conversation earlier, there is a cost: The hard work of interoperability. But that is the *civic muscle* we must build together. It is a governance challenge worth having, because the prize is a democracy that isn't one big room shouting, but many small rooms that can still hear each other. Let me conclude with one image. Our data is _soil_, never oil. Treat it like oil, and it is all extraction and concentration. Treat it like soil, and our community travels with us, and grows where we plant it. That is how we make the digital public square actually public. And that is how we free the future — together. Thank you.$

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

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Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie · 28/05/2026

📺Watch back: Prof Peter Thorne @icarus-maynooth.bsky.social was on CNN this morning discussing the current European heatwave 🌡️ video.snapstream.net/Play/8OW4EGh...

A split-screen CNN broadcast shows a news presenter in a light blue suit on the left, reporting from Atlanta at 2:34 AM, and a man in a floral shirt on the right, speaking from Edenderry, Ireland at 7:34 AM. A red banner at the bottom reads "Extreme Weather: Europe's Deadly, Early Heat Wave is Smashing Records."

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 26/05/2026

Cannot 👏 emphasize 👏 this 👏 enough

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Rory Mullins @rorymullins.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Noah Wyle in the recently published profile self-describes it as ‘competence porn’.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

A thread on the reception of the Easter rising among Algeriam nationalists. Emir Khaled, grandson of resistance leader Abd al-Qadir, led a movement for change to the colonial system after WWI. For his supporters, the Rising was a cautionary tale for the French. The movement's newspaper L'ikdam...

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Laura @wompanafrank.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

“Squid” is used as an antisemitic slur in China because the words for squid and Jew sound similar. In case you didn’t know.

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Rory Mullins @rorymullins.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Yes. Do it. And then let us know what they think of www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5gY...

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Macbeth

YouTube video by Laibach - Topic

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Rory Mullins @rorymullins.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

They’ve been making in roads here in the last decade, I think. No expert me, but I recall they are coming over from Wales. It’s a bit of a surprise when you hear that sound. Dokdokdok. “What was that?”

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IrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The Cáin Adomnáin is sometimes called, anachronistically, the first Geneva Convention because it punishes those who kill non-combatants in war, over and above the normal honour price.

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Rory Mullins @rorymullins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Post a banger, not in English Rone / (La)horde - Room with a view (Kinda cheating as It’s instrumental, but from Marseilles, France) youtu.be/w77nJ6BBEhc?...

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Rone - Room With A View (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Rone

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

A group of ten local residents climbed 800 meters above the city and lit 450 torches to form the message: "No Kings." This is how Davos welcomed Trump.

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Time to continue the tradition. Share your recs!

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It's another extremely spicy night at TPUSA's AmFest, where Rob Schneider has just roundly lambasted Trump for bombing small boats from Venezuela and called Candace Owens retarded and the greatest gifted the world has ever known

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/12/2025

Photographer Martin Parr just passed. If you don't know his work, the Guardian has a really nice introduction here. h/t @wvschaik.bsky.social

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Martin Parr: the photographer’s career in pictures

A look back at the career of Martin Parr who has died at the age of 73

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it. We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.

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left-shark politics @andrewctenor.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Can we get this in Halifax please #BikeHfx

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Waylon @hooneriphic.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Lord, I have seen what you have done for the people in that pub at the Dublin airport during the Hungary / Ireland match and I want that for us.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

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Phil Dore @philjdore.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland. It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

Cartoon of two pumpkins screaming in terror beside the traditional Irish Samhain carved turnip

#Art #Samhain #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

My most popular cartoon by a long chalk is also oddly niche, in that it mostly appeals to a generation who remember the song it refers to and enjoy the nostalgia for their youth. I can draw one for you if you like. www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

Cartoon: simple black and white line drawing. A couple in a living room. The man is sitting in an armchair reading a newspaper, head turned slightly towards his wife who is standing at the window, tugging at the curtain and saying "I see the Renegade Master's back once again with the ill behaviour".

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Rory Mullins @rorymullins.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

There’s good advice in the free pdf Tree Grower’s Guide. Critical thing to know is that their are perishable - like fruit. Within days of collecting they need to go into a moist (not wet) medium (coir, sand, etc) to overwinter outdoors or in baggies in fridge or be sown in pots or trays outdoors.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The Kirk memorial service is set up as a religious revival (his killing has been framed that way by Cardinal Dolan & others). The singer says: "We want the Kirk family to be healed, and we want our land to return to Jesus." Christian nationalism had become part of Kirk's brand - it's on full display

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Rory Mullins @rorymullins.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

A disturbingly memorable film. Still stays in mind from my last viewing more than a decade ago.

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 15/08/2025

AI slop steals from human artists and writers to enrich the billionaires that fund fascism. You will not defeat fascism by posting pictures made on the fascist billionaires' energy and water guzzling plagiarism extruder.

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

One like, one #anthropology opinion. 1. our relationship with #sociology is modelled after Schopenhauer‘s porcupine dilemma. We’re so close, it hurts, so we overemphasise our differences.

Extroverted man in a pink feather dress and coloured sunglasses (“anthropology”) sits next to introverted man in simple black attire (“sociology”) in a car.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

the way.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. 1/3

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