iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

🍂 Simon Threadgold 🎃 @sthreadgold.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dream Academy is a lovely copy. I think All About Eve needs a spin through the Knosti disc cleaner. It’s a bit on the crackly side (but no visual marks so I think it’ll clean up well!)

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ITV Doctor Who, you say?

Mr Rose and Miss Lamb, inside the Hartnell TARDIS.

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My Amazon "About You" - all things you might expect, collects vinyl, has a turntable, collects Target books, blah, blah, blah. "Values physical media preservation" is an interesting one... Is that their polite way of saying "consistently sends back warped or dented records we've packaged poorly"?

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/07/2025

Very true. Similarly (and conversely) if you don’t really connect with a project - if the prospect doesn’t make your brain catch fire - then you’re probably not right for it. (There’s several tales in this book of him stepping away too)

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my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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I’m racing through RTD’s Queerest of Folk on audio (won’t get the book till next week). Whatever you make of his work (and I’m nearly always a fan) his enthusiasm and determination sings out.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Eclectic charity shop scrapings Pleased with Vincent Price for £3!

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Introduced on Radio 3 in September 1992 as Nightwaves, pioneering Arts and Ideas podcast, rebadged as Free Thinking in January 2014, then after a purge of speech programming moved to Radio 4 in April 2024. Successfully transformed from magazine to extended discussion. A remarkable legacy. RIP.

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Jon Dies At The End @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I saw Nigel Kneale’s adaptation of The Woman in Black on transmission, aged 11, and it was one of my most formative television experiences. It was an utter dream to be invited to a cast reunion podcast to discuss this greatest of ghost stories.

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Episode 200 - THE WOMAN IN BLACK CAST REUNION

Podcast Episode · The Folklore Podcast · 7 October · 1hr 36min

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It is very upsetting when a well-meaning relative buys a book as a gift from Amazon only for it to turn out to be a piece of fake crap. I tell people to use Waterstones, Blackwell's, HMV... any outlet that only sells stuff from legit publishers. Take your business elsewhere.

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I mean, I say *learning*. I may have relapsed

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Picture, if you will, nine year old me - with a father who’d been an engineer, and an ex-teacher for a mum - slowly learning that authority figures don’t like to be told they’re wrong, and sometimes you just have to STFU and fake agreement until you can escape their field of dogmatic idiocy

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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Woke up this morning recalling a primary school teacher we had who insisted that adding or subtracting zero (‘nothing’) from any number (‘anything’) would give zero (‘anything minus nothing?’ ‘NOTHING!’ she would make the class chorus)

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#TimCurry & #RockyHorror fans! Wed 7 Oct BBC4: a rare screening of #Schmoedipus – a #DennisPotter #PlayForToday. First aired 20 June 1974 yet actually recorded on 18 Dec 73 when Tim was still in the original London run of Rocky. Don Smith photographed him on set for @radiotimes.bsky.social

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 07/10/2026

Are you suggesting the Horses are too Slow…?

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Looking at the Fonts In Use page for Data 70, and this is one Data 70 book cover I haven't spotted before. Looks like a Ghost Box invention (or something from their imitators) but it's a real book from 1973.

The cover of a hardback book: Voices from the Tapes: Recordings from the Other World by Peter Bander. A b&w photo of four men wearing bulky headphones listening to a tape recorded. Background is filled by a Letratone pattern of blue concentric circles.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.” M.R James from ‘Count Magnus’ collected in ‘Ghost Stories of the Antiquary’.

A skeletal red figure looms over a studios gentleman working by candlelight in a darkened room. A digital rework of a linocut illustration.

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That’s positively rude It’s like thinking someone doesn’t like music or breathing

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I looked up my gran’s old flat and the house I lived in from about 4-7 (and have fond memories of) and the lesson I learned from that was… not to do that again. Better to run through those rooms in my memory

when I started collecting Pet Shop Boys special editions (which are superb for bonus tracks) I did notice the main albums are mastered louder than the 80s CDs (and I definitely prefer the originals)

Peter Anghelides @anghelides.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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This is a lovely interview with the two actors, clearly full of affection. And if you know the series, full of equally lovely memories. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Jane Leeves: I was on the set on the first day of the pilot and I saw David walking in and crossing the bleachers. I went racing up to him like a mad fan because I'd been watching [the Washington-DC-based sitcom] The Powers That Be, which was cancelled for some bizarre reason - it was brilliant and he played the most odd and fabulous character. I don't think you really had any dialogue, did you?

David Hyde Pierce: No, I played a suicidal congressman who only mumbled.

JL: I thought there was a calmness, a kindness and an intellect that was devastatingly sexy, I have to say.

DHP: Well, I thought: I can't believe Paramount Studios doesn't have security... No, I realised that I lucked out getting the best loon in the business.

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All CDs for once! Mostly revisits/expansions of things I already have plus the new Darling Buds (got the boxset of their old albums from Cherry Red, so needed to complete the set)

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Another two and a half episodes last night - we restarted just at Celia's fart! 😆 The cliffhangers are really good at keeping us hooked

It’s so crisp and detailed 🤤 Admittedly I’m also listening on a way better stereo and speakers than I’d have had for the original, but still… Gonna have to do a comparison with the ‘remasters’ on disc one. Went straight to the new mixes

Autumn vibes… Amazing how a bit of sunlight and some music shopping can lift the spirits

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Listening to the 2026 Stephen Street mixes of the Cranberries' debut. I can be dubious about the benefits of remasters/revisits generally but I can hear loads of layers and detail in this I've never noticed before

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 07/10/2026

That's a really good way of looking at it.

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“Glasgow is a magnificent city,” said McAlpin. “Why do we hardly ever notice that?” “Because nobody imagines living here,” said Thaw […] “if a city hasn’t been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.” —Alasdair Gray, 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘬 #Booksky 💙📚

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Dave Brain (Ornsack) @ornsack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The work in progress storylines are challenging me, I don’t know exactly why? Possibly because there’s not much in the way of paragraph breaks or commentary… I can imagine they’d be very useful for anyone doing a deep dive on a particular story though

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This is wonderful - Steve Box visiting all the locations Trap Door was made in and talking about his experiences on the show ❤️ - youtu.be/oQX9zQmCLIM?...

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Trap Door 40th Anniversary with Steve Box Thing Doer

YouTube video by The Trap Door

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Karen Campbell @writerkcampbell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Moments of joy, resilience and hope can be found in the most unexpected places. Spotted on the top of a Glasgow tenement this morning. 😊

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Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Made me go buy Blue, so thanks Tori (Thori)

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I heard the Tori version before Lloyd Cole. I still sort of think he does it too fast and emphasises the wrong words…