iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

LOOK it has to be SOMEONE’s fault that I got so deep into the budgeting I forgot to eat lunch and if not mine, WHOMST? I blame CS for my falling short of a muscle daddy era!!!

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I think all us underfed waifs you can fold into your back pocket know it's into sado-masochism.

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(Got dressed for the gym at 10am to trick myself into going at 3pm, then spent four hours wrangling a budget for [REDACTED], now braindead and hungry and cannot conceive of working out.)

Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 3h

How does Creative Scotland expect the talent it funds to be HOT and SEXY if we waste all our energy on BUDGETING.

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Oh boy, I love Rick and Morty!

Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 3h

To have seen this beauty in person the same weekend I had a somewhat disastrous coming out on holiday with my family by Lough Macnean made everything marginally better.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 17h

Fuck how did I forget about Weezer and Jamiroquai?? There was probably loads 15 year old me liked that I’ve memory-wiped, along with all the nu-metal I pretended to like, because for some reason being into jazz as a teenager doesn’t win you friends.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 18h

Trying to get over my phobia of illustration by tackling some Doctor Who villains. That they all look like they're about to start crying is unintentional.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 19h

Would attend an event where everyone reading has to read this twice and the audience gets to vote on the best readings until only one remains, called “PLUMS! A Knockout Tournament”.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 20h

"you better not be a cunty canned peach when I get home" literally me:

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Unless the poem has been written for performance, poets should never read their poems out loud. No, nor actors neither. 90% of all poems should exist solely between the page and the reader.

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I could have gone nicher - Martin Gretch, Guillemots, The Veils, Connie Converse all got heavy rotation around the same time - but unfortunately if Dresden Dolls and Muse edged out Grizzly Bear and Broken Social Scene, the cool kids didn’t stand a chance.

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Scottish BPOC Writers Network @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I feel like at least six of these albums appear in the psyche of my generation of indie fans like when you cut a tree down and one of the rings is pitch black because there was a forest fire.

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(I tried Finasteride last year and immediately felt like I wanted to shit myself 24/7 and it wasn’t even a listed side effect so, yeah, enjoy my luscious locks while you can, perverts.)

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“Hey you! We’re absolutely not tracking your location but just while you’re not leaving the house, eating well, or being active, have you considered you’re also going BALD? Why not take a pill that might delay the horror of aging, or equally might make you suicidal, idk!!!” Fuck offfff.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hit a bunch of personal bests in the gym a fortnight ago and then immediately caught a cold while our local supermarket closed for renovations and let me tell you, returning to it this week, my ego is hurting, so of course the hair growth therapy ads on socials have increased threefold.

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YOU - I don't want to get better -- I want to get worse.

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They also do this flash to full white when they’re updating or something but none of the information actually changes? It hurts!!!

that CHEETO in the WHITEHOUSE scares me more like HAUNTED house!!!

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

spelt liaise correctly on the first go, lads, this week is off to a good start

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You know you’re winning back the next election when you lampoon your rivals as… uh… enjoying food and beer and… um… giving everyone else… loads of money.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My dad got so mad at this in our village - but specifically our wee cul-de-sac which everyone used as a dog park - he took photos of every shit he saw on the street, printed the collection out at the end of the week, then sent the lot to the local council. They were quick to address the problem.

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You may think I'm joking but I'm currently working on a funding application where I could reasonably make this happen without deviating too far from the theme.

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starting a new poetry movement called tardigradia where the poems all follow the babdccdcdcd scheme and can also survive the vacuum of space

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I suspect they all probably have a wee dossier of names and photos back at the hotel, but that wouldn’t explain all the terrible chalkboard spellings.

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Is laughing at AI art passé? Sure. Is laughing at people who want to start a magazine but can’t be bothered to proofread one (1) caption? No.

I’m a fan of the vintage typewriter which is in fact a laptop and superfluous wireless keyboard.

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Paul @mrnotmoro.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Oh good, an AI vibe-coded Scot Lit journal that wants to be a community hub, host a writer in residence, an artist in residence, a photographer in residence, run multiple competitions, travel the country hosting workshops, and has nationwide distribution networks before it even has one issue. Fun!

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This is my best cursed object

A four of diamonds playing card. It inexplicably has six suit markings

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This is just to say I have reported the AI “author” that was using my name and who was “publishing” one book every fortnight forgive me they were obnoxious so fake and so slop

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Love to buy one (1) ticket to an event.

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I’d forgotten about that, might actually have qualified him to go interview drug cartels.

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I did not expect The Traitors to make me feel protective of Ross Kemp, but I now want to have a stern word with whichever telly exec thought it’d be a good idea to take an overgrown theatre kid whose only reportage credentials were pretending to be hard, and pivot him into war zone reportage.

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I dunno, I feel like if you’re battling your own perfectionism, you shouldn’t simultaneously have to battle the perfectionism of a professional artist… …but I am fresh out a development scheme where the supposed ladder of achievement was missing more than a few rungs so I’m maybe being cynical.

I’m a no borders no nations kinda guy November through August but every year freshers flu has me thinking maybe September and October we could have *some* borders *some* nations.

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I had a look through the hashtag and you do wonder if The Algorithm’s obsequience has completely eroded people’s ability to tell when something is Not For Them.

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