iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When Toni Morrison said “If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it” I think what she was really getting at was “computer, make video game character have my face”

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They didn't even bother to record the woman's name.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

To me, it suggests an alternate narrative (Judas's narrative) where Jesus is a religious leader who is losing touch with his message and drifting toward being given a mansion with guards at the gates to keep out the poor. If we assume these to be events that really happened.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well, it was hard not to suspect.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

We strongly oppose the introduction of the international student levy. It suggests a lack of understanding of the financial pressure on higher education. It is estimated that a single cohort of international students provides up to £37 billion net contribution to the UK already

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I guess we should be grateful that we aren't yet required to watch it and applaud.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’ll be talking about ALSTON MOOR at the historic @housmansbookshop.bsky.social. What’s more, I will be in conversation with the amazing @sannewman.bsky.social RSVP for this free event: housmans.com/event/book-l... @unamccormack.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social

Poster gives details: Monday 16 November 7pm. Housmans
5 Caledonian Road
London N1 9DX
housmans.com/events

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When you get off the bus it's customary to say to the driver "You appeared to me in my dream as a shimmering resplendent tower of light and in that moment I knew that everything was going to be okay"

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Where I come from, you do it when you get *on* the bus. Then on the bus, you have to smile at the driver beatifically while humming a single note in unison with the other riders

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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today’s gonna be the day, The New Yorker!

NEW YORKER CAPTION CONTEST

IMAGE: a room full of wolves leaning in like they’re hungry with a lone, terrified-looking pig on a stage sitting atop a barstool holding a guitar in front of a mic.

MY CAPTION: “Anyway, here’s Wonderwall.”

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From my series 100 Years Ago Today: Real People Tell Their Real Stories. #1: Doorman

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“A unique voice, tone and heart.” Everything Will Swallow You has been chosen as one of the top ten paperback releases so far of 2026 by this week’s Bookseller Magazine. Free international delivery here in case you’ve not got yours yet: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

A round up of the year’s best paperbacks, beginning with my latest novel.

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Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They've appropriated all the funding earmarked for bread and used it to double down on circuses.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

maybe just booby traps and a gun by the bed then

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's ok, you just have to kill the original and take her place, like all the ones that came before

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Jon Aldric-or-treat @viennabeef.social · 25/09/2026

I wonder how all the Supreme Court justices can even sleep in the same bed at this point

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"One must imagine Sisyphus naked." — Albert Camus, giving advice on how to overcome stage fright

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So basically tech oligarchs keep announcing they've successfully built a paperclip maximiser and demanding we devote all our money to funding it and all our energy to passing laws to stop it.

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me every Thursday to my profession:

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026

this is the guy i reposted the other day who interviewed meta employees with pervert glasses - meta have taken his video down for “harassment”. which makes it one of the most effective pieces of satire in recent memory

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

forbiddenstories.org

The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Long story short, I am in love.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I mean, this probably means time travel is real and people are travelling to the Jurassic to fight dinosaurs. It's possible our whole civilization depends on these secret warriors.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Saw a woman on the train last night with the word DINOSAUR tattooed on her knuckles. She also had a lot of facial tattoos and a thousand-yard stare, like she might have really punched a few dinosaurs in her time.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The driver’s behavior before and after the crash is sociopathic. But also, no car operated on public roads should be able to go 100 mph, much less 142 mph.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/09/2026

Honestly "cult" is probably generously downplaying the horror of an industry that has normalized the idea of boundary eroding sex parties attended by all the people who have control over your professional & financial future. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Man of the people stuff right here.

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The difference between a catacomb and a basement is skulls. Catacomb without skulls? Thats a basement. Skulls in your basement? Thats a catacomb. Tired of having to keep saying this

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

Combatants are hunting civilians from the sky with small drones more than ever before - and the international community isn’t doing enough to stop it. My latest on the ways we can protect civilians from drones, written with Nathaniel Raymond of @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social :

foreignpolicy.com

The Laws of War Must Change for the Drone Age

Hunting civilians from the sky is growing disturbingly common.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Pfas companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the AI industry, a campaign organisation has warned...a survey of the 10 biggest manufacturers found most had plans to increase production." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to put it into the mouth of a fictional character who is then immediately killed by orcs.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If the government gives everyone a $5k check, what they're really doing is requiring everyone to take out a $5k loan, which we will all have to repay, with no control over how or when we pay it, and no guarantee about the interest rate.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

tmw you dad calls while you're trying to hit a deadline at 6 am and reminds you it's your anniversary better buy your wife a gift son so you thank him for being a great dad who has your back then he calls back like 10 minute later and is like "its not actually your anniversary lol cooked you sucker"

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Aw, that's awesome. We miss you!

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fun fact: in our polling of battleground states, about 60% of voters said it is a “top” or “high” priority for Congress to investigate and hold Musk accountable. Lean into it Dems. He’s a cartoon villain - treat him like one.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've noticed politicians and pundits have stopped using the term "job creators" now that the bosses spend every waking minute scheming to end all jobs.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

But also, the story is probably apocryphal. At best, it's a thing one person said to Dinesen, which might have really been a reaction to being asked a stupid question. I.e. it might have really meant, "You're boring."

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This sticks with me partly because this species of boringness has devoured so much of our lives. Modern people are trained in childhood to submit to being bored by power. And generally, when someone is boring you, they're not to be trusted.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I keep thinking about a thing Isak Dinesen wrote about how, when the British came to Kenya and wanted the Kikuyu to get identity cards, the Kikuyu wouldn't do it because it was boring.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

good morning mr president, we have that ai video of you playing quarterback in the super bowl that youve been demanding but we need to reiterate once again that we have 11 days of oil left

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ACLU of New Hampshire @aclu-nh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our right to privacy does not come with an income requirement, period. That’s why we’re suing the Concord Housing and Redevelopment Authority for installing surveillance devices, called Minut Monitors, in hundreds of public housing apartments units in New Hampshire. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026...

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Concord Housing Authority put high-tech sensors in rentals. Lawsuit claims it’s surveillance.

Devices made by the company Minut can monitor noise levels or smoking, without a camera. The ACLU says they are akin to continuous warrantless searches by the government, and an invasion of privacy.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Once again, the implicit assumption of nearly every argument for “AI in the classroom” is that the real subject of every course must be (the benefits or shortcomings of) AI

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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

After each Tiny Desk Concert, they should up the stakes and make the desk slightly smaller for the next artist

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Why do I have to check in for my flight? Wasn’t the paying $400 bucks for the ticket enough of a hint that I want to go

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is the newest. No pressure, but if we sell enough through Blackwell's (free international delivery) we are told more shops are likely to stock this little book published on zero budget by a new, tiny publisher: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

blackwells.co.uk

Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighbourhood

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