iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Anyway, The Reluctant Vampire is good fun, very chucklesome. Lenny Rush is developing into a comedy genius. The rest of the cast are great too.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am in a bad mood. I had bad omens on the walk to work this morning, TWO dogs either barked/growled at me (or both) and I saw a dead pigeon on the pavement.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In other news, I have made an appointment for next Saturday which is really awkward to get to, but would be SLIGHTLY less awkward if the FECKING Prickawilly Line was running but OF FECKING COURSE there are cunting engineering works next cunting weekend, of course there are.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've given up on this series of #Taskmaster, because of Ayoade. He is such a joy-vacuum and really tiresome to watch; it's supposed to be a silly-but-it's-fun programme, and he is not a good fit. Shame, because I've been enjoying Chloe, Isy and Nina's contributions (Matt Lucas, not so much).

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is far better parenting than the tech guy getting an LLM to do the bedtime reading.

Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Calvin’s dad conjured a dark and violent new ending to Hamster Huey, the book his child wants read to him for the umpteenth time.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 08/10/2026

I am so bloody tired of government by electoral attack strategy. You WON, now get off your collectively irresponsible arse and govern for survival, happiness and prosperity, not the fantasies of billionaire US tech-and-sex-party magnates.

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Privatisation in a nutshell: 1) Steal from us something we own. 2) Sell us back an inferior service 3) Charge us a higher price. The pattern is the same everywhere: royal mail, water, railways, the NHS, public services, council services…

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The article about the "decline of hosting" in the Graun today has made me all nostalgic. My mum and granny used to love having a "party". Was always the same group of friends, depending on availability, and there was much stress involved.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Age yourself with a childhood crush.

A poster for the Six Million Dollar Man, starring Lee Majors.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The way the sun is hitting the sellotape this morning as if it were a holy relic.

A shaft of sunlight hitting a roll of sellotape on a dispenser.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Was thinking of nipping out at lunch to buy a 4th b'day card for a chum's friend but: a) it's raining b) have met said child less than a handful of times c) kids not that fussed about cards d) said friend has been somewhat ghosting me of late

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Christ I hate my boss so much, I think it is making me ill.

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SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · 06/10/2026

We celebrate Eva Marie Saint, who died today at 102. A #SagAftraMember since 1947, Saint won an Oscar for her film debut in 'On the Waterfront' and starred in 'North by Northwest.' An advocate for organized labor, she leaves an enduring example for generations of union members.

Eva Marie Saint looking into the camera.
Photo credit: Photofest

Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint in 'On the Waterfront.'
Photo credit: Columbia Pictures/Photofest © Columbia Pictures

Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in 'North by Northwest.' Photo credit: Photofest

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There was quite the weird atmosphere on my walk to work this morning; the sky was covered in threatening dark grey clouds, yet a fairly bright pink light managed to diffuse through and give everything a dreamlike cast.

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 05/10/2026

Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaase tell me that all those "you should need a government ID to access the internet" people are rethinking this position now. [We know they aren't. Ed.]

The first two paragraphs of the linked-to story:

"Denmark has suffered a major data breach that has given unauthorised individuals access to names, addresses and personal identification numbers belonging to about 8.8 million people registered in the country’s central population database.

"The breach occurred after unidentified individuals misused a private Danish company’s legitimate access to search the Central Person Register (CPR), the government said in a statement Monday."

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The parks were crawling with my three nemeses this morning: runners, dog walkers and cyclists. Jogs, Dogs and Cogs as I think of them.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Saw this with my cousin at the weekend. Took us exactly two hours from our time slot to emerging at the other end. Most of that was queuing once we had got into the exhibition space. I think they need to do longer time slots maybe?

theguardian.com

Mary Beard suggests ‘tweaks’ to British Museum’s handling of queues to see Bayeux tapestry

Classicist and museum trustee visited the line after people complained of waiting for hours, with some turned away

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

adding '5 British doggers' to the list of surprising defeats for the US military, alongside the IRGC, Viet Cong, and geography

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not often food prices go down, but pleased to report that a standard packet (250g, normal not spreadable) of British Butter is now £1.85 instead of £2.00 at Em and Ess. #ItsNotWinningTheLotteryButItWillHaveToDo

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

American spelling on Polygonle this morning.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This afternoon I have mostly been watching "Blue Lights" through my fingers.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have got my youngest nephew as my Secret Santa recipient, so that's nice and easy; I know what to get him.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Been on an outing with my wee cousin.

The entrance to the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition at the British Museum.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today Me grateful to Past Me for tonight's theatre ticket (zoom in on Safety Curtain for clue as to what play I'm seeing).

An oblique view from the Grand Circle of a typically ornate West End theatre (one of W.G.R. Sprague's, natch) auditorium looking towards the stage and tiers of boxes opposite.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah yes, the mind is boggled by immigrants and tourists who don’t want to get abused and thrown into a secret nightmare prison for weeks or months before eventually being whisked away to a country they didn’t come from in the first fucking place. What a mystery!

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September 30. October 1.

Gaston Lagaffe looking even more unmotivated than usual.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seeeeeeriouslyyy? She's just trolling, isn't she?

An attractive, if underfed-looking, young woman wearing a repulsive mishmash of ugly clothes and, unsurprisingly, looking proper miserable about it.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh godddd... I feel so dirty... Have used the dreaded Ey Aye to generate some ideas for a "Passion Project" for me to present to my horrible manager on Friday. The thing is, if she pooh poohs my suggestions, I can always retort with the fact that I used Ey Aye, which she bloody WORSHIPS.

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Feeling incredibly proud to finally hold my 2027 Tube Mapper Calendar in my hands! The shipment landed yesterday, so I’m now busy getting calendars out to everyone who has already ordered. I couldn’t resist matching my T-shirt to one of the gorgeous pastel colours on the cover!

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

- I saw Fran Lebowitz speak earlier this year & she talked about how Oprah might have encouraged a lot of people to get into reading but she did so by referring to books as mirrors where you should see yourself reflected RATHER than viewing books as windows into the experiences of others.

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

John Atkinson Grimshaw’s ‘St. Paul’s Cathedral from Ludgate Circus, London, England’ (1885)

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Booked flight to go to big brother's for Christmas. Now for a pleasant not-quite-three-months watching the news anxiously for air traffic control failures, cyber-attacks, extreme weather, fuel shortages due to wars... #NotAnIntrepidTraveller

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Met my gorgeous flame-haired chum Alex in Richmond for late lunch and a potter around. Can highly recommend Adesso, on Hill Rise. Delicious Sicilian food. Pictured are the arancini we shared (and the house spritz), and the filled-to order cannoli.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cricket on Richmond Green today.

People watching a cricket match taking place on a suburban village green fringed with trees.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After several weeks of work being FULL ON, and a frugal Post-Summer Holiday month, I'm out for dinner with chums this evening. Enjoying a sherry and a book while I wait for the gang.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just read some lads the riot act, they were being loud and naughty but I wasn't keen on the porno noises and calling out to female students as they walked past. I said that as men they need to call out their friends who are harassing women.

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GreenRedSonja @greenredsonja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's perfectly ok for the super rich to continue trashing the planet for all of us, but heaven forbid a jobless person have a beer 🤔

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Apropos of Saving Lives at Sea, in yesterday's episode there was a woman who was ACTUALLY trapped in quicksand, with the tide coming in. Well, very sticky mud really - but it shows our childhood fears were not always unfounded.

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Matt Beany @mattsawyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Maybe the problem with a certain generation IS Trumpton. My 64 year old brother seems to think we have all lost that world, even though we came from Lewisham and lived in a high rise, so we never knew it.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

169 more working days until the summer holidays...

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hard to choose one, but was thinking about this one this morning. It would make my mum literally weep with helpless laughter (and the rest of us too).

The Major, long-time resident of Fawlty Towers, talking to a moose head.

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Olgs @schmolik.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"The financial value of our estate is to be divided one-third to each of the next three generations, with each third divided equally between the members of that generation ... no generation’s members will receive more than their parent." Am I being thick? I can't work out the maths at all.

theguardian.com

Our children may be surprised by what’s in our will – should we tell them now? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

You don’t have to reveal the contents, but I’ve seen families torn apart by unexpected inheritance plans

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