iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 02/10/2026

It is just nuts that it knows I am the same person who is a director on two companies but only recognises that I am verified on only one. Either I am me or not? I am.

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 02/10/2026

Everytime I try to use the Companies House Webfiling system I just want to cry.

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 01/10/2026

I'm confident the answer is yes, but cannot remember who it was. Ailsa was first. Others have followed.

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 01/10/2026

The army is already there. They are waiting for the wake up call. I'm a Sleeper...

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 01/10/2026

The reason? "because I am personally familiar with this website myself." I had to ask how they knew us. "I had used the website before when I was a Student in Secondary School." This makes me so happy.

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 01/10/2026

And we offer a £500 prize to the winning scientist. Yep, dating and gambling. Normally when you contact the firewall provider you get a brush off about only speaking to customer schools. This time was different. It was an apology and a promise to update us globally...

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 01/10/2026

Sometimes a school's firewall blocks our imascientist.org.uk site. It's annoying. Today, the teacher sent a screenshot and I noticed it said suspected "dating gambling". What? But our home page says: It connects school students with scientists through energetic real-time text-based Chats."

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I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here! – Science enrichment

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Jo Hutchinson @jojohutchinson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything Peter Fonagy says here aligns with what I have learned in over a decade’s work on mental health and SEND, my personal experience + those of many families I have conversed with. We await the findings on ADHD and autism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Young people are not snowflakes, head of mental health review says

Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Prof Fonagy says being young is much harder now than it was.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵:

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 15/09/2026

Nice of @samfr.bsky.social to balance the threat of AI with this.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead.

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David J @damjef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Re: last RT, for the benefit of anyone without Instagram…

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yet again, it’s the satirists I feel sorriest for…

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 09/09/2026

APOLOGIES FOR INTERRUPTING YOUR DOOM-SCROLLING Britain is not completely broken. My car went for an MOT and admittedly failed. I asked the mechanic to fix it. Yesterday he called to let me know it was done, A WHOLE DAY AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. He underpromised and overdelivered. #BrilliantBritain

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 07/09/2026

Big fan of how Russia can shut down a major UK port for half a day with just 5kg of cocaine and 100 severely divorced men.

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 07/09/2026

Welcome to the #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail record breaking thread! This journey starts Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 and ends Lagos 🇵🇹 18 trains, 100 hours 9 minutes, 4008km as crow flies, 6281 route-km Project background: longestjourney.crossborderrail.eu Follow live: longestjourneylive.crossborderrail.eu

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Half-expecting government to announce VAT cut on balaclavas to help with cost of living.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is the thing, I am happy to accept that I am wet, lefty liberal on immigration compared to the voting public, I'm not really prepared to accept the same on the topic of black masked militia men blocking infrastructure!

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not.

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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 04/09/2026

One thing that I love about the film is how it captures a very distinct social setting and milieu. Lunch at Rules. G&Ts at Mark’s. A champagne reception at Oswald’s. Pints in a Shepherd Neame’s pub in Westminster. Discussion of Black Velvets over oysters by the sea.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 03/09/2026

This is racism, straight out of the Trump playbook. Reform are trying to turn our great country into a franchise of Trump's America. There are countless British patriots who came here from overseas, many of them refugees we proudly welcomed. That's the kind of country we are.

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Parents! Carers! Anyone looking after children getting GCSE results today! Remember: your only job today is to be proud, supportive, and kind regardless of what grades your child gets. (Not so proud that you have to brag about it on here).

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026

This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

MY MOST BAFFLINGLY LOCATED EVENT YET! I'm doing a tour of the Harwell Science Campus, then chatting about the new book afterwards. If you are some kind of Harwell-based scientist, well

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Engineering Modern Life: Jonn Elledge Q&A

Explore the ideas behind 31 Inventions That Built Our World with Jonn Elledge, uncovering the technology shaping modern life.

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 18/08/2026

It would be interesting to know. I use Claude to provide technical help on a variety of things. I recently changed model from Sonnet to Opus. It is definitely better. More thought out. More accurate. Fewer mistakes and dead-ends. But so much slower. WIBBI the model changed based on the prompt?

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 17/08/2026

Hopping into Monday.. Kangaroos on the sea at sunrise. Australia 📹 jeroen.fritz on IG

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 17/08/2026

Maybe not kept dry, but kept away from sparks?

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is appalling and tragic. Cambridge University, the media, and those far right 'scholars' and hangers on who sought to capitalise on this case for social media clout surely bear responsibility for what feels like an entirely predictable outcome. www.lbc.co.uk/article/jaso...

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Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday found dead aged 41 | LBC

Mr Arday is understood to have been found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea on Friday afternoon

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 11/08/2026

Pricing is nuts. £90 to sit in an almost empty stand is crazy.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 10/08/2026

Getting ready for Wednesday. 40 year refractor still doing the job despite sad neglect.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

*this para is important. William O'Reilly, history don, was found to have plagiarised by the university, and has had sexual misconduct claims against him as well — but he remains in post at Cambridge, and the press/public barely noticed.

Allegations of plagiarism in a doctoral thesis do not usually make for riveting, front-page news. Indeed, in 2023, when the Cambridge history professor William O’Reilly faced allegations of plagiarising student essays, the press coverage consisted of barely half a dozen articles (a tribunal ruled the plagiarism was “the product of negligent acts but was not deliberate”). Few people could care less about what academics get up to.

But Arday could not expect to be similarly insulated by academia’s remoteness. This story has endured, stubbornly, because it is so perfectly calibrated for some of the most combustible charges of Britain’s culture wars: namely, that academic standards have been surrendered to a woke orthodoxy, and that minorities are unfairly advanced in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 06/08/2026

I remember living in the West End in the 90's. Vertical Drinking was a concept introduced by the Outbackers chain. They had worked out that if they removed the seats on a weekend, their drink sales went through the roof. Not because of more ppl, but because when standing you drink more. Not pretty.

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 04/08/2026

Close. So close. But not close enough.

Rain Radar showing heavy thunderstorms over Bristol, but sadly not over Bath.

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 04/08/2026

@tonytoners.bsky.social We're currently doing a little bit of overdue data clear out and came across this gem. Are we OK to delete? Or is the research too important?

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 04/08/2026

I worry a little that BlueSky isn't quite the safe haven we think it is. It's fine if you share a really clear black and white leftist, progressive view, but if you posit something outside of that the mob can still rise. It is feeling increasingly absolutist here in recent times.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New post just out: "Burnham's first mistake" Splitting 14 year olds into academic and vocational paths seems intuitive. But it's a terrible idea that risks increasing inequality, and closing down options for the young people that need them most. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

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Burnham's first mistake

The problem with his education plan

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I want to go back in time and tell the child version of Elliot Anderson that in like a decade he will be sold in the same year, and for the same fee, as Argos.

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Pete Etchells @peteetchells.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The data report from the first three months of the Australian social media ban has now been released: www.esafety.gov.au/research/soc... Some thoughts:

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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 30/07/2026

I went to a lecture of his recently. He was great. Changed his own slides. Was quite witty too.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

One of the things I find odd about UK skills and jobs policies over the last 10 years is the idea that - for young people - place is destiny. It's like we've taken the Brexit memo and double stamped it into meaning you need to stay put to be a success. The geographical footprint of the UK is *tiny*

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We must remember the Utøya massacre, and remember it for what it was: a far-right attack specifically targeted against democratic socialist activists. Today, the ideologies of its perpetrator are openly espoused by a global network of nationalist oligarchs as they wage war on democratic societies.

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