iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 28/09/2026

Swapped the Bumpboxx BB-777 for a classic SONY CMT-CP300 in my bedroom. It sounds exactly like I hoped the BB would. With a dual cassette deck, 3-CD changer, tuner, and real wood speakers, it’s the perfect bedroom setup.

A silver Sony CMT-CP300 stereo system with a dual cassette deck and 3-CD changer, flanked by two wooden speakers with grey grilles, sitting on a patterned surface.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 26/09/2026

Sold. An overpriced Chinese knockoff pretending to be the original Sharp GF-777, but it has nothing in common with it. I'm going to get myself something real, from back when engineers actually cared about sound quality.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 19/09/2026

The assembly quality proved reasonably solid. Regarding sound, Dolby has clearly withheld licensing for its time-based audio cassette technology for quite a while. The impression will need time to settle.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 19/09/2026

What’s inside? Maybe it’s a bicycle?

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 18/09/2026

New Jesus Jones album, Twilight, out today. Their debut came out in 1989 and somehow reached us in the USSR. jesusjones.com was the first site I ever opened when I got online in the late 90s. Background music to most of my life. music.apple.com/ca/album/twi...

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Twilight by Jesus Jones on Apple Music

Album · 2026 · 11 Songs

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 16/09/2026

⚠️ New in the moderation of my custom feeds: posts that Bluesky's moderation service labels as adult are now hidden too, not only those their authors label themselves. Each feed picks its own labels. Vinyl Community keeps it off for now: there, the labeler mostly flags album covers.👇 #nocrosspost

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 13/09/2026

Three records came with me out of Romania — bought there after I left Ukraine because of the war, before Canada was even a plan. This is one of them: The Lemon Twigs, Everything Harmony. Some things you carry across borders because you need them, not because they're useful.

An album sleeve on a white wall above a black turntable. The sleeve is The Lemon Twigs' Everything Harmony: a brick apartment building with fire escapes, the title in red serif letters arched across the top of the facade, two long-haired musicians standing on a fire escape at the right, the band name in black at the bottom. Below, on a light wood surface, a record spins under the closed dust cover, a silver weight on the spindle and an orange cartridge on the tonearm.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 08/09/2026

Harlem rooftops at sunrise. Whitby harbour through a sash window. Twelve magpies on a washing line. Moonrise over Lake Michigan. Other People's Windows — a feed of the view out, from all over the world. Pin it here: bsky.app/profile/stanislavski.me/feed/aaajn7fg44s4y

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 07/09/2026

A day off that lands on a Monday asks for something very beautiful. Destroyer's Kaputt, side one, no plans.

A hand holds the sleeve of Destroyer’s “Kaputt” in a protective outer bag: a grainy black-and-white photograph taken at a lookout, where four people dressed in white stand at a stone parapet above a city with mountains behind it, a fifth sits on the parapet, and three empty benches fill the foreground. Behind, in the room, a turntable with the blue record and a floorstanding speaker.

Round holographic hype sticker on the shrinkwrap: TURNTABLE LAB repeated around the rim; in the centre “2021”, “EDITION of 500”, large “EXCLUSIVO”, and below the numbers 673855036939 and MRG369-TTL.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As a custom builder and designer, Ricky Saetta finally built this for himself, the "Chroma Pulsar" console. Fully equipped with a color light organ, 24 inch Color “TeeVee”, turntable and Nintendo entertainment system. IG: @ricky.teevee

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 03/09/2026

⚠️ Small tune-up to the Vinyl Community feed: character moodboards and OC art kept slipping in whenever a record was just one tile in the collage. Now filtered by genre — moodboard, gpose, photo mode — not by fandom. Game-soundtrack vinyl is still very welcome. 🎧 #nocrosspost

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 02/09/2026

CA$39.95 for a sealed copy. On Discogs the same Royal Grape 2xLP runs CA$200–300 shipped to Canada. Neal Francis, Francis Comes Alive: recorded live to tape at Thalia Hall, eleven people on stage. Opened it, put it straight on the turntable.

Sealed copy of Neal Francis's Francis Comes Alive in a clear wall-mounted display frame. The cover shows the singer in blue and magenta stage light, head tilted back, holding a mic on a boom stand. A dark red hype sticker in the top left corner announces the record in yellow lettering: recorded live to tape at Thalia Hall in Chicago with an eleven-piece band, Royal Grape Edition, 2xLP, ATO Records, ATO0657.

Low-angle close-up of a translucent grape-purple LP on a turntable platter, spinning past the spindle. The grey centre label is ringed with a rainbow gradient and reads "Neal Francis / Francis Comes Alive" with "STEREO" and the side's track list.

Extreme close-up of a yellow cartridge and silver headshell tracking the outer grooves of the same translucent purple record, its reflection visible in the vinyl. The rainbow-edged label and turntable mat are out of focus behind it.

Screenshot of Discogs marketplace listings for Neal Francis's Francis Comes Alive (2xLP, purple), showing three sealed Mint/Near Mint copies shipped from the UK, Netherlands and France. The converted Canadian prices — about CA$218.97, CA$258.60 and CA$277.85 plus tax — are circled in red.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 02/09/2026

Now spinning (also Spinstack export testing)

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 31/08/2026

Spinstack is surprisingly good — and I don’t say that lightly about vinyl apps. Dig into the settings and there’s a mass of genuinely clever stuff in there. You’ve got to admire the developer’s imagination. 🧵 spinstackios.app #vinyl

spinstackios.app

Spinstack | Your Record Collection, Beautifully Managed

Sync your Discogs vinyl collection to iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. $9.99 once, no subscription. 30-day free trial.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 27/08/2026

Finally got my copy of Family Worship Center’s “Only Visiting”. Been waiting for this one!

A hand holds a brown cardboard record mailer, printed “Mighty Music Mailer — hassle free mailer for 1–2 LP records, Bags Unlimited, MLP1.” The flap is sealed with black packing tape branded CorpoRat Industries, CorpoRat Printshop and CorpoRat Records, with cartoon rat logos and the slogans “This unholy trinity is your creative salvation” and “Deviants, derelicts and degenerates rejoice!” The framed Stevie Nicks poster is on the wall behind.

A hand holds up the “Family Worship Center — Only Visiting” LP sleeve. The cover art shows a stone archway cut out as an arched window, revealing a blue sky with eyes and a green tree on a checkerboard floor; two planets ringed with piano keys float on either side, a smiling glass pitcher drifts at lower left, and the title runs along an orange band at the bottom. A framed black-and-white Stevie Nicks poster hangs on the wall behind.

A black Sony turntable on a light wood table, dust cover raised, playing a translucent blue-green marbled LP with a yellow stylus tracking the outer grooves. Propped against the white wall behind it is the album sleeve: “Family Worship Center — Only Visiting,” showing a stone archway framing a blue sky with a pair of eyes, a green tree standing on a black-and-white checkerboard floor, ringed planets made of piano keys, and a smiling glass pitcher against a starfield.

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Joanne ⁷ 💜 ⊙⊝⊜ @jmcport.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

GOODBYE, DOLLY. 😢 We will always love you.

Sepia photo of a young, smiling Dolly Parton looking out the partially open window of a car

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 20/08/2026

I suddenly ended up with my wife in Paris. No, not in the one in France. But it didn’t spoil our mood. We sit here at the restaurant right by the river and enjoy this amazing evening.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 17/08/2026

The original soundtrack to the film A Chorus Line sounds fantastic. While it’s silly to try to capture sound on an iPhone microphone, trust me, this is one of the best-recorded records in my vinyl collection.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 16/08/2026

I just discovered that while programming Vinyl Community Feed, I somehow overlooked the concept of a “gallery.” Because of that unfortunate oversight, posts with more than one photo weren’t making it into the feed. Fixed now. Justice has been restored. Welcome to the community!

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 12/08/2026

Hey Canada! 🇨🇦 A great chance to buy at a good price. All products on the website vinylstoragesolutions.ca today with a 35% discount.

National Vinyl Record Store Day Sale 35% sitewide.
No code required.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 11/08/2026

That’s pretty much how it works. The automatic cleanup runs every five minutes, so there may be a short window when spam or unwanted content is visible on your screens, but it will still disappear fairly quickly.

Screenshot of a Safari window displaying the “Vinyl Community” Bluesky feed administration page. At the top is a 24-hour bar chart showing hourly post activity, with blue bars for stored posts and orange segments for posts removed by a purge. Below, the “PURGES — ALL FEEDS” section lists recent purge events for Vinyl Community feeds, including timestamps, numbers of removed posts, feed names, and individual Bluesky posts that were removed.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 11/08/2026

One of my all-time favourite records: Piotr Figiel — Music (Poland, 1976, Pronit – SX 1320). If I don't know what I'd like to put on the turntable, I choose this one. The best soundtrack for the solitude of a day off that falls on a Tuesday.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 11/08/2026

1/4 @support.bsky.team There appears to be a serious lag issue with one of the public Jetstream instances: jetstream2.us-east.bsky.network. It is consistently falling hours behind the other three public instances.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 10/08/2026

Housekeeping news about Vinyl Community feed. Today it got better at two things: finding your posts, and not throwing them away by mistake. Here is what changed, and why none of it was possible while this feed lived on SkyFeed. 🧵👇 #nocrosspost

Feedgen Admin status page for the Vinyl Community feed. The page shows 923 stored posts, a chart of posts stored and removed during the last 24 hours, and a log of recent purge events.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 08/08/2026

In 1989, Thomas Anders tried to step out of Modern Talking’s shadow and become a major solo artist. A move to the US, strong material, polished arrangements—it all seemed right. But it didn’t click. Such a shame; his enormous potential never got the recognition it deserved.

A vinyl record featuring Thomas Anders’ Different displayed above a Sony turntable. The record is spinning on the turntable, with the album cover visible on the wall behind it.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 04/08/2026

I read this as a kid, chilled by the beauty and the horror of it — and the date felt as impossible as a house that talks back. Today is August 4, 2026. Siri answers me from a speaker on the shelf. We haven’t wiped ourselves out yet. Not for lack of trying.

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

So interesting 💭 "Relighting 'Nighthawks' - bit.studio reimagines Edward Hopper's classic artwork, turning the most crucial element, the 'light,' into something you can actually control!" The exhibit is held at the bit.studio gallery on the 3rd floor, Slowcombo building in Samyan, Bangkok. #art

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 03/08/2026

Fortunately, this platform still has public blacklists for a mass ban. I am sure that the community will quickly create a verified public list that you can subscribe to, and any attempt to turn Bluesky into X/Threads will be doomed.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 03/08/2026

Having breakfast. The world needs to know what I eat. Now you know.

Overhead shot of a red speckled plate holding three poached eggs, sliced cooked chicken breast, cucumber wedges, a mound of guacamole, and a folded piece of flatbread, with a mug of milky coffee beside it.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 03/08/2026

Drove out to Stratford yesterday and of course ended up in Sound Fixation. Left with two Carly Simon LPs and a small stack of cassettes — Kiss, Faith No More, Def Leppard. Well-curated bins and no pressure to hurry. Exactly what a record store should be.

Two Carly Simon LPs — Boys in the Trees and Hotcakes — propped on a red textured knit blanket, with three cassettes lined up in front: Kiss Dynasty, Faith No More The Real Thing, and Def Leppard Pyromania.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 03/08/2026

We recently adopted a cat from a shelter. After a bit of an adaptation, he’s turned out to be surprisingly smart and friendly. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Be-Bop! 🐈

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 03/08/2026

My wife and I visited the charming “Shakespearean” town of Stratford, Ontario. We thoroughly enjoyed our time there—it’s a wonderfully cozy place.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 31/07/2026

If you're curious about how difficult it is to filter out all kinds of junk from any custom feed, just take a look at the results of an unfiltered search for "Hi-Fi" bsky.app/search?q=hi-fi #nocrosspost

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 31/07/2026

📌 Small ask, big help (I hope). Vinyl Community moved to my own server, and the feed lost its spot in Bluesky search. If you have a minute: open the feed, tap 🤍 Unlike, then ❤️ Like again. That's it. Thanks for keeping the crates full. 👉 bsky.app/profile/stan...

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 31/07/2026

I really like the Memory Lane feed bsky.app/profile/reds... It shows each of you your own feed in chronological order, starting with the oldest post and ending with the newest. Sometimes it’s helpful to look back on your past from the perspective of the years you’ve lived.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 31/07/2026

Who would’ve thought Neil Frances and Neal Francis were two completely different artists? It turns out I’m completely indifferent to Neil, while the music of Neal Francis is exactly the kind that speaks to me. The funny thing is, I never gave Neal Francis a chance until this post.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 31/07/2026

As I see, 99% of them are men. They found one family with kids and one girl for the whole report. youtu.be/fLxBReRKiQw?...

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Thousands of migrants cross into Spain's Ceuta enclave from Morocco

YouTube video by Global News

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 30/07/2026

It warms my soul to see how quickly my personal server updates feeds. You can’t imagine how much joy that brings me.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 30/07/2026

I run four custom feeds here, and I've just finished moving all of them onto my own server — no third-party host sitting in the middle anymore. Here's the full set, in case you only knew about one of them. 🧵 #nocrosspost

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 30/07/2026

@goodfeeds.co — asking you to delete two Track feeds I created years ago, back when I didn't know what I was doing. Both are named "Vinyl Community", both published under @track.goodfeeds.co. There's no delete button in Manage Track feeds, and the records live in your repo, not mine. 🧵

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 30/07/2026

Oh, I have that record in my collection.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 29/07/2026

Claude Fable 5 - это что-то невероятное при работе с кодом. Конечно, без собственных знаний не обойтись, иначе он такого накодит, что потом не исправить уже ничем. Но если знаешь, как всё устроено и как правильно формулировать задачи, то экономия времени фантастическая.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 29/07/2026

Claude Fable 5 is something else when it comes to coding. Of course, you still need to know what you're doing—otherwise it'll generate such a mess that no amount of fixing will save it. But if you understand how everything works, the time savings are absolutely incredible.

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Yuri Stanislavski @stanislavski.me · 29/07/2026

1/8 Kavinsky was found dead at his Paris home on Tuesday, July 28, 2026. He was 50. Most people know exactly one of his tracks. This thread is about what that one track did to an entire genre — and who owes him their career. 🧵

The photo of French DJ and producer Kavinsky (1975 - 2026)

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