iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 16h

Live your life so that, when you die, social media isn't flooded with comments about what a nasty vicious lying piece of shit you were. Sound advice, I think. Jeffrey Archer should've taken it.

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Catching up here. (#Novelmber) 3) Not a lot, but a story idea hit me between the eyes on Saturday night, so now I'm thinking it through. 4) This one, probably 3rd person, multiple POV.

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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

lotta people out here bragging about "training models" but why do that when you can model trains

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

FFS "Bluesky meme: Post a vampire" STAKE. It's STAKE. You STAKE a vampire. What are they teaching the kids these days?

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What would you say is the greatest British film of all-time? Gimme a Top 5. Hell Drivers Chariots of Fire A Bridge Too Far Seven Days to Noon Kind Hearts and Coronets

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Arr Ghoulish David @arrdavid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Note to British millionaires and billionaires not wishing to pay tax: You are not self-made men or women. You are products of the environment you and your parents grew up in. The myth of the "self-made" tycoon is one of the most toxic fictions in modern Britain 🧵

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia." - Kurt Vonnegut

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In addition to some sensible things, the RNLI merch included a replacement for the world's crappest lightsabre, which went missing after an Eleven Month Group meeting more than twenty years ago.

Me (a fat bloke with glasses, wearing a green jumper) standing in a terribly heroic pose while holding a small LED glowstick in both hands as if it were a lightsabre. The glowstick, green in this image, changes colour, but you can't see that in this still picture. You also can't hear me making VRRRM WHSSHHH lightsabre noises.

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Heh. I just frustrated a postman. Heard the knock, got to the door *before* he'd finished shoving the "sorry we missed you" card through the letterbox. (He was delivering my order of RNLI merch, so I'm happy.)

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you have more empathy for the box of blinky lights than you do for, say, trans people or refugees, you are frankly a bad person

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is writing. If you want money, get into fraud.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On "Rogue AI" I turn to my faithful robot butler. "Jeevz," I say, "run straight down to the shops and get me a packet of mints." Jeevz, like all robot butlers, has a titanium reinforced chassis and a top speed of 515 km/h. He punches his way straight through the front wall....

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This reminded me of my attempt, at one point, to construct Vulcan jokes. No, not jokes about Vulcans, just jokes as Vulcans might tell them....

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Claude is not going to get so full of words that it wakes up and becomes god and kill us all, but a bunch of really cognitively lazy foolish humans listening to Claude’s hallucinated bullshit might get us into a war that does that!

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In the bad old days, it was 1. Send off order for book with money - time passes - 2. *creak* *whap* book is posted through letterbox. It's so different in this bright new 21st century! Now it's...

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible: Bread (Look, I just didn't feel the need to put any effort into it, OK?)

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equinoxthree.bsky.social @equinoxthree.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bluesky trending stealing a page from UK media's love of misleading headlines. 'RNLI migrant backlash' It's really about RNLI rescuers being in danger from Nazi Tommy Robinson's crew of thugs.

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is such patent self-aggrandizing scaremongering. "Even we, the mighty tech-priests of Anthropic, struggle to contain the power of the AI demon! Give us more money or face annihilation!" Yeah, right, sure. Call me back when your "superintelligence" can reliably count to 100.

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pat123.bsky.social @pat123.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The RNLI is a prime example of the underlying moral belief in all lives are sacred. This principle is now being eroded through anti migrant propaganda etc. If no ethical line is upheld by all parties in power and racism not challenged we will be a much weakened country.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

RNLI staff have faced "unacceptable" online & physical abuse since anti-migrant protests. "Deliberate misinformation and a misunderstanding" by thugs hiding behind "balaclava or a keyboard". Solidarity with RNLI volunteers. They do a great job in saving lives, must be respected.

bbc.co.uk

Abuse of RNLI volunteers 'wholly unacceptable', chief says

Peter Sparkes says there has been "deliberate misinformation" spread about the charity.

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Buried with Michael Sheen. Now that's what *I* call grave goods.

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Adrian Ogden @ade-on-drums.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yesterday was a very bad day. Family issues, so details will not be provided. And then I woke up this morning to find a large house spider crawling up my chest. So, if anyone has consoling images, say of kittens playing, or Elon Musk drowning in a septic tank... well, they'd be appreciated.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Cooperation, not fighting, is what drove humanity to the top of the food chain. Literally any of our problems can be solved or mitigated by more cooperation, not more conflict.

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Once again, I discover that I'm better off not having Amazon Prime.... See, I used to have it, for the whole "next day delivery" thing. Handy, if you need things delivered quickly. Except, well, it never worked. Everything I ordered arrived a couple of days late.

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The only people who benefit from NHS privatisation are the private company shareholders. It’s that simple.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It says it all about the ethical values of the combatants in the Ukraine war that Ukraine is striking oil refineries while Russia is attacking libraries and publishers.

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Congratulations to all the Hugo winners! Got five of them right, myself... no, hang on, I can't be a proper writer without a massive ego... the *rest of fandom* got five right.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Allowing third parties to interfere in the doctor-patient relationship and deny trans people medical procedures opens up everyone's rights to opt or not for treatment to ideological challenge. History shows allowing erasure of rights for one group soon sees others targeted. It isn't a 'them' issue.

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is rather a lovely story. For certain values of "lovely".

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Blimey. It seems there's now a fake me floating around - @stevejwrightt.bsky.social - note the double T there. Must admit, I'm a bit mystified as to why anyone would want to do this, but, well, there it is. (Flag up for @moderation.bsky.app )

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Damn. Goodbye, Dolly Parton. Her music gave pleasure to millions, her kindness gave hope to millions more. May she be an inspiration, as well as a memory.

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"How odd," I thought, as I checked my notifications. "I thought I was already following @juliettewade.com - well, I'd better do a follow-back, anyway..." But I was right, I was already following @juliettewade.com . But I was not already following @julietttewade68.bsky.social , who has the same...

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I've been reading a lot of the sayings of the Desert Fathers recently, collections of quotes and parables from monks who lived in the Egyptian Desert from around 270ad. And there's a lot to be learned from them, but if I may, I'd like to paraphrase one which I think bluesky really needs to hear...

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty. Lovecraft imitator: but of what nameless and blasphemous ichor, drawn from the reeking wounds of what eldritch and unknowable daemon-god from beyond quotidian space and time?

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Last and First Men? Probably over-ambitious. Asimov's Foundation setting might be good for Traveller-style SF adventuring... you would have to plan your adventures so they were resolved off-stage by social and economic changes, of course. Or the obvious one: Blake's Seven!

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Frances Hardinge @franceshardinge.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Apologies to those who know this already. If you're an aspiring author who submits a manuscript to what looks like a traditional publisher, and they write back saying that they adore your book but want you to pay £3k or so for an 'editing service'... Please don't sign with them.

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It appears that the disruption of the cycles of nature caused by climate change now means that hayfever season overlaps with horny spider season. So I am now sneezing and blinking, and also sharing my workspace with a spider roughly the size of Hertfordshire. I find it all a bit trying, really.

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Can I have a piece of that toast?"

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/08/2026

Hey @bsky.support @support.bsky.team your AI is falsifying election results again

Trending box with first line as "Farage wins Clacton seat" for an election that's happening today

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I don’t know if this really happened. But if it did, I salute you Alan.

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Lots of good meaty stuff in this highly informative meta-thread. Two points in particular inspired me to comment. Incoming tedium: brace yourselves.🧵

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In 2022, before Chatgpt and everything that came next, I participated in this study. It was framed as a research on a new tool that I could try and offer my opinion on. I didn't know that it was trained on copyrighted material.

wordcraft-writers-workshop.appspot.com

Wordcraft Writers Workshop

The Wordcraft Writers Workshop is a collaboration between Google's PAIR and Magenta teams, and 13 professional writers. Together we explore the limits of co-writing with AI.

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hugo ballot finally completed! With almost a day to spare! I feel virtuous now. (Yes, I have done all the categories, like a good little boy. OK, my judgement on the artist and poetry categories is about as reliable as... a very unreliable thing... sorry, brain is tired now. But. Done.)

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Had to replace a table lamp. With another table lamp, naturally, I'm not daft. Well, OK, I am, but not in that way. Anyway. Lamp was delivered by Amazon. Unfortunately, it was delivered next door... which meant, when Her Next Door came round with it, I got the lamp and also some free racism.

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Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Thing is, when the Supreme Ruler and President for Life of Bampotania objects to Amnesty reporting on his abuses of human rights, Amnesty knows full well that any suit for defamation he brings will be tossed out by the courts at the earliest possible moment.

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