iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 11/09/2026

When using AI I keep coming back to this Peter Drucker quote: "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all"

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A moose caused major train delays after wandering into Warsaw Central Station and lying on the tracks. Services were resumed after the animal had been tranquilised, removed and taken back to the forest

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Moose on the loose at Warsaw's main station brings trains to a standstill

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What's that you say? You've totally finished the work, but I can't look at it for five hours? And that's because you used the last of your allotted time checking that `echo` still works? Ground-breaking stuff

Screenshot of a conversation with Claude where it claims to have totally finished the work, but doesn't share the output, and then uses the last of its free credits running an "echo" command

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Please pay to view our subscription page". Got to admire website design from people who have a gun pointed at their own foot and aren't afraid to fire.

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Researchers investigating an unusual 17th-century burial in Poland, in which the remains of a teenage girl were found with a padlock on her toe and a sickle across her neck, believe the "anti-vampiric" measures may have been intended to stop her returning from the dead.

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Polish "vampire" burial sheds light on 17th-century efforts to keep the dead in their graves

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There is no evidence to suggest Liz Truss was even in the country at the time

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Look, we don't know why this hasn't been published, but as CEC gave it to c50 stakeholders in June it's not a secret. Yes, we should do ALT, but in this case it's beyond Our Curator's Basic Computer Skills (Level 1: failed). Sorry.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I think Keir might have to stay on for a few months. Politics has been booked for the summer

Comment: Looney party voters may want to vote tactically for binface as to not split the vote

Reply: Imagining me 10 year ago reading this

Reply Imagine you 10 days ago reading this

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

8 years out of date is fine for instant coffee right? I mean I'm struggling to see how it would manage to go off

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz355bs

CLEAR nail varnish makes
an excellent Tippex substitute
for when you haven't made a
mistake.
John Dickinson, Southport

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Grammar is important.

Dundee Courier: DRUNKEN POLICE CHASE TEEN IN COURT.

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz354bs

I'M GLAD nature gave up
on its idea of evolving birds
from fish after a sparrow flew into
my window yesterday. Imagine
if that had been a whale or
something. Absolutely ridiculous.
Peter Wheelbarrow,
Barrow on Furness

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A large wooden cross in Warsaw, under which Polish Pope John Paul II famously celebrated mass in 1979, has been destroyed in a fire. Preliminary findings indicate the fire, which took place on Good Friday, was caused by candles placed beneath the cross. polskieradio24.pl/artykul/3669...

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

One of the most important sociological studies of our time: documenting the cat ladders of Switzerland brigitteschuster.com/swiss-cat-la...

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 20/03/2026

Google is running a “small” experiment in being a colossal piece of corporate shit.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 18/03/2026

More cameras and microphones mean "more eyes and ears are available to adversaries, regardless of the original intention,” EFF’s Samantha Baldwin told @ArsTechnica.com. “Creating a dystopian world full of computerised eyes and ears is not the solution.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy...

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Users hate it, but age-check tech is coming. Here's how it works.

On-device face scans and cross-platform age keys decrease privacy risks, but trust issues abound.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I'm not taking tips from somebody who misses a patch that big when shaving. Get a mirror man.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Might just be me, but this seems like an incredibly odd selection

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Awful news about Glasgow Central, I'm still hoping the station itself escaped serious damage. But while we're here, can anyone spot the problem with the news photo below, from thetraveler.org/glasgow-cent...? We've really got to STOP using AI to fake things.

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Glasgow Central Fire Sparks Travel Chaos Across the UK

A major fire beside Glasgow Central has shut Scotland’s busiest station, triggering nationwide disruption and raising urgent questions over UK rail resilience.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

How does he sleep at night?

Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Oh god Frost has discovered Ayn Rand. A mediocrity explosion.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Weird. It's a completely unfeasible and pointless railway running in a loop, and yet it isn't a hyperloop

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Claude is very to-the-point recently. I asked it for short (500 words or less) fairy tale about a Bergen cat who was in space but really wanted to live in Oslo, and it just gave me a 368 word story. No asking why I was speaking Norwegian, or telling me how clever I was. I'm not sure I like that

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Poland’s justice minister has been fined by police for a traffic offence that was caught on camera while he was being interviewed behind the wheel. The incident came to light just as the minister was launching a crackdown on dangerous drivers.

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Polish justice minister fined by police for road offence caught during YouTube interview

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

This would have been more accurate and less disturbing if they'd just left the Scotsman to illustrate the article with a random picture of a steam train in Germany. I mean it's so bad that Trainpal's marketing team would be ashamed of it.

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Bluesky T. Vibes @vibesbummer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I’m developing a game where you have to go back to assassinate Adam. It’s a first person shooter.

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🤦What's the point? We said, given the substantial ⬆️ in residents from this planning application ('a more inclusive, & a more vibrant & thriving neighbourhood that strengthens the heart of the city': Developer) democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s9... CEC should insist on bus stop improvements

democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk

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Millie(let) @gyro.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

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haraldfossberg @haraldfossberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Julehällvette er her igjen

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Nice to be able to listen to Danish radio this evening. They kept prattling on about some football match or other last night

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Amazon and I have very different ideas about what constitutes good news.

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Also; why pinning all your efforts on free bus travel doesn't have quite the equalities impact that's often assumed.

https://www.passengertransport.co.uk/2025/10/read-our-supplement-scotlands-buses-2025/ pages 14-15

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oli @olil.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

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5080nyhetskanalen.bsky.social @5080nyhetskanalen.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Ny sparkesykkel krever f**teglis

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

"The CWU has supported the move, saying that the current building is not fit for purpose and emphasised that the new office will only be a 12-minute drive away from the old one." That's handy. I'll just buy a car will I then? Shit union. www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2025/10/15/d...

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“Disappointment” as Edinburgh Royal Mail delivery office set to relocate with current office in “disrepair”, according to union - Deadline News

THE Royal Mail Delivery Office in Morningside is set to relocate to near Murrayfield as the existing building is described as in "disrepair".

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It's such a pain keeping up with paperwork in this fast-paced world

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

No. It’s most definitely not. This is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I'd like a selective mute mechanism where I could temporarily mute the Liverpool fans I follow during matches. It's like Man Utd in the 90s - otherwise-interesting people with no obvious full-time attachment to football spend 2 hours sharing dull talking points about the team they sort-of follow.

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Brian Corcoran @briancorcoran.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Ridiculous, bonkers, wonderful!

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

After asking ChatGPT what to eat instead of salt, a man slowly poisoned himself over course of 3 months and gave himself a psychiatric illness that was common in the 19th century, according to a new medical case study: www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...

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Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT

"For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."

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