iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cas/Strix 🔜 MagicCon Atlanta @strixhavendropout.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Saw this and died

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Minnie Chan, a senior reporter who covered defence issues for the Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post (SCMP), was last heard from in October 2023."

RSF approached the SCMP for comment, requesting information about Chan’s current employment status, confirmation of her detention and the nature of any charges, as well as information about what support is being provided to the journalist in the event she is detained. At the time of publication, the SCMP had not replied.

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

National Security is whatever Beijing says it is so shut up and go to prison for remembering when we turned the military on our citizens.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Seven years in prison for remembering state violence.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Jonathan Wroot @jlwroot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@uniofgreenwich.bsky.social is hosting Michael and Jake from @ghibliotheque.bsky.social to launch the new book, Ghiblipedia, on 16th Sept. Entry is free. Come to hear them talk about books, podcasts, Ghibli, anime - and ask questions! Please share this post. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/opening-th...

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Opening the Ghiblipedia

Join us for an evening of all things Studio Ghibli, where we talk with The Ghibliotheque Authors and Podcast Hosts.

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The legwork, and the sting, which seems to have caught out James Orr, Nigel Farage and Reform-UK was carried out by Verbatim Investigations who have dropped their own take on the story.

verbatiminvestigations.com

Dirty Money: A Year Undercover in Reform UK

A yearlong investigation into Nigel Farage’s fundraising operation reveals a plot to break the law by bringing foreign money into British politics

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It has been far too long since I saw this movie

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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Honestly, just tragic. A society that devours its young has no future but that is what the CCP has in the cards for Hong Kong, while Wong and many nameless others have sacrificed so much to defend their home

theguardian.com

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty in second national security case

Wong, 29, is accused of urging foreign powers to impose sanctions, blockades and other hostile measures against China

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

One! Bwahahaha. I'm so old. Get in the trash, young people.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"831 打死人" On 31 August 2019, HK police descended onto Prince Edward MTR station and assaulted every commuter in sight

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Can anyone help identify this actress? Probably Taiwanese.

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Who would have thought the bastards behind the White Terror wouldn't like news organizations?

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Happy International Dog Day from me and Mouse

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The chasm between the remarkable people who make art, and the soulless dullards who own the companies.

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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly broke me in early to her raucous self deprecating sense of humor when we began steel magnolias rehearsals i asked her - how long does it take to do a hair do like yours? Dolly - no idea, i’m never there when they do it! i started taking Dolly-isms notes on the back of my script after that

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton made the world a better place every day. What a loss.

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Another normal day of normalness. Isn't this how Neon Genesis Evangelion starts?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower.

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Amazing! The control and skill required to do this and in one take!

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Wonggifs V: The Final Wongtier @wonggifs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A dream fulfilled, I got to write a whole article about Michael Wong. Thank you so much to Far East Films for publishing this!

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Hydramez🏳️‍⚧️ @hydramez.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I can't believe marvel got woke. In the 80's

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

SAMMY DAVIS JR. tearing it up on the Drums and Vibraphone in 1963. He was quite simply, a phenomenon.

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

You mean I'd have to think for myself? What a melt.

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It's here! Look at this unspeakably sexy beast of a box set from @imprintfilms.bsky.social Aw yeah!

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you’ve watched more than six times Hard Mode : No Star Trek, Star wars, LOTR, any Marvel, Disney or Ghibli Addendum: Do other people not watch movies over and over again? How is this hard?

thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Has anyone read Christopher Heard's book on John Woo, and if so, any good?

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A formative movie for me. Remembering watching this at home, I think it was on TV rather than a video rental, and thinking it was just too cool.

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Anybody know what Sammo Hung's character is watching on TV at the start of The Owl Vs Bumbo?

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So sorry to hear of the passing of Tony Rayns, he was a trailblazer in English language appreciation of East Asian cinema at a time when it was widely dismissed as deserving serious discussion. We all stand in his shadow.

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Oh no, won't someone think of the banks?

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Delighted to have contributed an essay and a commentary to this marvelous box set!

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

If I finish this essay in this disgusting heat then I was going to reward myself with an ice lolly - but the supermarket was 100% sold out of ice lollies.

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