iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

I love how you get push back from AI stans when you call it snake oil and then these guys literally do snake oil bits in the paper. I think more people who love AI should take up smoking and show the rest of us how stupid we are. Smoke 3 packs a day just to dunk on me. Please do this.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Read this yesterday and had some Thoughts.

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Er, that rather looked like a goal-scoring opportunity, but what do I know. #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Simply assuming the ref is on a dare relating to how many blatant yellows can be ignored in one game. #avfc

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

❗ "Stop!" shouts the mayor of Saint-Denis Bally Bagayoko to the police, attempting to calm tensions in the high school student march in Paris. 📹 Enzo Rabouy via AlertesInfos

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm on the edge of my seat over here. a journalist in South Africa is digging into the subject of my absolute favorite series of episodes of weird little guys -- the South African pro-apartheid terrorist who married an American klansman.

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The pipeline between US white supremacists and the SA right

Decades before Ernst Roets lobbied the US, a little-known Kempton Park woman linked the AWB to global neo-Nazis – a story that sheds light on international support for the farm murder cause.…

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just got through this BBC Radio Scotland podcast on Colin Norris and, truly, WHAT IN THE EVER-LOVING HELL is going on in the UK justice system?? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio Scotland - Disclosure Investigates, Killer on the Ward, Trailer

A nurse convicted of murder. A case shadowed by doubt. A fight to clear his name.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That's one way to deal with a comms failure, I suppose. #springboks

Photo of television screen showing a rugby referee speaking on a mobile phone during a match.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-

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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 21/09/2026

South African journalist Micah Reddy and his local fixer Kooki Mahmoud have been missing in Djibouti since about noon on Saturday. Read groundup.org.za/article/sout... by GroundUp Staff

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South African journalist Micah Reddy missing in Djibouti

Local fixer, Kooki Mahmoud, also missing since Saturday noon

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 20/09/2026

My friend Micah Reddy, a journalist with dual South African and British nationality, has gone missing while working on a story in Djibouti. If you know anyone in Djibouti who might be able to help, please get in touch. If not, please share this post so more people find out about Micah. It's urgent.

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Pierre Romera Zhang @pirhoo.com · 20/09/2026

Our colleague Micah Reddy, @icij.org's Africa coordinator, and journalist Mohamed Willo Ismael have been missing in Djibouti City since Saturday. Djiboutian authorities must urgently account for them. www.icij.org/news/2026/09...

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Statement on missing ICIJ journalist Micah Reddy - ICIJ

ICIJ lost contact with our colleague Micah Reddy, ICIJ's Africa coordinator, and local journalist Mohamed Willo Ismael ("Kooki Mahmoud"), in Djibouti City on Saturday, Sept. 19.

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Manzambi! Manzambi! Manzambi-i-i! #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

No yellow card for an obvious yellow-card offence leading to a potential injury... Why does this feel familiar? #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Surely that wasn't a corner. #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah, thank goodness for Suzuki. 😶 #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thank goodness Suzuki was awake there. #avfc

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received - and that consequently, this country is at war with Piddington.

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Alysson just *bodied* that player. Replay fully hilarious. #avfc

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bonnie Greer famously sat with her back to the BNP’s Nick Griffin when he appeared on Question Time in 2009. There was much criticism of the BBC platforming the far right, Now every episode of Question Time is wall to wall far right talking points with open arms and a seat kept warmfor Reform

Author and critic
Bonnie Greer dies aged 77
Culture
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GETTY IMAGES - picture of Bonnie Greer an elder Black woman with short red Afro hair wearing a black button up shirt

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British-American author and cultural commentator Bonnie Greer has died at the age of 77 after a brief illness, her husband has said.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.”

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A major sabotage attack has hit the Netherlands railway network at more than 20 locations. Two-metre metal pipes were attached to tracks to trick the network’s warning system into registering that the tracks were blocked.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ed Sheeran wanting to remain neutral is sending me lol. Dudes worth £200m+. My brother in Christ if you cannot speak freely who the fuck can lol

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

'Railway officials instructed the “grimly focused” passengers to hide in bushes by a lake, said the economist, calling the Ukrainian response “timely and disciplined”.' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Train carrying Boris Johnson and ex-CIA chief may have been targeted in Russian strike, officials say

Ukrainian Railways says former British PM and David Petraeus crossed into Poland shortly before drone attack near border

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

'A British economist [...] witnessed the attack. “We spent 10 hours at the border and were evacuated three times. On the third evacuation a missile came over and totalled a locomotive in front of our train.”' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Train carrying Boris Johnson and ex-CIA chief may have been targeted in Russian strike, officials say

Ukrainian Railways says former British PM and David Petraeus crossed into Poland shortly before drone attack near border

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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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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

That was fun. Well done, Springboks! (The gods did indeed not save the All Blacks.)

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Not now, Somali pirates.

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

'Ag, it's just a little scuffle.' Already enjoying the commentary on the #RSANZL game. #baltimore

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As the government bans social media for kids further evidence emerges that it's a minority of retired adults we should really be concerned about. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...

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Pensioners attack traffic lights over wild 'deadly weapon' claims

An online movement say that the sensors on traffic lights can cause heart attacks, brain cancer, anxiety and even sudden death

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh, but *Mings* gets a yellow?? #avfc

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