iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Right, so, apparently I need to find a new brand of toothpaste... What do 9/10 non-bigot-promoting dentists recommend these days?

100

Reposted by Thomas Rushton

David Pattie @davidpattie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Smash hit musical West Side Story is being rereleased with an extra four minutes of footage, linking it to Avengers Doomsday. Rooftop scene: music: Men: I think that I'll be an Avenger Ok by me as an Avenger Spandex for free as an Avenger Women; (scornfully) Land on your knee as an Avenger

cast of West Side Story performing America

111

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My next gig / first gig of the term. James Farrell Concert Band @ The Holbeck, Leeds, in aid of Wheatfields Hospice. It's rumoured that there's a raffle prize of a chance to conduct the band for one piece in the gig. Good luck!

Poster advertising the upcoming James Farrell Concert Band concert, on Sunday 27th September 2026, 2:30pm.
Venue: The Holbeck Working Mens Club, Leeds, LS11 9QX.
Concert in aid of Wheatfields Hospice.

000

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Next gig but, erm, four? No, five... or is it six? This term's getting busy...

010

Reposted by Thomas Rushton

West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra @wyso-leeds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Our next concert is the afternoon of Sunday 29th November. More info & a link to buy tickets here: (it is definitely on the Sunday btw 🙊) wyso.org.uk/index.php/ev...

wyso.org.uk

Not polite. Not quiet. Not background music. – West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra

022

Reposted by Thomas Rushton

thatgirlinsb @34thparallel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!

564213494652

Reposted by Thomas Rushton

Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sad to discover that's two films not one

0103

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Leeds Symphony Orchestra (The #OriginalLSO) rehearsals have started. Next concert is just a few weeks away, and we're doing this little lot. The concert is on 10th October, as part of the Wetherby Festival. More details to follow. Maybe. #ClassicalMusic #LiveMusic #Leeds #Yorkshire

A selection of sheet music laid out on a music stand. The music consists of double bass parts for the following works: Amy Beach's "Bal Masque" (I can't do the accent), Copland's concerto for clarinet, Weber's overture from Der Freischutz, and Sibelius's second symphony.

001

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

August is all but over. Back to work tomorrow, but here's the round up of what I got up to on one of my weeks off. thelonedoublebass.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/w... tl;dr - friends, great music, too many instruments, insufficient sleep.

020

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Yesterday's playing - OK, I'm late, but the week is now over... :-( Martinu nonet - we dabbled with Frans Coenan as well, but almost everyone disliked it. Gary Carpenter - Pantomime. (Same combo as Mozart's "Gran Partita"; contains very high notes) Novak - Ballettines (nonet) Beethoven - Septet

010

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yes, and a significant amount of background noise would disappear from my life as a result. See also: Association football, soap operas, Radio 1, and all right-wing politicians and associated gobshites.

000

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Today's playing is done. Dvorak Serenade (double bass part, obvs). I have the afternoon off, so am spending it supervising electricians. Fun times...

000

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today's playing: double bass: * Francaix - Dixtuor * Till Eulenspiegel Einmal Anders oboe: concert band rehearsal this evening for the next gig on 16th August, Stanningley Park, some time in the afternoon, be there or be somewhere else I'm knackered...

010

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today's playing was restricted to just the two pieces, but definitely what the kids call bangers. Schubert - Octet Spohr - Nonet. I'm knackered.

020

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Busy day of music with some lovely people. Played some quintets (ob,clarinet, violin, viola, bass) - Prokofiev & Gipps (should have been cello, but...) And some nonets - Lachner & Farrenc. There's my supply of earworms for the evening.

000

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Apparently, I'm playing this little ditty tomorrow. Yikes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=990g... Fortunately, bass rather than ob. But the bassist's expression in the preview/thumbnail image from the video looks like it may be similar to one I'll be making at various points... #Prokofiev #WhyMe

youtube.com

Verbier Festival 23 July 2008 -- Prokofiev Quintet op.39

YouTube video by Leigh Mesh

010

Reposted by Thomas Rushton

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 29/07/2026

All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...

someone holding up a sign that AI crossed out

6255992446

Reposted by Thomas Rushton

Jayne @jaynee-b.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hello lovely people, Ch2 has a survey for her Masters dissertation. Please complete it (if you’d like to) & share so there’s a good sample size. It’s about politics/policies & the use of AI, & about trust. Thanks! #ForensicLinguistics #Politics #AI lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

223

Reposted by Thomas Rushton

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

59792341804

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Two gigs played today: 1. James Farrell Concert Band, outdoors, at Temple Newsam 2. White Rose Orchestra, indoors in Horsforth. Three instruments played today in those two gigs: 1. Oboe 2. Oboe, Cor Anglais, Cello I'm knackered. Need cooling drink in large quantities.

010

Reposted by Thomas Rushton

lilastromech (Mischa) @mischajaye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

6449491404

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Back in February, I wrote on the corporate blog about AI. I had a follow-up post written about the impact of AI on infrastructure, but it failed to get through the corporate blogkeepers - no idea why. So here it is on my own blog. Four months late. thelonedba.wordpress.com/2026/06/21/a...

thelonedba.wordpress.com

AI’s Impact

Introduction This was written in February, as a follow-up piece to my post on the corporate site entitled Order from Chaos in which I wrote about AI, data quality, and referred to Christopher Marlo…

110

Reposted by Thomas Rushton

Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Meanwhile in Australia, the most unexpected and frankly disturbing first sentence you will read today. www.heraldsun.com.au/business/vic...

Herald Sun: Industry meltdown as five more caravan companies collapse.

Great Aussie Caravans, which was fined after a man's intestine was ruptured when a colleague fired an air compressor into his anus, is among five caravan companies that have gone into liquidation in the past fortnight alone.

139328

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Hmm. That's the EOL day for SQL Server 2016. Coincidence, or is that why this action has been called?

000

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Note to self: don't watch West Side Story when feeling...tired and emotional... Supposed to be learning how the music fits together for an upcoming performance. This isn't helping.

000

Reposted by Thomas Rushton

Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

6085402316197

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Note to self. When looking at second oboe parts for an upcoming rehearsal, and downloading parts from imslp to do some practice, remember to skip over the first few pages which are for the first oboe...

010

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

There's some local funrun thing going on today. A lot of road closures. I used to rehearse on Sunday mornings with a local community orchestra. I've checked on google maps, and the detours around this huffpuffery add over 8 miles to an under 2 mile journey.

010

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Yup. Steve - as usual - is not wrong. Nothing about the chocolate of the same name, though, which is not surprising, as it's banned in Trumpistan.

000

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Not my next gig... but it is the next gig for @wyso-leeds.bsky.social , who are a lovely bunch. Go see 'em if you're in or near Pontefract that day.

010

Reposted by Thomas Rushton

Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Has someone told the nuclear subs?

1337

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I've been to the Farne Islands during peak puffin season, and it's amazing to see. And to get dive-bombed by terns, but that's on the walk over to the puffin potholes. Anyway. Timeline cleanse, etc.

020

Reposted by Thomas Rushton

Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

every mushroom foraging guidebook: This is Woodland Pot Roast, a tasty little mushroom that adds a delightful flavour to soups and stews. Note that it is often mistaken for Satan’s Fistula, a mushroom that erases the last 9 generations of your family from God’s ledgers.

6473591842

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This weekend's episode of the Manchester Murders podcast - pca.st/ac7jcan1 - makes me think of parallels with today's AI systems... but I don't want to write about that, so listen to the show and figure it out yourselfves.

pca.st

Episode 23: What's Your Poison?

In the autumn of 1900, thousands of people in Manchester began falling ill. They were mostly working-class beer drinkers, and the diagnosis was straightforward: alcoholic neuritis, the doctors said.…

000

Thomas Rushton @thomasrushton.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Home after a busy few days away. I've been at the office for the first time this year, and then off to (part of) a conference. Now home, tired, but also wide awake thanks to caffeine.

000

Reposted by Thomas Rushton

Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

You've heard about USB C, but have you heard about USB C♭

A USB C cable where the metal
connection got squished by something - probably my chair

1822418

Reposted by Thomas Rushton

Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I don't understand why Google has the embarrassingly crap AI summary as well as / instead of search results. McDonald's doesn't have a free shitburger tier.

031

Reposted by Thomas Rushton