iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 19/04/2026

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

"I realized, the moment I fell into the fissure, that the Book would not be destroyed... It continued falling into that starry expanse, of which I had only a fleeting glimpse... Still, the questions about whose hands might one day hold my Myst Book are unsettling to me." 📺: Myst, 1993

A screenie of 256-colour Win 3.1 Myst and the Myst Island Dock looking toward the big cogs. Myst became known as a PC system and CDROM seller but it released on Apple Mac first months earlier and evolved from HyperCard.

The observatory room with its red chair and the lights off

The linking book that brings you to myst island

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Rogs @stev.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Marcus O RLYus

marble bust of Marcus Aurelius but with the O RLY owl superimposed on his face

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Stephen Kane @exocytherean.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

There are two Earth-size planets in this image.

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

This is such brilliant archaeology. There's a bit of a persistent story that Britain was somehow culturally separate from europe in the Roman empire when it was so intertwined and connected by people and goods travelling. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Rare mosaic in Rutland reveals forgotten Trojan War tale - BBC News

A paper by experts at the University of Leicester has been described as a "fascinating development".

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Tom York @thurlingdrome.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Is that "Nearly Headless" Staurakios?

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Tom York @thurlingdrome.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I see Citadel is in that lot (and, unsurprisingly, approve).

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Tom York @thurlingdrome.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I'm a little concerned about the pyramid.

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Tom York @thurlingdrome.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part One), Charlie Brown

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

“The God-Emperor would like a 9,495th term. And also a cheeseburger” From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Tom York @thurlingdrome.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

£4.50, though, bit pricey for a meal deal.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

If you don't already have this channel on your radar, it's fascinating and fun! Arim, who is Assyrian, recreates recipes from cuneiform tablets. Here, he makes an ancient Assyrian cake with the help of a scholar, food scientist, and baker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdps...

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RECREATED: Assyrian Bronze Age Cake

YouTube video by Table of Gods

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Tom York @thurlingdrome.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I hope the shop's front door is a little too low.

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Tom York @thurlingdrome.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Mordor would be conspicuously absent from the list.

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Tom York @thurlingdrome.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

"What do I want, Mr. Mrdn? Right now, something to drink."

A screenshot of Mr. Morden from Babylon 5, with subtitles reading "What do you want?".

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Tom York @thurlingdrome.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I've seen people recommend Tidal as a replacement paid service, or Nuclear as an aggregator of freely available (legal) music online - from YouTube, Bandcamp etc.

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Tom York @thurlingdrome.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

And to think he went on to do all those Transformers films. Should have stuck to sculpture.

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Tom York @thurlingdrome.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

With Sir Ian McKellen as the token human?

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Tom York @thurlingdrome.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Turnham Green. Take two blue tokens, which turn green.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2024

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.

Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

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Tom York @thurlingdrome.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Around these parts, it's referred to as the Wibbly-Wobbly Button.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

A self-indulgent article has just gone up on my Scanline Artifacts blog, one where I wax lyrical about the first time I experienced a generational leap in games and hardware and hopefully convey just how exciting it was for me!

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My First Gaming Generational Shift

Where I wax nostalgia about a great leap from 8 to 16 bit.

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