iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 1h

13.8 billion years of cosmos. 4 billion years of life Earth. All of it led here, to you.

Carl Sagan. Cosmologist and humanist. 'Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. How to be a happy human.

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Mark Enser @ensermark.bsky.social · 1h

*** NEW POST *** Why do some pupils seem so unwilling to answer certain questions in an exam? I take a look at the evidence around barriers to writing and start thinking about how those barriers can be overcome enserm.substack.com/p/why-does-t...

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Why does the page stay blank?

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Tom Pattison @tpattison.bsky.social · 2h

Lost. Unless the title was a clever intentional prediction of how I'd feel from the third series on.

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Tom Pattison @tpattison.bsky.social · 3h

Shocked to the core. They didn't seem the type. These brave women speaking up are more reflective of the type of country we should aspire to be.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 20h

Still not a hoax.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“The Right truly speaks to voters!” *the Right, aided by a mostly supportive media and tech platforms, propels the son of a man who planned an actual coup towards power while Brazil’s Left focuses on cost of living and banning online betting* “The Left is out of touch with what voters want!”

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“The Left has nothing to offer voters!” *the Left, watched by a mostly hostile media, focuses on cost living, knocks on hundreds of thousands of doors, then tops the Berlin elections* “…The Left is the true fascist threat!”

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Paying taxes is punishment is it? Some might say it's a contribution to the infrastructure and regulations (like the rule of law) that enables you to build a successful business and, being less transactional, your contribution to society..

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Tom Pattison @tpattison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The greatest James Bond theme that never was ( read the video description for a succinct explanation ) youtu.be/COP0XlYHvto?...

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Spectre (2015) Opening Credits With Radiohead's "Spectre"

YouTube video by asecondduck

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

All those still on X, helping make sure this shit keeps on going.

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Tim Gibson @tim-gibson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The problem is that guys are already self-selected into groups where the men who would object to sexist banter rarely hear it. I haven't heard this kind of bullshit from guy friends since middle school.

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So many sexual assaults could be stopped if men had the courage at the locker room talk phase (on or offline) of just telling their boys “that’s fucked up, dude. You should show some respect for women.”

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/10/2026

#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...

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Tom Pattison @tpattison.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Such disrespect to the party elders

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Tom Pattison @tpattison.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finished my rewatch and this definitely feels like an anthem for peace youtu.be/7uTAIpU0sa0?...

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Band of Brothers - Main theme Soundtrack

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Tom Pattison @tpattison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1. Know your enemy - RATM 2. Stupid Kid - Alkaline Trio 3. Hit Em Up - Tupac 4. Where did it all go wrong? - Oasis 5. Red right hand - Nick Cave & the Badseeds #FridayFive open.spotify.com/playlist/525...

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Friday Five - Veangence

Playlist · TmmyDngr · 5 items

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#FridayFive is vengeful. 1. Karma Police. Radiohead. 2. Thank you Aimee. Taylor Swift. 3. You're So Vain. Carly Simon. 4. Yes. McAlmont and Butler. 5. The Mariner's Revenge Song. The Decemberists.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

US private equity owner of Boots to sell it to a Canadian private equity firm for $9bn (£7bn). NHS prescriptions are a major money makers. Otherwise its prices are high. No UK tax levied on dividends paid by Boots to its foreign owners.

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Boots owner ‘closing in on sale to Canada’s Weston family for $9bn’

Deal would mark return of Canadian family to UK after it sold Selfridges department store for £4bn in 2022

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can’t claim to be a pro-family culture if you have abandoned a section of your young people to Nazism, the most anti-human culture I have ever encountered. The hate absolutely pulsates off these people, it’s like radiation. Good luck, Germany, you’re going to need it.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Never quite feel safe till they get off the train, especially when they’re standing side on to you. There‘s that moment of maximum danger when you can feel them eyeing you up and down as you look ahead. Then it passes, and they walk on.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't think there's any value in responding to this as if it's a good faith attempt to interrogate national identity. It's nothing more than an attempt by Braverman to get publicity for herself by coming up with a formulation that gives her supporters a fig leaf for their racism.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No one imagines broadcast partners will tell the whole truth - that Watson is an unrepentant sex offender and a danger to women, and that so many NFL teams were willing to trade for him is a stain on the league - but simply pretending it didn't happen won't cut it.

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 02/10/2026

We're taking the Trump admin. to court to stop it from allowing endangered species to be killed. In September, FWS director, Brian Nesvik, issued a directive attempting to strip imperiled wildlife of protections from activities that can harm or kill them. In the #ESA, this is known as "take."

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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Tom Pattison @tpattison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good to hear. I'm from Kendal so have battled across that lake many times, usually with one or both of my sons complaining I'm not going fast enough 😩

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Tom Pattison @tpattison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did Danny Tommo attempt to knife the boat at any point? Can't be told careful. (Lovely story and thanks for sharing ☺️)

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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

With the whirlwind of the start of term (hopefully!) beginning to settle, have you taken time to reflect on what you could share with the history teaching community? Submit your proposal before 5 October: buff.ly/hoc001V

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HA Conference 2027: call for papers

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Tom Pattison @tpattison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A terrifying, galvanising book that should be read by everyone who cares about our world. Thanks @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social for doing the work.

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Tom Pattison @tpattison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well timed as I'm obsessed with this track youtu.be/q6EdzMkuFh0?...

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Be a Man

YouTube video by Arab Strap - Topic

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is he declaring war on Butlins?

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's National Poetry Day in the UK tomorrow. The theme is Wonder. Here's my poem Dawdle More : a little reminder to slow down and notice what’s around us. 🐝 🌼 🌎 What small wonders have you spotted today? #wonder #nationalpoetryday #CatchAMoment

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 29/09/2026

Last weekend, Rupert Lowe MP called on "the establishment" to stop referring to Restore Britain as “somehow ‘nazi’”. Unfortunately for Lowe, we have repeatedly exposed the neo-Nazis, fascists and ethnonationalists within the party. 🧵 hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/29/r...

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Restormtroopers: Restore Britain’s Nazi problem in pictures – HOPE not hate

Warning: this article includes offensive language and imagery Last weekend, Rupert Lowe MP, leader of Restore Britain, called on “the establishment” to stop referring to...

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cannot get over the beauty of this GIF: it’s Zidane celebrating last night after Olise scored a last minute winner for France. It looks like something from a movie or a high-end fashion advert. Probably the most elegant footballer of all time.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Of course he is. Abusers convention in D.C. presiding over the health of our most vulnerable people. Rape. Culture.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women

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Tom Pattison @tpattison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most people call me Tom actually

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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My new essay: When the most powerful man in the country is a sexual predator who mainlines misogyny, he gives a blaring, glaring greenlight to men everywhere that they can treat us like shit and face no accountability. I call it Trickle-Down Misogyny. substack.com/@feministgia...

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Mona Eltahawy (@feministgiant)

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