iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sir John Curtice lays down the numbers at the Demos fringe while Polly Curtis and Chris Curtis look on - a Curtice/Curtis full house

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Can’t believe how excited I am for The Satan Pit. I’ve watched these episodes so many times, but the re-edit just sounds like too good of an opportunity to miss.

Poster for Doctor Who: The Satan Pit, an extended cut of the two parter from 2006. Poster features Rose, an Ood, and the Tenth Doctor and spooky writing.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

One of the contestants on Sewing Bee has just said "I'm going to stop doing this because it's just going to stress me out". I did not know this was an option for anything ever. A revelation.

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 14/09/2026

The web version of Word is the bane of my life

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 10/09/2026

In Amsterdam for work for a few days — can anyone recommend any good places for coffee?

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Friends fear he’s stress eating cheese

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 09/09/2026

The high stools in these Apple labs look so uncomfortable

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 04/09/2026

crikey Silo is very very good

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 30/08/2026

I think the world needs a Rebecca Black/Rina Sawayama collab. I think that would fix things.

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 25/08/2026

WhatsApp has added an awful new “restyle with AI” option whenever you add a video or photo 🫠 Make the slop stop

Screenshot of WhatsApp with a button saying “restyle with AI”. The background image is of flowers.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sometimes, when someone dies, what helps me is thinking about how wonderful it is that they were even alive in the first place. Dolly was the closest you could get to an American saint. We all loved her.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I never need to see another genAI image for a think tank report that somehow juxtaposes the Union Jack with some kind of smokey "industrial" imagery

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The loss of search structure is devastating for knowledge retrieval. I teach basic lit searching and it's always felt like a really core transferable skill for students to know boolean operators and "exact phrase searching" and now google, microsoft etc have just killed it to force us to use slopAI.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Listen, I can't stop you using AI. I couldn't even stop you using sample libraries. But unless you record a horn section for your record, you won't have a horn section on your record. Me and Sam Ewens can fix that for you.

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 20/08/2026

just in case you didn’t see, this is an alpha

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 15/08/2026

There’s something really off-putting about the AI generated website aesthetic

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 15/08/2026

This means rain is on the way, right? Right?

Grey, stormy clouds over gardens and houses in north London

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people. His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn.

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s @carbdiem.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

there's a difference between holding someone accountable and then straight up bullying and harassment and i don't think people realise that

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

⚠️ Severe Alert Issued by the UK Government Chip butties absolutely count as vegetables

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I have seen some people get a bit gloomy about the fact that Bluesky is losing some numbers, but I think chasing reach and network effects is probably where social media went wrong in the first place

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 13/08/2026

this was such a well-run workshop and an honour to take part in — highly recommend reading the report!

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Hanne Stegeman @hannems.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Earlier this summer an amazing group of experts on Image Based Abuse joined me for a workshop on research priorities at the University of Exeter. We spent the day discussing the ways in which academic research can more productively contribute to the fight against IBSA: hdl.handle.net/10779/exe.33...

Report cover, reading: Research against IBSA: a collective research agenda

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 10/08/2026

House of the Dragon finale was *excellent* Hoping for a bit less Harrenhal in the final season, though…

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Leaflet @leaflet.pub · 04/08/2026

Leaflet is the new† Substack‡, you heard it here first folks! ✍️ 🍃 💸 †not just new — better — b/c no platform lock-in, great Bluesky integration…and now, monetization too! ‡actually even bigger than that; not just us but a whole open ecosystem replacing Substack! here if you have any q's!

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Piloting paid memberships for the open social web!

Lab Notes 035: building monetization features for Leaflet creators, starting with paid memberships — tell us if you'd like to be the first to try, and what else you need!

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 04/08/2026

@sheffieldtribune.bsky.social @millmedia.bsky.social This might be of interest if you want your pieces to reach new places in the Atmosphere

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 01/08/2026

Skeleton Manifesto would be a great band name

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 30/07/2026

please rain please rain please rain

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 29/07/2026

@reckless.bsky.social @theverge.com hey - bit random but the quality of Verge ads has massively declined over the past few days for me (can send screenshots if needed). Think spammy 'fungal nail treatment' ads that I associate with Taboola etc.

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Loved this week's episode of game changer so much I had to blog it

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 29/07/2026

@marque.at hello! I’ve been getting some ‘could not resolve handle/could not sign-in’ issues on the Atmosphere since transferring my domain to Marque — I’m assuming it’s related but not entirely certain

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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 29/07/2026

🔥 The Blacksky mobile app is here. Today we're opening up our public beta on both iOS and Android. If you've been waiting for a native mobile experience, now's your chance to try it before our full public launch and help us make it even better. 🧵👇

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Dirty Laundry @dirtylaundry.dropout.tv · 24/07/2026

Dirty Laundry is coming to the UK! 🇬🇧 Join hosts Lily Du and Grant O'Brien for a night of JUICY secrets with guests: Ivo Graham, Jenny Eclair, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, and Stevie Martin!

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 28/07/2026

Lisa Hanawalt! On Game Changer!!

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 27/07/2026

Hi, is that the Financial Times? Yeah, I'd like to cancel my subscription:

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 26/07/2026

good lord, how have they made Siri *worse*

Screenshot of Siri on Apple Watch running watchOS 27 beta. I asked it to set a timer for 12 minutes, it said “I can’t set a timer because there isn’t a supported app installed on this Apple Watch.”

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Samantha Niblett MP @samanthaniblett.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I was delighted to launch the ‘Summer of Sex’ this week with support of Coco de Mer and John Lewis & Partners on the roof top garden bar of John Lewis’s Oxford Street store. The day before the launch I talked to Georgia Roberts from BBC News: ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Thread