iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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legalized gamboling @ohtazer.goblinmo.de · 23/03/2026

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

subway ad that says "your idea could be live by the time you reach your stop"

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Oh, the grand old duke of york He ██████████████████ He ██████████████████ And he ██████████████████

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow. Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 01/01/2026

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer

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Drivelcast @drivelcast.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Me making sparkling smalltalk at parties #TheTraitors

Man from The Traitors asking "Does anyone think anything of anyone?"

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Cameron Loxdale @cloxdale.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The four wise men gave Jesus gold, frankincense, myrrh and nickel but Jesus gave the nickelback and that guy never made it as a wise man

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

You should be able to get rich being silly online instead of being evil online, that would solve a lot of problems

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Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

People who aren’t writers think writer’s block is at least as big and real a problem as I thought quicksand would be, as a child.

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AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief

Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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Chris Douch @thisisdouch.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I’m running a Kickstarter to fund a self-published children’s book. Please take a look and support if you can www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...

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CHEESE: Lights! Crackers! Action! A Funny Children's Book

The BRIEquel to CHEESE! a funny picture book aimed at kids aged 3-6

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 06/10/2025

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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M H Ayinde 🍉 A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES out now! @mhayinde.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The spammers aren’t even putting in the minimum effort any more!

Snippet of an email addressed to “Name” offering to help promote a book entitled “Book”

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.

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Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

the feminine urge to diminish and go into the west

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Really enjoyed watching Deep Cover over the weekend! Nice to see some fun new comedy films getting made (and laughed a lot at all the improv references)

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 29/05/2025

Sci-fi view of The Future: We'll all have flying cars and holidaying on Mars! Disease will be fixed with a quick blast from a Star Trek thingy! The Actual Future:

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Today's good news: Discovered practice has paid off and I can now run slightly faster Today's bad news: Running at increased speed without learning how to close my mouth is now causing me to swallow double the amount of flies

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Lisa Holdsworth @lisaholdsworth.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Please help us with this really important bit of research. Any information you give us is confidential but will help us understand the scale of the problem and tackle it. Please share.

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Stephanie @stephknee.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

“So how did the care sector work before immigration?” Women did it. For free. Except now families can’t live well on one income and no one’s retiring at 55 on a fat pension, free to care for their parents, their husband’s parents, and their grandchildren. Undoing care-for-profit will be expensive

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Was thrilled to be in one of the writers' rooms for this series of DMs Are Open! This first episode has a sketch from me and some other fab writers: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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DMs Are Open - Series 4 - 1. Secret - BBC Sounds

DMs Are Open is back with a new series packed with sketches written by YOU.

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Larry & Paul @larryandpaul.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🚨 ICYMI: Another Celeb Writes Shit, Lazy Children's Book. 👇🏻 Please watch, like and share this important update using the hashtag #BrokenNews. youtu.be/MHNhvA9nL4I?...

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Another Celeb Writes Lazy Children's Book - #BrokenNews

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Anna thinks she's such a big piece in the game, but really she became incidentally important because she didn't understand boats #TheTraitors

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Ian Brumpton @ianbrumpton.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Secondly over on R4 their sketch show ‘DMs Are Open’ is back for a new series, it has a slightly revised format now, but it’s still open to new unagented writers. It’s a brilliant place to get your first writing credits if you can write comedy sketches. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - DMs Are Open - Submit Your Ideas

Privacy Notice for submissions to DMs Are Open

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Millennials might not be buying houses or having kids but I have seen a dozen people on Instagram having the time of their lives drawing penises in the snow

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Wore a pair of day-of-the-week pants on the correct day today so yes you could say I've got my life together this new year

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Not terribly hot take on AI-generated social media users: it boils down to the decoupling of 'business' from 'customers'. Businesses used to have to have customers buying things, or they'd fail. Most tech businesses are supported not by selling things, but by an endless torrent of venture capital.

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Tis the season for my mum to laughingly gift me this chocolate reindeer because she says it looks like me

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Just done the annual rewatch of Muppet Christmas Carol and I know Scrooge is supposed to be a miser, but I'd love to be at a stage of wealth where I have so many dressing gowns that I can single out my 'best' one

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Struggling to explain the sudden chokehold Cher's DJ Play a Christmas Song has developed over me in the past week

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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes

A TNG scene. We're in the Enterprise conference room, where Picard is holding a meeting with Data, Troi, and Dr Crusher. Barclay is also there, for unknown reasons. Maybe he wandered into the meeting and just sat down, and everyone was too polite to mention it. That happened to me once. I was visiting an office location I didn't normally go to and I wasn't quite sure which conference room I was supposed to be in. I walked into one and sat down and it took me five minutes to realize I was in the wrong meeting. From the perspective of the people in that room, halfway through that meeting, a stranger walked in, sat next to the boss, took notes for five minutes, then walked out without saying a word.

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Dan Maier @danielmaier.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Importing the archive: The New Scientist is the only source of band names you’ll ever need. #newscientistbandnames

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Seconding this! Couldn't quite believe how busy it was (maybe writers aren't all cave-dwelling gremlins after all), but it was lovely to meet new people and catch up with others 🎄

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Liam Johnson @liamjohnsontype.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Thinking of starting a new band where I scream the top ten things my deeply personal struggles taught me about marketing and finance. We're going to be called LinkedIn Park.

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

What it's like travelling in a car with me

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Anyone want to read a fun new picture book?

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Here are some lesser-known TV comedies that are worth checking out: - Deadloch (Amazon Prime) - Mythic Quest (Apple) - Animal Control (C4/Fox US) - Such Brave Girls (BBC) - Loudermilk (Netflix) - Alpha Males (Netflix) - Still Up (Apple) - Extraordinary (Disney) - Girls5Eva (Netflix)

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

One day I would love to wake up in a way that doesn't feel like I've been forcibly pulled back from the brink of death by a particularly passive aggressive necromancer

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Breaking my Bluesky silence to share that I managed to get some material on this week's Dead Ringers! Really enjoying submitting to the show 😁 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Dead Ringers - Series 25 - Dead Ringers: Ep 3. New World Disorder - BBC Sounds

Donald Trump makes some surprising new additions to his team.

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I feel far too old to be starting again with a new social media platform, but here goes: I'm a kids non-fic editor and writer of all sorts (mostly funny things) who mainly posts about comedy, TV, publishing, and medieval stuff Please follow me so I'm not lonely on here 😢

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Liam Johnson @liamjohnsontype.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Because it still means so much to me, here's a one-page comic me and Andreas Butzbach made a few years back during lockdown. Please give it a read and maybe a share. I'd still love to continue their story or find an avenue in comics to tell more stories like it. #comics

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Vicky Richards @vickyerichards.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

I've caved and joined! It looks like Twitter, it sounds like Twitter, but it doesn't smell like Twitter - not even the tiniest whiff of horrendous discourse on here 💩 (this is probably a good thing)

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

"Twitter users arriving at Bluesky", Théodore Géricault, 1819

Théodore Géricault's epic 1819 painting "The Raft of the Medusa", depicting the wretched survivors of a shipwreck signalling to rescuers

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