iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

The point is that when the dotcom bubble popped we didn't go back to faxes, and it isn't going to happen with this technology as well, it's too powerful.

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You don't deserve it as you don't have agency. Know your place.

Ok, the US rules the world absolutely rightfully then. Why would you want anything else with this in mind.

Yuriy Akopov @yakopov.me · 21h

It all looks logical if you accept the premise that the shit Israel has been joyfully conducting is by far the worst thing ever and it isn't even close (while it unfortunately isn't unique even right now).

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Did the US sanctions drive to Damascus and kicked Assad out?

Yuriy Akopov @yakopov.me · 21h

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

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Yuriy Akopov @yakopov.me · 21h

Yeah hope you guys have a plan for when it happens because it will.

What is going on in Gaza and the West bank is not the only ethnic cleansing happening in the world right now, and is most cases there is also a religious or nationalist reasoning behind that.

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Too many words, I think you just hate women and are trying to wiggle out of that. Also close to 2M Palestinians live in Israel and are Israeli citizens, so your "argument" is applicable here as well.

Certified BlueSky moment:

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"If there are no mosques in your area that don't require women to submit to their husbands and cover themselves, you can always start one. I am not Islamophobic btw"

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"These days, if you say 'free Palestine', you get arrested and thrown in jail"

Yuriy Akopov @yakopov.me · 23h

Too lazy to take screenshots, but there have a been a lot of posts in the last few days about how a normal person attending a synagogue is going to "a Nazi bar and so is a Nazi themselves".

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You are not supposed to be a friend with an observant Jew though, so swings and roundabouts.

Yuriy Akopov @yakopov.me · 23h

> If your friend got arrested, extradited to the US and then confessed to such a thing would you just ditch them? You won't believe it buddy.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Rare Michael Walker good take. Responded to with, you guessed it, word salad!

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Yes, plus adjust the thresholds even more to get rid of the personal allowance tapering that completely messes up people's tax codes.

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That would cost you though. We paid about 12K in fees alone as a family before naturalisation, and today it is like 2-3 times more expensive.

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The only aspect in which the UK immigration rules were easier than the baseline was the timeline - you could (and still can before the new rules become law) get to an ILR in 5 years and naturalise a year later, and both processes were fast (in Europe you can wait for like a year to get processed).

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Yes, my point is that both were true - the rules were way stricter than in most peer countries, but the number of people coming was now lower in comparison either (due to desirability). The costs in particular were much higher, x10 above was not an exaggeration.

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site

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The UK has been a very very desirable place to go to for a long time. A big European economy where people speak English? This alone is a huge point outside everything else. This is why the HO could charge x10 more for a visa than e.g. Germany even back then, and still have many applicants.

I agree, assuming Britain didn't start the war, same life as before Nazism would have become impossible for many reasons, even for purely economic ones.

True, although for France the immediate threat was more material. But still it was a choice for them as well.

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For Britain, however, it was a conscious and to a large degree a moral (rather than rational) choice. A significant section of the Nazi elites were Anglophiles at the start, and it was not impossible to avoid the conflict for much longer or maybe even at all. The modern Nazis can't forgive that.

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I think why this discourse is always about the UK specifically is because Britain was the only country that *chose* to fight the Nazis. The USSR and America were attacked by the Nazis or their allies, and had no other choice (having before that sitting that one out or even cooperating with them).

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Triple lock - broken EU membership - considered Suella Braverman - handcuffed

In one of the scenes marines mention "a fruity barista". It was shot in 2008 and set in 2003. When you read someone still invoking "baristas" in a culture war argument today, know that this is how stale it is. Something from a no longer existing world.

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Have been listening to a lot of Radio 4 in headphones recently, and it is stunning how clear and close the voices sound there. A quality mic in an acoustically dead room is really a big deal, beats a lot of musical records most listeners are accustomed to.

There are two "Romanov princes", one born in the US and another in Madrid, and they look exactly the part:

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The last glass of clean water in Flint, Michigan was spent on making that picture.

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Thinking about it, this probably also counts as digital decluttering and detox, possibly even more so than having a "dumb phone" and carrying a camera. Pack everything into a single device you can just put in a drawer.

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Learned that a co-worker of roughly similar age does not have a personal laptop or another computer, and does everything from his phone. This is the youngest thing a fellow Millennial can do, and it isn't even close.

Correct, with an exception of Ginsberg reading A Supermarket in California. His voice is so unremarkable and ordinary, and delivery so emotionless that it unexpectedly works and teleports you into that lifeless aisle and under the 6500K lights.

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One of the prominent "rebels" that took over Donetsk 2014 was recently arrested in Russia for murdering a woman and her daughter, dismembering them and grinding the flesh. Imagine people like this coming to your city and declaring they're the running it now. www.kommersant.ru/doc/9005913