iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I can’t remember who recommended this account but they said it cheered them up - and it really does cheer me up! I’m going to log off for the night immmediately so this is the last post that I see. 🚂

0142

Reposted by Zebydeb

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 07/10/2026

Houses that survived the great fire of London in a photo of Wych Street from c. 1880. All demolished in 1901.

1034842

Reposted by Zebydeb

KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 06/10/2026

The graves of Jesus, who settled in Japan, married, had four kids and died at 106, and his brother who died at Golgotha for him. Very simple and rather lovely. The accompanying museum, however, is flamboyantly insane.

511713

Reposted by Zebydeb

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026

What is the IceCube neutrino observatory? Neutrinos are elusive particles that rarely interact, but can create flashes of light when they do. Most neutrino detectors are giant water tanks surrounded by light detectors. IceCube is kilometer-long strings of detectors embedded in the Antarctic ice.

16904243

Reposted by Zebydeb

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 03/10/2026

Busan has a new resident named Bukangi, a shark who started chilling in the canals near the train station a couple weeks ago. The city has been trying all sorts of schemes to gently lead her back to the ocean but she foils every attempt and swims back and forth being admired by crowds of fans.

3419143

Reposted by Zebydeb

jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

1087383989

Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Read the final chapters of Heresy today. Highly recommended for anyone who lives in a Christian culture as a reminder that it wasn’t always the same. Catherine Nixey has a very good eye for the weird details of history. 💙📚

Front cover of Heresy by Catherine Nixey, subtitle Jesus Christ and the other sons of God.

071

Reposted by Zebydeb

Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.

26524127

Reposted by Zebydeb

Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You might have heard me mention that 2027 is the European year of the Normans and @britishlibrary.bsky.social is now advertising its major exhibition for that. Think of it as the sequel to the excellent Anglo-Saxon ehibition several years ago. events.bl.uk/exhibitions/... #medievalsky 1/

events.bl.uk

Conquest: The Making of Norman England | British Library

Beyond the battlefield lies a story of ambition, upheaval and reinvention. Spanning the generations before and after 1066, this exhibition traces the impac

37027

Reposted by Zebydeb

Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Old norse nerds! This is premiering at 6pm tonight uk time! (there will be subtitles tho not sure if in modern icelandic or what) youtu.be/8Sm5itntHV0?...

youtu.be

HAMRAMMR - Icelandic Historical Short Film | Full Film

YouTube video by Northern Storm Pictures

0148

Reposted by Zebydeb

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A Roman glass model of a #boat, dating 2nd c. AD. It was found in St. Aldegund in a 4th-century woman's grave. Six of such boats are known. We don't know their function: Were they used as women's urinals, as components of water clocks and sundials, as...🧵1/2 🏺

A translucent blue glass vessel shaped like a boat, with a curved hull, upturned ends, and small protruding feet for support. The surface has visible cracks. A soft shadow is cast beneath the object on a neutral background.

24604167

Reposted by Zebydeb

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Historians rightly say people's actions should be judged by the standards of their time. But what often gets lost is that those standards weren't what we think. Many 18thc Europeans hated colonialism--as an e.g., here's Immanuel Kant in 1795 castigating it as "truly appalling." It was contentious...

"Excerpt from Kant: "If one compares this with the inhospitable conduct of the civilized—and primarily commercial—states of our own continent, the injustice they display when visiting foreign lands and peoples (which they equate with conquering them) is truly appalling. To them, upon their discovery, America, the lands of the Negroes, the Spice Islands, the Cape, and so forth, were territories belonging to no one; for they counted the inhabitants as nothing. In the East Indies (Hindustan), under the pretext of merely establishing trading posts, they introduced foreign military forces—bringing with them the oppression of the natives, the incitement of the region's various states into widespread wars, famine, insurrection, treachery, and the whole litany of evils that afflict the human race.

China and Japan (Nippon)—having had experience with such guests—wisely restricted access: the former permitted entry but not full admission, while the latter granted even that limited access to only a single European nation, the Dutch, whom they nonetheless kept isolated from the native population, much like prisoners."

16525

Reposted by Zebydeb

Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

10381692845

Reposted by Zebydeb

Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org

5471221

Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📚💙A new book, with beautiful DK design as always.

031

Reposted by Zebydeb

Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you’re in the City of London today, Thames Festival month continues with a fabulous free mudlarking exhibition in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral, 10-5pm today & tomorrow, 19th/20th Sept. I won’t be exhibiting this weekend but many fellow mudlarking friends will be showing their finds. Do come!

Flyer advertising our Hands on History mudlarking exhibition at St Paul’s Cathedral today & tomorrow, 19th/20th Sept (in the crypt) - free entry, 10-5pm.

Further detail of this weekend’s mudlarking exhibition, Saturday & Sunday, in St Paul’s Cathedral - 10-5pm, free entry, part of Thames Festival month.

12110

Reposted by Zebydeb

Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fixed that story about Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the BBC.

Picture of man smiling with tea-mug. Headline reads: "Non-Billionaire who actually lives in the UK and pays its taxes says he has lost confidence in the super-rich", with sub-header: 'One of Britain's taxpayers says he has lost confidence in billionaires, describing them as "on the take"".

18751215

Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was just listening to the audio edition of this story. It’s a work of art! 💙📚

140

Reposted by Zebydeb

Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

OK so this is interestingly dangerous; they're taking the masts off the sunken wreck of the S.S. Richard Montgomery today: unexploded.live/operation/

unexploded.live

Live webcam — UNEXPLODED

Look across the Thames Estuary at the Montgomery masts and the changing horizon.

12313

Reposted by Zebydeb

Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

William Walker, who worked 6 hours a day from 1906 to 1911 in the dark, working in water up to 6 metres deep, to shore up Winchester Cathedral. There is a bust of him in the Cathedral, and another in the Cathedral Gardens with an inscription that reads: “He saved the cathedral with his own hands”

1348

Reposted by Zebydeb

Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

341836794

Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A very old shoe! Presumably Romano-British. On display at the London Mithraeum.

A shoe made of a latticework of brown leather, hung up in a display case.

031

Reposted by Zebydeb

Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

4059812392

Reposted by Zebydeb

Kim P @kimep.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is the reality for so many. Cruel beyond words. It's a tough read but I think you owe Tess' mum the honour of reading it

1123

Reposted by Zebydeb

Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There’s something special about capturing the perfect alignment between a London Underground train and a station poster. With patience and a little luck, these fleeting moments can produce wonderfully amusing and unexpected photographs.

316631

Reposted by Zebydeb

Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Spat out my tea reading this review of The Uprising. The what of what now? Popular understanding of medieval history has taken a hell of a pounding in recent weeks. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

2021050

Reposted by Zebydeb

Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

5145151509

Reposted by Zebydeb

FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There is no such thing as an illegal asylum seeker. If any of us had to flee for our lives international law recognises that we may not be able to get visas overnight or at all, have money, have passports, fly out of a national airport...so we'd have to go however we could.

12487139

Reposted by Zebydeb

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 06/09/2026

I love it when our ancestors predicted the future. These French illustrations tell us what people in ca 1910 thought the world would be like a century later. Some of these were pretty close! Let's take a look. (original here: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...)

822662

Reposted by Zebydeb

Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Before the WHI study that in 2002 publicized a wildly overblown all-caps CANCER SCARE, 30 percent of menopausal women used hormone-replacement therapy. By the early 2020s, it was less than 5 percent. What’s happening now isn’t a trend — it’s a corrective

225828

Reposted by Zebydeb

Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Another unsettling bit of crazy genius by artist Frank Hampson. “There was an old woman tossed up in a basket” Ladybird Third Book of Nursery Rhymes , 1967

This brightly coloured illustration is takes a perspective looking down on an old woman in a basket holding a broom. She’s accompanied bya young boy. The basket has been tossed up into space in order to clean the cobwebs that are lurking in the corners of the page. I know, right.

639444

Reposted by Zebydeb

BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thinking about books & publishing from a different perspective? Want to write a review of the new game/trend that foregrounds bookishness? Want to express how the Muppets have influenced your book history pedagogy? Submit a proposal to @sharpnews.bsky.social Features! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A book with an eye in the center walking along on a metal stand

42511

Reposted by Zebydeb

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

'Essentially everyone in the book trade knows loads of memoirs are fake and there are near-zero checks' is one of those stories I keep expecting to tank that part of the industry, yet it never does.

511317239

Reposted by Zebydeb

Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Church of St Michael. Meeth, Devon An amazing 200 year old walkway. Using river pebbles in 1818 a long path was laid to the south door. Not really #TilesOnTuesday 😉

River pebbles, laid on end, to create a path with designs of swirls & diamonds. Dated 1818.

26514

Zebydeb @zebydeb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Bought a vanilla-scented air freshener and it’s like the house is haunted by the ghost of custard.

010

Reposted by Zebydeb

Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Something a bit more abstract than usual. A watercolour and ink wash with a bit of gouache for detail. A field of flowers (I think!).

A messy green and yellow painting of a field of flowers

117831

Reposted by Zebydeb

Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This Roman floor mosaic depicts a peacock gloriously spreading its tail feathers into a large, colourful fan. It was found at the Villa du Paon (Villa of the Peacock) in Vaison-la-Romaine. 🕰️ 1st Century AD 🏛️📷 Musée Théo Desplan in Vaison-la-Romaine #MosaicMonday

319648

Reposted by Zebydeb

Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s publication day for our book today!🥳🥳🥳 And whilst everyone is showing off their eclipse of the sun photos, I’d just like point out that there’s an ‘eclipse-like’ image (ok, it’s the moon actually) on its cover - for you to have forever😄

1011525

Reposted by Zebydeb

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.

A hand drawn eight panel cartoon. First two panels are a colander sitting frowning on a shelf. Then the colander is frowning straining pasta, then three more panels of frowning sitting on a shelf. Then a big panel where it's projecting a bunch of crescent eclipse shapes and smiling with speech bubbles around saying "Wow! Look! Amazing! Beautiful!" And then one final panel where it's sitting on a shelf smiling.

653559954

Reposted by Zebydeb

Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Number crunching: Compensation Fujitsu has so far paid to victims of the Post Office scandal vs value of contract for police network software awarded to Fujitsu by the Home Office. From the latest Private Eye, out now.

7430246

Reposted by Zebydeb

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026

So I decided to write a book that goes all-in on the fundamental nature of reality. I wanted to give a glimpse of this world to people who haven't been in the classrooms I've been in, who don't have the math but still want the story. How the subatomic world works and how it governs the universe. 6/?

660839

Reposted by Zebydeb

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

for the first time in two and a half years, a new note was played in this organ performance today!

Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) is a musical piece by John Cage.[1]

An organ in St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt in 2001 began a performance that is due to end in 2640. This makes it the longest running non-computerized piece currently being performed.

161959401

Reposted by Zebydeb

Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

17170862920

Reposted by Zebydeb

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

11557268

Reposted by Zebydeb

Eric Very @ekvery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Emancipation Day Underground Freedom Train Ride is a unique and awesome tradition the TTC runs with the Blackhurst Cultural Centre. A non-stop ride between Vaughan Metropolitan Station and Union Station with singing and drumming to celebrate emancipation day. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

thestar.com

Shellene Drakes-Tull: Canada’s Black history: A deeper look beyond the Underground Railroad

There is more to Black history in Canada and its history with slavery than the Underground Railroad.

0156