iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 1h

Lake Acopia and the town of Acopia behind it — where the old man was born and where his vote registration is and that’s why we’re on this trip because tomorrow is Election Day for everything but president which already happened

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 1h

This is asnacocha, the salt water lake of the 4 lakes. Salt water, different fish, and flamingos here.

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 1h

The old man says the mountains in the distance were all snow capped when he was a kid. This is the general are where so-called rainbow mountain is — a mountain that lost its glacier 13 years ago and is now the biggest bullshit “attraction” in Perú, #2 after Machu Picchu (More)

Formerly snowcapped mountains in the distance with a sharp curve road sign

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 1h

Combapata is known for its Sunday market and its bull ring and the cattle are a major focus. We will see if we go home via combapata tomorrow.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2h

Something I haven't really seen touched on very much is that, compared to previous permitting reform debates in the US, a much higher %'age of new clean power is servicing data centre growth rather than fossil fuel elimination. www.woodmac.com/blogs/energy...

There are also sections designed to help development in specific energy sectors, including electricity transmission, solar and geothermal power. Another key provision would compel data centre developers to cover the cost of any transmission investment needed to support their facilities.

The political impetus behind the bill has been a bipartisan recognition that the current permitting system makes it too difficult to develop both fossil fuel and low-carbon energy infrastructure in the US. Surging electricity demand from new data centres for AI has made the case for reform more urgent.

“America is entering a new era of energy demand,” said Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, one of the Democratic sponsors of the bill. “It should not take decades to build the infrastructure our country needs.”

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 1h

Checacupe: fried cheese, trout, and our favorite bottle opener

Bottle opener that is a screw in a thick dowel

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 2h

We have stopped in checacupe for fried cheese and fresh trout and to grab some fruit from this kinda lackluster truck

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 2h

Not only are these wildfires terrible because they kill flora, fauna, and humans, but they cause rockfalls as well, and things that get burnt include telecom infrastructure, which is a major problem in mountains with limited roads

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 3h

All of the September-planted corn in this major corn producing area has been ruined by hard frost thanks to the super El Niño. Very worrying.

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 4h

Well I popped my knee a bit so I withdrew from my tennis match And while I was slathering diclofenac gel on it the word came in that there was an overnight trip out of town and they were waiting for me So now I’m in the kombi in my tennis clothes in Huaro on the way to the 4 Lagunas

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 9h

Presently walking to my tennis match despite being very much dubious about my blood sugar after yesterday featured 2 hypoglycemic episodes and considering my right knee is absolutely killing me

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also do the honest work of eliminating any trace of plagiarism in your beloved product. How? Not my fucking problem! If you can’t run your business / technology without stealing other people’s work, it deserves to die. Personally I’m happy to see it die, so don’t try to make it my responsibility.

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 9h

Seriously why don’t I like the garbage software that ripped off my work to produce drivel which is believed by people who don’t know better, to the point they argue with actual experts? While destroying the planet? Speak to the actual concerns, AI bros.

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pope Leo makes me feel positive about practicing Catholicism in the Andean syncretic form. I’m actually considering going to see him when he visits Cusco. I mean other than seeing his motorcade with whatever popemobile he’s got with him when they go past my home.

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Him : now we have half an hour to wait and we’re not gonna make the mechanic to swap the fuel filter Me: I mean the part is in my handbag, just give me a screwdriver Him: are you sure you’ve got this? Me: the screwdriver please 3 minutes pass Him: thank you Me: we still have 25 minutes

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And today there is a friend of the family who is hospitalized for complications of diabetes and I… Well actually today I had a nasty hypoglycemic episode, my second one ever, less bad than the first because this time I knew what it was but still

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have just revealed that I did in fact spend some small amount of time going to school in the USA because I know every detail of how this device works

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now the only things I can’t find in Cusco are corned beef, a pinball machine, and pho

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well so I first touched a tennis racket 3 years ago at the end of October in Arequipa This year I’m going to the ITF tournament there to compete I’m really proud of this achievement. Like really proud. For decades I thought I’d never be able to do a sport and compete ever again, but here I am

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So, I am up to 7 cis men I’ve seen talking about it now, which is more than past times, but in fairness 4 of them are from Ithaca (where I lived when my mom was getting her phd at Cornell)

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m standing at my cheap breakfast street vendor and this guy walks up and tells another customer a mutual friend of theirs died yesterday Dude asks what happened Guys says well he was diabetic so he was lucky he made it to 60 I took my quinua breakfast and left silently, diabetic at 54

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, it seems ridiculous to have to tell AI stans this basic fact but clearly it’s something they can’t seem to grasp.

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Serious question for the men who like to show up in women’s replies to say not all men: Why bother? Do you think we’re impressed? Because we’re not. In fact we mostly know that the men who do that are in fact the very men we’re talking about. Go tell a man to be better. What are you afraid of?

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also did you know every single time a woman posts about this, these men show up and prove they are too chickenshit to do anything but complain to women about being lumped in with rapists? You know how I don’t get lumped in with racists for example? I publicly tell them being racist is bad.

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So of the 5 men in my circles who have expressed any outrage or in fact any sentiment at all about the massive rape cases in the news, 2 are trans. I have thousands of men in my circles and generally speaking all the cis ones are clearly fine with rape because they aren’t against it.

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

3 minutes apart in plaza Tupac Amaru, wanchaq, Cusco, Peru

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Compadre, awestruck: the guy is really smart, I mean he’s a software developer Me: … Him: what? Me: you’re easily impressed as long as someone has a penis, eh? Him: what? Me: you never say that about me or the many women in tech I’ve introduced you too, all of whom are extremely impressive

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lucky Fruit Watermelon The world is his who enjoys it For having a Chinese megaport here, we are rewarded with the opportunity to purchase these delights for 9 soles at stores with names like Todo Barato Directo Desde China

My favorite of my super cheap thermal vessels, even though the digital temperature display doesn’t work

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So my hometown is Chinchero, province of Urubamba, region of Cusco, Perú. There is a town called Chincheros in the region of Apurimac. Chincherinos are well known for having a million ways to tell people Chinchero, not Chincheros, because for some reason people can’t grasp the distinction

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today I have to figure out a price I’ll charge for a lecture and training of a type I’ve never done and which very few people in the world could likely do, largely in Quechua, about textile technology and early industrial processes, and I’m stumped

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Comadre: that fleece is way too big, did you really used to be that large? Me: *finds photo of me wearing this fleece and being like 60kg heavier* Her: when is that photo from? Me: uhhhh 2017 Her: wtf is wrong with you but some new clothes Me: *does not mention I bought the fleece in 2013*

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And meanwhile in a tragic country with a downtrodden and mistreated population that can’t afford basic needs, the government wants the population to just go ahead and die

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here in Perú there are always public health campaigns for vaccination and vaccines are free. They track your record with your national ID so you just walk up to the booth, they check what shots you need and if you need what they’re giving that day, you get the shot Today I got MMR booster & flu

Public health campaign for measles and flu shots

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Diabetic cheat snack. I wanted an ice cream but there weren’t any right where I was, but there is this huequito with picarones and Api and…

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Speech to text on iOS in English has gotten really bad but in Spanish it’s fine. I have recorded myself speaking English and I think my accent and diction are fine, but this fucks with my head as someone who used to have a Spanish accent speaking English and had to work to lose it

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@lastquake.emsc.eu you got any info on Cusco Perú at about 20:07 local time?

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Okay I don’t know where that last quake was centered and thankfully it was short and we are all fine but it was kinda shitty and what’s even shittier is that 20 years ago I could have gotten all the info by now but in today’s social media ai algorithm world I don’t get to know jack shit.

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Got on an empty bus with my comadre, compadre, and ahijados and the 7 year old has pointed out I qualify for the reserved seating based on the criteria indicated In fairness I’m limping today because my worst knee has swollen for no apparent reason

Asiento reservado sign with a child’s finger pointing to the old person with a walker

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When reactionaries advance some bullshit, the FIRST thing to do is identify the framing and reject it They're selling this as "trans rights vs. women's sports" when they hate both those things and want to ruin them both Accept the frame and you've lost Reject the frame and call bullshit

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wouldn’t be able to post on bluesky or do any other computer stuff if it weren’t for this piece of technology, whose owner hopes to get it up and running again in the coming year.

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Everyone always loves ET Batman and it’s their anniversary so in a rare decision I’m sharing something from Facebook www.facebook.com/share/r/1HF9...

facebook.com

Facebook

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In about 5 minutes a lunar eclipse is supposed to be starting and I have pulled up a chair on my terrace to watch even though the winter cold is setting in for the night.

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The footage out of Nepal is beyond apocalyptic, and all of us who live in mountainous regions with glaciers could see it happen. Here in the cusco area we’ve already seen glacier chunk floods in the past few decades, and… (more)

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I usually play tennis at 6:30am but today the court wasn’t available and I have a match at 8 So I slept in a bit and getting my ass here was incredibly harder than when I get up at 5:30 Anyway wish me luck

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For those who wondered where the scrapped Caltrain cars are, they’re in Lima at the center of a controversy involving the mayor of Lima who’s a cartoon villain made flesh

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Also Google Maps, fuck you for this bullshit where you always want me to be going to hotels for no reason, like you have my home address and I am AT HOME but you keep suggesting I go to the hotel down the block, like alerts at random to suggest it, just fuck off

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Pop quiz: who knows what seeds these are? (I do but I wonder who else does)

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sitting here clearing up disk space o my phone and thinking how I miss the 1TB phone I had before this one and honestly even knowing this was the future I can’t help but think how funny that would have seemed to me 30 years ago when I had a 33GB RAID

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Achievement unlocked: on the shitter when a significant earthquake hits Achievement that would have been unlocked 3 minutes later: in the shower when an earthquake hits Thank you pachamama, in the shower would have been so much worse.

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