iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Amos @amos.io · 09/04/2026

It's funny looking back at a device that has only a very tiny screen versus the size of the device.

Amos @amos.io · 02/12/2025

Sony Walkman, how dare you not last 3 decades! Thankfully there’s always some weirdly-named Chinese company on Amazon that sells the part you’re looking for to fix stuff.

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Amos @amos.io · 30/11/2025

Ok. I’m going to start posting my YouTube stuff here. I hope you all enjoy my review of the FiiO music player that can disguise itself as a classic cassette player. youtu.be/tqBWO5wETTI

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FiiO M21 DAP Review - Retro fun with a twist

YouTube video by Currawong

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 18/11/2025

Truly smart devices would choose not to connect to the internet.

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Amos @amos.io · 18/11/2025

My friend created fake news decades before the term existed.

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Amos @amos.io · 17/11/2025

Murderous bears have saved us from the seemingly endless anti-foreigner sentiment. Japanese culture is more afraid of death.

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Amos @amos.io · 17/11/2025

Reminds me of when I lived in Tokyo. I always caught trains. Didn’t realise how huge greater Tokyo is until someone offered to drive me somewhere and it took hours. Even with 110 km/h train services it takes a couple of hours to transverse.

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Leen McBeans @leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

One of the beautiful things about social media is that sometimes when you scream into the void, after a pause, a voice or two may answer back “fuck, me too” and you feel a little less alone in the world

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Amos @amos.io · 17/11/2025

So some obscure Chinese company decided to make a Bluetooth DAC/headphone/IEM amp with old, tiny Nixie tubes. They bought all the remaining stock they could find and this was the result. youtu.be/K6z0-b2Hk-Y

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Neon Nixie tube portable DAC/amp MUSE M6 Double Review

YouTube video by Currawong

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Amos @amos.io · 26/07/2025

How about a nice pair of headphones than you can plug into a computer even and enjoy music, without requiring any fancy audiophile equipment? youtu.be/sJLCB_Sincc

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Meze 105 AER Headphones and Boom Mic/gaming headset review

YouTube video by Currawong

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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

This is adorable.

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Amos @amos.io · 17/05/2025

On the tourist side it always looks this impressive. However, it isn’t so great on the other side.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 10/05/2025

I vinyl wrapped my Mac Studio^W^WPerforma 40000.

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Shade 5 @shade5.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

1991: fighting with five siblings for use of a single landline 2025: we all refuse to answer our cell phones

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Amos @amos.io · 09/02/2025

“This is your brain on drugs.”

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is not how you do security through transparency.

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Amos @amos.io · 15/01/2025

As a non-American, it’s painfully ironic to see people on the “right” rant about the “elites” secretly plotting to whatever, then have a man with the name of a kind of scent come out and blatantly do the very things they claim, but in the name of their politics.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 14/01/2025

Aww @pfrazee.com got me a Christmas present

a little blue dumpster. it is on fire, but it is happy

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Amos @amos.io · 15/01/2025

The idea of forbidden clothes is just mad.

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Amos @amos.io · 13/01/2025

Apparently there was an earthquake in Kyushu soon after I got home tonight. I didn’t feel it at all. I only noticed it because I started browsing Reddit just after and someone had posted about it.

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Is there a way I can switch AI off on absolutely everything? Browsers, phones, whatever, all of it. It's hard enough to get to the truth with most powerful humans constantly spinning shit, I don't also need robots collating all the nonsense and making up their own variety on top. It's just garbage.

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The H5N1 subtype has been around since 1996, occasionally jumping to mammals, including humans. As with other strains, there is a risk of a pandemic outbreak, but that is uncertain. What is certain is that if that happens, some do not want you to protect yourselves: the McCullough Foundation. 1/10

X post reads: "The bird flu vaccine she wants approved for humans is called AUDENZ, made by CSL Seqirus. Humans injected with the AUDENZ died at a rate of 1 in 200 (0.5%) compared to 0.1% in the placebo group, in one of the clinical trials (Study 3). This deadly injection must NOT be authorized for human use. https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/s/TheChiefNerd/status/1873411875389444518"

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Amos @amos.io · 12/12/2024

This is why I pay for Kagi.com.

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Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Sensoji today, through the lens of a blackened and hollowed out gingko. I never noticed the tree before, as it is off to the side in a smoking area, but now I’ll never see these grounds the same again, because once you see one fire-damaged tree at Sensoji, you see them all. And they are EVERYWHERE.

View directly through the Sensoji Daichu, the left side of its hollow center is visibly blackened. Through the oval in the tree we see part of the pagoda half-covered by another yellow gingko tree. To the left of that is part of the temple gate. Both buildings are red. Sky is light blue. Don’t go to Sensoji though, until something is done about the weak yen. I was only passing through because it is my neighborhood. Don’t go. Trust me.

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mistress von toasty @toasty.cx · 02/12/2024

If you're going to post screenshots from Twitter it should exclusively be stuff like this instead of stuff that makes people mad

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nordacious @nordacious.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The only thing uniting all Aussies? Gambling ads. Happy Birthday, Australia! 🎂

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Amos @amos.io · 26/11/2024

Sneezing during a bad bout of sciatica is like… Ahhh….. (Oh no!) AHHhhhh … (Oh God please no!) AHHHHHHHHH (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!,) CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKK THAT HURT.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

There is a metaphor here somewhere

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Amos @amos.io · 24/11/2024

Meanwhile in Japan…

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Amos @amos.io · 19/11/2024

Given the considerable percentage of Japanese that are elderly, you’d think that chairs in Japan, especially in medical clinics, would be comfortable.

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Amos @amos.io · 17/11/2024

What I love about this place is that you discover things like this.

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Amos @amos.io · 16/11/2024

So, a guy spent years designing and making 3D printed headphones that are so popular now he has an 8-month back-order. They cost $2000. By a lucky strike, I could borrow a pair for review. youtu.be/zeeQhqpnGa8

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Do these 3D-printed headphones destroy the big brands? ModHouse Tungsten Review

YouTube video by Currawong

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Amos @amos.io · 16/11/2024

So, in front of numerous other people, some idiot decides to carve his family's initials into part of a sacred site in Japan. They need to show his arrest to visiting tourists as now the locals, previously missing the tourism, are starting to hate the return of it.

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

We may not agree about politics or religion,,, but we can all agree that we want Mike Tyson to knock out Jake Paul

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a man with glasses and a mustache is making a funny face and saying yeth .

Alt: Mike Tyson says YES

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Amos @amos.io · 09/11/2024

I don't care how true this is, but I totally believe it.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 08/11/2024

In 1657, Jin Shengtan 金聖嘆 broke off from his commentary on 'The Romance of the Western Chamber' to list "33 Nice Things" 不亦快哉三十三則. It's one of the most likable things I know of in any language. I translated it to cheer myself up a while ago, if anyone could use it. www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good

空齋獨坐，正思夜來床頭鼠耗可惱，不知其戛戛者是損我何器，嗤嗤者是裂我何書。中心回惑，其理莫措，忽見一狻貓，注目搖尾，似有所覩。斂聲屏息，少復待之，則疾趨如風，唧然一聲，而此物竟去矣 —— 不亦快哉！

I'm sitting alone in my study with a mouse on my mind. I’m wondering which of my things that nibbling sound is coming from, which book's destruction is the source of that chewing noise, and quite at a loss for what to do — when out of nowhere I spot a vicious-looking cat, eyes blazing, tail lashing, gaze fixed on something I can’t see, and I hold my breath and watch as it darts forward, quick as the wind, and with a piteous squeak that little critter is gone for good —

— ahhhh, you love to see it.

飯後無事，翻倒敞篋。則見新舊逋欠文契不下數十百通，其人或存或亡，總之無有還理。揹人取火拉雜燒淨，仰看高天，蕭然無雲 —— 不亦快哉！

Rummaging through some old chests after dinner for lack of anything better to do, I discover dozens of unpaid promissory notes, more than a hundred maybe, from borrowers variously living and dead, and uniformly unlikely to repay, and so when nobody's looking I pile them together higgledy-piggledy, set them on fire, burn them clean away, and then look up at the sky, where they leave not even a cloud behind —

— if that's not a good feeling, I don't know what is.

冬夜飲酒，轉復寒甚，推窗試看，雪大如手，已積三四寸矣 —— 不亦快哉！

Drinking on a winter's night, I feel a sudden sharp chill and push open the window to see snow falling in flakes the size of my hand, three or four inches deep already —

— if that isn't nice, I don't know what is.

夏日於硃紅盤中，自拔快刀，切綠沉西瓜 —— 不亦快哉！

On a summer’s day, take a sharp knife, slice up a bright green watermelon, and set it out on a deep vermilion plate —

— Well!

春眠初覺，似聞家人嘆息之聲，言某人夜來已死。急呼而訊之，正是-城中第一絕有心計人 —— 不亦快哉！

I'm just waking up one spring morning when I seem to hear someone in my household sighing and saying something about somebody dying the night before. Startled awake, I ask who. It turns out to be the schemingest bastard in town —

— if that doesn’t cheer you up, nothing will.

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Amos @amos.io · 09/11/2024

LOL! Addicts don't vote for banning the drugs they are addicted to! And that's assuming they aren't bots.

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

When people are repeatedly told something is harmful or wrong, even if the evidence says otherwise, many eventually start to believe it. The argument here is that if it's not vaccines or WiFi, then something must be making us all unhealthy. But are we actually less healthy? 1/7

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 08/11/2024

The original Norton Utilities, for cleaning the most stubborn floppy disk heads.

A photo of a 5.25" floppy disk, Norton sandpaper branded, with a disk of what's probably not 400 but more like 80 grit sandpaper in it.

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Amos @amos.io · 09/11/2024

Not these, but you want Scottevest Hidden Cargo Pants or Shorts. They look like dress pants/shorts and take a belt, but have a genius pocket system.

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Amos @amos.io · 09/11/2024

Screw this, I'm going back to reading books.

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Amos @amos.io · 06/11/2024

Things I never dreamed I’d have to consider in the future: that the batteries in the remote control for my toilet are low and I have to replace them.

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Amos @amos.io · 06/11/2024

I’m at the barber and this old lady has been sitting patiently as her husband got his hair cut. Now she is rumbling in his jacket pocket to get his wallet out to pay.

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