iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This was also true of other skills. Walking down stairs is just a series of trust falls negotiated between your conscious mind and your legs. Lise that connection and your brain PANICS even when your legs know what to do. We are biological creatures and our mind is in our whole body.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I remember when I drew a building detail I should have known well, but which had been a blank wall for me since the stroke. It clicked into place, all the lost words, the sense memory of how it should work. They were stored in the feeling of drawing the detail, not in my head.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The thing that brought this home to me was having a stroke and having to relearn a lot of physical things. It turns out a LOT of my thinking and experience of the world is not in my brain but in my body.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Looks good to me 😬 *walks off whistling in programmer*

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I say this when the building inspector arrives for his walk through and it never ceases to amuse me

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Main thing is, you are still with us. Glad the stent placement went well!

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And in particular the purer the freshwater—the stuff that makes the best drinking water for example—the worse this effect is. I swim a lot in open water and this is a very real thing.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My father has a graduate degree in bovine genetics and never was able to find a job in his field because it’s all by inheritance. This is TRVTH.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I hope they installed safety straps in Lindsay's grave because all that rolling can get dangerous.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My approach to finding text too dense is to re-read it and, I dunno, work on understanding it. That work is enjoyable to me. I guess if you hate reading but want to sound smart you might have a different approach.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

He’s said to be on a GLP-1 and is probably having significant hair thinning because of bad nutrition. His usual very expensive weave won’t keep up with that.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Also every 3 months we “fall back” so everyone gets an extra hour of sleep.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I try to separate the author from the burrito but he is clamped on pretty hard, there.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Oh, mine is epiphytic orchids. But that always gets me into a place where I also get to explain terrestrial orchids. Then, because I have a tiny amount of social awareness, I hear the siren going off in my head saying “you need to stop talking about orchids now”

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

@jococruise.bsky.social has this on their lanyards and I can confirm it is very cool as a social device although I’ve never run into anybody else with my same niche interest. But people want to hear about mine or I want to hear about theirs.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

They’re genuinely smiling rather than just moving their mouths into part of a smile.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

*ahem* That’s not knitting.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I understand this. I almost died of sadness a few years ago. It is a knife in your heart—metaphorically, and almost literally

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

My family is (half) central Asian mutt and a lot of thing people associate with either Mediterranean or Chinese cuisine show up in our food. Like leaf-wrapped dumplings steamed in a wok. Turns out people also shared food along the Silk Road

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea, Sink so deep, so headlessly...

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

If not Manx then why Manx shaped?

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Back in prehistoric times I had an implementation of vi that ran inside emacs. Why? Because.

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Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🙀 @sarahkite.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

Mayor Zohran Mamdani behind the counter of a bodega in The Bronx, flanked by various people. A journalist with a microphone labeled “Shop Cats” is standing in front of the sales counter, and holding the mic up to a black and white cat sitting on the counter next to bananas. The cat has an expression like in the famous “Sir, are you aware that you are a cat” meme

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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

if Trump nukes Iran it will be because no one powerful in america has ever been seriously punished for anything

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Oh yeah 1929 saw some amazing stock market gains.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Wealth Psychosis is a real thing

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Old Fashioned Boologna Salad @bolognasalad.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I still think this is a strong contender for the funniest video ever uploaded. Absolutely unbeatable comedic rhythm

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Right, the getaway part is either before or after the work part, not during.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I just read a post on Reddit by a guy who wanted to turn a business trip into a getaway with his partner and was like DUDE YOU WILL BE AT WORK. Business travel is just commuting.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Note: douchebags are at best completely unnecessary and at worst actively harmful to your body. The ideal slur when you need a slur for some reason. Also useful is “douchecanoe” because that’s a disaster both as a douche (see above) and definitely as a boat.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Part of constantly examining my privilege is being grateful for it. Privilege isn’t inherently evil or wrong. It’s our relationship with it that can turn us into a bunch of douchebags.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

But I also remembered that it’s great to work for an employer that does all the invoicing and just pays me a salary and cuts an expense check on the regular. And I have great coworkers and colleagues who I am grateful to work with.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I had a hellish travel day yesterday (assistant booked a hotel on the other side of LA from the job site, traffic, traffic, no bathroom, no functional chargers for ev, traffic, crowded flight, douches, pushy men, aaaaa) and I remembered why business travel sucks

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Holy crap yes. This is not a terrible map, it’s the TRVTH.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

In my licensed profession (architecture) I cannot avoid personal liability for my professional actions by hiding behind a corporation. My home, my retirement savings are all accessible through the courts if I harm people. Will the same personal responsibility attach to chatbot creators?

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I hated reading the book, but appreciated the social commentary and was glad I read it. The movie is just a porno version. Not the same plot, not the same situations. But lots of sex that definitely didn’t happen in the book.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Have you tried just sending everyone a map to your shop? 😂

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

As a geographer, please trust me when I say that Larry Visoski is dead wrong here. Oakland is actually located an average of 90 feet above the Bay Area.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

An Uber driver tried to kill me today, slowly changing lanes into the side of my car to try to force me out of my lane. I went to report this to Uber but they do not allow anybody but the paying passenger to report dangerous drivers. So any Uber you encounter could be that guy.

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🇺🇲💥🧨‼️🦅Diana🦅‼️🧨💥🇺🇲 @citiesbydiana.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

#alysaliu WOKE IS BACK BABY MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

This argument reminds me that white people think Asia is one place with one culture and that is fucking exhausting. There are a lot of people who make rice in a lot of places in a lot of different ways and they are all interesting and good in context.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Life is a mix of bad and good and meh. Today feels more good than bad. Even though I tried to eat lunch in the car on the way back and ended up with a big smear on my clothes.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I was up early and out on an icy (literally, weird for coastal California) work site at the crack of dawn. Now I’m so cold I can’t seem to warm up. But on my way back to the office I stopped at the recorder’s office and finally got my deed recorded. I’m now fully free of my abusive ex. Woot!

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

This a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.

Two cats, one tabby piebald and one brown tabby, on a rumpled, messy bed. The tabby piebald, Chunk, is sniffing his adopted son, Bob, who is leaning in to bite him. They love each other.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

It is hard to explain to white people how racist scandinavia is even though white supremacists in the US literally use it as an analog for the white ethnostate they want. All I want is free healthcare and a robust social safety net and we can have that in a multicultural society if we want it.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

There’s a lot of pigment in it do you wouldn’t need much, I’d guess it would disappear flavour-wise

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 13/02/2026

And this is where we are now: white folk have to do the work of saving democracy by abandoning their comforts & organizing for justice.

For activists and organizers and everyday people struggling against this administration's policies, the race traitor label evokes an inspiring and hopeful lineage: white people who are willing to give up the protection whiteness offers to stand for justice with those who are fewer in number and have far less power.
After the election of 2024, many Black Americans and members of other marginalized groups felt deeply betrayed by a white majority (and a near Latino majority) that sent Trump back to the White House. As Trump has done what they had warned he would do - eviscerate civil rights protections, target L.G.B.T.Q.
Americans, round up immigrants, erode democratic institutions — Black activists have largely moved their organizing underground, leaving it to white people to get in the streets this time.

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I’ve ingested plenty* of Writer’s Blood by being a chaotic dumbass and it hasn’t killed me yet. Has a somewhat metallic, bitter taste. *maybe a couple drops worth

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A. Pie @apie.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The actual facts are also easily available online. Good lord. They just want to argue with you.

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