iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Isobel

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026

Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble

341267210

Reposted by Isobel

Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Very interesting perspective here.

2678

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I really enjoyed this Sudoku. Immensely satisfying. If you like variant Sudoku you might want to give it a go. logic-masters.de/Raetselporta...

logic-masters.de

Casino Royale — Rätselportal — Logic Masters Deutschland

Die Webseite des Vereins Logic Masters Deutschland e.V.

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Got confirmation today that my birth certificate is being updated. I am legally female. Just don't tell them I was doing it illegally before, yeah? #trans

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" said the president of the Stone Throwers Club, stone in hand, actively aiming it at a nearby homeless person. #onenation #auspol

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'll never understand the defense that users opt in to tracking for advertising purposes. No one is knowingly opting into that. No end user gives a fuck about the ads they get. No one wants them personalised. Who the fuck is buying this?

010

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hey now: A: You're a all star; B: Don't dream it's over; C: This is what dreams are made of; D: Other (please specify).

000

Reposted by Isobel

Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 05/09/2026

My cousin’s shirt took me a second. He said “it’s great because anyone who would be offended by it couldn’t understand it anyway.”

A shirt with the following words in rainbow colors:
Fluorine
Uranium
Carbon
Potassium
Titanium
Rubidium
Uranium
Magnesium
Platinum

869168242971

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My wife and I have been talking about starting a family for a while. Our plans fell apart a few months ago, when our donor revealed himself to be...unsuitable. We had a chat tonight about our next steps. So, we're going to start our journey. I might yet be a mum 🥲

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I've worked in a data centre. There giant buildings that have maybe a couple dozen people working in them at a time. Once built, there are almost no jobs to be had, and those jobs won't be filled by the same people who built them. This is a lie. The profits aren't for the community around them.

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My wife and I helped an older gentleman who was taking a table from the side of the road. And I just really like when older people take the time to tell you about this person they know who also got gay married. The world progresses slowly, unevenly, often in the wrong direction, but there it is.

020

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My fitbit is upset about my sleep quality. I only got 1h 57m, my sleep score is low. At 11:27. That was a nap, my friend. That was a two hour nap in the middle of the day. I feel fantastic.

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I feel really bad for CSS people. "Look at this cool effect I achieved using just CSS, and it wasn't even that hard to set up!" I'm so sorry. Your bar was in the stratosphere, and now you're looking at one at the top of Mount Everest and marveling at the fact it technically can be done on foot.

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We were told we have to use AI because it will make us faster. So I started using BMAD. The current discussion is why it's making us so much slower. I like this trajectory.

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Vaccine conspiracies are easy to spread in part because of how effective vaccines are. People don't take the threat of measles seriously if it's never been a threat in their lifetime. It's easy to think it's not a big deal if it's never been a big deal for you. We have vaccines to thank for that.

010

Reposted by Isobel

FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

99268176334

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Excuse me ma'am, what the blep???

A picture of a tabby cat with her tongue poking out.

020

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We've got this face wash, and on the back, it starts out with a bold "developed with dermatologist". Which seems to me kind of like putting a sticker on a banana proclaiming it began friendly. Like, yeah, I think developed with dermatologists is kind of expected. By dermatologists, even.

010

Reposted by Isobel

Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

diarrhea Taylor Farms, salmonella chicken parm, bags of frozen blueberries that straight-up kill your ass heavy metal sourdough, listeria soup bowl refreshing summer popsicle that's filled with shards of glass we didn't start the fire...

30983672221

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I finally deployed a feature that's been in planning hell for ten months. It immediately broke. I got it fixed in less than twenty minutes, including an internet outage. I'm either gonna sleep well tonight or not at all.

010

Reposted by Isobel

GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Epstein files aren't worth seeing or discussing, but Fauci's personal diary...? THERE's our new distraction. I'd listen to this remarkable woman.

724300118502

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Ugh, technology these days is so bad. My browser just froze trying to open! Sure, I'm asking it to open 78 tabs I've been to lazy to clean up for the past eight months, but come on.

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Do I have to explain to my coworkers that "it shouldn't fail" isn't a good approach to fault tolerance? It's a durable function, it shouldn't fail. But it did. It did fail. Did we never think to handle that?

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I keep thinking about how it used to be enough to advertise on TV and radio. Your only targeting was what kind of people are tuned in. It worked fine for ages. We didn't need to track viewers across channels, or correlate with their bathroom habits, we just kind of blasted ads out and it worked.

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

til Homer has an IMDB page, and it's pretty extensive. Must be a great comfort wherever he is to know he achieved such levels of fame.

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

AI bros are always breathlessly claiming that, with this newest model/harness/command, AI is finally capable of this task they breathlessly claimed it was finally capable of a year ago.

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

*scrolling through product images for a thing I'm considering buying online* Oh, good. It works with Photoshop.

A Photoshopped image of a latte sitting on a mug warmer. The mug warmer is also Photoshopped into a table with a cup of muesli and a single sliced strawberry that is, for some reason, sitting directly on the table, and should not be eaten.

010

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I just wasted two fucking hours trying to figure out why the feature I've been working on "blew up" (my PM's words) for an order he was testing, only to finally find out he used the wrong fucking account, and that one doesn't have the feature flag to enable this fucking feature.

010

Reposted by Isobel

Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 14/07/2026

BREAKING: NYC Mayor Mamdani signs new law that says you don't have to go to work if your pet is asleep on you or just being extra cute.

1617073660

Reposted by Isobel

Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Diarrhea forever?!

3781576

Reposted by Isobel

mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/07/2026

i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world

1581052155

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I'm not saying this is at all relevant but Lindsey Graham did die on my birthday. I had nothing to do with it. But it was a pretty sick birthday. For unrelated reasons. You can't submit a birthday wish as evidence can you?

010

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In the middle of a session with Claude about setting up some sandbox tooling, in which I had mentioned very few personal details at all, it suddenly gave me a message in French. It said this was an error after I responded saying I don't speak French. But I got curious...

A screenshot from Google translate. The input, in French, reads:

Ce qu'il ne faut pas ignorer : si tu remarques aussi des pertes vaginales inhabituelles, des démangeaisons, une odeur différente, ou une fièvre, il vaut mieux consulter rapidement un médecin ou une sage-femme — ça pourrait être une infection qui mérite un traitement, indépendamment de la question de la libido.

Est-ce que ce changement est apparu progressivement ou plutôt de façon assez soudaine ?

The output, in English, reads:

Something to keep in mind: if you also notice unusual vaginal discharge, itching, a different odor, or a fever, it's best to see a doctor or midwife quickly—it could be an infection that requires treatment, regardless of the libido issue.

Did this change appear gradually or rather suddenly?

010

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I enjoy when I get a marketing email that mentions how hot it is right now because summer. You know where I live. I know you know where I live. I'm freezing my arse off right now, and it was entirely possible for you to know that, if you'd just remembered that the southern hemisphere exists.

010

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Hot take: I stole your pancakes.

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Claude: this is one of the cleaner specs I've ever reviewed. No it's not. You've never done this before, I've never done this before, I'm guessing and making a mess of things and you're a large list of numbers with no personal history. Stop trying to flatter me into this shit.

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

How old am I? I'm old enough to remember a time when the "remember me" box on a website login meant you'd stay logged in.

000

Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Product manager: I hereby give you permission to take the time to learn AI. Product manager at sprint planning: we simply can't go below eighty story points for this sprint.

010