iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I know this has been covered in various component aspects that I understand and have understood but I'm still having a very mild lightbulb moment that AI agents probably sound a lot more revolutionary if you've never done a task yourself without handing it off to your PA

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 3h

Listening and learning

Haus of Decline posting a comic with a man imploring a humanoid girl with deer face "No! Don't cut off your antlers! They're so hot!" with the caption"Deergirl Chaser" above a post from The Onion saying "study finds deer only mammal beside humans that totally suck."

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 4h

Talking to a coworker about it so I must also implore all of you to watch The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh so I can share this point of artistic reference with more people downtothebonesblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/16/t...

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The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

Do you have any weird itches that you like to scratch every once in a while? I do. I’m what you might call the opposite of a hoarder; I obsessively get rid of things. However! One of my weird itche…

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 5h

I suppose though that traveling to someone else’s home and declaring now that you’re there you decide the rules and morals is basically the Catholic church’s MO

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 5h

Tell ya what, if the kids driving to the catholic high school ever learn to show respect and concern for the rights and safety of the pedestrians and cyclists who live in the neighborhood they’re cutting through then I’ll reconsider my stance on the existence of god. Ball’s in his court.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 6h

Olympus IS-3, Ilford Delta 400 Collector's Edition

A black-and-white photo of a small wedding chapel with an organ facade at the alter, a few chairs, and lots of draped curtains.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 15h

That base on the collector’s D400 is indeed clearer

A roll of Delta 400 in a scanning holder with many frames loosely rolled and easy viewing of the layers through each other.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 16h

Direct pop-up flash. Shauni. Olympus IS-3, Ilford Delta 400 Collector's Edition (ID-11 1+1 14 minutes)

A black-and-white flash photo of a kitten in a fur-covered cat donut bed.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 17h

When you’re depressed there’s nothing better than C

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 18h

Adam Tran; Neon Veil OM-1, 7-14

A man in a cowboy hat with an acoustic guitar in a small room filled with red neon light fixtures and a couch with a spotted animal hide cover.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 19h

The flash exposure on the Olympus IS-3 is still absurdly good. Like "deal with the devil" good. Like makes me think how we somehow got worse at flash after it good.

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Yant is... @donkeyislandpress.co.uk · 21h

Still for sale £65 posted UK drop me a message. Works well

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 20h

Tonight’s goals: ⏳ dev test roll of Delta 400 Collector’s Ed. • Remove branches and leaves from the studio • Continue sobering out

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 22h

I have just cleaned my keyboard out and restored full function to all keys. This won't do much for my typo rate here, but, it will at least make me less annoyed while I'm making them.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026

Ever since I switched to headphone life I've been listening to weirder and weirder music. Not because I'd be ashamed of listening to it, but just because now no one is getting annoyed and telling me to put something else on.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026

"The Envelope of Sufficiency: How Marketing Preys on Your Fear that Enough Is Not Enough" would be a fun long-form piece to write if I ever wanted to crash out entirely and never be able to read a comment or email sent to me again.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026

I regret only that I was unable to get the Charmera nudes scheduled before the end

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026

People who care I don't shoot full frame: people who own full frame cameras, DPReview, Reddit, IG influencer-types People who don't care I don't shoot full frame: my collaborators, my clients, me

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Knights of Guinevere being released next month calls for a little celebration repost ✨💗

Fanart of the android Guinevere from the Knights of Guinevere animated series, drawn in my style, half her face ripped off showing the mechanism underneath
Lots of cables coming out of her back and limbs, blue intestines out of her belly

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026

Adam Tran; Neon Veil OM-1, 7-14

A man in a sleeveless shirt for Neon Veil and a cowboy hat and guitar lying on a blue velvet bed with canopy including a CRT TV, 8-track player, and old mirrors with cracked silvering.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026

Waiting for more people to realize the sudden increase in this is because of AI crawlers constantly taking sites down, and that the longer the AI push continues to harder it is to actually do anything online

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026

I know we all start from somewhere and many of us start from nothing but I implore you if it's at all possible not to make a Canon AE-1 your only camera for doing your professional work. Not in the year of our lord 2026.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026

Sometimes I get a bit up in my head about needing to be better about taking "serious" photos and that day-to-day I take too many boring photos of street statics, but, then I remember that taking those photos is basically a kind of photographic kata that keeps me practiced in the key motions

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026

The easiest way to avoid someone finding skeletons in your closet is just to keep them on your front lawn

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026

It's a tired joke but man, I will happily cost you $42 billion dollars a year in loss just give me a shot

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026

I shot over 400 frames today on three different eras of Olympus

An Olympus IS-3, E-1 with 14-35mm f/2, and OM-1 mirrorless with 12-100mm.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026

The base dress for the bone witch came inntoday

A mannequin wearing an elegant black dress with satin leaf patterns.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 28/09/2026

'siri, on mondays make me a shopping list for the week's dinners based on the family groupchat' sir Siri can't even routinely play me the album I requested, half the time can't remember what 'add this to my library' means, and occasionally forgets how run Shortcuts I explicitly made

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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think about the AI agent hype sometimes from my perspective as a person with ADHD. I already struggle to delegate to others because usually the task of figuring out what needs doing requires the same mental investment for me as just doing the task.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 28/09/2026

As a coda to today's earlier thoughts, I was raised to believe those sort of expectations and behaviors were not only acceptable but expected and desirable. Things didn't start working out for me until I rejected that and started working from respect. It was a deprogramming process.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 28/09/2026

This is the one I sent to print. Bird witch. OM-1, 12-100

A witchy woman covered in dirt and feathers in a wooded scene.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 28/09/2026

Shoot tonight's at a place called Neon Veil and I keep having this stuck in my head instead silversunpickups.bandcamp.com/track/neon-w...

silversunpickups.bandcamp.com

Neon Wound, by Silversun Pickups

from the album Widow's Weeds

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 28/09/2026

For the curious at this point I would say that desperate loser energy is best defined as feeling you are owed the attention of someone just because you desire it without feeling any responsibility to earn that attention on merits

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 28/09/2026

I spent a lot of my teens as a desperate loser so when I say all of the mainstream AI push has desperate loser energy trust me I know

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 28/09/2026

At < $30 USD my Olympus IS-3 is easily the highest ROI I've encountered in photography. It's just stupid good for the entry price.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 28/09/2026

If you ask me what the hit piece over the lesbian bar and masking really proves is that we're all credulous dupes who keep buying in to the right's purposeful dilution of what woke even means and they'll just keep doing this cuz we keep falling for it

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 28/09/2026

Explaining to a friend I'm going to do an art nude studio set with Charmeras in pixel-filter mode and delighted to learn people can still be incredulous about my concepts

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 28/09/2026

Last booked photo shoot tonight, penciling one in for next week (but actually kinda hoping it falls through because that would mean they landed a really cool gig and I root for my friends), and then that's it until after vaca. But then I have four shoots lined up I jwill need to finish scheduling.

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