iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 25/09/2026

This year I learned squirrels can chew through flashing 🥲

A photo sticks its head out of a hole it chewed into my roof

Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 24/03/2026

Spring is refusing to arrive with any haste, so I’ve been learning glass blowing in the hot shop at the Ottawa Glassblowing Co-op this week. 🥵 Two days in: zero burns! ✅

It’s me, standing next to our glassblowing instructor. I’m using some shears before knocking a lil vase off of the blowpipe

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 12/03/2026

“A crew will be back sometime in the spring”. Now my driveway gets to look like most of our roads and sidewalks! ✨😂

An asphalt patch left behind after the city dug up my driveway

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 12/03/2026

Tfw when the city unexpectedly shows up to replace your water shutoff valve for some reason.

Two workers clearing a hole in my driveway to the waterline

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 04/03/2026

You still use clocks?? Get yourself an hourglass and join us in the future ⏳

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 04/03/2026

I'm not gonna pretend I knew tobi well during the decade I was at Shop, but jfc I don’t recall him being this juvenile? I *generally* thought he was a reasonable person (tornadoes™ notwithstanding). So this comment feels suuuuper offbeat to me. Billionaires, man... *yeesh*

A screenshot of tweets wherein the posters describe people who use Bluesky as crazy and horrible.

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 03/03/2026

Hate this intersection in Gatineau sooo much. Truck: ignores the no right on red. Two cars turning left: at least one runs a red #autowa

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 29/01/2026

The wind today is awful 🥶

It’s me, wearing a jacket, neck tube, hat? And sunglasses. I’m grimacing as I run

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 14/01/2026

Fun facts about humans • Peeling off too much skin can kill the human Via the ON Ministry of Natural Resources page about White Birch trees... www.ontario.ca/page/white-b...

A screenshot that reads: Fun facts about white birch
Peeling off too much white birch bark can kill the tree.

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 14/01/2026

This is a first. Ordered some lights direct from Philips Hue, and the product that arrived in the correct, sealed box is completely wrong. I hope support believes me 🫠🤞

A photo of an opened box. The side of the box shows a product photo, in front of it is the light that arrived. The two products don’t match.

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 28/12/2025

Heh, how does this happen?

A big pile of snow in the middle of the street

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 04/12/2025

Need more context around workflows, but a fourth option could be similar to something like Instagram’s “Add to story” view. Opens a photo grid, first item is a button to jump to camera. Favours adding an existing photo, but makes it easy to take a new one. 🤷‍♂️

Screenshot of Instagram’s “add to story” view

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 02/12/2025

The mysterious and always-closed game shop near Preston & Elm has become… 🥁 …another vape shop!

Photo of a storefront of a vape shop, between a convenience store and housing

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 17/11/2025

Participated in a 24h fundraising Rowathon over the weekend for the Ottawa food bank. Our team rowed over 250k in 5min shifts. I’ve got some sleep debt to pay off. 🥱

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 19/10/2025

*So close* to “permanently disabling” these overly sensitive alarms 😑

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 01/10/2025

This icon collision in iOS Safari 🤢

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 15/09/2025

It’s wild how long it’s taken them to add workout creation to the iOS Fitness app. Trying to make a workout on the watch was so frustrating

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 11/09/2025

💯. I’m not opposed to strapping a GoPro to my body on my runs 😂. Why do I have to phone/fill out a form for an unquestionable infraction that could be investigated sometime over the next ~24h? It’s 2025! Eg…

A trailer parked in a painted bike lane.

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 07/08/2025

Turning left on the bike here always feels like taking my life into my hands. Kinda wish there were aggressive speed bumps before and after this tunnel entrance cuz few people slow down or are expecting merging here.

An intersection between a section of gravel road and a multi-use pathway leading into a tunnel

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 06/06/2025

Forecast is: 2nd hand smoke 🫠 🔥

Hazy sky with a very orange sunset due to forest fires

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 05/06/2025

Not a thought between those eyes

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 31/05/2025

Turns out yesterday was *not* the day. So… probably never

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 30/05/2025

Wild thunderstorm. Wish we didn’t plant a bunch of our veggies about an hour before…

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 18/04/2025

In line at an advance polling location. Cool to see so many people out (but also dang, an hour long line isn’t my favourite)

An elections Canada sign pointing in the direction of a polling location

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 30/03/2025

Came across a creative solution to an unnecessary problem 😂

A locked gate blocks a pedestrian path. Someone sawed the post holding one end of the gate, allowing it to open

A locked gate blocks a pedestrian path. Someone sawed the post holding one end of the gate, allowing it to open (a different angle)

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 21/02/2025

Advance polls are open! Go vote, Ontario! 🗳️

A yellow Ontario Elections sign directing voters to a polling location

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 17/02/2025

Tfw when you’re supposed to be on a flight to YYZ later today… 🙃

TV showing a chryon on that reads “Commuter plane on its roof at Pearson”

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 09/02/2025

The best signs of winter 🤩

A large snowbank with a sign stuck in it, indicating no parking because the snowbanks will be removed

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 29/01/2025

The pitch: “It’s pineapple, but it’s pink and we’ll put in a box” 💸

A new variety of pink-flesh pineapple in a grocery store, next to classic yellow-flesh pineapples

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 06/01/2025

You missed an important one: - 1991 Bass Pro Shops pyramid erected in Memphis (It’s just upsetting to realize she was also alive closer to that one, too)

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 01/01/2025

It’s a jamboree night. Ft. toes, like and subscribe for full feet

Mario party on a tv, with a hint of feet

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 30/11/2024

Do I gotta rawdog a run, alone with my thoughts? Not the vibe, AirPods 🥲

An image displaying the battery level of my AirPods and case. The case and left AirPod have 100% charge, while the right AirPod has a 1% charge.

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 30/11/2024

Meta pinning a non-dismissible ad to the top of Instagram the past few days is impressively bad. Enshittification at its finest.

An ad for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, which has been appearing at the top of the feed in Instagram since Thanksgiving

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 29/11/2024

3 seconds? After an arm and shoulder heavy workout? Progress!

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 27/11/2024

Got a second or two today! There’s a mild panic that bubbles up once you find equilibrium and you realize you’re not trying to immediately bail 😂

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 27/11/2024

It hasn’t even snowed yet, but I’m already missing chlorophyll. (Featuring Noki the #frenchie)

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 26/11/2024

I forgot about my 2024 goal to get better at handstands and have been getting at it again… with limited success 😂

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 21/11/2024

I assume I want my system to be able to connect to content? Lmao, what is happening 😂 😂

A cryptic error message suggests my new Sonos device can’t “connect to content”, whatever that means.

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 18/11/2024

Two cars in the less than a minute. Traffic was moving steadily, too. They saved no time by doing this 🤦‍♂️. Paint doesn’t work 🫠 #ottbike

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 16/11/2024

14 hours into a 24h rowathon. Tired… but the sun is up now? That’s… nice…

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 13/11/2024

Love the idea of a bike lane on this stretch of Albert, but this painted implementation is strange. I *guarantee* cars will try to use the weird undersized lane to the left of it. #ottbike

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 11/11/2024

Ughhhhh. This second floor disconnected dryer vent has become a home for a bird. The bird has made it *into* the wall. 🫠

A dryer vent on a brick facade, bird poop on the wall below it

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 06/11/2024

The rock. 🤷‍♂️

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 27/10/2024

lol, love Adobe sending me a subscription renewal notice the day after it takes effect 🙄

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 26/10/2024

Planted *38* cloves of garlic, including these utterly massive cloves from this year’s harvest. 👹

Two massive cloves of garlic held in a hand

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