iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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This is like asking "Would you really give up athlete's foot to eradicate cholera?"

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1Bit Fever Dreams @1bit.bsky.social · 13h

Big milestone for my 6502 based Wildbits/K2. My C programming project, non-vibed, old school perseverance and learning. I made a multi-music file player with the cute mascot "Whiskers". Uses all 5 sound chips of the system: SID, OPL3, PSG, MP3, MIDI. 2 years to get to this point!

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The amazing @polpo.org came across a Packard Bell Legend 610 with a nasty power supply and thought of me. I thought that was a compliment, but on second thought, I'm not so sure! In any case, let's open it up and see if we can get signs of life. Friday afternoon 2:30 EDT. youtube.com/live/yqqyvRE...

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Can we get signs of life from a Packard Bell Legend 610 with a supposedly nasty power supply?

I got a message from the amazing @ianpolpo on Discord essentially s...

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Can we get signs of life from a Packard Bell Legend 610 with a supposedly nasty power supply?

I got a message from the amazing @ianpolpo on Discord essentially s...

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 17h

I think if you made your supports correctly, you could have them form a helix and every one would capable of printing. Also, it would prove the point that Steve's DNA is made of ImageWriters.

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Feral Women's Society of America @fwsa.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Sure, this is stating the obvious, but then again, it needs to be stated.

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 15/10/2026

The talk I gave at #teardown2026, Creating Up to Date Hardware for Out of Date Tech is now up on the Crowd Supply YouTube channel! Join me as I talk about what makes old tech cool, and why open source hardware makes it even cooler. youtu.be/S2pVAZUPD6o

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Teardown 2026 - Ian Scott - Creating Up to Date Hardware for Out of Date Tech

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I quickly popped open the case and didn’t notice anything major. Hoping I dodged that mess!

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Bent Stamnes @gloom303.com · 14/10/2026

Angry, entitled white man: «I know the law! Do you know the law?!» Narrator: «He didn’t know the law.»

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Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️📼 @ronscompvids.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Hey, new people joining us over here on @bsky.app! If you're into vintage/retro computers, please check out my non-exhaustive list of Vintage Computing Good Eggs! go.bsky.app/BaBov2K

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Made a lot of progress. About 20 trace repairs and many chips resoldered/replaced. But stuck with a scream instead of a chime, slow intermittent mouse, and never get a question mark.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?

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Trina's Technobabble @trinastechnobabble.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Happy National Coming Out Day

A rainbow heart with the words "National coming out day October 11" below it

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

💙💛💯🇺🇦

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alicia 🍳 @acorviart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

buy egg

sign that says “will draw u one egg for one dolla” with a doodle of an egg pointing at a dollar

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When we opened up this Mac Classic on stream, I said something like "I think we're going to let this one go." But it's been itching at my brain, so let's see what we can do. Saturday noon EDT. youtube.com/live/kRLPxBj...

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Attempting repair of ANOTHER extremely battery-damaged Macintosh Classic

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Attempting repair of ANOTHER extremely battery-damaged Macintosh Classic

YouTube video by BigBadBench

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Sophie Rose @sophierosemusic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Testing piano..

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More Fun Making It @morefunmakingit.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I've often wondered if there is money to be made buying things from eBay and selling them on after making them work again.

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Can you make money from Retro eBay? Let's find out!

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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socketwench @deninet.com · 09/10/2026

I think this 1U vent panel for server racks and homelabbing is about finished! Prints on stupidly tiny printers, looks good, supports 40mm fans. The photos only show one center piece, you need two for a 10" rack. Print soon!

A rendering of a 1U vent panel. The "rack ears" are positioned with a dovetail key, and the center section has a hexagonal air filter.

The front of the 1U vent panel. The center section has countersunk holes for affixing two 40mm fans to an outward hexagonal face. You can see the air filter through that, which is made a much smaller hexagonal holes.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The ICE agent seen brandishing an AR-15 at the scene of yesterday’s shooting in NYC’s Marble Hill has a record of lying, excessive force & getting caught by judges. He also goes by “Shooter Cuni” on social media, & posts the same gun he had on him today W/@dmehro.bsky.social @regret.bsky.social

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The real battle is spiritual and that's why we need to *touches ear piece* I have just received word from both station management and my attorney who are begging me to say what we need to is pray

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Hegseth says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be a public event

Officials clarified execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be livestreamed

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Garth Beagle @garthbeagle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

EAT BRAINZ

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My Weller needs new tips again, so I bought a FNIRSI DWS-200 soldering iron. Let's test it while working on a battery-damaged 286 motherboard and an Apple IIgs (also a IIc that needs to be checked out, but likely no solder). Saturday's noon EDT. thehttps://youtube.com/live/qrfJ8BD0N-g?feature=share

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Checking out the FNIRSI DWS-200 soldering iron while working on a 286 motherboard, Apple IIgs, & IIc

YouTube video by BigBadBench

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Checking out the FNIRSI DWS-200 soldering iron while working on a 286 motherboard, Apple IIgs, & IIc

YouTube video by BigBadBench

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Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️📼 @ronscompvids.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Those early ports to the Macintosh were pretty unique, and I was so happy to have them way back then. Monkey Island, Fate of Atlantis… OK, even Pipe Dream! Let's Chat with Eric "EJ" Johnston - LucasArts Macintosh Conversion Specialist! youtu.be/3ytleadumcA

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Let's Chat with Eric "EJ" Johnston - LucasArts Macintosh Conversion Specialist!

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026

NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co

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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life

Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.

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nulleric @eric.scsi.blue · 27/09/2026

Get them while the gettin's good tinkerdifferent.com/threads/newl...

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Apologies to anyone that watches my streams after the fact. I didn't realize that I had control of ad frequency. Just found the setting & will only be allowing 2 ads for archives moving forward, as opposed to default shown below. (I will change all archives to only show 2 ads- might take a while)

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I stand corrected. I just went in and looked. It does give me more control than it used to. I just set it to only show two ads during the length of the whole stream. I'll go change my old streams to match. Apologies everyone; I legitimately thought I couldn't control that!

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m sorry, for live streams, they only let me adjust ad frequency during the stream. I can’t control after.

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The master at work, ladies, gentlemen and other entities.

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We always find good stuff in Mac Classics 🤣 At least I found R90 among the rust.

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Saturday's noon EDT stream will result in me standing knee-deep in nasty capacitors. We'll start by doing a teardown and inspection of a Sony GV-8 Video Walkman. And then we'll do the same with a Mac Classic and Mac Classic II. Why do I do this to myself? youtube.com/live/4rc4JPS...

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Disassembly and inspection of a Sony GV-8 Video Walkman, a Mac Classic, and a Mac Classic II

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Disassembly and inspection of a Sony GV-8 Video Walkman, a Mac Classic, and a Mac Classic II

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Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I legit* saw a ghost last weekend! This has never happened to me before, and even though the situation was a bit mundane (definitely not horror-movie territory), I'm still excited about it. If you're interested, here's a hopefully mildly-interesting thread: * As legit as that sentence can be

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love this mod. And I love the stupidity of having 10MB of RAM in a 286. 🤣

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm not feeling too hot today, so I stayed home. Let's see if we can mod some 30 pin SIMMs to work as proprietary IBM SIMMs for the Memory Expansion Board in the PS/2 Model 50z. Enameled wire always makes me feel better! 3PM EDT. youtube.com/live/LnWQWSI...

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Modding some 30 pin SIMMs to use with a Memory Expansion Adapter/A for my IBM PS/2 Model 50z 286

YouTube video by BigBadBench

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Dyke Spiegel @cowgirlshebop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a sign of a healthy economy, right?

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Computer Chronicles Revisited @deviledeggpress.com · 22/09/2026

"Six years ago, this was the site of a booming NFT market. Today it's an AI startup losing $1 billion per week. And a year from now, it will hopefully host a ritual sacrifice of techbros to the Roman God Pluto as punishment for their greed." "For the Computer Chronicles, I'm Wendy Woods." #satire

Wendy Woods delivering a remote report for "Computer Chronicles" from a college computer lab.

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ARadioGurl @aradiogurl.net · 22/09/2026

This Ultrawarp Apple II accelerator has been waiting to be assembled since before I moved nearly four years ago. Wasn’t feeling good Sunday night, so I tackled this as an easy project to focus on. I’ll test it out some night this week.

Ultrawarp Apple II accelerator board, unassembled.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.

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