iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 2h

I have so many awesome projects I think about constantly, and it feels like I get about 5 minutes a day to work on them vs dumb stuff like keeping my body alive and pretending money is real.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 2h

I recently noticed my dog’s canned food is 12 ounces. Same size can as 15, but with empty space inside.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let's look for the silver lining, here. I'm actually looking forward to the big tech execs making absolute fools of themselves complying with this "order."

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well this is helpful. I reached out to Tide via their customer service text chat and reached an AI identified as Nancy M because my package came without a scoop. I needed to know what kitchen measurements correspond to the marks on the included scoop, which has five evenly spaced marks. Here it is:

Bar 1: 2.1 ounces, 1/4 cup
Bar 2: 2.7 ounces, 1/3 cup
Bar 3: .0 ounces, also 1/3 cup
Bar 4, 4.0 ounces, 1/2 cup
Bar 5, 5.9 ounces, 3/4 cup

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

C-suite executives increasingly talk like AI chatbots. Just heard an anecdote in which a VP described someone as "overclubbed for the position." Normal humans are not sure what that means.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m looking forward to seeing this

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

428 words on "Fly, Falco, Fly," a short story about time travel and irreconcilable differences. 428 total. #dailywords

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

267 words on Orclords of Medhjos, a fantasy novel about what comes after the Dark Lord is defeated. 51, 456 words total. #dailywords

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I discovered r/laundry and my new hobby now is whiter whites

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Claude users, Twitter mobs, Grok, oh my, all bullying a tiny website for no reason

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For science journalists: this always works for me, though it might take a day or two

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2063 words on Orclords of Medhjos, a fantasy novel about what comes after the dark lord is defeated. 51,279 words total. #dailywords

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Help a science fiction author settle in Scotland.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just finished up another great writing session on my totally silent weekly group writers video chat. Basically, you log on and just write. No prompts, no chat breaks. Just silent writing and occasional text chats. Lmk if you're looking for something like that.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Age check. Identify this nerdstrap.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am absolutely exhausted today. Some combination of the long tail of a cold and allergies maybe. Hoping for some energy tomorrow.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

922 words on Orclords of Medhjos, a fantasy novel about what comes after the dark lord is defeated. 49,216 total. #dailywords

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m a cat lover, but it’s a bit of a bummer to see this framed as a “discovery.” They named it Tilcayo because that’s what the locals called it. Because they already knew about it. Gift link

nytimes.com

New Species of Cat Discovered for First Time in a Century (Gift Article)

The species, called a tilcayo, is smaller than a house cat and lives in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

2385 words on Orclords of Medhjos, a fantasy novel about what comes after the Dark Lord is defeated. 48294 total. #dailywords

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Karla Ward @silentscreatch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

No fry bread, minimal wheat👏👏👏

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Home-delivered meals made with traditional Navajo recipes helped heart failure patients stay out of the hospital, according a new study by researchers with the University of Pennsylvania and the Indian Health Service.

Chilichin apple harvest oatmeal with sumac berries, oatmeal, apples, cranberries, and walnuts. Source: University of Pennsylvania

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's a running joke at my house that I'm bad at making coffee. But I'm starting to wonder if I have a real problem. I just attempted it on my own, and even with written instructions taped to the wall at the coffee station, I screwed it up three different ways.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For the second time in about two weeks, I have received a call from an entity I have business with, and am immediately put on hold.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That said, Occam's Razor drives me back to the likely truth: They are out of money and everyone is falling for it. I need details on how this is going to kill everyone. If you're doing an elaborate bit to alarm people about Anduril, I'ma need you to tell Wired or 404, or I will keep laughing at you.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I maintain that extreme wealth alone is a mental disease and in the future will be listed in the DSM. Visit the restroom before you read this, but do read it.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

1,335 words on Orclords of Medhjos, a fantasy novel about what comes after the Dark Lord is defeated. 45,060 total. #dailywords

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I love it, especially the audiobok version. It is so very dark, yet so funny (sometimes within the same 15 seconds). I will also not accept any crap for listening instead of reading. Jeff Hays is an actual god.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Same question. If they want guardrails, why aren’t they going ahead with it? Is the AI… refusing?

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nodding along in my Desperado Club T-shirt

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I filled 400 enteric capsules with porcine pancreatic enzymes for my dog. How was your weekend?

A plastic bottle with white cap filled with large, beige capsules sitting on a white kitchen counter. In the background, other pill bottles and white subway tile.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Every science fiction writer I know disdains the spicy autocorrect

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A reality check on the newest AI marketing pitch

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Schedule send for Monday because no one is reading email on Friday afternoons

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

709 words on Orclords of Medhjos, a fantasy novel about what comes after the Dark Lord is defeated. 43,725 total. #dailywords

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Every day this week we've been saying, "Surely this is the peak day of Jammer's heat cycle. She couldn't be worse than this." And every day she gets worse. Anyone want an absolutely bonkers Newfie? I'll put her on the curb in her crate. AAUUUGHHHH

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I had trouble getting to sleep last night because my son and his gf were practicing a ukulele/guitar "Blister in the Sun" duet and I couldn't be prouder.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I feel like I've had a wildly diligent day, working very hard and it's only 1 PM. *checks time tracker* *has worked 2h10m* Well, okay, then.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

710 words on Orclords of Medhjos, a fantasy novel about what happens after the Dark Lord is defeated. 43,016 words total. (53 minutes) #dailywords

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is Jammer's last heat cycle. She's extremely dramatic about everything in life, so of course we are losing our minds with her constant whining, requests for late night walkies, and random whackadoodle behavior when she sees other dogs.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And when the merchandise starts walking out the door, instead of hiring cashiers, they're locking up the merchandise and making you track down the one employee in the store with the key.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

378 words on Orclords of Medhjos, a fantasy novel about what comes after the Dark Lord is defeated. 42,306 total. #dailywords

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

218 words, 20,011 antiwords on Orclords of Medhjos, a fantasy novel about what happens after the Dark Lord is defeated. Pro tip: if you have a chapter titled "A wild goose chase," you should probably cut it.

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Puppy Nimue hopes you had a refreshing Labrador weekend

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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Puppy Nimue has been raiding our woodpile and bringing logs inside to chew up. So we started confiscating them at the door. But she wouldn’t drop them so we traded for a treat. Long story short, she is now selling us several of our own logs a day for high value items like pig ears and bully sticks.

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