iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Here's a weird stubby island where a wall used to be" is aesthetically offensive, and it boggles the mind that people would pay MORE for this kind of renovation

A weird looking island in a kitchen that clearly used to have a wall

View into the same kitchen from the living room. There's a huge structural pillar because some part of the removed wall was load-bearing.

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I choose to believe that Obama was the one who made the call to include the "here's my dog getting headpats from the pope" photo in the dog memorial post

Post on Obama's instagram memorializing Sunny the dog. The second photo in the carousel features Sunny sitting on the floor in the Oval Office getting headpats from pope Francis, and also both Obamas. There's a handler holding her leash to the left of the frame. Every single person in the photo is focused on the dog.

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tiny fluffy narcissus entranced by her own image

A small black and white dog is standing inches away from a glass door, staring intently at her own reflection

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Brett the day she came home (her puppy coat was like petting a cloud)

A tiny fluffy black and white dog is sitting in a sunbeam with a lamp chop toy (the one that every dog has) at her feet. She's turned her head to look behind her.

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Taking a dog to Central Park on a beautiful day is an s-tier life experience

A little black and white dog stands on a park lawn with a pedestrian path in the background

A little black and white dog strides purposefully on a sun-dappled path in Central Park's Shakespeare Garden

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Is National Dog Day (1) a fake internet holiday; (2) a good reason to post Brett; or (3) all of the above?

A sleepy little shih tzu mix is splayed out on her side taking a nap on a green couch

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The eternal paradox: I hate summer but love the produce

A ceramic bowl with a fruit salad (sliced shiro plums, strawberries, and blueberries)

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

On the one hand, I feel like a generational stereotype whenever I take a picture of my dinner On the other, a perfect poached egg

Spinach ravioli with green and yellow zucchini and ricotta, topped with two perfectly poached eggs which have been cut open to reveal the yolk

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Part of adulthood is paying for yourself! This is not generational brokeness, it's entitlement

"I definitely do want to get married and have kids,” said Grace Sakellariou, 27, who is single and was born in Queens. “But that just feels so unattainable. I can’t even think about affording a wedding.”

Ms. Sakellariou and her twin sister, who live together in Astoria, have noticed that more men seem to be asking to split the bill — even on second or third dates. “It’s discouraging,” she said. “I think it’s stunted our growth that everything’s so expensive.”

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Influencers are a scourge, exhibit 3736525252 (also I feel like this is an issue with the way the article is scoped - a 25 year old and a 35 year old both count as "young" but are going to have very different perspectives)

New York would seem like an ideal sandbox for cheap plans — with dozens of free museums, hundreds of green spaces and heaps of low-cost events every weekend that are just a $3 fare away on the 24-hour subway. And lately, some young people have begun opting for park picnics over pricey experiences.

But in interviews, others described feeling full-force pressure from social media in a city that is home to many young professionals with six-figure salaries. TikTok influencers debate whether coffee dates signal low effort. On Instagram, a male creator recently warned his 1.3 million followers that no man with a net worth under $100,000 should be allowed to date.

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

First, thank you for confirming that I am officially an Old. Second, if you're taking your date to a 3 hour movie and it's not a rep screening of Margaret, that's a skill issue (rep screenings cost less than the chains, just saying!)

More than half of unmarried young adults — ages 22 to 35 — say not having enough money is their biggest barrier to dating, according to a national research project from Brigham Young University’s Wheatley Institute and the Institute for Family Studies.

That pressure can feel especially acute in New York. When you can barely afford your rent and energy bills, $130 dinner dates, $20 cocktails or $28 tickets to see “The Odyssey” quickly add up.

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

More special snacks for birthday Brett

Slices of yellow pepper arranged to spell put "14" in a milk glass dish. I'm holding the plate, and Brett is on her hind paws looking intently at the pepper.

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Obviously the dog gets to eat a birthday treat off the nice dishes

I'm holding a green milk glass dish with slices of apple that spell out 14 surrounded by a ring of blueberries. Brett, a small black and white birthday dog is sitting on the floor waiting for her treat

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Brett would like you all to believe she reads

A little black and white dog lays on a green couch with her forelegs extended. Next to her is a book (My Marriage, Jakob Wasserman tr. Michael Hofmann)

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Now she's smug that the storm means bed snuggles in the middle of the day

A little dog curled up at the head of the bed, with her ears alert. Next to her is a stack of books

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Someone is smug that she's getting carried

A small black and white dog is sticking her head out of a tote bag. She seems to approve of being carried around on a very cloudy day.

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

She just hangs out on my furniture being a dog, it's incredible

A little black and white dog is laying on a green couch. She's looking up at the camera.

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This article is in fact grimmer than the obscure midcentury sad novels that I adore

And there are plenty of readers ready to open the app and post their opinions, feelings, and perspectives on the books that have “ruined” them or made them weep. Personal testimony is paramount on BookTok; a book is deemed successful if it “breaks” or “destroys” a reader. The most common book-review content on the app understands books as pleasure-spiking torment factories, arenas for an almost masochistic level of personal involvement. This means users film themselves literally crying and holding a tear-stained page up to the camera, captioning the post with a quip like “brb gonna cry more” or “I just feel too much 😭.”

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Now I have a quantifiable metric to point to when my friends tell me they've never heard of any of the books I post www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Novels are, of course, alive in the sense that they are still being written and published, but the data for their long-term vitality is discouraging. In 2024, literary fiction was reported to comprise only two per cent of the total fiction market, with even the best-performing titles rarely making an annual best-selling top-ten list.

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This may be the healthiest screentime report in recorded history

Screentime report. Top 3 apps are Criterion (6h56m), Libby (5h2m), Kanopy (1h37m)

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Hiding from the weather and watching movies

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The thing about fancy real estate listings is that it's genuinely impossible to tell whether this is human slop or AI slop, because they've always been this overwrought

Anchoring the heart of the home is a couture-caliber chef's kitchen, where bespoke cabinetry, a waterfall marble island and top-of-the-line appliances converge in perfect harmony.

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

brb asking the dog if she knows the time signature for a waltz

Spotify "you may also like" section with a playlist called "classical music for dogs"

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Yes, I took a dog in a tote bag on the train with my farmers market groceries, but I think my morning could still have been bougier

A little black and white dog is sitting up in a tote bag on an orange subway seat. At the bottom of the photo, there's another tote bag with kale and flowers poking out of it.

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Brett absolutely believes coffee is for dogs

A little black and white dog is laying on the back of a couch. She's staring intently at a coffee cup on the windowsill.

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

When you are not aware of election results or how to use furniture normally

A little black and white dog is laying along the edge of a couch with one of her forelegs hanging down

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

June 16 is canonically the most romantic day to fall in love on a train

Screenshot from Before Sunrise. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, both looking very 90s, are staring into each other's eyes and smiling. His left hand is on her shoulder. The caption is "Last night. Six months from last night, which was June 16"

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Blasting the AC in part because the dog is snugglier when it's cold

A little black and white dog is curled up on top of a throw blanket with her head lightly resting on a pillow

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

New York is the greatest city in the world

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Finally got my dog a haircut and now I want to take pictures of her again, order has been restored to the universe

A little black and white dog is posed in front of a floral backdrop. She's freshly groomed and wearing a green bow around her neck.

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Cultural institutions continue to have incredible geographic takes

Survey from Lincoln Center. Responses to "Where do you live?":
NYC - Manhattan (within 10 blocks of Lincoln Center)
NYC - Manhattan (further than 10 blocks from Lincoln Center)
NYC - Boroughs (Non-Manhattan)
Suburbs within an hour of NYC
In the US, but outside the New York area
Outside the US
I prefer not to answer

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

You can tell this car belongs to a cop because of the irresistible urge to put wheels on the sidewalk (also, a suspicious lack of tickets if you run a plate lookup)

MAY9735, a hideous four-door my-dick-is-small Ram pickup, is parked illegally part in the road and part on the sidewalk

The same car, parked illegally in the same spot, but an entire rear wheel is on the sidewalk and the trees are still leafless in this photo

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

We walked to the store just to browse. Now she is sleepy and I have a pile of new books.

Sleepy dog resting her face on a blanket

A pile of books. Top to bottom: Death of Mr. Dodsley (John Ferguson), The Book of Margery Kempe (Margery Kempe), EEG (Daša Drndíc), See Now Then (Jamaica Kincaid), The Spectre of Alexander Wolf (Gaito Gazdanov)

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I swear my vacation included things other than reading on trains

Amulet (Roberto Bolaño) with a train window in the background

City Like Water (Dorothy Tse), also being held up in front of a train window

Taking Chances (Molly Keane) on a little cafe end table next to a latte and a glass of water

I Who Have Never Known Men (Jacqueline Harpman), held up in front of a train tray table

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Too busy trying to be cutesy with the prompt to catch the typos (I also wonder how a platform that does not give users control of their media consumption history construes "my taste")

Make a playlist that captures the full breakup evolution: from soft heartbreak to full-blown rebirth. I want songs for deleting texts, hyping yourself up in the mirror, and fake-it-till-you-make-it confidence. Songs based on my taste that radiate confidence and chaos in equal measure. It should start with the emotional aftermath: the 2 a.m. overthinking phase, then build into loud, glittery freedom. Think loud singalongs in the mirror, impulsive haircuts, and walking like the main character after heartbreak. It should start with the sad feels, and end in full liberation mode. Do not include more than one song by the same artist

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Madame Sosostris @causamdicere.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Someone is dismayed by her own decision to have wandered into a snowdrift

A small black and white dog looking somewhat miffed to be standing in deep snow. Only her black, head, and tail are visible; her legs are totally buried. Her blue jacket and her face are dusted with snow.

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