iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Me, a Canadian, immersed in the Canadian media landscape: it’s a Canadian show, chances were good he was going to turn up eventually.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I have not been paddle boarding since I broke my hand last year, and tbh I’m finding it harder than expected to work up the nerve.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Rukiye Garip (Turkish Artist, born 1964) Watercolor, 76 × 56 cm. 30 x 22” #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

My prawn suit falling through the floor to dangle, ass out, from the ceiling of the room below is going make it slightly more difficult for me to get out of the monster-filled lava maze 1300 metres below sea level... #subnautica

Photo of a still from the video game Subnautica. A mech suit has called through the floor, and mostly through to the room below. When looked at from said lower room, it is dangling, ass out, from the ceiling.

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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Things I like in a video game: exploring, world building, distinct biomes & eco zones with actual thought put into biogeology Things I don’t like: horror Current Subnautica experience: Nope-ing out of exploration every time I see the faint glow of some motherfucker teleporting in the distant gloom

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I just yelped “they can fucking teleport???” at my tv. Playing #subnautica unspoiled is a very normal experience.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Okay, but WHY do I have to price my own art if I want to attempt to sell it. It’s much, much harder than the actual making of said art.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Igor Dubovoy (Russian Artist, born 1972) "Winter Crystal", 2023. Oil on Canvas, 15" × 30". Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Young Sung Kim (South Korean, born 1973) "Fish in Glass", 2015. Oil on Canvas, 126 × 126 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

My dominant hand continues to be a literal pain, so I decided to try painting with my left. The first time was mostly for shits and giggles. But now it is - going surprisingly well?

Rough impressionistic acrylic landscape. Two small islands with conifers in a very blue lake, with a treed hill and mountain range behind them.

Rough impressionistic acrylic landscape. A stand of evergreens and conifers is reflected in a barely-there lake. Behind them are foothills and a mountain range.

Rough impressionistic acrylic landscape. Two mountain ranges converge around a lake, and there are dramatic clouds in the sky.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I missed that this was already going around this year (it’s sure been some kind of year, hasn’t it?). But if anyone has some extra love rattling around, my thread at the holiday love meme is here! gdgdbaby.dreamwidth.org/314179.html?...

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I’m a microbiologist with additional specialization in toxicology and making computers do things Just going to wave vaguely at the Everything Everywhere at the moment

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Artists! Quote with your yellow art!

A textured abstract painting sitting on an easel. The background is a textured mix of yellow, brown, and Payne’s grey. The foreground details including intersecting and overlapping lines in white, red, grey, blue, and yellow (a mix of solid and broken lines), raised sandy areas in fluorescent yellow and orange, and a circular vortex.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I do not have a sweet treat to reward myself with for climbing a mountain, and I am disappointed in me

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. “Turns out it’s BSL3.”

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I really underestimated just how long full recovery from breaking my dominant hand would be.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

If your website has to be an app, you’ve made a shit website.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Libby removing the ability to deliver a book later at an interval of your choice - and replacing it with a blanket hold suspension with no future reminders - is going to result in my reading less. Judge me if you will but I do not have the Brain to actively remember and schedule all my holds myself

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Things I learned tonight: 1) Parmesan cheese WILL explode if shaken too hard 2) Getting grated parm out of your ear is a unique experience 3) Clearing a liberal dusting of cheese from every surface in your kitchen is somewhat hampered if you only have one hand, on account of the other being broken

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 31/08/2025

Look, there are plenty of roles for "owner of AI company" in romance novels! The villain, the murder victim...um, the other villain...

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Today’s bit of joy: stone fruit season. I just had a platonic ideal of an apriplum.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/08/2025

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Fun fact, you’re less likely to break your metacarpals if you are (checks Cleveland Clinic’s notes) under 10, or a woman between 40 and 50.

$Overview Anyone can break a metacarpal bone. Some groups of people are more likely to experience a metacarpal fracture than others, including: • People ages 10 to 40. • Men. • Women older than 50.$

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

It is extremely adhd-coded that I did not break my hand doing the relatively more dangerous and interesting thing (paddle boarding on a fast river) but instead doing the safer and much more boring thing (trudging along with my 50lb bag on the way back home)

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

You don’t even notice how many things you use both hands for until you break the dominant one.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Outdoor pool season is my favourite time of the year! But I do admit to some frustration with the the one-two punch of “needing to book lane swim several days in advance” and “not issuing weather-related refunds, even when intermittent lightning and thunder prevents you from entering the pool.”

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Me: explaining how I set up custom autocorrects because of the very normal way letters in the middle of words (especially long or new words) vortex & swirl & rearrange themselves, which doesn’t matter when you’re reading because of course I never read LETTERS, I parse chunks of text Friend: … uhhhh

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Yesterday I finally managed to channel a hyperfocus episode into cleaning and organizing! … Friends, I spent most of the day with the fabric shaver and my laundry. I fabric shaved my socks. Fingers on the monkey paw curling back, etc.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

That dial goes all the way to 11? Well so does this air quality health index!

Screencap from the weather network showing that the Air Quality Health Index is 11. And that they stop counting at 11.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

It’s happening! My Hoya Krimson Queen is blooming for the first time! Smells like tootsie rolls!

Close up of the umbel of a hoya krimson queen. The closed flowers look like 3D pink Mario stars. They are opening to reveal the inside of the flower, which is pink and maroon. They are thick and waxy-looking.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

B. Vampire media I was exposed to as a child left the bite marks as two pin pricks. That looks like a snake bite or two needle sticks, so inverse snake bite=siphoning it up through the fangs. Or blood draw=siphoning. You can’t get enough blood from that kind of bite to slurp!

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

My Hoya krohniana continues to bloom heavily, the only downside of which is that it constantly poops all over the floor. My Hoya Krimson Queen and Hoya sigillatis are both trying to flower for their first time!

Flowers of a Hoya krohniana. The photo is of a single umbel of blossoms. The individual flowers are tiny and fuzzy. The outer petals are circular and light pink. The central corona is star shaped and cream, almost like there’s a tiny starfish in the middle of each flower.

Individual flowers that the plant has pooped into a wood-style laminate floor. The flowers are tiny, dried out, and look crunchy to step on by accident. (They are.)

The unopened peduncle of a Krimson Queen hoya. The peduncle is pink and downward facing. The sepals are visible, and darker maroon.

A tiny peduncle starting to form on a runner of a Hoya sigillatis. In the background, you can see a more-developed peduncle (though still in its early stages) on a Krimson Queen.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I was a whole-ass adult before I realized that Elvira was not, in fact, Elvis’s daughter. (At some point, as a child, I assumed the “mistress of darkness” thing was because she was sad her dad - who she was obviously named after - had died.)

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Arrange your space in a way that works for you, not the way you’re “supposed” to. Cans or bottles accumulate somewhere? Put a recycling bin down. Socks and sweaters pile up by the couch? That’s where a laundry basket lives now.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Apparently these grabby assholes LOVE trellis jail.

A Hoya sigillatis growing on a round trellis. There are grasping runners sticking out the top. It is definitely more dense than the previous photo.

A watermelon dischidia growing on a round trellis. It is significantly better filled in that the previous image. There are even tiny flowers preset

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Note to self: when doing in-town things like interpretive walks at the bird sanctuary it is not a bad idea to check to make sure you removed the bear spray from your hiking bag before repurposing it

A stream in early spring. The deciduous trees are bare and grass is brown, but the sky is blue and the water is extremely turquoise. A large dead tree lies partway across the stream, bare branches reaching out of the water.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I have a week off work and no idea what to do with it, because all my hobbies cause carpal tunnel and I’m trying desperately to avoid surgery. It’s too “bear waking up” to go solo hiking. $ is tight. Any and all suggestions are welcome! (Assuming they don’t worsen carpal tunnel.)

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Legitimately the best thing I’ve ever done to increase the amount I read is to give myself permission to DNF at any time, for any reason. A DNF isn’t a moral failing on my part. It’s not being mean to the author. It just means it’s not clicking for me atm. So I get to go and enjoy something else.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I only had 67 chickens left 😭

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This isn’t going to mean anything to anyone, but I have to toot my own horn. I did my first few sets of RNA extractions, and I’m getting concentrations over 500ng/uL and a bunch of RINs *over 9.* 9.3!!

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It is our first truly nice day of the year (despite remaining piles of snow) so I am ignoring the many things I need to do today in favour of sitting out on my balcony and reading a book in the sun.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

thrips THRIPS 😭😫😤

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

One of my least favourite games: is the nausea because migraine, or are the migraine AND nausea because need to eat

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Plants who refuse to stop being grabby assholes get sent to trellis jail.

A Hoya sigillatis (a vining plant with green leaves splashed with silver) wrapped on a round trellis. Several grabby tendrils stick out at odd angles.

A watermelon dischidia (a vining plant with round green leaves, marked with white pale stripes like a watermelon rind) wrapped on a round trellis. Many grabby tendrils stick out at odd angles.

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Cherry @cherryice.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I need the direction I’m facing to be up on a map, or I’m going to be going in circles for an inordinate amount of time.

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Maggie Stiefvater @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Dachshund #10. I'm drawing a dachshund every day until THE LISTENERS comes out on June 3rd. This one's my favorite so far, an homage to the Scottish painting "The Skating Minister," attributed to Henry Raeburn. #dachshund

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