iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I can see a million stars and two lightning storms and the sun just starting to appear past the horizon and I think the world is beautiful and this trip was incredible and life is worth experiencing as much as possible again.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have been having a fantastic time on this trip but I have to admit it will be such a relief to not have to worry about sunburn, bug bites, heat stroke, and/or being touched by too many other people every single day.

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Ben @aceofbens.com · 14/06/2026

Saying "drop it" at the TV when your baseball team hits a pop up like the outfielder is a dog with something supicious in its mouth

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Rolled credits on Blue Prince after 15 hours/23 days after putting off playing it forever and I just need to say I had such a good time. I usually struggle against puzzle games and end up looking things up but I never felt the need to look up a solution or even where to go or what to do next.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

at some point we probably have to figure out a word for the thing that happens to me when such great heights comes on in my headphones

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’ll call you when the time is right / are you in, or are you out?

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I love my apartment but god do I miss the sound of rain on my roof and not just my window.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I hope I never stop thinking ‘that was the coolest thing I’ve ever seen’ every single time I see a bolt of lighting.

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stupid man @porktartare.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

In Final Fantasy X, Auron keeps one of his arms in a sling and has alcohol on him at all times. This is a reference to the fact that he is 35.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Apple magic working as intended: my AirPods fell out of my pocket on the plane. Find My notified me that they weren’t with me anymore before I left the airport. I made them ring while I walked back to the helpdesk. By the time I got there they’d been taken off the plane and now are being retrieved.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

experiencing the real definition of nostalgia being on the Orlando terminal link again

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Impossible to tell when I have heat exhaustion because the symptoms of heat exhaustion are just the regular symptoms of me being up and about.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

10 hours ago I was holding up my favorite vocalist’s leg on the rail in Richmond, now I’m on the subway in Brooklyn covered in yesterday’s sweat and sunscreen. Took me so long but I really figured out making life worth living.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Taking two days off to hang out with my friends was huge. It feels like Sunday night but the weekend is just beginning. It feels like there is so much more time when I don’t have to spend all of it at work.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The existential dread gets worse every day. It’s not worse because I’m 37 now it’s worse because things are bad. But damn, 37, really. Crazy that we made it this far. Anything else is bonus really.

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I'm doing well! I never could have dreamed I'd be doing this well ten years ago. I'm still not spending more than $100 on anything without wanting to cry about it because I expect to be destitute the moment literally anything goes wrong.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It’s so easy to forget I live in such cool place but standing here in the rain looking out over the Manhattan skyline. I really really do.

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emmylou harris's baseball pager 🗽🫱🏿‍🫲🏻 @baseballmad.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

god bless baseball, the children's game played by grown men

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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 10/05/2026

how it feels to learn anything at all about anyone or anything in 2026:

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Okay so maybe there is a VERY SMALL correlation between the day I decided to just keep all my necklaces loose on my dresser so they would stop getting tangled in my jewelry box and the day I kind of just straight up stopped putting things away in my bedroom. But I still don’t have a solution!!!

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I love getting to start off my session with a statement that makes my therapist go ‘hey what?’

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I know this is what most people would classify horrible weather but from underneath the bus stop roof I desperately miss having a covered balcony to sit and play games on while it rains like this.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I feel EXTREMELY STUPID I am nearing 250 hours in Pokopia and just figured out that the 18 available colors (I never counted them until just now) map to the 18 types.

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 13/04/2026

It’s happening dot gif www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/n...

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Can This Chaotic Brooklyn Plaza Be Car-Free? Mamdani Says Yes.

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Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Reminder that Adam fuckass Baldwin has taken credit for either creating/popularizing THE GAMERGATE HASHTAG of all fucking things to remind people where exactly he falls in the "this guy is a total prick" scale. Where we're at in society with everything crumbling has a direct line back to that chud.

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

having to remember Adam Baldwin feel like a cosmic punishment

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It is such a rare video game that has me laying in bed at four am having gotten somewhere between one and two sleep chunks thinking ‘I am so very tired and yet it is very tempting to get up and play game instead of sleeping’ but Pokopia has turned out to be one of them in a way I did not anticipate.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

As per usual for whenever I am in Downtown Brooklyn: man I love Downtown Brooklyn I wish I lived here like I was supposed to be able to do by now.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Three days ago I was like ‘I should download pokopia and put my switch in my backpack so I have it for jury duty’. I did not do this and now I am sitting here yearning for my switch and pokopia.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Really well adjusted and normal emotion filled month February was.

Out of 473 minutes of music listened to in February, 157 of them were The Wonder Years.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I need carshare apps to add a no Tesla mode so badly. The acceleration in these always makes me sick.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 04/03/2026

Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Being out at the bar dancing with your friends until 1am will really remind you that life is worth living.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

giving lectures on cocktails to my friends at the bar that served me a gimlet in a highball glass

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

It’s been a week and I am still trying to find a new jewelry box that meets all my needs but unfortunately my current one is really perfect just too small now. I just need a wider version of this.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I think I’ve looked at every jewelry box on the internet and still have not found something to solve my current problem. I might become insane.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

What a good day. Started off a little weak, but then I saw the sun and got a promotion and walked right onto the subway and ate conveyor belt sushi with my friends and had a surprisingly nice trip home and now I’m going to sleep at 10. I wish every day was like today.

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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 03/02/2026

i love dns it always works great for me 👄✨ video was created by the luminary genius @citiesbydiana.bsky.social 🌆

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 13/02/2026

I truly wish the “blue no matter who” contingent would just shut up until after the primary and let people who want a better candidate call for one in peace instead of screaming about how we all need to slobber daddy newsom’s hog before he’s declared or else we’re somehow fascist.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

for someone whose team is not playing today I sure did manage to make myself an outfit entirely consisting of green and white huh

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Cleaning my apartment is actually a really useful way to get myself to go to bed at a reasonable time. It is both exhausting and also blocks me off from going into certain sections of it until the only place I can go is my bed.

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Dragon "Gay'ed Too Close to the Sun" Fish @dragonfish.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

O cool The hypothesis that the elite were trying to segrigate trans people from society purely to keep us as sex slaves was real, but only for trans women since they see trans men as undesirable for sex and want them eliminated which is EXACTLY THE POLICIES AND RHETORIC WE'RE SEEING HAPPEN RIGHT NOW

A disgusting email sent by Robert Trivers to Jeffrey Epstein. Im sorry that I'm not going to transcribe how fucking vile it is, but it basically just talks about trans women as flesh lights and how pointless trans men are because they would've made good girls. It's fucking vile and awful and I hate it and it's literally exactly the type of rhetoric we see from the "protect the children!" Crowd who ONLY care about keeping trans boys from transitioning and probably keeping trans girls as sex slaves in private.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 05/02/2026

'This news has moved me from "maybe computer use should be regulated" to "Butlerian Jihad Now" on the radicalisation scale.'

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Generally I don't think people should read RPF of themselves but I genuinely hope Isaac Chotiner has read the piece where he interviews the town from The Lottery

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Simone de Rochefort @doomquasar.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

GIOVANNI www.polygon.com/playstation-...

Podcast Popularity Presents Unique Opportunities

It’s no secret that the video game industry is the healthiest it has ever been, as evidenced by Sony’s move to AI-generated video game podcasts. Meanwhile, podcasts are more popular than ever before. Invented in 2018 by Conan O’Brien, podcasts have seeped into every corner of human life. They are even being celebrated like Hollywood movies — as evidenced by the Golden Globes handing out its inaugural Best Podcast award in 2023 to Cum Town.

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Rachel Viniar @crystallized.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Using a mouse makes the entire experience of using a Windows laptop actually tolerable? It took me far too long to figure this out but I’m glad I did.

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