iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Incredible omegaverse AU situations happening here in Adelaide’s east

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Can’t stop/won’t stop dressing like a background character from Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Bisexual white guy with increasingly beefy, tattooed arms gives us a thumbs up and bear faces at the camera wearing loose fitting brown cords, work boots, and a black tank top

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I missed my gigantic, totally unearned office (my boss never comes in/it’s bigger and nicer than my living room lmao)

A bearded white guy stands in a capacious space lined with bookcases, bear-facing and giving a thumbs up

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Dear friend capturing my sound design process (probably reassuring to theatre colleagues that these are the faces I make when I’m putting together three hours of increasingly insane gay guy music videos for my wedding, too). Also she made me do the Fred Durst hands I swear etc.

A black and white, candid photograph of a dismayed looking Dan, fist pressed into the right hand side of his jaw, slumped over his laptop on a table covered in snacks.

As before, but Dan’s biting his nails as an out of focus Miles (a tall man with a beard and glasses) goes about probably more normal pre-wedding activities in the back of the frame.

As before, but now Dan’s doing the pose from Edward Munch’s the scream; his hands cupping either side of his face.

Dan in a kitchen, wearing a denim shirt with his hands in front of his face, framing it in a diamond with his thumbs and forefingers, evoking Fred Durst if Fred Durst was your bisexual dad (unconfirmed) and a massive nerd (improbable).

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Certified gay guy moment (getting married to this handsome lad today)

Two bearded homos smiled in a mirror selfie

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Really delving into freesound tags I'd never even imagined existed for this show, huh.

Screenshot of the freesound.org tag interface. The tags read "orgasm, sex, slut".

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

New frontiers in hair product unlocked to make my mullet even slightly Chekhovian

Dan’s thick, brown hair standing straight upright a solid 4 inches above his head

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This is the face of a man who had to repatch and reprogram two racks of wireless receivers

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

LARPing as a live sound engineer this week, AMA (please don’t I’ll cry xx)

A photo graph of Dan’s hand holding a piece of armature wire shaped to fit around an actor’s ear and hold a lavalier microphone

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Genuinely think this polyrhythm would get me drawn and quartered (there’s some transposing instruments/a key signature happening, but I promise those are A naturals in the violin part lmao, and sorry violas I know this is bad NO-ONE HAS TO PLAY THIS)

Inscrutable bar of a partial orchestral score; 3:11:12 polyrhythm (with the 3 subdivided in even more cursèd ways)

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Anyway, I think we’re in the “elaborating on workwear” phase atm (recreation 30s herringbone carpenter pant & denim shirt w/ cigarette pocket from Bronson, black tank from Australian stitch, god I should’ve ironed these trousers, etc.)

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Forever thinking about this banger (Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta - The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions 1977)

Screenshot of black text on a white background.

Title (in all caps) — Disruption: Tactics
Body text —
The faggots never tire of fucking with the men's minds. Once all the faggots let their hair grow long, wore necklaces made of silver and shells and clothes of colourful, elaborate fabrics. They looked so stunning that the men over-looked their principles and began to look stunning also. When the men all looked like faggots, the faggots cut their hair, put on black leather and looked like the men used to look. The men were annoyed and pretended not to notice. Growing bored with basic black leather, the faggots began to elaborate. They wore black fish-net stockings and high heels with their black leather jackets. They carefully sewed imitation rhinestones all over their black leather pants. They wore feather boas as they rode their motorcycles through the devastated city. They wore flowing gold lame gowns and workboots with their short hair and dirty fingernails. They drank beer and swore, in velvet robes and furs. They sipped champagne and talked refined in paint-splattered blue denim. The men did not want to look at any of this. And when they had to, they became confused and petulant and unpleasant, which pleased the faggots.

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

They’re going to harm me at work today, etc.

White guy with greying dark brown hair and beard — wearing an outrageously unbuttoned tan linen shirt, exposing a hairy chest — does bear face at the camera. A strip of light illuminates the bottom half of the frame, drawing attention to the top of a black sternum tattoo just visible at the lowest extent of the shirt’s unbuttoning.

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Transfemme people in my life responding to yet another act of cultural appropriate without taking oestrogen (I'm learning Rust) with a new set of strategies... will they succeed? Only time will tell.

A messenger message from a person named Ash, which I have laugh reacted to, reading "it IS well documented that women have better colour perception" followed by two eye emoji

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Omg I’m on roughly the same trajectory for roughly the same amount of time — it’s hard and I don’t even have kids, so massive kudos to you! Here’s to getting strong 💪😤

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

As an aside, my partner asked me what I was listening to and when I reported the topic, without a pause, he said “oh Jenna Maroney’s website?”

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Feel bad (complimentary) podcast episode of the century, give it a bloody listen

Crying child holding a gun meme on a white background with the text “LISTEN TO BLOODWORK (😔)”

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

One of many advantages of having inherited my boss’ office is that they really do give professors the primo selfie lighting

A white man with thick framed glasses smoulders semi-effectively

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Sometimes it’s better to stay in a gay delusion of eternal youth tbh profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday/

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Well, we won a Fringe award! Melbourners, come see our funny, heartwarming, trans theatre. www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows...

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Wedding planning is fun, actually

Cut off screenshot of a message to a choreographer friend, reading “would you be open to teaching two unco fags how to move in a compelling way”. “Unco”, of course, being deeply 90s Australian slang for “uncoordinated”

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

These poems were generated by highlighting all of the “I” statements in the transcripts, and picking a start & end point. Obviously the rest of the analysis is also very important, but they are all so evocative I can’t stop coming back to them to centre the prep work I’m doing for the co-design

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Graphic design is my passion etc. (this is half of the variations; made sure to use lots of different stock images of different ages/ethnicities/gender presentations and honestly? Worth the effort apparently)

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

It didn’t drop below 30°C last night and it’s gonna be 30-40°C every day this week, and my shitty Australian slum rental (like everyone else’s rental in this fucking stupid country) is barely survivable. It is insane to me that we don’t all go sicko mode about this every summer????

Portrait selfie of a beleaguered, sweaty looking white man with a voluminous brown mullet, a large beard, two nose rings in his left nostril, a grimace, and sad eyes behind a pair of the Bailey and Nelson glasses every cunt with a masters degree in this stupid country wears. His slightly sheer, maroon shirt is unbuttoned so much he may as well not be wearing it, showing off a truly slutty amount of chest hair.

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Meanwhile, Levi after calling me what I swear was a homophobic slur (I didn’t give him a second breakfast)

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Once again one-shotted by the introduction to an HCI theory book

Screenshot of a preface to an ebook. The first two and last sentence are highlighted in yellow.

In November 2015, a chance meeting between Dr. Jim Jansen and representatives of AJ+, an Al Jazeera social media channel, led to a discussion of the difficulties of using the many analytics platforms available. It was at that meeting the concept of Automatic Persona Generation (APG) emerged. That meeting led to a set of algorithmic approaches to improve user understanding by presenting analytics and numbers in a form that most people can relate to—another person!

Since that impactful meeting, the APG Project team members and collaborators have developed innovative approaches, identified and created new processes, implemented technology products, designed services, and devised delivery methods for data-driven personas—all aimed at enhanced user understanding. Many of these advances have been published in research articles, intellectual property disclosures, and online postings.

This book takes these published manuscripts, enhances them, polishes them, and integrates them into a coherent lecture that serves as a foundation for the future advancement of data-driven personas, data-driven personas systems, and data-driven personas research.

The driver for APG and the related research is inspired by Papa John’s slogan—

Better Personas! Better Decisions! Better Results!

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I think about it a lot tbh, I think your piece’s point about the homoeroticism communicating about porn allows men gels really well.

Text from “Notes on Gooning” by JV Marx for Sensitive Content Magazine. Black text on a white background.

Gooning is tough to define. Gooning is many things. For example, cumming all the time is goony. But so is not cumming. “Alpha males” do it; “Beta males” do it. Girls, gays, theys, and people who don’t know they’re “doing it” do it.

It’s solitary, it’s communal. It’s holy, it’s demonic. It’s divine.

Text from the article “Notes on Gooning” by JV Marx in Sensitive Content Magazine. Black text on a white background.

Many men miss the platonic possibilities of adolescence, or the closet, when they were able to comfortably enjoy masturbation with their peers. It’s a valid third space of sexuality that’s harder to come by in regular adulthood. For me, one of the first things I knew about my sexuality was that I enjoyed jerking off with other guys. Gay sex was like, a totally different thing. It still is.

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

How i feel about my writing after spending all day responding to colleagues’ comments on two papers I’m getting close to submitting

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

You ever find yourself writing a regular expression off the dome that would've sent you into a Proustian Reverie upon viewing like twelve months ago?

Block of R code, including two regular expressions that look like poorly executed ASCII art.

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I’m still new back to academia so when I tell you leaving my office to *this* was a jumpscare

Slightly out of focus phone shot from the top of a staircase of a gaggle of middle-distance highschool students in uniform huddled beneath a towering, translucent veranda as freezing rain pours on a green lawn in front of a glassfronted, white, three story ecomodernist building

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

New job’s going great, thanks for asking

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Bear face for the TL in honour of getting a hair cut/getting rid of most of my gigantic beard

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Weird dayjob for her to have, but I appreciate the hustle I guess??

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

He’s moments away from saying that The Mayor Has Two Bodies. Huge news for @nogodsnomayors.com hogs

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Obsessed with this business near my office/with “Innovate. Educate. Elevate. Reptiles.” as a tagline.

A business in a shitty 1970s brick building with a green sign on top. To the left of the sign, crude clip art of a snake in flat black. The business name in white text on top - “REPTILE CREATIVE”. Beneath this in black text, the tagline - “Innovate. Educate. Elevate. Reptiles.”

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Dan Thorpe @danisnotadj.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Rare Bernie photo. When we first got her we’d feel accomplished if she snuck up behind us and gently put her tail on us, the transformation to lap cat has been slow but so, so worth the wait 🥹