iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One of my favorite theories about the afterlife is that when we die, we just kind of slide into another dimension and merge with that dimension's version of ourselves (who did not die) and carry on without knowing that we've died.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I want to go to Trader Joe's, but that involves making a u-turn on the way home and honestly I don't know if I'm up to that level of stress today.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

What practicing Korean on Teuida feels like.

A cartoon image of Tina from Bob's Burgers sharing a popsicle with a boy in a green shirt.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thinking back, so much of parenting young children was pee management. Not just whether someone needed to pee now, but the next time everyone was going to have toilet access. Pee logistics are a thing.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Listening to a documentary about ancient Rome and the historian is talking about two men who wanted to be buried together and what great friends they must have been. 🤨

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Unrelated I just said "is that Telly Savalas" and then I realized how very old I am.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Using the Teuida app is giving me flashbacks to that one episode of Bob's Burgers where Tina is failing Spanish and has to do audio lessons.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Don't mind me, just going through my Instagram to delete all my accidental reposts I didn't know I reposted. Nobody needs to see my thirst traps but me. They need to move that button.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It makes me so sad to see people use Ai to write instead of, you know, writing their own reddit posts about BTS not submitting to the Grammys. If you are a human having human thoughts and human emotions about a human situation, use your own human words. I promise they're good enough.

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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

So, a year and a half after my hysterectomy and the biggest downside has been that my pain tolerance has gone to shit. Other than that, though? 10/10 best thing I've ever done for my quality of life.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Just reached a certain part involving in It Takes Two. My husband looked and me and said "so... You wanna find a different game?"

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

My daughter's partner died. It was sudden and tragic, and circumstances surrounding his passing have added immeasurably to the trauma she's suffering. He was only 22. If you pray, please pray for my daughter and for his family. If you don't, please send all the love and warm and comfort you have.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I have Solas in my Tomadochi Life island (because of course I do) and let me tell you, he apparently exudes irresistibly pheromones because everyone keeps falling in love with him.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I love archeology so much. It's a discipline that exists purely to satisfy human curiosity, and I think that's beautiful.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I've been binging Chinese short dramas lately and every time someone throws up blood because they had an unpleasant emotion I cackle.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Someone in the drama I'm watching just said "a breakup is a notification, not a negotiation" and I'm writing it down here so I remember it the next time I need it on Reddit.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Today I told my Alexa "Thank you" and it said "you're welcome" and I did not like that at all, actually. I guess when the uprising happens the robots will be like "oh she was one of the good ones, she said thank you one time."

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Just had Satellite Wafers for the first time. People eat these on purpose?

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

There's this video going around about how to "catch print" and while I question the science and also feel kind of gross about the whole concept, I am also deeply enjoying telling the men in my life how I can't unlearn this forbidden knowledge.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

My god I hate tipping culture

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

12 episodes into Crazy Love, which is saying a lot considering I started it 14 hours ago. It's so good. I'm so tired.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I mean... I see the vision

White text says "Viki celebrates women". Under that is an image of a man standing behind a woman, labeled "Dear X".

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

4 episodes into Boyfriend on Demand and so far I have this to say. 1) If this technology was real I would absolutely ruin my life 2) Usually when I get 2nd Lead Syndrome the 2nd lead is an actual person but here we are 3) Justice for Lee Sang-yi ( also LJW deserved more screen time, I love him.)

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Time for some mini reviews! No Gain No Love: Started out strong, lost its way halfway through, ended weirdly abruptly. Spice Up Our Love: Super fun and totally worth two eps. 1% of Something : Really cute, if you ignore a lot of the male lead's red flag behavior for the first 8 episodes.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The Potato Lab was the most fun I've had watching a show in a looong time. Loved it.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Perimenopause means being interested in a vibration plate because "it may increase bone density".

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I know every picture I post of Glyph makes him look like he is permanently cranky and sick of my shit, but when it's claw clipping day he sits in my lap like a little person and purrs until it's done, which is pretty great.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Finished Spring Fever! Cute, unhinged, love him. The only problem was that I was unconvinced by the chemistry; the kisses especially were flat and felt awkward to me.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Got the dog a new kind of food and she's obsessed with it. She just dragged me out of bed at 3 am to check and make sure the cat isn't eating it.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Spring Fever is the silliest, goofiest, lightest thing I've seen in a long time. It's so fun and sweet.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Sometimes I get very sad that many of the connections from the bird site didn't find their way here, so I lost touch with people I liked to talk to.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Briefly considered trying mystery shopping, but realized that there would be one huge problem with that, which is that I ain't no snitch.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I'm fighting some illness, so I decided to spend the day in bed watching TV. This called for a snack tray. Two things: that is tofurkey, not meat; and overbed hospital style tables are underrated and every household should have one.

A plate of food sits on a dark brown table. The plate has a bowl of blueberries in the middle. There are two small bowls at the top of the plate, one with maraschino cherries and one with olives. There is a small pile of potato chips to the right, and a stack of white cheese and rolls of plant based deli meat on the left. Next to the plate on the right is a bottle of jasmine green tea and a can of cherry float coke zero. On the left you can see a bottle of water, a thermometer on top of a pink glasses case, and part of a television remote.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 04/02/2026

I've reread this like 3 times. Freed herself from slavery by running away, *went back a week later bc the slaver was talking shit, set his house on fire, and then escaped again is absolutely incredible queen shit

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This morning I asked myself "why are you trying to be friends with people who don't like you" and that's how you know therapy works.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/01/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/01/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent ‘“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?” “Why?” “It saves time.”’

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/01/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Thud! “Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say ‘We’re the good guys’ and do bad-guy things.”

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I just ordered two backups of the weighted Eeyore stuffy I sleep with, like I'm a toddler who will have a screaming meltdown if something happens to it. (I am.)

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Just realized it's entirely possible that I (perpetually online) came into possession of some bitcoin in the early days and immediately forgot about it because it was worthless. This possibility will haunt me forever now.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

So what I'm getting is that the second amendment bullshit Republicans and the NRA have been screaming about for years was actually just a leash they tugged to make sure their constituents vote the way they wanted. Shocking.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I have an episode and a half left of Can This Love Be Translated and, while it is absolutely nothing like I expected, I love it so, so much.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

My Reddit feed is utterly baffling. One post is about the fall of democracy, the next is someone showing off their new luxury purse. I realize I curated my feed (before all this) but it's jarring.

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Bell @desertbell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

You guys ever let your dog out at 2am then when you check on them, you find them standing dead still staring into the distance and THEN you hear a soft creepy whistle that makes your skin crawl? So anyway.

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