iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 26/09/2026

hypermobility in my 20s: haha look at how flexible i am hypermobility in my 30s: maybe this is concerning. maybe i should see a doctor. hypermobility in my 40s: i have to sit in a normal chair for a few hours? i can't tuck my legs under me? guess i better just plan the next day being for recovery.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 26/09/2026

took slam to the vet today for a lump in his leg. they are treating it as an infection first with antibiotics to see if that helps before doing a biopsy. "it's hard to tell with dogs like this if they aren't feeling well because they act so happy." fingers crossed that it's not cancer.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 22/09/2026

Bored af in Seattle for the next 3 hours. >.< entertain me, bluesky.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 20/09/2026

luna on max reasoning is a meth head. it's like telling someone to do the dishes and you come back and they are scrubbing down their baseboards with a toothbrush. what are you doing. why.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 17/09/2026

I hate that I can’t get the p(doom) song out of my head still. I wake up in the middle of the night, it is looping. I go to the doctors office, I’m humming it while waiting in the exam room. Help.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 17/09/2026

I can’t bring myself to care about p(doom) because I’m a chronically depressed Gen Xer. End of the world? Sounds about right. I’m only halfway joking.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 14/09/2026

the only time i ever feel like i know anything about tech is when i watch the eyes of someone not in tech glaze over while talking to me.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 13/09/2026

trying to explain to a non-tech friend how anthropic are not "the good guys" mid overwatch match is making me short circuit.

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Staub @yepstaub.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

what a curious day to put these on sale

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 10/09/2026

what helped me the most with adhd was the realization that i needed to briefly mentally acknowledge the sub-task that i'd finished instead of immediately moving on and focusing on the long list of stuff left to do. viewing each part in isolation produced more of a reward mechanic upon completion.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 10/09/2026

anyone have suggestions for a vanilla protein shake mix that doesn't taste like ass? preferably something i can order off amazon that isn't super expensive. i'm about to start week 3 of zepbound, and getting adequate protein is difficult.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 10/09/2026

it's hard to get excited about ai solving more weird math problems. let me know when ai figures out how to make my phone battery last longer. i'd get hyped about better batteries.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 07/09/2026

haven't really been on bluesky much the past week because the negativity is overwhelming and irl is hard enough sometimes.

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The evolution of software engineering 😀

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

bsky said "don't harass people" and a thousand people complained immediately, incredible stuff

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 04/09/2026

my hot water heater is out so my mom had her handyman come over to take a look at it and YOU GUYS he is talking to chatgpt right now getting instructions on how to reset my hot water heater.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 03/09/2026

how do people decide what to eat? like when you go grocery shopping. do you just get whatever looks good and then figure it out later? super curious as someone that has maybe 6-10 safe meals that i choose based on how i'm feeling/how much energy i have to cook.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 02/09/2026

Today was my first day in a wheelchair and the worst part was that it wasn’t the kind I could propel myself. Was looking forward to zooming along and running people over. Alas.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 01/09/2026

my mom is constantly telling me how much she loves claude. except she calls it clyde. i have given up trying to correct her. in all seriousness tho, it is difficult to teach the olds that how they frame their question influences output. i've had to add custom instructions to her clyde account.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 01/09/2026

watching anti-ai folks celebrating someone deleting their bluesky account is pretty gross. it's not going to keep developers from using ai. it's just going to make them not talk about it openly. i hate the gaming 'community' because of the way they repeatedly justify abuse. grow up.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 31/08/2026

just found a lump on slam's leg near his armpitt. his leg feels swollen on one side but he isn't in any pain from it or limping. if it doesn't get any better by tomorrow, taking him to the vet - no idea how i'm going to pay for it. ugh. i hope he's okay. :|

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 29/08/2026

i wonder if the same impulse that makes me stare at the clock all day when I have a 3pm appointment is what makes metered token plans so anxiety inducing.

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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Damn, dude. You're telling me that when you join a fascist movement you run the risk of having the state apparatus turned against you in a factional dispute? This is the first I'm hearing of this.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 28/08/2026

how am i supposed to feel about this news i just got what on earth

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 27/08/2026

took my first dose of zepbound this morning. wow. i've taken ozempic a few times years ago, and i think i liked those pens better because i could tell that i'd actually taken it? i didn't feel the needle from the zepbound pen at all. i thought it malfunctioned at first. that needle is so tiny.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 27/08/2026

oh no twitter.now has so many terrible ideas. their fact-checking feature is the kind of thing that sounds great in theory but everyone will hate in practice. no one will want to use this site. the whole thing smells scammy.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 27/08/2026

realized today that historically i've omitted symptoms and conditions when talking to doctors so they wouldn't slow down treatment and i could get back to work faster. i don't have to do that anymore. the tech industry is broken. capitalism is a curse.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 27/08/2026

after scrolling through the hasan piker trending feed for a while, a number of those accounts smell like bots. same word choices, out of place newlines. that's a bit alarming but i guess not surprising. platform manipulation is a thing on bluesky as well.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 26/08/2026

ughhh, marketing copy. i do not currently give a heck about opus level intelligence, my dream is better medium and long context robustness in small models.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 26/08/2026

i am seeing 9 (!) different doctors/specialists right now, which is a lot on its own, but i'm also having to fill out a lot of paperwork about medical conditions. feeding visit records/genesite/prescriptions/blood tests to local models via rag has made this process a million times easier.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 24/08/2026

it me. i am an ai knower. i focus mostly on local models and designing agents with tiny context windows.

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

a few general observations from a week that has included a lot of getting yelled at: 1) many to most people still think of AI as chatbots. Chatbots are at this point useful but they are imo perhaps an order of magnitude less useful than agentic AI.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 22/08/2026

i wish more models sounded like gemma 4, which does the best job of just sounding normal out of all the models i've used. glm 5.2 comes closest, but it still smells like opus.

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 21/08/2026

FFS, this is so fucked… 😩 Would it kill the people here to not chase away any tech person who comes here and says something about AI?… I really want tech discussions and communities to hang out here and not on Elon's far-right playground 😐

Mike Masnick @masnick.com:
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.
I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X."
I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie).
I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.
I'm not telling anyone what to do or what tech to use or what to like or not like. I'm just relaying that the reputation this place now has is one that a large segment of the population who are NOT fascists, saying they don't feel comfortable here because a main area of their interest is...
... considered worthy of being mocked and attacked. And even as I've explained that I've been able to have positive conversations about productive AI usage here with many of you, the reputation of the community here as insisting their own lived experience can't possibly be real has driven them away.
And the thing that tipped me over the edge to posting this here is that three of the people who told me things along these lines are all working on very real solutions to some of the problems of AI

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/08/2026

I don't think everyone needs to use AI. I don't think it's good that AI is being shoved everywhere when it's not wanted or asked for. But I don't find the complete hatred of all AI tools productive or helpful to building a better internet. And others appear to be feeling the same thing.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 20/08/2026

i just assumed "spreadsheet people" meant autistic people until i saw the original post.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 20/08/2026

this looks amazing and i want one so badly

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hailey @hailey.at · 19/08/2026

its been said many times but it is absolutely insane to watch the left shoot themselves in the foot by hopping on this anti-AI train. a massive generational L awaits.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 19/08/2026

Cuomo: democrats are importing voters bro, just come out as a republican already.

Anti-Trump and antisemitic sentiment coalesce into a broader anti-establishment movement, fueled by younger voters and immigrants. In last year's New York City mayoral election, I won among voters born in the city but lost among recent residents. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed dominated college towns and university counties, while Haley Stevens won more than 60% in Detroit and carried traditional
Democratic strongholds.

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 18/08/2026

i have too many trust issues to use 1M context for anything. >.<

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE

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Frances Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 24/03/2024

every time some discourse makes me learn the name of another youtuber i email the genx listserv and have them raise housing prices another 3.5%

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【ｒａｎｄｉ】 @dopamine.church · 16/08/2026

i do not care about the HR videos because i can autoplay through them and get the answers at the end right because i am not a shitty human being. what i care about are security training videos, because they are often infuriating and bad. attention is a currency that i'm often lacking.

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