iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 08/10/2026

Gotta admire the dedication of a kitten who will just lay on the kitchen floor, staring into the middle distance in this pose for like 10 minutes for no apparent reason

Siberian kitten lays on the kitchen floor, caught in mid… lunge? Dance step? Honestly unclear

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 17/09/2026

Oh look, the latest issue of the preeminent semi regular outsider zine on the topic of the hypertext markup language

Issue 2 of “Multipage Version,” a zine about html

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 16/09/2026

novelty barbarian/bard multiclass here he comes

fluffy Siberian cat named Felix, surrounded by a pile of novelty dice

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 06/09/2026

sometimes, when you have too much to do but a long weekend ahead of you, it's nice to noodle out a custom app for cleaning up keynote presentation exports and making them into web sites

Screenshot of an ugly but serviceable web app that's comparing the slide notes and video transcript versions of a talk.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 16/08/2026

@jessrock.bsky.social oh, man. The things that show up when cleaning out boxes…

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 26/07/2026

in brief: if you get onto a dnc mailing list you will receive a shitton of fund raising email from the dnc, and dnc candidates. if you get on a conservative mailing list, you will be slowly pulled into grifter cinematic universe of anti-immigrant spam, dietary supplements, and charlie Kirk

Visualization of email received by two addresses, mostly over a 1-decade span. One was subscribed to a Barack Obama fundraising list, another to the Redstate.com mailing list.

Over time the Obama list was used to fundraise for other DNC candidates, at very high volume but tightly restricted to official DNC candidates and party organizations.

Over a similar period of time the Redstate email list was farmed out to a huge list of direct marketing and loosely affiliated political targeting businesses, either selling products, fundraising for a variety of random conservative causes, pushing investment opportunities, or spreading anti-immigrant sentiment while monetizing via dense digital ad placement.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 11/07/2026

for the old-timers, the NYT home page. thirty years ago. three. zero.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 30/06/2026

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer.

Image of the TRS-80 Color Computer, with cassette tape drive for program storage. Not pictured is the aftermarket 16k memory upgrade.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 30/06/2026

Thanks — agreed it’s pretty good. I didn’t think, from the answers I gave, that it would come out as negative as it seems to have. I suppose my definition of “neutral” is grimmer than some, heh

YOU ARE… The Disillusioned
Patron saint: Molly White

You watched this movie already with crypto and you know how it ends. It's oversold, the value is thinner than advertised, and the concrete harms are piling up while everyone argues about the rapture. You document the gap between the promise and the receipts, meticulously.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 20/05/2026

A thing I take nerd pride in: the company I work for powers Taco Bell’s digital content. The old Onion article about “7 ingredients arranged differently” is why Taco Bell’s supply chain + food science work is *awesome*; it also illustrates how modern content operations work scales.

A screenshot of a Jamelle Bouie skeet, showing a photograph of a Taco Bell Gordita and Baja Blast Mountain Dew.

Below it, the caption “live mas”

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 16/03/2026

My takeaway is that your experiences prove the existence of Grover

Grover the muppet, contorting his body into the shapes of each letter of the alphabet

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 28/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Photograph of a discarded floral bouquet lying on an iced-over river

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 23/02/2026

No cheating, your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist.

Drawing of Jesus cradling a baby velociraptor. The caption reads, “Explain this, atheists”

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 04/02/2026

The whole orphans, widows, foreigners theme does get harped on quite a bit.

Meme of Garfield looking at a sign with his own face crossed out. Caption reads, “Huh, I wonder who that’s for.”

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 01/02/2026

If you’re exhausted and wrung out and have some tiny screwdrivers I highly recommend tearing apart an old dead hard drive. NOTE: may only apply to neurodivergent nerds

Image of Eaton’s face reflected in the exposed platters of a 3.5” hard drive

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 29/01/2026

my signature style of business slide deck is … dangerously oblique.

image of a file icon labeled "CONTENT MODEL", positioned between images of The Rock, and Tom Hardy.

A content model — between a rock and a hard place.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 25/01/2026

i’ll take “signs you should stop hoarding old media” for $800, alex

A hand holding an 80m sony minidisc, and a CompactFlash format 1GB IBM Microdrive

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 10/01/2026

But provocation, even gentle playful provocation, was an inescapable ingredient of what she was creating.

Notecard containing the instructions for “Collecting Place II”, by Yoko Ono, 1963.

Typewritten: “Break a contemporary museum into pieces with the means you have chosen. Collect the pieces and put it together with glue.”

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 10/01/2026

What comes through in her actual work is a breathtaking commitment to the idea that art is a connection between the artist and the viewer, that it’s fundamentally incomplete, practically dead, if the viewer is not a co-participant. Her body of work is absolutely relentless.

“White Chess Set,” by Yoko Ono. A table and chairs are prepared with a chess board; pieces on both sides are white. Viewers are encouraged to sit down and play.

Lettering on marble floor:

WHITE CHESS SET

For playing as long as you can remember where all the pieces are.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 10/01/2026

In the city this weekend to see the Yoko Ono exhibit at the MCA; it has me thinking a lot about the Yoko-hate I heard growing up, surrounded by people who’d lived through the 60s or worshipped the Beatles in the 80s and 90s.

Photograph of a work by Yoko Ono. A single green apple is placed on a clear lucite pedestal. A bronze plaque on the pedestal reads “Apple.”

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 20/12/2025

We have a houseguest this weekend: Chumbles the cat, a longtime friend of the family, is here while his person recovers from surgery. Chumbles is, I must say, a *fine* fellow, quite polite and distinguished.

A very solemn shorthair named Chumbles stares at the camera, backlit by a large window and leafy green plants.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 18/12/2025

honestly, a bit more aggressive than i would’ve chosen if i’d realized, but we’ll see how it plays out

Photo of a T-Shirt with the slogan “Butlerian Jihad Now” and a picture of a PC shot full of arrows. In smaller print, “Send computers to hell. If you make a robot I will kill you.”

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 25/11/2025

oh my god oh my world creating deity

Headline of an article by Hugo Schwyzer in The Federalist: “A professor abandoning a spouse and kids for a college student isn’t brave, but wicked”

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 12/11/2025

When I was a lot younger, I got “Doogie Howser, MD” a lot…

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 07/10/2025

only several thousand 80s nerds remember, etc etc

1989 screenshot of "club caribe", the semi-graphical online community run by AOL, née "Quantum Computer Services"

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 07/10/2025

getting ready to move to the next hot social media platform

image of the 1994 welcome screen for apple's eWorld

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 09/09/2025

Just a few pages in and already loving Jillian Hess’s “How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information” — its relevance to content architecture and editorial affordances in web and content management tools is pinging around in the back of my mind.

“What if, instead of trying to locate one of Emerson’s transcribed quotations within literary history, we locate it within the commonplace tradition? This raises a host of different questions. We might pay more attention to the layout of a particular page—how entries work congruously, synthetically, or contradictorily. We might also pay attention to medial shifts from handwritten text to cut-and-pasted newsprint.”

— How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums (Oxford Textual Perspectives) by Jillian M. Hess

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 04/09/2025

The modern right loves retributive vigilante violence — stories of good, decent folks fucking up evildoers that “the law” couldn’t reach. That isn’t because they care about injustice: It’s because they love a story that lets them fantasize about morally justifiable violence.

Screenshot of an email from the “Informed American” mailing list. The title reads: “He beat his daughter’s rapist to death!”

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 02/09/2025

never change, tracts from the 1950s

Anti-Comic-Book tract of the 1950s, published by the Seventh Day Adventist society. The title of the tract is: "Taint Funny"

Another 1950s tract, featuring two women on the cover, smoking. The title reads: "Should a Girl Smoke?"

A tract titled "Ideals for Dating." The disembodied heads of two teens collide with each other.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 29/08/2025

i think the clearest indication of my patch's eventual influence was that years later, the rest of the core development team added a ticket for "travel back in time to kill eaton before he can write drupal_execute' cruelly, this task was assigned to me

writeboard with a circled task labeled "Time machine to kill eaton before drupal_execute." the task is assigned to eaton.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 27/08/2025

evangelical deconstructors from the early aughts say WHAAAAAAT

“In 2015, Doyle, Strayed, and Brown joined up with Gilbert and the author Rob Bell to form the Compassion Collective, and, in a little over a day, they raised more than a million dollars for aid…”

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 29/07/2025

okay, okay, not THAT ancient

"leave her a stranger" era starflyer 59 band t, represent

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 28/07/2025

90s comic books rolling in to claim credit

Image of Rogue from a 90s issue of The X-Men. She is drawn with the absolutely unworkable proportions of a 9-foot tall woman whose legs start slightly below her neck.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 26/07/2025

For the blue folks who think the new “round up the mentally ill” exec order is a shame but only affects Those People, your regular reminder that taxonomies are just frozen opinion.

Rep. Warren Davidson Introduces the Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) Research Act of 2025

May 15, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) introduced the Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) Research Act of 2025. This bill would direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the psychological and social roots of what is known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, a phenomenon marked by extreme negative reactions to President Donald J. Trump. He was joined by original cosponsor Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL).

"TDS has divided families, the country, and led to nationwide violence-including two assassination attempts on President Trump. The TDS Research Act would require the NIH to study this toxic state of mind, so we can understand the root cause and identify solutions." said Rep. Davidson (R-OH).

"Instead of funding ludicrous studies such as giving methamphetamine to cats or teaching monkeys to gamble for their drinking water, the NIH should use that funding to research issues that are relevant to the real world."
"Trump Derangement Syndrome has become an epidemic on the Left," said Rep. Moore (R-AL). "Some individuals who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome have participated in nationwide political and social unrest, even trying to assassinate President Trump twice. Rep. Davidson's common-sense bill will use already appropriated funds on an NIH study that can make a difference."

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 07/07/2025

Went to a really cool Hokusai exhibit at the local college with Catherine this weekend. It not only had a bunch of prints and stuff about his life, it had a whole room decorated as, uhhh, manga? Like. “Someone changed the shader on reality” decorated as manga.

Photograph od a living room with two love seats, a coffee table, and a set of bookshelves. The entire room, including the furniture, is painted in black and white to look like a pen and ink drawing.

Photograph of a small bedroom desk with a swivel chair and a window looking out onto a backyard. The entire room, including the furniture and the view through the window, is painted in black and white to look like a pen and ink drawing.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 29/06/2025

Oh, lord. Our Maddie was the same: adopted her and her brother when they were maybe a month or two? 16 years, we had that little goof. Definitely understand that impulse to mourn even while she’s still present.