iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 12h

(This isn't a "Pia needs reassurance" post, btw, it's just realistic. I would like my heart to not kill me. And I also wish my energy levels would return from the war. And I wish I could understand better how to do marketing without it feeling like gross marketing)

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 12h

I'll figure it out. Or maybe I won't. Or maybe I got super mid at writing and just don't know it yet.

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 12h

Also ngl with like, this year being the worst downturn re: writing income in years (it can't all be blamed on a financial crisis when other authors are doing great), trying to ride the tightrope that is 'income pays medical bills' vs. 'need to rest so I don't get as many medical bills' is cryworthy

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 14h

Shutdown. Delayed restart.

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 12h

I've been in the emergency room like 6 times this year. It's too many! TOO MANY TIMES!

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 18h

But also my heart might have been trying to kill me so I don't know. (Also means I just can't maintain magnesium via whatever I'm eating right now, I *have* to supplement and just deal with the side effects. Le sigh).

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 18h

Okay actually I don't like finding out magnesium deficiency can kill you the hard way, to be honest, and once more skipping the queue at a very busy ER/ED is not actually as much fun as it sounds. :/ I also feel bad for everyone else suffering who is like 'why do THEY get admitted immediately.'

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I will never get tired of purple enamel orchids. Endemic to the state, so shiny you can see your reflection in the petals, nature outdoing itself as usual!

A photo of two purple enamel orchids in Western Australian bushland. They are a vibrant violet with crimson tips, and have five petals that curl backwards slightly. The petals are glossy and shiny in a way rarely seen on any flowers in nature. If you didn’t know better you’d think they were made of enamel or stone. But they are growing among dry bushland.

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 05/10/2026

Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaase tell me that all those "you should need a government ID to access the internet" people are rethinking this position now. [We know they aren't. Ed.]

The first two paragraphs of the linked-to story:

"Denmark has suffered a major data breach that has given unauthorised individuals access to names, addresses and personal identification numbers belonging to about 8.8 million people registered in the country’s central population database.

"The breach occurred after unidentified individuals misused a private Danish company’s legitimate access to search the Central Person Register (CPR), the government said in a statement Monday."

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Oh, well, AI is already here so—" "Asbestos." "Well, I mean—" "CFCs. Leaded fuel." "—but—" "Portable baby cages." "—okay, I—" "Radium. Agent Orange. DDT..."

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Dara Farr 🏳️‍⚧️ @dryftwould.northsky.social · 14/07/2026

When we say completely boycotting HP is the least cis people can do, it literally is the very least they can do. There is no lesser, easier act of allyship. It is the lowest of low bars, and so many people are desperate for excuses that let them not clear it and still call themselves "allies".

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That’s basically the trick of cross stitch! You can’t focus on the destination because it’s so far away. A full coverage project as your first is pretty intense even if it is smaller!

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s a complicated grief that govs/we spend hundreds of millions on fences to preserve tiny pockets for native animals / biomes against feral animal damage, because they cannot survive on their own land anymore. Culling is emotional, but losing a species or ecosystem permanently is unspeakable.

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Our Mr Whippy is in training for Formula 1. Yesterday *four separate neighbours* were racing down the street for her (she's a retiree), and she's nyooming away, *while playing the jingle saying that she has ice cream* That or she has a very specific denial kink.

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Brhannada @brhannadart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This image in the replies was particularly funny to me

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Action Shakespeare 🐙🤤 @thatgalinthehat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Environmental storytelling at the elementary school

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

PRC used to be known as the clinic that bulk-billed if you're on DSP but instead I'm just going to have a little cry about how how they're not really doing that anymore and how that + doing worse on the writing front income wise = bad times all round. stupid tumours.

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Toby sometimes gets parts of larger chews caught in the back of his cheek and can't get them out, and then comes to me and bunts his head against my leg, so I will stick my finger down the side of his mouth and get it "free" for him and if that isn't trust I don't know what is. It's disgusting lol

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m never unseeing ‘Hoot and Holler’ as the unofficial name for how awesome you two are playing scary games together.

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The gradient squares are growing

A work in progress cross stitch of a modern gradient square pattern (by me!) of green and blue (so far) gradient squares in vertical rows, on black evenweave.

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Commentaries done! I'll put them up tomorrow, whoosh, I'm tired. Gonna watch some House of Lies and do some cross-stitch.

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The worst part of being my own boss is I very much want to give my boss a sick note asking if I can please just roll this month's chapter commentaries to next month please because I'm so tired and have so many appointments coming up but I can't :/

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SoundOfTheForest @soundoftheforest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mariah Carey defrosts earlier and earlier every year due to global warming.

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love this kind of public art as well, but I almost wish it wasn't so 'I am drawing beings that used to live here on buildings that literally took that opportunity away.' Idk. It's just complicated. Love the art. But the grief is what follows me home after seeing it.

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just think 'one day this is all we'll have left' because for that area, that is all they have left. That is literally how the public art frequently functions. A reminder of what we ruined, or what could have been. An unintentional knife-wound of false representation instead of real lives.

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, the art is extremely beautiful, but it's also evidence of what we destroyed. Incredible flora and fauna on the side of silos on grain fields as far as the eyes can see, where the flora and fauna has been obliterated.

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have a feeling of profound melancholy whenever I see public street art of once-native animals in an area. Amazing graffiti of splendid fairy wrens in a place they don't exist anymore. Black swans in a suburb with no lakes. Banksias where the kwongan has been razed. Is it supposed to feel good?

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mr Whippy comes closer, Mr Whippy goes further away, Mr Whippy comes closer, Mr Whippy comes further away, it's the pendulum of 'will I get street ice cream today.'

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Australia halved its public housing in a generation and handed the young a voucher instead. The fix is a public builder, a 10 per cent target and a national summit." Andrew Brown #auspol Australia's Housing Casino Part 1 michaelwest.com.au/australias-h...

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Australia’s Housing Casino: the house always wins - Michael West

Andrew Brown analyses how successive Australian governments turned shelter into a casino. Australia's Housing Casino.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Australia’s Housing Casino: the house always wins Andrew Brown reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/australias-housi…

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sketch inspired by a Tumblr post (this one: www.tumblr.com/thermie/8288...) - Presenting the Montana Snail.

A digital sketch by Pia Ravenari in a more painterly style of the photo of the above "montana snail" which depicts a buck (deer) lying behind a hay bale in such a way as to make the deer look like the head of a snail and the bale look like the shell. The sketch has some grass in the foreground and an olive green background and is mostly earth-toned.

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is writing. If you want money, get into fraud.

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In the same sense that there's more water in the Mojave than the Sahara, sure.

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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The governor of the RBA thinks it is important for the economy that more people die

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Joubin's squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) is a funky, little squid that looks like one of those head massagers. It has a max mantle length of 9 cm and a long tail which is thought to mimic sinophores. They are also the closest relatives to the even more lanky bigfin squids (Magnapinna) #SQUIDtember

Joubin's Squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) floating in the ocean. The squid is very thin and has a orange colour. It has a long tail extending from its mantle and is waving in the water. Its arms are long and thin, and are extending out and curling back in. The arms are a slightly orange off white.

Joubin's Squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) floating in the ocean, with the camera centred on its head. It has black beady eyes. Its arms are long and thin, and are extending out and curling back in. The arms are a slightly orange off white. Its body is thin and is orange. Its tail is outside of the frame.

Joubin's Squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) floating in the ocean. The squid is very thin. Its mantle is off white and the rest of it is reddish orange. It has a long tail extending from its mantle and is waving in the water. Its arms are long and thin, and are loosely spread out.

A close up of a Joubin's Squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) floating in the ocean and reacting to the ROV. It has black beady eyes. It has long, thin arms that are mostly white but they have orange chromatophores on them. The chromatophores are more visible near its head. Its orange body is quite thin. Its head is in the ROV's shadow.

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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A single person on the Age Pension can afford just 0.2% of advertised rentals. Even somebody working full-time on minimum wage can afford only 0.5%. #auspol #HousingCrisis

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The gradient squares continue. (Using Cottage Garden Threads gradient packs for these with a DMC white.)

A photo of a work in progress cross stitch depicting 3 vertical rows of gradient squares (some unfinished) with one row in green and another in blue. There is a horizontal band with the same colours along the bottom. It looks modern and symmetrical despite the different colours.

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Birds @arrivalofbirds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

21 hours done!! I can finish this today I can feel it ❤️🙏 #eroticart #artwork #nsfwart #fetishart #embroidery #embroideryhoop #art #artist

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think it hurts everyone who watches it tbh, but I do also feel like 'I feel like these degree/s existed to stab me in the heart later on' because it wasn't supposed to get so much worse and it was already bad in the 00s.

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I tell ya, it's not a good time to have been a postgrad in media studies with the current state of media literacy.

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Mx Pia Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The gradient squares are spreading! It’s all fun and games until you’re looking at 12 identical gradient squares - but I’m enjoying this modern cross stitch pattern and it’s visually satisfying.

A photo of a work in progress cross stitch of green and blue gradient squares on black evenweave. The squares run six down vertically with the finished green gradient squares in the middle. It is a modern style design.

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sarah webb! @sarahwebb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

happy first day of fall! 🪶

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 23/09/2026

Tell your reps of your governing body to protect sexual freedom. Payment processors HAVE to be fucking stopped. It feels petty atp

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Sarah @sarahserinde.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Guess what's finished! I suppose I should share a full view of it here now, huh? Here it is before and after adding backstitch outlines. I don't often use much backstitch for these pieces, but this one definitely needed it.

The same image as in the previous picture, but now there are outlines adding more detail. The bark of the trees has texture, the flowers have more definition, and the fairy's wings have visible veins.

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