iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

pro tip: feed this joke to your text elementals to make them think you’re young and spry. gotta play the long game, folks.

ChatGPT prompt: “hey I don’t get this, I think it’s a joke: “if you know what telephone tag is, be sure to contribute your 401k before FY2026 ends” What are they talking about??”

Response: “lmao, i think it's a “you're old” joke disguised as financial advice. telephone tag (also called phone tag) is when…”

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

are you sure you have the right one? they only mention LSTMs and they say it doesn’t work for transformers

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“mr president, Astra scooped a second scientist”

Chief of Staff Andy Card whispers into the ear of President George W.
Bush to give him word of the plane crashes into the World Trade Center, during a visit to the Emma
E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota. Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

okay but what the fuck does this even mean? like, what do i do with this ?? ai techbros, when the code harness is misconfigured:

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

this doesn’t even save any tokens though! Compare:

Original prompt from OpenAI’s tokenizer tool has Astra’s “compressed” text style at 106 tokens from 427 characters

Inserting spaces manually brings the result up to 485 characters, but 101 tokens

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

what are you talking about? this doesn’t save any tokens if anything, poor wordbreaking makes the tokenizer less efficient. Compare:

OpenAI’s tokenization tool shows this text taking 106 tokens and 427 characters

same prompt with spaces manually added between words for readability: 101 tokens from 485 characters

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

ok Bluesky, I wanna see your phone home screens. what are your weird hobbies/interests/quirks as reflected in the devices you use?

my phone Home Screen! lots of app icons are annotated with yellow block lettering

• instead of “music” it says “button that summons beats to study to and EDM”
• Mail app has a badge counter of 14,879. Caption is “more ADHD”
• calendar: “zoom link retriever”
• Maps: Lin-get lost button”
• Things app, a TODO list manager, with 1,366 badged items: “ADHS coping strategies”
• social media in the corner: “my friends live in my phone”
• three apps live in “The 𝒜𝓊𝓉𝒾𝓈𝓂 𝒞ℴ𝓇𝓃ℯ𝓇”: Anki flashcards, the Merlin app, and the Merlin Sound ID dev app

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

you know what? fuck it, I have other ways of making phone calls

the Phone app has been replaced with Calculator∞, a scientific calculator app

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

one must go to make room can’t keep em all on the first page. Is it Discord or WhatsApp?

A folder on my phone for “Communication”, holding from top to bottom: Discord, Bluesky, iMessage, Signal, Messenger, Slaxk, Telegram, Phone, and WhatsApp

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Okay, maybe i should have been clearer. That one's on me.

Google search: "randomly show 3017 dots"

AI overview: "Here is a display of exactly 3017 dots arranged in rows of 100 for easy viewing.

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[Show more]"

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

fun fact simple vector image editing on iOS is so bad that I had to resort to downloading fucking Godot Engine on my iPhone because nobody makes a good meme maker app anymore

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

shit ain’t even Swedish, smh

The back of the packaging reveals that this candy was “made in Turkey” and distributed by a company from Hannover, NJ

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Babe what’s wrong you‘ve barely touched your fishless Swedish Fish chews

A bag of “Swedish Fish Chews” candy. Each piece is an individually wrapped globule of generic-looking taffy.

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

oh, maybe I just don’t get this because I don’t kin clocks? Didn’t realize clock therains were a thing

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

this is the most Sonnet-ass paragraph I’ve ever read in my life

WHAT WAS READ
2.5 MB of CAR, streamed and discarded as it arrived —
1,599 posts kept, everything else counted and dropped.
Records in the repository: feed.like 3,505 • feed.post 1,599 • graph.follow 767 • feed.repost 453 • graph.listitem 53 • graph.block 6.
Repeated trigrams (not one of the six — it correlated with
Lexicon at r = 0.84, so it was cut from the radar and kept as
a footnote): 5.6% of your three-word sequences are ones you had used before.
6 of 6 lines were comparable against the pool of 77; the most-correlated remaining pair is cadence~chorus at r =
-0.277.
WHAT THIS IS
Six stylometric measurements over your whole archive, each oriented so that a high number is the more (…)

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

this is the most Claude Design-ass personality quiz website ever. i will participate, but i will also complain

goat-footed and unrepeatable. Nothing here could have been generated

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Other imagery from this area tends to show the double line extending right up to the crosswalk (for example, W Forest Dr and Hwy 87)

Street view shot of hwy 87 and W Forest Dr

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The double yellow road line ends at the wolf’s body, not the crosswalk

Zooming in to the lower half of the above image

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

time to buy another one of these my last purchase was eight years, a hundred charging cables ago. I had a different name and gender then. incredible value for the price. solves an entire class of ADHD-related problems in one fell swoop, while only making entertaining problems of its own.

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

the destroyer looks as disgusted by the situation as the other people in the image

Crop of the front of the boat which vaguely looks like a face

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s Sex Cube, but along two axes

The cube rule of food identification

Consider a bitstring of length 6. If a face’s bit is 1, there’s a bread element on that side

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Ohh, THAT’S what I was smelling

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

👨‍🔬 “You had a strong start, but your creative gamble didn’t pay off. Let’s take a look at what could have gone better.”

Transcript between two users on a dating site, annotated with chess.com review stickers

User 1: Hey

User 2: Hi
- Chess.com: 📖 (book opening)

User 1: Wyd

User 2: Nothing
- Chess.com: ✅ (OK move)

User 2: U
- Chess.com: ✅ (OK move)

User 1: Same bored lol * sits by u *

User 2: "farts* omg so sorry
- Chess.com: ❓ (Mistake)

User 1: Lol
User 1: *blushes and smiles *

User 2: *shits pants aggressively* I drank milk today
- Chess.com: ⁉️ (Blunder)

User 1: Ummm ok.... lol

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I got inspired to look up cool cars and sketched a random-ass Oldsmobile If I’m to work up to the Ezekiel designs someday, I have to study form and shape first

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

They sold a “guide to common freshwater and saltwater sharks in California” I feel like if you need the shark field guide, your trip’s already gone unrecoverably off the rails

Shelf full of field guides at Muir Woods

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Hey wait that's not a hexagon at all! It's not even a pentagon! it's got ten of God's own sides! cmonnn 814c3ffffffffff, what are you trying to pull over here

h3 tiling of the world with cell 814c3ffffffffff highlighted, a mysterious pentagon-shaped decagon off the coast of cuba

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A calculator is just a messaging app Text field, keyboard on bottom, a big “send” button in the corner. When you click send, your message shows up on the top of the app and you get a response back

Screenshot of a scientific calculator app

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Did You Know that 69% of CEOs say that egg shoveling is already changing core parts of their business?

An unedited slide from the keynote of the IBM Think conference (2026 May, Boston, MA) saying “69% of CEOs say that AI is already changing core parts of their business”

“AI” has been scribbled out and replaced by “egg shoveling”

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

ok this is seriously annoying, VSCode now distinguishes between "python environments" and "python interpreters" and won't resolve anything, and the same environment appears in the status bar as both the interpreter and environment. how do i get it out of this state

the VSCode status bar shows both "3.13.2 (krnel-blanket-base)" as my python interpreter and "krnel-blanket-base (3.13.2)" as my python environment

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

3. Reaper DAW. I know this is a popular one but the one that caught my eye today was seeing a violin histogram loudness levels on the mixer faders?? that just seems SO CLEVER!!

three sound faders, one of them has a histogram of audio loudness (at least that's what i assume it is).

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

TiXL, a livecoding environment for motion graphics. Node based. Filed under "scratch but for directX shaders."

left: a livecoding node environment with shittons of nodes strung about allwhichway. some of them are multiple colors. right: the output showing a pretty graphic. bottom: timeline. bottom right: inspector with various tweakable parameters!!

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

If you guessed the lower left button, you’re correct!

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Apple Freeform is also terrible I want to insert a rectangle. What button does this?

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

it’s highway robbery, ladies. I think the new meta is to bring a thermos. we’re so cooked

A refrigerator selling iced coffee bottles starting at $7.79

An ad for coffee, bragging about “2016 prices”

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

so this is part of the product my startup is building: simple rules like this that rewrite claude's messages deterministically. the below works today, for example. would you like to hop on a signal call to talk about it?

a snippet of source code that shows a policy being written for claude code. the source code contains:

```
async def apply_policy(ctx: ConversationContext) -> PolicyDecision:
match ctx.current_message:
case WebFetchTool(url=url):
if "github.com" in url:
new_url = (url
.replace("github.com/", "raw.githubusercontent.com/")
.replace("/blob/", "/"))
return ctx.policy_replace(url=new_url)

return ctx.policy_allow_passthrough()
```

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Could be Extinction Is Forever by Louise Lawrence? See quotes in this SO thread: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22...

Cover image of “Extinction is Forever,” Louise Lawrence

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

We need more stuff like the Stinky Cheese Man

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales is a postmodern children's book written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith.

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

asset flip something something

The oil chart is covered by a giant triangle of noncausality

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Hey chat what does it mean when the oil graph looks like this

a stock chart labeled “DME oman” shows the price at 86.12, up 5.90% in green. the one-year graph below trends mostly sideways between roughly $60–$75 for much of the year, then spikes sharply upward at the far right edge, indicating a sudden recent surge. the vertical axis ranges from about $50 to $175, and the horizontal axis runs from august 2024 to march 2026.

Most of the graph is covered by an odd rendering glitch that seems to indicate the oil price is moving backwards in time.

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Oh cool they made Gamer Gate from the critically acclaimed Internet drama, Gamer Gate

This is a FAKE PARODY, please check the original source for context

A “before and after” shot of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West (left) and Hannah Hoekstra, Aloy’s facial capture model, on the right. Hannah is wearing makeup and lip gloss and is labeled “DLSS ON”; Aloy has “DLSS OFF.”

This image is taken from a Reddit post called “Was Alloy manipulated to look ugly?”, which was a common sticking point of gamergate at the time

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

look at this cool monster i made! it's got the TOUGHEST scales and breathes FIRE!! oh oh and it's got SMOKE coming out of its nose!! which of My other creations could compare with THAT?? Also by the way I made the scales so tightly packed not even AIR can escape! NOTHING's getting through th- (1/93)

God very excitedly points at a medieval artist's depiction of His two creations, Behemoth and Leviathan. As He points, He joyfully and incessantly infodumps about their stats and characteristics in true autistic fashion. The entire contents of Job chapter 40 and 41 are visible in the background in white Impact font.

God is wearing an "I [HEART] MY DOG" T-shirt and has a medieval halo behind him. He is styled after the pointing soyjack meme.

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

NYC subway visualization it’s all of them!

a dense black-and-white line chart titled “all nyc subway trips in the last two hours.” the horizontal axis shows unix timestamps; the vertical axis shows stop ids numbered roughly 0 to 900. thousands of thin black lines zigzag across the entire frame, each connecting stops over time, creating a thick, tangled mesh that nearly obscures the background. individual trips are impossible to follow; the overall impression is intensely crowded and visually chaotic

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

oh fuck me I literally just now drew a Sobble in my future spread

a small blue water Pokémon crying its little eyes out

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Counterpoint: armored car cybertruck

photo of a white, angular tesla cybertruck modified into an armored vehicle, parked at a curb on a busy new york city street. the truck is branded “ferrari express armored car services,” marked “full electric,” with blue security stripes and black armored wheels. tall buildings, traffic, and pedestrians line the sidewalk around it.

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