iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 03/08/2026

me, watching a movie in a theater for the first time in *garbled* years: wow movies are good people should go to them more often

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 21/07/2026

"Rock Legend" in the headline is doing a crazy amount of work to try to level the playing field with motherf*ckin' Bruce Springsteen

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 18/07/2026

I'm starting to think that adding "quantum" to the popular lexicon was a mistake.... I'm just trying to imagine what anti-science rabbit hole a person has to go down not only to believe this, but to believe that somehow quantum computers are the problem, not the core concept of a data center

Bluesky post with the text "I feel these 'data centers' are actually quantum computers being built. And that seems very dangerous."

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 18/07/2026

Been hearing that there is some bill with funding for transistors that only transgenders qualify for. Where do I sign up? I got some personal projects I've been sitting on

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 18/07/2026

Been getting up around the same time pretty consistently for about two weeks now and I regret to inform everyone that it does seem to have fixed many of my sleep issues

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 18/07/2026

Gonna hang this up at the office

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 18/07/2026

I constantly ask myself why I spend so much time on the "destroy my mental health" website. But then someone comes along and reminds me there are tools to make it not completely abysmal

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 17/07/2026

I work in an office that's under roughly 50 meters of limestone and the other day we picked up KCNW 1380 as they beseeched me to accept our Lord and Savior. Through God's light truly all things are possible...or a radio tower is directly above us. One of those two, for sure.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 15/07/2026

A couple weeks ago, while out on a run, a youngin yelled "you go, girl!" at me. Today, while out on a run, an owner told their dog to "leave that girl alone" as I ran past Running sucks, but ooh, boy does getting correctly gendered by strangers make it all worth it

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 15/07/2026

Realizing that if I want to have written more that I'm going to have to...😖...have to...🤢...have to write more 🤮🤮🤮

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 12/07/2026

Guys, cut Death some slack. Their dance card just says "shitty old white dude" and its working their way through everyone who meets that criteria

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 08/07/2026

Had a pastor thank god for their working organ after watching me work on it all day. It's just nice to be recognized as a deity now and then

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 07/07/2026

Yachts. thelifeofsharks.com/product/yach...

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 08/07/2026

my general explanation for the state of the world is that the center of this venn diagram is empty

Venn diagram with three circles: "Ethical," "Makes a living wage," "Worth spending your life on." The center of the diagram is marked out.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 05/07/2026

My spouse has left the house for a couple hours, and now I shall sit and accomplish nothing for the entirety of their absence

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 05/07/2026

New author challenge: write enough em dashes to make an LLM cry

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/07/2026

See, I would be a redshirt with Scotty down in engineering, which is on its own fine. The problem is that I would also be all doe-eyed and go, "ooh, new alien world! Let me come explore it with you Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk!"

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

1/x Once again, I have to say this, bc even allies, even some trans ppl are being taken in by the rhetoric of "fairness in sport" to the point where they don't know how to respond when the topic comes up. So buckle up, it's another Crip Dyke megathread you need to read all of.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/07/2026

Show me a picture that captures your essence

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/07/2026

Watched a couple feeding a squirrel (while taking a video of it, naturally) only for that same squirrel to literally tap me on the shoulder trying to get me to give it my sandwich a couple minutes later

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/07/2026

Went to the Grand Canyon this last weekend for the first time in my life. While it lived up to its name, the thing that stuck with me is just how many times I saw people doing the *exact* things you are asked not to do

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 01/07/2026

My buddy is running a Curse of Strahd campaign that I unfortunately don't have time to join But I do fortunately have time to help him brainstorm all the ways to horrify his players and make them never trust anybody ever again *cackles*

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 01/07/2026

Make the closest guess to how many Roman Coins are in this jar and you win a curse!

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 01/07/2026

Airport lounges want you to believe they are a luxurious experience, but I know the truth: They still use single-ply toilet paper.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/06/2026

It's only Pride if you come out during Pride month, otherwise it's just "sparkling sin"

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 28/05/2026

Holy freakin' crap guys, that's *the* Bad Astronomer himself tweeting that my blog post on the efficiency of the orbital mechanics of launching your enemies into the sun is quote "amazing." Okay, okay, everybody just be cool about it. Cool and collected, that's me. Definitely...

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 24/05/2026

Gotten a lot of other pictures I'm quite proud of the last few days, including some cool cat pigeons and a Dodge Charger that just begged me to turn all the Lightroom knobs up to 11

Black and white photo of two pigeons underneath a bridge, one in a drain pipe. They are looking at each other.

Cliff side receiving some glorious yellow sunshine rays while surrounded and topped by verdant trees.

Flowering tree over a quiet gravel road.

A black Dodge Charger parked peacefully in a glade. The photo has been edited to have a Michael Bay-esque shininess to it.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 24/05/2026

Vintage lenses are fun*...if you get lucky and have an Eastern Bluebird pose for you long enough to figure out how to nail the manual focus. Konica Hexar AR 200mm f/4 attached to a Olympus Pen E-PL2 *that is, cheap and therefore actual accessible to me

Female Eastern Bluebird perched on a branch looking wistfully to the left

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 18/05/2026

There is a $40 dollar product that does this exact thing, but instead I spent $500+ in labor to craft one myself. Worth it.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 25/04/2026

Welp, I have come to find out I have almost no ability to taste bitter. It's not much of a superpower, but I am excited about the prospect of freaking people tf out by biting into a bulb of garlic like it's an apple

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

this is the first time in my life i can point to the moon and tell my cat there are astronauts flying to it

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Message to men: you can date/marry way, way above your league if you will just fucking learn to cook and do some laundry, please stop hitting yourself in the face with hammers or "optimising" things and try vacuumcleanermaxxing instead...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 02/03/2026

I try not to be too "oh everything is 1984" but holy everloving sh*t I just can't imagine the audacity of calling an unprovoked act of war a sign of "determination to be a man of peace"

"Well done, Mr. President," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. "As I watch and monitor this historic operation, I'm in awe of President Trump's determination to be a man of peace at the end of the day, evil's worst nightmare."

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 27/02/2026

Dog sitting and the dog in question (Blue) was nice enough to allow me to practice my portraiture on her My only regret is that I ended up with five adorable candids and bluesky only lets me post four...

Blue the dog laying on grass with her head tilted toward the camera

Blue the dog mid yawn while laying in the grass

Blue the dog looking intently off to the right while laying in the grass

Blue the dog with a satisfied look on her face

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 20/02/2026

I could spend every day just photographing the squirrels in my backyard and I would have ended up living a happy life

Gray squirrel sitting on a fence post and looking to the right with golden sunlight coming from the left

Gray squirrel midway through a blink, cautiously coming out from behind a grill

Gray squirrel stretching up and sniffing a branch laying on the ground

Gray squirrel atop a branch like the captain at the front of their ship. One hand is tucked to their chest

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 19/02/2026

Obviously bonkers, but I think what blows me away is the idea that >50 years would include books written during the lives of *people who are still alive* "Sorry, grandson, I was going to recommend you a book pivotal to my childhood, but then I remembered you should only read 'contemporary' works."

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 03/02/2026

Highly recommend @adamneely.bsky.social's most recent video on how technocapitalists are working to make recorded music worse, if only for this one frame www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...

Technocapitalist and billionaire Marc Andreeson with the caption "[laughs in billionaire]"

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Black Hart of Saint Paul @blackhartstp.com · 28/01/2026

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 26/01/2026

If they're not resigning en masse, it's clearly not low enough

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

If you’re looking for a silver lining to all this fascism, bookstores are back baby. And it’s not just chains. Indie bookstores are also thriving. parade.com/news/booksto...

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Bookstores Are Thriving Again, Defying Years of Predictions

Bookstores are booming despite predictions that brick and mortar stores will close, and new locations continue to open as readers return to physical books.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 21/01/2026

Incredibly jealous/impressed with people able to maintain a creative habit at a time like this (see: his entire second term)

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 19/01/2026

A bunch of birds were hanging out in my backyard and *immediately* scattered when I stepped outside. But it was too cold for me to not get something for my trouble

A dark-eyed junco sitting on a branch looking to the left

A male eastern bluebird on a thin branch looking forward

A European starling? It is looking to the left, showing off it's beak that is black at the end and yellow along the rest of it.

A fox squirrel on the prowl for something tasty

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 15/01/2026

*screaming myself hoarse from the rooftops* ART IS INHERENTLY REVOLUTIONARY

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lady brainiac @gierratio.com · 15/01/2026

Related, I kinda want to start a blog of "animals that aren't supposed to be at the zoo"

A squirrel hanging out at the zoo near a polar bear sculpture

Geese hanging out in a prairie enclosure for African animals

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