iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

i think this is a pretty good way to deal with that. then you slap a label on it that just says, "hey, use at your own risk, because these things haven't been vetted at all." and maybe contain it, too. you have to jump through n hoops to get to it if you're really interested.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

that's not easy, of course. but it's a one-step-at-a-time thing. and you can do it. i believe in you.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

that you tried is good. but i hope that you don't end up in my boat and i hope that when you do feel poorly about yourself in that way, that you can eventually find a way to be at peace with yourself for what you look like.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

i can understand. in my case, i was comfortably round for a long time, and then the doctor told me i was headed towards diabetes and that straightened me out. [but it was the worst way to have that happen. lol.] weight is a very difficult thing to get under control at the best of times.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

this is amazing. beautiful and intricate.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

this is beautiful and intricate. i love it :)

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

absolutely. and i'm sorry you have to fight with it like that.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

of course. i hope you find the strength within yourself to battle that particular inner demon and win.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

we're no longer on the early internet and haven't been for almost twenty five years at this point. someone was always going to try something like this with the kind of open door policy the aur presently has.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

yup. the idea of the aur is cool. but the implementation makes it difficult to trust. [and especially because there have been repeated problems with stuff adjacent to this in the aur in the past.] arch really needs to tighten the screws a little more on who can put things into the aur.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

the fifa guy's response is very: "i'm paying you in exposure!"

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

yeah. true. if it were a textbook, i would really rather prize brevity, conciseness, accuracy of facts and good writing that explains well. if it were fiction, i'd want to go in a more complex direction.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

an absolutely unsurprising turn of events.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

i love this. it has very "let me tell you about my spells and socery" energy. :)

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

i 100% agree with this. all this stuff is not helping our attention spans at all.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

rest in peace cimoooooooo. your interest in yu-gi-oh and the things you built around it were awesome. my thoughts are with his friends and family.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

writing that genuinely wants to make you feel like you're there experiencing the situation - often by being quite verbose about it. dashing toward accessibility sometimes feels like simplifying down to a point where that sort of lived-in-ness can get lost.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

but i think it's also true that people just had - likely - more patience for unwinding what they were reading, where that sort of patience - with modern works - seems in short supply. and i just want that sort of writing back. writing that takes it's time and that unfolds.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

i 100% know that not everyone feels the way i do, but i like actually reading books from the 1850's and 1860's, for example, and seeing the difference in style. [it's pretty marked.] - now it's fair that the AUDIENCE for those books was very different.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

right. as i say: i think you can have more accessible books. and i think that's fine. but we keep moving towards that - and sometimes at the expense of linguistic complexity and wordplay and interesting to read prose. and that feels like it's flattening down what we can do with books.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

fair :) i've never played any of the tomb raider games, so i missed out on this era of these sorts of graphics.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

i love it! and i love the low poly nature of it. if it's ever a vehicle made for real, it should have all those angles and that texture to go with it. it makes for a great getaway vehicle :)

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

and i remember those days with that book very fondly as a result. i want MORE books like this. not less.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

and i 100% want more books to challenge me more often. eg: it's not the most dense book in existence, but the two or so weeks i read "always coming home" by ursula leguin on the train - and stopping to pause and to think about what i read - is a feature of that book [and not a bug.]

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

ready, player one and armada both had this problem, too. [i mean, ernest cline can't really write, so that book has multiple problems. conversations are just one of the many.] so, i'm sorry. i'm all for accessible text, and i think there should be books like that, but i value complexity.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

it also sometimes just leads to "this book has no real voice." as a bad example, i'll cite endgame. [by james frey*] everyone spoke in clipped sentences that were the least fun to read. * likely not written by frey. he is a con artist.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

i heartily disagree with real_mstar_author. part of what makes reading interesting is reading complexity. one of the things i actively dislike about modern music, for example, is how stripped down the lyrics are. i WANT TO be engaged by your wordplay. "more approachable prose" is an ok idea, but

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

uh huh. the iran war. peace. i think you should consult a dictionary. you don't understand the word. also, while you're there, you should look up idiot. you'll find a picture of yourself [and several other maga, too.]

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

oh no! the guy who's constantly throwing people under busses threw you under a bus! how could you possibly have seen that coming?!

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

yaaaaaay! so happy! that's excellent news :)

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

i... what... this person obviously doesn't understand coding. and likely got into it for all the wrong reasons [money, i suspect.] half the reason you do the work is because the puzzle of writing code is part of the joy of doing it. if puzzles don't interest you, what are you even doing there?

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

it me! i use filters all the time! ;)

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

dysmorphia is difficult. but the people who love you and want to be around you and smile when they see you mean all those things. you are not a burden to those people. though i know it can be difficult to untangle how you feel about yourself from what people show you via their actions.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

aww, that's very sweet. i'd be curious to see the others. this is a cool little project.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

this is a very kind little drawing that @jordanion.bsky.social did of greywolfe. i love it. thank you so much.

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greywolfe @greywolfe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

aww. it's adorable. i love it. :) thank you.

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