iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I am confused …. Do they want me to labor or not???

Jiffy Lube sign: “DONT
LABOR
OVER
CAR
CARE
NOW HIRING”

Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sam Altman: Artificial General Intelligence is here. Also Sam Altman: ChatGPT can make a picture of you with 80s hair! 80s HAIR!!!

From an email from ChatGPT I received today:

ChatGPT

We've been busy. Here's what's new.
From bringing your imagination to life with Images 2.5, to thinking out loud with
the new Voice mode, to pushing the boundaries of what's possible with GPT-6
Astra-there's plenty to explore.
Try Images 2.5

LET'S
PARTY!

New photo. Wrong decade.
Try big '80s hair or a '90s album-cover look. Different era.
Unmistakably you.
Go back in time

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Finally a robot I would pay for !

Headline in Futurism: Scientists Create New Humanoid Robot That Flinches in Fear When You Come Close

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My wife and I love movies about invitations that should never have been accepted. Dinner parties from hell, weekends with friends who turn into demons, and other reasons why social anxiety is just good common sense. Here is what is on our list so far boxd.it/Hu22w

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

All the text on this Luddite meme is generated by Ai. Which is so fucking depressing I am going back to bed.

Screenshot of Pangram analysis of image scoring the text as 100% AI generated.
The image is of a woman in a cap holding a white sign that reads:

I REFUSE to install an app just to park my car.
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REFUSE to open an account just to order food.
I REFUSE to scan a QR code just to view a menu.
I REFUSE to hand over my email every time I shop.
I MISS when you could simply live your life WITHOUT every company TRACKING your every MOVE.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

All the text on this luddite manifesto is made with AI, which... fuck everything :(

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Werner on AI and the arts: “It’s mimicry of something that has happened before… And I welcome AI to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it’s ad nauseam. When it’s ad nauseam, please, please, please let AI step in and do the job.”

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When the internet was mostly people shouting at each other, the lords decreed this the sum total of human knowledge & slurped it all up & put it in a black box called "AI" & asked people to pay for it to generate for them more "internet" from the slurry. Pufnstuff was buried in a pauper's grave 3/3

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Then came the age of the platform fiefdoms, beginning with Google's turn towards monetization & the algorithmization of attention. Pufnstuf was allowed to be mayor of the internet, an honorary title. Everyone was working for the platforms now. For free. 2/3

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A Grim Fairy Tale: The internet was once like the Library of Alexandria if the Library had been curated by H. R. Pufnstuf. This was not a bad thing for much of the early history of the internet. After all, Puf & friends were so high they would let us put anything we wrote on the shelf. 1/3

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I loved THE UNWORTHY and can’t wait to read the story collection! I’m doing CALCULATION OF VOLUME (on vol 3 now) and it is breaking my brain

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I don’t often get my orchids to bloom, but when i do … 🤯

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Two days without power and I’m already eating ice cream out of the carton while walking the dogs. Speaking of which, I told my wife it was a thing everyone was doing on Bsky, so if she asks back me up, ok?

Me with gallon of ice cream while walking dog, feeling like this is the right thing to do

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Power is out for the next couple of days after massive storm ripped through. Time to level up my booknook skills to flashlight difficulty

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Post you from a different era in your life

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

About to have 5 billion dollar movies for the year after only 7 months. And two are not franchise movies. So much for the death of Hollywood, which has been prophesied for going on a century now

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Today I saw inside the cabinet of wonders that has remained for decades closed to me— and I shall never be the same

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Discovered the demon who haunts me in a 15th century volume: the Noonday Demon, said to afflict mortals around midday, leaving them tired and distracted

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Awesome 15th-century tarot cards — from show at Morgan

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I worry that Mitch McConnell only has one shirt. Gonna send this one over to the hospital where he is … resting

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The 2020s are the worst decade since 1660s London. Welcome to my TED talk

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Picture of me before I was famous (I’ll update with the “after” picture once I’m famous)

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

As a city kid it took me far too long to realize that the best way out of the quicksand of depression is getting outside and looking at the amazing worlds spinning their magic all around. Today it was these bees enjoying the blooming mountain mint

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Brothers asleep on a hotel bed. Paris, 2003. These two have made my world a magical place and give me hope for the future

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If god didn’t want me to spend the day in bed he wouldn’t have made me so sleepy

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This show is a gem. It is on Amazon prime, which has no business having quality shows, so easily missed. But so worth it 😍

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Then fucking kick them all out and let's start fresh. This is not the mic drop these guys think it is

Stephen King @StephenKing

X.com

Tell you what--if you knew the whole truth about everyone in the Senate and House of Reps, those chambers would be dead empty. Jesus said, "Let him without sin cast the first stone." 5:52 PM • 7/6/26 • 236K Views 1K

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Am I going to get fired if I call LG a loathsome bag of puss who sold out what precious few values he had to cuddle up with fascists? I sure hope not, because that’s the nicest thing I can say about him.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Using AI to create is like paying someone to travel around the world for you so you can post the photos of the trip on social media. Or taking on extra job to pay for the AI credits so an algorithm attached to a giant database can perform the best part of being human. cartoon by @twonks.bsky.social

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The shitheel ruins everything he touches 😡 [cartoon by @anntelnaes.bsky.social ]

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I celebrated the fourth by rearranging my 1960s Barbies and doing a photo shoot. Like a normal 60 year old

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I was thinking back to 1976 when I was a ten year old living in Brooklyn, watching the international flotilla of tall ships arrived to celebrate the bicentennial. And then I realized: I have been doing this human-suit thing for 24% of the time America has been doing its nation-suit thing. 😮

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I am pretty sure the same team did Trump's Arch that did Spinal Tap's stonehenge

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

So sad to be missing the fun in DC-- looks amazing 😂

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Napping at work is as close to heaven as I deserve to get

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I'm old enough to remember when "truce" meant suspending war. Someone needs to get me an updated dictionary for this hellscape.

Heading: "Iran attacks US military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait as strikes strain fragile truce"
"Trump warns Iran 'will no longer exist' if its strikes continue while
Tehran threatens to halt negotiations"

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Feels like it has been a weak year for movies so far, but I am also behind. The only 2026 movies I have been impressed by at the half-way mark of the year are PROJECT HAIL MARY, THE DRAMA, BACKROOMS, and THE CHRISTOPHERS. What am I missing? #filmsky

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Make America the Kid Nobody at the Prom Would Ask to Dance (Again). MAKNPWADA!!

Trump standing awkwardly and confused while all the other world leaders gathered inhabit comfortably fitting person-suits.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I love Columbus, Ohio — because this is where I was born and where I live. It is no better or worse than any other city or state. But it is mine. Also, this hot lady lives there and hangs out with me @hewitt33.bsky.social

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

My license capture my essence: old and slow

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

In 2019 I was in Rome and fell in love with e with bear’s britches, a Mediterranean native which grew wild on the hillsides. Took me a bit but I finally have some established in Columbus (some call it the “Rome of Central Ohio”) and I hope it spreads and takes over everything ♥️

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