iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Maybe I should intuit being concise enough to fit ludicrously simple ideas into one post rather than torturing one and all with a rambling stream of consciousness. Or write a goddamn blog post instead.

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Point is, that 'revelation' was incredible. I could literally never intuit this plainly obvious fact without months and months and months of hands-on experience. It's embarrassing being this bad at something I spend so much time with, but it's so thrilling working through it.

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Case in point: After nearly a year of this, and a couple of months of doing an exercise in breaking the body down into basic shapes, I've only just clocked that the nipples are parallel to the rest of the chest because…. yeah, obviously they are. I've always been deeply spatially challenged.

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It's all stuff that I've heard before, too. But I find that this is a really challenging domain to integrate didactic learning into (or even just to retain). It's quite unlike any other domain to me; there's no satisfactory capture of a concept through words or data. I just have to experience it.

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As much as I joke about never really improving at drawing, the thing that I really love about my daily-ish routine is those rare moments of "Oh, THAT'S how that works!" I've always been really spatially challenged, so there's something really joyful about spotting the probably obvious.

dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

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[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The opening hour of Fortune's Weave feels like this:

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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 18/09/2026

what cis people fail to understand about transphobia is that it's not "treating trans men as women and trans women as men," it's "constantly occupying the status of Third-Sexed Unhuman who can be gendered in whichever way is most convenient at any given moment"

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Hannah @hannahl.co.uk · 14/09/2026

Spent all day looking forward to the chilli I've had on the go, and it might just be my finest work yet. Joyous day.

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Hannah @hannahl.co.uk · 13/09/2026

The hope is that eventually this is something I can get quick enough at that I feel comfortable layering in more detailed exercises. But this eats anywhere between 35–50 minutes depending on the pose and how I'm feeling on any given day. For ONE pose (three times, sure, but still).

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Hannah @hannahl.co.uk · 13/09/2026

Having more time to throw at more things that are wildly wrong will probably be real good for me. My basic principles are definitely starting to get there; it's usually just some mistake early on that throws the entire thing way off — usually the chest being proportionally too wide.

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Hannah @hannahl.co.uk · 13/09/2026

Getting faster at my daily 'drawing' (really just basic construction) practice. Might need to start doing multiples a day, which might help my slow development. One a day (albeit several times) isn't enough for my tastes, but I've other things to do so I have to settle for what I can squeeze in.

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Hannah @hannahl.co.uk · 10/09/2026

If I could make sense of the decentralisation model for this thing I'd be gone already. Unfortunately I can't make heads or tails of it. Great that my personal data can be taken anywhere, but that doesn't mean it's useful everywhere, or that I can connect to the rest of the network from anywhere

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Hannah @hannahl.co.uk · 10/09/2026

Moderation on this platform is just forums with venture capital

Hannah @hannahl.co.uk · 10/09/2026

"Mastodon is bad because it's all just getting banned for mod drama!" I scream, as the Bluesky team enters day three of actively ragebaiting people, then banning them for undisclosed reasons when they reply negatively.

Ash @santanaelchan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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Sony: we are getting rid of game discs forever fuck you Microsoft: our next console cant even read game discs fuck you Nintendo: Samus is BACK and BOY, is she HUNGRY

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Hannah @hannahl.co.uk · 03/09/2026

Khronkite on KWin isn't QUITE as nice as I've found Mango to be, but at least I can actually use my graphics tablet. And the configuration options are better than GNOME's to boot. All in all I'm real happy with this setup, even if it is less modular than I was hoping to be.

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Hannah @hannahl.co.uk · 03/09/2026

After discovering that tablet support for window managers is pretty much universally terrible, I spent most of today porting over my desktop to KDE (since all of GNOME's tiling extensions don't suit my needs and are subject to Mutter's horrible bugs to try and set up a tiling management system there

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Oh dear, I seem to have chosen a compositor that doesn't support any graphics tablet configuration. Given that it doesn't look like any standalone compositors support button configuration, and few have region limitation I've a feeling I MIGHT spend the rest of my week off falling down a rabbit hole

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I think my only gripe is that there is exactly one application it doesn't appear to work in at all, and the candidate window always slightly overlaps my input. But it otherwise does exactly as IBus did, without randomly repeating keypresses over the space of five minutes for seemingly no reason.

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After a week and a half of trying to battle IBus and Anthy for Japanese text input, it turns out the sensible solution all along was to just switch to fcitx5 and Mozc. It actually works!

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The past couple of weeks in niche computer news sure does make me want to swear off any and all technology to go and live in the woods far away from anything resembling civilisation. Your life is markedly improved by not knowing who DHH is, or that basically everyone is throwing money at him