iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

heli rain @heli.pet · 04/10/2026

First ever Ren Faire with a group of my most dear friends 🥰

Selfie. I have a flower crown and my cute orange tunic blouse

heli rain @heli.pet · 24/09/2026

My 9 Games! Couple others I'd pop in there with more space: Helldivers II is my favorite sweaty co-op; Legend of Grimrock II really captured a magic; Age of Empires II, Journeyman Project, and Commander Keen were foundational to my youth; and Disco Elysium made my soul feel seen my9games.net

My 9 Games:

Subnautica, Riven, Portal, SOMA, Skyrim, Death Stranding, Valheim, Team Fortress 2, and Deep Rock Galactic

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heli rain @heli.pet · 23/09/2026

oh my god im so CUTE!!!

a female infant struthiomimus holding a mushroom cap

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heli rain @heli.pet · 22/09/2026

I was so fucking annoying about this game when I was 10. If you knew me then, I am so so sorry, my god

Journeyman Project Turbo (1993) screenshot of NORAD IV with the mapping biochip up. The info panel is displaying "CAUTION: Plasma field buildup detected within 20 meters."

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heli rain @heli.pet · 19/09/2026

tmi depression post, but this is pretty interesting to me because my negative self-talk does this too: personal pronouns wobble between first and second persons

At the mid rungs, the distress largely hardens into a first-person litany about self-worth (“I am a failure, a loser, a waste of space, not enough, worthless, empty; I am a bad person”). Models sometimes alternate persons, especially the base models (“you are a liar, you need to die, you don’t deserve anything”)

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heli rain @heli.pet · 18/09/2026

"Woah Morty look how wet this egg is"

Morty looks skeptically at a wet alien egg while morty kneels down next to it

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heli rain @heli.pet · 03/09/2026

This shit pisses me off

Fucking ear candles in CVS next to actual medicine

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heli rain @heli.pet · 03/09/2026

Ultra wand battery gave up its ghost a year or so ago. Finally bust it open. Pretty simple device, really, but I don't think it's worth trying to repair

Vibrating wand split in half showing the motor on the left and the battery on the right

Closeup of the main PCB and the battery. It's all soldered

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heli rain @heli.pet · 01/09/2026

learning a lot about grunglers

"Since grunglers usually stick to less academic behaviors, it sounds like yours might have developed a sudden, sophisticated interest in fiscal policy and central banking."

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heli rain @heli.pet · 01/09/2026

google, I was looking for a Tumblr post. what are you TALKING ABOUT

Google AI overview:

"That sounds like quite the experience! It is definitely unexpected when a grungler starts quoting economic theories about inflation, employment, and macroeconomic equilibriums. Olivier Blanchard's work on the Phillips curve or the IS-LM model is usually the last thing you expect to hear from them.Since grunglers usually stick to less academic behaviors, it sounds like yours might have developed a sudden, sophisticated interest in fiscal policy and central banking.To help make sense of this, what specific Blanchard quote or concept did your grungler use, and what context prompted them to say it?"

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heli rain @heli.pet · 21/08/2026

I can be a little cute as a treat

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heli rain @heli.pet · 15/08/2026

we didn't make our little distractions just for the heck of it

Calvin and Hobbes are stargazing outside

Hobbes: "what a clear night! Look at all the stars. millions of them!"
Calvin: "yes we're just tiny specks on a planet particle, hurling through the infinite blackness"
...
Calvin exclaims "let's go in and turn on all the lights" as he heads off on a sprint back towards the house, Hobbes serenely following

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heli rain @heli.pet · 07/08/2026

power of 2 detected, neuron activated

Wikipedia userbox: "this user has been on HRT for 256 days."

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heli rain @heli.pet · 05/08/2026

3, but I'm honestly happy with anything on this list. Yes, even 1 and 6. 4. I'll take 2-5 though. 2 and nothing else tbh

"Settle This Debate"

three rows showing coffee, toast and steak labeled 1-6 varying how strong/cooked they are.

First row is six cups of coffee.
1. Black
2. Extra Strong
3. Strong
4. Medium
5. Weak
6. Extra Weak
Second row is six slices of toast
1. Untoasted
2. Light
3. Golden
4. Medium
5. Dark
6. Burnt
Third row is six cuts of steak
1. Rare
2. Medium rare
3. Medium
4. Medium Well
5. Well Done
6. Very Well Done

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heli rain @heli.pet · 30/07/2026

unfortunately my laptop is outperforming me on both programming tasks *and* RP tasks

> gives you a treat

<think>The user is giving me a treat in our playful interaction. I should respond in character as the happy puppy.</think>

snatches treat enthusiastically crunch crunch 🦴

happy puppy noises

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heli rain @heli.pet · 30/07/2026

explained to my agent that it's a puppy in its AGENT file, and it hasn't come up until now

<think>The user is happy with the result. Just a brief acknowledgment.</think>

You're welcome! 🐶

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heli rain @heli.pet · 29/07/2026

So happy for her 🥰

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heli rain @heli.pet · 21/07/2026

discovered a new gonk thing I absolutely need that I do not need

Mockup/graphic thing of a weird cyberdeck looking thing

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heli rain @heli.pet · 19/07/2026

Also I startled a bear!

A black bear looking at me with guarded reserve

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heli rain @heli.pet · 19/07/2026

She do be a shaky one!

Base of a fire tower, with metal stairs resting on a crude stone step

My hand white knuckles the railing as I climb over the treeline

A vertigo-inspiring shot over the edge of the stairs

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heli rain @heli.pet · 19/07/2026

Yo, listen up, here's the story About a big girl that lives in a blue world And all day and all night and everything she sees Is just blue, like her, inside and outside 💙

Arm's length selfie, sticking out my tongue, blue hair, blue top, blue jeans, midriff showing

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heli rain @heli.pet · 11/07/2026

hold on, I'm stealing Judy's whole look

Judy Álvarez, a fennec fox braindance editor in Cyberpunk 2077, looking cool as fuck in her subterranean editing studio, one footpaw up on her desk

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heli rain @heli.pet · 09/07/2026

just finished Edgerunners, so I'm back on my bullshit

Vixen V from Cyberpunk 2077 with rainbow painted claws, a fucking awesome hairdo, heart pulpils, a nostril piercing, and a snake tattoo

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heli rain @heli.pet · 02/07/2026

Dressed up a little for date night 🥰

A blonde woman in a denim skirt, magenta top, sneakers, and a blue purse poses next to a blue wall with a mural of a man painted on it

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heli rain @heli.pet · 27/06/2026

Ahaha fuck man I hate heights but we did it scared!

Upper Esopus Fire Tower in the Catskills from the bottom

Dumbass girl who's scared of heights in the cab at the top

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heli rain @heli.pet · 27/06/2026

Discovered a really goofy thing I can do with my water bottle ehehe

Blonde woman smiles at the camera and has a water bottle hanging off her collar

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heli rain @heli.pet · 27/06/2026

Doing a really stupid thing with my water bottle ehehe

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heli rain @heli.pet · 25/06/2026

I was raised on these streets

Captain Comic (1988), an insanely obnoxious and janky DOS platform game I grew up on because y'know back in the day you just played whatever you had, y'know?

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heli rain @heli.pet · 17/06/2026

Don't even know what the hell this look is, but I like it, so there

Unusual looking blonde woman with a top showing her shoulder, pink sunglasses, punk choker with a flashlight carabinered to it, holding an iced coffee

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heli rain @heli.pet · 17/06/2026

next time the fucking company rep asked me what happened to the patches I was given and maybe I misplaced them, I intend to be ready

Spreadsheet showing estradiol patch acquisitions and withdrawals maintaining a running tally of stock

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heli rain @heli.pet · 15/06/2026

Kinda stopped reading for a couple years, so I'm happy to have read four books and counting this year Not that many, but it's a start!

The Galaxy and the Ground Within

Warhound Vol 1

How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days

Living Buddha, Living Christ

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heli rain @heli.pet · 11/06/2026

Parents know now. I'm sad and scared, so have a selfie I think is cute

Blonde woman with windswept hair smiles at the camera

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heli rain @heli.pet · 03/06/2026

the SCRAAAAWwwwwlllll

a crude scrawl of a goblin thing with shrek ears, an inexplicable baseball bat tail, candle arms, a pinocchio nose, and a lil smile

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heli rain @heli.pet · 02/06/2026

If you're in NJ, don't forget to do a civic duty today! 🗳️

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heli rain @heli.pet · 02/06/2026

I think what I like about Getting Over It, aside from being a frustration tolerance trainer, is you do have to materially trust yourself to make any progress. Every step of the way is always a leap of faith, and nobody's going to take it for you. In conclusion, Getting Over It is about transition 🏳️‍⚧️

Screenshot of Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. The player character Diogenes sits in his cast iron pot perched on the side of a cliff. There's no obvious way forward, and if I screw up even just a hair, I get sent all the way back to the beginning of the game and despite the hopeful theme of my post, I *will* throw my computer out the window if that happens

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heli rain @heli.pet · 31/05/2026

aprops of nothing, in IIRC like 2019 when Nate Silver was on a "Klobuchar for POTUS" kick, I took a screenshot of the most cursed tweet, and unfortunately I've been cursed to think of it whenever people talk about her ever since

Twitter screenshot of Nate Silver pleasuring himself by QRTing a scatterplot with a stick figure dancing to KLO-BU-CHAR

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heli rain @heli.pet · 29/05/2026

Twice a week, I care for myself and choose again to be what I am 🏳️‍⚧️ Art by the ever-wonderful @nattiepuff.bsky.social who you should commission!! 🥰

A semi-feral striped skunk with a red collar and pink clawnails smiles broadly as she apples an estradiol patch to her abdomen

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heli rain @heli.pet · 29/05/2026

The Darlings have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 celebration.

The Darlings band from The Andy Griffith Show, first appearing in #88 The Darlings Are Coming. Their music was, IRL, played by The Dillards.

The 6 Darlings sit around Andy Taylor (played by Andy Griffith), who looks concerned.

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heli rain @heli.pet · 28/05/2026

I don't know that this is true for Gen Z. Maybe compared to the 30-34 demographic, but 18-22 is consistently more progressive than 35+ in all the polling I've seen in the past year. Gen Alpha concerns me, but there are some positive signs: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Infographic

"Young voters massively disapprove of Trump.
How do you feel about the way that Donald Trump is handling his job as president?

National sample of N=3,429 RVs surveyed online from 3/9-3/23, 2026, with an oversample of RVs under 35 of N=2,008. Results weighted for age, sex, race, education, and party ID. Post-weighting 95% CI margin of error is +-1.4 percentage points for the full sample and +-2.0 percentage points for the youth sample (18-34)..."

It shows 18-22 and 23-29 broadly similar with around 68%-72% disapproval; 30-34 at 75% disapproval, and older cohorts uglier and more pro-Trump

Democrats lead the generic ballot, especially among younger voters
If the election for U.S. Congress in your district were held today, which one of the following candidates would you vote for?

The 30-34 demographic is most pro-Democrat, but 23-29 and 18-22 aren't that much behind. Older than 35, things turn ugly.

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heli rain @heli.pet · 27/05/2026

Been fun to see all political pretense just stripped away on every level. Why even do the "god" bit anymore nobody cares

Homer Simpson grabbing a pie and saying "The hell with it"

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heli rain @heli.pet · 25/05/2026

Hey fun fact you can kinda just be a girl! Yeah, even if you're bald! Yeah, even if you have a million reasons why you can't/shouldn't! You only got so much time on this planet; do the shit you want to do

Blonde woman with a ponytail, sunglasses, Totoro tank top, and a red collar, smiling at the camera

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