iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 12/09/2026

adopted my perfect daughter five years ago today 💖💖💖💖💖

chopper the tortoiseshell cat, curled up on a fuzzy blanket, opens one eye and looks at the camera

chopper the tortoiseshell cat sits next to a pride flag promoting the film "girls like girls"

chopper flails her limbs with a wild look in her eyes, on the back of a sofa, by a rainbow of reflected light

in a garden, chopper peers out through the bubble of her officially licensed limited edition stray x travel cat adventure backpack

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 01/09/2026

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

photo of the empty lobby of the Cinearts at the Empire theater with the Sickos guy from Stan Kelly's Onion comics peering through the glass door saying "Yes... ha ha... yes!"

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 17/08/2026

learning hiragana is a lot to take in, but thankfully the mnemonics are super helpful

screenshot of the Tofugu hiragana guide, edited to say: "さ is just the S sound plus あ, making a sa sound. It's pronounced like sa in 'sad.' Notice how this kana looks like a character from the early 2000's webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del, which was sometimes unexpectedly sad. This comic is so sad, I'm at a loss!" An standalone image of the さ kana sits beside a picture of it superimposed over the face of the main character from Ctrl+Alt+Del.

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 16/08/2026

grabbed a bite at the Immersive Transphobia Experience diner

holly sits smiling in an old-timey diner, holding a menu titled comptons

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 31/07/2026

made this reminder so I wouldn't forget about Violent Femmes tickets, but leaving it because it's always good to remember: don't forget about femmes. (time sensitive)

iphone reminder notification saying "time sensitive: femmes"

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 27/06/2026

kagi continues to be the funniest search engine for looking up Jensen McRae's music

kagi search results for "god has a hitman". all of the text results, and 2 of the 3 video results, are about the song with that title by Jensen McRae. the final video result is titled "God Has Angelic Hitmen", the thumbnail shows a video essay bro with "no seriously" splashed across him next to a picture of Agent 47 from the Hitman video game series with wings and a halo

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 11/06/2026

15 years since I asked this girl if she wanted to change her facebook relationship status to "in a relationship" with me 💕

Holly and Faith hug at a table, while some
random dude gives Faith bunny ears in the background

Faith making peace signs next to a slice of cake celebrating our anniversary, ala Grant Gustin at Oliver Queen's grave

two fancy cocktails (one pink, one white) at Lore

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 07/06/2026

(angrily, through gritted teeth) good morning flying edna digital calendar

doodle of someone hanging from a balloon, flying over houses saying: Change takes time, I said and she laughed. Time takes time, she said. Change only takes changing. But, she added, it can take time to get the hang of that.

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 08/05/2026

ShellieMay is real. Duffy is real, and strong, and he's my friend.

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 02/04/2026

always reminds me of my terrible friends, who I hate 💖

@murrman5: [me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived on a deserted island for a year] it was crazy
[friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 27/03/2026

finally achieved my months-long dream of taking a picture with the cardboard BART train

Holly stands behind the window of a giant cardboard standee of a BART train

a sign advertising BART Mart Artist Alley in front of the BART exit gates

a selfie of Holly with a standee of Baylee the GOAT, one of BART's anime mascots

treasures from BART mart: stickers, BART jibbits, a zine of BARTable places, a print of Together Everywhere characters riding a BART, and a matchbook depicting the Sutro Baths in Bay Area, Japan

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 23/03/2026

my new favorite crow fact is "crows will make a big production of helping family, but mostly end up getting in the way". They're just like us 🖤

Helpers would bring sticks and other nesting material to help the female build the nest. At one nest there were five helper crows busily bringing sticks “faster than the one female could handle them.” The project quickly became a disorganized mess.

Eventually, the female somehow communicated that it was time to halt stick deliveries. It took her an additional two weeks to finally complete the nest with the materials on hand.

Kilham concluded, “There is a limit, conceivably, to the number of adult auxiliaries that can be of help rather than a hindrance.” In other words, too many cooks in the kitchen … Yes, crows have this problem, too.

Throughout the incubation period, the female spends 90% of her time incubating. She is fed by her mate and the rest of the helpers a few times per hour.

Kilham noted that the visit rate of helpers at hatching time was very high, but they weren’t bringing any food. He noted that “it seems that many of the visits were made out of curiosity” and ”the female moved aside each time a helper came, giving it a chance to look at the young.”

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 13/03/2026

barely made it out alive from the Scylla and the Sirens show last night

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 06/03/2026

so sorry im like this; it is because of Video Games

zelda: link to the past, cave story, ragnarok online, dance dance revolution: konamix, spelunky, rock band 2, pokémon: soul silver, animal crossing: new leaf, blaseball

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 24/01/2026

I love how season 2 of Look Around You includes so many trans characters

excerpt from the Look Around You wikipedia entry: Another running joke centres on characters such as Synthesizer Patel in the "Music" episode and Computer Jones in the "Computers" episode, who like an item to such a degree that they've changed their names.

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 16/01/2026

2016 // 2026 sometimes it can be hard to see the little changes from day to day, but they really do add up over time 💖

holly wearing a costume of bart simpson, from monster factory

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 22/11/2025

update: saw the shark band again

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 14/11/2025

yes of course! I've got a lot of really exciting ideas that I think the whole district will be pumped about, for example

image of 19th ave, a road that's 3 lanes in each direction, annotated to indicate a plan to restrict the left "fast lane" to bike traffic only and the center lane to bus traffic only

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 02/11/2025

wow, the new Pokémon game has everything

screencap of Pokemon Legends Z-A. the player speaks to a cop who says "come talk to me again when you're ready to learn about traps with a good old battle!"

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 29/10/2025

caught the farewell tour of the band who performed my first concert. rip murder by death, thx for teaching me to love live music, concept albums, and whiskey sours

murder by death takes a bow. in the foreground, someone raises their hands throwing metal horns

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 24/10/2025

the LiveJournal account I made for my Pokémon sprite comic turns 21 today! everyone say happy 21st birthday to my Pokémon sprite comic's LiveJournal!!!

screenshot of an email from LiveJournal: You got a new achievement! 21. Blog's Birthday: We're together for 21 years now! Thank you!

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 07/10/2025

saw Triple Band this weekend and I am changed. Triple Band can repair this broken world

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 13/09/2025

my favorite part of the chronicle's "unforeseeable tragedy befalls local town" series is seeing how far the article makes it before it's forced to admit the root of the problem is, once again, NIMBYs

SF Chronicle article with the headline: This Bay Area commute is so bad that people are quitting jobs to escape it
and an image of a traffic jam

After all, not much more can be done to remedy Highway 4 and Vasco Road. And, if city leaders try to build a BART station in Brentwood, they figure to encounter significant pushback from locals. “People here saw how being at the end of that line brought more crime to Antioch,” McCauley said, “and they want no part of it.”

SF Chronicle article with the headline: This quirky Bay Area beach town lost its post office. Then residents fought back
and an image of a man kneeling in front of a wall of post boxes

His single-story commercial space at 20 Brighton Ave. housed the Bolinas post office for 61 years until a disagreement over asbestos in the building’s floor tiling triggered the Postal Service’s sudden exit. (It gave the community less than two weeks’ notice before it closed.) Though the relationship between Welsh and the Postal Service soured long ago, Borg figured a return to that property was the only way for Bolinas to get its post office back.

The boho enclave at the tip of a peninsula was so intent on not being overrun by outsiders that, on 30 occasions in the 1970s and ’80s, vigilante locals sneaked out in the middle of the night to remove road signs marking the Pacific Highway’s exit to Bolinas. A 53-year-old moratorium on water meters halted development in the area, leaving almost no commercial spaces available.

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 03/09/2025

finally found a sign that captures how I feel about the d4 special election

campaign sign in the style of joel engardio's "stand with joel" campaign:

ok look. it would be a stretch to say that I stand with joel, tbh we're completely opposed on most issues I care about. but I'm terrified punishing him for turning a road into a park will make the board of supervisors even more cowardly when it comes to making big changes to improve SF. and it seems like letting the d4 2026 progressive candidate run against a conservative with as much bad blood as joel could give us a better chance at retaking control of the city than if he's replaced by a clean slate with that "new mayor" smell. stop the recall

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 03/07/2025

TNR-i, the iOS app that simulated the Tenori-on, was discontinued and has crashed on startup for years — but apparently you can still launch it on iPadOS 18 by adding TNR-i as an Inter-App Audio Input source from another app? 😭 this might be exciting news only for me but it is VERY exciting for me!!

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 18/06/2025

not a cell phone in sight. just ppl living in the moment

screenshot from Digimon Story: Time Stranger showing a human walking into a bar filled with Digimon standing around in small clusters, like they're at a networking event

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 01/06/2025

if anyone's looking for good accessible EDM to introduce your cat to the genre, Chopper's really into DJ Potaro's 2020 Secret Sky set

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 01/05/2025

looked up the lyrics to my favorite song from Adventures on LEGO Island (1997) and I really don't know what to do with this information

LEGO Island – Brick by Brick lyrics:
1997 K.Enright/H.Salvia

You can build a buggy, drive a big tow truck
You can paint a jetski yellow like a duck
Master of the trannieverse there ain’t no trick
You just gotta do it… Brick by Brick

Brick by Brick has a lot of incorrect lyrics online, we’re here to fix that! We’ve been in contact with the amazing Henry & Kathleen who created this track who sent the correct lyrics over.

Especially the line after ‘you can paint a jetski yellow like a duck’ is often misheard as master of the universe. While Pepper does specify for those qualifications, the correct line should be ‘Master of the trannieverse‘ (as in transmission).

To end the confusion for once and for all, we have got the correct lyrics, as written by Kathleen Enright!

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 30/04/2025

this angel ate some string so we had to make an emergency vet visit last night. meet the girl with the thousand dollar butthole

Chopper the tortoiseshell cat sleeps peacefully curled up on a pillow on a sofa next to a sunny window, blissfully unaware of how much she worried her mothers

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 28/04/2025

recently switched to kagi, which I can recommend only on the grounds of having funnier quirks than duck duck go

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 24/04/2025

today in performative allyship suddenly rolled back: One Medical removed all their children's books that explored challenging concepts like accepting people who don't conform to gender stereotypes

photo of the kid's corner in a One Medical office in San Francisco taken in 2024. The books "Pink Is For Boys", "Tough Like Mum", "Jamie is Jamie", and "It Feels Good to Be Yourself" are prominently displayed.

The same kid's corner, today. The books about gender once proudly displayed have been replaced by a "Kid's corner" and WiFi password sign and a tray of coloring pages. On the lower shelves are the books "Wolf boy is scared" "Andre's Armor" and a Peanuts comic book

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 03/04/2025

talking about game design with game designers

an adult crouches down to play with a small child who is doing their best. it's the second image from the "talking about gender with trans people / talking about gender with cis people" meme

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 02/04/2025

was really excited for the Switch 2 until I learned it can't run Trove. I think I speak for all gamers when I say that in today's day and age it is absolutely inexcusable for a game console to be unable to play Trove kotaku.com/switch-2-bac...

screenshot of a Kotaku article:

The wording here is a bit vague and I’ve reached out to Nintendo for clarification. The first list seems to imply that some OG Switch games on the new console will start but will have “in-game compatibility issues,” while the second suggests many more games have “start up issues,” which sounds like they won’t boot up at all? And unfortunately, the longer list is the one featuring games with start up issues.

Some games on the “start up issues” list include Another Crab’s Treasure, Darksiders Genesis, DOOM: Eternal, Final Fantasy, Pizza Tower, Rocket League, Super Mega Baseball 3, Warframe, and Trove. It seems all first-party Nintendo games will at least boot up and play on Switch 2.

Some good news! All of the games listed that won’t work properly or even start up on Switch 2, with one exception, are currently “being investigated.” So hopefully before Switch 2's launch or shortly after, many of these games will be updated and will work on the new console. We’ll see about that.

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Holly Macdonald @holly.zone · 21/03/2025

damn, I can't believe taylor swift personally killed the Detransition Baby show 😞 www.thecut.com/article/torr...

Emily Gould: What’s going on with the Detransition, Baby TV show?

Torrey Peters: The TV show’s dead. It’s sadly dead.

Emily Gould: I hope you got a lot of money, at least.

Torrey Peters: Yeah, I got paid. Hence my winters in Colombia. But Amazon streaming … This is my fault. I decided to go to Amazon. I had two offers. I had one at FX and one at Amazon, and I chose Amazon. And I don’t even think it had anything to do with my show. At a certain point, Amazon fired all its executives and got rid of 95 percent of the shows that it had in development, including by people who I think are so funny and more talented in TV than me.

This is just what everybody kind of says happens to writers who go to Hollywood. You get really excited. Everybody says, “We’re going to do this. We’re going to do this.” And then one day it’s all over.

Torrey Peters: I’ll tell you a funny story, which was that I wrote the pilot with a spot for Taylor Swift in it, which was not meant to be Taylor Swift. She was a stand-in for any recognizable cis actress who would play a dysphoric projection of Ames. Then I got a message from the producers: “Okay, well, now we need you to go get Taylor Swift.” There’s even a note in the back of the script like, “We’re not really going to get Taylor Swift.”

And so my producer somehow heroically got a meeting with Taylor Swift’s music manager, which was the most humiliating meeting that you can possibly imagine. It was literally like, “Hi, we’re about to go on a $1 billion tour, what is it that you want from us?” And I was like, “We’d like you to play the dysphoric projection of a trans woman in three episodes of an Amazon show that’s not about to get made.” I mean, they were nice to us, but it was so humiliating to do this and to be told by the producers, “This is the last-ditch effort,” that your show’s not going to get made unless you can get the thing that you wrote as a joke.

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