iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yep, I have a legal copy of CS5 on my old laptop and have simply refused to update the OS so that I can still run it. The laptop can't use a browser anymore because it's so out of date, it's pretty much strictly an offline device, but it runs just fine.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My friend was visiting and while we did not go to see Busan's new, apparently determinedly self-domesticating shark (it swam into a canal and now WILL NOT leave)... she DID sing about it. And now every time I hear about Bukangi, I hear in my head that awful refrain, "Busan shark ddururu dduru..."

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For the record, Michael would not actually have tried to stop me. He would have done a few very eloquently dubious eyebrow wiggles, though. Maybe patted my head, too. I miss him very much.

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Maren 🦎💚 @rennerei.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

what if she likes being a girl what if she likes girls

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We did definitely find that there was an advantage to taking the first player penalty each round. It varied, but on the whole was stronger than not.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Funny thing, I just played this for the better part of a Wednesday morning and lost every single game. It probably didn't HELP that my meds left me a space cadet who couldn't remember a strategy from one moment to the next, but it might just be a game that I am consistently bad at. Some games are.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have decided, I think, to name the little cat shaped spoon rest that lives beside my coffee maker so that I always have somewhere to set my stirring spoon, and the bright side of living alone is that absolutely nobody can stop me. Henceforth his name shall be Purrcalator.

A small black and white and brown cat-shaped spoon and chopstick rest, in an elongated loaf position on a speckled gray counter next to a black coffee maker.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In Korea, almost all the microwaves I could find for sale had ONLY presets. Not even a twirly dial to set precise times, the dial ones mostly just had like minute increments and obscure labeling. I spent a significant amount of time hunting down my microwave, and it's a localized foreign model.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I used to have a fourth hand convenience store microwave and it very much did not do that. My other favorite thing is a feature that Michael insisted on but sadly never got to experience: it has a number pad and a precise to the second time cook function. It is alarming how hard that was to find.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm down for everyone to get a universal basic income. I still want to see every model erased and every data center destroyed. You don't get to rob us and then just pay us so you can keep doing it. The models and data hoards have to go, and the harm has to stop. That is what justice looks like.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My favorite thing about my new microwave is that it has a built in ADHD defense function. If you forget to open it and remove your food when the timer goes off, then after a minute it will beep again LOUDER. It will keep doing this at intervals until you pay attention and get your food.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Signs point to him wanting me to step on him some more. He has ignored the kibble and water even when reminded they exist but he keeps leading me to the kitchen and then flopping down at my feet, which is how he usually asks for steppies. He's just being EXTRA insistent about it now.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have given this cat playtime, and gooshy, and kibble, and fresh water, and a clean litterbox, and multiple rounds of steppies, and even standing up over the shoulder cuddles (which he only rarely even wants). So WHY is he still meowing in my doorway at 2am? What more can he possibly need?!

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools?

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Like, I'm not even talking about the morality involved here. I could, but that's a different conversation. This is a purely pragmatic observation that the key to a successful government is not to make your population hate and distrust you. A child can understand it. Powerful people somehow never do.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People need space to be a little bit bad without looking over their shoulder. If they're kept afraid to fart for long enough, the result tends to be... explosive. A surveillance state means there is no remaining relationship of trust between the people & the government. So their mandate is lost.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Y'know, historically, populations do not tolerate an excessive sense of surveillance. Governments can get away with it for a little while, maybe a couple of years, a decade or so if they ramp it up slowly enough, but historically populations are quicker to revolt when they have no sense of privacy.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It is possible that my personal list of the best shows I've seen this century contains a disproportionate number of heists and cons. And I probably do allow more for disappointing final seasons because what matters to me more is how engaged I am along the way. I also include cartoons.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It can be assumed that NYT intended as well that they mean "shows watched by English-speaking audiences" because I have seen some brilliant and engaging shows made this century in French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Turkish just to name a few, and they were not apparently considered.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I would like to be fully informed regarding the criteria and evaluation system, because both Leverage and Galavant were made this century, and yet somehow neither of these brilliant shows appears on this list. "Most popular" I'd believe, but "best" is a judgment you'll have to defend.

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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey, vendor booths and exhibitors at cons. Real talk. If you have artwork as part of your booth decor, or as products that you sell, And your answer to the question “was any of this artwork made by AI” is “I don’t know” That’s unacceptable. Credit your artists, and don’t sell slop art.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026

So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I still quote this regularly and people ALWAYS look horrified... Unless they know the reference. Then they usually just say they love the show.