iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even in parking lots I can’t escape Nature! At least you don’t have to see the brilliant orange under its wings.

It’s a bug. Like, an actual Homopteran. For the layman think of a stinkbug except with long, mothlike grey wings with black spots, translucent enough to hint at the orange body beneath. All this biodiversity can’t be a good thing.

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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a dance off. If you see this, post a dance!

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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I mean, look at this. She's just a goth girl I'm keeping in bondage, and not in the normal way goth girls like that is completely legal.

The descriptions in the posts describe the image pretty well.

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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My project to make the Ultimate Vampire is complete. Here is what goes in the gene bank.

A Palworld screenshot, the character screen for a Lovander named Death By Snu-Snu. For those who don't know, the game lord says Lovanders are aggressively amorous towards humans. They look kinda like big pink fuzzy anthro lizards with gratuitous heart emblems.

Anyway the important thing is this one has the traits Immortality, Vampiric, Diamond Body, and Mercy Hit on top of its maxed out species vampirism.

See previous alt text for a description of a Lovander and why I would name one Death By Snu-Snu. This is an in game size comparison photo showing this Lovander is twice a human's height and that is VERY LARGE when you're up close.

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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Palworld update: Christ on a cracker. I was breeding some cute Pokemon to give to friends when I play with them and I got this from a mutation. I don't dare use it and I don't dare not use it.

A monster's description screen from Palworld. The important thing is that it has the trait 'Immortality' which is VERY WELL NAMED because it absorbs all damage done as healing. This is vastly more powerful than any other trait a Pal can get from breeding. Like, there is no comparison.

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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Palworld endgame update: Confirmed, if you want you can take the very first chicken you catch all the way to the end and it will be usefully strong. It will be very weak in early-mid game but once the buffs open up they are much more important than base stats. I did it with this cute weakling!

Amione, a monster from Palworld. It looks like two floating little children in night shirts. They have pigtails and a tail with a heart on the end. One is blue, the other orange, and they never stop holding hands. Absolutely cute as a button except when they open up their hideous hidden leech maw to feed. Also they are weak. They are SO weak. They are 'chicken' weak. But with enough buffs my Amione, 'They Kiss', kicks the snot out of legendary monsters.

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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I have to go out in this boiling swamp and the first thing that happens to me is Nature.

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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My stuffed shells are to die for. As in, your arteries will turn solid with cholesterol.

A pan of freshly cooked stuffed shells. It looks like melted cheese on a rectangle of marinara. Possibly the least interesting food photo ever. Even a raw carrot is more visually distinctive.

Maybe I should tell a story instead, about The Rabbit Who Ate The Sun.

You see, once upon a time a rabbit and the Sun were friends because they were both round and orange. They often invited each over for dinner, which made calendars hard to keep straight.

One day, since obviously it can only happen during daytime, the rabbit visited the Sun and brought a fresh pan of stuffed shells pasta. It smelled so rich that the Sun and the rabbit both shoved their face in and started eating.

Unfortunately, cheese and the sun look a lot alike, and while chomping away the rabbit ate not just the shells, but the sun too! What s disaster!

But only a disaster for the bunny. He’d eaten so much and bulged so much he had a case of indigestion so bad his tummy glows too bright to look at. All he can do is roll around the sky in the same path the Sun used to, but more reliably.

This is also why the Sun is now the exact color of cooked mozzarella with a frosting of Parmesan.

The End

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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I had to photograph one when I first saw them because it’s so insane.

A bag of Tactisquatch coffee. The picture of Sadquatch in night vision goggles is especially buff and manly.

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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I still live in awe of this. I frequently debate if I should switch the cover to this.

A book cover in the style of a minimalist movie poster, with the silhouette of a 10 year old girl with hooves and a donkey's ears and tail, staring up at white wings in the sky. The lettering reads

What happens after you never grow up?

Richard Roberts
Wild Children

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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This is MewTwo's ONLY expression and he is almost always floating literally over their heads.

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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

first image in your camera roll that makes you laugh out loud

Children in a little cart pulled by a goat. Surely nothing can go wrong. The words ‘last seen’ appear nowhere in this old black and white photo. The children barely look delicious at all.

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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My new 'mercy hit' Pal doesn't hit nearly as hard but takes guided missiles to the face without taking any visible damage.

Cartoony medusa. Hiss hiss.

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Whenever it's confused, it resorts to consulting with the snakes on its head. However, since they're all ultimately the same being, it comes to understand that nothing is understood.

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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The good news: After applying all the strengthening and training bonuses she kills groups of enemies 13 levels above her.

A cartoony anthro fox cat from Palworld with impressive purple fire accents. She stands akimbo and has huge flaming pigtails.

The caption reads:

It appears to be striking a heroic pose, but the reality is that it's simply bracing itself against the weight of its tail and hair to avoid toppling over

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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

She posted the cat art, but it's @animatronikki.bsky.social's chapter art for Not The Chosen One that blew me away. You open the book, see this above Chapter One, and you know the story takes place in a world of legend. www.amazon.com/Not-Chosen-O...