iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 2h

Ace Ventura sold out

A funeral insurance ad featuring a dude inexplicably dressed in a green satin tracksuit, who looks a lot like the titular character of the film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

010

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 26/09/2026

Party guests said they found my cake "upsetting" and "difficult to enjoy despite the fact the flavour is quite good"

140

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 26/09/2026

The Happy Song is so obviously by a strung-out desperate parent at the end of their sleepy tether. "Ping! A submarine! Whew a helicopter! Uh... a choo choo train! Oh shit it's working, write it down!"

010

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 24/09/2026

Piranesi is a delightful outlier. I'm 20% of the way through, still have absolutely no idea what this book is about, and feel pulled as of by a ratchet to keep turning the pages. Susanna Clarke is a treasure. #booksky

040

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 22/09/2026

Federated Farmers too? How do farmers not realise they're getting reamed both by the energy gentailers and the supermarket duopsony? www.nzherald.co.nz/business/zur...

020

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 14/09/2026

If Nats win I hope they have the balls to refuse Paul Henry a ministerial portfolio, in the awareness that he's going to shoot from the hip and be un-fireable without collapsing the government. Of course, I have no faith in said testicular fortitude #nzpol

230

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 13/09/2026

10/10 most fun opening pages I've ever read.

010

Reposted by Jamie Small

Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My GP is amazing and she moved heaven and earth when I got sick this time last year. I think that if she hadn't been so proactive, I wouldn't have been diagnosed so quickly and my prognosis wouldn't have been as good. Pay our medical professionals what they're worth and employ more of them!

1186

Reposted by Jamie Small

Greg Bond @docgregb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This sounds familiar (though I absolutely can’t function beyond midnight). To add a small point. The answer isn’t AI or virtual consults. It is more GPs to meet the demands of an ageing, unwell population. And a work structure that doesn’t rob us of our family time & sleep just to do the job.

1156

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 10/09/2026

Yesterday my wife, a GP, clocked out at 5pm. Stayed at the clinic until 5:45 when she had to go to a class, then spent time with the kids before bedtime. ➡️Then she worked on her laptop until 3 am⬅️ This is not unusual for GPs. It's happening every day, and it's because of under-reaourcing #nzpol

Your GP is here for you. Everyone deserves a whānau doctor.
www.everyone.gpaotearoa.co.nz

26715

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 09/09/2026

Kids' paper aeroplane instructions be like "fold here" "now fold here" "rotate and tuck the aeroplane through the 9th dimension into a previously unknowable shape"

161

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 07/09/2026

This campaign is my brain baby! With essential help from many others too, but I did a lot of work on it and I'm proud!

010

Reposted by Jamie Small

public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

99% of journalists on bluesky have nothing to do with the stuff this website gets so angry about. they just quietly do good work that we all rely on every day. and while some of the grievances are legitimate, a lot of them are entirely disconnected from reality. just food for thought

1432

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 04/09/2026

All of y'all out there touting renewable energy are completely ignoring a future in which Trump slaps tarrifs on the wind and declares a spiteful war on the sun.

020

Reposted by Jamie Small

ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 02/09/2026

It is interesting how if you spend even a little amount of time using an LLM how easy it becomes to clock (most) LLM generated text and, especially, website designs. These things are caught in stylistic attractor basins and the homogeneity is telling once you see it.

1121114

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 24/08/2026

Social media ban can only work if it's treated like alcohol. Every time a kid is caught on a platform, that platform gets fined $1 million. Fake id? Platform's problem. VPN? Platform's problem. Bleed 'em by millions every day until *they* figure out the solutions. #nzpol

010

Reposted by Jamie Small

Matt @matteastnz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

What other industry in NZ can just leave their rubbish behind to be strewn across the countryside, and beach’s wiping out any critical infrastructure in its path. Forestry is unsustainable if they can’t clean up their own mess.

293

Reposted by Jamie Small

World Champ Game Co @worldchamp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Shout out to the little square you put in layout to make sure everything is evenly spaced

Photograph of a computer screen showing text boxes in a layout program and a red square used to measure distances between gaps

3606

Reposted by Jamie Small

Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You don't need donor money in politics. It actually looks like you are lining your own pockets than working hard for your people. Fuck off with donor money It's a blight in the political system. #nzpol

1302

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 21/08/2026

Me too! Re-reading. I forgot that, on top of being genre-defining and an absolute banger of a romp, Neuromancer is also beautifully descriptive and well written.

140

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 18/08/2026

Anyone looking to get into Discworld should start with this book.

000

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 18/08/2026

Willing to throw my considerable vote behind any party vowing to ban the plastic things on socks

030

Reposted by Jamie Small

Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’ve just been dealing with two commercial photographers who both thought they owned the copyright of the photos they produced for clients. Not in Aotearoa: aipa.online/2019/04/copy...

aipa.online

Photo © Fredrik Larsson / larssonphotography.co.nz One of the most important parts of the New Zealand Copyright Act for photographers, designers, artists, software developers and other creators of ori...

083

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 17/08/2026

4yo just told me he wants a curtain over his window because the elves keep him awake by staring at him. BRB getting a heavy towel and some tape.

020

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 14/08/2026

Dude talking about issue that came to the attention of alternative media thanks to article in mainstream media: "Why won't mainstream media write about this? What are they hiding?"

010

Reposted by Jamie Small

Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So close...

2313

Reposted by Jamie Small

Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

From the archives: Cartoon from April ‘24

413258

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 12/08/2026

Man it's just Chris all the way down #nzpol

The Earth resting on the back of infinite turtles. Each turtle has the face of Chris Hipkins, Luxon, Bishop or Penk.

052

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 12/08/2026

It's hard to blend three faces into one. Sorry Chippy. #nzpol

The always has been meme template. In the background is Christopher Luxon's head with Chris Bishop's face on it. One astronaut says "Wait it's all Chris?" and the other says "Always has been" while pointing a gun at the first one's head.

030

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 11/08/2026

I can no longer afford to slab butter onto my bread like it's cheese. Thanks Luxon.

110

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 08/08/2026

Aah The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai is beautifully written and evocative and relatable and sensory and it's like if Normal People were Indian and I just absolutely cannot do it. I'm making the difficult decision to abandon this book before completion. Sorry #booksky

040

Reposted by Jamie Small

laragreaves.bsky.social @laragreaves.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We made an app! There is fairly widespread concern that turnout and enrolment will be low this election, so we made an app to help make enrolment and turnout data more accessible for communities. All data are drawn from the NZ Electoral Commission's website. turnout.inzight.co.nz

812377

Reposted by Jamie Small

Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Ōtautahi people, keep an eye out for plague skinks. Daytime-basking, rainbow sheen, single diamond-shaped scale on the head. Use iNaturalist to log sightings and get a confirmed ID, and don’t release them again. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

Plague/rainbow skink photo by the late Tony Whitaker. The diamond scale is clearly visible; native species have a split diamond there.

32621

Reposted by Jamie Small

Ben Taels @bentaels.taels.net · 07/08/2026

When writing surveys and instructions avoid jargon and acronyms. Be as clear and direct as possible. If the person taking the survey doesn't know *exactly* what you are asking you won't be able to properly understand their answer. #gamedev #ux

1112

Reposted by Jamie Small

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 04/08/2026

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

98145523383

Reposted by Jamie Small

Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

03110

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 03/08/2026

9 hour wait at Hamilton ED this morning, or $140 for the 3 hour wait at A&E. Boy, it would be nice if our health system wasn't fucked eh

010

Reposted by Jamie Small

Grant Henninger @granthenninger.com · 01/08/2026

Whenever someone sends me AI-generated work, it always increases my workload at least 2x. However, the biggest problem is that they’re completely incapable of discussing their work as I try to make heads or tails of it, largely because they didn’t do the work in the first place.

14812

Reposted by Jamie Small

Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Part one of my investigation into a group of young men trying to import “remigration” into New Zealand politics www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

thepress.co.nz

The young men behind New Zealand’s new far-right movement

An investigation reveals how young Kiwi activists are using global far-right tactics to target local migrant communities.

1111648

Reposted by Jamie Small

Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Incredible stuff from Avalon Nursery.

Guys I’m sorry about my last few posts picking on Agapanthus & Yuccas. I understand lots of you like these plants so I do apologise. I will admit, there is a time and a place for all plants including those two. And that time is never and that place is hell. Bye

453087492

Jamie Small @jamiesmall.co.nz · 22/07/2026

Currently reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and it is a good call. Good for people who like Jane Austen, and also people who like Raymond E Feist. #booksky

060

Reposted by Jamie Small

Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The inability to understand that The Odyssey's Cyclops is metaphorical reveals a lack of depth perception.

2358

Reposted by Jamie Small

Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Stuart Nash's political rebirth lasted all 5.3 Scaramucci's.

35710