iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 07/10/2026

Emphasis on *fragil*

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 25/09/2026

After playing ICO recently I continued with SotC. Just a few days ago I came across a tortoise and literally cried out with delight and excitement, and immediately had to show it off to my spouse. I had never seen one in earlier playthroughs. She loved the tortoise too.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 23/09/2026

I love the way you’ve written about this game. It would be so easy to dismiss any time it “fails” to live up to standard gaming expectations, but you consistently, gently remind us that it had different goals in the first place, and executes them well. Hope I get a chance to play it sometime!

June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 07/09/2026

It’s very 1990s demoscene, but with a touch of that retro-90s absurdism too. Neat!

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Curious to see where that would take you, but for what it’s worth, somebody else has already guessed it! There’s another reply to my original post.

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Here is something I drew for the occasion that would have accompanied the final hint. I don’t think it captures them very well, but I think they’re at least recognizable to anyone who’s played the game.

A line art and marker drawing of Yorda and Ico holding hands at the top of the Windmill, from the 2001 PS2 game Ico.

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I can’t believe you got it! I fully expected this to just be a selies of me posting to myself. But yeah, it’s Ico.

About 15 years off, but that reminds me that I really want to play that game! Disasterpeace did the soundtrack so it’s been on my list forever.

June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 17/08/2026

Alright, internet, which game did I play? I’ll post hints for a bit until the final reveal, unless someone gets (or googles) it first. 😁

A pen and marker map of a structure built up on mostly one island and three smaller islands, separated from what appears to be mainland, with occasional labeled areas. Colored areas include pathways, grass and trees, cliffs, and ocean. Structures are uncolored. A clipboard holder is visible at the top of the photo.

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She’s got a decade or two on me, but she’s so cool! I wish I could ever have even a fraction of her confidence, especially as I get older and consequently more timid in my social presentation. She’s a baddie and she’s earned it; I hope to do my own vernion of that over time.

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I’ve been rewatching Flying Castle Laputa and this is a Dola appreciation post.

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I’d have to delete it but to correct, it’s been 24/26. I have been thinking about whether to try 28 and not gotten there yet.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 13/08/2026

That is so much variance! All my bras are 26/28 C, D or DD. Maybe I should do more weight targeting!

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昨夜、妹と一緒に街を出て、近くの森にある小川の浜にペルセウス座流星群を観ました。その結果、この写真。流れ星を約３０観たけど、携帯で撮った写真にはありませんでした。残念。でも、天の川がとっても綺麗背景ですね。🤩

A photograph of the milky way as seen from the ground with the naked eye, with the dark outlines of pine trees blocking the very corners of the view.

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

my extremely petty gripe with AI is that I am paranoid about using em dashes — one of my favorite punctuations — now that I know how commonly AI uses them in writing, and I can’t use the verb “grok” anymore which was a really fun and useful word before it got absolutely ruined

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 10/01/2026

I love the colors and I would love to see this one in action!

June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 10/01/2026

I’m excited I’ll get to see your posts again!

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 29/12/2025

I mean that’s definitely what I was thinking

June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 29/12/2025

Cosigning this; I started right after turning 39 and worried some, since “half my life was already over.” I’m now several years down the line and can confidently say it was the best decision of my life. Even a few years of finally being able to live was already worth all the pain of transition.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 26/12/2025

Wait an OS X theme I can get behind? I’ll take it! Or at least, I would have, an age ago.

June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 17/12/2025

For the moment, maybe one of the forks of Firefox for system systems like Debian (is IceWeasel still a thing…?) is the best option.

June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 17/12/2025

Seriously, though, what are the options? Modern web browsers are super complex and essentially all of them derived from one of three or maybe four engines. Apple and Google are both all in on AI already. I’m not sure about Opera, or if they even still exist and are up on modern standards.

June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 03/12/2025

I always miss the only as wide as they need to be and obviously owned by the OS, not the app totle bars. Limiting the colors to scrollbars is subtle yet a nice nod.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 03/12/2025

Aww, cute! BeOS UI lite!

June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 02/12/2025

This is so nice! Somehow seeing it with such novel colors really brings out how nice the pixel-perfect designs of earlier days could look.

June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 27/11/2025

I’d be an *expensive* cute cat girlfriend. 😆

June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 27/11/2025

This was 100% a joke, but honestly, if someone accepted the terms of the contract I wrote, I might very well go for it.

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June @jamrolls.jiv.us · 27/11/2025

So I once in conversation drew up a contract of what it would take for someone to hire me as their live-in cat girl. Thinking it through, it was surprisingly involved. Headpats and treats should not be enough; you need health care and either a 401(k) or, in lieu of that, funding for a Roth IRA.

そんなに面白くて美しい表紙があれば、誰でも読みたくなります。素晴らしい本みたいです。

ガーデンを歩くとき、写真を撮って、その後弟の側に追いつくために走った時の一つ、「私、インタバル・トレーニングにしているね！」と言いました。弟は「君、公園や自然の場所や博物館に行くとき、いつも同じものだよ。今日だけじゃなくて、いつでも面白い所に行くとの普通は止まり走りだ。家族の中ではもう慣れているよね」と言ってくれました。なぜか分かりませんけと、気に入れましたものです。

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It’s hard to tell, but I worry that the checkboxes and radio buttons (incredible to me that zoomers will mostly never have experienced directly why they are called that) would be visually challenging. OTOH, they might be kind of awesome. Also I love the pun on OS 8.

今日の投稿は駐車場での撮った最後の写真。オレゴン州の意外又は面白いものの一つ：夕方にでも、朝露が時々まだあります。それとも、一日中、露が集まり。まだよくわかりませんけど、綺麗です。葉では複雑の面を出す植物には、特別に美しいです。

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I also maybe can’t remember my biology. I’m having doubts that seta is the right term for the hairlike structures of these fuzzy bud coverings. Maybe it’s trichome? I’m having a little trouble confirming that that’s applicable to those case.

*fantastic. I just can’t type today, 英語でも日本語でも。

It’s time for another photo! This was a fabtastic collection of lichen and moss on a bare yet vigorously budding deciduous shrub in the parking lot rather than the garden proper. I was quite taken with the dense setae on the buds.

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機械* 🤦‍♀️

又のオレゴンガーデンからの写真。光と影を混ぜるともっと綺麗なイメージを作ることになるだと思います。でも、撮った後、目のイメージに比べると、いつもちょっとがっかりします。目が素晴らしい機会ですね。

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All of our bodies know every minute detail of how to develop in either direction, and thankfully, these days, we get to choose which direction(s) to tell them to go.

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I don’t enjoy seeing what I used to look like, and I’m worried about what people could do to me with this information. But, I still come across people every single day who have just no idea at all that changes like this are not just possible, but natural and easy.

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I’ve thought long and hard about whether to post a transition timeline here, especially in today’s political climate. I guess at the end of the day, I decided it’s more important to show people the joy of becoming than it is to hide myself away.

Take the estrogen, if that’s what you need to do! (Or the testosterone, if that’s more your style!)

A collage showing two photos of the same person: on the left in a men’s dress shirt and tie with short hair, a noticeably high, balding forehead, narrow eyes, a slight unibrow, a closely trimmed mustache, soul patch, and very small beard covering only the chin, and an overall masculine look, smiling but tired; and on the right 10 or so years older with long gently curly hair framing the face and exposed upper chest, bright open eyes, separate and shaped eyebrows, no facial hair, fuller cheeks and narrower jaw and neck, and an overall feminine look, with her tongue stuck playfully out.

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I strongly identify with the idea that as soon as I realized what hormones could actually do, I jumped on the chance to obtain them. I moved quick once I knew. I think If I weren’t so deeply in love with my spouse and worried for her, I would have opened that door wide as soon I noticed it.

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It’s easy to get sad knowing that if I’d just met the right person or read the right article 20 years earlier my life would have been entirely different, but I’m really proud of how I still managed to be a version of myself even back then instead of what the world around me said I should be.

For just one year after getting an inkling that HRT exists and works, because I knew it would change everything, I closed the door and kept just trying to be the best version of myself I could be without it. Nearly a single year to the day after, I clicked the next link and changed my life forever.

I usually find that if I put a lot of effort into a topic that I want to address on the Internet, it is usually a topic I needed to spend some time developing my own understanding and arguments for on my own anyway. Maybe the other person doesn’t listen, but at least I learned something.