iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Given the current anti-intellectual trend, having the option of concealed carry of your books is a way to keep safe

Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Bluesky fail for me: because it’s so easy to follow tons of people and because there is no algorithm for making content reappear, any post gets buried within 30 seconds, never to be seen again, unless it’s a popular post that gets reposted. Ironically, #Bluesky rewards the major creators after all.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Is it only in Ohio that, when I apologize, people respond by commenting on my well-being? Also, how can they state with such confidence that I am, in fact, fine? #You’reFine #Satire #PretendingNotToGetIt

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Here is what could be called a floral arrangement. I used the fourth photo to make all of the others.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I want to scroll down to see the origin of R2D2’s beeps and boops; maybe there some ancestry as a dial-up modem connection.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Maybe I’ve been seeing too many political posts, but I first interpreted “we are selling out” as an admission of being co-opted, an announcement of becoming a corporate shill or something.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Along with the injustice and danger of this particular arrest of a journalist, I was sad to read here that the expansion of ICE activity began under Obama. I definitely don’t remember reading about that at the time.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I liked the curves of this leaf with two beetles on it, and turned the whole thing into a kind of pinwheel shamrock.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This is one of several ways I played with a photo of an old-school card catalog; see the first image full size to see the little drawers.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Post-storm sunset experienced by a dog and their human. [I was lucky to capture this moment as they were on a hilltop and I ran back and found a location way behind the hill, far enough way to get both of them in focus along with the clouds despite the low light].

A dog and its human watching the sunset after a storm.

#Sunset #StormHour #Companions #Dog #Friends #Pets #Companionship

A dog and its human facing each other during a sunset after a storm.

#Sunset #StormHour #Companions #Dog #Friends #Pets #Companionship

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Four more patterns/mosaics I made with blades of grass.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Some blades of grass with droplets, which I folded and reflected and rotated into patterns. Four more in a comment.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The last bit of sunset light, refracted and reflected on the Saint Mary’s River by Neebish Island on the border between Ontario and Michigan.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Dancing is important! As people resonate online together in virtual space [nestled in the security of knowing how information is managed], it is delightful to sometimes move to a beat in the dance floor space, exploring a nonverbal openness [in the security of shared understanding of consent].

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Sunset reaching my eyes through 8-foot-tall rushes/grass while the sound of redwing blackbirds was trilling in my ears, Oak Hill Park in Wooster Ohio

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

It wafts, it’s wafty, it exudes waftiness, it all makes sense.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Here is a pinwheel bouquet assembled from your mock orange… hope you like it.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

A few more variations on a portrait on an unopened flower.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Someone challenged me to make some digital art out of the first photo, even though it didn’t have any big shapes and a lot of the photo was blurry. Here’s a sample of how I responded; a few more images in a comment.

Unknown type of flowers sent by a friend for me to play around with digitally, it is a red flower whose petals are not yet opened, with a stone and some mulch and some other plants in the background out of focus

A pin meal pattern I made from a picture of an unopened flower

A square pattern made of multiple copies of a picture of a flower with a stone in the background
#DigitalArt #Mosaic #Pattern #Tile

A radially symmetric pattern made of eight copies of an unopened flower with some tendrils connecting. #Collage #Mosaic #DigitalArt #Pattern #Tile #Tiling

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Thanks for being receptive to me messing with your work!

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Love it! I hope you don’t mind, the beautiful curving fanning shape gave me the idea for a couple of patterns:

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Snark that is useful or comical rather than simply vicious, is a hallmark of the culture of Reddit

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

That was cool, especially watching the spread of tiny splashes after it fell, but I got admit I thought that that piece was gonna be the prelude to a much larger event

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Maybe try the new Minecraft movie

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This one racquetball-sized flower appears like a miniature bouquet of flowers when you use a camera to get more detail than the casual eye willl resolve.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This weekend amidst practical and mental tasks and social and athletic activities I took a moment to take a close look at the flower of the well-named “Ornamental” Onion.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Yep! This is the dawn of a new era for the Catholic Church, not with simple stuff like accepting that trans people exist, but with something that really brings Chicago into The Church such as declaring at communion that the body and blood of Christ is best represented by deep dish pizza.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Except that The Bears will now be called the Chicago Monsignors (because “The Lambs” didn’t feel right)

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is the dawn of a new era for the Catholic Church, not with simple stuff like accepting that trans people exist, but with something that really brings Chicago into The Church such as declaring at communion that the body and blood of Christ is best represented by deep dish pizza.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The Bears or The Bulls might have to become The Monsignors or The Lambs tho

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Someone suggested that I make some of my “mosaic” art with a photo I took of a rocky beach at sunset.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Here I play around with a photo I took of seatback video screens on an airplane.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Oh, thank you for the the repost and the nudge for people to visit my profile; I’ll go post another set right now!

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Thanks for linking me to all of the information and response to my question. Now this innate violence by our relative calls our human nature back in the question; but maybe we have bonobos in our nature, and of course we continue to evolve genetically and socially.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I wonder if this “bad apples” analysis also applies to studies of chimpanzees; the book “demonic males” makes the case for inherent violence based on that lineage, conveniently ignoring bonobos I guess, but maybe even chimp violence is a few individuals or under land-defending circumstances.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

In this turbulent time, l turned my attention away from crashing waves and undertow to focus on a little translucent shell amidst pebble-shaped sand… and then Imade patterns.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Thanks for the gracious response to my feedback that might only apppy to those of us with visual sensitivities (although discomfort with vivid blue is fairly common: that end of the color spectrum focuses differently within the eyeball leading to pseudo-3D motion effects: #chromostereopsis

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I have found some of your previous week to be in uniquely interesting, but for this one, It’s hard to see any effects that might be in the video with this visually painful color palette

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I would cry contradiction if these were simply reporting the inflation rate itself, but in both cases the reporting is about projections of public reactions, which are indeed different as described; my main complaint is with the word “hot” which is both negatively biased and too ambiguous.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This article captures my frustration with “node”-style network thinking; patterns of interaction happen at multiple scales, not just in the individual or the whole. Indeed, “Mechanism” might appear to be the territory, but it’s the map; Behavior, from neurons to clumps of birds, is the territory.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

My wife is in Paris; remembering my last time there with her, I am pulling up this standard photo I took, and doing some non-standard stuff with it.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Now illegal in a state near you.. I know a local college campus feels pressured (preemptive compliance?) to eliminate any gender neutral bathrooms or lose federal funding.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I’m glad you like it, especially because that one preserves the asymmetrical natural form of the tree.

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Predawn glimpse of an Ohio tree, Plus designs I made with a long series of reflections and rotations and one overlay. #Symmetry #Pattern #Solitary #Tree

Photo of a leafless tree taken before dawn, with dark blue sky at the top of the frame but orange along the horizon

Pinwheel pattern I made from a photo of a tree

Pattern with a diamond appearing to lay on top of a square , made with multiple copies of a tree on the horizon

Pattern made with copies of a tree on the horizon at Dawn, with a square at the center seeming to recede down a hallway

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I selected this among many of my more vivid Northern Lights photos because we can see the way the aurora collaborated with some street lights to create some Blue Sky out of the darkness. #Refraction #Prism #Bluesky #StormBauer #Photo #SciArt #NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis

A triangular area of blue sky with some stars, in between some pink northern lights and a strip of small town street lights

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

How did you create that background, which has no hint of pencil lines anywhere? Ultra soft graphite spread around with cloth?

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Jim Foley @jimfoley.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Concentration camps have been outsourced, so we can still say “it can’t happen here.”

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