iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The business trip dinner power move is going to the grocery store and picking up a nice frozen dish, some chips, and a fun little drink like a kombucha

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nor'easters are like the windmill dunks of weather

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Typically when I travel for work I have to review inspector data in the evenings to provide feedback the next day and for some reason hotels always put mirrors right behind the desk so you get to watch yourself be miserable

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Got an AI summary of an email that was longer than the email itself today. So glad this is a feature I have to spend time trying to opt out of.

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We told our cats that their mission was to kill the big fly in the house while we were at work and a big fly was found dead in the hallway. We're taking them to an aircraft carrier to do the mission accomplished thing later

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Last night at around 4 in the morning my cat decided to lean her head over the edge of the trashcan to investigate the trash except she leaned too hard & restricted her own breathing so you just heard a cat gasping repeatedly because she couldn't stop being a dumb dumb & she needed to see trash

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Tried to go on a hike and saw some bears. Pivoted to a nice paved trail by the river instead.

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I saw an ad that said "engineered to the millimeter" and my broken brain automatically went that's not that small

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The last time caffeine made me feel anything was the panera death lemonade and now that's just not an option

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There's cursed AI slop flyers and then there's cursed AI slop flyers from a pickle festival in CT

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Saw an ad on the work homepage for a work podcast. How long until they make us all listen to it as mandatory training because the listens are so low?

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My cat gets very excited when I open the closet with the food bags in it so every time I go in the closet I have to make a lot of noise so she hears and gets to experience the joy of the food closet opening

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Very dismal to keep seeing things about horrible wildfires and then get an email from my mom about how the "climate change hoax" is over

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The internet taught me how to properly dice and onion but it also turned my parents into insane alt right conspiracy theorists, so ya'know it's a real double edged sword

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The eye doctor actually told me I got an A+ today and I've never felt so accomplished

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

We have a popcorn subscription and every flavor is very mild. It's like the La Croix of popcorn. The essence of chili lime but none of the flavor

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The other day the neighbor's goats and chickens were talking in sync and I think they were trying to summon something or cast a curse

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My cat let me give her a hug tonight and I have never been so happy

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This reminds me of the FPI lab at work, but it's just the largest collection of fluorescent rocks at a museum

Display case full of fluorescent rocks that glow green, blue, red, and yellow

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

We hit up 3 mining museums on this vacation. I think we're ready to start gold mining in our backyard.

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just watched people say goodbye inside the restaurant and then stand outside the restaurant and talk more. Denver is a confirmed Midwest city.

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My husband is an inbox infinity person and I'm an inbox zero person and somehow we're still compatible

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Colorado is full of fire warnings and wild fire smoke and signs saying not to set off fireworks and then there's just giant fireworks stands alongside the road

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

New genre of guy discovered: man who actively avoids his family by smoking a cigar on the curb of the hotel parking lot

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Went to the mining hall of fame and was disappointed to see that no one from the hit Discovery Channel sensation Gold Rush has made the cut

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

We're on vacation and the sun is very bright in colorado so we went to Walmart to buy sunglasses but then we couldn't get the tags off so we had to go back into Walmart to buy scissors and had to make sure that we could also extract the scissors from their packaging without additional scissors

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Little corporate rewards points that you can cash in for a blender are like Chuck E Cheese for adults

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The horrible miserable soul sucking project I've been on for the last 2.5 years at work ended today. I bought cake on the way home.

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

When you need to finish painting above the stairs but neither of you are willing to get on a ladder....

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

After being in a geese free workplace for 3 years, I saw 2 of them in the grass by the parking lot the other day. Nowhere is safe.

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

You can tell a marriage isnt going to last when the bride is wearing a nice wedding dress and the groom is wearing a camo shirt and camo hat

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

My cat is an open claw user (she scratches on the couch)

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

So there's the IndyCar Freedom 250 and now there's the UFC Freedom 250. Are we building towards a Freedom 250 decathlon? Can we make the same people do all the events? There has to be some sort of hotdog eating contest as part of this, right?

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Me feeding a couple ice cubes to my vase of tulips every morning: here's a little treat nom nom nom

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Fern is doing hard time for her crimes.

Gray and white cat poking her head through wooden banisters like she's being bars.

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Seems like there's less boats in the fake marina at the Miami Grand Prix than previous years. Recession indicator?

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I think I've decided that I'm going to make my own curtains for a room in my house. It's probably going to end up more expensive than buying some, but at least they'll be exactly what I want

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Our town is building a mini golf course and every time we drive we check to see if they've installed any dinosaur animatronics yet

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

After 3 years of living together we've finally reached the point of having got through duplicates of spices. No more multiple containers of everything.

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Went to Stamford Town Center today which was like dying mall meets fever dream.

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Watching Bering Sea Gold and thinking about how ice mining robot would be a good college design team

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I feel like now's a bad time to be close to someone named Al because if you write something like "Al and I went to the movies" people are going to read it like you have an artificial intelligence friend instead of a pal who's name may be short for Albert

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Encouraging all my coworkers to report the email we just got about getting copilot access as phishing

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The gas station I go to changed all the pumps to have big giant touch screens and I feel like this is just heading towards the area around the "regular" button being worn out

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I ran a 5k on the treadmill today in 44:45 and felt pretty good about it. Looked up average 5k times for women in their 30s and I'm like 10 minutes off the average time in the bad direction and I feel like the average is not being calculated off of a true population cross section.

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Ready to go loaf but in the garage

Gray and white cat in loaf position on side of bed of truck

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Katie Brinker @kbrinker12.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Mentally preparing for work to be super hot tomorrow because it's supposed to be 65 out but the heat is going to keep running like it's 20 out

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