iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Man, I had really hoped we would change our own regime before the orange bumblefuck actually started World War III, but here we are

A dramatic black-and-white film still from Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 dark comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The scene depicts the iconic finale in which a man dressed in a military flight suit and helmet — playing the character Major T.J. “King” Kong — is straddling and riding a nuclear bomb as it falls, one arm raised exuberantly in the air like a rodeo cowboy, mouth open in a wild, jubilant yell. Below and behind him, a sweeping aerial map of a landscape stretches out, conveying the terrifying sense of a bomb in freefall toward its target. The image is one of cinema’s most recognizable and darkly comedic moments, capturing the absurdity of nuclear brinkmanship through the image of a man gleefully embracing apocalypse.

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

omg. when they get the scansion PERFECT and you can HEAR it sung by the original artist in your head @bigmoodenergy.bsky.social this you? brava. brilliant! Next lines, "come together/right now/USB"? #FilkFTW #Brilliant #ICanHearIt #LateToThePostParty

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

If someone were hypothetically to ask me what was the biggest change to my daily since I moved to the PNW it would be that I *frequently* run into trans women... I don't know.... who live in my BUILDING. #It'sJustScience #AltText #DensityHasALeftWingBias

slightly wider than tall rectangular white background showing a simple line graph, the axes and labels in black and a blue line curve meant to represent the line plot of the data versus the axes. there are four widely and evenly spaced horizontal light grey horizontal lines drawn across from the Y axis to the edge of the shown graph space, the top line drawn from the end of the labeled black Y axis to the corner at top right. The label on the Y axis is turned 90 degrees from standard, to match the axis and reads in black sans serif text "Likelhood of Meeting Trans Women." The X axis is labeled with the same color and font Density of Population. The blue data plot curve is being presented as if the data represents an exponential increase in likelihood of meeting a trans woman in the wild when the data is sampled in areas of higher population density. Specifically, the curve starts at the origin and stretches out across the X axis only slightly rising versus the Y axis such that by the time the line reaches the center of the graph horizontally, it has risen only enough to imply a chance in the single digits. At about three-quarters horizontal, the curve follows a typical "hockey stick" or "J-curve" exponential pattern, climbing rapidly in a steeping curve to collide with (somehow) the implication of 99%.

To address the demons (those in my head, and those who might cosplay as them) I made this. There's no data. This is an assumption/hypothesis I've made up inside my head and on my computer. And for any whattabouters: You've met so. many. trans. men. They walk amongst you, unseen. Fear them. (j/k love them, they're awesome). Nonbinary people have it rough wherever they live, even "safe queer spaces" - ask one. Any one. Pick an enby.

Trans women? They KILL us. Often because it's harder for a lot of us to conceal our AMAB orgins, but as often because we've concealed them too well. Black and brown trans women have a life expectancy of 35. Sit with that. Ask why.

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

psst @blizzard.com tabards could be cocktail dresses or anything else what's stopping you #Warcraft #WoW #TWW #Midnight #Transmog #Tabard #CocktailDress

a snip of my night elf druid kelanadri quarter-turned in the item viewer. she has blueblack hair in the one queer femme haircut, the "undercut". she has light grey skin and the solid black wrath of elune eyes, purple maple leaf eye markings and purple arm tatts. she has a silver septum ring and two visible piercings in her right ear, the other hidden by the angle and anyway by the hair. she wears a brown leather choker with silver inlay. she wears a light grey tabbard and little else, woven grey sandals laced around her calves, and dark green and grey woven bracelets. She is set against the pretty greens and blues of the emerald dream-like background of the item viewer.

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The joy of being friends with me #RSO #CrashLog #ChronicPain #KelaIsWeirdToBeFriendsWith #AltText Actually though do any other chronic pain sufferers have a thing like this, where if you get pain relief suddenly your brain goes on overdrive? (more in alt text)

Screenshot from Discord of a conversation between me and my long-suffering bestie Sarah, whose icon I have obscured for her protection.

(Kela though icon not pictured)
i'm sorry
i had a emotional crash and had toi process some feels i was kind offline

Sarah
Yesterday at 4:00 PM
No worries

KelaSmash GOAT
Yesterday at 4:00 PM
stupid RSO induced epiphanies

Sarah
Yesterday at 4:00 PM
Sorry you had a crash
Idk what that is

KelaSmash GOAT
Yesterday at 4:03 PM
rick simpson oil is very effective pain relief for me.
but it's hard to dose and it kicks in late sometimes
but sometimes it hits when i've had a lot of stress and learned a bunch of things and suddenly all of my processing circuits/cycles are free of ignoring pain and they process
the backlock
back log
and then i figure out a bunch of things iand i have to reframe my whole reality or personality construct
stings a bit

Sarah
Yesterday at 4:05 PM
Ah
(her she made a personal gesture of comfort that depends on inside knowledge, but it was appreciated)

And since I'm here I'll explain a bit more. Because I have rotoscoliosis (the rare and worse kind) and am allergic to opiods, my pain management consists of a) weed and b) ignoring the pain with almost all of my brain capacity. So occasionally when the pain is just TOO much i have to reach for my big guns, one of which is Rick Simpson Oil (google it. tldr it's an extract of cannabis for like terminal cancer patients.) On that particular day my partner insisted i use the RSO because they noticed it had been like 5 days of extreme and not well ignored pain. When true relief that doesn't require my help finally kicks in, it's like all those brain resources are suddenly spinning through a back log of things that I haven't had time to process. But that usually manifests in at a minimum tears or rage, but sometimes, like this day, I integrate experience and learning with feelings and figure out something huge, and have to rethink a lot of things.

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Discovery is such a fucking good show. Watching it again with my gf who's new to it and noticing things I missed before, including an exchange between Saru and Burnham of this quote: #StarTrek #ST:D #DISCO #Discovery #Saru #MichaelBurnham #Aeschylus #tags:brutal-comforting #KevinBacon

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Hey if you missed my first stream in a MONTH last night, just because it was unannounced and started in the wee hours of my side of the pond, you missed the party! My archived streams are all there at youtube.com/@kelasmash/streams if you want to check them out. #BG3 #PartyTime #Excellent #DnD5e

This is a screenshot from Baldur's Gate 3, taken in the Mountain Pass map on the overlook to the canyon. Our adventuring party, having decide to make camp for the day, are engaging in Camp Dance. Well, I say our party, but Shadowheart stands in the background, still in her armor and making a "what are you guys doing" face with her arms bent at the elbows, hands raised. The rest of us are already in our camp clothes.

Lae'zel and I (the large purple female Mephistopheles tiefling at center) are performing the same modern dance move, raising the roof while kicking up our right legs, facing stage left. My delightful girlfriend, Gwen, a pale skinned half elf faces me towards stage right, beginning to do the ancient breakdancing maneuver, The Wave. Between Lae'zel and I, the quasit Shovel is doing jazz hands.

Lae'zel, a githyanki with green skin with black markings and red hair, wears the tight and revealing black leather camp clothes she comes with. I, currently named Treesha Scratchbane (I change almost every play session to reflect an injoke), purple with a long tail and long multicolored (purples, blues and lilacs) hair, am wearing the sexy black leather camp clothes I took of Minthara's corpse (the best reason to kill her.) Gwen's character Cioran, the pale half-elf with long blonde hair with two thin decorative braids on left and right, is wearing a rich maroon velvet tunic with tight brown pants. To her stage left Shadowheart is back behind the dance line, wearing her Luminous Armor that we just found, a mixture of reds, browns and dull metal. Her signature long braided black hair is trimmed in silver and onyx and the ponytail lays forward across her right shoulder. Shovel, of course, is naked.

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

By the goddex I love living in a place where the bumper stickers are like this

Photo I took at a stop sign of a gold Hyundai Tucson in front of me festooned with bumper stickers reading

MAKE FASCISM WRONG AGAIN

DICTATOR
OR
DEMOCRACY
THAT'S THE CHOICE

RESIST
FASCISM

WHEN FASCISM COMES TO AMERICA IT WILL BE WRAPPED IN THE FLAG AND CARRYING A CROSS - SINCLAIR LENS

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

We bring this up every time they say shit about bathrooms. Are these "men*" ever going to clue in to the fact they're peeing next to trans dudes every day? #*inTheAltText #TransMascInvisibility

A meme from presumably X given the blue verify check, from a person who is presumably either the left or right human, or the blue stuffy pictured named evan loves worf @esjesjesj on white with black sans serif arial text reading:

Conservatives: trans women must use the men's bathroom!

Trans men: So we have to use the women's bathroom?

Conservatives: who the fuck are you

*as promised. I put the word men in quotes because they are not, nor do they even understand the concept of, real men. They could ask the swol dude in the stall next door, though.

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

♩♫ and the girl in the back said everyone attack and it turned into a ballroom blitz ♬♪ #SL #SecondLife #VirtualPhotography #VP #SLVP #BallroomBlitz #MixAndMatchFashion #Le'La #GGVG

A blue-skinned, purple-haired character with curved horns (it me, i'm character) stands poised at the base of a grand marble staircase. She wears an elegant, floor-length black gown with a high slit revealing part of her leg, and a fitted collar trimmed in silver. Intricate bracers cover her forearms, and faint, glowing purple butterfly tattoos are visible on her arms and face. The staircase behind her has gray stone steps and ornate white balustrades, flanked by two marble columns with decorative hanging lanterns in golden cages. The lighting is soft, giving the scene a regal and slightly fantastical atmosphere.

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

♩♫ and the girl in the back said everyone attack and it turned into a ballroom blitz ♬♪ #SecondLife #BallroomBlitz #VirtualPhotography #MixAndMatchFashion

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

You really have to ask at this point

NEWS WIRE
NewsWire
@NewsWire_US

U.S. TO ANNOUNCE PLANS TO BUILD NUCLEAR REACTOR ON MOON.

Sparrowboy
@RealSparrrowboy

Jesus fucking Christ how many kids he touch

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

@worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com I love this patch, but this bugs me on a perhaps pedantic level. How does void leave a presence, faint or otherwise? <3 #WoW #TWW #TheWarWithin #PatchDay #ElevenPointTwo #GhostsOfK'aresh #IW'asn'tAw'are'TilNowWeC'oul'dPutAp'ostro'ph'esInH'ash'tags @tande.tv

A screenshot of quest text that appears on the screen in the new World of Warcraft The War Within patch 11.2, Ghosts of K'aresh. The background is the city of Taz'avesh, which has been relocated to K'aresh, the homeworld of both the ethereals and brokers, who were K'areshi all along! The city and soundcape gives "steampunk bureaucracy." The text reads:

The faint presence of the Void trails off into the city.

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

And they did it all, especially the hurting other people, in the name of Jesus.

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

VICTORY! And no, I didn't stream it bc I wasn't feeling like it. But I shared this victory with my dear family of guildies, like we always do. Are we slower than others? yes. Are we happier than others? Usually. <3 #Reciprocity #AOTC #Gallywhacked

a screenshot of the achievements panel for yours truly in WoW, showing the achievement Ahead of the Curve: Chrome King Gallywix (we killed the last boss of the Undermine raid on heroic mode before the new raid tier dropped)

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Watch out for patriarchy’s lies, my cisters. Come to us, we will give you the truth. #Cisters

sprocketdoe 5:31 PM
The other day, a young cis woman posted to a trans fem forum:
"My boyfriend says that, when it comes to pain, 'blue balls for guys is the equivalent of childbirth for women.' That didn't sound right to me, but I don't trust men to tell me the truth about it."
About two hundred of us set her straight, let her know just how horrifically she was being coerced. Now she's planning on dumping him.
So much transphobic propaganda these days is focused on convincing cis women to hate and fear us.
THIS is why.
Cishet men DON'T want conversations like these to happen.

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The friend I had this conversation with much prefers Copilot's first whack at this before I refined the prompt to look more like what I had in my head. She says my version looks like Bruce Willis.

Basically the same poster, except Carol Kane has her iconic curly blonde hair, the shoulder armor is on the correct arm, and the more i look at it the more she was right, damn it.

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

So last night I was trying to remember the name of Carol Kane's character in "The Princess Bride" and I said to my friend "you know, Mad Max's wife" instead of MIRACLE Max, which of course conjured this in my brain and now I want a later chapter where Kane plays her as old Furiosa

ai bullshit poster of actress Carol Kane as the Furiosa character. It's her, but with the short hair and black paint on the forehead and around the eyes, wiht the signature shoulder plate rigging and her mechanical arm (the *wrong* arm, mind you, because this is ai bullshit) done in the whole orange/yellow/sepia style of their posters, with a mad max armored car in the foreground (made small and on the road, but kidn of fading into the character part, it's well done for AI bullshit, I have to admit.)

Am I a horrible person for using AI image generation? Probably. If I am ever doing anything for me, I commission an artist. I have several commissioned pieces hanging in my home. And I'm not paying for image generation, this came from Copilot which was installed on my machine against my will by Microsuck.

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

You should track down last week’s (Monthly 6-23-25) Daily Show with John Stewart opening monologue re: gun violence. His litany of mass shootings should be memorized by everyone who tried to discuss the topic with 2a absolutists.

It's every parent's nightmare, isn't it? you check your child's bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins.
@lolennui.bsky.social
@SMCT

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Kela Smash @kelasmash.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Don’t you understand? An HP tattoo is a permanent change to your body that will have far reaching consequences for your family and career options. The state has an interest in making sure you don’t regret such a life changing choice!

alice.in.winterwonderland

We should start gatekeeping HP tattoos due to the actual high regret rate.
-You'll now need 1-2 doctors' letters,
-See a therapist,
-Live with the tattoo (temporary stick-on version) for at least a year,
-Go through the waitlist for a government-approved tattoo artist
-Get a Tattoo Recognition Certificate,
-Have non-tattooed people detail and scrutinize your life choices and debate them in public,
-A separate "HP tattooed" category for sports and changing rooms for others' comfort
Sound good?

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