iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

wow vindicated. change is possible

Duolingo accepted my suggested translation after originally telling me I was incorrect

sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

sounds awesome, i recently bought a game called Automation which lets you build cars from scratch that you can then import into BeamNG and drive lol

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i haven't! i usually prefer more realistic art styles but the gameplay of that and BOTW seems like my kinda thing from what i've seen

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

all i wanted from games growing up was cars and physics sandboxes

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i actually originally had the motogp concert in this post but then realised AWW was funnier since what happened to Ed's tour is exactly the same as what happened to AWW26 except with Macklemore instead of Randa Abdel-Fattah and some billionaire stadium owners instead of Mali 💀

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Peter Malinauskas announces Ed Sheeran as headliner of Adelaide Writers' Week 2027

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This from Bikrum Gill describes colonialism & fascism so succinctly in a way I hadn't grasped this clearly before To the colony, the founding genocide is supposed to close the question of its legitimacy. But when resistance inevitably re-opens it, the colony 'must' return to its founding mode

What we see, then, in the period from 2006 onwards is the capacity of the rising armed resistance to re-open contestation of that which was long assumed to have been settled: the fundamental equation of force underlying Israel’s colonial project. In overturning this equation, the armed resistance has opened, irreversibly, the road to liberation and Israel has responded by explicitly returning to its genocidal foundations. The massive death and destruction Israel has routinely visited upon Gaza is not a collateral damage of war; it is the intended outcome of a doctrine that seeks to restore, via the logic of total elimination, an irreversibly eroding deterrence capacity.

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

seen postings of a couple of local exhibitions recently that presented AI ~artworks~ in a supposedly critical "indigenous"/"eco" context and they still look exactly like slop, more offensive if anything. it's not happening cousins let it go

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I don't like the term "Polynesian outliers" because it implies that the simplistic "Polynesian triangle" is Polynesia proper, when in reality it's all just Polynesia. Also the real shape of Polynesia is way prettier than a triangle, reminds me of a bird or a ray

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

it's crazy to me how elon completely killed poly/islander twitter there's like 5 of us left over there

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

me noticing something extremely subtle and niche that would not be of interest to many people: why is no one talking about this!

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

just clocked someone as being from adelaide solely based on how they pronounced "home", confirming my view that we have a distinctive /oʊ/ diphthong and the plant/dance stuff isn't the only thing differentiating our accent from east coast ones. no one talks about this in australian accent convos !

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

oh cool i didn't know that was a thing, maybe i'll look into that. i'm all good thank you 🙏 it just feels like such a waste of time because i'm a sole trader who makes sub-gst income so neither i nor the tax office really gets anything out of it

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I need to write a long form post or make a video essay or something on how there's archaeological evidence that Polynesians reached australia in the 12th century and were hanging with Aboriginal peoples along the coast because it's so cool and literally no one knows about it

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

cormac mccarthy would've written this with two commas max

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

are we putting gender & sexuality in the census so the community has rep to justify social services or leaving it off in case One Nation gets in and has a free list of all the undesirabes' names and addresses

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

seen attempts to rewrite history claiming there was no sign of a genocide in October 2023. Anyone who was actually paying attention could see within a few days of the 7th that Israel had decided to wage an extermination & annexation campaign. You can't gaslight me it's seared into my mind forever

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

every day i wake up looking forward to having my breakfast cereal and every day without fail it's the most delicious thing ever

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

new track 'In Kind' on the huge new H34VEN0N34RTH compilation ⭐️ sc: soundcloud.com/h34ven0n34rt... bc: h34ven0n34rth.bandcamp.com/album/3quino...

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

another one last night: became lucid mid dream and started questioning the dream characters which caused the whole scene to deconstruct into this pixel art looking thing. then i tried to astral project but could feel i was uncomfy irl and had to wake up 😪 but i'm beginning to Gain Control....

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Aragorn doesn't belong in this conversation, he couldn't even conceive of performative post-glam boho grunge

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

'Estuary' from the album Crown of My Spirit animation by me character design by me & Solomon Enos full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i9s...

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

a special send-off for the Crown of My Spirit era 5pm AEST today

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

i don't like the argument that using gen AI is "cheating" because it implies it's a devious shortcut to creating an artwork (reinforcing the pro-AI narrative) when it's more like a devious shortcut to conducting a pinterest search

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

couple nights ago in a lucid dream i decided to shut my eyes and travel to a deeper layer, which was just colourful lights and static but i stayed lucid. i then woke up from that into a non-lucid dream that had the same atmosphere/setting as the first lucid dream

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

i've had a premonition that when Tr*mp d*es it will be in a funny way

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

my observation of the visual artists i follow who have been using genAI tools for several years is that it doesn't seem like any of them have really developed the practice further since then, and in some cases their non-AI work has actually deteriorated in quality

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

research has led me to reading up on the Bible... Exodus is straight up a horror movie, this reminds me of The Conjuring or some shit. has anyone done that

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

though there is one phase i haven't got a handle on which makes me feel like a chopped gremlin, ruin my sleep schedule and crash out every time. still not sure what i'm supposed to do with that one

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

but i've accepted that this gamble with the odd failure/disappointment is a better way to live than constantly squandering the stream of gifts my brain gives me. i'll take being functional 40-60% of the time over not at all

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

if i can match the current phase i can be insanely productive, like hyperfocus mode for days, finish a whole project type shit. the downside is i don't really get to choose, and trying to force it tends to send me into depression (sucks when i have a badly timed deadline)

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

one of the most mentally helpful things of my life has been understanding my body's cyclical patterns of mood/focus and how to work with them nonjudgementally. I involuntarily move thru a set of ~1-3 week mental phases and each one is kinda like a superpower with an achilles heel

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

funnily tāvaha/tāwaha means "opening" in some Eastern Polynesian languages but derives from the word fafa (mouth). fafa became vaha/waha in those languages thru the same sound change that caused fafine -> wahine

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

blowing my mind realising the word va (space/time/distance between) is everywhere in the polynesian vocab vaha = open sea between vaka = canoe vahe = divide vaʻinga = play faiva = performance (fai = do) lava = able hiva = sing/dance ava = opening vai = water manava = womb, heart, gut (mana = power)

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

i regularly have multilayered dreams where i am in sleep paralysis or a lucid dream but i feel too tired & heavy to control it, so i wake myself but "wake up" into a non-lucid dream. and it's like deeper dream layer = more tired/heavy feeling... what does all this mean

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

wait i just remembered intimate pronouns are actually a thing in tongan lol. you use them to emphasise strong love/respect/sympathy for whoever you're talking about :')

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

working on a searchable copy of Churchward's Tongan Grammar which will be the first one ever afaik. may also add my own annotations & layout edits for timeliness & readability. it will be free bc i'm for the culture unlike Some tongan language resource creators. millions will ako lea fakatonga

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I’m not anxious about my writing accidentally sounding like AI because I write the way I need to, and the way I need to write is the most human thing I have. When AI starts to sound like me it will be because it tried to steal me, and it can only steal something that sounds like me

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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

it went really well!! i think i actually helped a lot with translating the native speakers' way of explaining into terms the newer learners can grasp. it became more like a collaborative exchange for everyone and i realised this is how education is supposed to be. now i want to read freire again

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