iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He looks like a diseased section of colon.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If Blackburn was a man they’d call him a shameless whore.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I was 2 years old when the French finally closed the prison at Devils Island. Truman was president, Stalin was in power. Feels like things have not gotten much better.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I solved the problems I’d had with Logitech mice decades ago by not buying any more of them. I use $12 technet mice instead. My iPads/iPhones support button mapping natively and I got an app to do it on the mac mini. Fuck logitech with a big square cinder block.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Such a pity, only wounded..

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ten thousand dollars worth of tattoos and one fucking tooth.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In his theory of Asynchronous Evolution, V. Geodakyan asserts that females exhibit a broader reaction norm and males exhibit a narrower one. Is this a fact or a postulation that I’m too dense to detect? Because subsequent assertions hinge on it.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sylvia Beach interviewed about the post WW1 expatriate community in Paris goes on to describe her life in Paris under the Nazis and her rescue by Ernest Hemingway. We can all take heart from Sylvia Beach. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Zb...

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Sylvia Beach interview on James Joyce and Shakespeare & Company (1962)

YouTube video by Manufacturing Intellect

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is a young Sylvia Beach and the writer James Joyce in the doorway of her Paris bookshop around 1922. She was the first to publish his work ‘Ulysses’. Her stories about expatriate Paris post WWI charmed me and I admit to a bit of a crush. For more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Zb...

youtube.com

Sylvia Beach interview on James Joyce and Shakespeare & Company (1962)

YouTube video by Manufacturing Intellect

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sympathy with orcs at this point is proof of a disconnected world-view which imo is beyond redemption. The PR benefit otoh is that it is evidence of the fate that awaits fodder and proof of the will of Ukraine to evict the invaders. It is ugly and it is necessary.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

$> cat ‘food in tin cans’ cat: cannot open food in tin cans $>

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The president is a chancre on the organ of democracy.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Russia has always been a drunken circus bear riding a bicycle with a machine gun.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My first boss at Bell Labs described his hierarchy of employees * motivated competents: they burn through tasks quickly * unmotivated competents: they take constant prodding * unmotivated incompetents: they’re benign * motivated incompetents: the bane of your existence

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

From a human factors perspective iOS is a freaking mess of inconsistent design with controls and even methods varying wildly from app to app, most egregiously the native ones.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

When I send a txt message and don’t see a delivered notice right away I send another one to try to force the first one through.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Indifference is a separation of your higher self from physical reality, emotions, and thoughts. It is detachment from the outcomes so the rational mind can observe events from a clear distance.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Marcus Aurelius emphasizes that we must be indifferent about things that make no difference. It is not about being numb to life nor is it about ignoring our emotions.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Apple is disabling F1 in the TV app AND in the browser on iPad if you have not updated the OS to their latest POS version. This is new for the Miami race, it worked fine previously but now “there are difficulties displaying this content in this browser” It’s their f’ing browser ffs.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

”In 1957, hydrogen bomb architect Edward Teller and other Livermore weapons scientists proposed a gigawatt-level electrical plant, based on steam generation from 1 megaton bombs dropped every 12 hours into a 1,000 ft cavity. American research on such plants continued throughout the Cold War.” wiki

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

and then imagine you went on, lived your life, survived the intervening years with things seeming to get a little better and little better as time went by only to then see it happen again but 1000x worse. ‘The Manchurian Candidate’

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

F1 on Apple iOS prior to the new (hated) version 26 is possible only by updating your device to the latest version or by watching via browser at tv.apple.com and logging into your Apple account. This is by design to force us to update, which I will not do.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Hey Apple, wanna sell me some more stuff? Make a 13” or 15” touchscreen Neo tablet running MacOS that can take bluetooth keyboards and mice. Downgradable to Sequoia would be nice.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The best F1 action I’ve seen in 30 years is over on the soon-defunct F1Tv site. It’s a series of documentaries called ‘Inside Tracks’. They’re short and are entirely in-car cameras with commentary but mostly team radio exchanges, they synopsize whole races. They are riveting.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Catholic theologian John Haught described fundamentalism: an inability to abide nuance and ambiguity; an inability to accept multiple answers, explanations, or layers of meaning.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Same here, the complaints against Tahoe are legion especially among old timers who’ve been with Apple for years. I just snagged a 2018 Mini for $150 and updated it to Sequoia. It’s not the snappiest but compliments my iPads nicely. I’m a once-upon-a-time Unix developer but new to Macs.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Chickens coming home to roost

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

If Marsha Blackburn was a man they’d call him a shameless whore.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Rename Penn Station to Stormy Daniels Station I say.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

grizzled veteran from the original release of Triton wanders in, nods in sympathy.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Dear Apple: Why have my two iPads and one iPhone consumed 3.5GB of my data plan in just over 24 hours solely through traffic to Apple servers? I quit using Amazon tablets because I couldn’t control them. iCloud is off, backups are off, unused apps deleted. OS Versions are all 17.x.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I’m on the verge of printing this up as a tailgate banner on my truck. What stops me is I live in TN where every other voter has $10,000 worth of tattoos and one tooth and when they’re mad at you they burn your house down.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I was shocking to see bright pink schoolgirl things there in that place, where the property of those killed or wounded in theatre are processed for return to the family. The staff there, always deeply respectful, were especially somber.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Thinking today of Princess Samuels, a 22yo woman who wanted to see the world and serve her country but was killed in Iraq. I happened to be at the Joint Personal Effects Depot when her property was being processed, 12 foot lockers filled with pink girly stuff & hello kitty backpacks. What a waste.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Jeff Bezos couldn’t carry Catherine Grahams purse.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Look at that smug motherfucker. Beat his ass.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Bezos couldn’t carry Catherine Grahams purse.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

“ WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE? ME OR YOUR LYING DAMN EYES? “

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I was delighted to see a majority of Americans recognize their children were safer with Ozzie babysitting them than a Catholic Priest. RIP Ozzy.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

It is but the conditions it brings with it are the problem > The spikes are linked to heat, drought and heavy rainfall conditions, the report said.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

So the enemy of my enemy is a friend, even though I hate the motherfucker.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

It started in the 70’s/80’s when R’s removed restrictions on media ownership and allowed the likes of Murdoch and Sinclair to buy up competitors and completely dominate what news we are able to see. The warnings were many att and are now obviously prophecies.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Make a real UPS for p02w using 18650 or lipo bag battery and: www.amazon.com/dp/B07PZ6V937 * TP4056 Type-C USB 5V 1A Battery Charger Module Charging Board with Dual Protection Functions www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5YCSZFP * XL63802 Boost Buck Voltage Converter, 3.7v to 5v, clean and low loss

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

After you’ve owned a sailboat with lots of teak trim on it for a decade or more you come to appreciate the way dirt blocks damaging UV even better than varnish.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I’m 74 and very glad to have lived to see the day when a majority of people realize their children are safer with Ozzy babysitting them than a catholic priest.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It was the same when Kennedy was shot. Anyone who questioned the official explanation was scorned and humiliated. It required the ascension of a new generation to openly question it and that took 30 fucking years.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

First time homeowners: if you’re like me you agonize over things to the point that you can become virtually paralyzed. Remember this: it’s a house, not a piano.

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