iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

that’s how I diagnosed my CPU fan bearing problem, tho I did it unscientifically (stuck a pen into the fan blades while it was spinning). just had to replace the fan, not the whole enchilada

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

what happens if you isolate one fan at a time by unplugging or taping it to stop rotation?

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TIL sudo has a logo and it is a sandwich

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I had a lot of fun hanging out with you too! Covid really did make things harder

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh no shade at all, I’m absolutely thrilled about the fact that we’re everywhere and don’t always have to like the same things or fulfill the same stereotypes

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

in the years since that warning, my definition of success has become more expansive

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was once warned about these people: “assimilationists”, they said, were a burden to the cause. That every stealth trans person represented a failure

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

but the phenomenon is real. I thought it was an accident at first, encountering trans people with no other trans friends, but in fact some actively resist it

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“The Trans People Who Don’t Hang Out With Us” if I was an essay-writing type I’d write this essay but I’m not so I won’t

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

as a recent convert to the good word of Mayonnaise this is giving me some doubts

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The colors look lovely! Can’t wait to see how the final piece turns out

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Are you trying to use it or store it? I find it helps to tuck the end of a yarn cake & pull from the middle. It does eventually collapse but way later

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the little plastic inserts for slotting different iPods into the charging base

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’ve crocheted a whole blanket before (twice!) and it’s fine but the traditional move is to make granny squares and then whip stitch them together. Also makes for more interesting patterns and you can do pixel art

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

if its possible to have this kind of week somewhere else I'm going to keep looking for it. but i havent found it yet so i'm going to keep coming here.

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

anyway, the man burns tonight and so shall everything we put on the walls inside that little speakeasy, including the x-ray of that guy’s ribs who broke them building the thing.

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

they’ve been watching all of this. the mountains that are too far away to catch the glint of a thousand fires have been there, watching. and the sky, and the clouds, and the dust.

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it glows and builds and crests and crashes and the comedown is brutal. and then the sun rises on Monday morning and most of the city has been torn down and you notice the mountains.

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

when the energy collects like this, when you put it all in one place, theres a tesseract at every street corner and its in this form that cannot be named. it glows.

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

i feel it here. Ive felt it since day one. It usually takes the whole week to build but it does. Some say it was stronger in previous years but i dont give a shit

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

i feel it in ritual. I feel it at a good rave. Some communes have it as a fixture. But it moves and dissipates and doesn’t tell you where it’s going

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

ive been seeking for years for a particular type of energy that’s felt missing from my life. The old religions probably cultivated it at some point

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

out of a hundred little interactions, that one touched me the most. I related because, yeah, there’s a stability here centered in ritual thats so hard to find elsewhere. It’s rare

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

and these moments often come at a time when im focusing on the vapid outer layer with disgust. its like the playa knows what i need to encounter.

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

that’s the kind of shit that keeps me coming back. Not in the way of Burning Man being some kind of sappy charity but having these little energy encounters. Touching the bones of it all

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

so we found the speakeasy in the base of the man and met a guy from build crew who’s been out here since May. He said working for Burning Man has given him a stability he hasn’t had in years

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

cooked a camp meal in a windstorm. instead of lamenting the dust in the food I thought of Dune. There’s spice in the food…

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

cooked a camp meal in a windstorm. instead of lamenting the dust in the food I thought of Dune. There’s spice in the food…

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

the meshtastic folks at the meetup were not impressed with my Bluesky bridge. they said i had a problem. i am deferring introspection on this

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

*johnny cash voice* i pissed myself today…

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

it’s so easy to make totalizing gestures. theyre just sitting there. i have seen three things and now declare my theory of all 3,000,000,000 of them

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

disconnecting is the point of burning man, man. for everyone else tho, not for me

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

getting this sense this might be the most online burn ever. nobody wants to admit they’ve got a starlink password but everyones got a starlink password

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mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

it’s been quite dusty for 2 days and we’re in for a third. whats unique is the persistence, usually whiteouts come in bursts but this has been constant. StruggleBurn 2026

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