iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 18h

The filmed version of Hadestown was everything I hoped it would be. I love that show so much.

Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

love to see a chart like this where the y axis starts at zero

Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I can't remember who was it who said: "In drama if you make someone cry at the end of four hours you're a genius. In comedy if you don't make someone laugh every thirty seconds you're hopeless."

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sometimes a famous person dies and there is a unanimous flood of stories about what a wonderful person they were. Robert Redford and Sam Neill are two recent examples that come to mind, but Dolly Parton is blowing the doors off. Requiescat in pace.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I tried one, it sucked. I looked like a dork and it made walking unpleasant without giving any real benefit. Meaningful strength improvements require genuine strength training of some kind. Casey Johnston's "Liftoff" is a great introduction; I guarantee you will like her tone and vibe.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I had a neighbour who lived in the US for 30 years and then returned to Australia with no trace of an American accent. Remarkable! I attribute this to the fact that she never listened to a word anyone else said.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

during the last women's world cup in Australia we enjoyed the "Melbourne Rectangular Stadium"

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

once again Odysseus and his men clambering back into their boats after getting their asses kicked

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

my chance of distinguishing "what a fantastic tackle" from "obvious foul from the defender" is well under 50%

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

they have those crazy necks because they can't move their eyes

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

you only live a day / but it's brilliant anyway

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In cycling they do that for safety. You don't want every member of the peloton trying to get in front at the end because it would be very dangerous. So everyone in a group (i.e. with no gaps of more than three seconds) gets awarded the same time.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Patricia Lockwood's Priestdaddy is funny and beautiful and weird and sometimes it punches you in the stomach

How did I become a person who almost never left the house? Until I was twelve I lived as an element of nature, tending to my untamed Rooms, wading through creeks and waist-high grasses, and bicycling diagonally across vacant lots long after the sun had flamed down. All the while I collected: unsplit geodes with their lunar skins, horn corals with mushroom frills at the top, shivered green glass and grocery lists and bottle caps not yet flattened into the second dimension. Collecting was a mad instinct to own the world. If I had to go inside at all, I wanted to bring the whole outdoors with me and hold my own context in my hand.

Then, when we moved to the neighbourhood in St. Louis that was

piece by piece being lifted into the sky, where girls were in danger and no one played after dark, the most curious thing happened: I felt the slow clank of a metal shutter coming down, being lowered by some unseen hand until there was only a stripe of light underneath, and that was the news from outside. I was thirteen, and it was beyond my strength to raise it again. How to go back: to that diagonal flight across fields, that confident pocketing of everything I surveyed? How to remember that easy, bone-deep assumption that the world is for you too?

I know all women are supposed to be strong enough now to strangle presidents and patriarchies between their powerful thighs, but it doesn't work that way. Many of us were actually affected, by male systems and male anger, in ways we cannot always articulate or overcome. Sometimes, when the ceiling seems especially low and the past especially close, I think to myself, I did not make it out. I am still there in that place of diminishment, where that voice an octave deeper than mine is telling me what I am. Before I turned thirteen, I had never been part of the class that my father called empty-headed and addressed as "dollface," that our church seemed to see as just bodies. I was simply myself, unique and irreducible. Suddenly I became female, and it was as if a telescope I had been looking through—with a clear eye, up at an unbounded night of stars—had been viciously turned on me. I went to a pinpoint. Does God exist was never a question for me then; do I exist took up the whole of my mind.

I did not make it out, but this does. Art goes outside, even if we don't; it fills the whole air, though we cannot raise our voices. This is the secret: when I encounter myself on the page, I am shocked at how forceful I seem. On the page I am strong, because that is where I put my strength. On the page I am everything that I am not, because that is where I put myself. I am no longer whispering through the small skirted shape of a

keyhole: the door is knocked down and the roof is blown off and I am aimed once more at the entire wide night.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I heard the threat was from Al-Gaeda

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Search for "sbs world cup highlights" on YouTube for high-quality, filler-free, spoiler-free, three minute highlight packages of each World Cup match from SBS Australia.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

every morning I check the news, hoping

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

my nose and ears are sore just from looking at the photo

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

at first I thought she said Tylenol and I was confused

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The first two episodes are good, but a slow burn. Episode 3 and onwards is when it gets really good. Don't skip the title cards. The music changes for every episode.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It's so good. The characters, the script, the dialogue, the monologues. The acting. The pacing. The action sequences. The sets, the costumes, the props. The cinematography. The sound design, the music. (My god, the music!)

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I just rewatched season 1 of Andor for the fourth time. It's my favourite TV show. It's not just another Star Wars show. There are no Jedi, no Skywalkers, no lightsabers, and no Force. It's just rebels and Empire. Everything has depth and weight. Everything feels real.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

real participation trophy energy from Fox

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Transmission costs can be a large factor.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

After hearing about them a lot recently I finally gave them a listen. Over-produced soft rock/jazz shit with bad singing, it sucks!

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I love that old clip where Trump is asked which testament of the bible is his favourite and he says he likes them both. Because if he knew anything about the bible he'd be an old testament guy through and through!

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

they used it for the FINISH THE JOB video about Iran and now they don't know how to turn it off

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

but it makes sense for the FINISH THE JOB one so nobody should complain

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

tremendous "graphic design is my passion" energy here (names obscured to protect the guilty)

A sign advertising a business doing "Interior Design for Residential & Commercial". The sign has black cursive text. The company name and URL are obscured via crude black lines added with image editing software. The hideous background has wide blue and green vertical stripes with thin white stripes between them.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

it's a bad misapplication of the Mexico/Middle East movie filter

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I turn a corner and a young woman, a busker, is singing what must have been an aria from an opera? Her voice echoes around the stone walls. I pause for just a moment, then continue on, in a rush and nervous about finding my hotel. I wish I had stayed much longer, and given her some money.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

First time in Venice. After dark, I get off the ferry to San Marco Piazza. I walk through the twisty confusing streets. It's mid-winter and the city is deserted... like "did I miss the apocalypse?" deserted. Spooky.

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Nicholas Nethercote @nnethercote.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

It's just reached 99% of new cars sold in Norway. Something like 70% of cars in use are still petrol/diesel because cars have a long lifetime. Great progress, still!

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