iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Cupra Raval Not a single marginal position in any Euroncap crash type. Yeah, I know which 4-star I would buy over the Chinese death traps. (To be fair, there are TONS of European and other death traps.) Or, you know, just get a Volvo or Polestar (also Chinese, if you just really love Chinese EVs).

100

Aion UT Don't ride in the back, and you're fine! www.euroncap.com/assessments/...

Shows an image from Euroncap showing stress on different body parts in a frontal collision. Rear passenger gets wrecked.

100

Leapmotor B05 Driver is better off, but don't be a passenger in one! www.euroncap.com/assessments/...

Shows an image from Euroncap showing stress on different body parts in a frontal offset collision. Passenger body gets wrecked.

100

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Geely E2 Driver gonna get wrecked. www.euroncap.com/assessments/...

Shows an image from Euroncap showing stress on different body parts in a frontal offset collision. Driver body barely protected while legs get destroyed.

100

Apple Maps in Sweden still says Lake Ontario at least. What insanity.

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A hell I could not in good conscience wish upon anybody. Fortunately, only those who deserve it can afford it. “We have enough diesel to last for 2 years” buddy, the bunker hoa civil war will cause colony collapse in less than 3 weeks!

A TikTok video about rich losers living in post-apocalyptic hell.

022

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is not funny. SpaceX rockets only do this when they are in extreme distress. (That, or blow up.)

A SpaceX rocket on its side in a body of water, I guess?

000

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Dang. Ocean’s getting too hot. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Graphic from linked Reuters story showing hot hot hot ocean temps in Europe.

000

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This lad sporting a beard already?

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Brandenburger Tor was looking *good* today, with a gray sky and a little white snow around. I cannot believe I never saw it before even though I used to live for years in Germany. Berlin was great!

Brandenburg Gate in Berlin with a great sky and a little amount of white snow and some few people in the fore.

000

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I like the styling of the ß on the street signs in Berlin near the Reichstag. Is it for readability? Purely style?

Ebertstraße street sign near the Reichstag building in Berlin.

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

AfD ist eine Abkürzung für Alternative für Deutschland, nicht für „Allianz für Deutschland.“ The Musk friendly Neo Nazi AfD is Alternative for Germany, not the old East German Allianz für Deutschland.

Musk also injected himself into Germany's national elections, enthusiastically endorsing the neo-Nazi party, the Allianz für Deutschland.
His attempt to feed the German pro-liberal democracy and pro-America parties into the wood chipper failed.

011

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

You guys look incredible in that "Back Together" photo:

Keanu on the left, and Alex on the right, looking dope in their bowler hats. B&W photo.

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Really wanna know what is going on here...

130

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Here is a German-English one.

Just lots of different ways to say Why in German

030

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Here is a funny Swedish-English one.

Text that says

Are you effective or efficient?
Be efficient. Or effective.
Ar du effektiv eller effektiv?
Vara effektiv. Eller effektiv.

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Sorry for another TMNT meme in such a short time (someone else did the thermostatic shift in voting, which was nice), but this one was too good...

070

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

What type of bp vest is he wearing here? www.hiptoro.com/wp-content/u...

Shirtless Elon Musk somehow still looking like he is wearing a bulletproof vest.

181203

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I just wanted everyone to know, my maps still all say the Gulf of Mexico.

An image of the Gulf of Mexico, labeled Mexikanska golfen in Swedish.

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Did you know that you can leave some carrots in the ground and pull them even after a frost? These garden carrots were delicious, even though we have snow on the ground. You cannot let them go forever, but they keep pretty well into late fall or early winter depending on your conditions! 🌱

A couple of large lovely orange carrots on a brown wooden cutting board.

1316513

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

@scalzi.com I saw this today at my local store. It was the only title they had of yours. I was hoping to find something in their small English section but alas none of yours were there. My German is not quite good enough for novels. I did get Starter Villain in Stockholm this summer though.

Photo of the really cool cover of JOHN SCALZI
DIE GESELLSCHAFT ZUR ERHALTUNG DER
KAUU
MONSTER (German title for the kaiju preservation society.)
It is a black somewhat humanoid looking dragon-man kaiju with a red circle on a white background that looks a bit like the flag of Japan.

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

German train service, the Deutsche Bahn, has been getting steadily worse in the half decade I lived in Germany. There are many, many reasons for delay. Despite that, I did not have “Disposal of unexploded ordnance” on my bingo card for today’s train for delay.

A DB app notification stating:
“S S1
to Osterburken
High demand expected
• Interlocking malfunction
• Disposal of unexploded
ordnance
• Am 17.11.24. Die Entschärfung einer Fliegerbombe in Hombu...
• The route between
Ludwigshafen(Rh)Hbf and Ma...”

000

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Couldn’t agree with this any harder. Fuck the fascists. Fuck the Nazis.

Woodie Guthrie holding his guitar that has this machine kills fascists written on it.

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

A really nice smultron (wild strawberry) haul today! Still more on the plants, which maybe will ready when I get back from Italy 🇮🇹. We will see. 🙃 There was only one sad—probably yummy—raspberry. 🌱

A white plate about 2/3 full of pretty, red smultron (wild strawberries). There are maybe 50. There is also one, single, lonely red raspberry.

1240

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

More carrots 🥕 today. Another 10% or so. They look tasty. Some are a bit small, I think because they were too close. I didn’t thin them out this year. 🌱

A big bunch of tasty home grown carrots. The carrots are orange with green tops and a little dirt still on them. They are together in a big bunch on green grass.

1351

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

This is what I usually look for to pluck a carrot. If frost is not predicted, if the green tops still look like they are in good shape, and I don’t see a bit of carrot body, then I wait.

A stub of an orange carrot root poking up out of soil with a bit of green stem visible as well as other detritus.

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Vancing, to vance: see ‘vamp’, but done as a generally incompetent, socially-inept asshole; also, frequently targeting innocent living room furniture instead of men. Usage: Trump vanced that chaise longue like a bitch. When you are famous, they let you do it.

Definition:
vamp | vamp | informal
noun
a seductive woman who uses her sexual attractiveness to exploit men: the filmmakers never allow her to become a truly saucy vamp.
verb [with object]
blatantly set out to attract: she had not vamped him like some wicked Jezebel.

000

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

🌱 This was about 5%-10% of the carrot harvest so far. I pulled a bunch, made some lovely carrot and onion (also from the garden) soup, and then had to leave town for a bit. I am heading home tomorrow and cannot wait to pull (hopefully) a lot more carrots!

Freshly harvested, soil-still-on, green top carrots on a black glossy induction stovetop, waiting to be processed.

1210

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

A small harvest of strawberries, smultron, and raspberries from my garden. I only have a couple small plants of each. I need to dedicate a lot more space to berries! Another harvest should be possible before the first frost. There are still a bunch of flowers green berries on the plants.

A white plate of red berries: strawberries, wild Swedish strawberries (smultron), and raspberries.

1120

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source:

Brainwashing scene from A Clockwork Orange

0131

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

I was out in the garden today, and… somebody please send reinforcements. The slugs are decimating our strawberries.

Three European black slugs though two being the brown variant (classification Arion ater) decimating my poor strawberries.

A slug-assaulted strawberry, with a whole through the middle like a giant cannonball wound.

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

My little old man is 18 years old and loves prowling the backyard jungle.

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

My favorite is not the first line, but it’s close enough for me. Basically Hugo setting expectations, saying, you better believe this is gonna be a *book*.

VOLUME I FANTINE
BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN
CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL
In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D
— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D— since 1806.
Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel
~.
maline

031

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

At first I couldn’t tell that his face was not just a blotted out circle.

Boris Johnson but with a black circle for a face.

000

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

The Johannes berries from my garden are very tasty this year.

Delicious Johannes berries from my garden.

000

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Family Guy legs lady had a famer daughter.

Screen capture of Family Guy where woman who looks like Peter has legs instead of torso.

030

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

I liked it. Did you mean route or rout?

“retreat. This would become a route, sometimes a massacre
- and it happens several times in our book, but never with more consequence than when Louis defeats Adalbert.”

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

Spargel is just any asparagus, though Germans are obsessed with weißer Spargel. We don’t have another word for green asparagus. Both weißer Spargel and grüner Spargel are widely available. (Source: I live part time in Germany.)

A German advertisement showing green asparagus and white asparagus.

130

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

Here is the picture I took last night. I live out in the country so it is pretty dark, but it was a bit cloudy, I think. Not much to see.

Night sky in southern Sweden on the aurora night. Not much to see here (no aurora).

Oden @odense.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

Every scene Goodman is in

John Goodman in O Brother making a great face. Eye patch, leaning back, look of contempt maybe.