iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I had this involved dream that Janeane Garofalo had moved into a house around the corner from me. I went to introduce myself, but she wasn't home, so I looked through the window. The entire kitchen was floor-to-ceiling wire racks of wine bottles.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the second time I've trampled broken glass from the gym locker room into my socks. Just quietly bleeding out into my Converse in the back of the bus home.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And when the hands of the clock have wiped all the tears from the face of Time, you and I will watch the gravitationally collapsed cores of neutron stars do the Danse Macabre around the black heart of the galaxy.

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Ranch Devereaux @thejacko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Since everything is so unaffordable these days, a good date night idea is to hold hands, go for a walk around your neighborhood, and get hit by a city bus together (FREE!)

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

what kind of cry for help is it when I don't want to cook anything but I keep wanting to buy cookbooks

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I was convinced that guy was dead.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Don't mind me, just crying in bed listening to the new Orville Peck song. youtu.be/FCtl_roHr9o?...

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Orville Peck - Already Gone (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Orville Peck

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I still maintain that War Child is Blondie's best single, and contains the best drumming on any track ever. Clem Burke, you are missed.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My university just assigned over six and a half HOURS of mandatory online training before the start of the fall semester.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Lying in a sweaty puddle on my kitchen floor because this run was a huge mistake.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I'm here for the Leguizamossance.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Ate shredduce today pray for me 🙃

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Out on a midsummer, midday run. it's beautiful and horrible 🥵🥵🥵

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

@sailert.bsky.social "another think coming" mentioned! (My phone wants to autocorrect think to thing and I'm ready to defenestrate.)

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

To every queer person out there who feels like they're too much, and at the same time not (good) enough: you are immensely valuable exactly as you are. You do fit in. There would be a you-shaped hole in our community—in the whole damn universe—if you weren't here. Being uniquely you. Happy Pride.

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Well this is all terrible (see thread below).

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

If I could splay my heart out for you, pinned down like a butterfly on the board of love, you would see destiny in its anatomy—how it migrates hematocytes throughout the 60,000 miles of vessels, veins, arteries and capillaries that trace a map of you inside of me. The monarch's journey home.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I'm gonna go home and make dinner while listening to Siouxsie and the Banshees at a non-discreet volume.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A quiet morning of coffee and reading and birdsong, before the email deluge begins anew.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I still think of 1993 as the start of the modern era. That was, like, ten years ago, right?

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

How are any of my plants supposed to establish if squirrels keep digging them out of their pots?

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A shimmering morning by the Mississippi.

A view of the Mississippi River Gorge with downtown Minneapolis on the horizon.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A moth landed on the leg of my lover, its wings dusted in hieroglyphic poetry.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I'm just a boy with a passion for the natural world and a big desire to share that with the rest of you.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I need a sandwich and a foot rub.

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Benjamin @bjchi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

There are two wolves inside you. One wants to stay cozy in bed and the other REALLY needs to pee.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I got the coffee for our departmental retreat at the amazing Bell Museum today. Science time!

I'm holding a canteen of Caribou Coffee while standing at the entrance to the Bell Museum.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Spending the morning puttering around the garden, listening to the lovely May playlist my boyfriend compiled for me.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happy Earth Day! We all get to live on the best planet! Let's do what we can to be good stewards of our world.

Bloodroot flowering in the Minnesota woods in early spring.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Happy Superbloom Release Day, Jessie Ware fans! I'm really digging this new album. It's such a string-drenched dreamy confection of groovy soul, sparkly disco and hazy tropicalia. I cannot wait to play this on a drive to meet my lover with all the windows down.

Album artwork for 'Superbloom' by Jessie Ware

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Just look at the size of these sweet potatoes at Whole Foods right now.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

therealizationthattherecouldnotpossiblybeaREASONforanythingsincereasondestroysbeautyandwhatwelongformostassentientbeingsofthiswaterplanetisBEAUTYandthestimulationofthesensesandthesimplepleasuresofdevotionandmakingsacredjourneysandofrecollectionandthusiswimslowlyslowlyslowlyintowatersdeepdeepdeep

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Wishing all the people of Minneapolis a joyous Detour Season! The city is decked out in its finest orange cones in celebration.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Minneapolis remains a weird and magical place.

A kinky boot, strung up on an aspen, swinging in the spring breeze of Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This Raye album is SOLD OUT of every single record store in the entire city. Incredible.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I don't particularly care for Neil Young, but the Annie Lennox cover of Don't Let It Bring You Down goes so hardddd and I shall entertain no dissent.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Tighten your laces, chaps, we're running towards a beautiful future of our own making.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I think 45 looks pretty good on me!

A birthday selfie, standing against a painted mural, wearing a check shirt and Tom Ford glasses.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Who are these people who can afford $700 concert tickets?!

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

It's Minneapolis during a late-March warmup, so of course there's a line nine cars deep at the carwash at 8:50pm.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Tonight I'm thinking of how my father eats an avocado. Halve and pit the avocado, but keep it in its skin. Salt, white pepper, a little puddle of good Worcestershire sauce in the well left by the pit. Eat it with a spoon. To me, the most elemental expression of the avocado, and the most nostalgic.

A halved and pitted avocado lies on a wooden cutting board between a teaspoon and a bottle of Worcestershire sauce. The avocado has a sprinkling of flaky salt and white pepper on it.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"But then the foundation hadn't mentioned that what Santa Flora lacked in horizontal size it made up for in grueling verticality, or, more critically, had failed to warn him that he might find himself staring down a gun barrel not once but twice." — Jonathan Miles, 'Eradication: A Fable'

The purple cover of the novel 'Eradication: A Fable's by Jonathan Miles, resting on a cinnamon-colored reading chair.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Your beautiful body was spun from air. The photosynthetic machinery of the leaves of crops, sown into farmland under sunny skies, sewing carbon into cells.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Happy Big Disgrace day to all who celebrate!

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This was a fun read, with so many themes I enjoy and obsess over: forensic anthropology, bog bodies, motherhood, environmentalism, the Roman Empire, sphagnum moss, academic imposter syndrome, cartography, toxicology. I loved the changing perspectives, from modern Britain to Celtic Britain and back.

The novel 'Bog Queen' by Anna North leans against a tree trunk in the glow of the setting sun.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I feel myself to be a seed, stirring in anticipation of spring. I'm ready to break dormancy. Germinate with me.

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ʟᴇᴏɴ @orchidhunter.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

When you've had a truly horrible, largely unsuccessful, completely demotivating, utterly draining day at work, the title track of this record offers sonic solace. I'll drink to that.

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