iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Otter @otter.is · 21/09/2026

Finally getting this radio telescope project going. Had a crappy-but-stable old camera tripod I cannibalized to mount the antenna to. Now I need to put the SDR stuff together and set up all the relevant software.

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Otter @otter.is · 11/09/2026

In San Francisco and I made my first pilgrimage to Castro St. This place is gay as hell and I love it.

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Otter @otter.is · 09/09/2026

I swear people will just fuckin protest anything these days.

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Otter @otter.is · 31/08/2026

Wait, WHAT? What the hell is a fucking EICAR test file doing in one of my game folders? Either GOG did something dumb or the developers of Noita left something in place they shouldn't have.

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Otter @otter.is · 31/08/2026

Windows: "Antivirus isn't turned on!" Me: *panicking thinking malware turned it off, turns it back on, starts a full system scan* Windows, halfway in a 3 hour scan: "Hey, there may be threats! Gotta wait 'til I'm done to see tho! 😘" Me: *ANXIETY SPIKING* Windows: "All done!" Me: *facedesks*

Screenshot of Windows Defender showing the results of a virus scan in which it says it found threats. However the "threat" is the EICAR Test File which is just a text file with a specific string of text that's designed to test if an antivirus program is functioning. It's completely harmless.

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Otter @otter.is · 28/08/2026

Probably thought it was cool (I know I would but I’m also biased). I recently got a radio telescope. I’m sure when I go out with this thing I’m going to have people giving me very funny looks.

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Otter @otter.is · 10/08/2026

Mmm. Yes. Very descriptive, Watch Duty. Thank you for the information. I choose to believe you're simply complimenting me on something.

Screenshot of a notification of Watch Duty. It reads:
Time Sensitive
Fire
New fire reported by WildCAD.

It's stupid because normally there would be an actual location attached to this, but it just says "fire" and nothing else.

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Otter @otter.is · 06/08/2026

Excuse me, fortune cookie, what exactly do you mean by this, eh?”

A fortune cookie fortune that reads:
“Your flamboyant personality will soon bring you a new hobby.”

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Otter @otter.is · 01/08/2026

Sir, I think you took a bath wrong.

A phone notification from the Watch Duty app. It reads:
TIME SENSITIVE
Bath Fire
New fire reported by WildCAD.

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Otter @otter.is · 08/07/2026

I took this video of my cat just now, let Telegram downsample it to 240p, then re-encoded it at a lower bitrate. Compare it with the other potato-quality AI videos and you can see what I mean. The quality is consistent all over and overall it feels real.

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Otter @otter.is · 21/05/2026

If there is a sunbeam she will find it and sit in it.

A black cat sitting like a statue on a shelf with a sunbeam shining on her.

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Otter @otter.is · 08/05/2026

Me: "I'm a professional programmer!" Also Me (I'm not actually a professional):

A screenshot of Rust code showing a function named "shit all saveable objects to disk".

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Otter @otter.is · 03/05/2026

The bee houses are so full of little ones now. I'm so excited about this! I need to see about getting some wildflowers planted.

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Otter @otter.is · 20/04/2026

I put up some bee houses and the bees are loving it. Last year a woodpecker found them and cleaned them out, and absolutely destroyed one in the process. I bought the two blue ones and then constructed this cage to keep them safe this year.

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Otter @otter.is · 20/04/2026

Gee, thanks Claude. Pretend like I’m logged out, won’t show me the login form until I clear cookies, then say my internet is the problem. No, no it’s not. Your vibe-coded slop is the issue here.

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Otter @otter.is · 26/01/2026

OH BOY I SURE DO LOVE WAKING UP TO MY COMPUTER HARD LOCKING BECAUSE OF BAD RAM IN THE MIDDLE OF A MOTHERFUCKING RAM SHORTAGE. To be fair, this RAM is old, but I would have liked it if it did not decide to fucking shit the bed right now.

A screenshot from MemTest86 displaying over 4500 errors in a computer's RAM. There is a time displaying that it's been running for just over 2 hours and 40 minutes.

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Otter @otter.is · 24/01/2026

5 minute Blender tutorial on YouTube: "I'm gonna show you how to easily model this scene! Get a reference! Block stuff out! Buy my addon to model the next bit! Now add some doodads! By the way buy my doodads asset pack on Gumroad for this! Now model the rest of the fucking owl! See? EASY!" Me:

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Otter @otter.is · 22/12/2025

Holy crap. I just accidentally discovered this book’s covers glow in the dark. This is freaky and I love it.

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Otter @otter.is · 22/12/2025

I also got the best shirt ever.

A picture of a graphical t-shirt. The graphic is a parody of the Three Wolf Moon picture, but instead of wolves it’s Asian small-clawed otters.

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Otter @otter.is · 21/12/2025

I got this novel as a gift today. It's a very hefty book. It was nearly dropped in my lap and I commented asking if they crushed up a cinder block to put in the box. The box had a rather excellent message on it. Pretty much every single page has beautiful illustrations. I love this.

A photo of a very large book entitled "The Last Book: The Diary of the Last Earthling". It is made to look like an aged book cover, which features an antique-themed diagram of the solar system.

A picture of the box the book came in. It's made to look like an old-timey parcel with old-timey stamps printed in the upper right. The bottom right has text describing the contents. It says:

Item: The thing you've been expecting.
Weight: Hefty, but in a good way.
Made by: Hand-illustrated by real artists. No A.I. involved.
Sent to: A curious mind Timur and Seva.
Best Used By: No Expiration

A picture of the edge of the book showing how thick it is, which is a couple of inches thick at least.

A picture of a page spread inside the book to show one of many such illustrations that make up every page inside. This specific spread is titled "How Our Ancestors Got Their Fur" and shows a variety of monkeys, apes, a caveman, a whale in front of an old-school microphone, a giraffe, and what I can only presume is a yeti or Bigfoot.

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Otter @otter.is · 23/09/2025

Me when Apple lets people now use custom ringtones and alert sounds, expecting them to use music and stuff:

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Otter @otter.is · 23/09/2025

It's officially Fall!

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Otter @otter.is · 08/09/2025

I always knew that Nintendo were allergic to patch notes but this is getting awfully silly and looks lazy. If bugs were fixed just say that! But “improvements” imply things that directly impact my experience, like new or enhanced features, so I sort of expect to know what was improved.

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Otter @otter.is · 31/07/2025

I'm finding that I really like and even prefer procedural textures. Using just procedural noise I created a pretty good looking drop ceiling tile material (the squares are also generated from a noise texture). Downside is Godot doesn't like to layer materials well, but I'm learning to work with it.

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Otter @otter.is · 30/07/2025

Now why'd y'all have to go and make the box art look like that?

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Otter @otter.is · 22/07/2025

I suck at making textures, so I'm trying procedural ways of doing things in #Godot. From first to last: pool/bathroom tiles, weathered paint with metal surface showing through, and weathered paint with pitted and rusted metal. All done with standard material settings and built-in noise textures.

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Otter @otter.is · 03/07/2025

I snapped a picture of a local grocery store and subsequently gave in to my inner photomanip demon.

A photo of an Asian grocery store in Bellevue, Washington called Uwajimaya. The photo has been manipulated to say "Uwujimaya" and the sign below that normally says "Asian Food Market" has been altered to say "Like...y'know, nyah".

This is a reference to a two-panel comic that was posted on Tumblr many years ago.

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Otter @otter.is · 20/06/2025

I think my cat is part Saint Bernard. Jumped up on my bed as I was getting up because it was breakfast time and he was being all lovey-dovey to get me to come feed him. Proceeds to shake his head and sprays drool all over me. >.< Look at this dork. That's a face of no regrets.

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Otter @otter.is · 18/06/2025

The blades sure look like the start of some corn. And if so:

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Otter @otter.is · 08/06/2025

A year ago I found an apple seed that had started to sprout inside of an apple. I guess it really wanted to grow so I planted it, and it went from a seed to sprout in about two weeks. Today it's still growing and when the Spring season hit this year it really took off.

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Otter @otter.is · 22/05/2025

What if we kissed on the Bear Floor?

A picture of a floor directory for a parking garage showing the floors are labeled with different animals. It starts at P3 and goes up to P8. In order the animals listed are salmon, bear, owl, starfish, squirrel, and crab.

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Otter @otter.is · 30/04/2025

There's this simple pixel font I created 20 years ago (I wish I hadn't looked at the date I made this because...ouch). I'd started making one some time last year based on my own handwriting, but I can't find the stupid project file.

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Otter @otter.is · 19/04/2025

Me: I just got my blood test results in. Does this mean I'm part ferret? :D Boyfriend: No. No it does not. Me: :(

A screenshot from a medical lab result for ferritin, with the value showing 336, which is within the normal range of 30 to 400 ng/mL.

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Otter @otter.is · 15/03/2025

If you have an Amazon Alexa device, be aware that on March 28 they're removing the opt-out for sending your voice commands to them. Everything you say will be sent to their servers because of their AI shit. They also say they'll delete the recording immediately after processing. But, ya know...

A screenshot from the video game L.A. Noir showing the detective next to the "Press X to Doubt" prompt.

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Otter @otter.is · 25/02/2025

I ran some tests. The permissions for “Use External Apps” can be denied and the users can still see and use the AI apps in question, but the results will only be visible to them and no one else. It’s still really shitty they’re allowing users to feed stuff into AI dumpsters regardless.

A screenshot from Discord showing a message that only the user can see the message and external apps cannot be used in the channel.

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Otter @otter.is · 02/02/2025

I was watching a public senate hearing for WA state bills and this Wish-dot-com Colonel Sanders fuckstick said that a bill for gender inclusivity in schools would "allow males into women's bathrooms". Fuck off outta here with that horseshit right-wing rhetoric you prick.