iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My favorite game as a child was Barbie Cool Looks Fashion Designer. Dressmaker is that but 10x better. And as a person who uses a sewing machine and genuinely loves slow fashion, it's so thoughtfully made.

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The perfect game doesn't exis—

The image shows the cover art to the game Dressmaker

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Finally found a Michael's selling buttons (abysmal selection, btw. I wasn't really in the market when Joann was alive, but I'm pretty sure there was a whole aisle of buttons there. This was like, one bay 🙄) and six (6) buttons cost 7 government, real-life dollars. BEFORE TAX

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Got myself a field guide to different sheep breeds' wool and now I feel unstoppable with knowledge. 🐑

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh finally it's moved to a new location. There's hope yet 🧶🙏🏻

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please, when will my yarn return from the Queens NY distribution center 😩

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Everyone please cross your fingers for the yarn I ordered from Denmark. It's been stuck in Queens throughout the nor'easter and at least parts of Queens are currently kayakable 😬

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Getting live-react family drama texts from my father of all people 🤣

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

But, of course, you need text to exist before someone can write about 'textiles'. 🤯🤓 ...I don't know if that's anything, or if my Friday morning, pre-coffee brain is just easily amused. That's just English anyway. I have to believe humans were writing about textiles well before 1626.

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's a crazy chicken/egg scenario I discovered this morning: 'Textile' and 'text' share a Latin root word. And while surely we had textiles before we had text as a culture, the first known use of 'text' is ~50 years before the first known use of 'textile'.

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A whole Fall Out Boy segment on MBMBAM this week just for meeeee? Perpetually delighted to be reminded they're Travis's favorite band too 💖

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

‼️New intro song on Justin McElroy's hit stream series Currywurst ‼️

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Would love to know how I'm supposed to sleep when it sounds like a boat engine is idling in front of my — oh, it stopped. Hopefully for good; it's been going on and off for hours. Add to that two days in a row of helicopter-aided maintenance on the nearby train tracks and I'm at my wit's end🫠

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BBC show: this hallway is definitely different than the other hallways and/or is a different in-universe location altogether Me: 🤨 sure

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BBC show: *films on a rocky beach* Me: Wait is that Bad Wolf Bay?

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Damn dude I need whatever Cheem put into the last 50 seconds of Nano to be bottled and sold. It'll put energy drinks out of business. I usually don't like when bands extend a song to talk over in the middle of a show, but I could do with a few extra minutes of that beat 💖

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Meanwhile there's a commercial currently running advertising specifically the large stock of buttons they're supposed to have. 🙄 You'll never be her, Michael's.

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

People always have something to say about women when it comes to upspeak, but have these people ever listened to men play video games? Everything is a question. "On me? On me?"

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Would anyone be shocked if I told you I could not find one singular button at Michael's the other day? It's been over a year since the death of my wife Joann Fabrics and Michael's doesn't have one fucking button in their physical, in-store inventory?? 😭

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On the bright side, I'm positive this book wasn't written with AI. On the other hand, this author's grammar is terrible and their understanding of what qualifies as a pun is dubious. ⚖️

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Y'all, the local cider mill had their soft-open today and getting through town was once again less of a bitch than normal. Nature is healing, summer is ending, and life is beautiful 🍂

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm really just pissed with commercials as a whole. And that's coming from someone who's interested in the psychology of marketing tactics and demographics. But at this point I hate the shtick. I have more respect for creators doing bland ad reads. Just tell me the information and get out.

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wouldn't you think AI would be able to apply the prescriptive rules of English correctly? Like I'm not a prescriptivist by any means, but the comma in "You can call me, ChatGPT" pisses me offffff. There are set rules for that kind of thing; why can't the machine learning machine learn that?

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I wonder how many tweaks that stupid Liberty Mutual puppet had to go through only to wind up incapable by nature of imitating a bilabial plosive, which is the whole reason for its existence.

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Got through my little tourist town with no issues at 5pm on a Wednesday?? Could this finally be it? The end of summer tourism? 🥹

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton AND Tim Curry in two days? I may actually cry about this.

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Getting good at long draw off a supported spindle genuinely feels like suddenly doing magic because what do you mean I just pull and the floof in my hand transforms into more and more thread before my very eyes??

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Okay, back to back sapphic books at work and both have a cat named Elijah in them. Not many nickels, but weird that it happened twice, etc.

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Whoops, I just happened to be in the middle of a TAZ: Balance relisten when Liberty Mutual introduced that fuckass disembodied head mascot so now my headcanon (no pun intended) of Cam is fucking Liberty biberty

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We're so close to cider season; I can almost taste it 🍂🍎

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's so smoky out that my warm-tinted monitors are looking quite blue compared to the ambient light 😶‍🌫️

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Severe lightning immediately upon full dark setting in is an awfully portentous kind of fireworks for this 250th Fourth of July. I'm all but waiting for the scary organ music to kick in.

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I know it literally /just/ became summer, but something about this overcast, rainy weather and cooler temps has me sooooo hyped that Fall is next 😍🍂

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Wish I could text my cat 😓

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Man there's nothing like the smell of hot petrichor

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Me: *excited because I'm going out tonight* The outing: a presentation about Revolutionary War era textiles at a local library 🤓

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Happy Pride Month!: Local queer punk reunites family with missing dog, enlists neighbor's help along the way. Reports indicate the borrowed leash may have been covered in rainbows. More at 11. 🌈

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The sexiest thing an author/publisher can do is include a blurb about the font their book is set in.

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Today's a big day for the Super Secret Sewing Project!! (And on schedule too 😇🥳)

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Hey so should I be worried if the first flash of lightning of this storm created thunder so loud that it shook my house?

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

... Who the fuck is cutting their lawn at almost ten at night

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Another "oh I AM in my 30s" moment from today: an unreasonable level of excitement over obtaining potato salad

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Here's a weird Google for 10:45pm: Is mammalia a phylum? (Turns out it's a class)

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

They should invent a weekend of a satisfying length

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Nothing like going to a concert to remind you how old you fucking are

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

You know what, man? I'm in my 30s. I think it's time to start making good bad decisions again

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I love a rainy day to stay inside and do crafts

The image shows a sewing machine in front of a window outside of which it is raining. On the sewing machine is a piece of nude and white patchwork in progress

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I'd like to see them try to deport me to Czechoslovakia or Austrian Galicia

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I just knew the vibes would be good together!

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Sam✨ @proudmountain.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I watched a turkey chase after birds this morning like it was a dog. Nature is beautiful

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