iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 22/09/2026

Tried to write an animated roulette game on it but quickly ran out of RAM, it had 5KB, with 3.5KB directly usable. Took a while to save up for the 16KB extension.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 12/08/2026

is no naughty, true tho, and closest I can do without humiliating myself

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 03/08/2026

Two adjacent allotment plots are currently empty next to my mom's, which I guess is the reason this raptor is visiting more often. I think it might be a buzzard, but not sure. Hope it sticks around and deals with rodents regularly 😃

Bird of prey with brown plumage standing with its left side showing on the wooden top rail of an allotment gate.

Bird of prey with brown plumage standing with its right side showing on the wooden top rail of an allotment gate.

Bird of prey with brown plumage standing with mostly its back showing on the wooden top rail of an allotment gate.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 17/07/2026

One of the very few films I walked out of, tedious as fuck. And I really enjoyed most of the Dogme 95 inspired films.

Poster for The King Is Alive, a film by Kristian Levring. Poster shows in the upper half, darkly robed figures walking through a desert landscape, in the lower half dessicated lips in closeup

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 30/06/2026

I was raised on these streets

Screenshot of a Frogger game. You need to navigate your frog from the bottom upwards across a street avoiding zooming cars and trucks to the middle verge and then further up across a river, jumping across the moving backs of turtles (which may dive) and logs into a free safe space. There's a time limit.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 21/06/2026

Nice mountain of clouds over Berlin.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 16/06/2026

Don't wear them no more, but have kept them for some reason.

Back of the Hole T-shirt, "Pretty from the back" surrounded by lots of small stars and hearts.

Jane's Addiction T-shirt from around 1990, black shirt showing a long haired brunette white woman in chains in the middle of roaring flames, band name in neon green above.

Back of Jane's Addiction T-shirt, "Ritual de lo Habitual" in neon orange and vaguely medieval looking font.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 13/06/2026

And another of these gigs I almost didn't attend, and it lifted my spirits into the stratosphere. Luft (a duo of Mats Gustafsson on sax and other brass and Erwan Keravec on bagpipes) with Otomo Yoshihide on turntables and guitar lifted the roof off an old tannery in St. Johann in Tyrol.

On stage, left to right, Otomo Yoshihide playing guitar and turntables, Mats Gustafsson playing some slidy brass instrument, and Erwan Keravec playing bagpipes. They are standing in front of a yellow brownish illuminated curtain with violet spotlights highlighting the musicians.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 09/06/2026

Got the most aggressive sounding solitary sparrow somewhere outside my window at the moment. An everlasting single note cheep cheep cheep ... that goes on for hours without break. How can such a small thing make so much annoying noise?

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 24/05/2026

Belgian comic writer Franquin once made a one-pager about weapons turning to shit, which always brings a smile to my face. (No idea if this page will be visible in a decent fashion here, giving it a try.)

Page from Franquin's Idées Noires showing in a series of panels various weaponry turning to literal shit in the hands of the military. Unfortunately it ends up being a dream, with the dreamer saying "Shit, the nightmare is when you wake."

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 20/05/2026

When I heard the new Arab Strap (see below), this braw wee video by Len Pennie came to mind instantly

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 10/05/2026

Share a horror movie that isn't talked about enough

Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick in The Medusa Touch.

Poster shows a blue washed out, slightly blurred picture of an airplane crashing into a residential housing block. The scene this is taken from comes from a central part of the movie, where the main character shows off his telekinetic abilities during a party.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 10/05/2026

You do have to wonder what goes through a computers "mind" sometimes 🤷‍♂️

German(!) scrabble board, where the computer went first and placed "yards" across the middle, but with the value 10 "y" not on the available triple score tile.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 07/05/2026

Every time I wander past this, I think of Stargate

An overground tower above a ventilation shaft made from a series of stacked concrete rings, where the gap between rings gets ever wider towards the top.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 03/05/2026

Spring coming across nicely is at least somewhat of a solace for it being way too hot in Berlin for beginning of May. Cold spell incoming, no doubt.

Wisteria growing along a fence, with its pale violet hanging blossoms starting to open all along its length

Young fern shooting up. You can practically see them growing.

Quince tree in full bloom, its crown full of pale pink blossoms.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 30/04/2026

without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

Artwork of a very good friend. A circular stitch frame holding a bit of old blue t-shirt cloth from a recent ex, with the German word "unheimlich" stitched on it in a darker blue colour. Translated the word means "spooky", but literally translated it would be "not homely".

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 21/04/2026

Pellkartoffeln mit Quark und Leinöl (boiled potatoes with skin on, then peeled, with Quark, kinda vaguely like smooth curds, and linseed oil)

A plate with 3 boiled potatoes, chopped raw onions, lots of Quark topped with very yellow linseed oil and chopped chives, and some very dark rye bread

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 18/04/2026

It's quite hard to capture the wonderful cloud like appearance of a blossoming sloe bush. Doesn't quite come across in the flat representation.

A small sloe bush in full bloom, with lots and lots of small white blossoms.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 14/04/2026

Kinda worry about what the hell it's doing taking over 5 minutes deleting backup files during an install 🤷

Excerpt of a Windows application installation window saying "Please wait while the Setup Wizard installs ... Status: Removing backup files"

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 10/04/2026

Repost with your first crush

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 29/03/2026

If you see this post a concert photo you took

Drummer of the band Help bashing away, shaved head, naked upper body, tattoo visible on his right arm, lower arms are a blur. Backdrop and kick drum show the band name. The drum set appears to be held in place by a truck tire placed in front of it. Two red lights above are shining into the audience.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 23/03/2026

Oooh, that must have been very close to the time they did the Peel session in autumn 1999, which is when I heard them first. Got to see them live for the first time two years later in Glasgow.

Ticket for gig with Melt Banana, Late Night Foreign Radio and Hassle Hound at 13th Note Club in Glasgow on Friday 5th October 2001 at a price of £5.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 08/03/2026

Slow going, hard reading, on page 51, published in 1993, set in 2025.

"I heard about the measles," Joanne said. "Strange. Even if people can't afford immunizations, measles shouldn't kill."

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 02/03/2026

Tangentially, this one's always good for a great laugh:

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 28/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

A dozing stag with a impressive antlers sitting in a green meadow in front of very blue sky.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 27/02/2026

Oookay, I'm going in. Been at least 20 years since I read this and ended up with nightmares for some time. Memories of reading it are all muddled, so feeling anticipation of what's actually written there.

Paperback book of Octavia E. Butler's novel Parable of the Sower. The cover is showing a woman of colour in a white shift dress walking barefoot down a path through a barren landscape. Everything is tinted dirty orange.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 27/02/2026

Jo, so ist das halt. Selbes Ding ist hier gut aber dort schlecht. Ein Schelm, der Böses dabei denkt. (Erster Screenshot von www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesel..., zweiter von www.tagesspiegel.de/internationa...)

Soziale Medien

Merz will Klarnamen im Internet lesen

Stand: 19.02.2026 • 08:32 Uhr

Internet-Nutzer sollen sich nach dem Willen von Kanzler Merz künftig nicht mehr anonym äußern dürfen. Merz setzt sich für eine Klarnamenpflicht ein, um die freiheitliche Gesellschaft zu schützen.

Türkei will Anonymität im Netz beenden:

„Es geht um den Schutz des Staates vor Kritik“

Der Justizminister will Klarnamen und Ausweispflicht für Nutzer sozialer Medien einführen, um gegen Hass im Netz vorzugehen. Kritiker sehen jedoch in dem Gesetz einen Schritt zur Totalüberwachung.

Von Susanne Güsten
Stand: 23.02.2026, 23:44 Uhr

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 26/02/2026

If you see this post a monster

Black and white panel from the Bakemonogatari manga by Nisioisin and Oh! Great showing the (saber-tooth) Tyrannical Tiger with multiple heads, each being ridden by a skeleton holding a flaming spear.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 21/02/2026

No cheating: your last saved picture of a celebrity is a therapist. Closest thing to a celebrity I found. Also, oh no.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 02/02/2026

Obligatory joke about Scots

Several people, most of whom are wearing shorts, walking down a snow covered street in a Scottish town. Caption reads "Help me understand, when will the Scots wear long trousers?"

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 03/12/2025

The kind of headline that makes me go "what now?"

Farmer who killed his 76-year-old aunt using a teleporter had sentence reduced by 18 months

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 26/11/2025

The kind of thing that makes you do a double take. A portable machine with 3 Intel 8086s and 256KB of RAM in 1978! From "The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squeak" by Daniel Ingalls (open access available: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...)

SMALLTALK-78

In 1978, 16-bit Microprocessors were coming into production, offering us the chance to build a portable Smalltalk computer. Memory costs were also dropping, so that it was reasonable to fit an entire Smalltalk image in main memory without OOZE. Alan managed to find some extra funding for a young Xerox engineer, Doug Fairbairn, to build a prototype portable machine. The machine was named "NoteTaker" and used three Intel 8086 processors on an innovative bus structure that Doug had designed, coupled to 256K bytes of resident memory. (Footnote 21)

Footnote 21:
The NoteTaker actually had three 8086's; one to manage the disk, one to run Smalltalk, and a special "fast" 8Mhz 8086 to manage the Ethernet. Ever looking for more cycles, I wrote a special version of BitBlt that ran in the Ethernet processor, and took BitBlt commands off a queue from the main Smalltalk processor. This nearly doubled the speed of text-heavy operations.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 25/11/2025

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? I think I might have a decent chance at getting saved

A selfie of three main characters of the TV show Lucifer, from left to right, Aimee Garcia as Ella Lopez (forensic scientist), Lauren German as Detective Chloe Decker (homicide detective), and Lesley-Ann Brandt as Mazikeen (demon), who also appears to be the one taking the picture.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 02/11/2025

Currently playing: The Lord of the Rings (1978) Soundtrack (Astonishingly, the LP does not credit any orchestra or musicians, weird.)

Vinyl record playing next to the LP cover of the original motion picture soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings (1978) composed and conducted by Leonard Rosenmann. The cover shows the title chiseled into a cracked wall.

Inner cover of the double LP, showing Rivendell on the right and on the left four film stills and the track listing and credits:
Side 1:
1. Theme from The Lord of the Rings
2. The History of the Ring
3. The Journey Begins; Encounter with the Ringwraiths
4. Riders of Rohan
Side 2:
1. Escape to Rivendell
2. Mind of Moria
3. The Battle of the Mines; The Balrog
Side 3:
1. Mithrandir
2. Gandalf Remembers
3. Frodo Disappears
4. Following the Orcs
5. Attack of the Orcs
Side 4:
1. Helm's Deep
2. The Dawn Battle; Theoden's Victory
3. The Voyage to Mordor; Theme from The Lord of the Rings

Composed and conducted by Leonard Rosenmann.
Orchestration - Ralph Ferraro
Music Editor - Jim Henrikson
Recording Engineer - Grover Helsley
Technical Supervision - Jim Stern
Remix Engineer - Jim Stern
Mastering Engineer - John Golden
Art Direction and Design - Phil Carroll

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 22/10/2025

Two bands that debuted with live albums: 1987 Jane's Addiction 1989 Primus

Cover of 1987 live album Jane's Addiction showing Perry Farrell with naked torso wearing a girdle.

Cover of 1988 live album Suck On This by Primus showing a plasticine baby holding a milk bottle.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 03/10/2025

If you see this, post a pic from your device with no explanation

Grey wall with graffiti showing the backs two people wearing dark grey shirts and white trousers as the are walking away. Their shadows are visible, lending a very 3D appearance to the graffiti. Some very faded unreadable text from a red marker is visible below the figures. The wall appears to be made from large breezeblocks, with joins visible through the plaster, some of which has broken off.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 24/09/2025

I'm the exact amount of sozzled to make these two sentences of The Book Of Love by Kelly Link be utterly sublime, no idea why, but the pictures they invoke are delightful.

"He could have turned himself into a bird to waft up to the Cliffs on his own damn wings. He could have turned himself into a baby elephant or Céline Dion or a hot-air balloon made out of lettuce and diamond dust."

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 24/09/2025

All of mainstream western media at the moment

The Droogs from A Clockwork Orange in their white uniforms and bowler hats, some of them carrying long batons, heading out for an evening of ultra-violence.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 19/09/2025

Eins dieser Worte, die falscher und falscher aussehen, je mehr man drauf guckt

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 18/09/2025

Hard to see in the picture, but yes, they are secured with ropes.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 16/09/2025

Brings up fond memories of the late 80s standing in a West Berlin phone booth (unlimited length local calls for ~10 cents) and hooking up to a bulletin board with one of these Epson HX-20 laptops with acoustic coupler modem.

Epson HX-20, an early laptop computer with keyboard, a 4x20 character LCD screen and a tiny dot matrix printer, first released in 1982.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 14/09/2025

Field mouse snacking on sunflower seeds that have fallen down in between a small ornamental quince bush

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 11/09/2025

Rare dramatic sunset in Berlin

Sunset that looks like something is burning behind some high rises on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 31/08/2025

Our damaged apricot tree has had a woodpecker taking advantage of the split open bark. Looks like a squirrel might have used the hole to stash two hazelnuts. But the woodpecker must've come back and now only the shells are left stuck in the hole

Empty hazelnut shells stuck in a woodpecker made hole in a tree where the bark had previously split open wide.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 17/08/2025

One thing that helped my plants is to cut off the older leaves. The plant only needs those closer to where the fruits are, towards the tip. I leave maybe 3-5 leaves down from the first courgette.

Courgette, aka zucchini, plant, showing a relatively leafless trunk until the zucchini start growing.

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Robby Raschke @rtr.tombob.com · 24/07/2025

In the museum they have a "model" made by Gaudí for different, but similar church, and it's innovation took my breath away

Upside down architectural model made by hanging weights from strings.

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