iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Had fun doing some tier lists for classic Doctor Who. I only have fragmentary experience with lost episodes, so I filed those away into their own tier for 1st and 2nd Doctor.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My drafts are a sea of boring stuff, things that get a little personal, and mildly hotter takes than normal.

1st Post:
"Maybe Scrooge was right"
Maybe public domain characters can have a fate worse than being made into a bad horror

2nd post:
After the Switch 2 comes the Pokémon game catchup.
In the mail:
-Let's Go Pikachu
-Shield
-Shining Pearl
-Legends Arceus

3rd post:
I haven’t even seen Gundam, but someone at work said they talked to "Char" and my brain's just:

3rd post:
I'm thinking the aspect ratio concerns with IMAX films are just a temporary gimmick.
Still, it's tempting to imagine that everyone could be upgrading their widescreens to IMAX home theater systems in the future.

4th Post:
Just an image of a store called “BluSky”

5th Post:
Had another paint night recently, this time with a U.S. flag theme where stars of the night sky stand in for the stars of the flag. There's no shortage of complicated feelings with that, but this is how it turned out.

6th Post:
I can't wait to receive Ultra Artworks in October, but I'm a little bummed that it looks like it's called "Ultra W" when viewed as a thumbnail/far away.

7th Post

In defense of U.S. style date notation (MM/DD/ YY), it makes sense if you start from how we casually communicate dates to each other (e.g.
"My birthday is January 8th"). When it doesn't include the year, it's a logical month → day order. When we need to include the year, it's most natural to keep that order and append the year at the end.

8th Post
See, my problem with using quotation marks for anything other than extended direct speech is that they always feel like scare quotes, even when used appropriately.

9th Post
I know Utah is "used to" hosting unglamorous, land guzzling mega projects (like the enormous open pit copper mine or areas for testing rockets/weapons). I'm a fairly pragmatic person, but I truly can't fathom the mindset that thinks building a data center the size of a city is OK.

10th Post:

Dealing with a lot of questions about 2025 overtime because of the new tax exemption and just pointing to the IRS website since I can't give tax advice. But pretty much no one understands what is actually exempt and I hope it doesn't turn into disaster.

11th Post:
It's February 18th and I am shoveling snow for the first time this winter.
(Should be a routine occurrence from
Thanksgiving to St. Patrick's Day)

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Draft-ception where a draft post roundup is in Drafts.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Latest Roboco parody is Kagurabachi!

Japanese cover for Me & Roboco volume 28 done in the style of Kagurabachi volume 1. Roboco is in the place of Chihiro, wielding a broom instead of a katana.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some distinct “Great Explosion Murder God” vibes from the name of this Pliosaur

Pliosaur skeleton made from fossil casts hanging from the ceiling.

A sign labeling the fossil “Great Swimming Lizard King”.
The note also reads: “This reptile lived in the Sundance Sea, which covered most of Wyoming during the late Jurassic period. This is an example of the largest Pliosaur ever to live in Wyoming.”

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Shout out to the Tate Geological Museum in Casper. Had some time to kill and they have a lot of neat fossils.

Wide view of the display room. Reconstructions of Torosaurus and T-Rex skulls are in the foreground and a Columbian Mammoth skeleton in the background.

The Torosaurus skull has some pieces missing. It’s on a special armature so that individual bones can be removed for study. Some of the bones are 3D printed based off the existing symmetrical bone.

The Columbian Mammoth skeleton, made of casts from the real fossils.

The actual skull of a Columbian Mammoth (named Dee) inside a display case

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m a touch too claustrophobic to tour caves without a friend for moral support, so I hiked a couple of trails instead. One was a climb up to this watchtower.

A line of evergreen trees at the top of a ridge, with a small watchtower rising from behind.

View from the base of the tower looking up flights of stairs within the metal frame.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Viewing from a distance creates a great effect.

A view of the allosaurus from a distance, so it appears to be walking along the ridge among the trees

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hard to say no to a dinosaur park.

Statues of a T-Rex and a triceratops face off against each other, reminiscent of a JJBA “Oh? You’re approaching me?” meme

A very tall allosaurus stands at the top level of the park, overlooking Rapid City. A spiral mosaic plaza is in front of it.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Had to stop by Crazy Horse Memorial. When I saw it as a kid, there was just the suggestion of an outstretched arm. But now there’s a detailed hand! And thd upper part of the horse’s mane!! And the cylindrical shape of the horse’s head is starting to emerge!!!

View of the Crazy Horse Memorial from the welcome center. There’s a giant crane rising from behind, indicating active work on the unfinished memorial.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some of the critters caught in the wild. Saw a bunch of antelope too, but they were too far away to get a meaningful photo.

Smiling selfie in front of a field of gray rock mounds all the way back to the horizon. I’m wearing a light blue ball cap and a dark t-shirt. The sun has brought out my freckles.

A well-fed robin sits among a cluster of dead tree branches.

Side view of a bird with a yellow breast and gray stripes standing in short grass.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Badlands isn’t so bad. A lot more variety of scenery than I expected.

Panoramic view from an overlook of the fin-like rock formations.

Sandstone hives way to green prairie before meeting the partly-cloudy sky at a nearly flat horizon.

An isolated, squat pillar of rock rises above the grassland.

A wall of pointed rock rises behind foreground trees. Overcast skies mute the colors.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s wild and awe-inspiring that a place like Devils Tower exists.

Iconic front view of Devils Tower from the road. It sits atop a mound of earth sparsly covered with evergreen trees. The sky is a clear blue.

View looking upward at the tower from the trail at the base. Trees loom in the foreground.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was just a bit late to remember my dad’s Apple II, so my first computer was a WANG

Simpsons frame of Nelson wearing a Wang Computers T-shirt on the school bus

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A long overdue purchase of Shuhei Miyazaki’s Promised Neverland gag spinoff volume. His depiction of Mom is basically proto-Roboco

A panel from the manga with dialogue in Japanese. On the right is a round-faced Mom doing an idol pose (peace sign over a winking eye, hand on hip, cutesy star at the end of her dialogue). On the left is the reaction of Emma and Norman hiding under the cart, horrified at Mom’s lighthearted attitude.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My first shiny in a Switch game! Thankfully a Quick ball was good enough for it.

Summary page for a blue Medicham. Caught at level 36 on the Acuity shorefront.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happened to catch the brightest rainbow I’ve seen in a long time.

A double rainbow arcs over a housetop. The bottom rainbow is very bright and the top rainbow much dimmer. Dark clouds fill the sky above the inner rainbow, but clouds are brighter underneath.

Closeup of one side of the rainbow, to better see how bright and clear the colors are

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A couple examples from My Hero Academia. The series as a whole is influenced by North American comics and All Might has heavy American coding. Not sure how much that influences things, but it’s Japanese people in Japan.

A closeup panel of All Might saying “Shit!!” in Roman letters with katakana subtitle.

Two human figures, one tied up sitting on the floor and one standing by pushing a ball to a target on the tied-up figure’s shoulder. The standing figure says “Yaayy!” And the tied-up figure says “F*ck” in Roman letters.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Millennial urge to salvage the orange kitchen sink from your grandparents’ kitchen.

A 1970’s cast iron kitchen sink coated in bright orange porcelain. It is removed from the counter and sitting in storage.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My dad saw this and said, “Is that the fruit that makes people stretchy?”

The label on a can of Mountain Dew Dragon Fruit flavor

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I can’t be the only one who gets unreasonably anxious during the mountain crossing in Pearl. It’s night at high elevation during an blizzard and you’re wearing a skirt! Girl, you’ll die!

Player sprite dimly visible in a swath of deep snow.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Explored Pokémon Bank a bit more than I have in the past as I sort through my collection prior to shutdown. Apparently there’s a stats page and I was never meant to know how many eggs I hatched in Y.

The eggs hatched page in bank recorded 7,042 hatchings in Pokémon Y.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I only recently learned that “Tohu vavohu” is the Hebrew from Genesis 1:2 that’s translated variously as “without form, and void”, “welter and waste”, “complete chaos”, etc. Kinda neat that I was able to recognize it in One Piece.

Imu launches an attack, shouting “Shield of Emptiness—Tohu Vavohu!!”

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This was always going to be an unsurprising result, but it’s nice to get the U.S. total comparison. The section where it reveals which answers were the biggest tells is also cool.

A heat map in the shape of the United States where redder shades are more similar to how I speak and bluer shades are more dissimilar. Reddest areas are around Utah and the Pacific Northwest . Bluest ares are Louisiana and the Deep South .

The result test reads: “You talk most like someone from Utah - about 60% of your answers match a typical resident.”

Answers that point most strongly to Utah:

Q: What do you call the little gray creature (that looks like an insect but is actually a crustacean) that rolls up into a ball when you touch it?
A: potato bug

Q: What is your
*general* term for a big road that you drive relatively fast on?
A: a freeway has limited access (no stop lights, no intersections), whereas a highway can have stop lights and intersections

Q: What do you call the thing from which you might drink water in a school?
A: drinking fountain

Q: What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle and you have to get off at a certain point?
A: roundabout.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m not playing Pokémon to get trolled like this.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Appreciated Spy x Family’s PSA on bias.

Handler says:

The human brain is well designed.
It isn’t fuel efficient, so it uses shortcuts to conserve energy.

But those shortcut thoughts are rife with bias.
Our brains always try to lighten our cognitive load by stuffing the world into our own limited scope of understanding.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My accuracy streak is finally over. I accidentally preordered the same book twice.

Two copies of Monthly Girl’s Nozaki-Kun volume 17 held in my hand

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Fun fact: This anime is why I recognized Fleming’s right-hand rule in Kaminari’s ultimate move pose

Kaminari prepares to fire an electric current at a pointer during the provisional license exam. His thumb is extended upwatd, his index finger forward and his middle finger at a right angle

A diagram of Fleming’s right-hand rule where the upward extended thumb represents the direction of Motion, the forward index finger is the Field, and the middle finger is the direction of Current

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

For “most out there” I would go with “Marie & Gali”, an anime about a girl who doesn’t get science who is isekai-ed into a city of history’s great (and wildly caricatured) scientists. Her mentor through it all is a bum-like Galileo.

Key image showing a pouty Marie with all the goofy scientist characters collaged in her hair

Character designs for Gali, Marie, and Pet. Marie ihas a gothic lolita style and Gali has disheveled blond hair with a red nose and unshaved beard.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Show-Ha Shoten! is complete! I had a fun time following this world of high school stand-up comics. Humor is a skill I wish I was better at, so it was great to dig into the nuts and bolts of how it works. And laugh at the same time.

Show-Ha Shoten volumes 1-11, laid out in a 4x3 grid displaying all the covers

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Every time I look at this Deku panel, I see his scar line as hyottoko lips, and I can’t convince my brain otherwise.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The opening scene was also highly reminiscent of this old sketch. The cat in the sketch is Horikoshi’s real-life cat. I’m assuming it’s Maru-chan, who was memorialized in the author comment of volume 28

A group of high schoolers gather around a black cat rolling on the ground.

Horikoshi’s sketch commemorating the release of MHA 110. Todoroki and Yaoyorozu play with a large cat lying on its back.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

One of the best parts of “Quit Laughing, Shijima” is when Horikoshi had to stare into the camera and tell kids not to double up on bikes at home.

During the dramatic escape, Azumi clings to the front of a moped with Shijima in the seat. Shijima says, “See? Now the cops are coming for us!!”. Then Azami says, “No, it’s because there’s two of us on this bike.”

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Need to share this Kimi ni Todoke parody cover for Me & Roboco volume 27.

Parody of the cover for Kimi ni Todoke volume 1. Bondo is in the place of Kazehaya and Gorilla is in the place of Sawako, gazing into each other’s eyes. A small Roboco is in the background awkwardly staring at them.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I’m cat-sitting Yue for a couple weeks. The twist is she became a mom less than a month ago.

A black cat is curled up on a pile of blankets with a cluster of four dark-colored kittens only a few weeks old.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It gets even more complicated, because the kanji for “ma” changes to the more sinister “demon” at the same time the animals do. It would be cool if there was a wordplay hack that could account for that.

Kanji for “Oumagedoki” on the zoo sign in daylight

Altered kanji for “Oumagedoki” on the same sign at closing time, with sinister emphasis on the change.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Not having consistent terminology for translating the “Oumagedoki” term in the TITLE doesn’t inspire confidence, unfortunately.

Title is rendered “Witching Hour Zoo” in English

But chapter 1 and the text refer to “Devil’s Hour Zoo”.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There’s translation credit and it isn’t good news…it’s an agency.

Credits for “Witching Hour Zoo” have “Prism Creative” credited for translation, “I.Y” for lettering and “MediBang” for Editing.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This chipmunk got really close to me and luckily I was able to snap something halfway decent amid the blurred attempts.

Side view of a chipmunk perched on a rock surrounded by lake water, alert as it contemplates where to jump next.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Took the day off today and found somewhere not on fire.

Wide view across Mirror Lake toward a pine forest on the far shore and a mountain peak in the background.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Finally went and saw the thing. I liked it pretty well and would see again. Despite all the expected updates for modern sensibilities about good storytelling, it’s still very The Odyssey in a lot of ways.

Odyssey movie poster on display at the theater.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I haven’t seen this posted in response to the diarrhea parasite, so I guess I have to do it myself: The prophecy has been fulfilled.

Post that reads, “as a Canadian, this is how it feels watching American elections these days” over an image of polling that’s a near-even split between two options: either “Everyone Gets A Puppy” or “Diarrhea Forever”.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Thinking about the All Might 10th Anniversary poster Nighteye has. The 10th anniversary of what is ambiguous, but if it’s All Might’s Japan debut then Nighteye would’ve been 16 years old at the time.

Colorized closeup of the poster from chapter 128 of My Hero Academia.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I’ve spent way too many hours playing Ruby & Emerald this year for this to be the first shiny of my Gen 3 revival. Glad the dry spell is over! Welcome, green Tentacool!

Stats page of a Tentacool with green jewels instead of the typical red coloring. She is level 15, caught on Route 124 with Quirky nature. Ability is Liquid Ooze.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This volume features All Might doing an Akira slide, so this really is a can’t miss series.

All Might stops a powerful motorcycle (with a garish design) by sliding it sideways in the famous pose from the Akira film.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Teen rating persisted on the books until the end, despite the rating being changed to All Ages on the app years ago. The truth remains a mystery.

The rating notice on the back cover showing T for Teen.

The rating notice on the Shonen Jump app showing A for All Ages

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A rare early delivery means MHA: Team Up Missions is now complete!

All 8 volumes of My Hero Academia: Team Up Missions lined up in a 2 x 4 grid

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Not sure how long it’s been like this, but there are serious updates to Frinkiac. Now offering sequential formatting!

3 panel vertical meme made from Simpsons screen caps. Bart sits at the cafeteria table and talks to himself, saying
Panel 1: My bones are so brittle.
Panel 2: But I always drink plenty of…
Panel 3: Malk?”
The last panel has a closeup of the carton labeled “Malk”

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

RIP English app language for Bookwalker .jp 😢 If there’s a way to switch it, I haven’t found it. Why groan about it when I’m using it to read Japanese books anyway? It’s nice to have a break, I guess.

My library screen in the Japanese Bookwalker app. All the menu items, labels, etc. are in Japanese now instead of English.

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