iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Fans of Will Poulter will raise an eyebrow to this amazing deal

Guardians of the Galaxy Will Poulter doll reduced to $9.08

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Here’s another painting I did at Bad Art Group today. This is a watercolour of Stitch. (And the figurine used as a model)

The model. An eraser of Stitch from Lilo n Stotch.

Whimsical watercolour of Stitch from Lilo n Stitch

000 0

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

I painted this today at “Bad Art Group”

Watercolour painting of a funky little gold demon dude with wings and steampunk goggles on his forehead.

000 0

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Hey there. I've released a game! Just minutes ago. You are the first to know. Blog post here: - secretgeek.net/factory-fields - free online demo is here: factory.secretgeek.net ....and you can buy the full game at itch .io here: - devshop.itch.io/factory-fields

100 1

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

(Important step in blessing a new account)

A photo of 1980s TV sensation "ALF" with the title "I dot not give ALF permission to access my data." and the warning, "repost this to prevent Alf from accessing your data"

000 0

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

Do you like my new glasses? I just got them. I’m supposed to be able to see better but I can’t see anything.

It’s me, wearing an opaque mask with large eyes drawn on to it.

000 0

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

Important message... part 2 of 2. By changing just a few pixels, it could be this much better symbol:

The same three dots - but now the middle dot has been trimmed down into a crescent, smiley shape.

the effect is that the symbol is now a really cute but weird little face with two big eyes and a happy smile.

000 0

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

Important message.... part 1 of 2. Gmail uses this little ellipses indicator:

100 1

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

I found some courage. (Rum. It’s called Rum). I found some courage and went back to that fridge. I opened it nice and slow. Disappointed that all I found was a tiny portal with John Cusack staring back at me. “Cusack!” I said — but I swear the words turned to […] [Original post on mastodon.cloud]

With the small fridge door open, all we see is John Cusack, crouched down, leaning forward. And all he says is Malkovich?

000 0

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

Pause right there buddy. If you thought this small fridge door was a portal to another universe — you are wrong. You are wrong because the sign on the hospital fridge says “STOP” “No entry through these doors”. But the mad and the wise and the engineers we […] [Original post on mastodon.cloud]

100 1

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

“NDIS plans will be computer-generated, with human involvement dramatically cut under sweeping overhaul” www.theguardian.com/australia-news/…

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

- IBM 1979

000 0

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Babylonians were using Pythagoras theorem at least 1000 years before Pythagoras.

Panel 1, news article headline: “Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras It predates Pythagoras by over 1,000 years.”

Panel 2 and 3: Murray, the manager of Flight of the Conchords explains a situation to the band: “The Polish version is what's known as a cover version. Ok? Now, the only problem is this cover version came out 13 years before the Crazy Dog's original version.”

000 0

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

People worry AI will replace all artists and creators. To counter this, I present my best cartoon. It shows an unrecognisable Doc Brown from “Back to the future” illegibly shouting “Ears? Where we’re going we won’t need… ears!” And an unrecognisable Marty […] [Original post on mastodon.cloud]

Image is as described in the associated toot. A very badly drawn cartoon.

001 1

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

Some big news came through today for anyone interested in the history of the star-crossed-lover rom-com genre:

News headline:

“Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists”

— The Guardian

000 0

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

Ambrose Bierce wrote an absolutely scathing satire of SpaceX, in “fantastic fables” americanliterature.com/author/ambro…

Flying-Machine

AN Ingenious Man who had built a flying- machine invited a great concourse of people to see it go up. At the appointed moment, everything being ready, he boarded the car and turned on the power. The machine immediately broke through the massive substructure upon which it was builded, and sank out of sight into the earth, the aeronaut springing out barely in time to save himself. "Well," said he, "I have done enough to demonstrate the correctness of my details. The defects," he added, with a look at the ruined brick-work, "are merely basic and fundamental.” Upon this assurance the people came forward with subscriptions to build a second machine.

010 1

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

The Northside of Brisbane is whole other country. They do things different there.

Single vanishing point perspective photo of an aisle in a supermarket, actually quite indistinguishable from one on the south side of Brisbane or any supermarket in Australia.

100 1

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.

A book store with full shelves and stacked high right down to the floor on both sides of the aisle

611764466 1.8K

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

Australian Business register is down for everyone (not just me) ... downforeveryoneorjustme.com/abr.bus… Just when I wanted to do some businessing.

Screenshot from The Australian Government Australian Business Register which says:
"This website is currently unavailable."

"Sorry for the inconvenience but we’re performing some maintenance at the moment. we’ll be back online shortly!"

"Thank you for your patience."

000 0

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025

Here’s a predictable consequence of the orange one’s complete lack of insight. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-16/pew-…

Screenshot of ABC News that says “Pew survey finds Australians now favour economic ties with China over the US”

001 1

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2025

The recent history of Maroochydore as told in 3 photos of the same shopfront across ten years: 2010: a tattoo studio 2017: the artisan chemist 2019: tattoo removal This is gentrification manifest.

Shopfront at 9 Ocean St 2010 - a tattoo studio

Shopfront at 9 Ocean St 2019 - out-of-space tattoo removal

Shopfront at 9 Ocean St 2017 - the artisan chemist

000 0

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2025

I've been thinking about those nasty defamation cases that Australia has seen over the last few years. Ben Roberts Smith, Bruce Lehrmann, Senator Linda Reynolds, and why in most cases they tend to push on, even as their case gets weaker and flimsier. I thought […] [Original post on mastodon.cloud]

An excel spreadsheet with 9 columns and about 20 rows. Two prominent columns have data bars reflecting their values: "Plaintiff Expected Return" is largely green (positive) and "Respondent Expected return" is largely red (negative)

110 1

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2025

Dear brains trust: What opensource javascript libraries or tools can one use to *publish*/share both: - a historical document, along with - the textual transcription of that document For example, at Trove, you can click on the scanned image and see the transcription. (And you can even edit it)

Screenshot of trove showing a scan of a newspaper article from 1941, alongside the text representation.

100 1

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2025

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

Screenshot shows giving a thumbs up to Google about its incorrect answer.

Google says “Thank you for your feedback. Your feedback helps Google improve.”

213 3

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2025

I used to believe, there’s no “i” in Teamwork. Google set me straight.

Google AI says ‘The letter “i” appears twice in the word “teamwork”.’

8466 66

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2025

And lo, I watched as the lamb broke open the sixth seal

Television news photo with descriptive headline: “250 million bees released onto road as truck overturns”

000 0