iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Finally a game where you can adjust diets.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Loren is a cool guy, who makes cool games, and this one also should be cool.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Did you cut it up first, or did you have an entire cabbage half bouncing around in the pan while it cooked? Because that’s what I like to imagine.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

They also supposedly would like other manufacturers to eventually make/ship their own devices with SteamOS, and establishing the market with subsidized prices is probably not a good way to make those manufacturers want to jump aboard.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I’m making a big gyroid. A clatteroid, more specifically.

A gyroid (from animal crossing) constructed out of cardboard and masking tape, sitting on a wooden workbench with some various tools scattered around it.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Tater is strangely photogenic.

An orange tabby cat laying partially over the edge of his cat tower while holding up a blue blanket in his claws. His eyes are wide open and he’s staring into space.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I swear nothing bad is happening here right now. Tater just looks like that sometimes.

A orange tabby cat’s head and one paw are sticking out over the top of a carpeted cat tower. The cat’s eyes are open really wide and he looks very concerned about something.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Over the past few months both the price of steel and outside temperatures have gone up considerably, and that has made metalworking a somewhat less enjoyable hobby for me. But I'm still welding stuff!

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Artie sitting on his cat tower, looking majestic as hell.

A gray tabby cat sitting on a carpeted cat tower with his paws hanging over the edge. He’s looking pretty serious and pretty awesome.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Tater wants to remind you how important it is to stay hydrated.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

That's GenX and younger. All together that grouping is over 75% of the American population, while the remaining Boomers make up less than 20% of the population. And yet that <20% of the population still has significantly more wealth than the 75% of the population born after them.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I don't understand how anybody can take these dipshits even the tiniest bit seriously.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Inflation continues, we're in the middle of a war with Iran that Trump started, a major global shipping lane is still blocked, plus the other gazillion other awful things happening in the world. And on a Monday morning the primary Republican talking point is "America needs a Whitehouse ballroom!"

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

He claims to have full control over the Strait of Hormuz, while also complaining that he can't be expected to secure a hotel that's 10 minutes from the White House.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Amazing how a president who says he’s pretty much in charge of Iran, a hostile country of 90+M million people on the other side of the world, is also saying that he’s not capable of securing a hotel that’s a 10 minute drive from the White House.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

He wants us to believe that he has managed to establish complete control of Iran, a country of 90M+ people on the other side of the world, yet at the same time he can't be expected to set up decent security in a hotel 10 minutes from the White House?

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Back when Linens n Things was closing and liquidating, I bought a trash can that uses a weird sized bag, and I bought a bunch of packs of the bags on Amazon, a few hundred bags in total. For years afterwards my Amazon recs were often random trash bags. Like they think I collect trash bags for fun.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

It's just a budget flux core welder. Cheap and easy to get started with. I've had a lot of fun with it, and I love the idea of trying out some other types of machines, but I'm running out of space in my garage for more tools.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

So that’s some sort of clarinet from outer space?

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I wanted more welding practice, and I also wanted a heavy duty rolling shop cart for my garage, so I built this. I’ll probably make some modifications after using it for a bit, but for the most part I’m pretty happy with how it’s come together so far.

A picture of a homemade shop cart with a welded steel frame, three levels of wood shelves, and some plastic tool/supply holders on top. The shelves are filled with various tools and materials.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The people are clamoring for a good underwater grass cutting simulator game.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

As just a random guy who likes seeing the photos and stuff that you share here, I'm glad you beat those odds. Keep fighting!

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Despite learning cursive almost 40 years ago, my signature is just a messy scribble, and I've never had a single check or any other document rejected or returned because of it.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Epic said after cutting a thousand jobs, they now have a bit over 4000 employees. So they had about 5k before. If revenue last year was $6B, then that averages out to around $1.2M of rev per employee. If your business isn’t sustainable with $1.2M revenue per employee, you need new management.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

"Fine, if nobody else is going to kick it into the goal, I guess I'll just do it."

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I've had similar thoughts with a handful of games, this was f2p and I've enjoyed it, maybe I'll buy something to support the devs. And often when I looked at their store, the items and prices are so obviously ridiculous and predatory that I decide I don't want to play anymore. Especially in mobile.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

It’s impressive how often they manage to go with the dumbest ‘solution’ to things.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

We were watching a restaurant cooking show and someone came into the kitchen and told the chefs that a customer was celebrating their birthday and asked to be served a cake or some other special non-menu dish. And I was like, wait, do people actually do that? And apparently it's not that uncommon??

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I'm not sure if moves that sick can even be nerfed.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Congress filled up with performative politicians who'd prefer to actually do nothing, just let the executive branch and supreme court make the unpopular moves, while they embrace into all the various procedural hurdles that they can say stopped them from doing anything useful. Cowards, most of them.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This is neat, but I'm starting to think that very few states took their shape's suitability for an iceberg into account when drawing their borders. Such a lack of foresight.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I’ve been adding feeders to my yard over the past couple years, and for my birthday my mom got me one that has a camera built in, and that’s been fun.

A mocking bird looking closely at the camera on a bird feeder.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My wife is a librarian, and back when the movies were still first being released, her library did a lot of Harry Potter events. I used my lathe to make some nice wooden wands for her and her coworkers, and eventually got talked into making almost a hundred of them for kids to decorate and keep.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The good news is that if you beat on the code enough to get it to work, at the end of it all, the player only sees that it works. They don't see the huge mess going on behind the scenes. Just scope really really really small, and game jams should be fun.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

While a stroopwafel is awesome on its own, to make it even better, it's suggested that before eating it you warm it up by resting it on your cat's belly for a few minutes.

An orange tabby cat laying on his back, with a stroopwafel resting on his belly.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Tater just being his ridiculous self.

An orange tabby cat laying on the top of a cat tower with his front legs hanging down over the edge while he stares into the camera.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Navy pilot, astronaut, Senator, wife almost killed and serious disabled from assassination attempt while she was a Congressperson, none of that matters to these corrupt chickenhawk fuckers

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The price only seems excessive until you see all of the stuff inside of it that's included.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Picture of Artie chirping at a light reflection on the ceiling.

A gray tabby cat looking up at the ceiling with his mouth open.

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Shawn Pitz @shawnaroo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

It’s early on a Monday morning, and Artie is already hard at work performing one of his most important jobs, drinking from the kitchen faucet.

A close up view of the face of a gray tabby cat as he drinks from a kitchen faucet. His tongue is out as he licks the water stream.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

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