iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 27/09/2026

Texas Georg, a bot that streams an obscure song 10000 times per second, is an outlier and should not have been counted

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 25/09/2026

Friendly reminder/PSA approaching spooky food season: activated charcoal has gotten popular as a black dye and interferes with a TON of medications. The worst documented interaction is with mycophenolate, an anti-rejection med many transplant patients (like me) take. But there are many dozens more.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 13/09/2026

Also, some of us _cannot_ get the MMR vaccine because of immunosuppression. Our only protection is from the people around us getting vaccinated.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 12/09/2026

Really disheartening to see so many Democrats loudly declaring their intention to lose in the midterms. (Obviously even worse to be seeing it from under this bus.)

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just have concerns about girls sports

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 29/08/2026

"'Too much' precisely means that quantity which is excessive, that's what it means. Could you ever say 'too much water is good for you'? I mean if it's too much it's too much. Too much of anything is too much. Obviously. Jesus." —Stephen Fry in "Doctor Tobacco", A Bit of Fry and Laurie

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 28/08/2026

I think I’ve reached the transition milestone where being gawked at by men on the street is _just_ gross, without that weird little bit of complicated gender affirmation problematically layered on top.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 12/08/2026

😻😻😻

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 10/08/2026

I settled on a picture of myself and updated my artist bio like a real person, please clap

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hey yeah time to dust off those 2020 tweets about how PEOPLE WITH UNDERLYING HEALTH ISSUES DESERVE TO LIVE TOO, YOU ABSOLUTE GHOULS.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 26/07/2026

The disembodied parent/narrator voice from Sarah & Duck

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 24/07/2026

I decided to try out Tia for primary care, since they present themselves as being trans-friendly. Just got my first set of labs back, and everything's listed with ... male reference ranges. Great.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 17/07/2026

Random stranger: you have the most beautiful face, you look like a portrait of a woman from the 17th century Front-facing camera five minutes later: please allow me to accentuate the color of decay around your eyes, you absolute gargoyle Dysphoria: welp, photographic evidence 🤷‍♀️

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

there are three kinds of people: 1) “five minutes!” “thank you, five!” 2) “five minutes!” “heard!” 3) everyone else

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Los Angeles Gender Expansive Creatives Collective @wearelagecc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out for last Sunday's LAGECC Dad Rock tribute! It was incredible to launch LAGECC with so much fun and joy among fantastic family, friends, and community. <3

Still of the full cast of LAGECC performers at the Dad Rock concert. From left to right, Azalea on inflatable microphone, Kami on real microphone, Church on inflatable banjo, Lisa-Skye on inflatable saxophone, Dar on inflatable electric guitar, and Siobhán on upright piano

Still of the full cast of LAGECC performers at the Dad Rock concert. From left to right, Azalea holds an inflatable microphone, Kami holds a real microphone, Lisa-Skye attempts to eat an inflatable saxophone,Church smashes an inflatable banjo in punk rock fashion, and Dar and Siobhán look on approvingly.

On stage, Lisa-Skye takes a very important phone call on a prop telephone between numbers at the LAGECC Dad Rock show. The phone is an old-school wired black bakelite model. Lisa-Skye is standing between the drum set and the piano, and in his signature style rocking green hair, black fingerless gloves, a blue and black flannel shirt, a white and black plaid skirt, and a pink and black necktie. He appears dramatically shocked by what he has learned from this phone call.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 25/06/2026

The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 20/06/2026

Come see me at the piano and the mic tomorrow!

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Los Angeles Gender Expansive Creatives Collective @wearelagecc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Our first ever event is at 1:30 pm TOMORROW! Join us at Scribble in Highland Park for an afternoon of music and entertainment as we present an all-trans tribute to dad rock 🤘 lagecc.org/events/2026-...

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LAGECC Début: An All-Trans Tribute to Dad Rock

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026

oh shit it's Loving Day hooray for Loving v. Virginia, my marriage, and inclusive constitutionalism, and fuck originalism forever tinyurl.com/originalismt...

screenshot of an excerpt from The Originalism Trap reading as follows:

Virginia defended the legality of its anti-miscegenation law on
originalist grounds. The o-word was still not in common usage, but
the analysis is unmistakable: the state argued at length that the
meaning of the Constitution is fixed at the time of adoption and
courts must give effect to the intent of the Framers and the people
who adopted it. If one accepts that premise, they continued, there’s
no constitutional problem with criminalizing interracial marriage.

screenshotted excerpt from The Originalism Trap reading as follows:

North Carolina submitted an amicus brief that echoed Virginia’s
claim that courts cannot deviate from the Constitution’s original understanding and expressed skepticism about the Court’s authority
to disrupt historical legal bigotry: “Unless, therefore, the Fourteenth
Amendment is construed as a grand commission which constitutes
the federal courts as a species of judicial privateers to sink every
state ship in sight if they do not like the cut of its sails, then the historic position asserted by Virginia is clearly sound.” We should pay
no attention, apparently, to the fact that the “sail” in question was a
giant, billowing Confederate flag.

screenshotted excerpt of The Originalism Trap reading as follows:

The Supreme Court’s decision in Loving should be read as clear
and compelling guidance for constitutional interpretation: the substance of due process is bound up with the values of equality and
antisubordination, and the originalist notion that a case could or
should be resolved based on an identifiable original understanding is
infinitely less instructive than the Fourteenth Amendment’s command to the government to confront America’s caste systems—
chiefly, white supremacy.

photo of me and The Husband on our wedding day! we are walking down a tree-lined NYC street, complete with a yellow taxi cab in the background. I am wearing my wedding dress -- a strapless ivory gown that's form fitting up top but then expands into a massive train of tulle -- and The Husband is wearing a great navy blue suit with a pink tie. He's holding my vibrant bouquet in one hand, and holding my hand with the other

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 12/06/2026

I can't be there for this event, but some of my incredibly lovely friends will be there, and I'm excited to be part of launching this fabulous group!

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Los Angeles Gender Expansive Creatives Collective @wearelagecc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Hello, world! We are LAGECC, a new organization of artists, performers, crafters, and creators from across Southern California's trans* community. We bring our diverse backgrounds together to support and uplift each other, in the act of creation and in the spreading of trans joy.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 02/06/2026

It's okay if you aren't ready yet—and it's okay if you are ready but the world around you isn't.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 07/05/2026

My great-great-grandmother ✏️

ERASERS BRING HER FAME
Mrs. Houston, Originator of Rubber Pencil Tips, Brought to St. Louis for Burial
St. Louis, Mo.—The body of Mrs. Mary E. Houston, reputed to be the originator of rubber eraser tips on lead pencils, was brought to St. Louis for burial. Mrs. Houston, who was 85 years old, died at Greenwood, Miss., of apoplexy.
In 1859, Mrs. Houston said, she entered a stationery store in New York city to purchase a pencil. She asked the clerk why rubber tips could not be placed on the pencils. The clerk called several officials of the firm and explained her suggestion. Before she left New York, Mrs. Houston said, lead pencils with rubbers attached were advertised there for the first time. The stationery house refused to admit it was indebted to her for the suggestion.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 04/05/2026

The very queer/trans indie bookstore in my town recently got hate from Heated Rivalry fans calling them "hateful and transphobic". Turns out someone thought this tiny store was responsible for everything sold on bookshop.org, so blamed them for the existence of Harry Potter 🙄

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 02/05/2026

He's okay with this "friend" being trans, as long as he can retain the right to kill it. As always, it's about control, not principles.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 18/04/2026

Just look at that beautiful old-fashioned QR code! Ah, simpler times

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👁️saac 👁️o @eyesack.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

V v excited to be making music with these wonderful folks again!! Apparently TreePeople liked our Plantamonium program last year so much they asked us to come do it again, so that's what we're doing this Saturday, with some new bonus tracks.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 25/03/2026

Today's genealogical discovery: Diadama Powers, who had a child and named him John Smith

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 23/03/2026

Trying to book travel for a company retreat. So far in the process I've visited sites for: Kayak, a couple individual airlines, my ISP, my domain registrar, my hosting provider, and the North Carolina state legislature.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 18/03/2026

Umm @jenwang.com was doing some genealogy and found someone in my ancestry who is somehow both a TV show and a movie: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_G...

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Peter Gunnarsson Rambo - Wikipedia

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 14/03/2026

DOGE's pristine reputation is at risk of being blemished! :clutches pearls:

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 13/03/2026

9yo, in the midst of a Katseye phase: 🎵Hands off my Nutella My Nutella Hands off my Nutell-ell-ell-la🎶

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 12/03/2026

This was fun, but now the state of my monitor is *really* bugging me—natural dither from all that dust really doesn't help! What's My JND? 0.0017 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Your ∆E_OK JND
0.0017
Either you have superhuman cone cells or you got very lucky. I'm going with lucky. This is absurdly below the theoretical JND. Your monitor is doing something weird. Or both.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 11/03/2026

This thought inspired by a "plan" I got from Claude, which it pretended it had already decided on, that was structured like so:

Excerpted output from Claude Code, in an attempt to generate a plan that it pretended to have already thought about and made decisions about:

Here's the plan: ...

One concern: ...

**Revised approach (Option C)** ...

Wait - this has a problem. ...

Better approach: ...

Actually, the simplest approach: ...

Actually, there's a subtler issue: ...

**Final recommended approach** ...

Here's the concrete plan: ...

Wait - this doesn't solve the thread-safety problem. ...

**Revised Step 1:* ...

Hmm, that's getting unwieldy. ...

Let me take a step back. ...

**Simplest correct plan** ...

Actually, ...

The real question is: ...

But: ...

This is the real problem: ...

**Final plan (concrete)** ...

Wait - ...

I think we need to accept ...

Actually, ...

OK let me write the clean final plan.

...

Does this plan look right to you?

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 11/03/2026

At some point we as a society will realize that LLMs have no inherent interface to the physical world, thus cannot be responsible for any real-world decisions. You can't just hook up WMDs to a random-number generator (even if it has a friendly name) and then say whatever happened wasn't your fault.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 15/02/2026

I was just looking at Apple's code documentation for AVAssetTrack and misread `preferredTransform` as `preferredTransfem` and maybe it's time to go to sleep

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

the venn diagram of people who think republican policies will probably turn out fine and the people who think all musicians have a default apolitical setting is a circle

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 06/02/2026

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 18/01/2026

In case anyone needs a timeline cleanse, check out this friend who landed on my knee (twice!) while I was at the park with the kids this week

A mourning cloak butterfly has landed on my knee, possibly attracted by the contrast of the black and white floral pattern of my dress. It has a fuzzy brown body and brown wings tinged with light yellow, with a pattern of iridescent blue spots that are hard to see in this image.

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Jane Austen First Drafts @austen1stdrafts.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 25/12/2025

I often think of Mary Berry and her dislike of soggy bottoms That's why my holiday pies always have a Mary Crispness

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 09/12/2025

And then crowded ourselves onto those overbooked flights with recirculated air, without access to a shower first?

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Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com · 23/11/2025

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but this is kiki/bouba

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🏳️‍⚧️ emily, who is a sylveon @emilysylveon.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

"your passport says you're 5'7" but you were 1'8" when you were born so that's what we're listing" this is what that sounds like

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

what is this unfamiliar feeling of...optimism? or something like it?

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