iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula Although, to be fair, I'm not sure if this version of Man-bat used vampire bat DNA or not....

A comic book cover from the 70s where Batman is interrupting Man-bat's wedding by tearing a human mask off his bat head while saying"I know why it must not be...this is why!" And the priest is saying, "g-gasp" and the caption, against all probability, reads "Marriage: Impossible"

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here's a picture of me in 1985 holding hands with a giant robotic Heinz ketchup bottle. I have zero context for this.

A handsome young man about 3 years of age, wearing a distinguished sweater vest, holds hands with a ketchup bottle approximately twice his height that, for some reason, has stubby little robot arms.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I hope one day you can read this book with an open mind, and experience all the playfulness and joy it has to offer. I can't imagine anything sadder as a reader than being locked off from that.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

But also sometimes DEADLY SERIOUS "Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease."

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

They're the same shatter-proof glass as a windscreen, and the roof panel itself isn't part of the crash structure of the car. If you look at the frames of most cars, like this Honda, you'll see minimal bracing across cross the roof. Teslas have a lot of problems, but they do well in crash tests

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I found it, someone tell Rufus Sewell

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Tell me how crude oil prices are linked to gas prices. For real. Look at this chart and tell me with a straight face that there's a consistent, direct correlation. There's only an opportunity to gouge.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you. My go-tos are usually M.A.N.T.I.S., Baywatch Nights, or Almost Human, but I recently figured out the name of a TV pilot that wasn't picked up but _was_ turned into a TV movie that I watched maybe a dozen times. I give you... Island City

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Holy shit, this album is sick

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

And accounts like this just weird me out. Clearly this poster had an alert set for Steyer. The account is 1.5 years old but basically only started posting in May, and since then has 14,000 posts and reposts. It reeks of influence campaign, and doesn't make me trust the candidate any more.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

And, because I'm seventeen at heart

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

People still find good things to do with the internet.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Okay, but this sign actually exists in the real world. My aunt gave us one. What's the point of making an AI image with a big titty tradwife to display it? What the fuck are we even doing here?

A screencap of a skeet saying "we all need to put one of these in front of our doorsteps" with an image attached that's pretty clearly an AI cartoon of a barefoot, blonde 50's housewife with generous cleavage standing on her front stoop at night in front of a wooden sign with the "in this house we believe: BLM, no human is illegal, etc." text painted on it.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Mostly finished my first-ever 1/10 #rcdrift build. Now I just need to work up the courage to go to my local track -- which happens to be kind of a big deal in the scene -- and crash into walls for a few hours while I figure out how to drive this. #rccars

1/10th RC drift car with a custom orange-gold paint with pink and teal accents. You can't hardly see how many mistakes I made in this photo.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Fuck it, here's my joy today: finishing up a Vanquish VS4-10 build w/ kiddo (color schemes and stickering by him), and getting to see it crawl. Still gotta do lights and the driver figure. #rccars #rccrawler

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Me: I hate masking. Also me: yeah, let me try for two-tone seats and interior on this crawler body. (N.B. I also hate masking my neurodivergence, but I'm talking about the kind of masking with tape now) #rccars #rccrawler

Photo of the inside of a Lexan body shell with unnecessarily complicated masking tape arrangements

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Wrote 500 words on my WIP and worked on a couple RC projects I've got going. Left is my first-ever attempt at painting a #Tamiya driver face (helmet not finished), and right is when I found out the body I bought is 10mm too short for my first-ever #rccrawler chassis build

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I just read that rich people are getting fat injections from human corpses to fill out the bits that Ozempic flattened out too much. I know that's absurd, but hear me out...

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

My 5-yr-old is getting into music and I wanted him to have his own, so I picked up this sick Sony portable boombox and bought him a box set of his current favorite band, Dio.

A white Sony boombox from the earl aughts with very swoopy, smooth styling.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Just catching up on @clppng.bsky.social and saw the Mirrorshades video. Had to go get my copy off the shelf...

A mass market paperback copy of a cyberpunk short-story anthology from 1986 titled Mirroshades

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

My five year old is learning to spell.

The screen of a Leapfrog spelling toy that reads, "Bruh Dad Poop Bruh Ezra Poop"

The screen of a Leapfrog spelling toy that reads, "Bruh That Taste Bad"

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Building a one-thirty-tooth crawler with the kiddo today

A workpad with a partially constructed RC kit on it, tiny

A close-up of a parts bag that instead of one-thirty-second says one-thirty-twoth

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I wish Almost Human had gotten a second season, but I'd settle for a novelization that tells the story they were obviously setting up

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Most people in the country will recognize the mall as the den of crime and iniquity where Captain America famously...jogged.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Well, I haven't been able to write for weeks, but my kid and I built and painted this over the weekend! Learned a lot doing this paint, by which I mean I made a lot of mistakes. Still, pretty proud of this one. #tamiya #rccars

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Gonna get silly in here. The plan is for a wide-track Squash Van with ~90mm shocks and a 3S-capable brushless system. #tamiya #rccars

A Tamiya Squash Van box sitting on a desk with two packs of replacement TL-01 suspension trees and two aftermarket metal shock towers.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Canoga Park/Woodland Hills was peaceful

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

When you have a full time job and ADHD so you have to make a sign at the last minute with whatever's lying around. Title: "Not Trying to Be Clever" Medium: Rust-Oleum and old moving box

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

When you clean your CVDs, remember to put thread locker on the grub screws when you put the them back together. #tamiya #rccars

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Had a fun outing right up until the DT-03's right rear locked up. Have to take it apart, but I assume my lack of understanding of setting up ball diffs had something to do with it. Still, great morning with the kiddo! #tamiya #rccars

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Okay, after grinding down the XM-01 front uprights to work with the M-08 arms, I got a whopping... 14mm of ground clearance. I'll be interested to see how this works in any sort of dirt Next up, the body. For which I accidentally bought water slide decals, so that'll be another experiment #tamiya

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Because I am dumb, I have attempted to seal this #tamiya M-08 gearbox against dust and dirt with 1mm rubber sheet so I can turn an indoor racing chassis into a rally car. But also since these are custom bits, I may not be able to run this in mini class rallies....

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Felt cute, might make a silly rally car later. #tamiya #rccars

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

The design is wild, no wires on the chassis really. The chassis is two metal halves insulated from each other, and the chassis itself carries electricity to the motor and accessories. (Photo of dirty chassis)

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A little TLC and this Bachman Mikado 2-8-2 is running again, but it doesn't sound too happy. I had to clean off a lot of gummed up old lubricant, not sure what else I can do to help it out...

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It turns out that after sitting in a box for 30 years, model trains don't want to run. A few run weakly. Not sure I have it in me to take them apart and service them. Might all need new motors, might just be seized up from ancient lubricant and oxidation.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I'm finally going through the boxes of model trains my dad packed up back in probably 94-95, and I found this. This car has a small, functional spotlight on it, and it's one of the most vivid memories of my childhood.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

29 years ago, my dad took me to see Robot Wars. Today, I wore the shirt he bought me to take my kid to see the Robot Combat League finals. My dad would've really loved this kid.