iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 28/09/2026

going from hand sewing to using a machine and breaking a couple needles off some very dumb mistakes but the potential labor savings here means a ton of simple tasks, like new throw pillow cases, are well within reach (aka deskilling my hand sewing and this old kenmore is merely mimicking a stitch)

A throw pillow with blue, white and purple native geometric design propped up on a green couch

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 14/09/2026

still molting season, and it's every bird downtown season, so it wasn't hard to grab a handful of primaries on a walk past the panda food festival and dragon boat races yesterday i don't have a particular bustle or anything in mind, but i do have various feathers here and there that need replacing

seventeen left and right primary crow feathers, laid out to dry on a kitchen towel.

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 09/09/2026

spring rivers run high bridges float across water and we walk freely #haiku

A scrap of paper held between forefinger and thumb with a haiku written on it:

spring rivers run high
bridges float across water
and we walk freely

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 04/09/2026

the map live updates as you answer, but i didn't scroll up and down enough to figure out what causes the verticality also we need more schwa options to differentiate the pnw from minnesota

Screenshot of my results.

It says: You talk most like someone from Minnesota — about 51% of your answers match a typical resident.

And the map shows: The West, Plains, and Upper Midwest are red. The deepest reds are in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and northern Minnesota. Hawaii is a pale blue. The Northeast and Southeast run very blue. A yellow band stretches from west Texas to Michigan.

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 22/08/2026

finding good berry picking spots by way of landmarks left by those who came before

A map marker near 48N and 121W (in the Gifford Pinchot, adjacent Indian Heaven Wilderness) labeled "Mtn Dew Code Red" at 4085 feet elevation

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 18/08/2026

it wasn't that long ago (2022) that my siblings and i were making dall.e generate indigenous futurism images but i've learned not to speak out of turn—in the old days it was Beringia that would set them off. and i don't wanna get my blood quantum quote-dunked out of me lol

Gathering of Nations pow wow on the moon with the cosmos in the background

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 15/08/2026

i like being in charge of using up the week's leftovers

Two speckled cream-colored ceramic plates of dinner on a butcher block table. Each holds pan-seared chicken thighs under a pale cream sauce with chopped green herbs, a pile of orange-red corkscrew pasta, and a spinach salad with halved cherry tomatoes. Behind the plates: a portable radio, a handheld two-way radio, a wristwatch, a wooden bowl of garlic, a bottle of vermouth, and a glass measuring cup. A fork rests on the table in the foreground.

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Two speckled cream-colored ceramic plates on a light butcher block table, shot from above at an angle. The near plate is fills the lower left, the far plate the upper right.

Each plate holds three components. Pan-seared boneless chicken thighs, deeply browned and lacquered-looking at the edges, are draped in a pale beige cream sauce that pools onto the plate, with coarsely chopped green herb strips scattered on top. A heap of short corkscrew pasta coated in a bright orange-red tomato sauce. And glossy dark green spinach leaves tossed with halved cherry tomatoes and oil, still holding their shape rather than fully wilted.

Behind the plates the table is crowded with objects: a wooden bowl of whole garlic bulbs with loose papery skins, a green glass bottle at the left edge, a black PRUNUS portable radio with a small LCD screen and orange buttons, a black handheld two-way radio with a keypad, a wristwatch with a blue dial and blue leather strap laid flat, a dark wine bottle with a blue and gold-trim label, and a glass measuring cup with tablespoon and milliliter markings. A stainless fork lies on the bare wood at right. Warm indoor light, visible wood grain, an unstaged kitchen-table look.

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 20/07/2026

portland street magnet poetry

magnet poetry arranged to say:

his top
worships
my bad cock

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 18/07/2026

wandering around the grocery store a little disoriented because it's ACTUALLY EIGHT AM

Jul 18, 8:25 AM, as indicated by my computer clock set to UTC-8 Pitcairn Islands

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 17/07/2026

The Last GPU Driver is apparently not recent enough for @helldivers2.bsky.social

Screenshot of a dialog box titled "GPU drivers are out of date."

Warning icon, then the message:

"The installed drivers are out of date and an update is recommended. Would you like to continue? Doing so without updating can cause bugs and crashes."

- Installed version: AMD - 65535.65535.65535.65535
- Minimum Recommended: AMD - 32.0.21043.5001

Three buttons across the bottom: Cancel, Try Again (focused), Continue.

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 17/07/2026

yeah the rebound rule in Law 11 is tricky

Gaining an advantage by playing the ball or interfering with an opponent when it has:

- rebounded or been deflected off the goalpost, crossbar, match official or an opponent
- been deliberately saved by any opponent

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 10/07/2026

but like, crows can look shaggy with heaver, more hooked beaks. but they're still crows

A crow perched on the bare branches of a cherry tree, taken in March 2022. The crow is puffing out its feathers and its beak has a heavy, slightly hooked silhouette.

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 10/07/2026

of the dozens if not hundreds of crow photos i have, i think there are only three of ravens in the mix. and two are too dark or blurry to see anything #xaxa

What I presume is a raven, perched on a mossy branch in the redwood forest, taken in 2013. The picture is tightly cropped and the image quality is relatively poor and grainy.

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 06/07/2026

atproto.at/uri/at://did...

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 05/07/2026

the disciplinary action was suspended, nothing else was reversed or repealed, Balogun is still sitting on a red card*

A FIFA player stats table for World Cup 2026 sorted by most red cards. Twelve players in the tournament have a red card, and Folarin Balogun is one of them

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 02/07/2026

atproto.at/uri/at://did...

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 02/07/2026

atproto.at/uri/at://did...

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 30/06/2026

i guess i'll need to study up on jevons paradox

Screenshot of a quiz result screen titled "Your AI Compass." Header: "29 of 29 questions answered."

A scatter-plot chart maps the result on two axes: vertical, Good (top) to Bad (bottom); horizontal, Overhyped (left) to Transformative (right). The user's marker sits in the upper-right Good/Transformative quadrant, just right of center and above the midline, among many smaller scattered dots.

Result card:
YOU ARE…
The B2B SaaS Consultant
patron saint: Matt Yglesias

"AI will quietly boost total factor productivity by some single-digit percentage and you think that's actually a huge deal, wonkily speaking. You're bullish in a spreadsheet way, not a singularity way. You've explained the Jevons paradox to someone who didn't ask."

Impact: +2.8 · Valence: +2.0

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Visual description:
Dark navy mobile screen. White centered title up top, muted grey subtitle below. The chart is a square plotted over a blended heat-map — greens/teals upper-left, browns/golds upper-right, blues/purples lower-left, reds lower-right — speckled with small dots for other respondents. The user's position glows: a gold dot ringed in white with a soft halo, in the Good/Transformative quadrant. Below sits a rounded card on lighter navy: small grey "YOU ARE…", the archetype name in large bold gold, an italic grey patron-saint line, a light-grey body paragraph, then a thin divider above monospace grey Impact/Valence scores.

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 14/06/2026

yeah, glass cockpit style is kind of nice when they do it like they're doing for the ioniq. and that's *way* better than whatever they're doing to the civic:

Interior view of the dashboard of an automatic transmission 2026 Honda Civic—from Perry Stern's car review in US News. A touch screen display sits in the middle of the dashboard, breaking with the surrounding contours.

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 13/06/2026

the cherry tree did good again this year

Dozens of bright red cherries drying in the sun. The cherries are in a large, flat pile on thin kitchen towels in a full sheet pan. A bowl of cherry pits, a cherry pitter, and a ziptop bag in a measuring cup sit off to one side.

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 04/06/2026

"The Grid", but make it Digital Circus

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 03/06/2026

pride month approved

Two very blurry blue dots connected by a black line—as far as I can tell, the only two males in a romantic or sexual relationship from the previous diagram

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 28/05/2026

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... finally had to track this one down, and it's a small food safety change in the context of child care that seems to have landed in the 119th's HR 7567 as Section 4309

A BILL

To require that States that receive a grant under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990, will not prohibit licensed child care providers from performing simple food preparation of fruits and vegetables.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Cutting Red Tape on Child Care Providers Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. Findings.

The Congress finds the following:

(1) Access to minimally processed fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds is crucial for the development and well-being of children.

(2) Licensed child care providers often face restrictions on food preparation that limit their ability to serve fresh fruits and vegetables.

(3) Home and family based child care options, (estimated to serve about 1⁄4 of families), have seen steady declines over the past decade. While this decreases child care choices for all families, it disproportionately impacts low-income and rural families and those requiring daycare at non-traditional times because of shift work.

(4) Complicated and burdensome regulations are more challenging for home-based providers and are likely a part of the reason these centers are declining.

(5) Current regulations can make it easier to open a pre-packaged, often ultra-processed, snack than it is to, for example, peel a banana. This undermines the ability of child care providers to provide basic nutrition to our kids.

(6) Simplifying regulations to encourage simple food preparation of minimally processed agricultural products can improve nutritional outcomes for children.

SEC. 4309. FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES CATEGORIZATION.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture, in coordination with
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall develop a low-risk
classification for fresh fruits, vegetables, and other foods that are
typically consumed raw or with minimal processing, and update relevant
nutrition and food safety and preparation regulations and guidelines
for child care providers in accordance with the classification under
this section.
(b) Classification.--In developing the classification under this
section, the Secretaries shall consider--
(1) the limited risks of food-born illness and negative
health impacts associated with handling and preparing fresh
fruits, vegetables, and other foods that are typically consumed
raw or with minimal processing;
(2) best practices to minimize food safety risks without
obstructing access to low-risk foods as defined under the
classification under this section, including but not limited to
access to a handwashing sink; and
(3) existing barriers that privilege packaged, processed
foods over fresh fruits, vegetables, and other foods that are
typically consumed raw or with minimal processing.
(c) Implementation.--The Secretaries shall ensure the effective
coordination of policies and activities within the Department of
Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services related to
nutrition and food safety and preparation in child care facilities to
ensure State regulations that impact such activities reflect the
classification under this section and protect child care providers from
any penalties as a result of providing children foods in compliance
with this section.
(d) Compliance.--States that fail to comply with the policies and
activities described in subsection (c) may have funds withheld.

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 24/05/2026

support, support never changes

A screenshot of the craigslist help desk forum:

"$420 min or max price crashes search results" by stxalq, 2026-05-23 13:30

Replies:
- HelpfulHedda (15:01): "420 is blocked as a solo search term in for sale"
- ex-flagger (17:40): "Try this......."
- HelpfulHedda (21:03): "How is that supposed to be relevant? §"
- anon (6:05): "Are you seriously that stupid?"
- HelpfulHedda (13:46): "The OP is about using 420 as a max or min"
- anon (11:59): "So use a different number"

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And here's a mostly-faithful transcript of the craigslist layout in plain text (I'm realizing now the numbers at the end of the line are up/downvotes):

pdx $420 min or max price crashes search results <stxalq> 2026-05-23 13:30
:..420 is blocked as a solo search term in for sale <HelpfulHedda> 15:01 -15+5
:..Try this....... <ex-flagger> 17:40
:..:..How is that supposed to be relevant? § <HelpfulHedda> 21:03 -25
:..:..:..Are you seriously that stupid? <-> 6:05 +11
:..:..:..:..The OP is about using 420 as a max or min <HelpfulHedda> 13:46 -5
:..So use a different number <-> 11:59

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 13/05/2026

tiktok... not even once

The network call status bar from an initial tiktok.com page load:

"514 requests, 74.35 MB / 72.71 MB transferred, Finish 2.23 min, DOMContentLoaded: 925ms, load: 1.61s"

(The long "finish" time does sound a little like Server Sent Events which holds open long-lived requests, so that's interesting given my recent work in the same space. Still annoying as hell.)

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 03/05/2026

one of those hot and dry days where you can get spray painting projects done so quickly which is good because it's the last week before a larp weekend and of course i've left everything for the last minute if only i had my nerf parts sanded and prepped today

Two hurricane-style LED lanterns sitting outdoors on an old lifting desk that's been repurposed as a painting station. The right lantern is a flat black from addin primer to the poor paint job done by the manufacturer. The left lantern has bronze-colored spray paint added to give it a slightly worn and distressed look.

Not pictured: the glass globes getting frosted, one in white, one in green.

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 01/05/2026

@pbotinfo.bsky.social Uh... unusual bike rack replacement method?

Bent and dislodged bicycle ranks along SE Division in front of the now-closed Landmark bar

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 25/04/2026

wait when did they remove the concret retaining waffles from the marina lawn? this is so much nicer to walk on. i don't feel like i'm gonna roll my ankles in half ah wait, here they are, they just buried them better

portland waterfront park, near the marina, a gravel path has replaced the waffle stones

the retaining waffles barely visible poking through the gravel path

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 25/04/2026

a pair of dax security robots behind the fence on the waterfront #portland

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 25/04/2026

who was just saying the enter/shift-enter commands are set opposite between claude code and web claude? supposedly you can change that:

Screenshot of Claude Code mid-think:

[Fancy ASCII prompt that says "Orbiting... (38s, 1.2k tokens)"]
Tip: Run /terminal-setup to enable convenient terminal integration like Shift + Enter for new line and more

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 17/04/2026

literally this old comic

4-panel "Never Again" comic by Owlturd

1: An introvert happily in their box :)
2: "Maybe I'll make a joke" they say as they start to leave their box :)
3: *nobody laughs* punching them back into their box :(
4: NEVER AGAIN. :)

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 16/04/2026

you know it was a bad outage when this was your incident update #𝓇ℯℊ𝒾𝓃ℴ𝓈 #reginos

Bluesky status page from the outage last night, it reads:

Some systems down

We are investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos

April 16, 2026 at 06:42 GMT+00:00

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 13/04/2026

three sisters tortillas into chips and some leftover bean soup, which itself was made from leftover ham meat and bones pinto beans, ham drippings, the ham bones as well, can dice tomato, garlic, cayenne, chipotle, black pepper, thyme, garlic. and just a lot of time on low (countup said 3.5 hrs)

two jars of leftover bean soup, half a prep bowl of tortilla chips

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 12/04/2026

hm yes, the proper holy trinity ratio of BELL PEPPER : Onion : celery

A stainless steel prep bowl with diced red bell pepper, yellow onion, and celery arranged in thirds. The red bell pepper pile dominates the bowl.

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 11/04/2026

the important work:

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 05/04/2026

the raspberry canes bounced back. they always do, but it'll never not surprise me when they get cut back nearly to the ground every fall and still decide it's worth growing to six feet tall and feeding every bee, ant, wasp, and human on block it's commendable even

A close-up of several raspberry leaves. The rest of the bush in the background is very full and leafy. Near-golden hour sunlight highlights the leaf edges.

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 05/04/2026

the fig is certainly giving it a try this year

two fig buds and a leaf node on the worlds spindliest "runner". barely in the background is a blurry image of a cinder block propping up the fig branches

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 05/04/2026

the apple blossoms are definitely pink. and i think i notice this every year, but it's funny how the apple trees do leaves before flowers and the cherry tree is more "fuckit we ball" and throws out blossoms before even thinking about putting out leaf buds

pink apple blossom framed by fully grown apple leaves

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 05/04/2026

our cherry tree has never gone pink while we live here, but it's always managed to blossom *after* the major wind and rain storm of early spring

five-petal cherry blossom bunch with white petals

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 05/04/2026

12" x 12" foam (maybe a couple inches thick) in the bottom of the mill crate and that was the quietest grocery run

Photograph of the inside of a milk crate (strapped to a bicycle). Black foam lines the bottom of the crate. A carton of full fat Oatly on one side of the crate. A black cloth shopping bag with a coast Salish design in white on the front on the other side of the crate (from Eighth Generation, "Guardians" tote bag, though the receipt doesn't list the artist).

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 02/04/2026

always great views when they stick cameras on the rocket

Looking back at Earth from Artemis II. The sun is shining on the cloud layer below. Solid rocket boosters falling away in the distance.

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 02/04/2026

since we're doing moon posts now, i have to make sure we all know the coast salish story of the moon and the wise words it shares with us: I'M THE MOON. I'M HERE TO DESTROY CANNIBALS. FETCH ME A SHARP STICK AND FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE. I WILL CONQUER THE UNWORTHY. COME DOWN AND FIGHT ME YOU COWARDS!

A series of Facebook messenger posts, dated October 23, 2023:

me: i cant find any coast salish stories in my book about eclipses

screenshot: about ready to come down. Then Moon said, "I'm the Moon!" I'm here to destroy all cannibals and all those who are unfit. I will conquer you. Come down and fight for your life!" They set fire to the tree. "Get sharp pointed poles, one for me and one for you. You

me: The moon said, "I'M THE MOON. I'M HERE TO DESTROY CANNIBALS. I WILL CONQUER YOU. COME DOWN AND FIGHT ME YOU COWARDS."

me: which makes me think in salish tradition, a lunar eclipse is the moon covered in the blood of its enemies

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 02/04/2026

with the amount of trans-mission line jobs that DOGE cut last year i feel like we're lucky Artemis didn't get the axe i mean, trans-lunar injections and a trans-earth return might be exactly what we need

Artemis II flight plan, step 6, "TRANS-LUNAR INJECTION BURN"

Artemis II flight plan, step 9, "TRANS-EARTH RETURN"

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st̓xałq @stxalq.dev · 25/03/2026

for the longest time North portland was the fifth quadrant, and then they went and added a South portland and the joke refused to die the wikipedia pedants are having more fun getting the chance to use sextant, but you'll find actual use of quadrant in the wild:

An October 2021 Portland Cider Company blog post in a Google search result, with the headline "Exploring Portland's Six Quadrants—and Beyond!"

And a subhead 'Our city is divided into six main “quadrants”: North, Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest, and the newest one, South Portland.'

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