iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 23/09/2026

screw you co-star, do you know how long it took me to settle on this name, i ain’t picking a new one

your day at a glance: give yourself a new name

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 23/09/2026

swan boy is hilarious obviously but also sometimes branson will write a line that stunlocks you for a minute

I don't know if a week of contemplating my breathing in the adirondacks is going to be the dinner bell that makes all my dopamine rush home from wherever it's gotten off to.

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 22/09/2026

our jerk cat woke me up before five and it was single digit temperatures. i really did not want to go for a run today, but it turned out to be a beautiful morning and i had a lovely time. there is a lesson here which i will absolutely not learn

the toronto skyline on a beautiful sunny morning, seen from the west across lake ontario

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 08/09/2026

can't argue with the results, though

your hostess, in a spaghetti-strap gold dress with a black floral print and black kitten-heel strappy slingbacks

same, but from the back, showing off how good her butt looks in the dress, and also that said dress is held together by three long ties which were very difficult for her to knot behind her back, but to be a woman is to perform

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 27/08/2026

The web project I've been working on for the last month is live! The annual independent Video Store Day has been running for 16 years, and I was glad I could pitch in to build their new website that promotes the event and lets stores sign up to participate! You can see it at videostoreday.com

Screenshot of the homepage of videostoreday.com

Screenshot of the store listing page on videostoreday.com

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 10/08/2026

it feels so good to be able to go for a longer run along the lakefront again, it's been so long since i was well enough to do this

looking out over lake ontario from the shore; it's a hazy morning and beyond the horizontal line of the concrete breakwater, the lake fades seamlessly into the sky, so it's impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins

the martin goodman trail, an asphalt mixed-use bike/running/walking path that runs through trees and parkland along toronto's lakefront

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 09/07/2026

i’ll see you and raise

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 21/06/2026

the toronto trans memorial

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 12/05/2026

the training plan for this race was insane, if not outright disordered. 100+ km weeks, four weeks at 130km, no days off, only 10km+ "recovery runs", many days with multiple runs, a mid-week "medium long" 20km run that i had to wake up at 4:30am for to do before work, etc

a calendar of completed running workouts; there's no week lower than 113km, and a few approaching 130km.

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 12/05/2026

some dipshits will do almost anything instead of simply going to therapy and taking estrogen

A summary of Kat's 2013 Chicago Marathon results (42.2km, 3:00:33 time, 4:17/km pace)

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 12/05/2026

i'm sure you could if you wanted to! me, i'm too lazy now, i ain't never getting back to this level lol

Chicago Marathon, 2013. 42.2km in 3:00:33, a 4:17/km pace

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 15/04/2026

you, a fool, an utter buffoon: the cover of a lighting catalogue from 1970 is a dumb thing to pattern a website after me, a fool of a different sort: lol get bent

Front cover of a 1970 catalogue from Italian design company Artemide

screenshot of a bunch of headings and filler text

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 17/03/2026

like?????? come on??????

a little two-carriage electric train going over a low trestle bridge, surrounded by snowy trees

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 09/03/2026

I'm Kat, a front-end web developer & occasional graphic designer based in Toronto. I'm looking for work! I make complex ecommerce sites, lightweight sites for communities and nonprofits, fun web toys, & more! Do you need a web site? Sure you do. Reach out and say hi! Portfolio: katharinemurr.com

screenshot of a product display page on inkbox.com, an ecommerce web site

screenshot of a carousel widget on richardson.com

screenshot of a menu and application page on a site for Juno College of Technology

Screenshot of Brite Lites, a silly web toy I made that is similar to, but legally distinct from, Light Bright

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 05/02/2026

whee, i added dark mode to my site finally (instead of, you know, applying to jobs or for EI)

screenshot of my portfolio website in the dark mode i added today

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 26/01/2026

i recently watched "What a Way to Go!" where Newman plays a disheveled, bearded american artist living in poverty in France and oh my god

Paul Newman, covered in dirt in a frankly sexual manner

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 02/01/2026

me to the only girl who liked this:

William Petersen in Manhunter saying "it's just you and me now, sport"

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 19/12/2025

watching a silly but charming children’s movie from japan about a christmas dinosaur and every one of this little girl’s outfits are amazing

a small child and a dinosaur. the dinosaur is wearing a santa hat

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 08/12/2025

this is an incredible paragraph, from JP Brammer on the pantone colour of the year: johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

As you can see, Cloud Dancer is the color of a MacBook charger in its waning days of service. The color of bad news delivered with bureaucratic indifference. The color of congressional insider trading. The color of a person’s thoughts while ignoring war. The color of an email from an exec proposing a live-action remake. The color of the popcorn ceiling in the hotel room of said exec’s extramarital affair. It is the color of the word “exec.” It is the color of a slightly crooked command hook in a college dorm. The color of the humming sound that an overhead fluorescent light makes in a disillusioning job. The color of the familial obligation that pushes you to begrudgingly accept a call. The color of ChatGPT’s blood if ChatGPT could bleed, if ChatGPT could be slashed with a sashimi knife and if milky fluid could come gushing out of its jugular. It is not, as some are saying, the color of a white person. It’s a decidedly nonhuman, anti-human hue. It is, however, the color of the discussions on the subject, as well as the color of the awareness of the context from which those discussions inevitably spring. It is the color of offending by trying very hard not to offend. It is the color of a corporate apology. It is the color of a machine saying, “I hear you.” When the decision was revealed, I knew I would never own a house.

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 28/11/2025

i love reading margaret, and this one really spoke to me, maybe you would like to read it too

I think everyone I know has the fantasy of destroying their phone or their computer. Everyone has a different but oddly specific way they’d do it: smash it with a rock, throw it off a skyscraper, set it on the train tracks. Myself, and I know this isn’t environmentally friendly, I imagine myself on a tiny sailboat somewhere on the ocean (even though I don’t sail) and I cast my devices overboard. I don’t want to just destroy my phone or my computer, I want to sacrifice these machines to the gods of the ocean.

We have these thoughts, but we’re mistaken about why we have them. Most of the time, when I’m imagining the depths swallowing my phone, I think it’s because I want to disappear from society, that I want to leave the world of people behind. I want to set the computer on the tracks and then walk into the woods, forever.

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 28/10/2025

looking at liquid glass interfaces and becoming a RETVRN girl but for when the eudora email client added a preference for "Waste cycles drawing trendy 3D junk"

Screenshot of the Settings panel in the Eudora email client on i think Mac System 7? featuring a checkbox labeled "Waste cycles drawing trendy 3D junk"

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 18/09/2025

don’t fuck with me, fellas

Good afternoon, Katharine. It's Thursday, September 18. Today at a glance:
You tend to be right.

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 10/09/2025

once again finishing a @jeannethornton.bsky.social book slowly, partly to savor it, partly because it’s somewhat difficult to read anything while you’re crying 10/10 would cry again, i loved this so much

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 30/07/2025

you're telling me these guys make delicious ice cream?

it's benjamin and jerry horne, from the beloved television programme twin peaks

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 23/07/2025

i think the Olympia Traveler is my favourite of these, but this one's really pretty! This is also reminding me that i used to have an Olivetti Valentine in pretty good condition complete with travelling case and cute little manual, but i had to sell it 😭

a bright red olivetti valentine portable manual typewriter

a page from a typewriter's manual; it's in high contrast red, black and white, with a very mid-century mod design

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 18/07/2025

i should try to remember i live not far from high park and i can just go there before work to feel better

looking over grenadier pond in high park

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 17/07/2025

four hundred and forty thousand american dollars a year to make nazi waifus, meanwhile i am clinging to my job that barely covers my expenses every month, what a time to be alive and have principles

job posting for a fullstack engineer role at xAI to make AI waifus

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 14/07/2025

Yngwie Malmsteen's Force is the multivitamin gummy brand that took the neoclassical metal world by storm last year

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 08/07/2025

penis-preserving vaginoplasty? oh, you mean my Gourmet BeaverDog™

menu item from the canadian fast food chain BeaverTails called a "Gourmet BeaverDog". it's just a hot dog

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 07/07/2025

my partner and i always call him “pierce brossman” bc we used to go to a vegan restaurant that was almost certainly a front for a cult and they had this on the wall

a framed photo of pierce brosnan, helpfully captioned “pierce brossman”

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 07/07/2025

ate tacos in a place the other day whose bathrooms were covered in graffiti (as is proper) but someone, i guess the proprietor, had studiously gone through and redacted all the cuss words? incredible loser energy

bathroom graffiti that reads “jane fonda ate me out” (good for her!) but “ate me” has been poorly redacted with sharpie

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 03/06/2025

wow the lighting in this episode of miami vice goes hard as hell

a still from the tv show miami vice: an aerial shot of the rear of a house, the pool is a brilliant cyan, the lawn a super-saturated green, the house itself lit in lurid purple and magenta

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Katharine Ada @temporary.ca · 30/05/2025

what the hell weather app i just wanted to know if it was gonna rain

screenshot of a weather app that has an angry red “Terrorism” banner above the current temperature

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