iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 23/08/2026

New? Toy! Only took about two months from picking this up to having it working. Next trick, connecting it to a computer. Anyone have an HPIB interface card? ISA, PCI or NuBus works for me 😂

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 12/08/2026

Made a friend! (Not really, was only there for the food then left)

A red panda taking a treat from my hand. The view is of the back of the panda’s head.

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 23/03/2026

Oh Wellington put on a good day for my brief stop here! Guess it heard it was my birthday

A sunset over Wellington CBD from aro valley looking towards the harbour

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 19/03/2026

It's what happens when you kill the (comparatively) moderate leaders and the people who joined a nationalist army to fight are left. Entirely predictable

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 08/03/2026

bsky doesn’t allow marking spoilers, but a colapinto-and-go penalty is too good to not post. I did wait a while, and cropped off all the other race info. Sounds like a threat to me…

A capture from the F1 broadcast with a message reading FIA Stewards: Colapinto-and-go for car 43 (COL)

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 07/03/2026

Are you OK Apple Music? I was just searching for a song

An Apple Music search for “crying at the discotheque” by Alcazar, with a message saying

If you or someone you know needs help, support is available. Find Resources

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 16/01/2026

stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy

Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov from Heated Rivalry sitting at a table fully dressed

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 08/11/2025

Well after soldering some really tiny components on to a PCB (0603! TSSOP!) I have a working HID Hopper to connect my Apple Pro USB mouse to my PowerMac 7220!

A HID Hopper connecting a USB mouse to an ADB PowerMac. The display is showing the MacOS 8 installer.

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 03/11/2025

AAA games are expensive? The RBNZ inflation calculator says this is about $275 in today’s dollars.

A boxed copy of Perfect Dark for Nintendo 64 with a price sticker showing $149.95 on it.

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 17/10/2025

If you use the iOS hearing test and get an audiogram that looks like this it says “little to no loss”. However this level of hearing loss can make it very hard to understand speech especially with background noise. Hearing aids (including AirPods Pro) may help.

An audiogram showing normal hearing until 2kHz, afterwards the hearing loss starts increasing by around 20dB every 2kHz of frequency increase.

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 14/10/2025

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 14/10/2025

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.

Marshall BraveStarr and his horse Thirty/Thirty

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 24/09/2025

This year Vector overcharged its customers by $134 million.

Hello fellow Aucklanders!

We are delighted to have paid the 2025 Entrust dividend of $364. This year we paid $134 million to 368,000 Auckland households and businesses.

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 12/08/2025

Yeah it was the live thread and the spineless gits kicking out Chlöe for standing up for her principles took over. It’s in the scroll back here www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 12/08/2025

Well this is a headline I just read with my eyes.

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 08/08/2025

A Soviet era joke, for anyone in the USA now

My favorite Soviet era joke:

Three Russian men were sent by their company to attend a convention in Moscow. All 3 shared a hotel room. Two of them cracked open a bottle of vodka, but the third just wanted to sleep.

The two drinkers got louder and louder as the bottle emptied, telling each other political jokes. The third was kept awake, and got angry.

He went outside for a smoke. On his way back to his room, he stopped at the desk and said ‘Please send a pot of tea up to room 23’

The two drunks were still being loud. The third man went in, looked at them, then leaned over to the light socket ‘Comrade Major, please send some tea to my room’

The other men thought this was hilarious...until there was a knock on the door, and a waiter with a pot of tea.

They became completely silent, and the third man fell asleep.

When he woke up in the morning, he was alone. He went to the front desk, and asked where his roommates were.

‘Well, the KGB came this morning and took them away’

The man was horrified ‘why did they spare me?!?’

‘The comrade major thought the tea joke was very funny.’

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 31/07/2025

Internet NZ voting right now

An image of the Reddit mascot hitting another with a mallet labelled "F5", while saying "It's still down..."

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 30/07/2025

Whelp the UNESCO sea level gauges are showing… data. I hope all the island nations don’t get badly hit.

A screenshot of the UNESCO sea level gauge at Wake Island, showing a normal tide pattern until around 0330 UTC then random level changes between 200cm above and below normal for the next half hour

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 10/06/2025

I think my 2degrees bill is ready

A screenshot of my email inbox showing four emails from 2degrees with my latest bill all received at the same time.

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 30/05/2025

I guess I need to get some screencaps from Rimmerworld, because this is all I can find even on Tumblr

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 25/05/2025

Introduced David Seymour our part time Deputy PM #nzpol

A clip from Red Dwarf of Arnold Rimmer waving his hands in an attempted “gangster sign” while saying “Okay home boys, let’s posse!”

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 25/05/2025

They seem to be decreasing

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 17/04/2025

I finally got around to clipping this scene from The Matrix. Hopefully it doesn't turn out to be prescient.

A clip from The Matrix
Agent Smith: I say "your civilisation", because when we started thinking for you it became our civilisation

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 11/04/2025

But what if I take the red pill _and_ the blue pill?

A red and white capsule, a blue and white capsule, and a beige round pill that smells strongly of mint.

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 26/02/2025

This cheese is a disaster waiting to happen

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 08/02/2025

Tactical Breach Wizards has some great achievements

Achievements:

Look Both Ways
Let the Less Lethal Pyromancer get hit by ghost traffic

Back On The Streets
Defenestrate Steve Clark, Traffic Warlock

Improvised Window
Knock the Traffic Warlock into a Death's Door

Jaywalker
Make a Steve hit another Steve with ghost traffic

Who Needs Therapy? (Jen, Still)
Complete Jen's Anxiety Dream

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 08/02/2025

This comic has become relevant in my communities again. Which sucks. I wish people older than me would actually let the message sink in.

A four panel comic, featuring anthropomorphic bald eagles. One is drinking a hot beverage, the other is reading a newspaper.
Panel 1
Bird 1: Do you think the owl is a predator?
Panel 2
Bird 2: Of course not. He's never bothered me
Bird 1: Exactly
Panel 3
Bird 1 sips drink
Panel 4
Bird 1: No idea what Mr Mouse was going on about

Credit: Nathan W Pyle.

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 14/01/2025

Oooarrr I guess? Time to get a bran’ new combine ‘arvester?

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 14/11/2024

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 23/10/2024

Well at least it’s not running Windows

A large digital advertising screen displaying Linux boot messages

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 17/09/2024

Dear Kickstarter Scammers. In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 16/09/2024

Uh @understatesmen.bsky.social, are the first two pages supposed to be 3/4 pages?

Inside my copy of The Sunforge by Sascha Stronach, with the first two pages considerable shorter than the rest

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 07/09/2024

Yes I’ve been too online today while waiting for the bread to rise. (Bread tax attached)

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 04/09/2024

Let’s see how OWASP tools help your SDLC. I used to be the person telling you how to be AWS Well Architected so let’s skip that. And I should have brought snacks #owaspnz

A presentation slide titled PRESENTATION TITLE
ON EVERYTHING ABOUT APPLICATION SECURITY

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 11/08/2024

If knew in May I would have taken more photos 😆 I’ll ask my friend in the historical costuming community. You’re going to need a silly hat though (these are French from the 1700s)

French military dress uniforms from the 1700s. Unfortunately I didn’t write down more than that.

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 11/08/2024

If knew in May I would have taken more photos 😆 I’ll ask my friend in the historical costuming community. You’re going to need a silly hat though (these are French from the 1700s)

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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 05/08/2024

Well that’s my evening sorted!

A notification from Apple Books that The Sunforge by Sascha Stronach has been released

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