iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 24/09/2026

My memory of playing that game was that most characters ended up being in their 50s or 60s because you tended to end up with more money and skills if you did that, but you didn't want to go on too long as you started losing stats to aging

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 22/09/2026

I couldn't understand why the Warsaw one looked like a robot...

Picture of the Warsaw pedestrian symbol. It is green, but coincidentally the four dots that the Bluesky app draws over the picture to denote you have several to scroll through goes directly over its head, making it look very robotty.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 06/09/2026

I see them a lot on my bike ride in and out of work. Look at these two, just chillin'

Two turkey vultures perched on a fence, just hanging about.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 25/07/2026

Somehow I never got to 3. My brothers and I started on 1e Basic Red Box and then moved on other systems

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 20/07/2026

This is a picture of me ( holding the map ) in Nigeria in 1982 on a day when the sun was exactly overhead.

Four children out in the midday sun. Ome holds a sign saying April 25th 1982. The next holds a clock showing 12:25. The next ( a very beautiful child who will surely grow up in to a stunningly handsome man ) holds a map of Nigeria. The last child points to Kano in the North of Nigeria with a stick.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 04/07/2026

After our old Epson fucked us about one too many times, my wife took a hammer to it. This is the first thing I print on every printer I've had since, and they tend to be pretty well behaved after that.

A hammer lying in the broken remains of an old Epson inkjet printer.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 17/06/2026

I don't think we had that in the UK, but we did have

Captain Zep Space Detective, across a purple nebula.

Zep and his assistants, on an alien world, talk to an alien (who is hand-drawn)

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 01/06/2026

@rebeccaforec.bsky.social I forgot to post this earlier - I appreciate the new bike racks by CVS at El Cerrito Plaza!

A bike at the bike racks outside El Cerrito Plaza.

Damn, that's a nice bike! It's a blue British steel framed touring bike. I bet its rider is totally hot, too.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 29/05/2026

So I have a question for Bluesky. This food truck was outside work, but they appear to have a roasted dinosaur on the roof. My question is: what species of dinosaur have they roasted? Allosaurus? Iguanadon?

A food truck that sells chicken. On top there is a huge model of a roasted chicken, but it's kinda dinosaur-sized.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 20/05/2026

A man in jeans and a green top can be seen crouching behind Zaphod Beeblebrox to be his third arm.

Zaphod Beeblebrox from the 1980 TV series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The butt of the man being Zaphod's third arm can be seen sticking out behind Zaphod. He is wearing jeans.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 25/04/2026

I quite like it. I dislike the current trend of very boxy car fronts, and this one looks like a car out of the Usborne Book of the Future.

An illustration of a future car from the Usborne Book of the Future. It is sleek in a boxy kind of way.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 05/04/2026

In 2001 i bought a l'espion camera, which I feel is the great grandfather of these things. It could do something like 20 pictures at 352x288 pixels, and ran off a single AAA battery. It was around the same volume as a matchbox.

A tiny and very shitty digital camera from 2001, being held in someone's hand. It is only a few cm in each dimension, and made of a kind of silver plastic.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 03/04/2026

Back in ~2001 our printer misbehaved one too many times, and my wife had had enough. I print this picture on every new printer I get, as a warning.

The remains of a destroyed inkjet printer, still with the hammer lying on it.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 07/03/2026

I hate this framing so much

Headline: "Trump vows to step up Iran bombing, as gas price surge worsens"

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 07/03/2026

The shell station near the office, Emeryville.

Picture of gas station prices.

Regular $5.50
Pro $5.70
V-Power $5.90

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 13/02/2026

My favourite type of Friday.

Close-up of an analogue watch face. The little window showing the date says 'FRI 13'.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 04/01/2026

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but there is an option in Settings->Moderation->Interaction Settings where you can define who can reply and quote post your posts.

The Post Interaction Settings page on BlueSky.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 25/12/2025

Turns out this is a Lego brick that 40 years ago I used my new label printer to make a Lego number plate for a Lego car that I was making:

The other side of the Lego brick, which and old-style label printed label saying 'TIM 1'.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 25/12/2025

For Christmas my lovely sister Katie made all of us Christmas stockings full of lots of little toys. However one of the things she gave me was this rather old mucky Lego brick:

A 1x6 white Lego brick, old and a bit dirty.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 25/12/2025

Fuck yeah! Search your name and then 'glamour shot', and post a photo.

"A blonde punk-inspired mullet with black mallen streak from Matteo De Vita's Newcomer of the Year 2025 collection at the British Hairdressing Awards"

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 14/12/2025

Back when phones had buttons on the front. And in this case a tiny trackball and circular scrollwheel as well!

Promo picture of the O2 XDA Orbit, a Windows mobile smartphone from 2006.

It has eight buttons on the front, and a tiny trackball surrounded by a circular scrollwheel.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 12/12/2025

Have we ever been in more desperate need of Lying Cat?

Lying Cat from the graphic novel series 'Saga'. She is a large hairless cat with green skin. She wears an ornate golden collar around her shoulders. Lying Cat can detect lies and in this shit she is drowning, mouth open, saying "LYING".

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 06/12/2025

From the UK 2015 general election:

Front page of The Sun British tabloid newspaper, 5th of May 2015. Headline is 'SAVE OUR BACON' and is accompanied by a very unflattering picture of the the leader of the opposition, Labour MP Ed Miliband, eating a bacon sandwich. You know sometimes you eat a sandwich and it's difficult to take the bite properly without the bits coming out? That. He looks very odd.

The general election was two days later, and Labour lost.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 20/11/2025

I feel like we're really heading in to an ad hellscape at the moment where AIs are just churning out vast amounts of shite hoping something will stick

A bizarre AI-generated picture of a power tool. It has the Milwaukee styling, but is more reminiscent of a taser than anything else. Is being held in a two-handed pistol grip by a person wearing black nitrile gloves. The front is a weird contraption with lots of circular orifices, and along the side are a bunch of shiny metal cylinders that look like socket wrench sockets.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 05/11/2025

Cuomo still hasn't appeared at his party where they are playing 'Holding Out for a Hero'. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI8h...) The bored looking people are at least getting entertained by some dude with a placard

Someone at the Cuomo 'party' is holding a placard saying 'Curtis Sliwa is The Spoiler!'

People are getting their selfies taken with him. On the other side of the placard it says

Cuomo = Capitalism
Mamdani = Communism!
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* Cuomo = 45%
Mamdani = 44%
Sliwa = 11%

(Something I can't make out under that)

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 22/10/2025

However, I regret to inform you all that earlier today I had to post this to the internal 'farewell' slack channel:

A screenshot from the original gameboy version of Pokémon, except that there is a pixelly image of my face where the Pokémon should be, with crosses over the eyes, and at the bottom it says "RIF defeated TIM!"

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 22/10/2025

When I started work at Unity, I posted this image to the 'introductions' internal slack channel.

A screenshot from the original gameboy version of Pokémon, except that there is a pixelly image of my face where the Pokémon should be, and at the bottom it says "Wild TIM appeared!"

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 13/10/2025

This reminds me of this conversation I had with my Gen z daughter: (She uses 'lol' at the end. Perhaps because she is elder Gen Z)

A conversation with my Gen Z daughter.
I post an image of a twitter post that says:

"anytime i see someone use a reaction gif i immediately know they are above the age of 33"

Me: "i kind of need to know if this is true"

Daughter:
"I would say yes"
"Sorry lol"

Me: Posts reaction gif of Homer Simpsons screaming

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 12/09/2025

Did he buy both the hardback and softback versions?

Massage for Dummies: $52.14
Massage for Dummies: $32.76

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 09/08/2025

In 1999/2000 I wrote a WWI aerial combat game, along with an artist and a game designer. The artist I worked with was fresh out of a BA in Fine Art, and he wasn't very used to Photoshop, so he did a bunch of the textures in watercolor and scanned them in. Anthony Callaghan, you mad glorious bastard.

A hand-painted watercolor texture panel for a Nieuport WWI fighter.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 01/07/2025

I've been trying to make my own but have had trouble sourcing a creepy clown doll.

Classic BBC Test card F, featuring a girl playing noughts and crosses with a weird clown doll.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 01/07/2025

... and I was right! I asked it for the orca slicer download, and the first link it gives me is to a fake site. To be fair, it then tells me to download from GitHub, which is correct. It then warns me about fake sites and only to download from GitHub or the official site, linking to a fake one.

Important Notes:
Be cautious of unofficial download sites. There are unofficial websites that may contain malicious software or misleading information. Always download from the official GitHub or orcaslicer.net.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 01/07/2025

Searching for Orca Slicer 3d printing software on Google, 3 of the top four posts are fake Orca Slicer websites; the actual one coming in 8th position. At least the github repository is 2nd, I guess.

Results of a Google search for 'Orca Slicer':
* Fake Orca Slicer site
* Orca Slicer github
* Fake Orca Slicer site
* Fake Orca Slicer site
* A Reddit post
* A YouTube video
* An Orca Slicer review
* The actual Orca Slicer webpage.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 30/06/2025

Reminds me of this biblically accurate ceiling fan my wife saw online

A ceiling fan with several intertwined circular lights attached to it.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 27/06/2025

I finally have the work-from-home zoom status box prototype mounted on the wall.

The top of a monitor with a webcam on it. The top of a Zoom windows is visible.

On the wall behind is a black box with three lit sections:

* LIVE, lit in red.
* A mic symbol, lit in green.
* A camera symbol, lit in green.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 03/06/2025

Weird to base his look off a literal child molester

Infamous British children's entertainer and child molester, Jimmy Saville.

He is wearing a shell suit and dark glasses.

Rest in piss, motherfucker.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 19/05/2025

Okay, now the people I matched with least

Byron Hadley the scary prison guard from The Shawshank Redemption

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 19/05/2025

Top non Star Trek matches (that I recognized)

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 07/05/2025

One of the things that amuses me about the papal conclave is that in a city of such amazing architecture and art, how pedestrian the chimney they use to deliver the smoke is.

A picture of the chimney used to deliver the smoke from the papal conclave. It is metal and very utilitarian. In the foreground is a classical marble statue of a bearded man.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 04/05/2025

Reminded very much of this

Cartoon set at a Climate Summit.
The speaker has a slide listing all the benefits of sustainable living.
A man at the back of the audience is saying angrily to the woman next to him "What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 19/04/2025

Gif of who I'm pretty sure my twin brother wanted to be as a kid

Uncle Fester from one of the Addams Family movies striking some knives together.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 19/04/2025

Gif of who you wanted to be as a kid

Gif of mad scientist Doc Emmet Brown from the movie 'Back to the Future'.

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Tim Aidley @tim.aidley.com · 10/04/2025

I never had a turntable or vinyl either, but recently we inherited my wife's parent's 1962 Magnavox record player / radio cabinet system, along with a bunch of their old 45s.

A 1962 Magnavox record player / radio cabinet, beautiful in dark wood in a mid century style.

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