iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Keep finding tags like this at the end of student "work" and I dunno man, maybe just try being a human. So wearisome.

"Does this version sound more like a natural human wrote it? Let me know if you want to tweak the intro or conclusion to make it sound even more like your own voice."

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Wonder if it comes in left handed?

Black and white photo of Rick Neilsen, guitarist for rock band Cheap Trick, on stage playing a ridiculous 5 necked Hamer electric guitar with a tight checkerboard pattern on the body.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

It's good that our pension plan is predicated on making the planet unlivable for future generations, right? Right?

The Anakin / Padme 4 panel meme. In the first panel Anakin says "our retirement plan is predicated on destroying the planet." Padme, smiling, asks "but we have another planet to retire on, right?" In the third panel Anakin says nothing. In the final panel, Padme, no longer smiling, says "Right?"

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

FEEL SOMETHING IN B-FLAT, MOTHERFUCKER

Photo of a page from a book. Highlighted text reads "Some time ago, the tenor saxophonists Frank Foster was playing a street concert from the Jazzmobile in Harlem. He called for a blues in B-flat. A young tenor player began to play "out" from the first chorus, playing sounds that had no relationship to the harmonic progression or rhythmic setting.
Foster stopped him.
"What are you doing?"
"Just playing what I feel."
"Well, feel something in B-flat, motherfucker."

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

All I'm sayin' is, Grover's fear was palpable and transmittable. Furry meta-horror for the pre-school crowd.

Sesame Street's "The Monster at the end of this Book, starring LOVABLE, FURRY OLD GROVER." Grover stands by a streetlight. The street sign says Sesame Street. Behind him there is an overflowing trash can and a red brick wall. The book's title is written on a framed sign hanging on that wall. Grover is waving and saying "Hello, everybodeee!" but he looks kind of anxious.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Wasn't convinced it was autumn, but then the Spirit spoke to me and said "bro, make vegetable stock."

A Dutch oven full of chopped veggies and herbs simmers on the stove top.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

"We used to be allowed to talk about a thing, and now we are not allowed to talk about the thing, so people aren't talking about the thing, therefore the thing never existed" is absolute Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal-level stupidity.

Douglas Adams quote, from the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy novels: "The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast is so mind-bogglingly stupid that it thinks that if you can't see it, it can't see you."

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

TIL just now... (i know you weren't asking, but thank you for asking)

influence(n.)
late 14c., an astrological term, "streaming ethereal power from the stars when in certain positions, acting upon character or destiny of men," from Old French influence "emanation from the stars that acts upon one's character and destiny" (13c.), also "a flow of water, a flowing in," from Medieval Latin influentia "a flowing in" (also used in the astrological sense), from Latin influentem (nominative influens), present participle of influere "to flow into, stream in, pour in," from in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + fluere "to flow" (see fluent).

The range of senses in Middle English was non-personal, in reference to any outflowing of energy that produces effect, of fluid or vaporous substance as well as immaterial or unobservable forces. Meaning "exertion of unseen influence by persons" is from 1580s (a sense already in Medieval Latin, for instance Aquinas); meaning "capacity for producing effects by insensible or invisible means" is from 1650s. Under the influence (of alcohol, etc.) "drunk" is attested by 1866.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Imagine having a transit problem and thinking _this_ is a solution. Car Brain is bad brain.

Screenshot of Google maps showing a tangle of overpasses and cloverleafs where the 427 meets the Gardiner and the Queensway in Etobicoke.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Distinct impression that the door of my motel room has been kicked in at least once before.

A gray motel door, interior shot. Its basically plumb at the handle, but suspiciously out of plumb at the floor.

The same gray door, close-up of the floor. Even when closed the door is maybe 3 cm out of alignment at the bottom.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

Seeing someone forcefully struck by a driver in a car and concluding that the problem is not enough helmets on non-car people is missing the point entirely.

""When she sees a scooter, she's like, 'Oh, are they wearing a helmet?' I don't think she's going to ride a scooter, ever, without a helmet after this," VanderSpek said."

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

Checked their website and oowee are they ever leaning into the domination thing!

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

How it started / how it went.

A plate of spaghetti with red sauce bejeweled with sautéed mushrooms and spicy peppers.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

Did I need another distortion pedal? No. Do I regret this purchase? Also no. It sounds AMAZING. Thank you, Walrus Audio!

A green leather encased Walrus Audio Ages overdrive pedal. Ooh, and also ahh.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

This is how I would like to be remembered. #Approximators

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

As a preface, it might help to refresh on the hallmarks of white supremacist thinking, because that's at the root of ALL of the changes coming down the pipe in #OntEd. www.whitesupremacyculture.info

Image depicts 14 old timey poison bottles, each labelled with a different characteristic of White Supremacy Culture.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

I always thought this was a plea for better-funded schools, but I'll take "the military is bankrupt" in a pinch.

Screenshot of a quote: "it will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber" credited to the Women's International Legion for Peace and Freedom

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

ahaha found it! This was the t-shirt! I wonder if my parents had any idea how much this shirt would radicalize me?

Image in green on white background shows silhouetted children climbing on a globe-shaped playground. Text reads "it will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." Small print at bottom says "(c) Women's International League for Peace and Freedom"

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

Spotted this one at a local bagel shop last weekend, casually violating the laws of physics and human decency.

Avocado breakfast bagel but it's ai induced so somewhere between physically impossible, actively exploding, and ... some kind of fetish porn?

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

Absolutely perfect joke. 10/10.

Screenshot of skeet by Andy Ryan.

"Nick Drake is one of my favorite people named after a type of birdc
theft. Others include Russell Crowe, Rob Fowler, Peregrin Took, and Jack Sparrow."

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026

Now that he is old, this is all my fierce warrior wants to do:

An old black cat sleeps curled up on a blue pillow balanced on the photographer's legs, which are stretched out from an Adirondack chair to an old metal-frame wicker chair.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026

I dearly love the bagels at this little place in Dundas but JFC they gotta not use AI art to advertise Avocado Nightmare Sandwich. #AIfood

Photo of a countertop ad for Avocado Breakfast Bagel which is an excellent idea except the art is a hyperinflated unnaturally symmetrical bagel monstrosity exploding with eggy tendrils and avocado tendrils and somehow the bottom half of the bagel beast is at least twice the size of the top half in a clear violation of God's Law for mortal foods.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

Cool that we're doing Brave New World now.

'The case of Little Reuben occurred only twenty-three years after Our Ford's first T-Model was put on the market.' (Here the Director made a sign of the T on his stomach and all the students reverently followed suit.) 'And yet...'

Furiously the students scribbled. 'Hypnopædia, first used officially in A.F. 214. Why not before? Two reason. (a)...'

'These early experimenters,' the D.H.C. was saying, 'were on the wrong track. They thought that hypnopædia could be made an instrument of intellectual education...'

(A small boy asleep on his right side, the right arm stuck out, the right hand hanging limp over the edge of the bed. Through a round grating in the side of a box a voice speaks softly.

'The Nile is the longest river in Africa and the second in length of all the rivers of the globe. Although falling short of the length of the Mississippi-Missouri, the Nile is at the head of all rivers as regards the length of its basin, which extends through 35 degrees of latitude...'

At breakfast the next morning, 'Tommy,' some one says, 'do you know which is the longest river in Africa?' A shaking of the head. 'But don't you remember something that begins: The Nile is the...'

'The-Nile-is-the-longest-river-in-Africa-and-the second-in-length-of-all-the-rivers-of-the-globe...' The words come rushing out. 'Although-falling-short-of...'

'Well now, which is the longest river in Africa?'

The eyes are blank. 'I don't know.'

'But the Nile, Tommy.'

'The-Nile-is-the-longest-river-in-Africa-and-second...'

'Then which river is the longest, Tommy?'

Tommy bursts into tears. 'I don't know,' he howls.)

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026

Oh man. The Smartboard revolution of 2005 did not fail to disappoint.

The interactive whiteboard industry was expected to reach sales of US$1 billion worldwide by 2008; one of every seven classrooms in the world was expected to feature an interactive whiteboard by 2011 according to market research by Futuresource Consulting.[3] In 2004, 26% of British primary classrooms had interactive whiteboards.[4] The Becta Harnessing Technology Schools Survey 2007 indicated that 98% of secondary and 100% of primary schools had IWBs.[5] By 2008, the average numbers of interactive whiteboards rose in both primary schools (18 compared with just over six in 2005, and eight in the 2007 survey) and secondary schools (38, compared with 18 in 2005 and 22 in 2007).

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?

A road sign in English and Portuguese indicating WARNING UNSTABLE CLIFFS DANGER OF DROWNING. Inside a yellow triangle is a charming black pictogram of a person being crushed by falling rocks.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

Oh man. The bottom just got lower. Now you can get an AI buddy to "veratify" the news for you as you read. Slop policing slop.

Screenshot of a company website. Bold font headline screams "BEFORE YOU BELIEVE IT. VERATIFY IT." The rest is some nonsense about needing an AI fact checker app to help you discern truth from lies on the internet.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026

Word on the street is....

Photo of a gray industrial door graffiti 'd with a Sharpie drawing of a 3 eyed fish. Hand drawn caption reads "Blinky say no A.I. Pls..."

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

look people i don't want to get pedantic but this is a clear-cut case for the semicolon.

screenshot from twitter.
Djflako writes "that imitation crab is banging my wife and I love it."
Reply says "commas are important"

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

🎶Sleep with one eye open Clutching your pillow tight🎶

My old black cat, asleep against my leg on a lounger, with one eye half open in a deranged soft of way.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

Whatever else you can say about the weather this summer, it's been good for the coleuses (colei?) in my backyard.

Four planters arranged in a row at the edge of a patio. Each is bursting with coleus plants. Most are about 3' tall, with beautiful scalloped spade shaped serrated leaves, purple at the center, flecked with pink, and edged with green.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

Just doing a little casual reading about Least Weasels, as one does, and umm... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_w...

The Ancient Macedonians believed that to see a least weasel was a good omen. In some districts of Macedon, women who suffered from headaches after having washed their heads in water drawn overnight would assume that a weasel had previously used the water as a mirror, but they would refrain from mentioning the animal's name for fear that it would destroy their clothes.[42]

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 09/08/2026

Hot take but 250 ml is the only correct size for a bottle of beer.

My right hand comfortably envelops a 250 ml bottle of Sagres Mini, a Portuguese beer. Atlantic ocean and overcast sky in the background.

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

And since I am a cat dad in every sense of the cliche, my next move was to make him a little cat sushi table!

A sushi tray made of scrap lumber with the cat dish resting atop. Lovely!

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

🧵 cont. So I had the simple idea of putting his dish up on a block of scrap wood. He loved it!

The same crunchy old black cat, eating gracefully from a dish atop a scrap end of a 4x4

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

Cat update. /🧵 My little old man has arthritis in his hips, neck and elbows. He is a crunchy little guy. This makes it hard for him to eat or drink from a shallow bowl on the floor, as his joints begin to ache and he ends up lying down beside his dish.

A glossy old shorthair black cat twists as he struggles to get up from where he's been sleeping on a flagstone patio

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

See also niche Canadian suggested "pantsless racoon environmentalists."

Promo image from 1982's The Raccoons, showing mom raccoon in a pink dress, dad raccoon named except for a kercheif, son raccoon wearing only a red t-shirt, and a couple of aardvarks wearing neckties. The are all standing in a forest clearing. A massive oak tree behind them has a tree house.

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