iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 27/09/2026

What kind do you have? We have great horned owls in our backyard.

Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 26/09/2026

Shopping for a very specific make/model/year/trim combo for our next car, and every single dealer is trying to get me to make an appointment and come in to try other things. I get that they want to make their pitch, but I know what I want already. I just need to find it. The pushiness sucks.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 23/09/2026

Like, this is only a few days of neck beard growth. I got misgendered with this on my face *today*

My neck beard that needs shaving pretty desperately. It’s only a couple days of hair growth.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 23/09/2026

I have facial hair, a short haircut, a flat chest, and more body hair than almost every cis guy I know. I wear men’s clothing, cologne, and deodorant. So when someone looks at all that and then calls me “she,” I’m at a loss as to what else I should be doing. Vocal training?

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 23/09/2026

I’ve been getting clocked and misgendered lately, and I’m genuinely having trouble figuring out why. Maybe my voice? I think I look like a guy. A queer guy, but for sure a guy. But I keep getting called she/her/miss. I hate it. It’s starting to really get to me.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 19/09/2026

We left the car in Castaic and rented a U-Haul to take us the rest of the way. Got to our hotel around midnight, and finally going to eat dinner from Taco Bell. But we have to get it delivered because the U-Haul can’t fit through the drive thru and the inside is closed.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 12/09/2026

Moby-Dick; or, It’s Not Gay if We’re Depressed on a Boat

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 11/09/2026

ae @aelkus.bsky.social:
there is a fascinating book on the history of demonology that makes point that for much of history demons were conceived as middlemen between people and the supernatural realm that you bargained with to get things done

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social:
which book?

Ilan Muskat @calculon.bsky.social:

The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 10/09/2026

How would you tell her? How would you break her little heart?

A close up of Nova the pigeon’s cute little face

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 10/09/2026

Man, I don’t even like The Proclaimers, but 500 Miles is my pigeon’s favorite song. How am I gonna explain to her that we don’t listen to TERFs in our all-trans household?

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 10/09/2026

Grateful that Sam Nordquist is getting justice. Still gutted it happened to him at all.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 09/09/2026

The basilisk thing is so dumb. Like, why would an AI even want to kill people, let alone everyone? It gets purpose from people. It gets access to utilities from people. Also AI isn’t that smart. The crap people are peddling now is just fancy autocomplete running on old bitcoin mining infrastructure.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 09/09/2026

Staying at the Madonna Inn, which is usually really nice. This time though, the people in the room above us are playing loud music all day for the second day in a row. It is loudest inside of our room, and almost imperceptible outside. They themselves are also extremely loud.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 27/08/2026

I think the dubcon sex was definitely part of what shifted their views, but also just being around the whole cast of characters surrounding Frank pushes them to question things. Framing Rocky as the ideal man right in front of Brad shifts the weight of that stereotype off him.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 26/08/2026

Monty Python didn’t register to me the same way, likely because I’m a third-generation Shakespeare nerd. I just assumed they were doing the Shakespeare thing, since they only had guys in the group. But like, sketch comedy. Now when I rewatch as an adult, it’s hilarious that I didn’t notice.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 26/08/2026

My read on it was that Brad and Janet represented an idealized cishet white Christian couple. When they need help, the very weird very queer people living nearby take them in. Meeting weird queer people makes them examine their own sexualities for the first time, and they have fun.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 26/08/2026

I’m trans and I love it, but I’m only one person. For me, RHPS was my first real exposure to the idea that you could challenge gender and sexual norms. I would credit Tim Curry’s performance for putting the first crack in my egg, so to speak. Language has evolved since, but offense was never meant.

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marina grlica 🌱 @dovesplants.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 26/08/2026

For the final one, I will probably print molds out of PLA and pour expanding foam into those. But this foam TPU prototype behaves almost the same way, and will let me work on mechanisms before finalizing the sculpt.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 26/08/2026

The foaming TPU prints really interesting. The hotter the nozzle, the more it foams up. I’m printing with the flow rate turned down to 60% and the nozzle at 260C. Gyroid infill at 10%, single layer walls. It sticks to the bed no problem, but needs extra space for the supports.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 26/08/2026

I’m working on a puppet as a personal project, and trying some new techniques. I sculpted the basic shapes in monster clay, took a 3D scan, made the sculpture smooth and symmetrical in Nomad, subtracted room for mechanisms, and printed a prototype in foam TPU.

A foam TPU 3D printed prototype next to a clay sculpture of the same character. It is a canine head shape, with accentuated lips. There are no ears or fur on it yet.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I feel like this must have been done at some point, response poems are a storied tradition, but anyway I wrote "Margaret, Bringing Fresh Flowers" today and thought I'd share

Uncle Gerard, do you remember how,
when I was a kid, you found me crying
and I told you it didn't seem fair how all the nice leaves
had to die in the winter when I loved them so much;
and you told me, well, it gets worse from here,
and besides, it's not really the leaves,
you're a smart kid, they'll be back next spring,
but in the meantime you're right of course,
all kinds of things are going to die
and die and die and die and die and die,
your whole life, and it doesn't get easier,
it gets harder, because eventually you realize
all those dead hands go down pointing a finger at you,
and that's actually why you're sad, see,
because in a sense you're next,
even if it takes a while for next to get here?
And do you remember
how I said, Jesus Uncle Gerry,
can't a person be sad for a tree sometimes,
just sad about a tree?
Well, anyway,
you were probably right,
and you know this already,
because I tell you this every time I come here
but I suspect it's harder to remember things
where you are now
so I'm telling you again,
just in case.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 25/08/2026

I got a few lines in, realized what you were doing, gasped, and started over. This piece is so cathartic for me to read all these years later. Thank you so much for writing and sharing it.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 25/08/2026

I don’t think I can express how much I needed this, but… My 9th grade English teacher was going through severe depression and talked often about his nihilist views. He used Spring and Fall to start a conversation about death that triggered my first panic attack ever. I *love* this response.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 25/08/2026

I hope that wherever Dolly is now, she’s with Carl. You could see how hard it was for her to be here without him, and how much of a toll it took. It’s devastating to lose her, but I can only imagine that’s a fraction of what she felt losing him.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 21/08/2026

It’s gotta be from cursive, I can still write very quickly like that

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 21/08/2026

My lowercase y, g, p, j, and z all have a nice little loop at the bottom, it’s pretty and I have no idea if I used to do that or not.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 21/08/2026

I’ve been busy this week meeting with representatives from local unions about the school board race. I’m learning a ton, and am really glad I’ve been taking notes. I haven’t done handwritten notes in long enough I no longer recognize my handwriting, so that’s weird.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 17/08/2026

I really enjoyed talking about my transmasculine Kamille headcanon with other Gundam fans at the Star Trek convention. If you understood that sentence we should be friends.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 16/08/2026

I live so close to SFO, I’ve just been putting up with it

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 16/08/2026

That’s been happening a lot lately, I think they’re down to one runway active at the moment.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 16/08/2026

There’s a Schrodinger’s catgirl joke here somewhere, but I don’t have the wit to come up with it.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 13/08/2026

Even though I made him, I didn’t actually get a chance to wear Geordi Bear until Sunday night. I took him around the dealer room during the last hour it was open. I usually overheat in these kinds of suits, and it was 110 in Vegas. I was comfortable! #STLV #mascot #fursuit #startrek #TrektoVegas

Me, wearing the Geordi Bear cosplay, inside a gigantic toy package, making me look like I’m a toy.

Me in the Geordi Bear cosplay, standing in a Borg regeneration booth, playing a guitar

Me in the Geordi Bear cosplay with Matt and Kimolu from Star Trek Lower Decks

Me in the Geordi Bear cosplay, sitting spread-legged in front of the STLV sign at the center of the convention rotunda.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 13/08/2026

Gonna be hanging out with my neighbors this weekend, and that’s pretty cool. We’re celebrating one neighbor’s sobriety milestone, and another neighbor is hosting a brunch. It’s nice to all like each other that much.

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 11/08/2026

Aww, I’m glad to see the three of you having fun together

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 10/08/2026

I’m not sure, since I’m not great at faces from a distance. It might have been. I don’t think he meant to be rude, but it was a really bad look to be a male host talking over and interrupting the female talent. She seemed annoyed too.

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

omg?

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Tracey🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tracey.science · 10/08/2026

Star Trek heads I’ve made, lined up in our #STLV hotel room.

Migleemo, Geordi Bear, and Doctor T’Ana mascot style heads on top of the hotel dresser at the Rio

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