iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Ah yes, the two genders: mermaids and drunkards.

A drawing of a mermaid with the Spanish caption "la sirena" on the door of a women's bathroom.

A drawing of a drunk man with the Spanish caption "el borracho" on the door of a men's bathroom.

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I hope you enjoyed your Tuesday morning, because they're getting ready to tear them down. There won't be any more Tuesday mornings.

A picture of a strip mall storefront for the home goods chain Tuesday Morning. The building to the left of it is being demolished.

241

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

"I like your car!" "RANK ROO!"

A picture of a dog inside a parked car. The dog is sitting in the driver's seat and looking at the camera through the windshield.

140

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

"What should we call our new non-alcoholic cocktail brand?" "Oh! I know! How about Phony Negroni?" "Damn it that's brilliant, and couldn't possibly have any unforeseen cringe-worthy problems whatsoever. Full steam ahead!"

030

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Aren't we jumping the gun by a few centuries?

A tabletop with number figurines spelling out the number "2449" in a way that's reminiscent of New Year's displays.

020

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The visual contrast here was appealing. I really love fall.

A deep green ivy bush, with an assortment of yellow and orange maple leaves loosely scattered on top of it.

051

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Live footage of me hanging in there.

Patrick Star from SpongeBob SquarePants as a plush window cling. He has a frightened look on his face.

041

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Would you listen to this album?

A picture of farmland at dusk, with a vehicle's shadow on the left and the rising full moon on the right.

010

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

When deejaying isn't paying the bills and you decide to just give up and go live on a farm... but a very small part of you holds onto the dream.

031

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

More pics from that camping trip! Milking it for all it's worth at this point. 😂 After a brief detour into BC, I came back across the border and went to Spokane. Camped the night on top of Mount Spokane, which had some gorgeous views.

The Milk Bottle, a diner in Spokane, WA in a building shaped like a big milk bottle.

Dick's Hamburgers, a drive-in burger joint in Spokane, WA.

A panoramic view of distant forest-covered hills, seen from the summit of Mount Spokane, close to sunset.

Sunset as seen from the road leading to the summit of Mount Spokane.

050

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

A photo of a strange breakfast on a marble table. There is a mason jar full of coffee, a single serving of yogurt, a plate with biscuits and sausage gravy, and a bowl filled to the brim with ice cream.

020

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Make sure you upgrade to the latest version of English for maximum security.

A close-up picture of a language menu on a TV screen, showing an English closed-caption option, as well as "English" and "English (5.1)" as audio options.

030

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

On my camping trip through eastern Washington and neighboring areas, I stopped for a few minutes in Greenwood, BC. I happened to notice this memorial that they very recently built, commemorating the Japanese Canadians who were forced to relocate to Greenwood during WWII.

The main shelter at Nikkei Legacy Park in Greenwood, BC.

A plaque commemorating the history of Japanese Canadians in Greenwood, BC. They were expelled from coastal areas during WWII, and most inland communities refused to host them, but the mayor and residents of Greenwood welcomed them.

000

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

All of my previous visits to Canada have been to Vancouver specifically, or at least would take me through Vancouver. I always make sure I have at least one helping of poutine at a place in Davie Village. This time around, this stop in Osoyoos had to do. 🤷‍♂️ It was alright though.

A close-up picture of a McDonald's meal, which includes a burger, a drink, and a serving of poutine.

030

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

More highlights from my big trip. I said I was camping across eastern Washington, but I did pop across the border. It's hard to resist. Canada is just so pretty.

A high-altitude view of Osoyoos, BC and the broader Okanagan Valley from the east.

The Kettle River, at Kettle River Recreation Area in southern British Columbia.

The Kettle River, just south of Kettle River Recreation Area in southern British Columbia.

The Crowsnest Highway (BC-3) going through Rock Creek, BC.

000

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Why does Bluesky only let me post four images at a time? 😩 Anyway, more highlights from my big eastern Washington camping trip. See alt text.

A wide shot of Dry Falls, a long cliff that was once the site of the largest waterfall on the planet during the last ice age.

A plaque at Dry Falls.

"Flood waters, perhaps 300 feet above you, once rushed over these cliffs.

"During the ice age, glaciers to the north blocked the Columbia River and forced it to find a new route. The river, swollen from melting glacial ice, began to carve a new channel here. But that was only the beginning.

"A river in Idaho found no way around its ice dam. The river filled its valley with a huge lake that flooded many square miles of Montana — until the ice dam broke. With a flow up to ten times, the combined flow of all the rivers of the world, the lake emptied across Idaho and onto eastern Washington. Much of the water rushed through the new channel opened by the Columbia River. The turbulent water enlarged the channel and created huge waterfalls. Eastern Washington was scoured by many such floods, each lasting only a few weeks.

"When the last flood subsided, large areas of eastern Washington were left scarred with dry channels, called coulees. This one, the Grand Coulee, is the largest. Cutting across the coulee is Dry Falls. This 3½ mile wide and over 400 foot tall group of scalloped cliffs was at one time the largest waterfall in the world.

A list of the constituent tribes of the Colville Reservation in eastern Washington. This list is displayed in the visitor center at Grand Coulee Dam.

040

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I went on a big camping trip recently, mostly through eastern Washington. Here are a few highlights from the first day. More info in the alt text.

The Maryhill Stonehenge Memorial, a World War I memorial near Maryhill, WA.

A dinosaur sculpture at a gift shop just outside Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park, near Vantage, WA.

Frenchman Coulee, near Vantage, WA. Here, Interstate 90 crosses the Columbia River.

The "Calling the Healing Waters" Sundial, a sculpture in Soap Lake, WA.

150

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

If you're a person, get the fuck out of here! No fireworks for you! 😤

A sign on a fireworks display saying "no sale of fireworks to persons".

000

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

A few weeks ago, I camped in the Wallowas with some friends. It's so gorgeous over there! Wish I could have stayed longer.

A selfie of me, with trees and a mountain in the background.

A selfie of me (right) and a friend. In the background is a lake and dramatic mountains shrouded in fog.

A dramatic snow-capped mountain, with a house in the foreground.

A Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) perched on a wooden hand rail post.

060

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The camas plants I'm holding onto for a friend are almost ready to bloom! I'm so excited!

A flower pot with three camas (Camassia quamash) plants. Two of them have flower buds that are close to blooming.

000

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

They made grapes for gamers.

A sign by the side of the road, advertising special sales at a grocery store. One of the listed items is "RGB grapes".

000

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A selfie I don't feel too dissatisfied with. Huzzah!

A selfie of me against a dark brown wall, wearing a green hoodie, a blue denim jacket, and wireless headphones.

180

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Me: "Why do I always struggle to put my thoughts into words?" My thoughts:

041

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Pretty cool! I'm waiting for my camas to bloom. It won't be till late spring, and I want my dopamine hit now! 😩

Three camas (Camassia quamash) plants in a black flower pot. They are a couple months away from blooming.

010

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I bet this tastes decadent.

A bag of "gourmet compost", containing lobster and crab meal.

000

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Having a west-facing window seat on an evening flight is a real treat!

000

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A friend who works for city parks dug up like a hundred camas bulbs (Camassia quamash) in one of the parks downtown. We replanted 50 of them today. First gardening experience!

Two camas bulbs laying on the ground next to a hori hori, with two bulbs replanted nearby.

010

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I had the best time in LA last week! Just the break I needed from my seasonal-affective day-to-day routine. I couldn't have asked for better weather.

A silhouette of a palm tree. The sun is backlighting the fruit body.

000

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I literally *just* finished watching this @techconnectify.bsky.social video, and my algorithm is already screaming at me, "WATCH IT AGAIN!" 😂

A cropped screenshot of the YouTube app's "for you" page, where the algorithm is recommending I rewatch "Algorithms are breaking how we think" by the channel Technology Connections.

100

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I wonder how much money Big Meat invests in their marketing department.

000

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Camas update: My first batch of seeds are *just* starting to germinate!

A macro image of camas seeds on a damp paper towel. Sprouts are just barely poking out of a few of the seeds.

000

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I got little dust booties for the grease fittings on my truck's tie rods and ball joints. They're so cute. 🥺

A close up of a vehicle's tie rod, showing a dust cover on the grease fitting.

A closer look at the tie rod, with the dust covering popped off for demonstration.

000

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I've never grown anything in my life. I picked an unusual first project—camas (called "boqs" by the Klamath people of southern Oregon). I got dozens and dozens of seeds, most of which are now stratifying in the fridge. It'll be a few years before they're mature enough to produce flowers.

Dozens of camas seeds neatly arranged on a damp paper towel. The seed pouch they came out of is laying next to them.

000

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

The flexibility of language is amazing.

A social media post (possibly Twitter) from @MrSloaneRanger. It shares an image of a store window with a decal that reads "It's giving season". The post itself reads:

How to tell if you have a gay brain:

You read this as "it's giving season" instead of "it's giving season".

If you understand the distinction between the two identical sentences you may be eligible for compensation.

061

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Also, there's a metal coolant pipe or something that restricts your access to the bolts holding the starter in, as well as to the nut securing the electrical connection. And you have to take off part of the nose so your breaker bar even has enough room to swing... But I eventually got it out. 😩

A starter motor from a Honda Element, with the Element it came out of in the background.

110

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Come to find out, oh, they charge a thousand dollars because you have to TAKE OFF THE INTAKE MANIFOLD to get to it?!?!?! 🤬

An intake manifold out of a Honda Element, with the Element it came out of in the background.

100

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

I'm technically an elder I guess? Is this the validation I crave? 🥺

My account was the 784,803rd account on Bluesky, making it among the first 10% of users.

120

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

Baby's first visit to a scrap metal facility. Got rid of most of the parts I've replaced on the truck over the years.

Miscellaneous car parts arranged on a cart.

000

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

I've said it before and I'll say it again: LOVE YOU COACH! Your tenacity is admirable, and I hope you conquer these struggles soon.

An out-of-context picture of a Shiba Inu in a recovery suit designed to keep a dog safe while they recover from a medical procedure. The word "RECOVERY" appears above the dog.

110

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

Dutch sounds a little bit like someone making fun of Dutch. 😛

A traffic sign on a wall in a restaurant. The sign says in Dutch, "Let op! Drempels" (English translation: "Watch out! Speed bumps"), and shows a car driving on a road, approaching a speed bump.

000

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

People in the past: "The year 2023 will be wondrous beyond our imagining!" The year 2023:

A package of "crunch deez nutz" Mr. Beast chocolate bars.

010

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

This is a real posting I saw at a local library recently. I have questions, and I'm unsure whether I want any of them answered. But I am awfully tempted. 😂

An apparently facetious poster titled "CAT LESSONS!!" It is advertising a class that teaches you how to be a cat.

020

Patrick @trickvro.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

I recently did a brake job on my truck. First time in my life. I replaced the wheel bearings too. My brakes used to pulsate while gradually stopping, possibly due to rotor run-out. That's gone now! There was another job I planned on doing that I couldn't. So it was a mixed bag.

The front left wheel well of a 1993 Ford Ranger pickup with the tire removed, showing the brake rotor and caliper underneath. New brake parts are stacked to the side.

A selfie. I'm wearing headphones and a dust mask pulled under my chin. I'm showing a dirty hand to the camera. I'm exhaling out of exhaustion.

251