iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

accidentally printed my 4 page info lit handout in "booklet" format, and now i am calling it a zine

A bunch of printouts on a desk, some folded in half. They contain information on doing research about the Russian civil war.

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is Herbert and he is my new god

Floofy white and grey point kitten with blue eyes that go in different directions and food on his wittle nose and mouth is being held up by his foster mom, malpluscats on Instagram

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am however being cockblocked by the ice HOW DARE

A hand holding a glass of white wine with ice floating at the top and green grapes sitting at the bottom

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

This looks interesting and the audiobook is available on Libby!

HOW WE DISAPPEAR: A Personal History of Information, by Thomas S. Mullaney
READ BY JAMES D. SASSER

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

This lady’s expression accurately reflects how people feel about our various MFA implementations

A computer screen reads: multifactor authentication (MFA). There is a picture of a lady looking at her phone with consternation.

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

thank you for this helpful summary of a paper i would like to read

screenshot of article titled: Challenging Behaviors in Children with Comorbid Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, by Katherine Macmillan, published in 2014. The TLDR, which is an automatically-generated summary, reads: This document summarizes current capabilities, research and operational priorities, and plans for further studies that were established at the 2015 USGS workshop on quantitative hazard assessments of earthquake-triggered landsliding and liquefaction.

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is almost exactly where I grew up. My parents still live in that house there. Please don’t visit them my mom is not a people person. Also it’s really hard to draw a little star without a stylus.

Map of Bayonne, NJ, highlighting the Bayonne Bridge and the Kill Van Kull, with a little red star on the east side of a peninsula down river from nyc.

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 04/09/2026

Um, LA Gear is making these again?! In adult sizes?!!! AND THEY’RE ON SALE❓‼️❗️🤯

Those LA Gear high tops from the 80s with the twisted pieces on the side (that matched the jeans with the twisted laces on the sides, of which I had a knockoff pair I got from a flea market in rural Pennsylvania). This pair is very 80s colors: black with hot pink, turquoise, and neon yellow.

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 30/08/2026

Thank you!!! 👍👍👍

Audiobook cover for High-Risers by Ben Austen. Borrowed until September 12, 2026, from NYPL.

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 30/08/2026

Tonight’s Ken Burns documentary

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 28/08/2026

I wasn’t joking about the What would Dolly do? bracelets

My wrist, wearing a bracelet with the letters “wwdd”

Another wwdd bracelet, this one with shell chips and faceted semi-precious gemstone breads, and some evil eye beads

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s a good day for making some What would Dolly do? bracelets

Round alphabet letter beads in earthy pastels, in the letters w, w, d, d.

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 23/08/2026

CURSED IMAGE ALERT🚨🚨🚨

Ummmmm. I don’t even know. It’s a Temu ad for adult disposable underwear that uses genAI. Either a lady with extra nipples is changing her own diaper, or she’s changing the diaper of a person with no body above breast-level, which seems biologically implausible.

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 14/08/2026

My mom wants to create a new garden in the little sidewalk cutout with a baby tree so I came up with something that would stay fairly neat(ish) without much maintenance and bloom all summer. Sharing here just in case anyone has one of these spots and doesn’t know what to do with it!

A pic collage of flowers! Back row: blue phlox, magenta phlox, purple-blue phlox; middle row: butterfly weed, orange agastache; front row: purple poppy mallow, blue lobelia, purple-magenta perennial geranium

A rough sketch of the layout, with the phlox at the back, the butterfly weed and orange agastache on either side of the tree, and purple poppy mallow, blue lobelia, and perennial geranium along the front

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 14/08/2026

How to spot a gen x’er at the gym

The reflection of a woman in a door. One of her sweatpants legs is hiked up to the knee.

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 14/08/2026

My neighbor just dropped off this happy, dopey ceramic frog, THAT SHE MADE, for my garden and OMGGGGG😭🥰

A ceramic frog with a big dopey grin. It looks like something you’d see in a store, not something your 80 year old neighbor whipped up in ceramics class.

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 10/08/2026

And not under “T” either for “Thumbprint Radio”

Another screenshot of Pandora My Collection

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 31/07/2026

I haven’t, but I’m about to!

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 30/07/2026

Don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot liiiiiike me

A white lady strapped into a giant weird-looking helmet that is part of a transcranial magnetic stimulation machine)

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 28/07/2026

If I, a person obsessed with the intersection of sociology and neuroscience, who is deeply concerned about the effect modern life and the structure of American culture is having on our brains and our mental health, read this article, will it negatively affect MY mental health?

A screenshot of a NY Times guest opinion essay, titled: Stop Patholigizing Ordinary Life (dated July 26th, 2026)

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 10/07/2026

Sitting at the beach next to a piece of wood that would make an excellent mantle

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 08/07/2026

My neighbor gave me permission to do a little front yard jazz-up

A little front yard area, with 2 freshly-pruned bushes, and various native plants in fuchsia and magenta and chartreuse. In the front is a variegated pink-tinged abelia.

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 08/07/2026

Half priced plants you say?

An open car hatchback showing a trunkload of plants

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 02/07/2026

Speaking of poems my brain had one in it today

You think I'm soft
Because I always have been Because you don t understand
You've never had to
I needed to create some give
To sunive
And because of privilege
You've only ever had to interact With the soft parts of me
But the inside my friend
The bones of this joint
Push on me And you’ll see
I bend but I don't break
Too many have lived too soft a life
You have no idea what
people look like in the inside
But you will learn
Good god will you learn

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 23/06/2026

Omg I totally forgot I bought some ramp salt at pride fest and when I tell you this stuff is off the charts yummy I am NOT KIDDING

My hand holding a cute little glass jar of green powder with “ramp salt” written in black marker on the silver lid.

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 20/06/2026

Hung out in a river with my bestie today so life is great

Two middle aged shore ladies selfie-ing in a river. We look very happy.

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 12/06/2026

Look at this sexy little utility sink I want for my basement. I am so excited by the possibility of having a sink down there. This is my life now.

Tehela 17.75 inch wide utility sink in black and white

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 04/06/2026

you made me start another reading list, you MONSTER

a list of books about brains including: Knowledge as a Feeling by Swanson, The Biological Mind by Jasonoff, The Elusive Brain by Tougaw, How We Learn by Dehaene, The Gist of Reading by Elfenbein, and Thought and Language, Proust and the Squid, and Reader, come home, all by Wolf

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 28/05/2026

lol i made a craft. I wonder if this puff paint still puffs?

A black mortarboard with “Let them speak!” written in cursive with sparkle white puff paint

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 08/05/2026

It has come to my attention that some of you might not know that there *IS* a cruise ship murder mystery show and it is very, very bad in all the very best possible ways. I adore it.

Wikipedia blurb for the British tv show “The Good Ship Murder”.
It has 6.1 out of 10 stars and the blurb reads:
The Good Ship Murder is a British television crime drama series created by Paul Matthew Thompson and Mike Benson, set on a luxury Mediterranean cruise ship. It follows a retired detective-turned cabaret singer solving murders on board…

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 07/05/2026

so i found a psychiatrist who does spravato treatments and to get insurance to pony up you have to prove you've been on at least 2 different antidepressants in the last year with no symptom relief. here is my list from just the past 11 months:

June 2025- May 2026
Desvenlafaxine ER 100mg
Bupropion XL 30 mg
Escitalopram 5mg
Bupropion HCL 75 mg
Lamotrigine ER 25mg
Lamoțrigine 25mg
Fluoxitine HCL 20mg
Clonzapam 1mg
Fluoxitine hcl 10mg
Bupropion HCL SR 100mg
Trintellix 5mg
Ropinerole HCL 1mg

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 23/04/2026

Definitely what you like to see as a US American currently in Europe (I mean, hard agree, Europe)

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 22/04/2026

I’ve spent obscene amounts of money on countless rounds of ketamine treatment and it turns out I should have just spent that money on vacations to amazing places. I’m not saying Greece has healed me, but this is the closest I’ve felt to hope in YEARS.

A smiling blond lady in black cat eye glasses, in front of a view of the sea

A panoramic view of the Aegean Sea, under a blue sky with fluffy white clouds

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 21/04/2026

What a fucking lovely day I had

I’m leaning on the edge of an infinity pool, watching a gorgeous sunset

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