iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I can't tell if this is more or less pathetic than the origin of the equivalent Vancouver Canucks tradition: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_P...

A screenshot of the wikipedia page 'Towel Power', that reads: "The tradition started in the 1982 Campbell Conference Finals when Vancouver played the Chicago Blackhawks. During game two of the series, head coach Roger Neilson waved a white towel on the end of a hockey stick in a mock surrender after being upset with the officiating. Neilson was ejected and the Canucks lost 4–1."

020 2

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The people of Vancouver have not done enough with the fact that 'Dude Chilling Park' scans to 'Pink Pony Club'

The sign for now-official Vancouver park, 'Dude Chilling Park'

020 2

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

My travel this summer would be way more impressive if it wasn't all in the service of sitting in rooms talking about what words mean.

160 6

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

"Sorry, Clifford, we don't have a page for you. Would you prefer to read one about your least charitable interpreter?"

The SEP search results for the name 'William Kingdon Clifford'. There is no page on William Kingdon Clifford. Instead, the top result is William James

0182 18

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

My erstwhile travel companion, the space Michaelangelo backpack I bought from the kid section at Target on my first day in the US, has finally broken on this, the day I leave the US for the foreseeable future. Probably not an omen.

A colourful backpack with a very broken zipper

1150 15

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Whoever that compound woman is must be a member of the same species on that one Queen album

The cover of the Queen album 'The Miracle', which features an unholy amalgamation of four men with five eyes between them

010 1

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Honestly the most enjoyable part of the Oscars was the ten solid minutes it took my partner and I to figure out what the hell was going on in this photograph:

A photograph (photo credit: Philip Cheung for the New York Times) in which Anora director Sean Baker is flanked by a very odd distorted woman-creature to his right

260 6

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

It may have been unwise for me to buy another philodendron so close to the move, but in my defense, look at it. Look at those leaves.

130 3

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This thread is going to be all vain reposting, sorry.

A tweet by me that reads:
Shakespeare comedies ranked by how good it is if your pilot says their titles:
Good:
As you like it
All's well that ends well

Ok:
Much ado about nothing
The Winters Tale
Measure for Measure

Bad:
Twelfth Night
A Comedy of Errors
The Tempest

240 4

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I maintain this should have been a winner.

A tweet from yours truly that reads 'Ms. Frizzle never had to worry about her students not understanding the course requirements because they all knew that everything was on the silly bus'

131 3

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Also, it's not like twitter was even rewarding my best material anymore.

A tweet by yours truly that reads 'My favourite hockey penalty is Too Many Men on the Ice because it just sounds like a review left by someone who doesn't like hockey'

1222 22

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Basically, it's a note-taking program. Less basically, it's a locally-stored vault system that lets you organize your notes into a wikipedia-like interconnected archive, all in non-proprietary markdown files. See the picture for an network graph of my curent D&D campaign (forgive the gamer colours)

A really cool (if gamer-coloured) network graph of what looks like a really complicated D&D campaign. The red nodes are PCs, blue are locations, yellow are NPCs from one faction, et cetera

110 1

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Me: "you're moving to Vienna in 4 months, so any souvenir you get from New Orleans should be small and portable" The Sinister Cast Iron Dragon Bell:

3130 13

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

(CinemaSins ding) Embarassing Mistake! So much for this so-called *empiricism*

A photograph of a page of J.S. Mill's Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, in which is underlined 'Take any familiar object, such as an orange. It is yellow'

020 2

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

But it also contains sections like this:

121 2

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

At this point I am no stranger to the long s, but every so often I still find it in a new word and get a sensible chuckle out of it. The feminary. Gonna hand this one over to the anti-woke-universities campaigners, free of charge.

A screenshot from an 18th century biography of a natural philosopher and doctor, describing his youthful education at a 'feminary'

1103 10

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

All the computers in the Center for Philosophy of Science have this picture set as their desktop background (for some extremely mysterious reason). The file's name? 'Oppo.jpg'

Oppo.jpg. A black and white image of Oppenheimer looking over Einstein's shoulder, seemingly pleased with what he sees there

000 0

Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Well, then let me offer Subway Wizard's natural companion: Computer Witch, by Tristan Elwell

An illustration of a witch working on a 90s beige computer. Her cat is playing with the computer mouse.

050 5