iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

There used to be a bot account called Stealth Mountain on the birdsite that would correct "sneak peak" to "sneak peek". I used to chortle at the idea, but here's the Bwlch today.

View across a valley from inside a car. It's raining so hard you can barely see the mountain as a slightly darker smudge against the sky

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Cleared all the crap off the saw. Fence wouldn't go all the way to the blade, which was a shade worrying until I noticed the front rail had got a bit bent in shipping. I managed to get it straightish with a pipe clamp and a bit of leverage and it works now […] [Original post on beige.party]

The front rail. There are slight signs of previous buckling, but by and large it's straight.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

"I'll just recover the blade from the old table saw before I junk it", I said, forgetting that I've lost the arbour spanners and the blade lift is broken. I wonder how much I'll have to dismember this thing before I can get at both sides of the blade. #woodworking

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Oh, fuck you.You've made a killing from me over the years but that's not enough, you want to hoover up data from my phone too. #enshittification

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I'm attempting to make a small floating shelf, but my wood glue has a me-proof cap.

The culprit, sitting on my very messy workbench

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Just got up and made egg fried rice. Because why not.

A black frying pan full of egg fried rice. It has peas in it, just so I can say I ate a vegetable.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

This bedding is unsatisfactory.

A gorilla reclining in some form of hammock, looking askance at a handful of straw

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Dunno who this guy is, but he called me "bub" a lot.

A wolverine, chilling next to some fallen trees

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

This was the best view I got of the lynx.

A vaguely lynx coloured patch of fur in a gap in the foliage

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Dunno what this lad's looking out for, but it's clearly not us.

A meerkat, standing up to stand lookout for his pack

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

We also saw the goodest boi gnawing on his bone.

A wolf nibbling marrow out of a bone in a very doglike manner.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

The red panda wasn't as interested in us.

A red panda, strutting across a rope bridge between two trees like she's got somewhere to be

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Back from the zoo. We did not bring a lemur back with us.

A curious ring-tailed lemur perched on the wheel of a wheelchair, investigating the contents.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

@edent.tel Gotcha. I'm officially one point more hideous than you.

Me, gurning. My eyes are screwed up and my mouth looks like someone squashed a plasticine model of Billy Idol. If you're reading this alt text because you can't see the photo you've genuinely dodged a bullet.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I am by nature quite a blokey bloke, but I do have capital-H Hair (I know most of you haven't met me, so just imagine a midway point between 80s metal band and Bill Bailey). Anyway, due to that I try to resist the natural male urge to buy a 28-in-1 […] [Original post on beige.party]

A bottle of Pantene "Classic Clean" shampoo sitting in the shower, lightly beaded with water

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

I know he's not the hero, but real life is making him more and more relatable. #gaming

Michael Douglas' character from Falling Down stands in a Playstation store. Text reads: I don't want to "Rent" the game, I want to own the game, which is why I clicked the button that said "Buy"

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

I have once more made non-photogenic food. It's a knack.

Two plates on the kitchen counter, piled with chicken balti, pilau rice and Bombay aloo.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Stop trying to make centre-justified taskbar happen, it's not going to happen.

A Windows 11 dialogue telling me I probably want to set my taskbar back to centred like some sort of barbarian.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

I've had a bit of a few days, so I went out to the garage and made a thing. #woodworking

A cobbled together saw till. It uses a piece of dowel wrapped in rubber falling down a roughly 22.5 degree slope to trap the blade against a vertical piece. It's holding up a rusty saw that I really need to restore.

Hooked onto the French cleats on the end of my bench.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

I like cooking with wine. Sometimes it even makes it into the food (miniature bottles FTW).

The sauce for a sausage casserole simmering in a pan. There's a very small bottle of wine next to it.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

I can neither confirm nor deny that @lexicaleigh is not here tonight, but there are Signs.

Onions in a frying pan. They're not minced into microscopic pieces

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

@sundogplanets We don't have those, everything on our roads is a cab-over style because of the shorter wheelbase.

Photo of a cab-over lorry, where the engine doesn't protrude past the windscreen.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

How does a blade even manage to get in there, WTF? It hates me.

The lower cabinet of a bandsaw. The blade has somehow managed to slip under the rubber shoe on the wheel.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

I need to countersink some holes for metric machine screws. Can I find my countersinking bits? Of course not. But I do have a regular drill bit with a roughly 45 degree rake to the point and the collar from a dowelling bit. Improvise. Adapt. Drink piss. Or however that goes.

A square piece of acetal with some countersunk holes in it. Next to it is a drill bit with a collar attached just below the end.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

I'm sweating like an off colour joke of your choice, but I've done surgery on the front drawer. It's now only 30cm deep and I have more room to stow the planer under the bench. #woodworking

The drawer, refitted in its usual place. Standing up next to it is the piece I trimmed off its cabinet.

View across the back of the new, shorter cabinet showing a space stretching between the middle legs of the workbench. It's vaguely planer shaped.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Happy Sunday to me. 90 fucking quid to replace this disk. I paid £95 for 3 of them in 2023.

Screenshot of an email alerting me that one of the SSDs in the array hosting my VMs is degraded

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

A productive day's Tetrising and I have space on 3 sides of the bench and can wheel it out to access the 4th. Maybe tomorrow I can force myself to cut down the front drawer and stash the planer away.

A workbench, surrounded by usable space. To the right a tarpaulin-wrapped pile looms, suggesting space is not the norm.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

The Drawer of All Things Drilling continues to grow in numbers and variety.

Yet more varieties of drill bits in a shallow wooden drawer

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Fronts and pulls. Apparently measuring and calculating is a better way of doing it? I'll remember that for next time.

Drawer fronts and drawer pulls installed on my workbench.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Of course this means the bench is at the most chaotic it'll ever be, which is hard to see after all my efforts to tidy up. And I have other things to get done today, which means I can only attack it in smoke break sized stints.

The benchtop, covered in clutter. Drawer boxes, drawer slides and all manner of drawer-destined detritus.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Fat Pigeon wants my dinner. Fat Pigeon can fuck off.

Fat Pigeon is perched on the threshold of the back door, giving me the hopeful side eye.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

I've cut the drawer fronts and tidied away the rest of the plywood like a Tetris master. I've made pulls for all 5vdrawers out of a spare strip of oak I had lying around and WHERE ARE MY GODDAMN SLIDES? Expected today my arse.

All the plywood offcuts, neatly stashed down one wall

An oak drawer pull, attached to the one functional drawer. It has a little bevel for grippiness.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

One does not simply walk into Mordror.

The other two drawers, assembled and waiting for the drawer slides to be delivered by tame snail.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Sidequest! I can't use my drawers, so no little hit from making them. Here's my hammer hanger. Pegged the cleat because there's a lot of weight cantilevering on it.

A new cleat on my tool panel, with a claw hammer and a rubber mallet hanging from it.

Closeup on the cleat and peg. It's just a small piece of ply wedged between the tool hanger and the cleat above.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

I've made two very premature drawers. The other two need me to dig out more 6mm ply for the bottoms, and it's getting late to make noise.

The two top drawers assembled. They're very shallow, with a medium sized and a deep drawer in pieces

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

I really like this calculator. Does exactly what I need it to do, in this case tell me the best way to get my drawer boxes from the remaining 12mm ply.

A cutlist calculator laying out the 16 pieces I need to cut from roughly a half sheet of ply. All the pieces are colour coded and you can allow for trimming off the factory edges and the kerf of your blade.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Hopefully that should give me enough space on the benchtop to make the remaining drawer boxes.

Still absolute chaos on the benchtop, tools piled everywhere.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Didn't manage to square the planer away into its cubbyhole. I forgot I'd need to take the fence off, and I can't find the right Allen key. Ah well. I did manage to give it a little scrub and I stashed the bandsaw out of the way.

An abrasive pad on my random orbital sander. I wasn't going to scrub it manually like some kind of caveman.

The bandsaw, tucked away under the bench behind the dust extractor.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

OK, so I've tapped my head off about this side of the bench, we all know where everything's going to go. Let's take a look at the other side, because that's where the magic happens. Apart from being storage for the track and access to the dustyboi, this is where […] [Original post on beige.party]

The dark side of the bench, where the track and dust extractor lurk

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Sidequest! Today our hero deals a crushing defeat to one of his twin nemeses, the Box of All Things Sanding.

A vertical rack with little compartments separating different grits of sanding discs

The same rack, hung on the French cleats

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Genuinely starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Just a few drawer boxes and cleat organisers to go and I'll have something resembling a tidy workspace. Most of the huge stack of ply has gone and I'm starting to have Places for Things. Once I've […] [Original post on beige.party]

The workbench from the southwest corner, showing the new cabinet and cleat panel. The spanners for the saw lift are mounted on the side of the cabinet under the saw.

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woe2you @woe2you.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Bench update: I built another cabinet.It was immediately colonised by all the stuff that normally lurks where I built it because I don't have enough drawers.

A cabinet built into one side of my workbench. It's about 56cm wide, 30cm deep and 68cm tall.

The same cabinet with a pile of tools and clutter in it, including the Box of All Things Sanding and the Box of All Things Drilling.

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