iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Maybe “extra savings” isn’t the greatest way for Covered California to describe my health insurance premium going up by $300/month

Blue Shield of California - Blue Shield Platinum 90 PPO. $1743.31/mo Extra Savings

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 10/09/2026

Anyone who's listened to any episode of @murderxbryan.bsky.social's "Guys: A Podcast About Guys" knows this isn't true

A skeet from drewtoothpaste: "if you learn a skill or start a new hobby, it makes you a better person, not worse. nobody ever gets into calligraphy and immediately starts screeching that typefaces are useless and only the quill shall prosper. there is no "woodworking psychosis" nobody thinks they're dating their kettlebell"

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 08/09/2026

I put up my button collection on the wall and I only just realized that I’d put these two buttons next to each other

Two buttons on a cork board: “Obama 08” and “It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time”

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 05/09/2026

I try not to let incel language infect me, and I’ve been to this store long before the dawn of that language, but I still can’t not think “I’m foodmaxxing”

A grocery store marquee with the words “foodmaxx”. There are two abandoned shopping carts in the darkness.

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 05/09/2026

Google also distributed this sticker while I was working there. I assume that if you display it in the office now, you’ll be fired for making conservatives feel uncomfortable.

A circular orange/purple sticker with a globe in the center showing how Africa in the forehead. The text around the circle is “Help create a more inclusive Google - and world.”

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 05/09/2026

I used to like this sticker, but it hasn’t aged well

A rectangular white sticker that says “My other computer is a data center.” in gray text. Below is “Google Cloud Platform”, with “Google” in the original font

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 03/09/2026

Got my nails done! 💅 🏳️‍⚧️🩷💛💙

A light-skinned left hand with nails painted in the trans flag colors

The right hand of a light-skinned person with nails painted in the magenta, yellow and cyan pansexual flag colors

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 27/08/2026

I have reached the promised land

Me (a light-skinned person with a mustache wearing a mountain goats hat) in front of the sign for the Past Times pinball and video arcade

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 27/08/2026

I thought I was renting a Nissan Ultima, not a time machine

A Speedway gas station sign showing the price of unleaded as $3.67

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 26/08/2026

Some pinball museum should really do a “race and colonialism in pinball” exhibit sometime

Backglass from the 1951 Gottlieb woodrail pinball table “Minstrel Man” - it’s what you would expect

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 26/08/2026

From Jessica Wilkerson:

“have thought about this exchange in recent years as the legend of Dolly has grown and her fan base has spread, especially among educated white women who care about class inequality and identify by their own working-class or rural backgrounds, or who proclaim feminist values. White feminists swoon over Dolly Parton’s concerts, which they declare “girl power” and gender-bending extravaganzas, and the heart rates of class-conscious fans speed up when she sings about her rural, working-class roots in Appalachian Tennessee. I am one of those white, class-conscious feminists who has uncritically pointed to Parton’s creative work as evidence of her progressive politics. I avoided an obvious question: What does she take from and expect of the workers tasked with building and maintaining Dollywood?”

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 05/08/2026

Thinking about the time when my psychiatrist told me I had “good clinical judgment”, which is probably an example of “normal to want / possible to achieve”

The sticker with a capsule on it that says “good grade” and “normal to want, possible to achieve” around it

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 12/07/2026

And I was really looking forward to using this ATM :(

An “Organized Labor Credit Union” ATM. The screen is covered with an “ATM Temporarily Unavailable” sign

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 02/07/2026

tfw even your fortune cookie is telling you to go to therapy

A fortune cookie half with a fortune containing an ad for “Octave Therapy” that says “Not all therapists are better than fortune cookies (but ours are)”

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 17/04/2026

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it)

A tuxedo kitten with green eyes sitting in a wastebasket

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 01/03/2026

Hope everything goes smoothly! Here’s my cat

A tuxedo cat lying on a bed with her belly exposed

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 31/01/2026

Sorry for the cursed liberal content on your TL, but it’s shit like this that I’m talking about when I quote Audre Lorde re: the master’s tools

“We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrections on January 6th. We have to punish ICE.

They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.”

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 02/01/2026

No better way to get me to not ask

A bumper sticker that says “Ask me about the book I wrote”

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 30/12/2025

Desperate to know what the bottom of the license plate frame said

A license plate with a frame reading “Make Coitus”. The bottom part is broken off.

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 24/11/2025

Okay, but this still expends time on AI, even if it’s being “critiqued”, at the cost of teaching your actual subject matter. And any time spent on AI is a sales pitch for AI; there’s no such thing as bad publicity.

A Reddit post:

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SonofRodney • 6h
I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using ai, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong".
Not only did the students discover that chatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realize that they should not use it as a primary source.
…”

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 05/10/2025

Never has anyone needed to log off more than

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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 28/09/2025

If you think that’s bad…

A box of oHy “hydrogen-infused” canned sparkling water

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