iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

rob @zverina.com · 25/09/2026

where has this band been all my life? www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp8N...

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Kleenex - 'Beri Beri' + 'Nice' (1978)

YouTube video by Niall Stewart

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 22/09/2026

This is amazing and fantastic news

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rob @zverina.com · 14/09/2026

words together what who cares

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rob @zverina.com · 08/09/2026

hi guess what they will not relinquish power and will only become more violent and repressive to assert dominance.

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rob @zverina.com · 07/09/2026

i spend way too much time on this shit: www.zverina.com/2026/0819.htm this page prompted me to make not one but two music videos as footnotes. to what end? #pictureoftheday #since1997

picture of sole surviving spindly tree standing in the slash of a clearcut: https://www.zverina.com/2026/0819.htm

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rob @zverina.com · 02/09/2026

They appear to have disabled the "Name is wrong" function in Apple Maps, at least as it pertains to Lake Ontario. Talk about craven. #AppleSucksNow Downloaded MapQuest app yesterday, but might just go back to my roots with paper maps and directions hand scrawled on napkins.

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rob @zverina.com · 26/08/2026

adjectives make us strong

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rob @zverina.com · 25/08/2026

hello Seattle greater metropolitan area! i'm premiering some long lost #robZtv at Mini Mart City Park in Georgetown on Friday, September 11, 7-10 pm. Think you can remember that date? Please share! www.minimartcitypark.com/calendar/rob...

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robZtv: The Struggle Against Forgetting — Mini Mart City Park

Robert Zverina presents robZtv: The Struggle Against Forgetting, a premiere screening of long lost cinéma vérité pocket video snapshots captured on the fly 20 years ago and then left to languish--un...

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rob @zverina.com · 17/08/2026

i think of #Galapagos by #KurtVonnegut when i dive into the sea #naked and see how long i can #swim before coming up for air, part of my quest to evolve into a true #marinemammal #bikelove #skinnydip #SalishFjord #noncompete #cycling www.zverina.com/2026/0815.htm

photograph of a 10-speed bicycle on a beach at sunset with caption:
this bike was vintage when i bought it used for $90 and i'm still cranking on it 25 years later.
it only takes a few minutes to walk to the beach but that adds up when you're as busy as i'm not,
so when i'm racing the tide and/or sun i'll hop on for that little inimitable thrill where balance meets
momentum. still dressed in work clothes, i bundled and bunjeed a bathing suit to the rack, but hoped
i wouldn't need it. the tide was high enough to swim on the back side away from prying eyes and there
was no one in sight to be scandalized when i discreetly disrobed, obscured by a big drift stump that hasn't
moved in months. there's no freer feeling than skinny dipping in the ocean, completely unencumbered, one
is distilled to pure animal essence, a floating bag of protoplasm adrift in the planetary womb that spawned us.

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Jennifer Em @jenniferem.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

ICE ramping up in Seattle. Please report any ICE sightings to the WA Immigrant Support Network (WAISN) at 1-844-724-3737.

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rob @zverina.com · 02/07/2026

hello, seattle! let's watch a movie and talk about it... www.gogoweb.com/QFC/event/am...

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American Movie (1999) with CÖVEN – Quality Film Club

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rob @zverina.com · 02/07/2026

in praise of #bedrotting #tangping #hikikomori www.zverina.com/2026/0608.htm

screenshot of this webpage: https://www.zverina.com/2026/0608.htm

it depicts 2 cats cuddled up napping together, overlaid with this text:

maybe it was the weather, maybe it was just a poor night's sleep.
maybe it was yesterday's travel and spending all day on my feet.
maybe it was the weight of world, every headline spelling defeat.
maybe it was the overflow at last, a lifelong steady drip of grief.

was it a protest or is it pathology, tang ping or hikikomori?
am i depressed? do i need a diagnosis? or am i just lazy?
i spent the day bedrotting, eyes closed and listening,
kept company by my mentors, sunny and patchouli.

when worth is measured by how much you achieve,
doing nothing might be the only way to stay free.

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rob @zverina.com · 30/06/2026

hi, everything is still getting worse. #shutitdown #takeitback

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rob @zverina.com · 12/06/2026

most people don't get into #outsiderart until they've seen it in a museum a) true b) false c) neither d) both

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rob @zverina.com · 12/06/2026

This is in Seattle and recommended because Vermillion is a treasure and Jeff's paintings are best seen IRL. ...And who knows what else he might pull out of his beard?

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Jesse Paul Miller @jessepaulmiller.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Evening ceiling installation on a sunny very windy day

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Ryan Hill @ryanhillart.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Painting Zucks megayacht on Lake Union last night 🔥

Me standing at my easel in front of Mark Zuckerberg's megayacht Launchpad docked on Lake Union in Seattle

Close up of the easel showing the painting of yacht in flames

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rob @zverina.com · 29/05/2026

holy shit, i'm on a gen x'er text thread where people share pictures of their cats and yesterday someone posted ai slop "they made" and asked others to do the same and i almost lost my mind. what the fuck is wrong with people? but this made me feel better: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/they-just-...

bloodinthemachine.com

They just formed the biggest tech worker union in the US. They plan to rein in AI and curb layoffs

"Who AI benefits and who it immiserates often is based on who gets to decide how it’s used. We know how tech is used on the day to day. We should be at the table as well."

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rob @zverina.com · 28/05/2026

just doing my part to keep #TheyLive in the zeitgeist would you like to learn more? www.zverina.com/2026/0521.htm #LSD #LifeSavingDevice #Hofmannlenses #😎

screenshot of Picture of the Day website May 21 2026 depicting ferry approaching Seattle with Space Needle prominent with this caption:
sarah and i literally two ships passing as i head in and
she goes away. extra warm and sunny, those snowless
mountains don't bode well. the ferry is usually a dead
stable ride but this time we caught a swell,
heaved and lurched unlike i've seen. the liferaft pods on the left
seem to be advertising LSD, which is fitting as i was going in to
screen They Live, where the glasses are called Hofmann lenses.

for active links, visit https://www.zverina.com/2026/0521.htm

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rob @zverina.com · 27/05/2026

Q: when is a #dog #notadog? A: after it's been run through #nightshade nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html it looks like a dog, but to those creepy #ai crawlers, spiders, and scrapers, it's anything but.

a photo of romping husky dog on a lawn, but "poisoned" with Nightshade app to confound data scrapers.

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rondezvousWA @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Good morning! Journalists in Bellingham, Olympia, Tacoma and Tri-Cities - that work for McClatchy, are on strike today. Solidarity with these truth tellers who hold local corruption at bay and keep us informed. Here is their gofundme. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

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Donate to Stand with Journalists for the Future of Local News, organized by Idaho and Washington State NewsGuilds

We’re ready to strike. But we need your help to do it. … Idaho and Washington State NewsGuilds needs your support for Stand with Journalists for the Future of Local News

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rob @zverina.com · 20/05/2026

if you don't think things are getting worse, that's just normalization at work #shutitdownshutitdownshutitdownshutitdown

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rob @zverina.com · 19/05/2026

Plato's chaise... www.zverina.com/2026/0504.htm

photo of 2 metal and strap patio chairs with beguiling shadows.
caption reads:

we're in the season of ascent
the days are gathering length
☀️
Sol doesn't move across our sky
but seen from here its arc is wide
🌍
in broad daylight, shadows thrive
and everything looks twice the size

follow link for even more links!

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rob @zverina.com · 11/05/2026

"ai" is a trap. don't fall for it.

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rob @zverina.com · 07/05/2026

it's spring and sure enough the northern alligator lizard is out there getting it on www.zverina.com/2026/0502.htm

real life photo of a stony beach with evergreen trees behind it. two empty chairs perch on a promontory, a person in yellow shirt, green shorts, and bright red sandals lies on the hot smooth rocks under an immaculate clear sky. there is a long text caption replete with links; read it here: https://www.zverina.com/2026/0502.htm

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

What a cool idea! Keep the pressure! @redactedreadingroom put all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files bound together in 3,437 volumes of books, on display in a new exhibit in Tribeca. David Garrett, one of the organizers, says the goal is to push for the release of all of the files. #Pinks

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Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Slightly diminish a book Atlas Shrug Emoji

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rob @zverina.com · 28/04/2026

what does a list of 3,119 pages look like? i put links to all my posts since 1997 here: www.zverina.com/PoD-comchron... #finitescroll #PictureoftheDay #webv1 #html #ComChron #completechronology #htmhell #vintage #internet #samizdat #webzine 28 years & counting...

zverina.com

Picture of the Day Complete Chronology

behold the ComChron!

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rob @zverina.com · 28/04/2026

for your #latenightlisteningpleasure www.zverina.com/2018/0322.htm

lead singer of Pussy Riot in pinnk ski mask performing on microphone at Crocodile, Seattle. follow link for text--it leads to a quirky mix tape!

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rob @zverina.com · 24/04/2026

"Move fast and break things..." Ironic that Silicon Valley ideology is recycled Futurism: The Futurist Manifesto had declared: "We will glorify war—the world's only hygiene—militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman."

en.wikipedia.org

Futurism - Wikipedia

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rob @zverina.com · 20/04/2026

replacing every worker with a machine does not make good economic sense. it will be cheaper and more efficient to build robot overseers of human slaves. so there's that to look forward to! in the meantime, i scored a point for humanity: www.zverina.com/2025/1114.htm #sendmoney #fuckai #qrcoded

image of a hand drawn qr code with adjacent caption: they say machines are
coming for all our jobs,
so it seems only fair to take
at least one task away from
them, so i drew this qr code
by hand for the merch table
at tonight's Le Sang Song
LP release at Clockout
Lounge. (i was selling the
7" i put out recently and
still have lots of, hint hint.)
Iro Iro broke the night open
with motorik rhythms, synth
undulations, bent guitar, and
ethereal theremin. next up:
Idol Ko Si, who disappeared
into the graphic fodder of
drummer matt ford, conjuring
a sound palette that at times
blurred the line between music
and noise but always with a
deft touch for every texture.
in contrast, Le Sang Song
closed with harmonies sweet
as a kiss--until you tune into
the lyrics and feel the bite of
teeth sharpened just for this.

link: https://www.zverina.com/2025/1114.htm

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rob @zverina.com · 18/04/2026

what curious juxtaposition lives on your shelves at this moment? i alphabetize my rock albums, indiscriminately mix eras cz it's all the same day, man. i was flipping through the covers and found these two neighbors, which struck me as cute, from text to poses. kinks and kinski, two great tastes...

2 LP album covers side by side. Kinks "Greatest Hits" on the left; Kinski "Accustomed to Your Face" on the right. Each cover features 4 people striking similar poses.

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rob @zverina.com · 13/04/2026

Man, I love that by pure chance I was able to set the tone for this journalist's experience by playing a tender tune just as he happened to walk in, cz punk is finding the best thing in yourself and sharing it... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Can the Punk Rock flea market save the soul of Seattle?

In 20 years, the institution has seen the city change from a low-stakes, overachieving cultural incubator to the US’s hub of neoliberal corporate capitalism

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bellaof7readsalot @bellaof7readsalot.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Trump's latest proposed budget is attempting to destroy federal funding for your local libraries and museums. That's why we built all the tools you need to help fight back today. action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2026 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

action.everylibrary.org

Take Action To Save Federal Funding for Libraries!

Page 56 of Trump’s proposed budget calls for the destruction of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The ONLY source of federal funding for libraries.

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rob @zverina.com · 11/04/2026

when i self-published BUZZ in 2012, i took care to avoid amazon but it didn't matter--they absorbed the company and i've been stuck there ever since. i loathe them. can anyone recommend a printer for a relatively short run of books ?meantime, hypocritically, buy my spacey book here: amzn.to/41sfRMZ

cover of novel BUZZ by Robert Zverina, featuring a 1968 Oldsmobile floating in space with dark side of moon in background.

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Babybel Bandit @greblin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

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rob @zverina.com · 20/03/2026

#ONONONO! zverina.com/2026/0301-ON...

photograph of Livington 7-foot twin-hulled dinghy, sloppily spray stencilled name ONONONO with caption explaining it reads the same right side up as it does capsized

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