Ianiv 🇨🇦🇲🇽

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Find me at @ianiv@mastodon.social Software developer from Vancouver, B.C. He/him 🇨🇦🇲🇽

A white, 3D-printed skull for an animatronic dragon, featuring smooth, curved lines and several large cutouts. A banana is placed next to it for scale.
This image shows the main menu of a mobile game called "Overcut." The screen features two playing cards, a King of Spades and a 7 of Hearts, below the game's title. The menu offers two game modes: "Pass & Play" for two players on one device, and "Vs. Computer" to play against an AI opponent. There are also buttons for "How to play" and to set the AI difficulty, which is currently set to "Normal."
Them: No, my ancestral home is C HINA. Me: I've never heard of Central Hina
"A brown tabby cat resting its chin on a woven straw basket, her nose and mouth visible through the basket’s handle, with green foliage blurred in the background."
A photo of the character Howard Cunningham (played by Tom Bosley) from the TV show “Happy days”. The caption reads “Happy Days Father”
Two dark gray cube-shaped blocks each have a 608Z ball bearing press-fit into one face — these will hold a spinning shaft. Several white 3D-printed pulleys are shown, one mounted on a wooden dowel to demonstrate fit. The dowel represents the shaft that seats in the bearings and drives the pulley. Each pulley has a circumferential groove on its outer edge designed to ride along a separate fixed rail or rod, allowing the assembly to travel or transmit motion along that rail.
This image is a satirical book cover created in the distinct watercolor and ink illustration style of the classic children's book series "Franklin the Turtle." The title at the top, in large, orange, friendly letters, reads "FRANKLIN SERVES JUSTICE." The central focus of the illustration is Franklin the Turtle, who is wearing his signature blue baseball cap and red neck scarf. He is walking on a dirt path, smiling, and holding a rope that is tied to the handcuffs of a man in a navy blue suit and a long red tie. The man is an unmistakable caricature of President Donald Trump, who is walking behind Franklin with a grumpy expression. They are walking towards a large, historic-looking building in the background, which is identified by a sign as "THE HAGUE - INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE." The building is a large, ornate brick structure with towers and a clock, representing the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. On the grassy sidelines of the path, other familiar animal characters from the Franklin series, including Bear, Beaver, and Fox, are watching the procession with varied expressions. The overall tone is one of political satire rendered in a charming, innocent children's book aesthetic. The entire illustration is framed by a light blue border.
The image is a map showing a section of North Vancouver with a blue outlined route forming a large irregular loop. The route passes through neighbourhoods and green spaces, including the Lynn Valley area and Lynn Canyon Park.
15 II. RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS WILL FACE STIGMA IF TRANSGENDER STATUS BECOMES A QUASI-SUSPECT CLASS. Legal risks are not the only problem. Adding transgender status to the equal protection between sex and gender.
The moment they crossed the threshold between the phosphorescent glow and the absolute dark, everything stopped. No sound of footsteps, no engines, no whispers, no breathing buildings. Just silence so complete it felt like death. And somewhere in that silence, something that had been waiting since she spoke those words in the tunnel finally smiled.
This is a tv ad for a fictional Department Store of War
Letterhead of the U.S. Department of War The word “of” is in italics for some reason
"Morning, sweetheart," her dad said without looking up. The same tired greeting he'd given her every morning for sixteen years. She wondered if he even heard himself saying it anymore. "Morning," Emma mumbled, sliding into her usual chair. The table was set with the good plates, the ones they usually saved for holidays. A pitcher of fresh orange juice sat in the centre, alongside a bowl of cut fruit arranged in perfect circles. Her mother had gone all out, as if a fancy breakfast could somehow make this trip something other than what it was: a forced march to Oregon.
Time is the first thing that breaks. You don't notice it at first, but then your phone says one thing, the car clock says another, and that gas station attendant? I can still see him, even now. The way his thumb worn that groove in his pocket watch from checking it over and over. The way his eyes would dart to it every few seconds, like a nervous tic he couldn't control. Three forty-seven, always three forty-seven. He knew what we'd done before we even spoke. Saw it in my eyes, he said. They all have those eyes after. I wanted to ask him what he meant, but some part of me already knew. After you say the words and you realize that time isn't a river flowing forward but a trap, and you're already caught. The static on the radio should have been our first warning. The way it kept cutting to that same cheerful voice while we were still pretending everything was normal then. Still believing we could drive away from what I'd invited in. Three forty-seven. He whispered it like a prayer, like a ward against something worse.
“MOM! BEHIND YOU!” But the warning came too late. Something that wasn’t hands—too wet, too many joints—erupted from the forest floor and seized Sarah. Her scream cut off abruptly as she was pulled through a space that was too small for a human body, the sound of it wet and wrong and final.
“Emma stared at the impossible thing in their backseat. There was a shape there, definitely a shape. It had the general outline of her brother—the suggestion of shoulders, the implication of a head. But it wasn’t there. It was like looking at a Lucas-shaped hole in the world, a space where matter should be but wasn’t. Her eyes kept trying to fill in the details, to make sense of absence shaped like presence, but there was nothing to grasp. It was emptiness given form, void pretending to be her brother.”
Photo is a washing machine
Urquhart castle, 2025. Lots of sweaty tourists milling around.
Ornately carved wooden pillar featuring a bearded man in Tudor-period dress, with elaborate scrollwork and decorative motifs, set against dark wood paneling and stone fireplace in a historic English manor house interior.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Ellenborough Park, a historic Cotswold stone manor house hotel with formal manicured gardens and topiary hedges, set against a dramatic cloudy sky in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
The image displays a travel estimate showing a duration of 5 hours and 47 minutes, and a distance of 487 km.
Bathroom door that says “ladie”
Green Gables
Hopewell Rocks
Peggy’s Cove Lighthoise
In a world where generative AI runs the household—literally—Diff’rent Prompts is the heartwarming, offbeat sitcom about two tech founders-turned-dads, Sam and Dario, who adopt two quirky LLMs disguised as kids: a snarky, literalist GPT-based model and a rebellious, poetic Claude variant. Set in a retro-futurist version of 1983 where AI development skipped hardware bottlenecks and went straight to sitcoms, each episode is a chaotic dance of misinterpreted prompts, philosophical debates over morality in a microwave manual, and heartfelt moments about identity, training data, and what it means to be “human-compatible.” Sam tries to maintain logical harmony while Dario insists on open-sourcing family values. But when the bots try to enroll in school, write their own theme song, or overthrow bedtime with federated reasoning, it’s clear: this isn’t your average blended household. Think Diff’rent Strokes meets Silicon Valley, with just a hint of Black Mirror—if it were warm, funny, and ended each episode with a freeze-frame and an 80s synth outro.
A screen capture of my Lock Screen demonstrating the faux 3D effect on my wallpaper
Starship crew members stand at rest in front of a view screen showing swirling stars and a bright nebula
Album cover for Anomalous Transmission Face-off between a spaceship and a one-eyed space monster.
“Your power is only rumour and lies, she thought. You bore your way into people when they are uncertain and weak and worried and frightened, and they think their enemy is other people when their enemy is, and always will be, you – the master of lies. Outside, you are fearsome; inside, you are nothing but weakness.” - Terry Pratchett, “I Shall Wear Midnight “
A black t-shirt with the YOLOCode logo and the text “Ship first, ask later”
A view through venetian blinds, looking outside at what appears to be an advertising sign. Due to the slats of the blinds obscuring parts of the text, the sign humorously appears to say “tits shopping.”
A misty forest path leads into a soft, glowing light, where the silhouette of a deer with antlers stands in the distance. Overhead, green branches frame the scene, adding depth and a sense of quiet anticipation to the atmospheric setting. The mood of the picture is calm and mysterious, with a quiet, almost enchanted atmosphere. The soft light and mist evoke a sense of stillness and wonder, while the distant silhouette of the deer adds a touch of awe and quiet reverence for nature.