diff --git a/test/test_tiny.py b/test/test_tiny.py
index b6e77d05c9..bf0f903ff2 100644
--- a/test/test_tiny.py
+++ b/test/test_tiny.py
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ class TestTiny(unittest.TestCase):
   # *** a model ***
 
   # TODO: this is failing because of how swizzling rewrites the ShapeTracker of the final STORE
-  @unittest.skipIf(IMAGE>0 or (CI and Device.DEFAULT == "DSP"), "failing because of make things that can't be images not images")
+  @unittest.skipIf(CI and Device.DEFAULT == "DSP", "failing because of make things that can't be images not images")
   def test_mnist(self):
     layers = [
       nn.Conv2d(1, 32, 5), Tensor.relu,
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class TestTiny(unittest.TestCase):
     self.assertEqual(len(probs[0]), 10)
 
   # TODO: this is failing because of how swizzling rewrites the ShapeTracker of the final STORE
-  @unittest.skipIf(IMAGE>0 or (CI and Device.DEFAULT == "DSP"), "failing because of make things that can't be images not images")
+  @unittest.skipIf(CI and Device.DEFAULT == "DSP", "failing because of make things that can't be images not images")
   def test_mnist_backward(self):
     # NOTE: we don't have the whole model here for speed
     layers = [