iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 12h

basically, they care more about punishing people than housing them, even though that's actually the best way to reduce the public disorder they supposedly want to address & is also kinder and cheaper & more effective.

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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 28/09/2026

When I set out to fact check “The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs” which argues that harm reduction may increase overdoses, I expected some cherry picking and misdirection. But not to find basic math errors and debunked right wing talking points asserted as fact in the Atlantic’s print edition.

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Atlantic's anti-harm reduction screed riddled with errors

A close read of "The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs" found errors in basic arithmetic as well as more deliberately misleading elements

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

If you’ve bet on sports with FanDuel or DraftKings, you can help us understand how these apps respond to users’ betting behavior. We’re aiming to get data from at least 250 people, and we’ll share back what we learn:

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Help ProPublica Report on Sports Betting by Sending Us Your App Data

If you’ve bet on sports with FanDuel or DraftKings, you can help ProPublica understand how these apps respond to their users’ betting behavior. Use our browser extension to download your betting histo...

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The System is really efficient at de-housing people and terribly inefficient at re-housing them.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No your Zoom training is not "virtual"; it's just digital. Virtual reality is 3D and requires a VR headset.

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hate cold weather but I want it to get cold so I can wear my winter gear and be warm.

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm just wondering how many times they have to use these exact words before we accept them for what they mean

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Those two penalties were not equivalent.

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And now to take a big sip of coffee and see how Medicaid is shaping up for next year...

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is actually not true. Philly's first mobile MOUD van was run by Courage Medicine and started during the pandemic. Then, the city passed an ordinance banning all mobile providers in Kensington.

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Philly’s first mobile methadone van brings addiction treatment to Kensington

The program has connected more than 500 people to methadone since launch, offering support for patients who may struggle to reach traditional clinics.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026

If we promise not to bring an iced coffee into a job interview, will you promise to pay us a living wage?

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have two interviews Monday and if either of them brings an iced coffee I'm not sure I'll be able to keep a straight face. (Our workplace is casual enough that this would actually fly)

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gochujang bagel with kimchi schmear

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We have a program for kids who are missing some "fine intellectual dexterity". It's called Special Ed.

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taking brisket away from Texans might be what turns Texas blue

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Starting to hear whispers of Harris/El Sayed and I have a better idea: let's run someone who never lost to Trump. AOC/El Sayed or AOC/Ossoff

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

"ICE = Slave Catchers / ACAB" Seen in Evanston, Illinois

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If there is a Hardee's en route, even better. Best mushroom and Swiss in the business.

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Does the commodification of healthcare result in financial wellness being internalized as a determinant of health?

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The smashburgers hit different last night. I think we got some of that Argentinian mystery meat.

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If they had just taken the mic from him in the first place, we wouldn't be in this situation

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I had a sponsor who told me he used heroin to kick methadone.

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Anonymous #OpMentalHealth @opmentalhealth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We'll just add, you can find shit to say about bad people that also doesn't involve (these aren't usually what a person has choice or control of.): - Their weight - Their addictions or mental health conditions - Their children (who are often young and innocents unaware of what their parents do)

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Never let them tell you your posts can’t influence messaging

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Naloxone saves lives. This drug is being designed to make clinical treatment more convenient. While it may have some useful applications, it also (like naloxone) has the potential to be weaponized against drug users. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

fiercebiotech.com

Goa Therapeutics launches with ‘immeasurably huge’ vision of creating Narcan for alcohol

A new biotech has sprung out of stealth with a bold vision to develop the “greatest therapeutic of all time”—a drug that can quickly sober up people who have had too much to drink. | A new biotech has...

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Minnesota Med Mama @dremilybrunner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hear a lot of doomerism and “we cants” from folks who seem to have forgotten we actually CAN and DID How did unions occur? Why don’t children work? Why can women even vote? Pro tip It wasn’t by waiting for the midterms my friends

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'd hate to be on sticker duty at the gas station lol. That's my latest contribution on the left.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

important article. it sure sounds like meta is using disabled people to sell more pervert glasses and make regulation more difficult

Rebecca Monteleone, a University of Toledo disability studies professor and author of The Double Bind of Disability: How Medical Technology Shapes Bodily Authority, raised a related concern: that Meta could be using its efforts with disabled people to build a case for its technology more widely. This could render products like
smart glasses a more challenging case for regulators and politicians. "We're seeing the systematic deconstruction of disability rights in the United States," Monteleone said. "A company like Meta can justify the development of this technology based on all of these assumptions that there must be a social good here" in a moment
when wins for disabled people are depressingly rare.

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Maybe Ed Sheeran can get Boy George's AI to open for him

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 15/09/2026

guys stop saying he’s dead this is clearly a man who is high on pain pills for the first time in his life

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is what the k-hole looks like btw

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Okay I hate this shit but what's the Kalshi on Mitch returning today?

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Adam Sledd @adamsledd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's kind of interesting to see centrists trotting out the old "leftists have to compromise because we have to vote against fascism" again while leftists win. Politicians get elected by promising to solve people's problems. We've been offered so little for so long, we've forgotten what we deserve.

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