iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The "first they came..." poem gets quoted and quoted and quoted and quoted and you know what, we do in fact know who they're coming for first, right now, and that is trans people, and the answer needs to be "absolutely the fuck not, you motherfuckers," full stop.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Trump has rescinded Biden’s Executive Order 14087, “Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans,” which included things like lowering state Medicaid costs for the most expensive therapeutics, reducing Medicare payments for proven drugs, and creating a flat, $2 Medicare copay for generic drugs

statnews.com

Trump’s initial orders reverse Biden on health care costs, protections from discrimination

Trump's executive orders took aim at Biden's priorities, from drug pricing to gender discrimination.

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Anonymous @youranonnews.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

He's so going to lower the price of milk and eggs. Suckers. :-p

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

You ever think about how we were taught in school (6th Grade for me) that Pulitzer and Hearst used lies in the newspaper to *start a goddamned war to sell more papers*, and yet Bezos and the Gang still wanna act like some smol fuckin journo beans who Cannot Tell a Lie

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Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net · 09/01/2025

It's especially important to realize that at a time of water shortages contributing to the wildfires in LA, AI uses an absurd amount of water to keep its datacenters cool.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

TikTok is wall to wall conspiracy theories and disinformation on the California fires, most aimed at serving the Republican political agenda. Americans are becoming cocooned in bullshit. I don’t know how we get out of this.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

everyone should go read the un or amnesty international reports on facebook’s role in the rohingya genocide in myanmar and then decide whether they want to be a part of that platform

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Yes. Classic abuser behavior - mobilize enablers to attack anyone who stands up to them by playing the victim when someone fights back bsky.app/profile/jake...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

they laugh at us while our city burns. but somehow its the liberals who are always told they need to reach out and show more empathy to the other side while they celebrate natural disasters. trump is scum.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions:

1. Insults about:

Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality.

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits.

2. Highlighted section:

The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."

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Anthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Mister Rogers never misses

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why?

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

RFK Jr. plans to replace the Pop Tarts Bowl with the Raw Milk Bowl. Repost to show America you are against the Trump agenda!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/12/2024

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Like the idea of teaching your kids not to be assholes, at least on face, to less fortunate or marginalized people was a broad social consensus, and now that ship has sailed.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

One of my immediate thoughts about HBO not renewing Sesame Street is that we live in a moment where being kind is an inherently political act.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This editorial cartoon about unpasteurized milk making people sick is 146 years old

The figure Death is ladling from a milk jug

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Arthur From Pittsburgh @pittpost.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I’m not doing January 6th to Gene

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

So Mace walked into the House today with her arm in a sling and posted 500 tweets that she was the victim of a violent assault and THIS is what happened????

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Rob Slater @robslater10.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Showed more ball knowledge in 17 minutes than McAfee’s shown in hundreds of hours on Disney air.

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ajrocks77 @ajrocks77.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

oh my god if the first game of Pitts season is against Rich Rod in Milan I will die.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

can’t really express how awful and selfish the lawsuits have been. just an absolutely terrible way to treat another human

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Christopher Novak @chrisnovak91.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Texas.......planted a flag.......at Michigan.......this season.

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ajrocks77 @ajrocks77.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Beaver Stadium playing Not Like Us takes a stunning lack of self awareness. But yet they did it.

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ajrocks77 @ajrocks77.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Beaver Stadium playing Not Like Us takes a stunning lack of self awareness. But yet they did it.

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Tory Wegerski @producertory.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Cutting $4M of spending to Dept. Of Human Services and losing $17M in matching state funds as a result, all to save the median homeowner $3.75/month off a property tax increase of $15, would certainly be a choice. (This post is mostly so I don't forget to do a story about the DHS cuts tomorrow.)

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Alexa @captamab.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Then and now

University of Tennessee
Basketball Team Refuses to Play Opponent That Has One Black Player

On December 23, 1946, the all-white
University of Tennessee basketball team chose to forfeit its game against Duquesne University rather than play on the court with Duquesne's one Black player.

“The Boise State athletic department announced Wednesday night that its volleyball team will forfeit its semifinal match against San Jose State in the Mountain West Tournament. The decision means Boise State will finish the season with a record of 19-11 and likely not make the NCAA Tournament.
The Broncos defeated Utah State 3-1 in the tournament's first round Wednesday night, setting up a Friday matchup with the Spartans, who had received a first-round bye as the No. 2 seed.
Boise State forfeited its two regular-season matchups with San Jose State this Season, on Sept. 28 and Nov. 21. It was one of several Mountain West schools to forfeit games against San Jose State this year after reports of a transgender player on the Spartans roster.”

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ajrocks77 @ajrocks77.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

In State College for Thanksgiving and likely at the PSU Maryland game. Any Maryland fans wanna have a fellow PSU-hater at their tailgate?

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SuzyQ @suzyqfit4u.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Family includes everyone! ❤️

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Arthur From Pittsburgh @pittpost.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Damn we got an actual “refs need new glasses” moment but it’s not a bad call just an Olivia Babcock ball to the face #PittBS

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The Tyson-Paul fight feels about right for 2024 America: No grand, Hollywood-esque ending or compelling narrative, just a boring, immeasurably stupid slide into an even stupider outcome, all filtered through a media company that is not up to the task.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 16/11/2024

we let the same state that sanctioned that as a legitimate bout decide what books your kids use in school

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ajrocks77 @ajrocks77.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

FINALLY: Actual Pittsburgh weather. Grey skies I missed you.

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spookily scarily pitt girl 👻🎃👻 @opg.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

also everyone resists calling them skeets at the beginning and then just succumbs, much like a certain kind of freshman at Pitt ends up calling the Cathedral of Learning “Cathy” despite thinking it’s stupid during O Week

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Hakan Dances! @hakandances.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Frick Park is very photogenic.

Nine Mile Run in Frick Park Pittsburgh. Stepping stone span a stream from one side of the image to the other. Trees line the sides of the river, leading out into the distance.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

In a couple weeks you're all going to meet the 16-year-old trans girl who's challenge to a ban on gender-affirming medical care is being heard at SCOTUS and I'm going to need you all to 1) be loud and thankful for how badass she's being and 2) fight for her like your life depends on it

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Amy "rides an ebike" Zaiss @thewildamy.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

there are! disclaimer that I'm no expert but you can see the zoning map here. gis.pittsburghpa.gov/pghzoning/ all that light tan is SFH. it's crazy to me that Beechview is basically all SFH!

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Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 12/11/2024

Just a reminder that ahead of our bargaining session tomorrow you can write the Post-Gazette and tell them to end their mistreatment of workers. #union

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ajrocks77 @ajrocks77.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Oh yeah. I guess I should introduce myself too! I’m Allen (Ellie) and I love everything Pittsburgh! From sports to politics to food to beer to (insert niche Pittsburgh thing here). You might also get some sicko CFB and video game stuff on here too! I’m a whole smorgasbord of topics!

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ajrocks77 @ajrocks77.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

@lgeigershulman.bsky.social I wouldn’t run for school board but interested in a primary for the 23rd House district. We need new blood across the Democratic Party and should have candidates that aren’t in the pocket of health insurance companies.

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Ryan Deto @ryandeto.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Pittsburgh BlueSky, I am here. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s political/government reporter. Will be posting just like on Twitter. Politics, news, food, takes and more. Follow along if you want.

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ajrocks77 @ajrocks77.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I did see a Pittsburgh Starter Pack but it’s inactive. How’s the Burgh doing on BlueSky?

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I don’t even know why I stopped using this in the first place? Good GOD it’s nice to be in a digital space with other real human beings. Can someone give a Cliff Notes of what went down here over the last year? Tea, dev notes, big memes, whatever is best please

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