iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I know I'm not your constituent this cycle, but still have a lot of love for ALX / VA in my heart (hope to be back one day!) — and electoral reform is a worthwhile fight in every legislative chamber across the nation.

000

You've spoken before about the importance of this reform in the US House — and states are the laboratories of democracy. Would you be interested in helping Virginia lead the nation by reforming how we elect the HoD? Possible without a constitutional amendment, we've used MMDs in the past :-)

100

A system where third parties can meaningfully challenge incumbents — e.g. Working Families challenging a Dem — would give folks a meaningful choice without needing to "cross the aisle".

100

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

100% with you on this, but the popularity comes back to electoral reform IMO (unsurprisingly). People want to have a meaningful choice in their legislative elections, and "deeply-partisan district in a two-party system" + "incumbent bias in partisan primaries" means they rarely do.

100

Reposted by True Charles

Washington, D.C. mural to suffragette Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (李彬華), who campaigned for women to get the right to vote even though she herself was unable to vote because of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

0299

*my commute is: 1) either a 20 minute walk or a 6 minute bike 2) a 90-minute coach bus ride 3) either a 10 minute lyft or a 25-minute bike ride So biking is great but does not necessarily change the _bulk_ of my commute

First day riding my e-bike in for (part of*) my commute — in love. Biking is great. 100% worth the hype!!

121

Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you like sci-fi, or mystery, or like the idea of a sherlock holmes story set in a world with Godzilla-esque leviathans……. PLEASE read Tainted Cup. It’s So Good

000

Reposted by True Charles

a bench warrant for defaulting in consumer debt litigation is theoretically procedurally valid. it's just so insane that even the American judicial system generally does not do it. Roger Marshall did it 81 times.

29920

Trader Joe hides his greatest treasures dearly (found the pineapple salsa my wife likes behind a display on the bottom shelf)

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The central irony of California's constitution is that they let you vote on any manner of initiative, referendum, or recall — but only have 40 state senators and 80 assemblymembers for the most populous state in the union

000

Reposted by True Charles

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The entire state government of California is a parable about how giving people more opportunities to vote on something is not, in fact, the same thing as making your political system more democratic.

719234

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NEVERMIND I LOVE IT WHEN REFS MAKE THE RIGHT CALL (ie ruling in favor of my team)

000

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hate it here. (@ Texans football fandom)

100

Reposted by True Charles

SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s actually discouraging how much of the discourse gets diverted to “AI good or AI bad” when the obvious and more pressing issue is “AI *companies* are definitely bad”

526153

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not NYC per se, but I grew up taking the MetroNorth train half an hour to my Connecticut catholic high school. Nice & easy — and I’ve been taking trains to work ever since!

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

what is the ethical position on putting powdered sugar in tea?

000

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My wife has a theory that website quality is inversely proportional to food quality. i.e. bet that restaurants got some tasty stuff 👀

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Did you get it directly from REI, or a secondary marketplace? Starting to keep my eyes open here on the west coast 👀

101

Reposted by True Charles

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don’t have the background to describe what effective government regulation of AI would look like except to say that it should be a felony to remind me of the Aella sankey chart

1534

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Denizens of bluesky: should I tell Jo to make a personal bluesky account?

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Tipsy off a High Noon at 10:30 in the morning. The Pacific timezone is crazy." — Jordan

110

Reposted by True Charles

romulus - 🛸METROID RAVENOUS🍽️ @romulusofficial.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it must be so difficult to act with a character who you can’t even see. thankfully, Foghorn is just that talented

80189715290

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

press@ic.institute as well :-)

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Their website lists director@ic.institute and treasurer@ic.institute, if you haven't tried those yet.

110

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

; beautiful mural on the wall framed to just say “The Wall”

000

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Folks outside the bay might also find funny: “Alcatraz Market”; “Psychedelic Church”

100

Reposted by True Charles

Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

9465744507

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

IFS seems like a right-wing project; guessing it’s meant to be read by their target audience as “98% of young men are Impure and only 2% are Pure”

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

2% of young men will accidentally click the wrong button on an internet survey

Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026

Reposted by True Charles

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

4935101021

Reposted by True Charles

Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026

As others have noted, there are other benefits of shifting from ethanol and gas cars to solar and electric cars, beyond freeing up land for more productive uses (like growing actual food for humans). Those other benefits include much less use of water, fertilizer, and pesticides, for example.

21398

True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

CT, TX, WA, VA, and CA are my Big American Star of places I've seriously lived. (Spot the drives from TX to VA and VA to CA!)

000

Thanks for the context! :-)

000

Interesting — I had always heard of “unhoused” being distinguished from “homeless” in wonky circles to clarify whether a policy was meant to help those who were couch surfing (but had no permanent “home”) from those sleeping on the sidewalk (who had no “house)

100

impact is that Sriracha had to scramble & find new red jalapeño suppliers (like your "new pepper")... which lots of long-time Sriracha fans consider to be significantly less tasty. Meanwhile the supplier has released their own competitor (Underwood Ranches Sriracha)!

210