iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Nathaniel William Horadam

From Oct 2011. Happy Pumpkin Pi season! Annual reminder: magnets of this strip are available on my store... store.foxtrot.com

121632

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 51m

Whatever your thoughts on the death penalty, let’s not treat firing squad as somehow more barbaric or cruel than lethal injection. It is demonstrably the most humane form of execution. Nearly instant death.

150

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 3h

This sure looks like the sort of appeasing headline Trump has been begging for to jawbone oil markets again, but what little details we have sure look like "we're gonna do it when we're good and ready, at the pace we deem appropriate"

150

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 4h

My posture on the bill is far more reticent, owing to political reality with this admin and the courts than the bill’s text, which I agree is good. But yeah, nobody should take cues from the Sierra Club or Center for Biological Diversity on any of this. NIMBY trolls, not serious climate advocates.

160

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 4h

It's happening, folks. Still some hiccups to be expected, but the R2 ramp up appears to be going about as well as can possibly be expected. 🔌💡🚗

181

Reposted by Nathaniel William Horadam

JoyousPanther @joyouspanther.bsky.social · 16h

Mamdani setting off the biggest shitheads in the world by saying antisemitism is bad just shows that a bunch of supposedly lefty people put Jew hating over any leftist policy.

415127

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 17h

“Thank God we never gave up on passenger cars because that’s helping us gain a little bit of share in the marketplace,” said Randy Parker, chief executive of Hyundai Motor America, at an Automotive News event in Detroit on Wednesday. 🔌💡🚗 www.wsj.com/business/aut...

wsj.com

American Car Buyers Rediscover Sedans, Small SUVs as Gas Prices Bite

In the third quarter, overall sales stalled with GM reporting a 5.5% overall decline.

193

Reposted by Nathaniel William Horadam

dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

61108782447

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 19h

President Brick Tamland, ladies and gentlemen

1285

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 19h

Through Q3, Toyota's electrified vehicle sales including Lexus are up more than 16% on the year. (YoY) Presumably would be quite a bit higher without its RAV4 production issues, since that's now a hybrid-only model. Bodes well for 2027. 🔌💡🚗 s3.amazonaws.com/toyota-cms-m...

160

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 20h

And there it is, a move to steal elections our in Georgia. It's a desperation play, and will almost certainly backfire...but it shows how committed MAGA forces are about thwarting the impending Democratic majority in Congress and takeover of state offices.

13310

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 20h

Pretty jazzed to see concrete-protected bike lanes finally going up on Spring and West Peachtree 7 years after Keisha Lance Bottoms promised them in her half-assed "Action Plan For Safer Streets" and then did nothing (as with the rest of her mayorship) www.midtownatl.com/project/spri...

midtownatl.com

Spring Street US 19 | Midtown Atlanta

0101

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pardons don’t immunize against federal civil liability, state criminal & civil liability, and international criminal liability. Dems should promise to use all the above against those stealing from taxpayers, striking corrupt deals, murdering American citizens and aliens, and committing war crimes.

03316

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The US is transitioning from being an LNG supply hedge to something buyers may need to hedge against. The same politicking that might push [Korea] to show willingness to the White House on Alaska LNG also provides a rationale to never quite consummate the deal." 🔌💡 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

bloomberg.com

Alaska LNG's $54 Billion Political Pitch Is Its Undoing

President Donald Trump’s announcement on Wednesday that South Korea would invest $54 billion in a giant liquefied natural gas project in Alaska had a touch of the miraculous — as in, wondrous but tang...

111

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I almost wonder if Trump's superpower - flooding the zone with news so he can drown out bad stories and promote his own narrative - is finally rebounding against him. Nothing he says matters for his political fortunes anymore as the masses just tune out his incessant lies as background noise.

280

Reposted by Nathaniel William Horadam

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I joined Georgia Tech's Energy Policy and Innovation Center as a research fellow in April (right before everyone skipped town for the summer!), and today I'm pleased to share my first commentary for them. This one's all about aluminum. 🔌💡🚗 epicenter.energy.gatech.edu/2026/09/29/h...

epicenter.energy.gatech.edu

Hot wars and trade wars remind us why aluminum is a critical mineral – Energy Policy and Innovation Center (EPIcenter)

1166

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And with the end of the Q3, we are now likely back on an EV growth trajectory as far as the eye can see (maybe with the exception of Q3 2027, just due to the 30D/45W fire sale in 2025). Q4 will undeniably bring us back to YoY growth. 🔌💡🚗

141

Reposted by Nathaniel William Horadam

Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

717520

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The world hasn't seen this much military-grade homoeroticism on display since the Third Reich

090

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No Woke Department ever lost a war in Iran

1224

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Folks are not prepared for the level of malaise this is about to inflict on the country heading into 2028.

270

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My gut is D+9-10 is probably a good generic ballot anchor and it's entirely unknowable whether the bottom actually falls with MAGA voters staying home en masse or non-response bias ends up narrowing the gap. But I'd expect to see a mini-comeback narrative with some GOP voters coming home in polls.

6497

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

epicenter.energy.gatech.edu

Hot wars and trade wars remind us why aluminum is a critical mineral – Energy Policy and Innovation Center (EPIcenter)

1166

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been "blogging" since early 2018, and found that overuse of short-form social media sapped my longform writing. Worse, it warped my verbal communication and ability to think through/articulate complex arguments. Rebuilding those muscles have been a slog. Why wouldn't LLM use be even worse?

290

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m sorry what? I don’t know any MENA specialist outside Pahlavi-supporting “think tanks” and a couple of the weaker neocons that has pushed *this*… Surgical strikes on nuclear capabilities or key IRGC personnel? Sure. Decapitation of the clerical regime and sustained military operations? No.

3172

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is BS. Everyone knows all the bad stuff is the seniors’ fault and they’re about to graduate anyways so you shouldn’t hold the actions of a few bad apples against the rest of us…hey wait

140

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Much like the Iowa steel plant, this is also not getting built

311616

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Putting the Contra back in Iran-Contra

020

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mashing all the buttons at once didn’t help me win in Mortal Kombat and I do not think it’s…uh…gonna work here either.

3313

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every now and then there's a candidate defending what should be a safe seat that you can just tell is going to lose. Not because of scandal or hyperlocal factors, but because they've never run a competitive race in their lives and can't stop shooting themselves in the face. This year it's Marshall.

1110

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think one of the reasons I appreciate Flowers' swing at country so much is it it's more in the *Western* tradition of Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and Dwight Yoakum versus what's become of Nashville (trash) or Austin (weird) over the past couple decades. www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-b...

nationalreview.com

Why Brandon Flowers’s ‘An American Dream’ Hits | National Review

I’m seeing a lot of strong notice of this video of former Killers frontman Brandon Flowers performing on The Tonight Show.

151

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Take it from a metals and mining ball-knower...this is not getting built. Iowa not totally non-sensical, but the timing and contours of this announcement scream "midterm politics." 🔌💡

5368

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just a reminder that while T-Swift is putting out half-hearted slop, CRJ is still dropping artistic genius. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boul...

youtube.com

Carly Rae Jepsen - Versailles (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by CarlyRaeJepsenVEVO

091

Reposted by Nathaniel William Horadam

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Whistleblowers with famous funders sometimes get listened to. Independent whistleblowers who do not hire white shoe law firms etc. less so. www.cnbc.com/2023/10/12/t... I think about how the Gensler SEC failed to interview these whistleblowers at least weekly. Gigs and gigs of company data? Meh.

cnbc.com

Tesla whistleblowers filed a complaint to the SEC in 2021, but the agency never interviewed them. Here's what the complaint said

Two whistleblowers' complaint to the SEC about Tesla alleged that Elon Musk's automaker may have run afoul of securities laws and flouted accounting standards.

03111

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The problem with seeing AI as an end and not a tool is you completely miss how it fundamentally layers into the way our economy/society is already structured. We don’t have the incentives to use AI for increasing factory productivity. We do for extracting maximum profits out of services.

611330

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Over on the other site, folks seem to be realizing Brandon Flowers cut an absolute banger country song (and album) that puts to shame nearly all of what Nashville has produced as “country” over the past two decades youtu.be/_zIpmeCr3cM?...

youtu.be

Brandon Flowers: An American Dream | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

181

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They really need to clear the dust out of these Newark AirTrains

040

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Penn Station runs on Dunkin’” G-d no wonder it’s such a shithole

030

Reposted by Nathaniel William Horadam

Eric Budd @ericmbudd.com · 26/09/2026

we all want to know how some billionaires got to be so stupid

2171