Reposted by Ianmatty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol... 251283612
Reposted by IanAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Folks have insulted: My Southern drawl. My loc’d hair. My clothes. My shoes. My intelligence. I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida 68993692185
Reposted by IanCommon Cause North Carolina @commoncausenc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026🗳️ North Carolina: Get ready to vote! 🗓️ Early voting for this year's election runs Oct. 15-Oct. 31. 🗓️ Election Day is Nov. 3. 🔎 Questions about voting? ☎️ Call the nonpartisan voter hotline at 888-OUR-VOTE (888-687-8683). 🎉 Happy voting! 🎉 02312
Reposted by IanJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One month until midterms one month until midterms one month until midterms one month until midterms 2644850
Reposted by IanMa$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Here is the woman tennis player vs random men off the street 1743769
Reposted by IanLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 17/09/2026“At the state level, Governor Greg Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick have enjoyed the sort of power with impunity Trump only dreams of. Abbott’s Operation Lone Star border initiative has drawn widespread condemnation from civil and human rights groups for its brutal, ostentatious cruelty.”liberalcurrents.comThe Future of the Republican Party After Trump Is in TexasThe white male supremacists of the Texas GOP embody what the national party has become. 14316
Reposted by IanStreetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 14/09/2026The automobile got its first taste of blood 127 years ago — and it's never been able to kick the habit. buff.ly/2orTzJGnyc.streetsblog.orgThe Car Stole Our Bliss — And It Started 127 Years Ago Today - Streetsblog New York CityThe automobile got its first taste of blood 127 years ago tomorrow — and it's never been able to kick the habit. 16521
Reposted by IanDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“If the move survives expected legal challenges, it could also prevent future administrations from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.” Absolutely fucking demonic. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c... 20294127
Reposted by Ianjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance 357155512730
Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Clearly stated. Unambiguous. Most important, correct! This is how it’s done 011
Reposted by IanDr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Move over, pumpkin spice: September belongs to the BOG HARVEST. While many flock to apple orchards, the world’s peatlands are hitting their peak. Far from muddy swamps; bogs are the secret agricultural powerhouses you didn't know you needed. Join me in protecting these undervalued landscapes! 🧵 1/ 5305102
Reposted by IanEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past. 5599463393
Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Everything just got better! At the playground with my kid and this is the weather 000
Reposted by IanPete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 07/09/2026Chromatic Descending Mondays. Happy Labor Day, I am in 2 unions. Local 802 AFM (1984) and PSC CUNY (2011).... #laborday #nowplaying #musicsky 6587
Reposted by IanShipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Never thought I would live to see the day when 18 service members lost their lives and it’s being dismissed as small potatoes. 35436151
Reposted by IanDaniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport. 164115623175
Reposted by IanJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I’m so old I remember when conservatives were indeed quite vocal about saying children should not have babies. 1740877
Reposted by IanKimberly Hardy for Congress @kimberlyhardync.bsky.social · 01/09/2026🚰 BIG news today for all of us in the Cape Fear river basin: "The ruling cements Chemours' guilt for invading private property and poisoning the local drinking water across New Hanover, Bladen, Brunswick, Cumberland, and Pender counties." #ncpol #NC07publicradioeast.orgJudge rules Chemours is legally responsible for trespassing in dumping "forever chemicals" into Cape Fear RiverThe ruling cements Chemours' guilt for invading private property and poisoning the local drinking water across New Hanover, Bladen, Brunswick, Cumberland, and Pender counties. 065
Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026www.npr.org/2026/09/01/1... Another good one leaves us. Wendell returns to the land that he loved so dearly.npr.orgBeloved writer and environmentalist Wendell Berry has died at age 92Wendell Berry has died at age 92 He was a beloved American poet, novelist, essayist, and farmer. 010
Reposted by IanBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.comeuronews.comCycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprintIf everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint. 741776696
Reposted by IanNick Geidner @ngeidner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly’s legacy will be felt in a million ways across East Tennessee, the nation and the world. We are honored to have documented part of that legacy in “The Library That Dolly Built.” We hope you watch the film, learn about the Imagination Library and consider supporting the program. 323064
Reposted by IanSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 26/08/2026they should invent an internet that doesn't reward you for being a horrifying narcissist 1335231
Reposted by IanKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Sometimes I marvel at how people can just go through life here in this big-ass, diverse country--with all of the art, cuisines, celebrations, music, sports, and everything else we have--yet be viscerally afraid every bit of it and everybody in it. What an abjectly miserable way to live. 621434
Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Pro boxer Hannah Rapp was murdered on a rural road in Texas not long ago too. This kind of thing happens more than you'd think. www.espn.com/boxing/story...espn.comSquealing car tires, an abrupt reverse, and Hannah Rapp's life ends in a flashA bright boxing future is wiped out in an encounter with Texas man with a long record of police arrests 030
Reposted by IanBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20/08/2026“Trump administration executive orders have rolled back the considerable gains made in recent decades and threaten a new Lavender Scare that will harm the CIA’s ability to carry out its national security mission.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-hi...lawfaremedia.orgA History of LGBT Officers & the Central Intelligence AgencyThe CIA spent seven decades moving from purging LGBT officers to embracing them—until the second Trump administration began undoing that work. 320965
Reposted by IanBenjamin Schachtman @schachtman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This week’s column: In New Hanover County, and across the country, residents are growing anxious, frustrated, and angry over the proliferation of Flock cameras. But there’s a broader debate about mass surveillance and data security here, as well.whqr.orgSunday Edition: Electric EyesIn New Hanover County, as in many places across the country, residents are growing anxious, frustrated, and angry over the proliferation of Flock cameras. But the automated license plate readers are j... 031
Reposted by IanJim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I posted this five years ago as Herat and Kandahar fell to the Taliban in Afghanistan. From Newsweek April 14, 1975. 411427
Reposted by IanPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations. This is an extraordinary scandal. 30835318
Reposted by IanJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"I would kill my enemies with kindness :)" Yeah, well, I would kill mine with electronic air-burst fuzed 155mm rounds. 2661957
Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This is a disgusting statement from anyone, let alone a member of the federal gov. This is bigotry, and there is no place for it in our United States of America. 000
Reposted by IanLukács Doncic @weirdalf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026People in general would do a lot better to stop asking “does this person deserve my hate” and start asking “what does it do to my soul to live in this hate” 2506
Reposted by IanKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout 159115292684
Reposted by IanCaroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026What do you get when you mix climate change, logistics, and fossil fuels, and a war? A Bluesky thread on the convergence between summer drought in Europe, a dam in the Netherlands, Germany's reliance on a single river, and why the US still has to care about climate change. Settle in. (1/11) 45631
Reposted by IanCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/07/2026<Kash walking into the courtroom all googly-eyed> Judge: CASE DISMISSED 556783
Reposted by IanSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 24/07/2026Nobody works harder to protect pedophiles and creeps than the Trump administrationthebulwark.comMAGA Rallies Around Andrew TateDespite the serious sex trafficking charges facing the influencer and his brother, Trump supporters are going to bat for them. 50528167
Reposted by IanThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Drivers are always in a hurry... *unless* someone makes them angry. Then they have all the time in the world to stop, harass people, and even commit murder. 11818192
Reposted by IanGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026"The Brazos County Sheriff’s Office said the driver, Charles Medina, 31, passed two bicyclists traveling along FM 159. After passing them, investigators said Medina stopped his vehicle, reversed, and struck one of the cyclists." This is absolutely horrific.kbtx.comHannah “Hanarchy” Rapp, champion boxer, killed in Brazos County crashHannah “Hanarchy” Rapp was known for her drive inside and outside the ring — a rising boxer chasing a world-title opportunity while also working full time. 941990
Reposted by Iankottke.org @kottke.org · 13/04/2026Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers. 14751951917