iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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portisheadcanon @thediscocat.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I don't know who in Richmond, Va might care but the Civillian Review Board is meeting tonight at 6:30PM (though scheduled for 6) and I will be there and relaying any interesting details as best I can if you even care. You know in interest of trying to make this useful like the other place

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Kevin Finity @kfinity.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The Richmond Inspire master plan for the park system is approaching final comment, and it's pretty good. Leave a comment! richmond.konveio.com/richmond-ins... I just wish they would stop counting the Monument Ave median as a park 😑 The green areas below show a 10-min walk to an existing park 🙄

A planning map showing areas with a "10 minute walk to existing park" in green. A large area centered on Monument Avenue is green.

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Apparently this fellow made a name for himself by walking around playing his trumpet in the vicinity of Monument and Floyd, ca. 1979-1983.

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Louis Alexis @louisalexisart.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Merry Krampusnacht everyone! Here’s a spooky Mari Lwyd I’ve painted for an art show in Richmond, VA tonight! Mari Lwyd Acrylic Paint & Acrylic Gouache 2025 #louisalexisart #acrylicpainting #krampusnacht #marilwyd #rvakrampus #gallery5arts

A spooky painting of Mari Lwyd, the Welsh Holiday Wassailing Horse, moving about a winter woodland at the dead of night. Multiple red arms reach from under her sheet cloak as the moon forms a halo behind her head.

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MapRVA @maprva.org · 12/11/2025

Georeference tool has been renamed to **YESTERDAYS**, and we've been squashing bugs left and right. Explore nearly 30k images, 2.8k of which we've placed on a map. Our collections span from the Civil War to COVID-19 and everything in between. yesterdays.maprva.org

yesterdays.maprva.org

Yesterdays

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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 04/10/2025

I'm starting a petition to return Forest Hill in RVA to its former glory. By adding a roller coaster.

Roller coaster in Forest Hill Park, Richmond, VA.

https://valentine.rediscoverysoftware.com/FullImages/%5C00028%5CCook_4821-jpg638943156870164845.jpg

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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 12/09/2025

Help @maprva.org develop an historical street view of Richmond, VA by georeferencing old photographs! The catalog is actively growing and currently includes 1900 photos from the Library of Virginia and the @thevalentinerva.bsky.social georeference.maprva.org

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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 05/09/2025

A project we're now working on over at @maprva.org -- an interactive map of old pictures of RVA from @thevalentinerva.bsky.social and the Library of Virginia! overpass-ultra.us#map&query=ur... Want to contribute? Right now it's run off a simple Google Sheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Screenshot of a digital map of Richmond, Virginia showing a picture from post-WW1 celebrations in 1918. Other dots and viewpoints are shown, with other neat pictures hiding behind them!

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Knightmawk @knightmawk.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Richmond Virginia has vape shops that have been there longer than the Confederacy was. Build a statue of Francine the Lowes cat, or just any possum. They're more important to the identity of the city at this point. Lucy Dacus has spent more time in Richmond than Jefferson Davis.

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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 18/07/2025

Next Thurs, 7/24, is "The Future of Bike and Pedestrian Mapping in RVA" Join @maprva.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy at PlanRVA's beautiful office in Manchester to hear @trailsta.sh and others talk about their efforts mapping how to move about the city sans-car. open.trailsta.sh maprva.org/projects/sid...

maprva.org

Mapping Pedestrian Infrastructure

We are mapping every sidewalk and pedestrian crossing in Richmond.

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Sean Sublette @subletteweather.com · 15/07/2025

While the total rainfall might not change over the course of a year, the *intensity* of rain in individual storms is rising. The data is already showing that in RVA.

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Richmond Officer Chases Elliptical UFO June 24, 1966 — Richmond, VA 1/3:30 a.m. Officer William L. Stevens Jr. of the Richmond, Virginia, Police Department, is patrolling the northeastern section of the city in Car 625,

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PHRYGE FOR TRANS RIGHTS 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 @tt40art.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

We're descending into a fascist hellscape BUT!!!!! I saw a beautiful toad. It's a beautiful day to be a toad in #RVA.

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Sean Sublette @subletteweather.com · 20/06/2025

Astronomical summer begins w/ the summer solstice at 10:42pm ET today. Stripes below illustrate the average temperature each calendar year in Richmond since daily weather records began in 1897. Summer afternoons in RVA average 2.6°F hotter than 100 years ago. Graphic design from @edhawkins.org ‬

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 05/05/2025

wait this rva bike month graphic goes hard as hell

graphic showing richmond's skyline and a bridge with a cyclist almost falling off the edge where the bike lane suddenly ends. the copy reads "Where the Bike Lane Ends"

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

i can't believe this is real but it is

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Qiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

🚀 GeoAI Tutorial 12: Wetland Mapping with Deep Learning and GeoAI! 🌍 🎥 Watch the full tutorial here: youtu.be/ed79i3DTWT0 📓 Explore the notebook: geoai.gishub.org/examples/wet... #GeoAI #geospatial #AI #Python #DeepLearning

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grace @omalliecatt.news · 09/03/2025

they know what they did

a sign on a window with the words “all cars must pay”

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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Kevin Finity @kfinity.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I laughed and thought this was vandalism at first, but it looks like the weather is just a prankster. Camera down! 😂 @obrien.page

A street median with 2 Flock surveillance cameras on poles. One of the cameras has come out of its pole and is lying on the ground.

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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Friday, February 7, 1862 Richmond, VA The diary of refugee Judith W. McGuire "Walking all day, with no better success. 'No vacant room' is the universal answer. I returned at dinner-time, wearied in mind and body.

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Ok, are we ready for another explainer? This time I’m going to actually explain where the holes are in this automatic license plate reader bill and how they will be exploited to oppress vulnerable people Dems ought to be protecting. 1/9

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Was trying to remember why I had mentally bookmarked him and it was because last summer Colombian tabloids spread a rumor he was having an affair with Linda Yepes, a transgender newscaster. Not only did he refuse to deny it but decried transphobia as akin to Nazism

Colombia President Gustavo
Petro Responds to
Accusations of an Affair With
a Trans Celebrity

BY ODALIS CANCHOLA
JULY 22, 2024

"Every progressive knows that human
beings are equal and that the fight for that
equality implies physical and mental
emancipation and therefore, no one who
considers themselves human can
generalize transphobia in weak minds or
slavery and discrimination. This action
does not express animality but brutality.
That's why they murder those who are
different and by the millions, That is why
Nazis existed and exist,'' Petro adds to his

post.

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SkellyScribbles @Comic_Arts_Richmond 3/21/26 @skellyscribbles.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Y'all! I run an indie #comics show in #rva and APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Kenz (Perpetually nervous but funny about it) @kenztrl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Some little guys to combat the horrors

Small blobby creatures with plant foliage on their heads. One is laying suggestively on the ground while the other looks on in confused disdain

Two globular chubby creatures with plant foliage in their heads. One has their back to you. The other stares blankly into the depths of your soul

A pudgy chubby creature with plant foliage in its head. It’s holding a giant Pothos leaf and looks back over their shoulder at you. Very tired.

A chubby little creature with plant foliage in its head. It holds an Alocasia leaf and also has one growing out of its head. It looks as though it doesn’t know how it got here.

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Kevin Finity @kfinity.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

tfw you try to ID an unusual plant and its photo on wikipedia is one you uploaded in 2008

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Leask @leask.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

stella is right about a great many things, as a rule, but this is some of the most correct she's been. go look at nba logos from the 60s to early 80s. look what they took from you

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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 10/01/2025

Introducing @thevalentinebot.bsky.social, a simple Bluesky bot written in #rstats posting The Valentine Museum's collection of #RVA memorabilia. bsky.app/profile/thev... Uses the httr2, rvest, and atrrr packages and GitHub actions: github.com/mhpob/valent... More Valentine: thevalentine.org

thevalentine.org

The Valentine Museum

The Valentine is more than a history museum. Discover Richmond Stories™ here.

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Archiva @archivarva.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Here's some of the press conference on the #RVA water advisory www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lIf...

youtube.com

Richmond Mayor Avula addresses Richmond water situation

YouTube video by WTVR CBS 6

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Kevin Finity @kfinity.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

#rva mayor says in press conference that they expect to have the treatment plant back online later this evening, with the boil water advisory ending within a day or maybe two.

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Kevin Finity @kfinity.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

snow, snow, falling down covering up my dirty old town #rva youtu.be/b5cRHlzab60

youtu.be

Pete Seeger - Snow, Snow

YouTube video by n333k333

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Kevin Finity @kfinity.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Why's gps gotta be so loud. I want to adjust voice and bgm separately like this is an rpg

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

For your weekend relaxation: 1.5 billion years of plate tectonics in 60 seconds. Fun to locate your hometown (or ancestral town) and track where it's been over the years...or how long it's even existed as a physical location. 🧪 theconversation.com/witness-1-8-...

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Kevin Finity @kfinity.bsky.social · 29/12/2024