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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫

@lookitup.baby
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I hack computers and build community. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴 MSP feed info: bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social…

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 3h
oh no
Cold Water Kills
•Causes you to gasp for breath
• Stay calm, lean back extend arms and legs
• Float to live
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11h
Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and post one that you like
the last known photo of SS Edmund Fitzgerald
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 16/10/2026
This is legit the biggest blueberry I think I’ve ever seen
A blueberry that I had for breakfast, placed on my hand for scale. It takes up such a large amount of my palm that even my own partner accused this picture of being AI, but it’s not! It’s actually that big!
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 15/10/2026
I am not photogenic especially when I’m speaking but this one turned out pretty good! Thanks, @blueteamcon.com!
me on stage keynoting Blur Team Con. I’m wearing a WE KEEP US SAFE MPLS shirt, leather pants and platform boots and smiling into a handheld mic with a clicker in my other hand. My winter foundation is apparently too pale for my summer face and nobody told me, but I look happy and powerful
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13/10/2026
They look like this when they’re on
picture from Amazon listing of chamois padded cycling shorts as seen from the back. It mostly just looks like the wearer has a lot of cake
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13/10/2026
I just need someone else to see this description of a pair of cycling shorts because I am dying over here
picture of chamois padding on the inside of a pair of bike shorts that says Normal Sponge Padded Thick as Baboon...
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 12/10/2026
DEFEND ILHAN
AND BUILD HER A GUNDAM
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 12/10/2026
?
this was in reply to a blocked post
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 08/10/2026
Anderson Cooper to Lady Gaga: "There was a rumor that you had a male appendage. That you were a hermaphrodite."

"Maybe I do. Would it be so terrible?"
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 08/10/2026
🤓
Solves challenging puzzles
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 07/10/2026
brb making this ashbaber.com/salted-caram...
salted caramel chocolate cake looking absolutely divine
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 07/10/2026
The Onion newspaper cover from October 29, 1929 

Pencils for Sale

Stock Market Crashes; Debacle Linked to Jews, Negroes, Catholics, Anarchists, Foreigners, Women Voters
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 06/10/2026
The Onion newspaper cover from October 22, 1929: 

Stock Market Invincible
'Buy, Buy, Buy!' Experts Advise
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 06/10/2026
Oh don’t worry, they can make it more hamfisted than that
Joshua J. Friedman •
@joshuajfriedman.c... • 4d

The checkmark is intended to signal that you are the real human being with the name and face at the top of your profile, since the blue-check style of verification is largely designed to protect people with public reputations (including journalists and elected officials) from impersonation

Adam Christopher
@adamchristopher.me • 4d

I know how it works, I am verified myself. But by your logic, you wouldn't be able to change your avatar either without losing the checkmark.

Joshua J. Friedman • @joshuajfriedman.com

I agree! I'm not sure why changing your avatar doesn't make you lose your checkmark in the same way. I imagine it's an oversight
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 06/10/2026
0day, who is a very sweet cat but not a smart one, keeps screaming bloody murder because he found his way down to the basement and isn’t smart enough to figure out how to get back up again the same way he came down
0day the himbo, a fluffy void
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 05/10/2026
I grew dis
me hiding my face behind a gigantic cannabis bud mid-trim. It’s longer than my arm
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 04/10/2026
he fits, therefore he sits
Patch, a fluffy black Persian cat with golden eyes, loafing around on top of a cardboard box containing garden soil. He fits perfectly on it
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 03/10/2026
Outside is the good place
me in shadow, taking a picture of a truly spectacular aurora over a lake in May 2024
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 01/10/2026
It doesn’t matter how many decades I’ve been gardening, eating things that I grew myself still sparks joy every single time
a bowl of collard greens with the sun shining on it on a wooden table. There is a watermelon slightly out of frame
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 01/10/2026
changing my profile pic to the Spectre logo since I can’t add the seasonally spooky 👻🌿
the Spectre vulnerability logo
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 01/10/2026
RUDE
If you’re verified you can’t change your display name to anything seasonally spooky or you will lose your verification status
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
Bless his heart
It hurt itself in its confusion!
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 28/09/2026
Honestly my first attempt was SHOCKINGLY top shelf, user error and all
an extremely frosty and pretty purple cannabis plant. First one I grew!
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 27/09/2026
They don’t care that I have work to do
Two fluffy black cats sleeping on my lap without a care in the world. 0day is on the left, Patch is on the right
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/09/2026
hi there! i'm a random weirdo who doesn't follow you.

just wanted to let you know that i misinterpreted your post in a bizarrely specific way and now i am fucking furious about some shit you didn't say.

could you spare 20 minutes or so for me to explain why this is your fault?
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/09/2026
Sometimes if every expert is telling you an idea is bad, it’s because it’s actually just that bad!
Stockton Rush of OceanGate pictured in front of his doomed Titan submersible. Caption says REAL MEN TEST IN PRODUCTION
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026
We mean it!
both of us saying the same thing
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/09/2026
But really, right here in white is the move. It’s right by the door! And no one ever parks there!
Costco parking lot map from previous post, with optimal parking area circled poorly by me in white
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/09/2026
The DEF CON logo with a speech bubble
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/09/2026
Had to write this down in Notes app because I just made the recipe up. Here you go!
Fancy Rice Krispie treats

6 T. salted European butter
1/3 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/2 tsp. almond extract
1 T. vanilla extract
15 oz miniature marshmallows
6 cups Rice Krispies
finishing saltGrease a baking pan with butter and set aside.

Melt and brown butter in a big pot on a stovetop (about 5 mins on low/medium heat; don't walk away, it burns easily!)

When butter is melted, stir in condensed milk and extracts until combined. Add 10 oz marshmallows and stir until melted.
Add Rice Krispies slowly, stir until combined. Add 5 oz extra mini
marshmallows right at the end, stir in but you don't want them to melt.

Transfer immediately to greased pan, spread out but don't pat down hard or they'll become dense. Top with finishing salt.

Refrigerate covered, they will be good for 3 days or so. Enjoy!
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/09/2026
a Pyrex pan of yummy-looking Rice Krispie treats on a stove
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 21/09/2026
We’re rooting for Olivia Miles too!
Olivia Miles:
I'm rooting for the lesbians.
I just have to, always.

The gays, the theys, all of them.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 19/09/2026
I had never seen a Cleverhood before and this kid is absolutely sending me
a little kid in a kids’ Cleverhood rain jacket and rain boots, making the most hilarious “why did you put me in this inside and why are you taking a picture of me” face
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 18/09/2026
You joke, but
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 17/09/2026
literally every time I interact with longtermists
Nate Campbell @N8istootall

*Interacting with someone less autistic than me*

I detest your ambiguous rules and the cruel, unfair manner in which you expect others to intuit them. Your ways are illogical and illegible.

*Interacting with someone more autistic than me*

Damn, bitch, read the room.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 17/09/2026
An illustration of a hand spraying misted water from a spray bottle, with the caption "No."
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 17/09/2026
Huh.
The Department of War on X saying “The United States will NEVER be an effective altruist country.”
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 16/09/2026
I’m sorry but this picture is so funny
Minneapolis City Council members Elliott Payne, Aisha Chughtai, and Aurin Chowdhury all making the most bullshit detecting faces imaginable
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 10/09/2026
You don’t say
Star Tribune headline: I bet I saw more people in two days in the Twin Cities than all year in rural Minnesota
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 07/09/2026
Actual sign at the Minnesota State Fair:
Norwegian Hot Sauce
"Aka Ketchup"
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 05/09/2026
NOTICE 
OF MEME ACQUISITION

The purpose of this notice is to inform you that the meme you have posted has been saved to the device of the person(s) posting this notice.
No further action is required.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 05/09/2026
An illustration of a hand spraying misted water from a spray bottle, with the caption "No."
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 03/09/2026
The Fire and the Flood definitely opened up for Godspeed
From the Wikipedia article on the Madison Butter Fire: 

Background

The fire and the
flood

Cleanup and legacy
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 03/09/2026
It’s 102 on the menu
102. Hot and Spicy Lemon Grass
Noodle Soup
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 03/09/2026
Thanks friends! 🥰
hot and spicy lemongrass pho from Pho Hoa. Best sick food on the planet
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 03/09/2026
How Mr. T got his name
I think about my father being called "boy", my uncle being called "boy", my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called "boy”'. So I questioned myself: "What does a black man have to do before he's given respect as a man?" So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T, so the first word out of everybody's mouth is "Mr."
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 02/09/2026
Did you see the two-headed calf in the crop art 😭
Crop art from the Minnesota state fair of a two-headed calf under a night sky. It says “as he stares into the sky there are twice as many stars as usual”The Two-Headed Calf by Laura Gilpin (uncredited in the screenshot)

Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum.

But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 02/09/2026
I’d never planted Armageddon peppers before and this plant is going absolutely gangbusters. These are just from today!
seven perfect red Armageddon peppers, freshly picked. They look like superhots because they are
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 31/08/2026
My sister found this childhood photo of me and it’s sending me how I look exactly the same
me as a child sometime in the late 80s or early 90s, sitting on one of the fingers of the hand statue in DC I think? I’m smiling and waving at the camera wearing bike shorts and dirty pink Chuck Taylors and besides the silly 80s shirt I’m wearing and still having my natural hair color I basically look the same as I do now
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/08/2026
The details are on point. There is also an ICE resisting loon scarecrow!
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