iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 09/09/2025

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 02/08/2025

Oh goodness yes – it sells lies that strips men of even more of our humanity than patriarchy took as we were brought up. It harms literally everyone.

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 31/07/2025

We also saw this cool red-spotted purple. It’s none of of those colors (maybe a tiny bit of red at the edge of a wing?) but it is stunning. #buttyflysky

A Limenitis arthemis on a rock. Its wings are indigo with a tiny hint of red.

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 31/07/2025

The tells me not to, but i still chase ‘em. Muddy Creek Waterfall on the Swallow Falls Canyon Trail. #StatePark #Maryland

The muddy creek falls shot from its pool. It is a tall waterfall with white water surrounded by deep green foliage

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 31/07/2025

At the IRS, the accessibility check was known to kill projects right before deployment. Thanks to Jared and a small team of dedicated practitioners, Direct File’s was chill and collegial. We are lucky to get to learn from such a dedicated and skilled practitioner.

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 29/07/2025

A cool stone staircase near on Swallow Falls Canyon Trail in #Maryland

A stone staircase with some moss leading up a trail through some trees

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 23/07/2025

This is Zip. He’s a little guy.

Zip the cat, an orange tabby domestic short hair, in a desk attached circular cat bed. Zip is barely awake and has his paws curved in an adorable way.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/06/2025

This looks pretty cool.

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 04/06/2025

After a couple months of LLM-assisted coding, I have a prediction: LLMs will impact productivity in a way similar to the change that came from moving from email to slack

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 30/05/2025

This makes my night. Some of the best (and most ridiculous) work I ever did is in that repo and now it’s not lost to time.

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 09/04/2025

I worked with Merici on direct file — she is a dedicated public servant and it was an honor to work with her and build something people loved. It’s heart breaking to see all that torn apart, and I’m grateful she is able to share some of what she saw with such a wide audience.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 31/03/2025

Hey it's annual Buy A Trans Woman A Pizza Day, in memorial of Mira Bellwether. See all these visible trans people? Find one that's hungry and give them food.

3RD ANNUAL MIRA BELLWETHER

BUY A TRANS WOMAN A PIZZA DAY

MONDAY, MARCH 315T

HONOR MIRA BELLWETHER'S BIRTHDAY

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TREAT A TRANS WOMAN

1. ASK WHAT SHE'D LIKE

2. ORDER OR SEND CASH

3. CELEBRATE!

PLZ SHARE AND TELL YR FRIENDS

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 24/03/2025

This honestly is a good chance to reflect on some of the things that make opsec on signal hard for everyone, including activists: 1. Managing who is in a group has tough UX and only gets harder as people make their identities ambiguous 2. The group’s security is as good as its sloppiest member

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 16/03/2025

@alsobrooks.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov is this true? Were you all on board with @schumer.senate.gov saying the dems would vote against the CR and then letting it pass? That move felt like an attempt to mislead constituents, so as a constituent, I need to know now. I’ve been trusting you.

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 14/03/2025

They live up to the hype

A café Du Monde coffee cup, and a plate of beignets

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 09/03/2025

Alright this has gotten out of hand. Now we need a subscription to gaze into the abyss?

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Supporting bathroom, sports and healthcare bans for trans people means signing on to a moral panic about problems that DON'T EXIST. When people say Democrats should "moderate" on these issues, they are suggesting that we legislate a group out of public life based on lies.

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 06/03/2025

We had my daughter’s parent/teacher conference this week, and I felt a genuine sense of gratitude for her IEP. Seeing an attempt to shut down the department of education, I worry others won’t have the same support. A thread. 1/

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Claudia Koerner @claudiakoerner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 02/03/2025

When my daughter was around 2, her favorite stuffed animal was a cat she called “Cool Cat.” One day she looked at me very earnestly and said, “Cool Cat has seen so many stuff in his life.” I feel this way so often anymore.

An anthropomorphic stuffed animal cat. It is cream colored, with light blue stripes, going up its body and arms. A toddler named it cool cat.

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 02/03/2025

Today is a good day to remember that trans people are people and are significant and deserve lives of joy and dignity. The attacks on them are attacks on all of us, and will be materially expanded to all of us. We have to resist and fight back accordingly. Abandoning trans people is giving up.

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 02/03/2025

In my term at USDS, particularly on direct file, I got to work closely with folks from 18F. They brought tremendous skills, experience, and care to their work. To a person, they were there to improve ALL our lives. They --- and honestly all of us --- deserve better than to be shutdown this way.

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

18f.org

We're not done yet | 18F

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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 25/01/2025

I have been hoping to catch a photo like this since like 2007 and finally saw the light coming through the back of a lily at the national botanical garden this morning. I am really happy.

A white Eucharis amazonica (Amazon Lily) with light shining through the pedals

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