iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 05/09/2026

You can use this UN-approved Equal Earth projection right now in #rstats #gis #databs

library(tidyverse)
library(sf)
library(rnaturalearth)

world <- ne_countries() |> filter(sov_a3 != "ATA")

ggplot(data = world) +
geom_sf() +
coord_sf(crs = "+proj=eqearth") +
theme_void()

A basic world map using the Equal Earth projection

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

tag urself, I’m… oh shit

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The Vote Yes on Amendment 87 Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 04/09/2026

Uh what the fuck, that's Capitol Hill, Civic Center Park, and the Capitol complex in Denver.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.

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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 31/08/2026

New legal filings allege federal immigration agents operating in Colorado have acted illegally and violently at times amid a summer surge in arrests. ICE agents arrested 495 people in Colorado last month — a 93% spike from March. // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

denverpost.com

Colorado attorneys accuse ICE of violently ignoring court order as immigration arrests surge again

While ICE has scaled back its high-profile public surges since the Minneapolis killings, the Trump administration has not abandoned its plans to arrest and deport millions of immigrants.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I mentioned the men’s rights movement in passing to my very not-online therapist. Her eyes got enormous and then she said, very carefully, “Do men… not have rights currently?”

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is why I describe it as "methadone twitter". I mean this as a compliment.

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

oh yeah, that’s just science

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Media has not aired this - it's up to us to do so.

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

indeed not! whereas the carp was plainly holding out for as long as possible in hopes of not having to perform the whole "slow surprised mammal" schtick aaaaagain

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

today my muddy smelly boycloud was introduced to the concept of basking carp 🫨 🫨 🫨

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wait, he gets to go immediately but a family with a 7 year old and a pregnant mom who was trying to self deport is held for a month?

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026

If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 29/08/2026

This sort of thing is so wasteful. I was on a federal project in partnership with USGS last year, until they had to drop everything to remove "Gulf of Mexico" from all the maps. This cost millions of dollars in busywork and stalled projects.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 28/08/2026

EDITOR'S NOTE: “If you’re ever unsure of how to treat another person who crosses your path, but you aren’t feeling the spark of the divine, it’s worth asking: ‘What would Dolly do?’” News Editor Ashton Pittman writes. www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...

mississippifreepress.org

Editor’s Note | Dolly Parton Showed Us How to Be Good

“If you’re ever unsure of how to treat another person, it’s worth asking: ‘What would Dolly Parton do?’” News Editor Ashton Pittman writes.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

seems like a good time to remind people that Niemöller (the author of the confession memorialized in the "First they came for the Communists" poem) was a Hitler supporter, and made that confession after spending time in the Dachau concentration camp

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

fair q but shingles would be all on one side. & technically I’m still too young (for five more minutes) to be ~at risk~ tho a good friend younger than me suffered thru it last summer, so

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

welcome to the resistance … mapquest

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

hey so question, did anyone ever have just one (1) torturous lifetime outbreak of hives all ballooned together into red raiders advancing upon the mouth and other precious frontiers, so you hit up the phone doc then the ER, and it never happened again, just one of those things, all good??? 👀 🫠

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 27/08/2026

we simply don’t need to pay guys to do this to us

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Remember if you’ve ever heard a Republican claim they’re actually ok with immigration but just want all the immigrants to do it legally, they were lying

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

of the many things to love about Tim Curry and Dolly Parton, here's one: It's as if every time they heard someone say, "you're going too big," they went BIGGER. Big presence, big hair, big charisma, big everything. Pouring one out for two artists who just WENT FOR IT and never apologized for that.

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Greg Lipper @theglipper.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Democrats, man.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Anyone who AIs Dolly Parton for any reason is going to hell

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton invested the royalties she earned for writing ‘I Will Always Love You’ in Nashville’s Black community www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta... "This is the house that Whitney built" - DP 🥺🙏

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/08/2026

it's possible to live a life where everyone grieves its end

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It is unfortunately in the best long-term interests of the United States for the rest of the world to treat us as a rogue state and make concerted plans to rein us in.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Alaska needs a second kind of guy

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

the full-body cringe of seeing these two posts back-to-back (thank you and RIP to Mr. Dale; thank you to his family and to Canada; I am so sorry that America is the worst imaginable next-door neighbor in so many ways)

a 2-post Bluesky thread from Ryan Warner ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social.

The first post reads "A procession for the deceased pilot in Montrose this morning. The aircraft was a helicopter, we're told" and shows a photo of a bunch of people by the side of a road, as emergency vehicles pass, who are waving a large number of American flags, like somehow it's more flags than people in the photo.

The second post, from 1:39 PM on July 13, 2026, reads "The pilot is Nicholas Dale of Sooke, British Columbia"

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/08/2026

If you think this can be reformed, I don't know what I'm supposed to do with you.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21/08/2026

I think it is remarkable to the extent the opposition party is still largely silent about the extrajudicial gulag archipelago that the sitting administration is using to turn innocent immigrants into political prisoners and slaves in third nations

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Never forget the Luddites, one of the most powerful organized labor resistance groups in history, who attacked machines because employers were using mechanization to deskill their trades, depress wages, and eliminate jobs. Now their name is used as an insult instead of a call to action.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

And now abusers in law enforcement are being handed more tools to surveil their victims. This is a disaster for survivor safety. As I keep saying, every new technology gives abusers more opportunities to cause harm. Flock, meta glasses, AI deepfake port — driving more violence against women. 3/3

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

DV is what had me ✌🏻radicalized✌🏻 on abortion from age eight and similar understandings of policing followed on shortly from there and still later reproductive justice frameworks connected the dots in specifics. * “our human bodies are no one else’s to dominate, use, or own” is NOT a radical position

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

boom (not pictured: ~ 7/8” worth of shim, sawdust, and Titebond sandwiches, with west ever-so-faintly taller than east)

Closeup of a beat-up hold construction level. It is level af

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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Someday I'm going to write up my analysis of the cleanup crew of Wikipedia editors who edit away all the Epstein references from biographies of living persons, even when they are clearly relevant. It's real hard in the face of the evidence to surmise that this activity isn't coordinated.

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

tbf, this was recently very helpful with… all of that

A smiling cream-colored Samoyed dog stands chest-deep in a rippled blue body of water beneath a steeply sloping big old hill, beige and dotted with trees. The dog’s tail is lifted high in a it swirly curlicue. The water’s edge is in some places boulders and in other places grass.

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

who up doin glue-up of they custom wood shims due to an unexpected and escalatory ‘new appliance on antique floors’ situation now deep into its third week

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I stand with Planned Parenthood and Birth Detroit who make sure women and families get the healthcare they need and deserve. Next up: passing Medicare for All.

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m very sorry. If it helps at all (😬) my Samoyed has proven over the last 4+ years to have an alimentary tract made of purest Teflon. hope yours got the gene too

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

for ages in my group chats, “✨” connoted “high”/“high from edibles” and it has been a ✨huge bummer man✨ to see it turned into the mark of the beast (on the other hand: I did not commit to muscle memory the Mac keyboard shortcut for “—“ to let the beast just have that one)

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

don't threaten everybody with a good time, Dan

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