iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Μιθριδάτης

Jesi🃏♠️🔥 @luciferjesit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

The Adams-holdover clowns at NYC DOT and their stuffed-shirt boss say it's impossible because OMG WE CAN DO NOTHING WITHOUT FEDERAL PERMISSION. But I lived in Chicago when they closed Meigs Field so I know better.

100

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They should consider Alcibiades. Admittedly he is dead, but in all other ways, particularly with regard to personal integrity and respect for democratic norms, he's got a lot more going for him than their usual candidates.

000

Reposted by Μιθριδάτης

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Not in India at the moment, but ✊ Queasy to watch the massive and all-encompassing state repression, but all strength to everyone pouring out onto the streets right now.

x.com

Hemant Rajaura (@hemantrajora_) on X

🚨 Breaking: Fresh protests erupt at a flyover near Safdarjung Airport in Delhi.

8387144

Reposted by Μιθριδάτης

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

11150011484

Reposted by Μιθριδάτης

Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It saddens me to think that it took gas prices for Republicans to leave Trump and not that his name is in the Epstein files 38,000 times.

601061278

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If we held people personally and criminally liable for the "autonomous" actions of the corporations they create and deploy, I bet the risky behavior would evaporate overnight.

032

Reposted by Μιθριδάτης

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 03/09/2026

The first wave of Democratic candidates to understand that “The Supreme Court is a corrupt cesspool of pro-Trump reactionaries and there is only one way to fix it” is a winning message will become stars in a hurry

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

Democrats Who Are Still Afraid of Supreme Court Expansion Need to Grow Up

Democrats are finally grasping that their voters do not like the Supreme Court and do not want to be represented by politicians who defend it.

271643293

Reposted by Μιθριδάτης

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:

data4democracy.substack.com

The Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ Side

This is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so.

642203761

Reposted by Μιθριδάτης

Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

When you hear “exploiting the elderly for donations” you might think that’s something like hitting them up for $50-100 once every week or two. But often it’s on the scale of this guy- charged up to 88 times a day. Over $32,000 extracted in just FOUR MONTHS data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-bulwar...

An 85-year-old Texas resident - charged up to 88 times in a single day, and 4,208 times between Feb. 17 and June 30, 2026, for a total of $32,742.

311346

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

During the deep pandemic, I broke my arm. Early winter 2021 I was on the subway regularly 6AM to a little PT office a block from Times HQ. Busy subway station even then, with a police precinct and MTA HR office in it. Everyone careful and masked except...the cops and the Times employees.

010

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The city's contractor for this (court-ordered!) work sent a crew to our neighborhood who dug up the street without calling for utility markings, and almost hit a gas line. ConEd showed up and told them they had to hand dig and they left and never came back.

000

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This happened in my middle school in NYC in the 80s. Administration tried to crack down kn senior skip day at the attached HS; so we all learned that the response plan for a bomb threat was to walk the entire campus to safety half a mile away in Central Park. And then every day or two for weeks.

020

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

To me personally the best answer is "our society, which values life, will absorb this cost, so that all its members can flourish" but that is an answer the same people demanding this child be born have loudly and repeatedly denounced. Consider accordingly their claim to the moral high ground.

000

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Not caring whether a child has their chest cut open repeatedly to provide more months or years of life is just evil. Blackmailing that child and their parents their whole lives to keep receiving that care is evil too. Know that when considering what Paxton and his ilk say about cases like this one.

100

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If the answer is "the parents will pay for it, and they took on that risk when they decided to become parents" , well, whatever I may think of your argument's moral force, you are refusing to admit the very real chance that the parents *will not be able to pay for it over the child's lifetime*.

000

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If the answer is "oh our church will pay for it" or "oh this beneficent hyper-wealthy guy will pay for it" each time care is needed this is morally abhorrent. It is blackmailing the parents and eventually the child to attest to particular religious beliefs or appease a rich guy just to stay alive.

200

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

As someone with deep personal experience relevant to this story, I have thoughts. Children born with severe congenital heart defects can have long, wonderful lives, if they receive $10Ms of lifelong medical care. Who will ensure this child's care is paid for? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

100

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Right. He also loves "snorting cocaine out of the butt crack of a schnauzer with diarrhea" - that's the brain chemistry that's happening here, and it bears keeping in mind. He literally does. That's how he's wired. That's how his kind of addiction disorder works.

020

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Box looks like it holds about 20 liters

070

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Box wrong shape. That one looks like the type used for glass bottles.

010

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Well I guess nobody was at any of the ones where he went looking for cadaver snacks.

000

Reposted by Μιθριδάτης

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

6052491212

Reposted by Μιθριδάτης

ceej @ceej.online · 27/10/2024

BREAKING: Longtime Democratic Party strategist James Carville has died at the age of 79. Born a swamp alligator, Carville bargained his soul to the Devil in exchange for human form under the condition that the Democratic Party never become hospitable to minorities.

25875100

Reposted by Μιθριδάτης

FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Ok and I'm sure this has been covered but Trump's wall of texts has exhausted me: We all agree the 'gash' he keeps talking about are just tire tracks from where he insisted on driving his motorcade THROUGH the empty pool for some damn reason, right?

031

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

We had a cat with serious cardiac issues which were not disclosed to us by the rescue where we adopted. I would caution before adopting a breed known for cardiac issues to please consider whether you can afford to care for the pet you will come to deeply love. It can be tragic for all involved.

040

Reposted by Μιθριδάτης

28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody

278122201847

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The summary of the article reads to me like randomly generated text. What's broken, it or me?

100

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is absolutely shitty, but I am slightly heartened to learn Joey Ramone is alive and living in Arizona.

000

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Donald Trump very sad that Argentina, the European team, did not win.

000

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

But the issue with cyclospora is very unlikely to be processing. It is refusal to provide field workers with adequate sanitary facilities - something organic certification does not touch on.

110

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It is exactly Aristotle's "natural slave" argument, with the word "slave" removed. But you can be a law school professor without knowing that (or a lot of things) so clearly Wurman is blameless.

000

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I think you are being too charitable to roberts et al.

161

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It speaks very poorly of you that you would consider a person who did such terrible things a friend. Whether you found him pleasant to be around or not.

000

Reposted by Μιθριδάτης

Valet Parker * Las Vegas @valetparker.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Funny how Save the Children always means harassing queer people and sex workers but never means cleaning out the pedophiles in your church.

311931

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

@mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social tarnishes himself and what he stands for with his continued association with Morris Katz, who worked for John Fetterman and avidly supported Graham Platner. He should think better of this, because his refusal to do so harms us all.

001

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Walker Hancock, Angel of the Resurrection. Even more impressive the first time I saw it because I was ascending the escalator from track level directly across 30th Street Station from where it stands.

000

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The red card was (may have been) a perceptual error, or an error in judgment. The overturning was a deliberate act of corruption. These are not "wrong" in the same way.

140

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Well fuck that has he heard of a blowtorch

010

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This achieves nothing for existing buildings, nor does it better the lives of people who live in them now, nor is it effective at temperatures already seasonally occurring in parts of the world where tens to hundreds of millions of people live.

100

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

As I reread our exchange I feel badly that we have done a fair bit of talking past one another. Sorry about that. Sure, there are ways to do that ($$) in retrofits of existing buildings. It's the pat "just put in a 'floor unit'" I am calling out as usually worse than "just put in a window unit".

000

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Correction: @docbenway.bsky.social asked why. And I am trying to explain, practically, some of the reasons. They are not reasons that carry the day in every case, but they do in many. It is the bespoke nature of the solutions actually effective in older buildings that slows deployment.

000

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

At the end of the day, the problem with retrofitting old buildings is that pat "everyone should just do it like this" solutions usually don't work, which increases engineering and labor costs and slows ubiquitous deployment. Of course it should be done. But there is no silver bullet. (5/5)

000

Μιθριδάτης @mtanotok.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

There are clever packaged solutions like the Epoca AIO which place a soundproofed heat pump, with properly ducted air over both sides of the coil, entirely in the tenant's space. But European living spaces are also _smaller_ than American ones, on average, so that too is problematic. (4/5)

100