iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Nicole

Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 19/05/2026

Today MSP saw the 99th ICE Air flight of 2026. 21 detainees, shackled, as always, were loaded. ICE hasn't stopped in Minnesota, neither have MN50501's volunteer observers. Stats: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data

3221116

Reposted by Nicole

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

MOTHER JONES: “There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis, but you may not have heard about it… The surge has not gotten much national attention in part bc Tennessee’s Republican governor @GovBillLee supports it— says it’ll continue indefinitely.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

14390255

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Me: *orders a sandwich* Sandwich Artist: my boyfriend isn't at home. Me: oh. OK. Sandwich artist: he's in jail. . . . He didn't do anything though. . . . Provolone?

060

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Did a big grocery shop for our "ingredients house" and it took us two business days until we had anything to eat around here. Always forgetting the snacks on the grocery list.

030

Reposted by Nicole

Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Like, yes, it's blasphemous for a rank sinner to depict himself as the Son of God and also it's blasphemous to abuse immigrants and queer people and people in other countries, too, and in fact even moreso.

1184

Reposted by Nicole

Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I find it kind of funny that it's the picture of Trump as Jesus that is getting folks like Sean Feucht to be like "delete this" when the Pope's (and the gospel's) whole point is that the way you treat other people is literally how you are treating Christ Himself and the Image of God in them.

1204

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I have a metal bed frame and no box spring. I feel like a bed skirt that attaches to the frame by magnets makes sense. But this doesn't seem to exist. Is this a bad idea that's been tried and found unworkable? Or a good idea that just doesn't exist in the market?

120

Reposted by Nicole

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

523106334682

Reposted by Nicole

Taylor @taylorschu.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It would be great if there were people who could do something about all of this. I’m envisioning some sort of 3 branch system where we have people who act as checks and balances, perhaps they represent the people, maybe they even have ways to put a stop to dangerous leadership

4629

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Me: I just wnat to live in a small home Me in a 1000 square foot apartmenr: what I really need is 30 extra linear feet of kitchen cabinets and at least four distinct spaces for two offices, a guest room, and a board game space.

090

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Today I learned people spend hundreds of dollars on eyelashes.

010

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I keep walking into the kitchen to get breakfast and then vet distracted unpacking/organizing something and forget to get breakfast and end up In a different part of the house until my stomach growls. Repeat. I've done this three times now.

280

Reposted by Nicole

Jennifer Berry Hawes @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

In just over a year since taking office, Trump has authorized military action in seven nations, even after he repeatedly promised American voters that he would end, not start, wars. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

nytimes.com

In Plunging Into a Mideast Conflict, Trump Gambles His Presidency

52814

Reposted by Nicole

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 25/02/2026

These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all

252153462680

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Husband and I started our 800 mile move this morning. A few minutes into our drive a bald eagle flew across the road just a few yards in front of us. Taking this as a good omen, a blessing, a sign our vision is on the right horizon.

380

Reposted by Nicole

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Countries that do not use Fritos as currency could be "left behind," says Frito-Lay CEO Ken Biddleman

13354241076

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Long distance moving companies: keep your valuables with you rather than packing them into the shipping container. Me, a collector of treasures: . . .

160

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

After wishing a speedy recovery the first 12 times someone noted their cold symptoms in a 1 hour period, I have no idea what to say next. Am I missing some key phrase that will assure them I am empathetic? Is there a hidden request? "Why do you keep repeating yourself?" Is likely rude, yes?

010

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

It is my last week of work before sabbatical and I have a good old fashioned cold. Puffs plus is my friend and today I'm thankful for work from home and being able to get a few things done in between tea and sneezes.

020

Reposted by Nicole

Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I reject the notion that anyone needs a fucking surveillance state video doorbell. People lived without them fine for hundreds of years. Get a lockbox for packages if that’s such a big concern.

1424

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The worst time to be a morning person is at someone else's house. So self conscious about noise. Brought laundry to do with blessing of my host cause thats just where life is right now, and started doing that and oh my gosh this machine is so loud. Glad I picked quick wash.

070

Reposted by Nicole

NPR @npr.org · 07/02/2026

The fourth winter of Russia's war on Ukraine has been the most brutal in recent times, with heat and electricity blackouts lasting for days as Russia repeatedly attacks Ukraine's energy grid.

n.pr

Greetings from Kyiv, where candles are the last option during wartime blackouts

The fourth winter of Russia's war on Ukraine has been the most brutal in recent times, with heat and electricity blackouts lasting for days as Russia repeatedly attacks Ukraine's energy grid.

10305130

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Me: intentionally uses the word "or" instead of "and" in instructions. *imagines future question where people say they couldn't do it because it wasn't x AND y. Me: bolds the word "or", highlights it, makes it bigger. Telling myself this will equal no future questions.

020

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

When I was in elementary school I had a little bag, red with animals and numbers in it. It had a zipper and each morning my dad would either make me a lunch or give me $1.05 to put in that zipper bag to buy lunch at school. I wonder if kids today will feel this nostalgia about their lunch code.

130

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The idea that you build wealth by hoping the next person pays *a lot* more for your home than you did is indeed very weird. See also: buy lore than one home and become a landlord. Like. . .that doesn't work if everyone does it.

000

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Saying, "I know it happened before last summer cause my mom was alive when it happened" feels like an unfair way to win a timing argument but oh well.

020

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Person: did you notice I [made some change to their appearance.] Me: no. Them: 🙁 One day I'll remember the desired response is some kind of delighted affirmation with no mention of if I noticed. They are really saying "I did x. Please affirm me."

020

Reposted by Nicole

NPR @npr.org · 29/01/2026

The Labor Department has proposed rescinding an Obama-era rule that gave home care workers the right to overtime pay and other wage protections. The administration says the rule made care too costly. n.pr/4a1rrSZ

n.pr

Caregivers for the elderly could lose wage protections under Trump proposal

The Labor Department has proposed rescinding an Obama-era rule that gave home care workers the right to overtime pay and other wage protections. The administration says the rule made care too costly.

45367206

Reposted by Nicole

Brian Mann @brianmannadk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

My latest reporting on the Milan Cortina Olympics for NPR

0132

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Setting up things for our move (utilities, insurance, etc) and they ask for new address and then "is this also your mailing address?" I need them to be more specific and situate that question in time. It will be. But not until the start date. When are you going to try to mail me things?

030

Reposted by Nicole

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Bullshit. Keep calling your reps, it’s working. He should resign if he’s this stupid.

14466107

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Sometimes I'm asked what I think about a thing. Answer: literally nothing. Context is often that it would be inappropriate for me to say that though. . . I think they want to know what to do next but. . . I have no idea. What's yhe goal, what did you try? What happened that confused your path?

130

Reposted by Nicole

Birdie, Barghest Bae @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

For all my extra gifted 80's and 90's kids who are discovering they are tired, burned-out adults:

Ordinary

My love, what if you
were not Nietzsche and I was not
Gloria Steinem. And I was not
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, or Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and
you were not
Isaac Newton, or Einstein, or Hegel, and we lived
Ordinary lives, here and there,
foraging for mushrooms in the swamps
and children's minds and sometimes find
ing chickory root for inflammation,
poke for lymphatic tincture, honey
for mead. What if sometimes you
sang in the kitchen while making bone broth
from chicken feet, and played happy
snippets on the violin, and I
periodically baked bread in a clean
(ish) kitchen, sang Broadway, laughed, and
sometimes, we held hands in the grocery,
took kids to the Asian market, watched
Netflix with our eyes closed, spooned
in bed, and weren't the next
Nobel Prize Winner, breakout academic
Wunderkind, surprise New York Times
Best-selling magical fairy child.
What if we went wild: Mowed lawns.
Got mail. Refused to live
up to the potential somebody wrote
on our report cards long ago, and instead
utterly wasted our lives
on loving and living and loving
and refused to yield to the expectations
that anything less fiscally responsible
is imprudent. What if what we saved
did not end up being millions,
my sweet, but our own souls? And all along
there will be enough for the movies
sometimes, enough for croissants and
soft pretzels, and enough to sit
and do the crossword and kiss you goodnight.
What if instead of being
memorable, we make memories,
responsible to not the whole world
but our world. And what if it is ordinary, and
we are inordinately enough.

Heather Harris-Bergevin

2937691

Reposted by Nicole

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Need less ‘the call to heroism has inspired me to be who i was always meant to be!” narratives and more “this fucking sucks and I don’t want to be here but someone has to do it and goddamnit it looks like that’s me” narratives imo.

371413221

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

There are days when I'm fixated at just how utterly ridiculous it is that so many things are horrific because some people crave power. I find absolutely nothing about that relatable. What do you mean people choose more for themselves when they have more than enough to share?

040

Reposted by Nicole

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 24/01/2026

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

142101702739

Reposted by Nicole

Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.

It is the misfortune of Minnesota’s ICE contingent to have invaded the state with the second-highest levels of social trust, trailing only Utah. Many activist networks were formed in 2020; we are seeing, Petrus says, Minnesotans call upon the “muscle memory” of the George Floyd protests. In mid-January, a neighborhood organization for a part of town called Whittier put out a call for a meeting to organize a “Neighborhood ICE response”; more than 800 people showed up at the local elementary school and formed a tidy line extending well beyond the door. (“Why a line?” I ask someone later. “Because we are in Minnesota,” he says.) In the cafeteria, in their big coats, adults struggled to get their legs through benches attached to long lunch tables. Because there were too many Minnesotans to fit in a single room, officials and parents and teachers went room to room giving the same speeches about how to help neighbors in hiding. They then gridded out the rooms, dividing the neighborhood into smaller subdivisions. Close neighbors met one another (“Oh, you live on the other side of the museum”) and formed hyperlocal Signal groups. At the first sighting of an agent, someone could ping the group and draw them outside. Their favored tactic was noise. They would make it impossible for ICE to conduct raids in secret.

5659111769

Reposted by Nicole

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows:
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.

11292690215897

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This. Who is all this productivity good for? Not the working class. That's for sure.

040

Reposted by Nicole

Fibonacci Sequins @brentwaggoner.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Is your boss giving you more time off because you're more productive with AI or is he firing your coworkers? It just seems like the metrics are wrong here.

2142

Reposted by Nicole

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Three years on, the AI pushers and fetishists who mocked and sneered at people who worried about mass automation, and told people to ‘learn to code’ etc etc seem to be worried about their particular pet Frankenstein’s monster’s long term survival

26626

Reposted by Nicole

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We’ve been living inside a 5 alarm fire for a decade. Fighting fascism is the most important thing any of us will ever do. But if you don’t allow yourself to carve out a few minutes a day for joy or simple pleasures you’re not gonna make it.

01255216

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Sometimes people say they like how someone speaks, finds ot comforting but I find their vocal patterns and vocabulary to be EXTREMELY "evangelical mega church with a heart for ______: coded and immeditely just do not trust them to have an authentic bone in their body. There's such a perception gap

020

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I'm "the mammogram irritated my arthritic shoulder" years old.

030

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

My mom celebrated pi day and gave us all money to buy pizza every March 14th. I just found a pi day card with money still in it. No idea how that happened, but thanks for lunch, Mom.

0150

Reposted by Nicole

Facts Central @stilldelvingh.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Hope it goes through because I’d be very surprised if the next step wasn’t a “flagged opponents” feature Those Infosec specialists have been hired for a reason and crossing all available info (including on social media) to build a “non-compliant” database seems likely bsky.app/profile/stil...

0357

Reposted by Nicole

Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Good reminder from this state highway!

130114411573

Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The difference in the size of the moving container we are getting and the next size up is roughly $450. Decluttering as I move and asking myself, "if this made us have to bump up a size would I want to spend that much to keep it?" I am anticipating a lot of NO.

140