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Noah Iliinsky

@noah-i.bsky.social
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UX, visualization, & info designer, IA. Climate hawk. Feminist, anti-racist SJW. Practical cyclist. Vis books author & editor, speaker. Will block fascists. he/him

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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Been getting into @tkingfisher.com lately. I’m enjoying the themes in many of the books. There’s the abusive narcissistic parent book, the PTSD series, the sister in an abusive relational book, and strong themes of consent throughout. Which themes / books am I missing? (I haven’t read most of them!)
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t know who on the @etsy design team needs to hear this, but, it’s bad design, and also annoying, to have a persistent call to action on the app icon, and then no indication in the app of what the alert is about. 
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
and a site listing places giving free meals to kids all summer: www.fna.usda.gov/sfsp/sitefin...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
IMPORTANT: Two websites for US food access. Please spread the word. This is a great, easy to use site to find free food near you:
foodfinder.us
Food Pantries of America - Welcome to FoodFinder!
At FoodFinder you can search the food pantries that are closer to you. Explore the map and enter your zip code to learn which ones are available.
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My thoughts on successful dashboarding in the age of AI www.linkedin.com/posts/iliins...
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Successful dashboarding in the age of AI | Noah Iliinsky
Thoughts on dashboarding in the age of AI.
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Job hunting is a drag. But lounging in the shade in the backyard with cats, watching a hummingbird visit the star jasmine and Passaflora is pretty great.
Fence covered in green jasmine vines with small white flowers. A small green hummingbird is drinking from one of the flowers.
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
@ursonate.bsky.social OK to DM you? Or text me if you happen to have my number. :)
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Who says Vance has no talent for politics? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Vance was at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum when he delivered the remarks and used his speech to draw parallels between Nixon and President Donald Trump.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 26/06/2026
Massive win for data privacy this morning
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A fifth of Leave voters have died.
Graph showing the movement of Leave and Remain voters since 2016
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If you're mad about data center water use, wait until you find out about how much water it takes to grow alfalfa to feed beef, much of which is exported to other countries. www.latimes.com/environment/...
latimes.com
Hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study finds
Much of the Colorado River's water is used for agriculture. A new study shows 46% of the water that is diverted is used to grow hay to feed cattle.
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This book is awesome and essential. I'm so glad you wrote it!
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Burnout comes from moral injury. - @anildash.com
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Excited to be attending the Designing with AI conference, put on by @rosenfeldmedia.com I trust it will be grounded in reality and practicality. rfld.me/dwai26
Flier for the Designing with AI conference. Learn more at rfld.me/dwai26
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Next in my accidental series on AI and design. Can AI replaced designers? Let's discuss! www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-ai...
linkedin.com
Can AI replace designers?
When last I wrote, I discussed whether AI can replace the graphical interface. Now that that's settled, let's consider the next logical question: can AI replace UX designers? To answer that, we need t...
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Spending time in Chicago for the first time in a long time. So far, Chicago style hot dogs > Chicago style pizza.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"absolutely no votes to confirm judges, cabinet members, or to advance or fund any policies for presidents that openly say they will end entire civilizations" is actually an extremely fucking moderate position
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Erik Grove @erikgrove.com · 08/04/2026
This whiplash where the president terrifies the world for a few days with unhinged threats and then says “never mind” and then there’s this implication that anyone scared of his unhinged threats was overreacting is very domestic abuse but make it a country.
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Speaking of AI, this seems like a particularly insightful and timely analysis of the current state of the hype cycle. leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...
leehanchung.github.io
The AI Great Leap Forward
In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Here are some of my thoughts about AI versus GUIs. And pizza. www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-ai...
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Can AI replace the graphical interface?
I've seen some speculation lately that AI might replace GUIs in some contexts. Let's think about this and consider what it might mean in different situations.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
It might feel hard these days to stay optimistic but please remember that global clean-energy investment is twice as high as new fossil fuel investments. Conservative leaning regions slowly clue on to the joys of locally produced energy giving you independence from the big cats in the capital.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared
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PCalico @pcalico.eurosky.social · 17/03/2026
This is a Nation wide opportunity for non-lawyers to help get people out of ICE detention. You go to a courthouse, look stuff up, & pass it on to these folks to coordinate with attorneys to *get people out* habeasdockets.org/volunteer/
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David Baumiller @apolloyorp.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I have an Excel joke it's really good most people rate it Oct 10
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Enjoying @jradavenport.com ‘s talk at #igniteSeattle I believe his first was in 2012 at a conference Ignite I hosted. Watch the stream at igniteseattle.com
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Ignite Seattle Fifty is Tuesday! Confer see awesome short talks at Benoroya hall! #igniteSeattle igniteseattle.com
igniteseattle.com
Ignite Seattle: a fun, fast, profound live storytelling event like no other
5 minutes. 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. Ordinary people share their extraordinary passions, humor, and insights, but the clock is ticking!
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Check in on your Persian friends today. 💔
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
A possum in a frantic looking pose, mouth wide open, surrounded by the words: NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR on an orange background  with yellow radiating lines
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 10/02/2026
This morning, I went to see what were supposed to be the completely unredacted Epstein files. However, some of the files were still redacted by Kash Patel’s FBI. Here’s my reaction.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Riffing off Brendan's method of juxtaposition in this awesome report, I'd like to offer another comparison: Food assistance cuts versus new funding for DHS in the "Big Beautiful Bill" Republicans cut food assistance by $187 billion while providing $191 billion in funding for DHS
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Especially the Reverse Victim and Offender part, except with essentially infinite resources to throw at the task. It's DARVO, scaled up with billionaire wealth, made industrialized. Which is why it is so heavily aligned with the fascism, which *also* uses that tactic at scale.
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
From the right, every accusation is a confession.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 02/02/2026
Secure your own squid first before helping others. (I'm disproportionately proud of this drawing.)
An airline security card but instead of oxygen masks, it's squid. Just roll with it.
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Another good @volts.wtf thread. bsky.app/profile/volt...
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
@pennyred.bsky.social Just re-found your unapologetic tweet about neurospicy folks form 2022-07-19. I think of it often. So glad to see you're still writing and generally being out and proud about autism. :) There really are quite a lot of us. More than we knew how to recognize even a few years go.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make it viral.
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Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com · 08/01/2026
I put this on LinkedIn because that's where I think folks need to hear it, but TLDR: if you're on X, GTFO. Sexually abusive content is not inevitable, it is a _choice_. If you stay on the platform, you are endorsing that choice. Link: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
A screenshot of a LinkedIn post by me (Hilary Mason) which says:

I’m angry, and it's hard to put this into words.

Sexual demeaning and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) are not inevitable consequences of technology. It's a deliberate product strategy by X and Elon Musk.

The environment that allows this to flourish has been around for some time. AI amplifies these existing flaws in the system and exacerbates the harms. This is a well-known, and pretty obvious if you think about it for a bit. 

We've had a disregard for safety on social media, general lack of attention and legal enforcement for sexual crimes against women and children, the absence of business ethics, a lack of product sense, a subjugation of empathy to misogynistic status incentives for tech folks.
 
And now a leader who is taking advantage of that with no regards for the harms caused.

If you post on X, please stop.

If you have power or a position where you can keep these harms from being normalized, please do it.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 07/01/2026
This is Chilli. He can go from zero to sixty in a matter of seconds. Uses this extraordinary ability to say good morning very promptly. 14/10 (IG: chilli.thegreyhound)
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I have watched the video. I think you probably do not need to watch the video. it shows what you think it's gonna show in terms of lack of justification.
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
And a palate cleanser: youtu.be/jofNR_WkoCE?...
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Ylvis - The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) [Official music video HD]
YouTube video by TV Norge
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 07/01/2026
probably a good day to turn off autoplaying video; as noted in the comments, this sometimes is reset by updates/reinstalls
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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
It cannot be stressed enough that this is the moderate position.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
It's a dark time for design at Apple. In addition to the transparency FUBAR, they've gone from leaders to losers in their menu/icon game. tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...
tonsky.me
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
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Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
FUCKIN FACTS 💯
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