iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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annika boo-ranti klein @noirbettie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

nobody loves shitty ROI more than a city spending millions to stop thousands in fare evasion. (if they actually wanted it to stop, they’d eliminate fares and make public transit be for the public!)

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pro tip: The hills, apparently, are alive with the sound of it.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And here I thought they didn't like gender-affirming care.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ALITO: "If a pass is thrown two seconds before the end of regulation, and caught in the endzone one second after the buzzer, it should not count, because it might change the score."

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026

I can’t wait to read the NYT op-ed from Renee Good’s wife about grief on the one year anniversary of her death. Surely the NYT will extend the same grace to Becca Good—whose partner died protesting against state power—as it has to Erica Kirk—whose partner died defending white supremacy

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The novelty of invoking the butterfly effect when considering impacts on future generations is intriguing, but if he's counting existence as a net benefit to people born after depletion, thereby annulling the harm of scarcity, then shouldn't he should count non-existence as harm to those not born?

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In my version, the idea is that a wise man can be too smart for his own good, whereas a fool at least knows what he's seeing. It fits the theme of the song (and scans better). The correct version suggests that dummies should listen to smart people. I like my mis-heard version.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For decades, I was off by one word for the chorus to "What a Fool Believes." I thought it was "What a fool believes he sees, the wise man has the power to reason away." I recently learned it's actually "NO wise man has the power to reason away."

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My man looks like he's about to open the Ark of the Covenant and cannot WAIT to see what's inside.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Last month, he posted a vacuous feel-good reel about how AI is great for people. The background music was David Bowie's "Five Years," a song about the extinction of humanity. I guess that gets filed under 'annoyingly out-of-touch.' www.facebook.com/share/v/1HY4...

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I learned nothing about AI from this viewing experience. In fact, it left me *more* concerned about AI, not less. And that was before I realized that the background music was David Bowie's "Five Years," a song about the end of the world and the extinction of humanity.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I just saw a very odd advertisement from Meta (nee Facebook) about AI. I'm going to paraphrase it for you rather than link to it:

Paraphrased script to a Meta AI commercial filled with feel-good images and stirring music but not much else.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I would love to see sequential *national* primaries, at say two-week intervals. Knock out the lowest vote-getters each time. It'd work similarly to the current system, except every qualified voter can vote in each round if they want, rather than have to wait until their state finally comes up.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

With remarkable consistency, dictators and authoritarians tend to recruit mediocre losers for their in-house thugs. (Gift article, no paywall.) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

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Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R. (Gift Article)

New research sheds light on how mediocre employees help would-be authoritarians maintain power.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Well, we may have lost but at least we look like we cheated

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

What was removed from the curriculum to allow time for learning two different ways to write?

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ceej @ceej.online · 20/03/2026

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

"They don't like nation building, but they do like nation bombing."

NY Times headline explaining Republican support for attacking Venezuela. Subhead: "They don't like nation building, but they do want to project American power."

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 01/01/2026

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

The earliest known recording of Carol of the Bells was made in 1922, although it wasn't known by that name yet. It was an arrangement of a Ukrainian folk song called "Shchedryk," sung by a visiting Ukrainian chorale in New York City: (1/4) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXZL...

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Ukranian National Choir - Shchedryk or Carol of the Bells 1922

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Every ancestor she cites is someone who hated people who got special privileges from their ancestry.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

You will be visited by three spirits.

Wash, Mal, and Zoë in a scene from the TV series Firefly

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

For scientists, "disagree with it" means disagree with how a study was done, how the data was derived and used, etc. For Vance, "disagree with it" just means "don't like the results." Scientists should critique the practice of science, sure. Vance should just sit down and listen.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I was horrified when I first learned there was a room called "the Lincoln bathroom" in the White House.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

This is why oral debates aren't the best way learn about an issue. *Written* debates, in which each side has the time to research their claims and counterarguments, are more informative. (Albeit generally duller.)

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Visited Mount Vernon today, the home of the original No Kings protester.

Photo of Mount Vernon. a large two-story tan home situated on a broad green lawn between two rows of trees.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Happy Tuesday to everyone who isn't Alex Jones! (Gift article, no paywall.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Supreme Court Denies Alex Jones’s Appeal of Payment to Sandy Hook Families

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I know you think I'm divisive, but I'd like to point out that you could turn me into a unifier by simply agreeing with me.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

From the NY Times archives, 1935: nyti.ms/47OfeSr

NY Times clipping from June 6, 1935: "JAILED FOR QUIPS ON NAZIS -- German Vaudeville Star Held In Secret Prison Since May 10." The article tells of the arrest and imprisonment of comedian Werner Finck.

May 11 1935 NY Times clipping: "NAZIS BANISH SATIRE. -- Close Two Berlin Cabarets for Amusing Customers Too Well." Article notes the closure of Katakombe and Tingle-Tangle for "carefully camouflaged satire."

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Delurking to give a thumbs-up to The Decameron. It was better than I expected, and it finished strong -- the last two episodes will stick with me. Eight episodes, on Netflix. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLim...

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The Decameron | Official Trailer | Netflix

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Ugh. The first rule of vexillology is "You do not put your city or state seal on the flag."

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Hot take #1: The US has at least four national parties, so Musk is not proposing a third party, but a fifth one. Hot take #2: A year from now, I'll look at this post and wonder what it was even about.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Today's pleasant surprise: @petridishes.bsky.social has begun writing for The Atlantic! This is a nice step up from her previous job at Jeff Bezos's in-house corporate newsletter, The Washington Post. Petri is brilliant and hilarious. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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My Super-Special 79th Was Not Super Special

A diary entry by a disappointed president

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Kinda wish it had been made clear that on the silver screen, it's not the cigarettes that make the actor look cool. It's the director, the lighting, and the soundtrack. "Looking good when smoking" is a directorial choice, not something that teenagers will actually experience when smoking.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The issue is not the cost of the overhaul, nor the time it will take. The issue is that it's a bribe.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Let me save everyone a click. The forceful pushback advocated by the NY Times is that we should all point out that a third term is not allowed. Literally, that's their suggestion.

NY Times Op-Ed headline, May 6: "Trump's Third-Term Jokes Deserve a Serious Response. The president's fantasizing about remaining in office deserves a more forceful pushback."

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Rye-catching. Sport of the future.

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Rob Beauchamp @robeauch.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This incredible security lapse has been brought to you by a bunch of straight white guys who think DEI hires aren't competent.

Headline from The Atlantic magazine today: "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans," by Jeffrey Goldberg

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