iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We rarely know the history into which our words arrive. Sometimes people change our lives not by telling us what to do, but by helping us see a possibility we were already almost ready to see. And then the decision is ours. 3/3

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

she'd been contemplating for years. I hadn't created the question. The question was already there. My words simply landed in a life already in motion. 2/3

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Conversations Worth Keeping #10 At university, I had a friend whose intelligence and determination pushed me to become more ambitious myself. We were ridiculously competitive. Years later, she told me that one sentence I'd said during a bus ride helped her make a deeply personal decision 1/3

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve been told by a friend that there is/was a proposal to have government employees have additional information on their ID badges that label them as: 1) (green) Natural born U.S. Citizens 2) (yellow) Naturalized U.S. Citizens 3) (red) Foreign My question: Why? What are they going to do with it?

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hate these motherfuckers from all my heart and soul.

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Then I remembered: I cared about studying and soccer. That was apparently the entire operating system (hahahaha). We move through other people's stories without knowing which moments they'll remember. Sometimes, decades later, someone reminds us: Apparently, we were there. 2/2

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Conversations Worth Keeping #9 Years ago, I apparently gave a friend rides from university nearly every week. Decades later, she had to remind me. I remembered her immediately and wondered how the hell young me had been so oblivious. 1/2

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the worst part of having a pet. My Yogi is sick and I stopped traveling just to be with him.

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Seeing scientific friends in meetings is what makes my scientific life so rich. Bryan showed some amazing images and Sam showed some incredible remodeling in the retina even before any rods degenerate. I hope we will continue to do great science in the USA.

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It is always so amazing to see you Bryan.

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I cannot believe I was not following you. I miss you so much. I hope all is well.

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

They were successful friendships. Friendship isn't the waiting room for another relationship. Friendship is the relationship. And I'm incredibly grateful for mine. 2/2

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Most of my closest friends throughout my life have been women. I don't actually know why. But I've never understood why friendship between a man and a woman is so often treated as if it must eventually become something else. They weren't failed romances. 1/2

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What the fuck is going on here. Why are the families of the victims not given answers by the FBI?

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And especially the ones that continue to ask the question when that bully comes at her with his ugly painted face.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

To every reporter who stands there as Trump shouts down one of your (almost always female) colleagues with insults and bullying behavior without standing up for them -- you know the rest of us can see and hear you, right?

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We can reject Islamophobia and the idea that millions should carry suspicion because of the crimes of a few. And perhaps we should rethink what “If you see something, say something” taught us to see. 2/2

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

September 11 should never be forgotten. We should remember those who were killed and the families whose lives changed forever. But we should also remember what fear can make societies do. We can protect ourselves from terrorism without surrendering our civil liberties. 1/2

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My father's lesson had stopped being a lesson. It had become behavior. Privilege is never permission to rank the worth of human beings. Sometimes our parents teach us most powerfully without saying a word. 3/3

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The message was clear: What makes you think you are better than them? Decades later, my wife pointed out that within a month of arriving at Hopkins, the security guards knew me by name and I knew theirs. I had never connected the two. 2/3

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I grew up privileged. Once, when I was young, I reacted somehow to my father sitting and eating with chauffeurs. My father just looked at me. Anyone with an Arab father knows that sometimes a look contains an entire fucking lecture. 😂1/3

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Please do not insult sheep. Please.

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Ryan Pollard @ryanpollard.ca · 01/09/2026

I went to the Vernon Cadet Training Centre as a kid. I also know the woman on the right. we volunteered with kids together, she is a model citizen. this shit is sickening.

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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

www.laprogressive.com/law-and-just... John Roberts is a Traitor to America, Democracy and The Constitution! He should be Impeached, Tried for Treason!

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The Umpire Took a Side

John Roberts promised judicial neutrality. His record on voting rights and presidential power tells a very different story.

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I once held moral beliefs that I now find hard to remember. What makes me sad isn't that I was wrong. It's how certain I was that I was right. Life kept putting human beings in front of my abstractions. Eventually, the abstractions lost. Being certain I am right is not evidence that I am right.

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Perfect 🤣🤣🤣

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ted didn’t notice the name of the account who posted this Dolly clip he retweeted until it was much too late. He finally deleted it after he was made aware.

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Absolutely! And maybe the bigger elephant in the room is the misogyny and racism involved!

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 26/08/2026

I never realised that Dolly Parton couldn’t have children because of endometriosis. And that she was public about that in the 70’s and 80’s, when there was even more stigma and shame around infertility and menstruation than there is today.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 24/08/2026

We've arrived on Bluesky! We hope you will follow along as we share inspiring, motivational and exciting content about the achievements and individuals that have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Stay tuned.

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

What we didn't necessarily learn was vigilance. And it left me thinking: Sometimes what our parents protect us from is exactly what we fail to learn. 3/3

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Apparently I discovered a revolutionary financial tool: looking carefully at my credit card statement. 😂 But it made me realize something about my childhood. My parents were extraordinarily generous. Money felt safe. We learned generosity and that family takes care of family. 2/3

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Conversations Worth Keeping #5 I discovered this week that I'd been paying $29/month for a motorcycle membership I barely used. For years. 1/3

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Can’t believe we went from beautiful black excellence to white supremacist fascist criminal trash. It makes me sick to my stomach.

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Same mistake. Different target. Anger can tell us that something matters. It cannot tell us who is guilty. 2/2

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Conversations Worth Keeping #4 I once hated being judged for the atrocities of ISIS simply because I am Arab. Then, listening to the history of European colonialism in Africa, I caught myself beginning to generalize about Europeans. 1/2

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Iran is trolling him again with his food cart.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Even more of a reason to not do business or to minimize business with Amazon or Whole Foods. Reminder: You can get many things direct from the manufacturer's website rather than going through Amazon.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is my sentence every morning

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Marcus SOBER 5 YEARS @papacitogordo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

RFK Jr can go fuck himself.

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you ever wondered how cowards look like? I present to you Cassidy…

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

History will remember Karoline Leavitt as a dreadful feckless liar who proudly served a disgusting criminal and now she’s allowed to enjoy a taxpayer funded pension as a reward for helping him destroy a democracy.

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Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I hope all these motherfuckers get the same karma they inflicted on all the hard working people they abused!

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