iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 57m

tfw you decide to pivot after spent months hyping the threat of Hasan Piker and it didn't hurt Democrats' midterm polling.

2027344

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 2m

If CNN and MS NOW are not rejecting his ads, what the fuck are we even doing here?

031

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tears brought on by the alphabetical order commute playlist this morning: "Peace, Love, and Understanding." Acoustic duet by Elvis and Nick Lowe. "Where is the haaaaaarrrrmony?" sung in harmony. Perfect in every way. It was the walk-up music at our wedding, so it will always bring me back there.

4221

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 9m

I’m a professional writer. The NYT opinion section isn’t as important as we think.

1225

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Iranian families are being bombed, American service members have been killed, and communities on both sides are being forced to bear the consequences. ... Can one person decide, on his own, to keep an entire nation at war?"

052

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me

A black lemur in a leafy tree with its mouth open as if singing, beside an inset photo of Pavarotti striking a similar pose. Text reads: “New research shows lemurs use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes.” Classic FM.

351342276

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 9h

That doesn’t save him from being a monster.

090

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 9h

Happy 91st birthday to Julie Andrews who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in 'Mary Poppins'

Julie Andrews as Maria in 'The Sound of Music'

Julie Andrews as Sally Miles in 'S.O.B.'

Julie Andrews as Queen Clarisse Renaldi in 'The Princess Diaries'

46113

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 10h

I will never forget all the cynical gainsaying and disinformation about the strike on Al-Ahli hospital ten days into Israel’s destruction of Gaza. ‘Fog of war’. Almost three years later, fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals remain even partially functional and there is no fog. Only dust and rubble.

theguardian.com

New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza

Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire

5323122

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 10h

Mashed potatoes and pears with onion petals and gorgonzola… oh Madonn’! 🤌🏻

010

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

202061464

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

thecut.com

What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

632939958

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 10h

Of course, when I got home I had to make a Copper Blue. 😁 #Cheers 🍸

A brown cocktail in an etched Nick and Nora glass, garnished with three blueberries on a metal cocktail pick. The ingredient bottles are out of focus in the background.

COPPER BLUE
2 oz rye whiskey
1/2 oz Amaro Pasubio (Alpine blueberry bitter)*
1/2 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes peach bitters (sub citrus bitters if you don’t have peach)

Stir & strain, garnish with three large blueberries on a pick.

(* There’s really no substitute for this; if you can’t find it you can’t make this drink)

270

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 16h

Resident Evil had a scare that was so perfectly executed that I screamed out loud in the theater. I’ve never done that before.

2573

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve been a media witness to two federal executions. One was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The other, a week later, was a drug kingpin named Juan Raul Garza. My conclusion after watching both men die: The death penalty should not exist. Period. It fixes nothing, and it erodes our souls.

44998224

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 14h

Whatever one’s opinion of the death penalty in the abstract, the particulars of how it’s implemented and who it’s applied to in the US are moral abominations

161039190

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 10h

Holy frakballs, what a great show.

Sugar — Bob Mould, David Barbe, and Malcolm Travis — on stage at the Palladium for the first time in 32 years.

There’s a huge blue SUGAR banner behind them.

080

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

My god, SCOTUS acted within hours to clear the way for this execution and Tennessee completely botched it and tortured her. She's still alive. This barbaric practice needs to end. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

tennessean.com

Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.

661673394

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Christopher Reader @xopherx.bsky.social · 11h

Trump and the Republicans are driving potential visitors (tourists, shoppers, business people) away from the US.

021

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

david zaslav haters club @meamval.myatproto.social · 12h

the snake getting the coveted endorsement from the guy who did gamergate

186

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 13h

Anyway, Tennessee — extending its legendary run in 2026 after stripping Black lawmakers of cmte. assignments, gerrymandering a Black-majority district from existence, and siccing ICE and the Nat'l Guard on Memphis — just spent two hours trying to "hurt the people [it] needs to be hurting. Wretched.

tennesseelookout.com

Death row inmate Pike's execution halted after nearly two hours • Tennessee Lookout

A three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee on Wednesday.

1138

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 13h

There's always been a sour, atavistic energy to capital punishment, made vivid to me w/ stories on local news as a kid about Alabama's electric chair, 'Yellow Mama.' Some just thrill at the thought of the state — to quote a Trump voter from 2019 — "hurting the people [it] needs to be hurting."

apnews.com

Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike, witnesses say

Media witnesses say Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder on Wednesday.

1233

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Under Trump, the U.S. isn’t a country in the traditional sense. It’s the military and financial management arm of the corporate club that's in charge – Musk, Bezos, Thiel, Zuckerberg, etc. That’s why Trump won't regulate AI. He knows corporations regulate the government, not the other way around.

414949

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the cornell gang rape has me thinking about the pervasiveness of this mindset:

1075890

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the cornell case has me thinking about how existing as a woman means knowing you could be the victim of sexual violence at any moment, all while knowing there's a high likelihood no one will believe it even happened if you come forward.

91185145

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:

172289452

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.

353715783

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution. SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.

lawdork.com

After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botches the execution

SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.

1125086

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 13h

i cannot think of anything more directly forbidden by the teachings of the roman catholic church than what the catholic supreme court justices did today

524725

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 14h

i don't think the state has any business torturing anyone to death

51018109

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 19h

So alot of you know I am very proud of my photography hobby, I walk pass this every day and I just have to say this is most blatant allegory of real artist vs corporate Ai I've ever like physically seen. Credit: I took the photo

412519

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 14h

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

11543651103

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 13h

Opener J. Robbins thanked Sugar for inviting him to open for them. “Great band, great people. You know, some people say you should never meet your heroes. I think those people should just get cooler heroes.” Solo acoustic He was really good.

jrobbins.bandcamp.com

Un-Becoming, by J. Robbins

12 track album

110

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Roquentin @cultofmany.bsky.social · 13h

Christa Pike was 18yrs old at the time of the murder. She never knew safety or unconditional love. Instead she was sexually abused from the time she was a toddler. She’s been incarcerated for 30 years but even that’s not enough to satisfy the bloodlust, we have to murder her too. Shameful.

053

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 13h

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST An order of magnitude of barbaric.

181

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 13h

Healthcare workers support Nithya Raman for mayor of Los Angeles!! 🩺✊🏽

091

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 13h

Greetings from the Hollywood Palladium! I wasn’t gonna let 25 stitches in my foot stop me from seeing this show. (Same place I saw them 33 years ago.)

Shot of the performance area and stage, lit with blue light.

My gimpy foot in a boot, resting on the wooden dance floor

6140

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 16h

DONE! Qapla’! 35 minutes of exercise, including hand weights, exercise bands, wall presses, standing and sitting. Stitches seem undisturbed. w00t! 🙌🏻 OK, now I can take a shower then go see Bob Mould with Sugar.

1140

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 17h

And roflmao means "rolling on the floor, laughing with Chairman Mao." Obvs.

080

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 17h

thrill as poochie returns to his home planet

3132

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Werner van Zyl @multivalent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

229345

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17h

Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil

401048332

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 17h

So if I miss my daily walking exercise as much as I say I do, thanks to the sutures in my foot, why am I procrastinating right now to go downstairs to watch videos leading me in doing chair exercises? (Well, because walking is more fun.) All right, ghodsdammit. I'm doing it, I'm doing it.

090

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 17h

Blue asteroid inbound.

2535487

Reposted by Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

46586431272