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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 3h

Mmmh, sunk cost dynamics feel very powerful in politics atm!

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Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social · 14h

Today I showed the designers that you can name cells in spreadsheets and use the names in formulas (i.e. "=PLAYER_LEVEL" instead of "=C12"). You can then use the Name Manager to track or rename them. I thought this was common knowledge, but I guess not, so sharing that tidbit here.

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 9h

Okay, I want your theories. What IS it about Trump that makes so many people completely delude themselves about who he is and what he will do?

None of this was hidden! And sure, voters are often fooled, but the scale of wishcasting about Trump truly feels unique.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 9h

oh wow, I had no idea this place existed despite having walked around Kildonan many times! that's amazing

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 4d

Oh hello, I am also here!

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 5d

suffice it to say I am VERY excited to see what Certified Monsterfucker Mr Guillermo del Toro does with this bizarrely neglected material

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 5d

reader, imagine my teenage mind reeling as the Creature proceeds to GO OFF in perfect Georgian English about his experience of being born and reading fucking Paradise Lost

genuinely one of the all-time literary rug pulls, yet most modern pop culture adaptations utterly fail to capture its spirit

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 5d

Volume 1 is as expected. Victor builds his creature, has a breakdown, ghosts everyone (relateable). then I get to Vol 2, where we actually meet the monster...

VICTOR: Begone, foul insect!!!

CREATURE: I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how then must I be hated,

ME: wait what

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 5d

Reading Frankenstein ahead of the del Toro film and remembering just how profoundly it blew my mind as a kid when the Creature started talking

Bear in mind I was 18, first year at college, had zero knowledge of the book beyond famous movies + pop culture tropes. So I'm expecting, y'know, a MONSTER

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8d

I should add that as of right now, there is nothing in the CR about gender-affirming care. You can see the text here. But there WILL be a big fight when it comes to the actual appropriations process.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 9d

oh man there are TONS! Heaven’s Vault, Howling Dogs, Signalis, Unpacking, Dishonored, 80 Days, Jazzpunk, Frankenstein Wars, Disco Elysium, Cruelty Squad, Braid, Banner Saga, Starseed Pilgrim, Problem Attic, Deus Ex (2000), Papers Please, Obra Dinn, Dread Delusion, Florence, Undertale, 1000xResist,

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 9d

(honest question) what are the “good” video games? artistically i mean, not in a “i enjoyed this escapist slop” kind of way

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 9d

Well. It's not Red Dead Redemption 2, but it's like one of three video games I'd genuinely consider good.

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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 12d

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 12d

Got hold of some EXTREMELY dangerous restricted goods today.

These puppies were under lock and key at Safeway. The attendant wouldn’t even give me them directly. He took ‘em to the customer service counter and made me pay there.

Good thing too. You wouldn’t want these to fall into the wrong hands.

some bobby pins, some hair clips, and some elasticated hair ties

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 12d

I definitely fucked up the perspective here lol

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 12d

got my bangs trimmed, so decided to sketch my salon 💇🏻‍♀️

A rough pencil drawing in a small portable sketchbook, showing the interior of a hair salon absolutely overflowing with potted plants and knick-knacks, from hanging bat skeletons to freestanding rigid hood hair dryers to wigmaker’s dummies lined up like the severed heads of women from 1980s music videos. In the background, figured move about, sit in chairs, and minister to each other’s scalps. The caption says: “GALAM-RAMA, SF, FRI 2025/09/26”

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 12d

I ended up writing a strange prose poem about this app. I’m rather proud of it. bsky.app/profile/iodo...

Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 12d

TODAY ON IOSPHERE: Ancient alien Santa Claus. Pumpkins carving each other's faces. A sexy man in a swimming pool caressing a large frog. Infinite boredom.

Please join me on a surreal journey through Meta's new AI-generated TikTok clone, 'Vibes'.

#9: A blank white infinite space beyond pain and pleasure

A work of gonzo cyberjournalism from inside Meta's new AI-generated TikTok clone, 'Vibes'.

iosphere.beehiiv.com

Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 12d

I have spent some time on this feed, and it is…….

weird. iosphere.beehiiv.com/p/9-meta-vib...

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 12d

TODAY ON IOSPHERE: Ancient alien Santa Claus. Pumpkins carving each other's faces. A sexy man in a swimming pool caressing a large frog. Infinite boredom.

Please join me on a surreal journey through Meta's new AI-generated TikTok clone, 'Vibes'.

#9: A blank white infinite space beyond pain and pleasure

A work of gonzo cyberjournalism from inside Meta's new AI-generated TikTok clone, 'Vibes'.

iosphere.beehiiv.com

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 13d

Does anyone have a quick set of maybe twenty questions that you could do as a buzz feed style 'do you know British politics?' that could tell someone whether they understand British politics or whether their understanding of politics is primarily influenced by American politics?

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Deena Mousa @deenamousa.com · 13d

In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs.

He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.

Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.

Why?

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 13d

plus it just has a general air of uriah heep type patrician supplication about it. oh thank you so much, cis doctors, for deigning to affirm our genders!

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 13d

IMO the opposite is true: making “GAC” interchangeable with “transition care” makes it sound like cis people’s healthcare is never “gender affirming”, and like trans people are the only ones who ever seek, need, or receive “gender affirmation”. which is basically my beef with it

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 13d

regular readers may notice it /very rarely/ appears in my reporting unless I am quoting someone!!!

This will be an Iosphere essay in the near future

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 13d

YEP

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 13d

high key i hate the term "gender affirming care"

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