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iangilman.bsky.social
@iangilman.bsky.social
Digital Renaissance Man
Doomscrolling is an attempt to binge-watch the current season of our shared reality.

You're tapping into the instinct that if you just keep reading, you'll find out how the story goes! That's not how reality works, though; it happens on its own schedule and no amount of scrolling will speed it up.
November 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Happy November! 🌞🌲 #pixelart

"Have just discovered beautiful lake. Will camp briefly and adjust to rising elevation’s impact on breathing and stamina. Lake providing abundant fish and aquatic vegetables to smoke and store in preparation for ascent beyond tree line."
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries.

No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
A lady on TikTok has been calling churches pretending to be a mother with a baby who needs formula and several churches turned her away. But wouldn’t you know that when she called a Mosque (Islamic Center of Charlotte) they immediately said yes.

[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
Islamic Center of Charlotte in Charlotte NC. Would help feed a starving baby no hesitation 🥰🥰🥰 #fyp #fypシ #fypシ゚viral #testingyourchurch #church #faith #religion #baby #hungrybabytest #viral #viralvid...
TikTok video by Nikalie 🌈
www.tiktok.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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The average American uses enough water for 800,000 chatbot prompts. per day. That seems insane because normally we don't think about the amount of water it takes to make a single sheet of paper or (if you're in for a wild ride) to produce a hamburger or pair of jeans.
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Yes, excellent point. Mikie Sherrill's use of the "liberty and prosperity" slogan is really important. It captures this emerging Dem politics of the Trump 2.0 era very well.
Sherrill was hammering “liberty and prosperity,” the NJ state motto — which is a very flexible and nonpartisan message for Dems. Freedom from corruption, kidnappings, speech crackdowns, etc, and a chicken or at least an affordable dozen eggs in every pot
Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis suggests outlines of an emerging Dem coalition organized around anti-Trump *and* affordability politics. This is doing serious damage to the MAGA coalition. Its success this week undermines the idea of a big Trump 2024 realignment. 7/

newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Repair Video

xkcd.com/3163/
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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I do think the idea of "run charismatic candidates" is underrated as a strategy. Especially on the presidential level it's a good predictor of Democratic success.
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
VOTE VOTE VOTE! Today's the day, USA! Your local representatives can make a huge difference. Ultimately we must do more than just vote, but we can't afford to do less. ❤️
November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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If you are (or work for) a politician and have questions about how to use YouTube well, please ask.
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"The Little Bird", with my VFX work, just won Best Student Film at the Poulsbo Film Festival! It's coming to the Bainbridge Island Film Festival next, if you're in the area: bifilmfest2025.eventive.org/films/68d3f0...
November 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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This is why I regularly let people know how awesome I think they are.

We often think that awesome people must naturally know they’re awesome, but they don’t. And letting them know could be the little push that they really needed that day.
Low key, this is why I think you should send fan mail to the niche people you love and not huge people. Bts is gonna get thousands of letters, but that soundcloud rapper may go there entire career getting nothing.

Tell your niche favs you love them in a way that is not weird!!
The funniest thing about being A Person in a very niche microcommunity is that you suddenly realize that the people you think of as "famous" in other microcommunities are in the exact same boat as you

Systemic imposter syndrome "my niche is so unimportant I promise, unlike yours, SoundCloud rapper
November 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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It’s still remarkable that Disney produced - and released - this segment in 1940. A horror short that should rank with its Universal monster movie contemporaries… The animation is lush and experimental, and really shows off the Disney special animated effects team…
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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no matter what, everybody has got to get out there and vote! complacency is never an option!
i hate to be that bitch, but my sources are telling me this early voting data has gotten Zohran's people rightly spooked and y'all better stop assuming this one's in the bag. GOTV
Voter turnout surges in NYC mayor’s race, with Boomers and Gen X leading the charge
The data so far is good news for independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, a political scientist said.
gothamist.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
We voted today! Don't forget your patriotic duty, whenever you can vote in your region. Oh, and if you can't vote by mail, agitate with your local government to make it possible! 🗳️✨
October 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The Seattle Blender Users Group made a movie for the 48 Hour Film Project this year, and I did some of the VFX! I hereby present Little Faustian Library: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7_L... Content warning: comic gore.
Little Faustian Library
YouTube video by Oscar Baechler
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this.

Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.
Even if he did, which I'd bet is likelier than not, none of this is true. The Insurrection Act is not a declaration of martial law. It doesn't close the courts. It doesn't suspend habeas corpus. It means you can use the military to enforce federal laws, but the laws themselves remain the same.
Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
October 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Seems like we're always arguing in circles these days! What we need is a map to keep from getting lost in our debates. My cousin, Bruce, is making a tool for creating such maps, and it's ready to use! www.howtruthful.com
www.howtruthful.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.

My friends, they have lost the flag.
October 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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What I have seen at these No Kings protests is some of the most authentic belief in the idea of America that I have seen in my life. Irony and academic detachment has been the disease, what people call cringe is the cure.
After 2024, pundits brushed off the Resistance as cringe. I submit: Yes, it was. And cringe is good. Cringe, in fact, will save democracy.
Resistance Is Cringe
But it’s also effective.
www.theatlantic.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM