Io Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️
@iododds.bsky.social
Senior reporter in San Francisco @the-independent.com covering tech + politics + LGBT. ISO 8601 stan; tabletop gamer; lowercase = shitposts
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@iododds.bsky.social
· Jan 21
i wanna see you bitches grow old. i'm serious about this
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One of the best to ever do it
December 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
One of the best to ever do it
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[with increasing panic]
and Tiny Tim, who WOULD NOT die,
and Tiny Tim, who WOULD NOT die,
December 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
[with increasing panic]
and Tiny Tim, who WOULD NOT die,
and Tiny Tim, who WOULD NOT die,
CLAIM: Norad is currently tracking the location of Santa.
FACT CHECK: Santa is invisible to radar, and cannot be detected or tracked by any known US government technology.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
FACT CHECK: Santa is invisible to radar, and cannot be detected or tracked by any known US government technology.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump uses Christmas Eve calls with children asking about Santa to beat partisan drum
The President celebrated the season of goodwill to all by crowing about his election victories while vowing to protect the U.S. from being ‘infiltrated’ by a ‘bad Santa’
www.independent.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
CLAIM: Norad is currently tracking the location of Santa.
FACT CHECK: Santa is invisible to radar, and cannot be detected or tracked by any known US government technology.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
FACT CHECK: Santa is invisible to radar, and cannot be detected or tracked by any known US government technology.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Searched back through Blue Sky for this.
Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.
Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Searched back through Blue Sky for this.
Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.
Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.
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"Well... that's it. You outsniffed me. Well done, kid. But you'd better be ready. Cos now every punk in Spain with a nose and a ham and something to prove is gonna be coming for *you*."
I like to imagine that there is a rivalry between two top ham-sniffers: one, a meticulous keeper of precise traditions, the other a brash bad-boy with a colossal nose.
December 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
"Well... that's it. You outsniffed me. Well done, kid. But you'd better be ready. Cos now every punk in Spain with a nose and a ham and something to prove is gonna be coming for *you*."
Anyone got a magnet link? 👀
NEW: Tens of thousands of documents appearing to be from "Dataset 8" of the Epstein files went live on a Justice Department website today, only to be pulled down hours later without explanation.
w/ @eorden.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
w/ @eorden.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Anyone got a magnet link? 👀
NEW: CBS is in a cat and mouse game with internet pirates after the network's spiked CECOT story was accidentally released via TV streaming in Canada. 👀
Now people keep uploading the video, and CBS keeps issuing copyright takedowns. But good luck stopping BitTorrent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATpV...
Now people keep uploading the video, and CBS keeps issuing copyright takedowns. But good luck stopping BitTorrent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATpV...
First part of banned 60 Minutes CERCOT episode
YouTube video by Lee Drake
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
NEW: CBS is in a cat and mouse game with internet pirates after the network's spiked CECOT story was accidentally released via TV streaming in Canada. 👀
Now people keep uploading the video, and CBS keeps issuing copyright takedowns. But good luck stopping BitTorrent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATpV...
Now people keep uploading the video, and CBS keeps issuing copyright takedowns. But good luck stopping BitTorrent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATpV...
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If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.
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Okay but this would slap, actually. I need this show.
December 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Okay but this would slap, actually. I need this show.
Nothing new, but I remain flabbergasted that any ex-chair of the ECHR can claim with a straight face that “snake oil salesmen” are responsible for the idea that the EA 2010 guards trans rights.
Sorry? “Snake oil salesmen” like the MPs who passed the bill? Or every single ECHR chair before Faulkner?
Sorry? “Snake oil salesmen” like the MPs who passed the bill? Or every single ECHR chair before Faulkner?
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Nothing new, but I remain flabbergasted that any ex-chair of the ECHR can claim with a straight face that “snake oil salesmen” are responsible for the idea that the EA 2010 guards trans rights.
Sorry? “Snake oil salesmen” like the MPs who passed the bill? Or every single ECHR chair before Faulkner?
Sorry? “Snake oil salesmen” like the MPs who passed the bill? Or every single ECHR chair before Faulkner?
mental health indicators for the first week of December
TUE: dreamed I was trapped in an endless bureaucratic maze where everything I did was presumed wrong and evil by default and every decision only made things worse
SAT: dreamed I phoned in to NPR to tell them I think they’re doing a great job
TUE: dreamed I was trapped in an endless bureaucratic maze where everything I did was presumed wrong and evil by default and every decision only made things worse
SAT: dreamed I phoned in to NPR to tell them I think they’re doing a great job
December 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
mental health indicators for the first week of December
TUE: dreamed I was trapped in an endless bureaucratic maze where everything I did was presumed wrong and evil by default and every decision only made things worse
SAT: dreamed I phoned in to NPR to tell them I think they’re doing a great job
TUE: dreamed I was trapped in an endless bureaucratic maze where everything I did was presumed wrong and evil by default and every decision only made things worse
SAT: dreamed I phoned in to NPR to tell them I think they’re doing a great job
NEW from me: Trump's DoJ will "immediately" stop enforcing prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, according to a leaked memo.
As first reported by @prismreports.org, prison auditors have been told to stop assessing whether said laws are broken www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
As first reported by @prismreports.org, prison auditors have been told to stop assessing whether said laws are broken www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump admin ‘immediately’ stops enforcing LGBT+ prison rape protections: report
The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse
www.independent.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
NEW from me: Trump's DoJ will "immediately" stop enforcing prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, according to a leaked memo.
As first reported by @prismreports.org, prison auditors have been told to stop assessing whether said laws are broken www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
As first reported by @prismreports.org, prison auditors have been told to stop assessing whether said laws are broken www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
This clip is incredible to me because it's just so....... The Way These Things Happen In Real Life.
One day, I'd love to see a movie where dramatic, historic events are depicted in the way they actually tend to unfold: with a surreal bureaucratic banality, great awkwardness, and gallows humour.
One day, I'd love to see a movie where dramatic, historic events are depicted in the way they actually tend to unfold: with a surreal bureaucratic banality, great awkwardness, and gallows humour.
NEW— DC Metropolitan Police just shared a tiny bit more body cam footage from the March US Institute of Peace raid in response to my FOIA lawsuit w/ @rcfp.org
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
December 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This clip is incredible to me because it's just so....... The Way These Things Happen In Real Life.
One day, I'd love to see a movie where dramatic, historic events are depicted in the way they actually tend to unfold: with a surreal bureaucratic banality, great awkwardness, and gallows humour.
One day, I'd love to see a movie where dramatic, historic events are depicted in the way they actually tend to unfold: with a surreal bureaucratic banality, great awkwardness, and gallows humour.
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NEW— DC Metropolitan Police just shared a tiny bit more body cam footage from the March US Institute of Peace raid in response to my FOIA lawsuit w/ @rcfp.org
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
NEW— DC Metropolitan Police just shared a tiny bit more body cam footage from the March US Institute of Peace raid in response to my FOIA lawsuit w/ @rcfp.org
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
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That much money financing games by actual game developers would have financed 150+ of the highest budget AAA games, and the several orders of magnitude more jobs to produce them. Instead it was burned failing to produce advertiser-safe Second Life.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
That much money financing games by actual game developers would have financed 150+ of the highest budget AAA games, and the several orders of magnitude more jobs to produce them. Instead it was burned failing to produce advertiser-safe Second Life.
AS PROMISED: music I've recently bought and loved on Bandcamp!
FIRST UP: 'horseglue' by Ekko Astral
ekkoastral.bandcamp.com/album/horseg...
this is the new single from @jael.bsky.social's excellent punk band Ekko Astral, who I saw live in Oakland a couple months ago (both SAVAGE and HEALING)
FIRST UP: 'horseglue' by Ekko Astral
ekkoastral.bandcamp.com/album/horseg...
this is the new single from @jael.bsky.social's excellent punk band Ekko Astral, who I saw live in Oakland a couple months ago (both SAVAGE and HEALING)
December 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
AS PROMISED: music I've recently bought and loved on Bandcamp!
FIRST UP: 'horseglue' by Ekko Astral
ekkoastral.bandcamp.com/album/horseg...
this is the new single from @jael.bsky.social's excellent punk band Ekko Astral, who I saw live in Oakland a couple months ago (both SAVAGE and HEALING)
FIRST UP: 'horseglue' by Ekko Astral
ekkoastral.bandcamp.com/album/horseg...
this is the new single from @jael.bsky.social's excellent punk band Ekko Astral, who I saw live in Oakland a couple months ago (both SAVAGE and HEALING)
For various reasons, I had a lot of time off work this November. Here are some things I did:
🌳 Had a lovely staycation in SF with my parents.
🍴 Went to some great Italian restaurants.
🇪🇸 Started learning Spanish.
⚫ Had a relatively severe suicidal episode.
❤️🔥 Had a sustained mental health crisis.
🌳 Had a lovely staycation in SF with my parents.
🍴 Went to some great Italian restaurants.
🇪🇸 Started learning Spanish.
⚫ Had a relatively severe suicidal episode.
❤️🔥 Had a sustained mental health crisis.
December 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
For various reasons, I had a lot of time off work this November. Here are some things I did:
🌳 Had a lovely staycation in SF with my parents.
🍴 Went to some great Italian restaurants.
🇪🇸 Started learning Spanish.
⚫ Had a relatively severe suicidal episode.
❤️🔥 Had a sustained mental health crisis.
🌳 Had a lovely staycation in SF with my parents.
🍴 Went to some great Italian restaurants.
🇪🇸 Started learning Spanish.
⚫ Had a relatively severe suicidal episode.
❤️🔥 Had a sustained mental health crisis.
IT'S BANDCAMP FRIDAY!!!!
as aforementioned, I like to buy albums on Bandcamp. today is a GREAT day to do this because ALL the money goes to artists and labels!
pls like this post so that when I wake up tmrw I'll be reminded to skeet about what I bought and what I loved :3 bsky.app/profile/did:...
as aforementioned, I like to buy albums on Bandcamp. today is a GREAT day to do this because ALL the money goes to artists and labels!
pls like this post so that when I wake up tmrw I'll be reminded to skeet about what I bought and what I loved :3 bsky.app/profile/did:...
Nice post! I do a combo of options 1 and 3.
I buy albums on Bandcamp and vinyl, then put the MP3s on an external hard drive attached to a Raspberry Pi running a music server app called Navidrome.
From there, I can listen on my phone or my computer anywhere with an internet connection. It’s neat!
I buy albums on Bandcamp and vinyl, then put the MP3s on an external hard drive attached to a Raspberry Pi running a music server app called Navidrome.
From there, I can listen on my phone or my computer anywhere with an internet connection. It’s neat!
Looking to ditch Spotify? @janus.bsky.social wrote this up for @fightforthefuture.org and it's an easy step-by-step guide for how to do it in the least painless way possible
touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...
touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...
December 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
IT'S BANDCAMP FRIDAY!!!!
as aforementioned, I like to buy albums on Bandcamp. today is a GREAT day to do this because ALL the money goes to artists and labels!
pls like this post so that when I wake up tmrw I'll be reminded to skeet about what I bought and what I loved :3 bsky.app/profile/did:...
as aforementioned, I like to buy albums on Bandcamp. today is a GREAT day to do this because ALL the money goes to artists and labels!
pls like this post so that when I wake up tmrw I'll be reminded to skeet about what I bought and what I loved :3 bsky.app/profile/did:...
Nice post! I do a combo of options 1 and 3.
I buy albums on Bandcamp and vinyl, then put the MP3s on an external hard drive attached to a Raspberry Pi running a music server app called Navidrome.
From there, I can listen on my phone or my computer anywhere with an internet connection. It’s neat!
I buy albums on Bandcamp and vinyl, then put the MP3s on an external hard drive attached to a Raspberry Pi running a music server app called Navidrome.
From there, I can listen on my phone or my computer anywhere with an internet connection. It’s neat!
Looking to ditch Spotify? @janus.bsky.social wrote this up for @fightforthefuture.org and it's an easy step-by-step guide for how to do it in the least painless way possible
touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...
touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...
How To Ditch Spotify and Support Music in the Age of AI Slop
There’s no shortage of reasons to quit Spotify in 2025. Artists and fans have been departing the platform in droves because they’re fed up with the company paying artists virtually nothing, using algo...
touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Nice post! I do a combo of options 1 and 3.
I buy albums on Bandcamp and vinyl, then put the MP3s on an external hard drive attached to a Raspberry Pi running a music server app called Navidrome.
From there, I can listen on my phone or my computer anywhere with an internet connection. It’s neat!
I buy albums on Bandcamp and vinyl, then put the MP3s on an external hard drive attached to a Raspberry Pi running a music server app called Navidrome.
From there, I can listen on my phone or my computer anywhere with an internet connection. It’s neat!
WE 👏 EXIST 👏
you might be wondering "who goes to see the avatars?" it's me, i go to see the avatars. i love that shit.
December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
WE 👏 EXIST 👏
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do not kill yourself. killing yourself is the yourself killer
it's the biggest don't kill yourself thursday of the year, repost to not kill yourself on don't kill yourself thursday
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
do not kill yourself. killing yourself is the yourself killer
just in case y'all aren't aware: the new Rosalía album, Lux, is AMAZING. absolutely crazy genre hopping, every new song makes me spontaneously grin at its audacity and bombast
honestly reminds me of Bjork or Kate Bush in how intensely + joyfully it experiments with the pop form! STRONG recommend
honestly reminds me of Bjork or Kate Bush in how intensely + joyfully it experiments with the pop form! STRONG recommend
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
just in case y'all aren't aware: the new Rosalía album, Lux, is AMAZING. absolutely crazy genre hopping, every new song makes me spontaneously grin at its audacity and bombast
honestly reminds me of Bjork or Kate Bush in how intensely + joyfully it experiments with the pop form! STRONG recommend
honestly reminds me of Bjork or Kate Bush in how intensely + joyfully it experiments with the pop form! STRONG recommend
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yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
to be clear, this was the dream I had last night
bizarre cyber incident where people across the world found mysterious docker containers running on their devices, hogging resources and endlessly multiplying
so I had to go on TV to explain what docker is and why there’s nothing sinister about me using it in my homelab
so I had to go on TV to explain what docker is and why there’s nothing sinister about me using it in my homelab
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
to be clear, this was the dream I had last night
bizarre cyber incident where people across the world found mysterious docker containers running on their devices, hogging resources and endlessly multiplying
so I had to go on TV to explain what docker is and why there’s nothing sinister about me using it in my homelab
so I had to go on TV to explain what docker is and why there’s nothing sinister about me using it in my homelab
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
bizarre cyber incident where people across the world found mysterious docker containers running on their devices, hogging resources and endlessly multiplying
so I had to go on TV to explain what docker is and why there’s nothing sinister about me using it in my homelab
so I had to go on TV to explain what docker is and why there’s nothing sinister about me using it in my homelab