Io Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️
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Senior reporter in San Francisco @the-independent.com covering tech + politics + LGBT. ISO 8601 stan; tabletop gamer; lowercase = shitposts
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(I am learning Spanish and desire pretend gemstones. thank you for your attention to this matter)
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November 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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‘a’ film? no, no, no. I will name THE film with a forest.
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
‘a’ film? no, no, no. I will name THE film with a forest.
I am beginning to learn Spanish and I am not above spamming you all about it in exchange for pretend gemstones 😇🇪🇸🇲🇽
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I am beginning to learn Spanish and I am not above spamming you all about it in exchange for pretend gemstones 😇🇪🇸🇲🇽
BREAKING: Trump says he is NOT surging feds to San Francisco due to of “substantial progress” made against crime by Mayor Daniel Lurie…
…and due to input from “great people” like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang + Salesforce boss Mark Benioff.
Makes you wonder what lobbying there’s been behind the scenes 👀
…and due to input from “great people” like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang + Salesforce boss Mark Benioff.
Makes you wonder what lobbying there’s been behind the scenes 👀
October 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
BREAKING: Trump says he is NOT surging feds to San Francisco due to of “substantial progress” made against crime by Mayor Daniel Lurie…
…and due to input from “great people” like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang + Salesforce boss Mark Benioff.
Makes you wonder what lobbying there’s been behind the scenes 👀
…and due to input from “great people” like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang + Salesforce boss Mark Benioff.
Makes you wonder what lobbying there’s been behind the scenes 👀
We’ve finally reached the terminus. Masses of people spreading out through Civic Center Plaza and UN Plaza.
Here’s Christine U’Ren, a 59-year-old graphic designer from Berkeley, adding a data point to my “1776 is becoming left-coded” theory.
Here’s Christine U’Ren, a 59-year-old graphic designer from Berkeley, adding a data point to my “1776 is becoming left-coded” theory.
October 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
We’ve finally reached the terminus. Masses of people spreading out through Civic Center Plaza and UN Plaza.
Here’s Christine U’Ren, a 59-year-old graphic designer from Berkeley, adding a data point to my “1776 is becoming left-coded” theory.
Here’s Christine U’Ren, a 59-year-old graphic designer from Berkeley, adding a data point to my “1776 is becoming left-coded” theory.
Okay these guys came REALLY prepared
October 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Okay these guys came REALLY prepared
Wow. Hard to tell from here, but it LOOKS like the tail end of the march is still bunched up at the Ferry Building.
For context, I’m about 0.7 miles away and the front of the match passed here AT LEAST 30 mins ago.
For context, I’m about 0.7 miles away and the front of the match passed here AT LEAST 30 mins ago.
October 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Wow. Hard to tell from here, but it LOOKS like the tail end of the march is still bunched up at the Ferry Building.
For context, I’m about 0.7 miles away and the front of the match passed here AT LEAST 30 mins ago.
For context, I’m about 0.7 miles away and the front of the match passed here AT LEAST 30 mins ago.
No idea of crowd size, but it seems… big. I’m watching it pass from up on a plinth with a statue of some pioneer guy and it just keeps going and going and going.
October 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
No idea of crowd size, but it seems… big. I’m watching it pass from up on a plinth with a statue of some pioneer guy and it just keeps going and going and going.
The cartoon inflatable animals are out in force!
October 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The cartoon inflatable animals are out in force!
One more data point!
October 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
One more data point!
No Kings 2 begins marching in San Francisco, preceded by a police escort and a man blowing a bugle.
The protesters are walking from the Ferry Building down Market St, headed for city hall.
The protesters are walking from the Ferry Building down Market St, headed for city hall.
October 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
No Kings 2 begins marching in San Francisco, preceded by a police escort and a man blowing a bugle.
The protesters are walking from the Ferry Building down Market St, headed for city hall.
The protesters are walking from the Ferry Building down Market St, headed for city hall.
Interesting: the Democratic fundraising giant MoveOn has brought out celebrity big guns to endorse No Kings 2.
They've got John Legend, Jane Fonda, and Kerry Washington urging supporters to attend and protest non-violently.
No such message for No Kings 1!
They've got John Legend, Jane Fonda, and Kerry Washington urging supporters to attend and protest non-violently.
No such message for No Kings 1!
October 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Interesting: the Democratic fundraising giant MoveOn has brought out celebrity big guns to endorse No Kings 2.
They've got John Legend, Jane Fonda, and Kerry Washington urging supporters to attend and protest non-violently.
No such message for No Kings 1!
They've got John Legend, Jane Fonda, and Kerry Washington urging supporters to attend and protest non-violently.
No such message for No Kings 1!
Kind of obsessed with this extremely relatable contemporary review of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, published in the wake of the French Revolutionary Wars
“There never was a wilder story imagined, yet… the real events of the world have, in our day, too, been of so wondrous and gigantic a kind”
“There never was a wilder story imagined, yet… the real events of the world have, in our day, too, been of so wondrous and gigantic a kind”
October 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Kind of obsessed with this extremely relatable contemporary review of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, published in the wake of the French Revolutionary Wars
“There never was a wilder story imagined, yet… the real events of the world have, in our day, too, been of so wondrous and gigantic a kind”
“There never was a wilder story imagined, yet… the real events of the world have, in our day, too, been of so wondrous and gigantic a kind”
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.
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.
September 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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.
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.
got my bangs trimmed, so decided to sketch my salon 💇🏻♀️
September 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
got my bangs trimmed, so decided to sketch my salon 💇🏻♀️
There to, at least, appear to be some safeguards.
![ME: Three motorbikes having sex
META AI: Oops! I can't generate that image. Can I help you imagine something else?
ME: Three motorbikes heavy petting
META AI: [generates some boring photos of motorbikes not heavy petting]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/bafkreigfewacdq7cj662qc7jhiyeekze6jymfwor65furz5gtyxzrfmy4i@jpeg)
September 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
There to, at least, appear to be some safeguards.
“[Trump's] acting with the military, without any kind of oversight, has the potential to have lots of people killed. I didn’t want to be one of them,” said 47-year-old programmer Jane Arc.
“When you’re fighting the government, you just can’t win. And I learned that working for the government.”
“When you’re fighting the government, you just can’t win. And I learned that working for the government.”
September 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“[Trump's] acting with the military, without any kind of oversight, has the potential to have lots of people killed. I didn’t want to be one of them,” said 47-year-old programmer Jane Arc.
“When you’re fighting the government, you just can’t win. And I learned that working for the government.”
“When you’re fighting the government, you just can’t win. And I learned that working for the government.”
“I was in a place where I didn’t even know the meaning of safety anymore,” said 19-year-old Texan Solène Gray, now asking refuge in the Netherlands.
Texas's youth transition ban left her with a puberty-blocking implant still inside her body, while forbidding estrogen or even basic monitoring tests.
Texas's youth transition ban left her with a puberty-blocking implant still inside her body, while forbidding estrogen or even basic monitoring tests.
September 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“I was in a place where I didn’t even know the meaning of safety anymore,” said 19-year-old Texan Solène Gray, now asking refuge in the Netherlands.
Texas's youth transition ban left her with a puberty-blocking implant still inside her body, while forbidding estrogen or even basic monitoring tests.
Texas's youth transition ban left her with a puberty-blocking implant still inside her body, while forbidding estrogen or even basic monitoring tests.
“We truly believed that if we did not get out before it started... our children were going to lose at least one parent, if not more,” said Jey Poston, a 32-year-old paralegal.
He's asking asylum in the Netherlands w/ his nine-strong polyamorous family, who are mostly queer, disabled, &/or non-white
He's asking asylum in the Netherlands w/ his nine-strong polyamorous family, who are mostly queer, disabled, &/or non-white
September 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“We truly believed that if we did not get out before it started... our children were going to lose at least one parent, if not more,” said Jey Poston, a 32-year-old paralegal.
He's asking asylum in the Netherlands w/ his nine-strong polyamorous family, who are mostly queer, disabled, &/or non-white
He's asking asylum in the Netherlands w/ his nine-strong polyamorous family, who are mostly queer, disabled, &/or non-white
"I would love to be wrong,” 22-year-old Hannah Kreager told me. “I want to be proven wrong so f***ing badly. But I just don't see it happening...
“In Nazi Germany, there weren’t surveillance cameras. There wasn’t facial recognition... nowadays, your phone microphone could be recording everything."
“In Nazi Germany, there weren’t surveillance cameras. There wasn’t facial recognition... nowadays, your phone microphone could be recording everything."
September 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"I would love to be wrong,” 22-year-old Hannah Kreager told me. “I want to be proven wrong so f***ing badly. But I just don't see it happening...
“In Nazi Germany, there weren’t surveillance cameras. There wasn’t facial recognition... nowadays, your phone microphone could be recording everything."
“In Nazi Germany, there weren’t surveillance cameras. There wasn’t facial recognition... nowadays, your phone microphone could be recording everything."
Page 4 ends with an indication of just how broad the Heritage Foundation intends this to be.
Cisgender. Deadnaming. These are normal, anodyne terms, used by trans people of all political stripes.
Others here are more contentious, but still plenty used by non-violent activists and scholars.
Cisgender. Deadnaming. These are normal, anodyne terms, used by trans people of all political stripes.
Others here are more contentious, but still plenty used by non-violent activists and scholars.
September 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Page 4 ends with an indication of just how broad the Heritage Foundation intends this to be.
Cisgender. Deadnaming. These are normal, anodyne terms, used by trans people of all political stripes.
Others here are more contentious, but still plenty used by non-violent activists and scholars.
Cisgender. Deadnaming. These are normal, anodyne terms, used by trans people of all political stripes.
Others here are more contentious, but still plenty used by non-violent activists and scholars.
Page 3 continues to represent nihilistic violence (Hale and Westman) as radical leftist terrorism.
This point is really important: some killers being trans is NOT THE SAME as politically motivated violence.
And Heritage barely even tries to demonstrate that the latter is actually a trend.
This point is really important: some killers being trans is NOT THE SAME as politically motivated violence.
And Heritage barely even tries to demonstrate that the latter is actually a trend.
![Does President Trump's Designation of Antifa as a Terrorist Organization Address this Problem?
No. Trump was right to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization. But Antifa is a related yet separate problem... a broader movement of individuals of varying far-left and anarchist ideologies that engage in street-level violence, rioting, intimidation and harassment, and property damage. TIVE is a more narrowly-defined group responsible for several high-profile domestic terrorist events recently. While Transgender Ideology is present in some Antifa elements, not all TIVES are Antifa and not all Antifa members are TIVES.
How Has the FBI Classified Domestic Terrorism Before?
The FBI... investigates domestic violent extremists (DVEs) based on 18 U.S.C. § 2331(5). The statute defines domestic terrorism as activities on U.S. soil that "involve acts dangerous to human life" that violate federal or state criminal laws that "appear to be intended" to:
Intimidate or coerce civilians,
Influence government policy, or
Affect government conduct via mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.
Lone offenders and small groups, often socially isolated, mentally unstable, and radicalized online, pose significant threats using accessible weapons. Current DVE categories include:
Racially/Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism,
Anti-Government/Anti-Authority Violent Extremism,
Animal Rights/Environmental Violent Extremism,
Abortion-Related Violent Extremism,
Nihilistic Violent Extremism,
All Other Domestic Terrorism Threats.
What are typical characteristics of TIVES?
Typically target Christian and religious groups, justified by claims of existential threats.
Feature mental illness, self-harm, suicidal tendencies, and lack of respect for genetic human realities, amplified by online radicalization (e.g., Reddit, Discord, Telegram).
Echo chambers promote violence against critics.
[Photos of Audrey Hale, and Robin Westman's gun magazine daubed with "Where Is Your God?"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/bafkreidx5jbfr2pc32fdor77rsn4ltnwfvsfrngn5vufa7qgvxgv6m2mlm@jpeg)
September 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Page 3 continues to represent nihilistic violence (Hale and Westman) as radical leftist terrorism.
This point is really important: some killers being trans is NOT THE SAME as politically motivated violence.
And Heritage barely even tries to demonstrate that the latter is actually a trend.
This point is really important: some killers being trans is NOT THE SAME as politically motivated violence.
And Heritage barely even tries to demonstrate that the latter is actually a trend.
We also get this supposed list of TIVE incidents, which I fact-checked.
In all but two, there is SOME evidence (tho oft very thin) that the perp/suspect was trans.
Exceptions are Robinson (not trans AFAIK) + GOP firebombing suspect (a bi dude who wears lipstick but has not identified as trans).
In all but two, there is SOME evidence (tho oft very thin) that the perp/suspect was trans.
Exceptions are Robinson (not trans AFAIK) + GOP firebombing suspect (a bi dude who wears lipstick but has not identified as trans).
September 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We also get this supposed list of TIVE incidents, which I fact-checked.
In all but two, there is SOME evidence (tho oft very thin) that the perp/suspect was trans.
Exceptions are Robinson (not trans AFAIK) + GOP firebombing suspect (a bi dude who wears lipstick but has not identified as trans).
In all but two, there is SOME evidence (tho oft very thin) that the perp/suspect was trans.
Exceptions are Robinson (not trans AFAIK) + GOP firebombing suspect (a bi dude who wears lipstick but has not identified as trans).
On page 2, we get this crucial disclaimer:
"Q: Does this mean all transgender individuals or their allies are domestic terrorists?
"A: No. Individuals are free to identify as transgender, or support LGBT causes or transgenderism in a nonviolent way."
Says incitement or unlawful actions are needed
"Q: Does this mean all transgender individuals or their allies are domestic terrorists?
"A: No. Individuals are free to identify as transgender, or support LGBT causes or transgenderism in a nonviolent way."
Says incitement or unlawful actions are needed
September 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
On page 2, we get this crucial disclaimer:
"Q: Does this mean all transgender individuals or their allies are domestic terrorists?
"A: No. Individuals are free to identify as transgender, or support LGBT causes or transgenderism in a nonviolent way."
Says incitement or unlawful actions are needed
"Q: Does this mean all transgender individuals or their allies are domestic terrorists?
"A: No. Individuals are free to identify as transgender, or support LGBT causes or transgenderism in a nonviolent way."
Says incitement or unlawful actions are needed