Io Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️
@iododds.bsky.social
Freelance reporter in Silicon Valley covering tech, politics, & LGBT. ISO 8601 stan; tabletop gamer; lowercase = shitposts. Formerly @the-independent.com Signal: @iohazard.01 Email: laureniododds@gmail Subscribe to IOSPHERE! https://iosphere.beehiiv.com
Today marks a very special day in science fiction literature. May I present to you, "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury:
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
wapo.st
Happy Friday! After surviving a layoff, a massive house move, and a storm of immigration paperwork, I am SO BACK. My first freelance story is on San Francisco's oddly bitter 'dog wars' — and the angry vibecoder waging a one-man campaign to de-fur his local park. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026...
The AI-armed vigilante hunting San Francisco’s ‘entitled’ dog walkers
A tech campaign using algorithms to expose pet owners has ignited a row over privacy and public spaces
telegraph.co.uk
hey you! yes you. I just got off the phone with the IACQTP (International Association of Cutie Pies) and they were super sorry about the error congrats, you are now IACQTP-certified 💚
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there is another world where you are a notorious judge on a hit show called "the worlds most delicious dip". you are the one who always says the dip or salsa needs to be spicier and they have shirts with you on it saying that
Fuck it, I didn’t grow up pilfering my grandpa’s Len Deighton collection for nothing I’M IN LET’S GOOO
Getting back into RSS readers 😎 What are some good outlets/orgs to add to my 'trans' feed? And, for that matter, my 'tech' feed?
‘Normal Girl’ hitting a lil harder today 😭
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · last mo.Oh fascinating! SZA says she got a formal autism diagnosis. This is a huge deal because Black and female #ActuallyAutistic people frequently get overlooked or go undiagnosed. Hopefully this leads to less stigma around who can be autistic. www.complex.com/music/a/alex...
Oh fascinating! SZA says she got a formal autism diagnosis. This is a huge deal because Black and female #ActuallyAutistic people frequently get overlooked or go undiagnosed. Hopefully this leads to less stigma around who can be autistic. www.complex.com/music/a/alex...
SZA Says She 'Finally' Got Formally Diagnosed With Autism
The Grammy winner shared that she was formally diagnosed ...
complex.com
for what it’s worth, trans women in a federal case I’m covering have been denied their hormones while being held in men’s facilities under federal charges. I feel like cis people don’t realize that this is happening at all
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: Trans prisoners' medical care remains protected after a flurry of court rulings on Wednesday. A D.C. Circuit ruling would have allowed the Trump admin's anti-trans policy to go into effect, but a new district court injunction issued hours later blocked the policy yet again. Law Dork:
As someone who’s had sci-fi dreams of ubiquitous AR for a couple decades now… I always imagined people at a cocktail party would VOLUNTARILY switch on an identity flag that the glasses would recognise? Face recognition is so obviously privacy-violating that I never even imagined we’d use it!!
i (M, 28) occasionally let rip a big old fart at home. when i do, my partner (F, 27) catches the fart particles on a special strip of chemically reactive paper to make what she calls a “Tasty Slice”, which she then demands I sniff. i think she’s being disgustingly; she says i should fart less. AITA?
okay this is a wildly specific venn diagram intersection so if even ONE person gets this reference I will be very happy but I cannot stop imagining Rocco from Noah's Island as a Soviet military officer, bumptiously pronouncing the phrase "Deep H'operations"
In late 2024, as the new Labour govt began radically curtailing trans rights, I said to a UK friend: “It’s not a big issue for most people. But for anyone young or liberal it’ll help set a tone of cultural repression & decline that will hurt Labour in the long run.” I was wrong: it happened FAST.
SCP-10033 is a Keter-class infohazard usually stored in [REDACTED]. First attributed to in 2010, the anomaly usually takes the form of a lectern, although numerous iterations of the precise appearance have been attributed to over the years (see appendix 01).
unmasking is fucking crazy dude what the fuck do you mean if I flap my hands a little every so often and stop forcing myself to make eye contact I’ll unlock holistic heights and depths of joy and hurt that I didn’t even know existed? be serious please
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i really don't think people understand how much a trillion dollars actually is. that's three million dollars. you could offer tampa bay rays outfielder jake fraley an entire one-year deal with that kind of money. imagine jake fraley playing an entire season for your team. that's wealth. that's power
however chauvinist this may be, i will always love a Full Scottish breakfast most of all BUT at a place called “Peg’s Glorified Ham & Eggs” in Reno, NV, I had a chorizo Benedict with chipotle sauce that made me see the Goddess I would kill a man in any town just to get that chipotle Benedict
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 2mo agoLet’s do some discourse. Who has the best breakfasts? My vote is Mexico: huevos rancheros/divorciados, chilaquiles, molletes, tetelas, papas con chorizo, churros, migas… plus café de olla I dunno, I think they figured it out?
diogenes is alive today, and he lives in an RV on the streets of west oakland
That girl with the posts@roodypatooti.bsky.social · 12mo ago
🌘 SOME PERSONAL NEWS: 🌒 Sadly, I have been laid off from my job as a senior reporter at The Independent. I had great fun. Did some amazing work with amazing people. No regrets. But now I am urgently looking for new work. Journalism, copywriting, staff or contract; you name it, I'm interested.