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.comhttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.socialhttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mvsx5lguss2fTODAY ON IOSPHERE: Just beneath the surface of reality there is a dark woven structure of almost impossible intricacy. It decides which memes go viral. Which politicians win. Which religions prosper, which empires fall. This is a post about the day I Saw it. https://iosphere.beehiiv.com/p/18-darwin-pilled18 Sep 2026 19:55 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvsx5lguss2fhttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mvjkvkkuxs2kAt SF’s Asian Art Museum as an official chronicler for @time.com’s 2026 AI impact dinner! I can’t help wondering what the makers of this ~8th century Indonesian door guardian would have made of this strange era of intangible automatons running around romancing mortals and doing cybercrimes…15 Sep 2026 02:21 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjkvkkuxs2khttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mvfyo6kf7s2n“British desi and/or black James Bond but his parents are still alive” seems like such a good idea that I’m stunned no one’s tried to make it yet (Or have they?)13 Sep 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvfyo6kf7s2nhttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mvayeqypys2qThis is so absolutely wild because you only need the most surface understanding of 1960s/70s antiwar protests to know America’s *lack* of skin in the game was a major talking point. Much of the opposition was *predicated* on Vietnam being a distant country that posed no direct threat to the USA! [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Sep 2026 16:29 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvayeqypys2qhttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mvanxn54v72xTHIS WEEK ON IOSPHERE: My spouse's ear canals are huge & gaping. Mine are tiny & dainty. So while their earplugs are branded 'Daddy', I use bright pink 'Dreamgirls'. And this, in a roundabout way, explains my problem with "gender affirming healthcare". https://iosphere.beehiiv.com/p/15-gender-affirming-earplugs11 Sep 2026 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvanxn54v72xhttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mvanet45c22ylesbians in control. trust the plan11 Sep 2026 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvanet45c22yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mv2nfoqid22lIoism update: A key difficulty with trying to worship the universe, it turns out, is that the universe is extremely complicated. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Sep 2026 03:56 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv2nfoqid22lhttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3muraso3ews2ayou know, I just want everyone to understand and be appropriately grateful that I, as a former teenage militant atheist, am not being more Spider Jerusalem about this I'm just saying! I could be SO much more obnoxious [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Sep 2026 10:17 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3muraso3ews2ahttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mup2glbgyd2t🚨✨🌘 EXCITING NEWS, Io fans 🌒✨🚨 After a long hiatus due to being laid off + very sick, my newsletter IOSPHERE is back!!! https://iosphere.beehiiv.com/p/14-minimum-viable-goddess This week: why I'm inventing my own religion, what kind of God it honours, and why no one but me is allowed to follow it.04 Sep 2026 13:18 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup2glbgyd2thttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mup2glbgyd2t🚨✨🌘 EXCITING NEWS, Io fans 🌒✨🚨 After a long hiatus due to being laid off + very sick, my newsletter IOSPHERE is back!!! https://iosphere.beehiiv.com/p/14-minimum-viable-goddess This week: why I'm inventing my own religion, what kind of God it honours, and why no one but me is allowed to follow it.04 Sep 2026 13:18 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup2glbgyd2thttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mun2ojd32k2kWow, I knew that Jurassic Park was originally gonna use Tippett’s go-motion technique, but I’d never actually seen it in action! It’s… shockingly good?!? Now I can’t help wanting to see what the movie *would* have been like. RELEASE THE TIPPETT CUT [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2026 18:17 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mun2ojd32k2khttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mtyt2ynk5c2k“But you’re meant to be in Paris,” protested Cher. “I saw you there at the club. Why did you *stare* at me so, if not because you had come to take my life?” “I was simply astonished,” said Death, “to see you in Paris — for I had an appointment with you this very night at home in Malibu.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 17:07 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyt2ynk5c2khttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mtpmf4d5lc2l🎵 won't make my mama proud it's gonna cause a scene she sees her baby girl i know she's gonna scream "Gawd, what have you done? become a thief in the night become a dog on the run" oh mama Iiiiiiiii just helped myself just a mouthful of bread now they've murdered Valjean 🎶23 Aug 2026 01:14 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtpmf4d5lc2lhttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mtnve2b24225As someone who does approximately 312 internet searches and 79.4 local file searches every day as part of my job: yeah, it's getting bad out there. Weirdly, I think it exerts pressure towards the deep end of *deterministic* tools (scraping, curling, grepping) if your needs are sufficiently acute. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2026 08:49 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtnve2b24225https://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mtmd3dd7ds25little known fact: when you get “wed” (ie married), you are actually using a program called wife edit which modifies your and your wife’s metadata to reference each other21 Aug 2026 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmd3dd7ds25https://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mtktozdgtk22@laughlax.bsky.social @henryhenryhenry.com just to chime in, if I may, in a new thread: I have also got good use out of aTrain github.com/JuergenFleiss/aTrain + Transcribe Offline https://github.com/openresearchtools/transcribeoffline both of which use Whisper models I feel pretty close to weaning myself off Otter entirely! [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 03:41 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtktozdgtk22https://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mtk25nmjpk2gJust for fun, and to stretch my (VERY nascent) Spanish, I had a go at translating* this... *by looking up unfamiliar individual words up in Google Translate and then jiggling the grammar around til it made sense (lotta missing accents cos idk how to do them on my PC keyboard, sorry!!) [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Aug 2026 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtk25nmjpk2ghttps://blacksky.community/profile/iododds.bsky.social/post/3mtjufwcqjs2poh my god GOALS [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Aug 2026 18:21 +0000at://did:plc:moh2lzofpyfudra2fc6zgfpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjufwcqjs2p