Io Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️
Senior reporter in San Francisco @the-independent.com covering tech + politics + LGBT. ISO 8601 stan; tabletop gamer; lowercase = shitposts
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Email: io.dodds@the-independent.com
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- This seems to vindicate my theory that Americans in 2024 were willing to entertain “mass deportation” because they were wildly wrong about how many people actually fit the category “people I personally think deserve to be deported”. Because surely Trump couldn’t mean deporting innocents. Right?
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- Reposted by Io Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents** substack.com/@gelliottmor...
- Reposted by Io Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
- Reposted by Io Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️Today is the 10th anniversary of this gif of me showing how to make games on TV.
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- Not sure how many of my followers are in Australia, but I feel moved to share this out of solidarity with my people* * girls with self-hosted servers whose storage is measured in tens of terabytes† † only 20TB for me so far 😳
- It's time to figure out how I'm going to get to classes while looking for a pet friendly lease which means YOU (or someone you know in Sydney) could get to live with me, Tess! My budget is currently austudy, lol 🙃, but I won't stop working until I can get Pepita back. Shares appreciated, DMs open! ✨
- Reposted by Io Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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- Reposted by Io Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️BAGGER: (spilling my groceries on the floor) Oh God. I'm so sorry. This isn't what I'm supposed to do. ME: How are you supposed to do it? MANAGER: She means she was gonna be a fox. In the woods and shit. But something happened and she got stuck. BAGGER: (crying) Got so stuck.
- did #1 in 2024, #2 in 2025 😎😇
- when I was a kid living on a small rural Scottish island we used to drive two villages over and climb into a convertible truck trailer with folding chairs that only visited the mainland once every few months just to see a movie
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- easy mistake to make. they actually meant to hire his opposite world doppelganger, Sensibill
- love that one of the basic conventional way of saying “my name is” in Spanish is actually an inherent declaration of the validity of chosen names it’s my name because I said so, motherfucker!!!!
- This meme accidentally reveals the silliness of gender critical arguments about “two sexes”! “Humans, as a species, are bipedal” — Sure, that’s true “Every human has two legs and should be treated as such, but also we must not tolerate prosthetic legs in our society ” — Sorry, are you high?
- Reposted by Io Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.
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- Reposted by Io Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️BREAKING and HUGE news for transgender people: The bipartisan final negotiated text for these spending bills REMOVED language to restrict gender-affirming care as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
- Reposted by Io Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie
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- Add me to the target list: I really cannot overstate my disdain for dogpiling. It’s the ultimate political displacement activity, accomplishing almost nothing except to make the wielder feel like they accomplished something. A corrosive drug that our culture desperately needs to kick.
- dreamed of a Linkin Park official Lego set where one of the pieces exploits quantum dynamics to regularly render itself lost then respawn in the box
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- AHAHAHAHAHA I LIVED BITCH!!!!!!!!!
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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?
- 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
