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aaron @aaron.mn · 19/09/2026

Posting each one of these I come across would get my account rate limited but this garnish in particular sent me to gagsville

An AI-generated restaurant ad with a cocktail garnish that looks like Cthulhu’s butthole

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aaron @aaron.mn · 17/09/2026

Hello, 311, can you please ensure this never stops, thank you

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aaron @aaron.mn · 17/09/2026

Good morning to my neighbors, thank you

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aaron @aaron.mn · 27/08/2026

Mandatory lobotomies for people who use this

WSJ Headline: Kalshi and the Weather Co. Join Forces on Climate Trades

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aaron @aaron.mn · 27/08/2026

Did this search also lead you to the website with the single most insane logo I've ever seen

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aaron @aaron.mn · 10/08/2026

My life would have been perfect if I had logged off here

My grade school typing test in which I typed at 13 words per minute

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aaron @aaron.mn · 29/07/2026

Forcing @doomquasar.bsky.social to experience my culture

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aaron @aaron.mn · 22/07/2026

I always thought the one they made “for designers” was uh, pretty pointless. Smart of them to keep making the same junk repeatedly though.

The thing Chris was talking about except 1% different and marketed towards designers for some reason

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aaron @aaron.mn · 11/07/2026

I will never forget the day Soulframe became the first video game to introduce fishing. I was there.

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aaron @aaron.mn · 11/07/2026

I LOVE TENNOCON EVERYONE TRIED SO HARD

Everyone who participated in this year’s cosplay contest

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aaron @aaron.mn · 10/07/2026

A year ago I turned to @doomquasar.bsky.social and said “I kind of want to try @warframe.com…?” and now we’re somehow in CANADA (!) at TENNOCON (!!) creating CONTENT (!!!)

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aaron @aaron.mn · 07/07/2026

Allow me to introduce you to an extremely stupid use of $2,800

A very expensive digital camera used for like, two meetings per day

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aaron @aaron.mn · 24/06/2026

Today they launched a tool explicitly designed to rip art off, by the way.

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aaron @aaron.mn · 23/04/2026

On one hand I feel like I’m spending too much money on Blogs and I need to cut back on Blog spending. On the other hand I just bought this as a $98 party gag.

A hot dog roller that the author spent way too much money on

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aaron @aaron.mn · 15/04/2026

Transferring at Hoyt-Schermerhorn

screenshot of real gross monsters on the subway from the terrible video game Hellgate: London

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aaron @aaron.mn · 28/03/2026

Happy to send a few bucks to the greatest country on Earth. I'd send them more if I could, actually. It's a good cause.

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aaron @aaron.mn · 27/02/2026

I will be buying the children's game "Pokémon" so I can have the new Pokémon, Browt. Browt is a chickpea. I'm 40.

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aaron @aaron.mn · 19/02/2026

Good blog from @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social. It's this, for me. No amount of boosted efficiency will offset the fact that "AI" is going to make life more grueling, expensive, and speculative for us. It's been Silicon Valley's playbook for like, 20 years.

"All of this blathering is in service to the idea that conservative sectors are lapping the left on being techno optimists, but I don’t think that’s true either. It is true that the forces of capital have generally adopted AI as the future whereas workers have not—but this is not a simple left/right distinction. I’ve lived through an era when Silicon Valley presented itself as the gateway to a utopia where people work less and machines automate most of the manual labor necessary for our collective existence. But when companies from the tech sector monopolize an industry, like rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft, instead of less work and more relaxation, what happens is that people are forced to work more to compete with robots that are specifically coming for their jobs. Regardless of political leanings, people in general don’t like AI, while businesses as entities are increasingly forcing it on their workers and clients."

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aaron @aaron.mn · 05/02/2026

things are going well at work

A Slack screenshot in which I am being a lil stinker beneath a badge congratulating me on my work anniversary

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aaron @aaron.mn · 04/02/2026

I’ve never felt more shame, more regret, than I did after seeing my @warframe.com year in review this morning

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aaron @aaron.mn · 16/12/2025

I’ve spent a week eating nothing but food that looks like this in France and if anything I’m shrinking. There’s magic here.

A French “hot dog” covered in a thousand pounds of cheese

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aaron @aaron.mn · 03/12/2025

Entering bullet time and performing the world's most destructive uppercut over my lost 3D printer delivery

FedEx delivery notification that a package has missed its delivery date

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aaron @aaron.mn · 04/11/2025

Most importantly, please go vote so I don't have to issue a depressing update here:

An excerpt with the following:

We're in the final hours of my city's mayoral race as I write this. On one side, Zohran Mamdani has run a campaign centered on his sincere love for New York City and the people who make it vibrant. His success has been a rare source to hope during one of darkest years of my lifetime. His opponent, Andrew Cuomo, lazily began his campaign by releasing a housing plan generated by ChatGPT. He's since buried social media in libelous AI-generated ads designed to make you hateful and afraid. AI-generated imagery has been so central to his campaign that it's impossible to separate its aesthetic from his character. If you want a world where political campaigns look like Cuomo's, then again, I'm not sure what to tell you.

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aaron @aaron.mn · 21/08/2025

These guys are living my absolute dream life

Staying small also meant eschewing the production practices commonplace at many game-development studios.

"What is Jira?" Gibson said when I asked if they used the task-management application.

"Is it a software?" Pellen said, adding that they'd briefly used Trello before their account was deactivated because they didn't use it enough.

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aaron @aaron.mn · 21/08/2025

You know I'll be quoting this verbatim every time I fuck up at anything, forever. Eighty years old, caught stealing M&M's from the nurse, saying that I just wanted to have one good friend. It's nothing.

"I make a mistake," she said. "I'm so sorry. It's a culture thing. I don't know. I don't understand. I'm so sorry. I feel so bad right now. I'm so sorry honey."

She then called THE CITY back, advising that we call her attorney, Steven Brill, and adding, "Can we forget about this? I try to be a good person. Please. Please. Please don't do in the news nothing about me."

"I just wanted to be her friend," Greco added. "I just wanted to have one good friend. It's nothing."

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aaron @aaron.mn · 18/08/2025

This argument is so dishonest because simulating conversation is low on the list of reasons Duolingo has declined in quality over the last year. Lessons are becoming nonsensical and the app is overrun with annoying upsells even though I pay for the non-AI tier and repeatedly decline to “upgrade.”