Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 15/10/2026One of my favorite Old 97's lyrics: I remember the Alamo I don't recall who won They had swords, they had horses I hear we had mighty gunsyoutube.comIf My Heart Was A CarYouTube video by Old 97's - Topic 020 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Hadn't seen the interview and was going off their social media statements. I agree that Adam comes off cagey in the interview, like he doesn't want to answer any questions and just wants the whole thing over with. 010 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Whenever I've seen a show there, in addition to the spiel about no electronics, just these strings, this bellows, this whistle, these cams, this crank, etc, they've always mentioned that Molly is one of two of a kind, the other being with Bliss Kolb. 000 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 14/10/2026They have? Molly (the bird automata) isn't, but Bliss Kolb, the Seattle-based artist who made it, made two and has its twin, and would be willing to part with it. So the store doesn't sell Molly but is willing to put people in touch with Bliss Kolb to arrange purchase of his. 200 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 13/10/2026(They being the people who run the shop, though the performers are great too) 000 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 13/10/2026As someone who has been to see nearly every performer they've had at that shop, I very much doubt it. They're all wonderful, generous people. 220 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Have you ever thought about how the existence of places that offer bottomless fries implies that most fries have bottoms? I wonder which part the frybutt is. 010 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Holy shit the new Cory Branan album is clever and funny and brutal 010 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Or the magic edc dorks who optimize which deck of cards, which packet tricks, which coins, which thumb tip, which sharpie, and which sponge balls they carry with them. 020 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I legitimately only saw the goat until the bird clicked for me. I can see either now, but my brain clicks back and forth. I can't see both at the same time. 010 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I am absolutely an AI hater, recently quit my software engineering job rather than comply with a new, short-sighted and draconian AI mandate, and am in the process of maintaining my lifelong streak of not using LLMs for anything ever for any reason, but I respect that other people's thresholds vary. 000 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The last thing I expected on this website was for Jay Sankey to catch strays. 011 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Whether or not it's on me, I shall blame you for it, mother. 000 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I'm not a cosplayer, but I usually go hard for Halloween, sometimes including foamsmithing headwear and dyeing, painting, and 3D printing costume elements. 020 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The Hill got the memothehill.comSullivan endorses Sullivan against Sullivan in AlaskaThree Dan Sullivans are wading in on Alaska’s Senate race but only one Dan Sullivan has earned the support of a former lawmaker with his namesake. Sen. Dan S. Sullivan (R-Alaska) was endorsed by fo… 020 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 20/08/2026An immense loss for the magic community and the world :/ 010 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I've been in since the moment I saw a cardboard backdrop for this at the theater I saw Spiderman in, even though (maybe because) it has the dumbest tagline. "There's blood in the water" sounds like a shark or piranha movie, not a mutiny movie. Unless this is secretly The Meg 3. 000 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 07/08/2026@georgetakei.bsky.social I just finished reading They Called Us Enemy, and I was weeping by the end of it. Holy shit, and also thank you. 010 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I straight up leave the room if Don't Stop Believing comes on. 020 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 31/07/2026You use the hallucinating bullshit machine to check data? 1230 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 04/07/2026It shouldn't, because "its" is possessive, where "it's" is a contraction of "it is." 000 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Also fyi, there's a stray left paren in "Demsas asserts that the Democrats and/or the left (have been “ceding” American symbols to the right." 000 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I really hope so. I've seen things get so much better, and I took that for a natural force, but it turns out a great many heroes spent generations working on it, and the speed of regression is giving me whiplash. My husband and I are both scared. 000 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Sorta the opposite of how Edwin Arlington Robinson describes Lincoln in The Master: But little of us did he ask, And little did we ever do. And what appears if we review The season when we railed and chaffed? It is the face of one who knew That we were learning while we laughed.bartleby.com1. The Master - Collection at Bartleby.com1. The Master (LINCOLN)A FLYING word from here and thereHad sown the name at which we sneered,But soon the name was everywhere,To be reviled and then revered:A presence 010 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Chicago's top federal prosecutor bears a certain resemblance to you. 001 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I hate writing but love having written. Writing wrecks me every time, but once I've finished, having written a thing lasts a lot longer. My writing process consists mostly of ways to coerce myself into doing the writing. 2191 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Also its acronym is OEF, pronounced "oaf." And it's easily vandalizable to Operation Epstein Fury. Just fun to dunk on all around. 051 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Rereading The Subtle Knife, and this passage is unfortunately pertinent. 031 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Obvious winner for me is bananas, which taste and smell foul. Some people put them in smoothies and claim they're just for texture and that you can't taste them, and those people are wrong and bad and should feel bad. Somehow, I'm cool with plantains, though. 0541 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Language Transfer is free and amazing. Also listening to Radio Ambulante has helped me a lot. 130 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 05/02/2026@weratedogs.com I thought you might enjoy Pantalaimon when he was a puppy being very proud of himself for carrying this branch he kept tripping over. 000 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 28/01/2026The most cringeworthy sentence in the article, for me, is the one highlighted here. Though the bottom paragraph in the screenshot is incredibly irony-deficient too. Pretty sure it's a troll piece, what with "sipping margaritas with KAG." 020 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I have a printer. Is there a good way to donate whistles? 1121 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 22/01/2026@jamellebouie.net it's even worse than that. According to the school district, they used him as bait by making him knock on his door and ask to be let in. 000 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Ah, didn't pick up that it was intentional voice. Carry on! 010 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 20/01/20262. "a shipload of weapons and good news" tripped me up due to parallel construction. Maybe better as "good news and a shipload of weapons"? 2/2 120 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Take this for what you will, but two bits of feedback on the after: 1. "Personally, I think" aren't needed. In a first person narrative, readers know unattributed thoughts belong to the narrator. Maybe "Revolutionary meetings would probably go better" &c 1/2 120 0
Aaron @aarond42.bsky.social · 20/01/2026I like Elizabeth McCracken's advice from A Long Game for this: include a couple "had"s, then switch to past tense. Eg: Lucy had arrived yesterday, ... . I had planned to spend the night with her. Instead, I spent the evening drinking bad rum and spitting nails, ... 030 0
![You had a controversy with an Israeli intelligence firm, right?
Yeah, right. Exactly. [Ronan Farrow reported in The New Yorker in 2017 that, while representing Harvey Weinstein, Boies hired Black Cube, an Israeli intelligence firm staffed by former Mossad officers. He instructed the company to spy on Weinstein’s accusers and reporters who were looking into Weinstein’s behavior, including reporters for another client of his, the New York Times.]
I don’t believe this war is being fought to protect Israel. I believe this war is being fought to protect the United States.
Were you at all worried by the reporting that seemed to show President Trump hadn’t really considered or even cared that Iran might block the Strait of Hormuz?
I have not entirely kept up on all the reports, but have they said that the Trump Administration didn’t consider the Iranian government were going to shut the strait?
The military brought it up as a possibility, and Trump waved it off and said it’ll be fine.
I think that if we thought that they were not going to close the strait I believe that was a reflection, had to be a reflection, of not appreciating how far Iran’s military capacity had developed. [The Wall Street Journal reported that after being warned about the war’s risk to global oil prices Trump assured his advisers that the American military could handle it.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:azl5ksdxx6md45z4jb6lf5xr/bafkreiakly6mzjwruotce6v3tgu3tvcbezquseuwuhuf4emo5oex7vt7na)