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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 13h

Reminder that, based on reporting, the US could currently store our entire Patriot missile inventory in a suburban Walgreens.

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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 14h

All it needs is a hot dog.

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Man, I would have driven Fusions until the day they took my keys. Alas, Ford...

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You are threatening genocide. I am threatening genocide. The world will remember.

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Even if you think he won't, he threatens it with our voice. He is ours. We elected him. Then we elected him again. And even now there are lawful ways for us to remove him, and we aren't. Even our opposition leaders say they won't. He speaks for us. This is who we are. bsky.app/profile/john...

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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 16h

I can't agree with, or emphasize this, strongly enough.

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Yes we have to establish deterrence when the mechanisms become available to us. But we also have to make it clear NOW that we will do that with focus, aggression, and persistence.

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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 21h

I worry about what he's going to do to the Kennedy when he gets his chance. Like I know it should sound stupid, and it might to some, but it's possible he sends Kennedy on a suicide mission.

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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 23h

@davidpierce.xyz and @reckless.bsky.social there's a sighting in the wild of Google actively working on Fuchsia! blog.google/innovation-a...

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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 01/10/2026

Wesley Livesay just got through the sinking of the Bismark on his podcast and yeah it was wild that Germany best option was, "Send out our One Good Ship and another one we scrounged up and see if they make it a week."

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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 01/10/2026

Yup. The military learned you cannot let a command run a rape case. Feels similar.

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Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 01/10/2026

It's wild how "You'll miss these days" can be simultaneously anchoring and absofuckinglutely unmooring.

Not sure how I've pulled it off* but I've never been lumped in with rapists. *I do know, and it's not hard. I think women are people, I believe victims, and I don't qualify my support of women with "but".

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Not sure how I've pulled it off* but I've never been lumped in with rapists. *I do know. It's because I think women are people, I believe victims, and I don't qualify my support of women with "but".

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Somebody throw holy water on him.

Wild too that Sundar is there from "Google" instead of Alphabet, and Elon is there from "XAI" instead of SpaceXAI. Someone just threw this together in 5 minutes and nobody even saw it before they signed it.

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But push ups and testosterone tests win wars.

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I was going to QT this with a snarky comment about the timing and questioning how much agency the US actually had in this decision, but the Stripes article closes with a quote more devastating than anything I could come up with. You should click and read it.

This seems like something that shouldn't matter until you realize this senator (and his staff) are on the Senate Armed Services Committee, but are demonstrably incapable of fact checking or overseeing anything at all.

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That feeling when you see your future falling into the abyss, and wondering if your dad's golf buddy will still give you that job at the ATV dealership.

@econreporter.bsky.social you need to stop sharing Obsidian updates or I'll be forced to make a responsible life decision and pick back up that personal project I dropped.

www.census.gov/library/stor... rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This statement is either ignorant or a lie. Multiple sources including the census show 1/2 of young kids are cared for by a non-relative. And common sense says there are many parents who would love to put their kids in better care arrangements if they could afford it.

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you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remember how 4o was a murderous psychopath?

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Yesterday, the Rusich group made ambiguous hints about the Estonian town of Narva on its Telegram channel.

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And we have ~simultaneously... 1) the economic displacement equivalent to the industrial/agricultural revolution AND 2) the literacy/information dissemination equivalent to the Reformation. It seems hard because it *is* hard. It's a real test of us. Like the very idea of Us.

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No see this is just good governance. Because public companies can't fund and pressure their employees to attend rape fantasy orgies.

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No see this is just good governance. Because public companies can't fund and pressure their employees to attend rape fantasy orgies.

I want this so bad but I think a lot of people on this site can't (for the best reasons, bless you) accept that most Americans hate schools and education. Like a large majority. "More money for public schools" would be as popular as "more money for data centers." I hate that it's true but it is.

I think model-first companies will collapse, but the demand for the compute seems real. Google just said their customer demand backlog for Cloud was greater than Cloud's current revenue. That was in an SEC-applicable communication.

That lasted like a tenth of a second before I realized that, in the event of hyperinflation, I would be much more worried about keeping the rabbits out of the gardens and how to best position my solar panels to both get max sun but also min visibility from the road.

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Ever have like a micro-moment nightmare? Like I was reviewing requirements and one was a max allowable value for a dollar field, and I had a flash where I wondered how the proposed max would fare with hyperinflation and whether I need a plan for adjusting max fields in the event of hyperinflation.

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So we're putting Sailors and Marines on tankers transiting the Strait?

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Reconstruction 3.0 is going to put her in a straight jacket.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel like we've *earned* both.

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The leader of the Republican Party is stealing money paid by American taxpayers to buy campaign ads for Republicans in the midterms. You can’t vote him out in 5 weeks, but you can vote out the people he’s trying to help with your money he’s thieving while they remain silent.

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From what I hear, the group sex cult that stole the collective work of every human that has ever lived is making bad decisions. Maybe we don't give them a bunch of power.

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Howard Lutnick is, as far as I've seen, the only person to ever take his CHILDREN to Epstein Island.

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The only way to have never heard that song is to have never done to a restaurant or store.

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Wait they stole *NFL ad prices* kinda money from us, to air their campaign ads?

Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you haven't listened to this yet, listen. Everyone involved needs to go to prison. Dems, we will accept nothing less.

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Remember, they prosecuted Aaron Swartz and drove him to suicide for hacking one system with the goal of making academic articles freely available to the public. Sam Altman hacked 1000s of sites with the goal of being a trillionaire.

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So, embarrassingly, I actually did this bit with my wife, but I asked it as a question and was open to any answer. She said, oh yeah you've heard it and hummed a little bit and sang the main line and she was right, it's in stores and restaurants and...