Reposted by normal aaron guyMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026Want to learn about the history of our city? Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it. 13058521318
Reposted by normal aaron guyJon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Becca Good spoke publicly: ”I'm devastated by how many other lives have been destroyed, in this the darkest of times. From so many families dealing with the loss of their owned loved ones, to everyone who has to witness it, the pain of this moment extends so far beyond our family." (cont) 8673176
Reposted by normal aaron guyI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026*watch your party run roughshod over every vulnerable community for a decade* “Can’t we all just get along?” 35895115
Reposted by normal aaron guyBenjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is exactly one large, well funded organization in NYC that makes me feel unsafe specifically as a Jewish person, and it’s the ADL 215728
Reposted by normal aaron guyAlex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026a few years ago, references to Simon of Trent or Leo Frank trutherism were a sign that someone was an intensely Christian and/or Neo-Nazi right-wing antisemite but now formerly-normal lefty politics influencers who stayed on Twitter casually reply to Mamdani with 15th century blood libel posts 12869181
Reposted by normal aaron guyWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103494407
Reposted by normal aaron guyRyan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano 11767611626
Reposted by normal aaron guyAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over* 775285974860
Reposted by normal aaron guySchrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty. 25768242251
Reposted by normal aaron guyceej @ceej.online · 22/09/2026a lot of your favorite accounts have just had their cover blown. give some grace to anyone with over 100k followers on here, they’re probably going through a lot right now 311526253
Reposted by normal aaron guySahat English @sahatenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Days after the NFL fined him for wearing Hind Rajab’s name, Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair returned to the field with another Palestinian child on his eye black: 8-year-old Wafaa Akila. Wafaa was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza on September 6 — her first day of school. 81344325
Reposted by normal aaron guyGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out 395209443492
Reposted by normal aaron guyMicah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable 94115062837
Reposted by normal aaron guyCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Yesshare.googleDSA blueprint for 2028: Elect AOC president — and reportedly replace Schumer with radical leftistUltra-leftist Brooklyn Councilman Chi Ossé will challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in 2028, while “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sets her sights on the White House — if th… 817213
Reposted by normal aaron guyPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Excellent. I think he should ban more outlets. perhaps that will address the press's collective action problem... 437853
Reposted by normal aaron guyPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone. 435234709
Reposted by normal aaron guyrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026i think we should change the law to hang the people responsible for the Iran war even if the LOAC technically protects them 514918
Reposted by normal aaron guySE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory) 1003237776
Reposted by normal aaron guyjenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 17/09/2026a lot of folks are asking how someone can do something so "stupid" as hard coding a secret token, and i'm telling you that you are holding software developers and companies on way too high a pedestal if you still think there's secure, quality code being sent out into the world 71055197
Reposted by normal aaron guyJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... 21446891282
Reposted by normal aaron guyMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Why is Lebanon run by sectarian fascist militias?" asks neighboring country famous for arming and supporting sectarian fascist militias in Lebanon. 324326
Reposted by normal aaron guysimonjadis @simonjadis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026One of the venues that apparently joined Robert Kraft's anti-Macklemore ultimatum allowed Kanye West to play earlier this year. 2745
Reposted by normal aaron guyA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Never stops hitting me the way everyone in mainstream discourse agrees that if we want to help people, we first have to convince Republicans, while everyone in mainstream discourse also agrees that Republicans do not have to convince any of us before they hurt people. 121160324
Reposted by normal aaron guyUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Block me 411113319
Reposted by normal aaron guyrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026i think the fact that centrists are hysterically depressed about america's future is a good sign 831828
Reposted by normal aaron guyLOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is just round 2 of people blaming Arabs for Harris' loss. If your calculation is that you'll net more votes by burning a vulnerable demographic, you do not get to be mad when they're mad at you. Trying to then browbeat them into your preferred messaging is both counterproductive and immoral 528744
Reposted by normal aaron guydr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/09/2026i don't believe talarico is a bigot. im pretty sure he isnt. but if he apparently "has to" answer bad faith questions in a way that appears to compromise on the rights of one group of people being repressed to get elected, it's fair to ask what else he will "have to" do once he's in office 943334413
Reposted by normal aaron guyBURG: Slider Gaiden BEYOND @digijeg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026lol damn 60118792817
Reposted by normal aaron guyrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14/02/2025somethingawful to 4chan to 8chan to the com was a distillation column for the worst people on earth 421026
Reposted by normal aaron guyBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026i don’t think Vance has a real shot in 2028 bc he’s going to have the same problems Harris did but worse 512611
Reposted by normal aaron guy☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's interesting to see a former top Biden aide explain "No amount of public support in polling or public protest will influence how or when those in power drastically change Israel policy" — ie, he's just straight up saying the US is not a democracy. x.com/MichaelLaRos... 30636140
Reposted by normal aaron guyMicah @rincewind.run · 10/09/2026a year later, looking back, I think Charlie Kirk marks the high water mark of the right's cultural dominance for a little bit there they actually managed to force civil society as a whole to crack down on people saying mean shit about one of their own, and it turned out to be a massive overreach 453620508
Reposted by normal aaron guyMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026People are very high on Ossoff, and I get it, but 1) Laken Riley Act and 2) he's notoriously kind of a dumbshit 4386
normal aaron guy @aaronguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026openreview.net/forum?id=pc7... turns out When you train on as much human language as you can get a hold of you recreate racism/sexism/colorism/etcopenreview.netVerifying your browser | OpenReview 000
Reposted by normal aaron guybisel.bsky.social @bisel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Would be neat if the (many more than two dozen!) Jewish Michiganders who are excited to vote for Abdul because we know that Abolishing ICE is a Jewish value were treated with this level of gravity by the NYT, but 🤷♀️ 0111
Reposted by normal aaron guyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project 452658536
Reposted by normal aaron guyBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Knowledge production itself—our literal every word—is being appropriated and enclosed by some of the most irresponsible capitalists to ever live. To add to the insult, these capitalists uniformly belong to a death cult that seeks to literally replace the human race with capital. 57121
Reposted by normal aaron guyPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am going to say again that the absolute worst thing for most adults is to lose face. People will do ANYTHING to avoid that. As such, any inkling that a person was duped, not smart, etc... will usually lead them to triple down. 1256099
Reposted by normal aaron guytef @tef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026see also: one of the reasons programmers have traditionally been so obsessed with linters and indentation and formatting, is that it's the only part of the codebase they have any meaningful agency over. the only bikeshed they're allowed to paint. everything else requires buy in from management 1302
Reposted by normal aaron guyBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026i legit didn’t know chiropractic was fake until a couple years back. it’s just treated as a totally normal thing in the culture. they have state licensure boards! 101087
Reposted by normal aaron guyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026i hate this thing they do where they pretend like they are fulfilling some long and pent up demand. just own that you’re engaged in naked idolatry 1664601701
Reposted by normal aaron guyplay by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 04/09/2026People have figured out that if you post a video clip and wildly inaccurately sum it up with quotation marks basically just straight up lying about its content, 9/10 people won't unmute the audio and that's really bad imo. It's identical to Weiss's AES/9-11 headline attempt. 151