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Aaron Morey @aaronmorey.com · 09/10/2026

Where do you get your keycaps from?

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Aaron Morey @aaronmorey.com · 09/10/2026

Wait, there's a WNBA player who's among the best ever and I've never even heard her name? I just assumed, based on how the news covers the WNBA, Caitlin Clark was winning all the awards every year.

A'ja Wilson wins her third straight WNBA MVP and record fifth overall

Infielders make the majority of the errors, interesting. I guess it makes sense if you think about it: there's more that can go wrong on the infield and the ball is moving faster. But if you had asked before I looked at this, I wouldn't necessarily have guessed

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This is jargon overlap! Warehousing system terminology is that something sold individually is "an each". The sign printing system was apparently written to spit out the system's internal terminology without considering how it reads to a normal person

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"(This is a very nice observation on my part to be treasured all your lives.)" I'm going to start using this phrase in my writing

ESPN just ran a poll to see how many of its app users are Yankee fans. About what I expected, I'd say.

A poll regarding the Anthony Volpe fan interference double: 37% wrongly believe it should have been a home run

(°○°) @rarecryptid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Reading through the receipt, I mumble, "like a little story of our transaction, eh?" Folding it in half, "it says your name Kayla. Thank you, Kayla, for this 'receipt'." Leaving, I remark in hushed, arch tone to another customer in line, "they have receipts."

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As it turns out, I have a photo

An new mayonnaise jar with the imprint of the factory's mayo dispenser tube

I feel a sense of solidarity with the people working the line at the mayo factory

What I like about mayonnaise is when you open a fresh jar and you can see the shape of the dispenser tube

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Claude is a real dick sometimes

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Bitten by vibe coding: I was building out the skeleton of a UI with Claude Code. It all looked good, until I clicked the url in the "Website" column. Instead of rendering the "website" value as a link, it had just styled the text blue with an underline.

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I looked up the publication year, I was more like 18. I have been meaning to read it again; I loved Little, Big which gave me similar vibes

Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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I'm the person in charge of scheduling the postseason. You can't start one at 12:00 p.m. ET (there has never been a day game in baseball), so I start the first one at 4:00 p.m. then start a new one every two hours. That way, nobody can watch a full game, and they all overlap. Everyone loves it.

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As an uneducated football watcher, I'm still not sure which of those guys is Dre Greenlaw. The whole o-line got pancaked

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I'm taking "never forget" pretty loosely here, I don't think I could describe anything about Siddhartha or Strange & Norrell other than the fact that they effected at 14 or so when I read them

The Boy's King Arthur
The Lord of the Rings
Siddhartha
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Orthodoxy
A Shorter Summa
Fifth Head of Cerberus
Pride and Prejudice
Little, Big

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I don't think the bulk of his writing shows him to be a deep-seated misogynist or antisemite. But when you write an op-ed every day for 40 years, there will be some misses among the hits.

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This, and he was an early 20th century British man. He was generally a wise and perceptive person, but he said some "of his time" things, especially about Judaism and feminism.

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"Visions of American Youth: Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen, and Taylor Swift"

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I love the a Far Side, but the Shroud of Turin is famously already marked by the impression of a dead guy

Non-literary, less fantastical Born in the USA The Times They Are A-Changing (The albums, although both title tracks are good examples)

I guess I'm interpreting the prompt to mean "works that use fantastical elements to consider what it means to be an American in particular times and places"

The Haunting of Hill House Little, Big A Confederacy of Dunces Love in the Ruins Something Wicked This Way Comes Peace (Wolfe) A Wrinkle in Time

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"You've spent hundreds of hours and it looks like that?" Hey, shut up

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

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"Aaaaactually, those figures incorporate child mortality so for adults—" [I am shot down by an anti-dork drone, and never make it to 44]

5: "Daddy, a lot of people live to be 44. Even though that's really old"

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It'll probably be fine, but the Swiss Guards should stay alert just in case

Gus's Mom @anatsfan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Somehow this season is going to end with Tommy Pham meeting the Pope

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Here I am, accidentally 45 minutes early for something, in my hatch-less Honda sedan

Felt like something out of Springsteen song, if any Springsteen protagonist knew how to read

One of the coolest-feeling things I did when I was young was getting somewhere early on a summer evening, popping the back hatch of my Escape, and reading a book in the back.

Shake Shaq? Yeah, those burgers would probably at least give him some internal rumblings

I would say my impression was (obviously not as sophisticated, since I was 15) essentially the Henry James quote with "perjorative" in parentheses at the end.

His back catalog is incredible. I've been following for like 5 years and he's got decades before that.

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"You haven't read The Scarlet Letter since junior year of high school, here's why you need to revisit it as an adult". I'd read that! I hated TSL, what did I miss?

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The next move is backlash-to-the-backlash: "Here's why the standard books of the English class canon are actually good."

That entire sentence is so crazy I had to google it to be sure that memory of a show I saw once 35 years ago was real. It was. WTF was going on there

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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There was a Scary Clown Firefighter in The Brave Little Toaster

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I'm with the Padres; I'm against baseball on cable

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Aaron Morey @aaronmorey.com · 04/10/2026

He's troubleshooting performance issues with the company intranet

Aaron Morey @aaronmorey.com · 04/10/2026

Is that absolute zero 100+ fastballs in 2008?

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Aaron Morey @aaronmorey.com · 03/10/2026

I get such a kick out of Chesterton and Melville doing it. Gogol is scratching the same itch

Aaron Morey @aaronmorey.com · 03/10/2026

There's got to be a word for the style of writing where the author is just going off about some theory of the world he probably barely believes himself, but it's fun to write. Bloviate is probably too perjorative. "Blarney" might be closer