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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 3h

I think we often concede the framing that things that aren't in themselves troubling — and I think in this case, obviously so — because people want them to be troubling to suit their priors and it has a pretty obvious negative feedback loo.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 3h

I think I am extremely tired of having to step delicately around the neurotic dispositions of this site, but that's clearly a me problem.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 5h

You start with, "God, aren't the Australians annoying?"

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 6h

How can we support you until you admit you were wrong, at which point we will have a legitimate reason to not support you

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 6h

"Yes, there's no monster under the bed *tonight,* but how dare you try and tell me that. How can you promise there won't be a monster under the bed *tomorrow*? Or even in the *closet.* How dare you imply my neurotic hypervigilance is anything other than correct"

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, because that's what happened. This isn't how any of this works and it doesn't do anyone any benefit to shadowbox bullshit.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 21h

I do not (I mean, I do, but) understand why people hype preprint papers.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 21h

"They did three math problems for $3 and we think this says something about humanity" why?

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 21h

Unpeer reviewed preprint, and the claims about long term degradation are wholly unfounded

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 21h

Alright, that was beneath me

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 21h

No shit, now stop pretending like a picture of three guys standing by a ballot box is the vanguard of tyranny.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 21h

Just a whole website of people posting about revolution and building elaborate permission structures to surrender the first time someone says "boo"

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah, and of you're standing outside a metro station, you should stand out of the flow of traffic. What the fuck is wrong with you people, does your reflection frighten you like a parrot

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 22h

The "obvious, overt purpose" of the National Guard deployment is to provide an emotional boost to one Donald J. Trump and that is the beginning and end of it. He controls DC and he can get away with it like he can't anywhere else. It's bad! Don't pretend it's worse than it is!

Kyle D. Long @blatherscribe.bsky.social

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But this is all ridiculous because the obvious, overt purpose of the National Guard in D.C. is intimidation. Everyone knows this. It's the people who pretend not to know this who are selling something. 2/2

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 22h

And that wasn't what happened and isn't what's going to happen, but it hasn't prevented folks like this from spinning elaborate fantasies about how bad things would be bad. Yes! But that's not what happened!

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 22h

I have terrible news, the sportsball people have won

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 22h

There's zero margin in trying to correct catastrophizing on Bluesky.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 23h

I have exactly as much right as you do, Brad

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 23h

Exercising my privilege and closing comments so that people can't tell me I'm wrong

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 23h

Not often people are this explicit in calling for a dogpile.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Shingles is the worst. The nerve pain does eventually fade but it is so specific and so annoying.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

[Arm is ripped off] And this is why you don't fear monger about voting intimidation

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think it's a mistake to conflate the National Guard, which in DC to date has only been dangerous to the National Guard, and ICE, and I don't think rounding the one up to the other is helpful.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes, the National Guard are like the KKK, this is a reasonable comparison and I'm not at all flying out of control

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is what I'm talking about. We have a photo of National Guard standing around a ballot drop box. Are they doing anything? There's no evidence to indicate so. But we've immediately jumped from that to a free floating fantasy of them stopping people, attacking people, and the Insurrection Act.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think that's conflating two things, one of which is real and obviously unacceptable and then rounding that up to something much grander and that crucially isn't happening. If there's evidence that NG troops are preventing people from using ballot drops I'll retract, but there's no evidence of it.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I know they're not intimidating anyone because I'm in DC twice a week and I see these guys walking around bored all the time. The presence of the National Guard in DC is unacceptable. This is not, however, voter intimidation.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't think needless and counterproductive fear mongering helps anyone, either, so here we are.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also, no offense to DC (Statehood Now) but if you're going to start a program of military intimidation re: voting, DC and a midterm election are not where you should start.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Do you have any evidence that they're stopping people from voting, or are you just interested in scaring people

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Has it stopped you from voting, Aubrey

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Agreed, but that isn't the reason people are sharing this tweet.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not to be all "you're getting sold" National Guard troops spend all day standing in out of the way corners of DC. Not great that they're standing in front of a ballot drop box, but c'mon, people, use some common sense. They're not stopping anyone from dropping something off.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nidal Hasan notably excluded from Biden's amnesty, and now Hegseth is threating to live stream it.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah, there's something about the anonymity and their ability to just marinate themselves in a hell of their own chosing that pushes people over the edge

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mods are asleep, post your rarest out-of-pocket 70s jazz albums

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We've lost something essential, something powerful

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Looking at my tweets the next morning

A young woman with her back to the camera looking at a huge concave mirror on the wall. Her enormous, distorted face is looking back at her, hauntingly.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Pales in comparison to "Flute Juice"

Dave Valentin's "Flute Juice" LP, which features a distressing looking air brushed waxed paper juice container that looks like it's made out of chromed metal with valves and keys like a flute.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is it a ready-to-ship product with no flaws? No, but it works, and that's good for me.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah, like this is stuff that I've always wanted to do, but I am a person with a full time job and responsibilities and I don't have time to learn how to get to a place where I could even begin to learn how I might approach creating something like this. It's cool that I can.

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