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Aaron Homer

@ahomer.bsky.social
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Father, husband, dog-owner, programmer. Somewhere left of center.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h
i think about this sometimes www.vice.com/en/article/p...
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Palmer Luckey Made a VR Headset That Kills the User If They Die in the Game
The man who created the Oculus Rift has invented a virtual reality headset that will explode the forebrain of a user who dies in a video game.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 5h
Per declaration from the Pentagon's General Counsel, the OLC boat strike memo is TS/SCI, exists in hard copy only, there are only four hard copies, and DoD's sole copy is secured in his safe. Umm, ok This is not some sort of super secret squirrel CA program www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Judge Questions Secrecy Around Trump Administration’s Memo on Boat Strikes
The judge also ordered the Justice Department to privately show the court the contested document, which blesses the disputed killings at sea.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 8h
Vacating a stay of execution, and without even a word, is in-sane and horrific (Yes I know they've done similar shit before, that was wildly fucked up too)
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 11h
Confused by all the debate about the new permitting reform bill? Here is a quick cheat-sheet of the most important provisions, and their likely impact on emissions:
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 15h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 14h
Hell yeah, another stab at permitting reform with apparently the best language on transmission yet.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 19h
destroying Greek life would be useful for stemming an entire mode of social reproduction which, as I must remind everyone, was born of the confederate south. Greek life prides itself on keeping the tradition of rape alive in more than one form. Sometimes literal.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 21h
The co-pilot seems to have tried to crash it into the ground with a full cabin of (mostly Israeli) civilians. Was stopped by his pilot that got stabbed in the process passengers interfered and another crew on the flight landed it in Saudi Arabia. Israel’s treating it as a terror attack for now.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 30/09/2026
Schumer and Gillibrand just voted yes for Van Hollen's resolution demanding a State Department human rights report on Israeli conduct in the illegally-occupied West Bank.
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Expand, and Impeach, the Court
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look having the entire roster of FBI agents leak isn't a front-page newsworthy security failure meriting front page coverage the same way having some of your emails to Anthony Weiner's wife be discovered on Anthony Weiner's laptop was
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
they like rape and rapists, is the thing.
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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 29/09/2026
kinda funny that all these massive industry-shaping companies in the greater Thieliverse are drifting in the direction of "democratic decision-making of any sort is simply too much of a risk in the age of AI", probably just a coincidence
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026
this simply should not be legal
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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal. n.pr/4iMlJdT
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What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28/09/2026
i strongly agree with this and while i think the definition of virtue can change over time, almost none of the shit that so many powerful chuds think is virtue *ever* has been considered as such
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If she does this the left will split between a non-fraud (Pritzker) and fraud (Khanna) candidate
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Aaron Homer @ahomer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't know what to make of these stories. From a product perspective, stealing your customers IP and releasing it first is just terrible. It's very possible it didn't happen and it's a coincidence, but these companies not having a strong answer ready for this obvious question is just mind-blowing.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A QUARTER. C’mon folks, this is a crisis www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
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From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis
Against the gamblification of the world.
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
OK, so you were born in the UK and lived all your life here. Maybe you've never been abroad. You've never applied for or possessed any passport, even a British one. So what? Is your mum French, maybe, or Jamaican? Is your dad Polish, or Bangladeshi, or American? 5 year sentence? Bye bye.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
just a quick reminder that this fuckhead was the proximate trigger for thousands of National Guardsmen being deployed to DC
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i don't care what the official unemployment rate is, no one has viral discussions about "what totally innocuous thing at a job interview will cause the hirer to irrationally reject your candidacy" in a strong labor market
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Aaron Homer @ahomer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Who owns the rights for JOUST? I need this to happen.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At some point post-2020 the "advocacy for oppressed groups" part of social media and the "true crime fans" part of social media merged, and it has not been good for advocacy.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026
it's remarkable just how much worse the interest rate situation makes the housing crisis my wife and I bought our house in 2013 and we have a 3.6% mortgage rate if I plug 7.5% into the mortgage calculator our payment jumps over a thousand dollars a month
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 25/09/2026
also incredible we're only learning this because Oregon State brought it up to fight its women's basketball players' union bid, arguing that <checks notes> bringing a tiger on a football field is, uh .... <checks notes again> "what it looks like when an athletics program runs a university"
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026
Dairy farms in Kansas? Raided. Barton County? Texts about entire hotel blocks rented out by feds for the next weeks. It is a pogrom. This is called a pogrom.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026
rolled out of my bed this morning and barreled down Linwood for 10 minutes to have the privilege of watching a neighbor get kidnapped with his son in front of a YMCA and high school, busses full of kids watching, while a kcpd officer joyfully cooperated. It was a car crash. How did ICE know?
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Latest from Texas, from Texas Public Opinion Research: Talarico 49%, Paxton 44% Abbott 50%, Hinojosa 46% Bo French 45%, Jon Rosenthal 44% (Undecideds down from 7% to 3% in the Senate race. Libertarian Ted Brown is at 3%.) texaspublicopinionresearch.substack.com/p/new-poll-i...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Thursday that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) will face “legal consequences” after the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled that his seizure of roughly 650,000 ballots violated state law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California Attorney General vows ‘legal consequences’ for GOP sheriff who seized ballots
The ballot seizure case highlights the risks to democracy when election deniers in positions of authority abuse their power to interfere with vote counting. Bianco seized an estimated 650,000 ballots ...
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about ICE is that eventually it WILL be abolished. I don't know if it will be in 5 years or 50 years but it will happen. With certainty. And when it does, it will be remembered along the securitate, Stasi, etc, and so will the people who served there.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“She nearly lost her home to foreclosure and her teenage daughter was entrusted with running her household. Her college-age son left a football scholarship to return home and help with costs around the home. Mason has three children and also raised four of her brother’s children.”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For those of us who've been following PRECISELY this issue for decades, it's like the regularity of bird migrations. Obviously bogus claims (migrating north), fully & categorically debunked (migrating south) a month later. In the old days it was John Fund at WSJ oped page. Now it's DHS/DOJ.
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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 24/09/2026
The good news is there's basically no reason to think this will make it out of committee
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
here is the link directly to donate! some highlights -James Malone (PA): won a Trump +15 district in a special -Mike Roberto (OH): Will fight to overturn the Republican gerrymander -Charly Ray (WI): pro-zoning reform -Jess Rivera (NC): Will break the GOP supermajority and pass fair maps
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Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering
These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026
Federal ICE agents in suburban Chicago over the weekend mistakenly detained a U.S. citizen, who suffered injuries to his head, neck and teeth in the confrontation, according to local police. The Department of Homeland Security said agents released the man after he identified himself.
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ICE Mistakenly Detains U.S. Citizen in Chicago Area, Leaving Him Injured
The Department of Homeland Security said agents released the man after he identified himself. He was taken to a hospital with head and neck injuries, local police said.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"They're stabbing inflatable boats on it to try and sink them so the unarmed innocents onboard drown" is shit that 200+ years of high seas/naval tradition would answer simply with "cutlass, possibly grapeshot"
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"I don't like Trump, but also I have no interest in major reforms to undo the damage of the Trump age" feels like it is going to be a veeeeery popular position in the next few years
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Faqa @faqa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I just got tired READING this shit. Imagine investing your money and credit in trying to please people like this.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
Trump's ICE is disappearing thousands of people in their system, hiding their locations from loved ones & lawyers, & preventing them from exercising their constitutional rights.   This is the lawlessness Republicans keep writing blank checks for. Not another dime! apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Aaron Homer @ahomer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Moana 2 is so bad. The music is just painful. And it's now my 4 yr old's favorite movie.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In which we learn a key fault line in the Israeli electorate is apparently “can you just straight up murder someone on camera”
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Herzog’s Yom Kippur pardon of soldier crystallizes choice for Israeli voters
The shooting of a wounded Palestinian attacker in Hebron a decade ago exposed a fault line over the rule of law, now front and center in the election.
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Ginn, Qui-Gon, and Juice @quigonginnandjuice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Put me down for massive polling error overstating Dems or this shooting back up by E-Day as gas prices stop rising and the press needs their horse race coverage
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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