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Aaron M Brown

@ambrown.bsky.social
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I'm trying to get as good at writing as I am at hacking so that I can write about hacking. Blog: katabas.is Newsletter: substack.com/@aaronmbrown

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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Having a brain as smooth as hers must feel amazing.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
look on the bright side! you couldn't go through a dark night of the soul if you didn't have a soul
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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i know i ask you to listen to my videos but please listen to unc flow
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Unc Flow
YouTube video by HomieVulgaris
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Unfortunately, sometimes education just helps certain people come up with more creative stupid ideas.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The short version is that they are naive utilitarians and believe that future people don't matter more individually, but that there could be many many more of them. So if you have a chance of saving 10,000 lives today or a trillion in 1,000 years, you should choose the future trillion.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Neighborhood update: my hooved neighbors have decided that the old dog park is now a deer park.
Deer grazing at the edge of a closed down dog park. A crooked fence and reflection of the sunset off the hills across a valley in the background.
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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend; And, as I am an honest Puck, Show is over, off you fuck.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"$3.50 is the best I can do."
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Generation Theory is complete horseshit. The only generational divide that matters is Leaded Gasoline generation vs. Microplastics generation.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SPOG sounds like the international crime consortium in one of the weaker Bond films. That's unfortunate since they are, in fact, worse.
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s fucking me up that the word elevate predates the invention of the elevator but the invention of the escalator predates the word escalate. It’s complete madness
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
True. It is the only behavior that is always permissible under all metaethical systems. And here those stuffy ethicists said such a thing wasn't possible!
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Longtermist Effective Altruist Argument That We Must Invest All of Our Money in Time Travel - katabas.is/posts/we-mus...
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A Longtermist Effective Altruist Argument That We Must Invest All of Our Money in Time Travel
The core ethical insight of longtermism, as championed by William MacAskill and picked up by many effective altruists, is that people have equal moral weight, no matter when they live. We are morally ...
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Where do you see the lawyer fees? Share a link? I'd be very surprised on an action brought by the city.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wide Idaho. Widaho.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A. Its worst crime is clearly Belltown erasure. B. The inset map indicates that Seattle is in Wide Idaho.
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EL BARTO ANTI-WORK @elbarto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Picture of Zizek next to the quote: in today’s market, we find a whole series of products deprived of their malignant property: coffee without caffeine, cream without fat, beer without alcohol . . . And the list goes on: virtual sex as sex without sex, the art of expert administration as politics without politics, up to today’s tolerant liberal multiculturalism as an experience of the Other deprived of its disturbing Otherness.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There Was A Sign-In To Your Account From A Device You Don't Normally Use. Why Did You Do This. Is The New Device Better. What Kind Of Device Did You Get. Can I See Your New Device Please. Show Me Your New Device Now
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's insanely tough. And worse, the perfect pen selection changes based on the paper, so the quest also demands finding the perfect paper, which is almost as hard. Truly nothing but neverending toil in this vale of sorrows.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think I just saw someone succumb to the contrapositive version of AI psychosis. AI catatonia? Very publicly declaring that they were quitting their job and giving up on humanity because AI is getting too good.
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Olraca @olraca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ummm... how did this car get onto the I90 multi use path? Video from a user in the Seattle Cyclist Discord.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
On minimum wage and access to a you-pull-it scrap yard, I kept a Chevy Astro going past a quarter million. Good luck to anyone attempting to fix anything on that monstrosity without paying Musk the cost of another decent used car.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Stoner rock is for drunks. Psych rock is for stoners. Surf rock is for psychonauts.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
All three are very handsome
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When people ask me why I suddenly stopped eating a bunch of random foods: "Oh my skin started falling off again but don't worry, it's chill, this will fix it for a little bit."
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The two most durable lessons from my time studying philosophy: 1. Philosophy will not save you. 2. Philosophy, on its own, doesn't make anyone a better person.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
WenzlerPowers: 

Dolly Parton writing “I will always love you“ and “Jolene“ in the same day is mind blowing.

It’s like if da Vinci finished the Mona Lisa then turned around in the same day and wrote “Jolene“
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Silica is no joke. When I dug up my dad's death certificate a few years ago I was shocked to see silicosis listed as a contributing factor. Apparently it was still visible on x-rays of his lungs decades after exposure in a vermiculite mine in Montana.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Google, you cannot fucking do this to me. How can you wound a poor, sick Mariners fan like this?
A home screen notification showing the Mariners beating the Brewers 22 to 0.A Google results page header showing the Brewers beating the Mariners 22 to 0. This was the actual score.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I'm reliably informed that businesses and millionaires will be fleeing Seattle any moment now due to the capital gains tax WA leg passed five years ago. Really any second. The exodus is surely right around the corner, they've just taken five years or so to pack their bags...
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What is there to even talk about? The market is so much better without cars.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm once again reminded of the theory that fascist governments continually get their asses kicked in open conflicts because they waste so many resources on internal policing.
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Of all the people I know, it tracks that you're the one who has An Almond Guy.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My local PDs clearance rate for theft is regularly below 5%. Some years they don't even solve half of murders. Many of them make over $300k a year. Everyone would be much better off if we raided their budget to build free housing for homeless folks. And it would probably do more to reduce crime.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Handsome plant, bro
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Kids: 1 KIDS Act: 0
Reddit post in r/teenager showing an ID for Ramses II and claiming they used it to evade age-verification
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Ugh lol why am I still bothered anymore
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Okay but the problem is that now I actually want to read this paper.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I read this before the quoted post and momentarily thought you'd sustained a head injury, perhaps by falling off the Seattle Soviet Submarine, which is docked at Pier 67 next to the aquarium's mermaid exhibit.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I am excited for the "Tess Uses Her Blackbox Unpacking Powers for Defeating Corporate Bullshit" story arc.
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Unfortunately a lot of pieces seem to be making it up as they go along
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Sorry to be Uncle Marxism but employer-based healthcare is a tool of social control for the ruling class
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Tell me, oh Muse, of a guy who went to see a movie with some buddies! aaronmbrown.substack.com/p/cascadia-c...
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Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
gandalf: so, The Hunt For Gollum begins frodo: why, though gandalf: we're going to put him in this garbage bag frodo: gandalf you're scaring me gandalf: and then throw rocks at the bag until it stops moving frodo: gandalf: and we're going to search his house for that vape rig he stole from me
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Aaron M Brown @ambrown.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Hey folks! I'm stoked to learn that issue 15 of Marrow Magazine is now available in physical form! This includes an essay by me and work from a ton of other talented writers, poets, and artists. bookshop.org/p/books/marr...
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Marrow Magazine: Issue 15
A man visits his estranged father and stumbles upon a field of dead children who refuse to decay. A woman's vivid dreams of her late mother are continually interrupted by the inexplicable buzzing of a...
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Rachel Chatrooms @crabitha.slutmo.de · 16/07/2026
Hell yeah there's a raccoon with short spine syndrome running around Seattle makign everyone believe in cryptids, i love him so much
raccoon with short spineraccoon with short spine
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