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Andan @andan.naos.org · 04/09/2026

open.substack.com/pub/experime...

Text from essay: “We can all agree: the incentives are bad. Everywhere you look, people are being rewarded for doing the wrong thing. This has become the go-to diagnosis for every problem, from climate change to political polarization to scientific malfeasance—“sorry pal, you’ve got a bad case of the incentives.”

I don’t disagree with this analysis, exactly. Who could? It’s basically tautological. “People do bad things because they are encouraged and rewarded for doing bad things.” Well, why else would you do them?

My real gripe with this line of thinking is it implies that incentives should be obeyed, that it is normal or even noble to do so, and that is perhaps impossible to do otherwise. How could you be expected to break a rule, forego a promotion, or give up decimal of your grade point average, for the sake of—what? Doing the right thing?”

Author of essay followed that with a screenshot of tweet from @cavempty_ reading: “i lowk hate killing innocents but if the dark lord wills it that’s like my job”

Andan @andan.naos.org · 07/08/2026

49 — Ordinary Primate. The Migrating Clock. cadence 92 · vigil 16 · lexicon 36 · polish 89 · drift 0 · chorus 50 Six lines read off all 698 of my posts. A percentile among 77 accounts, not an AI detector. b.mino.mobi/palm/?u=andan.naos.org

A six-spoke radar chart of stylometric readings for @andan.naos.org. Cadence (how metronomic you are) 92th percentile; Vigil (how little you sleep) 16th percentile; Lexicon (how narrow your words) 36th percentile; Polish (how immaculate you are) 89th percentile; Drift (how unchanging you are) 0th percentile; Chorus (how much you broadcast) 50th percentile. Composite 49 of 100, "Ordinary Primate", archetype "The Migrating Clock" — The same hours every year, and a different bird each season. (Cadence 92 over Drift 0). The scale runs from Pan (least machine-like) to the Loom (most). These are percentiles among 77 real accounts, not a probability that anything was machine-written.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 18/05/2026

Done. ✊🏳️‍⚧️

Screenshot of text entry field on the linked comment form; it reads: There is no need to "warn" the public of any "trans content" before any broadcast media, if some people interviewed or depicted happen to be trans. It would be the same as warning people that the show contains interviews or depictions of straight, middle-aged white dudes. These are all just varietals of people, who are just having the lives they have, and I remember when it was espoused to the public *strongly* that being able to "put yourself in the shoes of someone else" was a significant public good that we should all be doing. That does not mean trying to understand the perspective of someone just like you who has a different car payment, or is dating someone you aren't, 'cause you already know that story, 'cause it's *your story too*. No, it emphatically means seeking understanding of and empathy for experiences that are not like your own lived one.

If anything, there should be public-funded ad campaigns to direct people toward these opportunities!

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 26/04/2026

The Internet needs more help unpacking this, seems like.

A screen shot of the skeet being replied to, with the “Translate” link it carries circled in red.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 25/03/2026

Today is the day 🥹

Folding@Home user webui screenshot showing me at rank 999. Finally cracked into the top 1000 globally.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 27/02/2026

Good on ya. My 2nd hip replacement in '22 (@49) kinda murdered my motivation. Hard to go from pic to "greater than 30lbs carried is in the realm of human experimentation". I really need to talk myself into "bub, you still got all your limbs and if you didn't people lift like that daily".

24x 45# + 2x 35# + a couple smaller plates, mounted on an incline leg press machine.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 14/01/2026

Just asking. I get a couple of follows a week from these a accounts and I always block them and laugh at them with my friends,

“Lillah Collings” followed me, and the pinned post on her feed is Yet Another “Fuck ICE” t-shirt advertisement, this one from “Kim Wilder” who I’m pretty sure followed me and I blocked them for this grift too, recently.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 10/11/2025

@kaine.senate.gov do you think we're stupid? They weren't willing to do it? It was fucking offered WEEKS ago. It's been their ONLY POSITION, and AN OBVIOUS CON JOB, from the first. Get out of here, loser. share.google/c43Vm1hXMlp5...

Q: when was it first reported that thune and senate republicans would allow a future vote on insurance subsidies if Democrats voted to reopen government

Google AI Mode A: It was first reported on October 16, 2025, that Senator John Thune and Senate Republicans would allow a future vote on ACA insurance subsidies if Democrats voted to reopen the government. https://share.google/c43Vm1hXMlp5S1lAD

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 08/11/2025

THIS is what you do when people are going to starve.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat, said state employees “worked through the night” to issue full November benefits “to make sure every Oregon family relying on SNAP could buy groceries” by Friday.

Officials in Kansas, New Jersey and Pennsylvania also said they moved quickly to issue full SNAP benefits Friday, while other states said they expected full benefits to arrive over the weekend or early next week. Still others said they were waiting for further federal guidance.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 06/11/2025

Being wrong is the only thing he knows how to do.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 24/09/2025

Just a reminder that @tomsuozzi.bsky.social still sucks ass.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 20/09/2025

What I sent to my MoC today.

Senator Padilla, Senator Schiff, and Representative Liccardo;

I can understand getting tied in a mental knot over voting for the Kirk Day resolutions (H.Res.719 & S.Res.391). They were constructed to be morally and emotionally fraught litmus tests by Rs, so they can label “monster” anyone who didn’t support them, and set the trap by combining condemnation of his murder (proper) with honoring his life and legacy (uh, no. hard pass).

I can understand that. But it’s also true supporting these measures was not the bravest thing you did this week and was stepping on a rake advertised by a neon sign and a mariachi band while the R sponsors helpfully held your hand.

I get that it’s a dangerous, scary time to be a member of Congress. The worst in a good long while, if not the worst ever given the technological capabilities in the hands of threat-tossing wackos; indeed, such wackos who are often members of law enforcement, as Senator Padilla experienced personally. But, men, this is the job today.

A day of remembrance for Kirk is a day of remembrance for someone who was LOUD about their anti-democratic, anti-American, racist, misogynist, homophobic, and transphobic ideas who was a fascist toady and a cultural accelerationist who died from that same accelerationism. He should not be celebrated for the bravery of his speech, though he was properly allowed to say his hateful little things. Yes, there’s precedent for bestowing such honors, sadly, across our history.

We don’t have to follow it. You didn't have to follow it. You should not have.

Please publicly renounce this support and vow not to step on this rake again. I suggest posting this to your Congressional websites. After that I’ll stop looking for your primary challengers.

Regards, your constituent,

Andan

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 18/06/2025

Based on The Decameron (the book…) with an amazing cast of gleeful miscreants doing wicked-sacred things.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 18/06/2025

I dunno sometimes I think computers were a mistake.

Screenshot of an opinion survey. The question is "Please rate your overall satisfaction with Online." The scale is 1 Not at all Satisfied to 10 Extremely Satisfied.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 23/02/2025

These are very very good faces. Ours has resting murderface. She’s ver popular. She hates bobcats and would like to kill all the ones in the tv. She weighs 8lbs.

A smol very fluffy stripped tabby sits on her haunches murderously, between some living room furniture.

A smol very fluffy stripped tabby crouches on the arm of a sofa, murderously. Her gaze is fixated on the bobcats on the tv screen. She hates bobcats. She is confident she can take them.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 11/02/2025

IANAL but I don’t think I need to be to understand from like basic civics that this insane statement is entirely upside down.

“A single district court judge has attempted to wrest from the President the power to ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed.’ This state of affairs cannot be allowed to persist for one more day,” government attorneys wrote in their appeal.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/trump-spending-freeze-judge-federal-grants-loans-df756135aa9015457b6d14d59435cb89

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 06/02/2025

We spent how much on this garbage? As a shareholder I want my money back and my coworkers rehired. #awu-cwa @alphabetworkersunion.org

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 18/12/2024

Every vote matters, every election. Source @notusreports.bsky.social

From notus.org: Number you should know - 7.309 - That’s the number of votes that decided the House majority, according to Dave Wasserman of The Cook Political Report. Three districts (IA-01, CO-08 and PA-07) decided control of the chamber out of 148 million votes cast.

linked source cited via Cook Political Report: https://notus.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8af29b66fac80850b522eaf21&id=42f8cf32c4&e=68926983ef

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 07/12/2024

Real mixed day in history. 🎂

Screenclip of apnews.com's Today In History for Dec 7. Under a photo of a Navy ship sinking in flames in Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, are some other dates from the AP and one added in bold red text from myself.
- 1941: Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
- 1972: Apollo 17 launches
- (added by poster) 1973: Andan forced into flesh
- 1982: First U.S. execution by lethal injection
- 1993: Mass shooting on Long Island Rail Road
There is a link below these to "READ MORE"

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 03/12/2024

But at least this can be slid all around w/o emptying it. Design goal met! \o/

Angled top-down view of a mid-height A/V cabinet with sliding front doors across two levels of shelf. Atop are coiled and blue taped several loops of various kinds of cables. These are the sum complement of cables necessary to drive:
- A receiver
- PS4
- Switch
- gaming PC
- network switch for A/V cabinet devices
- 5.1 sound with dual-powered fronts
- TV (wall mounted above the position of the A/V cabinet)
- Air quality monitor

The cabinet is sitting on furniture sliders for ease of moving about by the moving crew while the flooring crew does their thing

I’m so dusty and my back is doooone.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 27/11/2024

Several things to think about in this article, but let's start with are Trump voters wondering why *foreign* leaders are getting the *American* cabinet picks *they* want? 🤔 This doesn't sound very America First, hrm...

AP News article snippet: Vought “brought him potential spending cuts” in the first administration, Short said, “that Trump wouldn’t go along with.” This time, Short continued, “maybe Elon and Vivek provide backup,” giving Vought the imprimatur of two wealthy businessmen.

“He will always calculate who has been good to him,” Short said. “You already see that: The unions got the labor secretary they wanted, and Putin and Assad got the DNI (intelligence chief) they wanted. … This is not so much a team-of-rivals situation. I think it’s going to look a lot like a reality TV show.”

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 24/11/2024

I love that I know what you are talking about and at the same time

screen cap of the bsky UI showing me “Blocked” in replacement of a post from someone I have blocked it’s so cool that I don’t even know what account it was I fuckin’ love this place.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 07/11/2024

Suozzi is right but not like that. Democrats need to stop being the party of decorum. The Rs are emphatically not learning from any decorous example that Dems are making. We can both: a) talk absolute shit about their bullshit b) obey laws and stuff Stop holding norms sacred. Some are bad now.

Twitter statement by Rep Tom Suozzi (D-NY-03), a moderate. He won his seat back by special election after George Santos was shitcanned by he peers from Congress.

“In this election, Americans have made their voice clear: Democrats need to focus more on issues Americans care about, like wages and benefits, and less on being politically correct. Moderate White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, union, non-union, and other voters fear that the world we live in and the values we live by are under threat, and Democrats have been too intimidated to speak up for the same values that many of us hold dear — the American Dream, public safety and a common sense of right and wrong among them.

Many Americans are simply afraid of "the Left" more than they are afraid of what President Trump will do. While some Democrats effectively responded to Republican's claims of chaos at the Southern border, we still ceded too much ground to the Republicans on an issue we could have won. And we failed as a party to respond to the Republican weaponization of anarchy on college campuses, defund the police, biological boys playing in girls' sports, and a general attack on traditional values.

Going forward, we need to make the case every day that we will fight to give everyone a fair shake and that America is for everybody. We cannot get wrapped around the axle by our base and resistance politics.”

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 05/11/2024

I have a very good bucket.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 29/10/2024

And what’s this ”we” shit he’s doing. He’s a journalist because… he owns some rockets and websites and one of this things is WaPo? Fuck off with faux bajillionaire solidarity, Jeff.

An excerpt from Jeff Bezos’s explanation / lie of / about why the newspaper he owns did not print the endorsement for POTUS that said paper already had drafted.

The excerpt is the first graph, starting that “our profession [as journalists] is now the least trusted of all.”

Fact check: Bezos is not a journalist. He’s an owner.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 27/10/2024

Quote with your current read: @abraham.bsky.social Blade of Dream.

Cover image for “Blade of Dream (Kithamar #2)” by Daniel Abraham

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 06/10/2024

Genuinely annoyed they’re just getting around to this.

New York Times headline push notification: Quesrions around Trump’s age : Donald Trump often repeats himself and roams from thought to thought, reinforcing questions about his mental fitness.

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Andan @andan.naos.org · 21/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #5,439,866!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #5,439,866, Andan ‪@aalauber.bsky.social‬, joined on Apr 13, 2024"

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