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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 7h

I would never ever ever have guessed why Mike Tomlin is trending.

Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 11h

What is going on with this chart? Why is it smoothed? Mexico alone looks to have dropped by 8M+, Canada by ~6, UK by ~2 – none of the data, axes, and description seem to fit together.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 13h

Imagine saying this while losing a war of choice against a power two weight classes below you.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We recently switched to Microsoft Authenticator, which requires me to authenticate through Microsoft Authenticator when establishing my account in Microsoft Authenticator.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#20YearsAgoToday, I shot this clip of Harvey Danger at the Rathskeller in Madison. What a show! Several songs from the end, Sean Nelson's voice gave out and they brought people up to sing in his place. The set had been great, but turning into a party for Harvey Danger dorks made it something bigger.

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Harvey Danger & Friends: "Old Hat"

YouTube video by Aaron S. Veenstra

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can't believe a guy desperate to play second fiddle to a juiceless weirdo two years in advance could get something so wrong.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Joey Votto's Don Cherry wardrobe routine is a fun tribute (to a shitty guy, unfortunately).

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a great piece of writing about knowing and loving the character of a place. I already thought Fremantle and Milwaukee were long-lost siblings, but this specifically brings to mind the parade the city held for the Brewers after they lost the 82 World Series. Helpful to read after a brutal GF.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some of this might be age, but still.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He threw one of the best games ever in June and just finished one of the best seasons ever looking just as sharp. Best batting average against ever. Third best WHIP ever. I don't know if Jacob Misiorowski can go out and just win 11 postseason games by himself, but it's worth trying.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm old enough to remember when a devout Catholic Democrat was president (I am two years old).

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Absolutely, and it should be presented as a continuation of the January 6 committee's work.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah. OTOH, the policy alone topline is not great. Populace that just threw out a normal government for an openly fascist one specifically because of inflation: Please inject $1.25 trillion in cash into the consumer economy.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Somehow, the Skywalker Saga returned.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

2011 NLCS game 6 2014 NFC championship game 2015 men's college basketball title game 2019 NL wild card game 2024 NLWC game 3 2025 NLCS game 4 2025 NFC wild card game 2026 AFL Grand Final God, I hate sports.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Premiered Getting There tonight – a bunch of people in South Florida had no idea they were seeing footage of where the party will be tonight in Fremantle. Notifications going off until late morning tomorrow; Dockers, please do the thing. #AFL

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

While it is true that expensive gas isn't really the thing (he's been on a consistent downward trajectory for a year and a half), what really speaks poorly about as a country is that he was allowed to leave the White House without handcuffs in 2021 and get his name put back on ballots in 2024.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

EP release! With the Freo Dockers in the #AFL Grand Final tomorrow and my documentary premiering tonight, it's a good day to put out the last single from Appetites. "Shai's Theme" is backed by six tracks from the soundtrack to Getting There, including a brief interpretation of Bon Iver's "Perth."

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Shai's Theme, by Decapitol

7 track album

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Would've been hard to predict five years ago how much better the Brewers would be than the Packers or Bucks in 2026.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm seeing a lot of the Donalds ad examined here, which makes claims about Jolly's "hurricane tax" based on a study about a difference proposal from two years ago. And even then, it's incredibly weak in light of Floridians' actual experience with the home insurance market. Jolly might pull this off.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's great this is getting big front page coverage, but what is going on with that art choice? Bascom Hill is the state's most recognizable "university" setting, but if it has to be Milwaukee-area, surely UWM or Marquette have a spot that indicates the same thing.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Half a dozen contenders on the album itself, but the answer is "I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams."

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#20YearsAgoToday, I shot this clip of Jail at River Horse in Milwaukee. This set came up last minute as part of Center Street Days, but rain forced us all into the cramped bar space. Jail was in transition here, a couple years from hitting their Sub Pop stride but quickly rising in the local scene.

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Jail: "First to Pinch"

YouTube video by Aaron S. Veenstra

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#20YearsAgoToday, I shot this clip of Mates of State at the Orpheum in Madison. This was a great bill with the band at their peak, commanding the stage in a decent size, sold out venue. I haven't seen them since then, but they were a hugely important early-to-mid 00s band for me.

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Mates of State: "Ha Ha"

YouTube video by Aaron S. Veenstra

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Daniel Donner @donnermaps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We were pretty surprised to find such a clear relationship between primary vote margins and the House popular vote stretching across decades with such different political environments. But there's some years where one zigs and the other zags. What happened there? We'll start with 1966.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is compelling and if it's real it might provide a better measure of enthusiasm than survey questions. But it's also a small N dataset with quite a few mismatches to explain.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It was only an 11-point gap in 2008.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's way too much good stuff so my list is only things I thought would be unusual picks but have top-10 qualifications. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a very recognisable depiction of various political subcultures and we all know it. I am Pessimistic about our ability to persuade people not to do this, but I am also baffled by the fact that so many people in fact want to do this. Some sort of instinct to small-group meanness is common!

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Steven Lemongello @stevelemongello.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As Florida legislators debated sweeping reforms in 2022 to rescue the state’s property insurance industry, state regulators sat on a secret report that showed many insurers were bleeding cash on paper while shifting millions to sibling companies whose profits remained secret

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bluesky has outsourced it's trending topic descriptions to the New York Times.

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1. Trump reshapes Kennedy Center

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#20YearsAgoToday, I shot this clip of System and Station at the High Noon Saloon in Madison. They were local alt rock vets who made one of the top records of 2006, a riff-heavy album that could've blown up in 1993. After soon decamping to Portland, they split and partially reformed as Last Giant.

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System and Station: "When You're the Witness"

YouTube video by Aaron S. Veenstra

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In addition to other terrible things, South Florida may be the nation's strongest holdout for NIMBY politics. Here in Boca, the city just revolted over a big development proposal. In Palm Beach County, this is the *good* candidate in my county commission district:

• Address irresponsible overdevelopment and its impact on our roads, schools, and infrastructure.

• Protect affordability so our children and grandchildren can continue to call Palm Beach County home.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two braindead, drive-extending penalties on defense already, plus a couple more on offense and special teams.

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Interesting deep dive here. I'll add that for all the assumptions out there about MAHA, young men (left) are significantly more anti-vax than women (right), and more hostile to academic science. ymrp.substack.com -> static1.squarespace.com/static/68262... and static1.squarespace.com/static/68262...

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the name is CHUMP THEORY mattweiner.net/On%20Chum%20...

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Eleven years in and they're still doing "Trump said" headlines.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is of a piece with the people who excoriated Biden for not doing anything about student debt relief. There is a population of Americans who claim to be on the left who, for whatever reason, refuse to take "yes" for an answer or to even believe that the answer has been given.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This has been really striking. Elon has been encouraging race pogroms, spreading conspiracies, and generally going genuinely mad, and everyone is worried about Hasan Piker, a semi-smart streamer whose worst statement isn’t even close to a median GOP voter or politician statement

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These threads are all immensely stupid because "mandates" aren't real. Elections are real. Power is real. Mandates are rhetorical devices.

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey

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The open houses at the edge of disaster

What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The fact that this is imaginary is perfect. The whole premise is based on a fantasy that the optimal form of public education is the midpoint of a polarized society. Just split the difference between the science of climate change and the lobby of denialism.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Incredibly, this show is on YouTube and it's an amazing document, shot from the front of the crowd on a camcorder, right behind a guy in a Butthole Surfers tour shirt.

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Nirvana LIVE - Beehive, Seattle, WA 9/16/1991 REMASTERED/STEREO AUDIO UPGRADE (partial)

YouTube video by Daria Romero’s Concert Remasters

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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Lock him up" was right in 2024 and it's right today.

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Oliver Larkin @oliveralarkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Palestinian professor & human rights attorney Noura Erakat, 32-year State Department official Charles Blaha, 100 South Florida residents and I attempted to provide public comment on the $1B Israel bond investment, the largest on earth, at the Palm Beach County Commission. Here's what happened.

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