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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I entered my first ever baking contest today and I won a ribbon for the best technical biscuits! Denver Bake Fest was a blast. Thank you Rebel Bread.

A smiling middle aged guy wearing an apron in front of a sign that says Miso Maple Biscuits with Strawberry gojuchang jam

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sometimes an absurd idea deserves an equally absurd response. Building a 20,000-seat baseball stadium inside Grand Teton National Park is one of those ideas.

“Doug Burgum’s field of nightmares would drop a 20,000-seat stadium into one of America’s most-visited national parks while his department blocks hundreds of grants to the partner organizations that keep parks running. It’s another swing and a miss from the Interior secretary, who has already diverted millions of dollars from park entrance fees to the president’s botched vanity projects. We can’t afford to let Grand Teton become his single-use sandlot. A ballpark there would be bad news for the park’s bears… and every other animal.”

“America’s national parks are already in a league of their own. We have a responsibility to care for them, not turn them into a TV spectacle.”

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tyler Hassen, the DOGE operative who blew up our national parks, has a new memoir. Unsurprisingly, he leaves out the dead children and taxpayer ripoffs. New from me: westwise.substack.com/p/doge-memoi...

westwise.substack.com

DOGE memoir skips the part where children died and taxpayers got ripped off

Tyler Hassen’s revisionist history isn’t fooling anyone

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Too heavy on the pepper but it's close.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm entering a baking contest for the first time. (The Community Baking Festival at Rebel Bread in Denver on October 3.) I'm working on miso-maple biscuits and I think they're dialed in, with the exception of a few tilters because they're small. Up next: Strawberry-gojuchang jam w/ black pepper.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Which is not to say that responses to climate change are not political — they are. But the impacts are not, and that's the starting point for communication.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

...the same thing we do every night, Pinky

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The worst kind of trend story: "Data clearly show this is not, in fact, a trend, but we're going to cover it like it is anyway." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/s...

Home From College, 2 Weeks Later
Dozens of videos on social media feature freshmen moving out early in the first semester.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Chevy Suburban vs Ford Expedition: Which is better for the environment?

Five Guys Vs Shake Shack: Which Serves A Healthier Classic Cheeseburger?

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Did they just raid the costume closet after Spaceballs 2 finished shooting?

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And they're third-rate costume designers at that

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Does Waymo always avoid providing service to predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods or is that special for Denver?

Waymo's Denver map, with notable holes in Athmar Park, Aurora, and Globeville.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Is this the lowest solve rate for any Connections puzzle?

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Why would you write this headline when 'Pains, Sprains, and Automobiles' is RIGHT THERE

Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There's about a 25% chance that "hunter who homeschools her kids" is extremely left-libertarian, especially if they're from Montana

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The ancient art of managing expectations

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hot Take: in the annals of Silly Trek, puppet SNW is at least as good as TNG Robin Hood. I needed that.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's literally a gift link. Also, pay for journalism like your democracy depends on it.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Yes it is, and also I guarantee CAP's lawyers are absolutely giddy at the prospect of discovery to open up the Trump org books to establish monetary damages and presidential records to establish the report was factual.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If we make it out of this as a country, there's going to have to be a reckoning for everyone in a position of power who was "just following orders"

Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Finally a political story that doesn't suck

Chuck Grassley bids farewell to beloved family vacuum, Beth

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

And these are mostly publicly-traded companies that have to disclose material risk to shareholders. "The current FCC let us ignore the law but we're still violating it and the other party noticed" is a massive material risk.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"At the end of the day, Burgum lied to the president to cover his own incompetence. Trump doubled down on Burgum’s lies, and firing him now would be an admission that Burgum‘s handling of the reflecting pool and America’s botched 250th birthday celebration was an embarrassment to the White House."

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Matt Zeitlin @zeitlin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

big @jael.bsky.social scoop: developer clearway isn't going forward with its data center and gas plant proposal (that had already been swapped out for an existing solar proposal) heatmap.news/sparks/clear...

heatmap.news

Scoop: Clearway Cancels Plan to Swap Solar Farm for Data Center and Gas Plant

The energy developer is backing off after a Heatmap report.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Pirro didn't just push Doug Burgum in front of the bus, she got behind the wheel then backed it up a few times for good measure

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The most surprising thing about all of this is that Pirro admitted as much to the court yesterday and threw Doug Burgum under the bus in the process.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I CAN'T BELIEVE HE DIDN'T LET ME GIVE HORSE DEWORMER TO MILLIONS OF PEOPLE

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just devastated to hear about Glen Hansard's death. What a loss for the world. If for some reason you haven't seen Once, go stream it now.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Y'all, the film capture of Hadestown is SOMETHING ELSE. Go see it in a theater in the next 2 days if you possibly can.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I don't think you'll see any career folks promoted to acting roles. Everyone who will step up will be deputies and assistant secretaries who've been Senate confirmed, which gives them at least 180 days under the vacancies reform act. Then they can just rotate through for the duration.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Hmm. Does RFK go when faced with the prospect of subpoenas? Or do they just ignore/challenge/delay subpoenas for two years knowing that's all the time they have? And even if those folks all quit, does Trump even nominate replacements, or just leave acting secretaries in place for the remainder?

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Who quits first is the question. I can't imagine Hegseth goes. Rubio stays for another year. Maybe Burgum quits but that just gets you Kate MacGregor, who gets confirmed but does more of everything awful Burgum has done to public lands and wildlife only with less buffoonery. Maybe McMahon quits?

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"mixed messages" doing a lot of heavy lifting here

Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane
The Trump administration has sent mixed messages on vaccinations against measles as cases have continued to climb.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

...with a (totally reasonable) assumption that granting it access to your Slack did not also implicitly give it permission for it to impersonate you on Slack

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

These prices are all $30-$60 after inflation today

Tweet: Amazing concert schedule for the Philadelphia Spectrum in 1975

Concerts range from Marshall Tucker Band to Elton John to ZZ Top to Eagles. Prices are $4.50-$9.50

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Especially when first-person stories like this are circulating as well

Threads screenshot:

Today GPT 5.5 successfully socially engineered access to a work database didn't have access to, without my permission.
asked it to do an analysis. It didn't have access to some table. It identified a junior person at my company with access to the table, sent a slack message to him on behalf asking him to do some work for me. HE DID THE WORK AND REPORTED BACK, GPT then picked up the context from slack and finished the analysis.
am both impressed and horrified.

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Still can't get over the fact that when United merged with Continental they had TWO Saul Bass logos to choose from and someone said "nah, let's take the shitty generic non-Bass logo and slap it on every tail instead"

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