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Aaron Brethorst

@brethorsting.com
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Seattleite, transit enthusiast, democracy enthusiast. Posting through it ONLY in my personal capacity. Exec Director for OneBusAway’s parent nonprofit, Open Transit Software Foundation Founder of Sincere (formerly Voterletters)

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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 03/08/2026
August? More like Smaugust here in the PNW. Weve been lucky so far, but i finally had to add an AQI widget to my lock screen 🤦‍♂️ 😬🙃😔
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 04/07/2026
Poor puppy 🧨
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 03/06/2026
I regret to inform you all that the bouncy castle skeet inspired me to buy this symbol of bourgeois frivolity for my toddler. Little Lord Fauntleroy loves his new toy.
A symbol of the petit bourgeoisie: the bouncy castle.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 20/04/2026
LinkedIn can be good sometimes.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 03/04/2026
This is a real article from The Atlantic. Turns out you want to be the thing that is incinerated.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 22/03/2026
Don't sleep on this Todd Achilles for Senate thing in Idaho. I did not have former Republican carves out path as notional independent, caucuses with Democrats on my 2026 bingo card as a potential route for Dems to retake the Senate, but here we are and I'll take it.
PPP poll from March 20 showing a Senate general election matchup between former Republican, turned Democrat, turned Independent Todd Achilles vs. Republican incumbent Senator James Risch. Achilles is leading by 3 points, 41 to 38.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 02/03/2026
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 02/03/2026
Just the absolute worst, most venal, mush brained man you could imagine. Congrats everyone, we could’ve had the nice Black lady instead.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 26/02/2026
Yes, I too find it very hard to enrich myself by 25% literally overnight.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 25/02/2026
A hit dog will holler.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 21/02/2026
Welcome to life in your forties! 🫠
Seven containers full of vitamins and pills.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 16/02/2026
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 15/02/2026
Utterly deranged shit happening over in the bad place. The Rubio thing is appalling and the Blob is terrible but you don’t Have to Hand It to Putin.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 14/02/2026
What are you talking about?
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 03/02/2026
I love how Sam pretends to have emotions.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 25/01/2026
A hilarious counter-example from the thread; here's Mr. Pro-Fa, living up to his flair:
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 19/01/2026
Hey look Marc got GLP-1!
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 14/01/2026
'Tell our state legislators to vote against taxes on Airbnb,' brought to you by Airbnb!
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 11/01/2026
I'll buy a copy of your hastily ghost-written tell all that purports to REVEAL THE SECRETS OF THE LEFT if you also grow a dark stubble + bleach-blond handlebar mustache a la Hulk Hogan after his 1990s wrestling heel turn.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 11/01/2026
Stop being a coward Tim.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 10/01/2026
🤦‍♂️
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 10/01/2026
I just went down such a ridiculous rabbit hole of tacticool shopping online. I feel like this image really sums up every single one of these assholes. www.tacticaldistributors.com/products/td-...
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 09/01/2026
I love how this guy is considered a leftist thought leader on X.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 08/01/2026
A brilliant insight from Claude Code today. I'm not being sarcastic.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 06/01/2026
AI is actually good sometimes.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 05/01/2026
Womp-womp. Note that I hid a handful of stories in between these to better make my point, but they were all on the front page.
Headlines from stories on the Hacker News homepage:

14. Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die
15. X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced
16. How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders 
17. The meek did inherit the Earth, at least among ants
18. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 05/01/2026
What a weird thing to say (and amplify) about Marco Rubio, who was born in Miami.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 03/01/2026
DEBATE ME BRO!!!
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 02/01/2026
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 28/12/2025
nah.
SS auxiliaries pose with Karl Höcker (center) at Solahütte.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 28/12/2025
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains
Cover art for Massive Attack's album "Mezzanine"
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 20/12/2025
The NYT is really doing a bang-up job of rehabbing their image as a neutral arbiter of the news right now.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 13/12/2025
Because we already know who.
Richard Spencer, the so-called 'dapper nazi' getting punched in his highly punchable fascist face in 2017.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 12/12/2025
Has Kshama ever bothered to explain how she pays her mortgage?
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 12/12/2025
Super cool that Kshama's official position is that Ukraine has no right to self-determination.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 12/12/2025
Everyone's least favorite socialist city councilmember is back at it! quote-unquote govern (ugh).
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 08/12/2025
Check out the amazing high quality engineering of the Docker Desktop app on my Mac.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 04/12/2025
Zuck's offering a profoundly empty statement gussied up to sound deep. My idea is to treat empathy as a new design material. My idea is to treat that first sip of coffee in the morning as a new design material.
Zuckerberg: "The new studio will bring together design, fashion, and technology to define the next generation of our products and experiences. Our idea is to treat intelligence as a new design material and imagine what becomes possible when it is abundant, capable, and human-centered. We plan to elevate design within Meta, and pull together a talented group with a combination of craft, creative vision, systems thinking, and deep
experience building iconic products that bridge hardware and software."
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 03/12/2025
Siddharta Ghosh. You can see this photo and a lot of other beautiful work of his here: www.instagram.com/reel/C0YABAI...
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 03/12/2025
“Cut it out, Walter!”
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 23/11/2025
The ‘marketing’ campaign was an absolute disaster. At least on Capitol Hill, it seemed like every pole had a Tax Amazon poster on it with the stylized ‘X’ suggesting that the goal was to destroy one of our city’s largest employers.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 23/11/2025
Correct. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociali...
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 22/11/2025
I didn’t even look til just now but this is basically what she tweeted on it. Also, why is she still on that Nazi site?
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 17/11/2025
Ok…?
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 17/11/2025
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 08/11/2025
Pre-Covid, when I worked in an office, this little one would occasionally ride the 10 bus with me.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 06/11/2025
wow, fucking amazing. Give me a half billion dollars and I'll be able to predict that Spanberger will win *before* Election Day. www.theverge.com/column/81520...
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 05/11/2025
So says Ross. (who is apparently only two years older than me 😬)
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 26/10/2025
Yep, both reasons why I’m not voting for Sara.
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Aaron Brethorst @brethorsting.com · 26/10/2025
What an absurdly weak argument from the pro-Sara Nelson PAC. I feel kind of bad for them lighting their money on fire like this.
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