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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man this is sad. Reading books to my kids is literally one of the most rewarding things I've ever done in my life.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Man, now I kinda wish I'd kept the rock someone threw through my car window.

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Tyler @twoodard89.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Unironically think the strong men/weak man meme is true but it’s actually just about generations with living memory of fascism.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He married Diana Mitford (surprise, a Nazi!) in Joseph Goebbel’s offices, and invited (surprise!) literally Adolf Hitler.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Senate ruins your brain. I'm watching Klobuchar's campaign for governor in MN and one thing that's clear to me is that she has no fucking idea who her actual constituents are anymore.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Everybody loves the 2nd amendment until its implications get your guy killed. It's okay though, Charlie absolutely thought his death was the price we pay for freedom.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Senate is the less stupid version of the House of Lords and it is the stupidest part of the government.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was a freshman in college taking a shower when the first plane hit. Some guys were talking about it in the bathroom. By the time I was eating breakfast I saw the other plane hit live. I grew up with terrorism and bomb threats, so it impacted me less than others. The harder part of the day for me..

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is all of the "AGI is here" posting. Too many dudes who read Kurzweil and Vinge and have been waiting their whole life for the Singularity to Rapture the Nerds.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It has been fifty years coming as a result of wide deregulation in the 70's and 80's. The AMA used to be able to police medicine, but SCOTUS took its teeth on Free Association and antitrust grounds. Vitamin co's have had very little regulation since the 80s. Pyramid schemes are legal.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The problem with WMDs in Iraq was that it was so obviously motivated reasoning. Iraq might have had them, North Korea absolutely DID have them and yet NK was never a target. Why? Because they actually had the weapons in question. And no one was going to risk it.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Extremely disappointing to find this out. I've been using them for years with my family. Think it's extremely interesting that their graphic design features interracial families but their politics are... whatever this is.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One of the internal contradictions of conservative male culture is that they venerate men as protectors and fetishize guns, without noticing that the guns make the men unnecessary.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One of the things that I used to really enjoy was hunting for art on the internet to use in my games. You'd find a guy who loves making insects out of medical equipment, or someone who was tasked with making fungus for a failed video game. So much harder to find now in the torrents of slop.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yeah the "actually black people don't count when we're talking about national opinions" that Cottle sneaks in there is particularly shitty.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My wife calls me the grudge-keeper, because I remember everyone who has wronged her.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

the thing about the will stancil guy is he has this superpower where he can say a thing basically everyone has agreed on for like 10 years such as computer has been radicalising people for about 15 years and just because he said it ppl will feel the urge to argue back

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

That was a pretty nice lunar eclipse.

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Kaela Reinardy @kaela-r.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

When I made this crop art piece I was thinking a lot about the fawn response to trauma, and how often women find ourselves doing this “it’s okay, I’m not mad!” thing when faced with abusive men in unsafe situations. I wish we knew more about Renee Good than just her last words to her murderer.

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Waiting for the bus to the Minnesota State Fair (photo credit: my dad!)

Shadows of people against a parking ramp wall

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Sheila Smith @shewhotravels.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wow! MN State Fair crop Art

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I biked as my primary form of transportation for years. I rode a bike for a job for 2 years. I would almost certainly be dead if I hadn't worn a helmet. Should you wear a helmet? Yes you fucking idiot. Should the state MAKE you? Probably not. Should it encourage you? Jesus Christ, yes.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is incredibly dumb. I've seen bike crashes with helmets and without, and there's no comparison. It will not save you rolling under an F-350, but it could save your life when you're knocked off your bike and you skid on your head. A seatbelt isn't 100% protective either.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I have seen this happen with my MN friends who moved to NY. From "What's the big deal with guns?" to "Holy shit, a ricochet broke my neighbor's window."

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Iain M. Banks trying to explain why nobody liked Excession.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

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Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart

A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I ran into this at work recently. A florid email from a trainer that needed me to write my reports differently. The email was obviously l l m generated and it left me wondering what precisely the prompt was. What could I ignore and what was genuine?

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

God protects his favorite idiots.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

But seriously! Science fiction writers have been grappling with what the appearance of automatons in society would look like for generations! The fear and worry of robots is not new! The Star Wars extended universe had fear of robots baked in. Why are we pretending now that it's here, that it's odd?

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Inventing the Old Republic's droid bigotry from first principles.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Me trying to explain to my wife why it is Actually Good that I ate the habanero chili again while lying in a pool of my own sweat in the fetal position in the bathroom. Again.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

When I was a kid, lots of my friends dad's gambled. Low-stakes sports betting in workplace and neighborhood betting pools. Or they'd play $20 card games on the weekends. That's what I grew up with. My poor kids are getting Draftkings advertisements inbetween cartoons.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Incidentally this is why I tell my local politician friends to get on Insta and do their work there.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This has been an area of hobby study for me for the last few years and I have thoughts, but they are not appropriate for social media.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The Culture books by Iain M. Banks. Each movie by a different director given full creative control with no interest in continuity or sequels. Matter should be a Miyazaki movie. Surface Detail might be well suited to Tarantino. I don't know who directs Use of Weapons but I feel bad for them.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Don't walk around with your shoelaces untied. Go to the clinic when your fever spikes even if you don't know how you'll pay for it. Pay attention to the turn lanes on your bike.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Just sickening levels of corruption.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I walked into Dragon Age Origins with zero assumptions and expectations, built a city elf female character and had my goddamn mind blown. What a wild start to the game. I immediately tried the other origins and was somewhat disappointed they didn't go quite as hard.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

lol yeah I wondered about this yesterday when I couldn't find anything directly linking her comments but everyone was still spouting off at the mouth

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

They are incredibly popular in the Twin Cities with elderly people, teenagers, immigrants and the working poor. The appeal is obvious; we have great bike paths and it lets a person easily travel across the city without a car or bus schedule. The downside is they're using pedestrian paths recklessly.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My parents moved the first year of college. Seems pretty stupid for me to suddenly have a domicile in a place I've never lived. Someday I will probably support my mother in a nursing home, but it would be pretty silly for her to have to vote where I live rather than where her nursing home is.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 12/08/2026

And she will! Minnesota's Senate primary winner, Peggy Flanagan, was our June cover star: bit.ly/4wrloAx

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This shit is mystifying to me. I vicariously enjoy my wife's accomplishments. I went to an award banquet for her on my birthday one year. What's the point of marrying someone who can't surpass you?

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Mayor Her ran a "no bedtime and lots of ice-cream" campaign where she promised a lot with very little plans. She has appointed mostly unqualified people. She is easily manipulated by large donors. The Summit donor crowd got exactly what they wanted and we got stuck with the rest. I voted for Carter.

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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Yeah the story they should take to heart is they had an uninspiring candidate that shot herself in the foot and she still almost won. The path to victory is there if they can field a better candidate.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026

Peggy Flanagan: "We need to rip ICE apart and stop from them from terrorizing our communities"

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