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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 14/10/2026

@mkbhd.com I can’t believe I need to ask but… does it come in “mat” black??

Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 26/09/2026

@reckless.bsky.social "Sure, but your phone doesn't have a light" My friend is a senior engineer for the Meta Glasses; told me he and his team have brought up many ways to their bosses on how to implement the light in a way that can't just be covered up by tape but are told thats not a priority.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 26/09/2026

This is as the lowest cost pump in my area

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 19/09/2026

Camp Wilderness and Midwest Hemophilia Association are out here showing the world that you CAN have a camp for children with bleeding disorders in 2026 without mountains of red tape in the way of fun.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 18/09/2026

@davidimel.com @reckless.bsky.social This feels like verge bait and the beginning of a much larger story about consumer trust in software from independent devs.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 03/09/2026

“The Big Stick” was the event that bleeding disorders camp used to revolve around. The stick, is an intravenous shot. It is, what a nurse once told me, a deeply “unnatural act” to try and put a piece of metal inside your own vein. - Nicholas Van Buren

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 28/08/2026

Idk what thats referencing but the film is supposedly pretty good!

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 27/08/2026

"It's really hard to tell a seven year old that you can't do the same things your peers are doing... so coming to a place like this, everybody's the same, we're no different than anybody else here." James Harbert, Camp Wilderness counselor #bleedingdisorders #hemophilia #vwd #chronicillness

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 20/08/2026

Ah, Excelsior Springs, Missouri. A short drive away from Kansas City and the place where I learned that my camera lenses can fog up just as much as my glasses when the humidity is high enough.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 18/08/2026

Over the next few weeks you'll see video from this camp, their crazy games, unique rituals, their devotion to teaching children with bleeding disorders practical life skills, and snippets from interviews I've taken with kids, counselors, nurses, and staff alike.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 08/08/2026

The final days of camp are filled with with a pure distillation of joy, bonding, and bittersweet goodbyes. If you hadn't been to camp before, you are now wholeheartedly accepted into the greater camp family.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 06/08/2026

If you have old bleeding disorder camp photos or video and would be willing to share them with the world, I'm on the search for archival material for my upcoming documentary feature film The Big Stick! If you do, please reach out to us at: info@factoreight.org

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 04/08/2026

When I started this project, I was genuinely worried that camps like this were disappearing. Camp H.O.N.O.R. is the reason I know that's not the whole story. — Nicholas Van Buren

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 01/08/2026

"I think nature is a huge, important part of being in this planet. You have to understand how things work, there's animals running around, there's little critters, there's things you gotta be prepared for. It kinda helps you be prepared, which is a huge thing about being a hemophiliac" Andrew Heinze

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 30/07/2026

While it's true that men and boys tend to suffer the worst of the symptoms from this hemophilia, that doesn't mean that women and girls don't have potentially life-threatening issues that will affect them for their entire lives.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 29/07/2026

"There's a lot of adults I've met that never have been to a camp. They've never been uncomfortable at a talent show in front of a bunch of people they've been hanging out with all week. They've never had to [try] to figure out how to be independent when you're 10 years old." - Andrew Heinze

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 27/07/2026

@reckless.bsky.social you should really bring Andrew Yang on your show before he starts running for president again. Listen to the Offline interview with him and you’ll understand why he needs some tech realists to challenge him on his ideas.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 24/07/2026

The very center of bleeding disorders camp is the "self-infusion", and it's at the very center of my film. "The Big Stick" is a term used all across the US for the first time that a bleeding disorders patient is able to self-infuse, that is to stick themselves in a vein with a needle.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 23/07/2026

"I was thrown away by trees. The only trees I knew were lampposts. All my whole life was just sidewalks and concrete and asphalt. So to see trees, and to see clear skies and to see stars , it was really like throwing me on another planet." - Tony Hernandez.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 22/07/2026

"When you talk about camp to non-camp people, they're just like, 'That's so fun.' And I'm like, 'But it's not just fun. It's weird. It's like a wormhole.'... I feel like one week out of the year, I'm home. It fills my cup so hardcore." - Venus Alvar

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 19/07/2026

hey @discord.com. I just got a flag that somebody had hacked into my account from India. No big deal, they didn't mess anything up and I made a new password. How did somebody get in while I have 2FA already set up? That seems concerning.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 18/07/2026

"Camp teaches you to do so many things that that cannot be taught really in school, it's an experiential way of learning. You learn things by doing, you learn how to how to make friends, how to resolve conflicts, and how to be silly and not take things so seriously. "- Andy Blackledge

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 17/07/2026

Thousands of people with bleeding disorders have been lost over the decades due to medicine tainted with HIV. My documentary, The Big Stick covers this period of time and the summer camps that became support groups for the victims.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 17/07/2026

"Where the slime fight started. Mike wanted to crash everyone and slime everything and then bring everyone down and then be like, OK, guys, let's take a time out. Remember Jose. Yeah, great guy right? Unfortunately, we did lose Kelly. I'm sorry." - Tony Hernandez

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 17/07/2026

While it's hard to imagine now, this vibrant and crazy tradition started as many begin within the bleeding disorders community, from a place of sorrow.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 17/07/2026

Now for an event that Camp H.O.N.O.R. is known for THE SLIME FIGHT! Who doesn't want to throw multicolored slime around at your friends and family, and of course, while everybody has white shirts on! #chronicillness #bleedingdisorders #thebigstick

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 16/07/2026

After a long, full day at Camp H.O.N.O.R. I sat down with Destinee Orville. "It's basically Christmas in July. Bleeding Disorders Camp, it's special." It can be easy to overlook how much a chronic illness affects not only those with the condition, but the entire family, loved ones, and friends.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 15/07/2026

"Once you connect with another girl who's had in the same situation, you kinda create that bond... I have a lot of friends who don't have blood disorders, and it's like there's that gap... they're not gonna understand me the way the people here understand me." Ariel Aguilar

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 14/07/2026

I grew up at summer camps like this one. I'm a severe hemophiliac, and these weeks are where I learned to take care of myself and found a community I'm still part of today. More to come!

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

literally all netflix needs to do is stop trying to reinvent the wheel and just start hiring actually talented execs to greenlight genuinely good entertainment people will watch instead of trying to craft entertainment from user data (another plug for my avclub piece this week 💃🏻)

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 16/06/2026

Wilson has been pretty aggressively coming down on private surveillance systems. Only so much she can do though without the city council’s backing

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 16/06/2026

There’s a lot of kinship between Minnesota and Seattle! Both beautiful places settled by Scandi peoples. A surprising amount of people I know have family in both regions so hopefully you’ll feel right at home

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 13/06/2026

October is my favorite time in Seattle… though it is quickly followed by the “Long Dark”. Find some friends (you’ll need to be assertive) to get through the dark days and remember that the summer is absolutely worth it.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 15/05/2026

I've been staring at the camera bump for the phone in the clear case on the table... completely indiscernible.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 15/05/2026

The premise of finding people that are somehow "unpartisan" is just so deeply unrealistic. I would much rather all of these cases just go to be voted on by the senate. Would it still yield unpopular results? Absolutely. But we can hold senators accountable.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/05/2026

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 13/05/2026

I need to know why we are so limited by LLMs in terms of how we prompt and the level of depth we want. Why are the only options; 1. low effort, possibly incorrect or shallow answer, or 2. high effort, TED talk thesis paper with 10 pages of information i don't need?

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 08/05/2026

I’ve placed several campaigns worth of D&D characters into Tomadachi Life and now I’m obligated to let the players know about all of the drama that has since unfolded

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 07/05/2026

You must fucking loathe people not renewing their tabs

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 07/05/2026

Well that sounds vague AF. So it just needs the capability, theoretically to outperform humans, but it doesn't need to actually demonstrate competency?

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 06/05/2026

Countries don't work without tax booboo

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 27/04/2026

A reminder that the Israeli people are not a monolith. There is resistance forming.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 27/04/2026

A good time to remind the world this man is a Russian asset.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 22/04/2026

It’s not a competition if we don’t play by the same rules

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 07/04/2026

How absolutely INSANE is it that congress takes these breaks even while the country is at war. At some point Trump is going to try and get rid of congress permanently.

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Nicholas Van Buren @nicholasvanburen.com · 09/03/2026

Thanks for the reply. However I can't find any records of your name being associated with the Harris campaign. The original account that posted this on reddit has deleted the post which leads me to believe that this is misinformation. If you can prove otherwise I'd be happy to support your claim.

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