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Posts by Aaron Ross Powell ☸️

Wait, there's a champion of wandering around pointing your phone at random stuff?

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"I don't get my feelings hurt easy" says person who has built entire public persona on not placing highly enough in a swim meet

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we’re excited about this too ! you can mention pckt posts right in leaflet via our page parts service !

this is very new and in testing right now, if you’d like to try it you’ll need to add our service record to the config in your PDS.

if that doesn’t make any sense to you, hold off for now 🥰

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this is legitimately fascinating as an a real life demonstration of why trump is flailing

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Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

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At the current rate, the entire House of Representatives will have resigned by November 17.

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Getting old is stupid.

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Ugh. The shoulder pain turns out to be a labral tear.

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They're calling her a fifth place bigot, okay? That's what they're calling her. Because she tied for fifth. I've never been a big fan of her. JK Potter, now there's a good one. Harry's mother.

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On a dog walk. It appears my neighbor is a Red Cross worker

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We're young enough to still imagine we're hip and with it and edgy, but the youth tell us we're not, and many of us conclude something must be wrong with the youth and it's probably this wokeness thing.

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If the app was for women, it'd be called "XX."

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I know from experience that leaving Substack has a cost. No other platform is as *easy* to get up and running, any time you change platforms, you're going to get significant churn. But, my friends who are on Substack--I don't think it will get easier to leave, might as well do it now.

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The irrationality of clinging to a sinking platform The Guardian reported today on Substack’s willingness to amplify—and profit from—Nazi content. And yet, people launch new blogs on the site daily? There are a few cognitive biases wrapped up in why p...

The irrationality of clinging to a sinking platform. The story of Twitter, Substack et al.

kiesow.net/the-irration...

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⬇️ all this is still true *and* now you can pay us btw :) 😊

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new communities like...

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women

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If you're looking for a Substack alternative, Leaflet is pretty awesome.

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Google Search to classify ‘back button hijacking’ as spam Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy.

Good. 9to5google.com/2026/04/13/g...

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A variant of this, which I've had directed at me frequently in my career, is "You only disagree with me because of where your funding is coming from."

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It’s genuinely funny that Factor and other meal service companies have recreated the TV dinner but with a subscription.

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Said this before, but I genuinely believe that MAGA Christian nationalism is morphing into a new messianic religion

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Roger Allam in V for Vendetta pointing menacingly into the lens

Roger Allam in V for Vendetta pointing menacingly into the lens

THE POPE IS WEAK ON CRIME

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This panic does not even make it past the descriptive statistics chapter of these studies. A field that was giving away transitions too easily would have more transitions and higher percentages of kids transitioning!

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The other thing that stands out here is just how few young people get gender affirming care. In a dataset spanning over 20 years, only 2000 patients under 23 were even referred to gender clinics. Of those, just 800 transitioned.

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A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place.

This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism.

Here's why.

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I’d really like all the folks who wanted to bend over backwards to give Musk the benefit of the doubt on that whole sieg heil thing to engage with his incessant promotion of folks obsessed with the perils of miscegenation.

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A cool way to read @standard.site blogs would a tool that assembles the blogs you're following into a web forums view. Posts are topics. Comments on those posts are threaded replies. Machine learning to categorizes posts broad categories. When there's a new comment, move the topic back to the top.

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Useful idiots hardest hit

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#NotAllRPGs

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