Aaron Denney

The grid is still useful though.

I think a lot about a post by someone who ran a hobby shop of some form (forget if it was a comic shop or Warhammer store or what) that basically said putting up a little rainbow flag sticker on the door was the best business decision they made because they served as That Guy repellants.

Distracting from Epstein the Right Way

This Texas Democrat won a race he thought he dropped out of. Now what? The bizarre outcome has thrown what would have been a low-profile race into chaos. It's unclear who will face state Rep. Ellen Troxclair in November.

i'm sorry this story from @taygoldenstein.bsky.social is one of the funniest things i've ever read. guy gets towed at SXSW, can't pay his debt to the towing company so he gets a job there, stays for a decade, runs for office, spends no money, wins primary: www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politic...

The Sinking of Iris Dena: It’s time to Revisit The Law of Armed Conflict Claims that the sinking of the Iranian ship by the US Navy represents a ‘strategic embarrassment’ for India are matters of opinion rather than conclusions grounded in international law.

Jus ad bellum - the law under which a state may justifiably resort to war - is regarded as distinct from jus in bello - the laws of armed conflict, how they are fought, like the Geneva Conventions. Here’s a useful article on the Iranian ship issue.

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“She’s not muslim” is an accusation that needs a response?

Trump’s Epstein scandal somehow got worse | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, is black rain over Tehran a sign of the Apocalypse?

Buried bodies near a NM ranch? New evidence that Epstein may have been murdered? The bolstering of Trump's teen-sex accuser? The Epstein Files have gone wild, and there's one thing we can say for sure

Federal authorities are tied to a massive coverup

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there’s a structural reason here. mamdani’s response was to take an opportunity to make content - and therefore give the rest of the media some easy meta-content - and turn it down. he put governing ahead of content. our political media hates nothing more than someone who denies them easy content.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

This is hilarious.

Also, completely enraging.

if I had a nickel for every time someone got in deep shit with a judge for having an LLM fabricate legal citations, I’d… well I’m starting to think I might rack up some real money here

Isn’t two-eyes generally just one person?

Which might actually have caught this, because this appears to be a case of no one actually reviewing it.

For true robustness you need a four-eyes system: one nerd, or two non-nerds.

They’re calling it the best-planned war of all time

Misaligned Frameworks (Part I): Migrant Exploitation and Anti-trafficking Efforts | CRSP Talk This is the first in a special two-part series on human trafficking that takes a critical deep dive into trafficking discourse, state power, and their impact on migrant and sex workers. Avery Moore Kl...

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#SexWorkers'RightsareHumanRights

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory

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Here's a thread featuring clips of key moments from the DC Metropolitan Police body camera footage of the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that I obtained as a result of my FOIA lawsuit:

Are suburbs actually civilizing, or are they overly atomizing?

Studies consistently show that ice cream consumption is correlated with good health.

Trump: "You daughter, she has to be of age. Like above 6 years old."

Trump is a clanker

Study Finds Mourning Loved Ones A Huge Waste Of Time PHILADELPHIA—Hailing the discovery as a major step forward in the understanding of human psychology, University of Pennsylvania researchers published a study Monday revealing that mourning loved ones ...

“Contrary to past assumptions, our work suggests grieving a lost family member or friend is really just throwing away precious time on someone who is dead and isn’t even around to know that you’re sad,” said lead researcher Liam Cassidy

I can't compete with this.

Sugar on the skin is called hair-removal

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

You shouldn’t call them bad parents to their face. That does nothing useful.

But they are indeed bad parents and bad citizens.

Mustache-twirlingly evil, no. But the for of their badness is generally being mistaken rather than deliberately trying to do harm for harm’s sake.

But still bad!

We can and should start treating Yale as a credential with negative worth.

And with a decimation of logistics!

I think the biggest mistake outsiders have about Israel and Palestine is assuming everyone in or connected to the region hates each other for stupid reasons when in fact they hate each other for pretty good ones that are very hard to undo.

It’s terrible. But it is the last alternative to any reasonable reforms. Calling for guillotines is giving in to despair, and saying yes, The Terror is indeed better — it will hurt us, but it’s the only thing that will give any accountability to the true villains who got away with everything.