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Aaron Blackshear

@aaronblackshear.bsky.social

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Anxious Minnesotan. Actuary turned basketball data analyst. Bike lane protector Opinions are mine and not representing my employer

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · Feb 9

Kelce dressed like my dad at his wedding

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 1h

Need him to dunk on the chubby national guard guys who just got sent home

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 2h

Time magazine was very nasty to me with the picture, they did AI on my neck, but people are saying my neck still looked better than Charlie’s

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 2h

Teach ya man how to squabble 😤

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 2h

What a crazy coincidence, I teach her karate

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 2h

I put on my robe and wizard hat

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 2h

I am also willing to message anyone like a friend, with emojis, or for sexy talk

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 2h

“If you want your ChatGPT to use a ton of emoji”

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 3h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 3h

The angriest I’ve ever been in my life was when the Jeremy Renner app shut down before I could download the last DMs my dad sent me before he died

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 2h

The other absurd part of this is the cars people are buying. Go buy a 5 year old Honda Civic, or a CRV if you need more space. It will last you 15 years and cost 25k

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 2h

Rest of the guard also wants to get sent home, they pulling up like

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 4h

Telling my kids that’s Oasis

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andré @838carlisle.bsky.social · 18h

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 21h

Winter Dreams was in a collection we had to read in junior high, was my first introduction

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 1d

I miss my old stomping grounds. Really want to come back for a show coming up at The Loving Touch but probably can’t swing it

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 1d

A Whole New Theory has stayed in the rotation

Dan Coutant mastered a bunch of great records in recent years too

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 1d

Need two Mock Orange sets like Cursive did, The Record Play and then one of the later era albums

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 1d

And then as long as Jeremy Chatelain is there do a Cub Country set

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 1d

The Kidcrash, Desaparecidos, The Broadways, Denali, Glassjaw, Girls Against Boys, Troubled Hubble, Stars, Rob Crow, Mew, The Jealous Sound, The Forms, The Constantines, Into It Over It, The Unicorns, Statistics, Paris Texas, The Felix Culpa, Criteria

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 1d

Juno, Castor, Hankshaw, Christie Front Drive, Compound Red, Velocity Girl, Coalesce, Q and Not U, Further Seems Forever, Firebird Band, Moneen, The Fire Theft, Small 23, Shudder to Think, Seam, Hayden, The Wrens, Not Rebecca, Six Going on Seven, Mock Orange, Sarge, Jejune, Joshua, Idlewild, No Knife

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 1d

Gatsby is good but is his 3rd best novel

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 1d

I knew everyone's phone number, pager number, AND their pager code for when they paged you from a random number

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 1d

Seemingly zeroing in on the word "birthright" as being somehow problematic, but we were mutuals who had interacted enough for him to know that was bullshit. He was just pissy about me criticizing the party and the leadership

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 1d

I was also coming out of a pretty severe episode, my rock bottom, so all the stuff on addiction was timely and hit hard

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 1d

I've always recommended it to people with the caveat that it's not for everyone and not an easy read, give it an honest shot but it still might not be your thing

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 1d

I had a month in between semesters in cold December Wisconsin with all of my roommates and my gf out of town, sitting at home reading the whole thing was perfect

You don't get a payoff, but that's also kind of the point

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