Aaron Homer
@ahomer.bsky.social
Father, husband, dog-owner, programmer. Somewhere left of center.
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It will be a weird kind of Orbánism when the White House controls CBS, CNN, 60 Minutes, and the Washington Post, but not the Indiana GOP.
December 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It will be a weird kind of Orbánism when the White House controls CBS, CNN, 60 Minutes, and the Washington Post, but not the Indiana GOP.
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STAND
THE
FUCK
UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE
FUCK
UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic announced, a new single-player game led by KOTOR and Mass Effect director Casey Hudson
#TheGameAwards
#TheGameAwards
December 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
STAND
THE
FUCK
UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE
FUCK
UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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they did this shit during the Covid emergency too. Trump wants to to murder disabled people
December 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
they did this shit during the Covid emergency too. Trump wants to to murder disabled people
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this doesn't matter
NEW: President Donald Trump says he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, who was convicted on state charges related to tampering with Colorado's election systems. Legal experts say presidential pardons do not apply to state charges.
December 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
this doesn't matter
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New: WaPo staff are fuming about the new AI personalized pods, noting they have errors like misattributing/inventing quotes, inserting commentary.
WaPo's standards editor privately called the mistakes "frustrating," another editor said "if we were serious we would pull this tool immediately."
WaPo's standards editor privately called the mistakes "frustrating," another editor said "if we were serious we would pull this tool immediately."
December 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
New: WaPo staff are fuming about the new AI personalized pods, noting they have errors like misattributing/inventing quotes, inserting commentary.
WaPo's standards editor privately called the mistakes "frustrating," another editor said "if we were serious we would pull this tool immediately."
WaPo's standards editor privately called the mistakes "frustrating," another editor said "if we were serious we would pull this tool immediately."
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they pretend to be data-driven but in the end they strike me as neo-schumers: they have in their heads a model of the Median American as kind of selfish and bigoted and, coincidentally, obsessed with exactly their own culture-war bugbears, and believe Trump remains an avatar of these Volk
December 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
they pretend to be data-driven but in the end they strike me as neo-schumers: they have in their heads a model of the Median American as kind of selfish and bigoted and, coincidentally, obsessed with exactly their own culture-war bugbears, and believe Trump remains an avatar of these Volk
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still thinking of the Smart Bros nodding sagely and saying how it's a terrible tactical mistake for dems to raise the salience of immigration
New AP poll has Trump's approval on immigration down to an abysmal 38% as he rants psychotically about "shithole countries," smears Somalis, threatens large-scale denaturalization and remigration, and openly pines for more white immigrants and fewer nonwhite ones
December 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
still thinking of the Smart Bros nodding sagely and saying how it's a terrible tactical mistake for dems to raise the salience of immigration
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losing half your support on one of your strongest issues after 11 months of doing everything exactly the way you want to do it would give most politicians something to think about, but miller's calling these shots and he's not a politician
New AP poll has Trump's approval on immigration down to an abysmal 38% as he rants psychotically about "shithole countries," smears Somalis, threatens large-scale denaturalization and remigration, and openly pines for more white immigrants and fewer nonwhite ones
December 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
losing half your support on one of your strongest issues after 11 months of doing everything exactly the way you want to do it would give most politicians something to think about, but miller's calling these shots and he's not a politician
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Excellent stuff from @sifill.bsky.social. "The assault on the 14th Amendment has not generated the kind of moral panic that politicians, journalists, and tech bros successfully created over their claims of First Amendment abuses several years ago..."
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December 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Excellent stuff from @sifill.bsky.social. "The assault on the 14th Amendment has not generated the kind of moral panic that politicians, journalists, and tech bros successfully created over their claims of First Amendment abuses several years ago..."
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sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-...
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All of a sudden making a bunch of districts that Republicans won by around 18 points seems a bit risky bsky.app/profile/step...
BREAKING: Indiana Republicans FAILED to pass a new 9-0 congressional gerrymander after enough GOP senators sided with Dems. The GOP's 7-2 map stays in place.
Trump is trying to re-gerrymander maps nationwide. At least 11 Indiana Rs got death threats after he called for primaries—but it still failed
Trump is trying to re-gerrymander maps nationwide. At least 11 Indiana Rs got death threats after he called for primaries—but it still failed
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
All of a sudden making a bunch of districts that Republicans won by around 18 points seems a bit risky bsky.app/profile/step...
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one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage
The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
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Anyway, if they thought that they would get a bill passed with this promise, that was indeed very dumb. But they were promised a vote and then they voted so that's at least the deal on its own terms.
Senate Republicans blocked Democratic legislation that would have extended ACA tax credits for over 20 million people
Republicans Block Bill That Would Extend Affordable Care Act Tax Credits
Democrats, meanwhile, blocked a competing GOP bill on Thursday that would have bolstered health savings accounts instead.
www.huffpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Anyway, if they thought that they would get a bill passed with this promise, that was indeed very dumb. But they were promised a vote and then they voted so that's at least the deal on its own terms.
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We went through this exact sequence in the first term too
Significant statement from Jeffries and House Democratic leaders saying they will vote “present” on the motion to table Al Green’s resolution to impeach President Trump. They say they’re “laser-focused on fighting to lower the high cost of living” plus on health care and corruption.
December 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
We went through this exact sequence in the first term too
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i've thought of a dozen jokes to make here but, bluntly, this is just going to be deployed in an arbitrary fashion, with few opportunities to appeal decisions or understand what motivated them. it will further disadvantage groups already being profiled and contribute to a lot of pain.
Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan
Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan
Proposed plan would apply to tourists of all countries, including those not required to get a visa to visit the US
All tourists to the United States would have to reveal their social media activity from the last five years, under new Trump administration plans.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP), an agency under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), would also require any email addresses and telephone numbers visitors have used in the same period, and the names, addresses, birthdates and birthplaces of family members, including children. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
i've thought of a dozen jokes to make here but, bluntly, this is just going to be deployed in an arbitrary fashion, with few opportunities to appeal decisions or understand what motivated them. it will further disadvantage groups already being profiled and contribute to a lot of pain.
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it's also exactly the kind of security policy that is almost guaranteed to be preserved by successive presidents, regardless of party (see: Biden preserving large portions of Trump1's "extreme vetting" programme despite it absolutely not working)
December 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
it's also exactly the kind of security policy that is almost guaranteed to be preserved by successive presidents, regardless of party (see: Biden preserving large portions of Trump1's "extreme vetting" programme despite it absolutely not working)
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This Disney-OpenAI deal is breaking my brain. It's not OpenAI paying for the right to use Disney characters, it's Disney paying THEM. All OpenAI does is give Disney access to its API so that they can use ChatGPT and Sora to replace their animators, other employees, and 3rd party contractors.
December 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This Disney-OpenAI deal is breaking my brain. It's not OpenAI paying for the right to use Disney characters, it's Disney paying THEM. All OpenAI does is give Disney access to its API so that they can use ChatGPT and Sora to replace their animators, other employees, and 3rd party contractors.
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I still can’t believe the National Science Foundation is being forced to move out of their brand new, purpose-built building because the HUD secretary thought his building was ugly.
The Trump administration is destroying the best parts of this country, and it will take decades to rebuild.
The Trump administration is destroying the best parts of this country, and it will take decades to rebuild.
NSF
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I still can’t believe the National Science Foundation is being forced to move out of their brand new, purpose-built building because the HUD secretary thought his building was ugly.
The Trump administration is destroying the best parts of this country, and it will take decades to rebuild.
The Trump administration is destroying the best parts of this country, and it will take decades to rebuild.
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HUGE 🍿 NEWS — Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses characters for AI videos
—The deal provides instant validation for OpenAI's Sora video platform and a valuable infusion of capital.
—The deal provides instant validation for OpenAI's Sora video platform and a valuable infusion of capital.
December 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
HUGE 🍿 NEWS — Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses characters for AI videos
—The deal provides instant validation for OpenAI's Sora video platform and a valuable infusion of capital.
—The deal provides instant validation for OpenAI's Sora video platform and a valuable infusion of capital.
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the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
Really refuse to let the worst people have ownership of techno-optimism
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
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We need to stop being so institutionally provincial! For every seemingly intractable institutional problem we face, other countries have pioneered multiple alternatives, some of which might even be quite trivial to implement!
"One thing that presidential countries have done to give impeachment teeth is to make the removal trial a secret ballot. South Korea does this, and that is why they were successful in removing their president after he attempted to impose martial law on the country on a thin pretense."
Impeach and Remove the Bastards
A scenario for 2027.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We need to stop being so institutionally provincial! For every seemingly intractable institutional problem we face, other countries have pioneered multiple alternatives, some of which might even be quite trivial to implement!
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"One thing that presidential countries have done to give impeachment teeth is to make the removal trial a secret ballot. South Korea does this, and that is why they were successful in removing their president after he attempted to impose martial law on the country on a thin pretense."
Impeach and Remove the Bastards
A scenario for 2027.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"One thing that presidential countries have done to give impeachment teeth is to make the removal trial a secret ballot. South Korea does this, and that is why they were successful in removing their president after he attempted to impose martial law on the country on a thin pretense."
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Remember that guy who argued with me for half a day that poor people in food deserts would be fine just using Walmart delivery?
Anyway.
Anyway.
Instacart got caught running real-time price experiments on shoppers — same groceries, different prices.
Workers know this game well: Instacart’s algorithm does the same thing to their pay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Workers know this game well: Instacart’s algorithm does the same thing to their pay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Remember that guy who argued with me for half a day that poor people in food deserts would be fine just using Walmart delivery?
Anyway.
Anyway.
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What's especially crazy about this is that it's an unbelievably cheap intervention. It costs approximately zero dollars and saves lives. There is essentially no material elements to compete over. There's nothing left but animus.
More research showing a thing the GC movement wishes to deny trans people, in this case respecting their name and pronouns, is a thing that improves mental health and could prevent a death by suicide, yet still they persist.
“Transgender and nonbinary youth (ages 13 to 24) whose pronouns are respected were 31 percent less likely to attempt suicide in the past year than those whose pronouns are not respected, according to a new report from The Trevor Project”
www.advocate.com/exclusives/p...
www.advocate.com/exclusives/p...
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
What's especially crazy about this is that it's an unbelievably cheap intervention. It costs approximately zero dollars and saves lives. There is essentially no material elements to compete over. There's nothing left but animus.
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harvard continuing its organized push to purge black women from leadership and the academy more broadly. it’s disgusting.
This column in @harvardmagazine.bsky.social is hit piece on Mary Bassett. The premise of the article--"controversial public health school center" is simply biased and the whole article goes downhill from there. www.harvardmagazine.com/university-n...
Harvard Revamps Controversial Public Health School Center | Harvard Magazine
The health and human rights center had drawn attention for its Palestine-related program.
www.harvardmagazine.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
harvard continuing its organized push to purge black women from leadership and the academy more broadly. it’s disgusting.