Aaron Blackshear
@aaronblackshear.bsky.social
Anxious Minnesotan. Actuary turned basketball data analyst. Bike lane protector
I do not speak for my employer the bad opinions are mine alone
I do not speak for my employer the bad opinions are mine alone
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Taste is subjective and some people experience different flavors or textures differently than you (that really explains everything), but the one objective truth is that coffee is to be drank black, and you should go to jail for holding up the line ordering a milkshake
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Taste is subjective and some people experience different flavors or textures differently than you (that really explains everything), but the one objective truth is that coffee is to be drank black, and you should go to jail for holding up the line ordering a milkshake
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I guess I should add that encumbrances on podcast/writing stuff have been lifted as well. You know where to find me.
I am, as LinkedIn would say, open to new opportunities at present…
do you ever think about giving up this basketball stuff and dedicating yourself full time to ninja warrior analysis? i'll hang up and listen
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I guess I should add that encumbrances on podcast/writing stuff have been lifted as well. You know where to find me.
A few years of biking and walking to work alongside post-Covid drivers radicalized me. Hit twice and so many near misses. Lost a job over it and wouldn’t change a thing. We can have safer roads
It's a classically American thing to say, "But can we really afford to make cars safer?"
Again, many Americans have decided that 40,000 roadway deaths a year is fine and dandy.
Again, many Americans have decided that 40,000 roadway deaths a year is fine and dandy.
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A few years of biking and walking to work alongside post-Covid drivers radicalized me. Hit twice and so many near misses. Lost a job over it and wouldn’t change a thing. We can have safer roads
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Probably the worst of them all is the Ring doorbell.
It’s sold as safety, but it’s much more about fear and paranoia in a box that turns you against your community. The more of them in the world, the worse our neighborhoods get. Don’t help the spiral continue.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
It’s sold as safety, but it’s much more about fear and paranoia in a box that turns you against your community. The more of them in the world, the worse our neighborhoods get. Don’t help the spiral continue.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Probably the worst of them all is the Ring doorbell.
It’s sold as safety, but it’s much more about fear and paranoia in a box that turns you against your community. The more of them in the world, the worse our neighborhoods get. Don’t help the spiral continue.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
It’s sold as safety, but it’s much more about fear and paranoia in a box that turns you against your community. The more of them in the world, the worse our neighborhoods get. Don’t help the spiral continue.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
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“Camera doorbells are social cancer as a technology, breaking down social solidarity and further encouraging people to see strangers with suspicion.”
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speaker
disconnect.blog
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“Camera doorbells are social cancer as a technology, breaking down social solidarity and further encouraging people to see strangers with suspicion.”
“Everyone wanted to talk about defunding the police, but I’m not here to defund, I want to refund. That’s right, refundable tax credits for minority owned small businesses who operate in an opportunity zone for 3 years”
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
“Everyone wanted to talk about defunding the police, but I’m not here to defund, I want to refund. That’s right, refundable tax credits for minority owned small businesses who operate in an opportunity zone for 3 years”
I like this idea that eating a type of food means “supporting” the worst parts of its culture
Every time you eat deep dish pizza a Daley steers a city contract to a friend
Get some hot beef and another Illinois governor goes to prison
Every time you eat deep dish pizza a Daley steers a city contract to a friend
Get some hot beef and another Illinois governor goes to prison
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I like this idea that eating a type of food means “supporting” the worst parts of its culture
Every time you eat deep dish pizza a Daley steers a city contract to a friend
Get some hot beef and another Illinois governor goes to prison
Every time you eat deep dish pizza a Daley steers a city contract to a friend
Get some hot beef and another Illinois governor goes to prison
There hasn’t been a good business idea since the Cool Ranch Doritos locos taco
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
There hasn’t been a good business idea since the Cool Ranch Doritos locos taco
“after 6 failures from our original crypto food delivery idea”
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“after 6 failures from our original crypto food delivery idea”
(Reading stuff that makes me mad all day on the “post stuff that makes you mad” website)
Man why am I in such a bad mood?
Man why am I in such a bad mood?
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
(Reading stuff that makes me mad all day on the “post stuff that makes you mad” website)
Man why am I in such a bad mood?
Man why am I in such a bad mood?
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There's only one Atlantic we listen to in this household and it's not the shitty magazine for soulless perverts that doesn't even have the dignity to be from Boston anymore. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgEI...
Atlantic
YouTube video by Rainer Maria - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
There's only one Atlantic we listen to in this household and it's not the shitty magazine for soulless perverts that doesn't even have the dignity to be from Boston anymore. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgEI...
Another thing that annoyed me listening to Odd Lots the other day, they cited Sacks when the only reason to ever discuss this guy is utter mockery
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Another thing that annoyed me listening to Odd Lots the other day, they cited Sacks when the only reason to ever discuss this guy is utter mockery
So not only are we doubling down on fossil fuels while the world moves to renewables, we’re going to start a whole ass war to get some more?
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
So not only are we doubling down on fossil fuels while the world moves to renewables, we’re going to start a whole ass war to get some more?
The thing about me is I’m gonna be comfy. I don’t care how I look, I don’t care what you think of my clothes. Judge my fit all you like I’m cozy in this broke ass fit.
I don’t even have any nice clothes, it’s all athleisure I got for free, not my fault the Nike team issue gear pills after one wash
I don’t even have any nice clothes, it’s all athleisure I got for free, not my fault the Nike team issue gear pills after one wash
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The thing about me is I’m gonna be comfy. I don’t care how I look, I don’t care what you think of my clothes. Judge my fit all you like I’m cozy in this broke ass fit.
I don’t even have any nice clothes, it’s all athleisure I got for free, not my fault the Nike team issue gear pills after one wash
I don’t even have any nice clothes, it’s all athleisure I got for free, not my fault the Nike team issue gear pills after one wash
Instead of an hourly rate, there should be a fixed pool of money available for police overtime, and the same pool of money is used to pay misconduct settlements
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Instead of an hourly rate, there should be a fixed pool of money available for police overtime, and the same pool of money is used to pay misconduct settlements
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People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
Forget Star Wars, rank NOFX or Bad Religion albums
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Forget Star Wars, rank NOFX or Bad Religion albums
My wife and I each have our strengths and weaknesses and contribute to the household in our own ways.
For example I am vastly superior at choosing apples. This is a globetrotters vs generals situation
For example I am vastly superior at choosing apples. This is a globetrotters vs generals situation
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My wife and I each have our strengths and weaknesses and contribute to the household in our own ways.
For example I am vastly superior at choosing apples. This is a globetrotters vs generals situation
For example I am vastly superior at choosing apples. This is a globetrotters vs generals situation
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Elon's "Rosebud" is posting. His deepest desire is for everyone to tell him what a hilarious and clever poster he is. The problem is that he isn't funny. And it kills him.
It explains why he bought Twitter. It's why Grok is the way it is. And it explains . . . whatever the holy hell this is.
It explains why he bought Twitter. It's why Grok is the way it is. And it explains . . . whatever the holy hell this is.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Elon's "Rosebud" is posting. His deepest desire is for everyone to tell him what a hilarious and clever poster he is. The problem is that he isn't funny. And it kills him.
It explains why he bought Twitter. It's why Grok is the way it is. And it explains . . . whatever the holy hell this is.
It explains why he bought Twitter. It's why Grok is the way it is. And it explains . . . whatever the holy hell this is.
Part of my transition to being an old man is definitely going to be “walk around the gym locker room naked and dry my crotchal region with the air dryer”
“Today, the only naked bodies that many Americans will likely ever see are their own, a partner’s, or those on a screen. Gone are our unvarnished points of physical comparison — the ordinary, unposed figures of other people.” [theatlantic.com]
The End of Naked Locker Rooms
What we lose when casual nudity disappears
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Part of my transition to being an old man is definitely going to be “walk around the gym locker room naked and dry my crotchal region with the air dryer”
If you pull out grok at a party we’re gonna jump you
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
If you pull out grok at a party we’re gonna jump you
I aim to serve
It should be illegal for you to show me this
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I aim to serve
Antonio Brown:
I’ll box Roger Gooddell right now
November 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Antonio Brown:
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these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
She’s not making this up and isn’t getting hoaxed, but it’s not an assassination, they are planning an intervention on those ends. Whatever you’re doing girl it ain’t working, we need the restorative masque and some oil
A friend has alerted me to this pressing and very real international incident involving the very sane Candace Owens.
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
She’s not making this up and isn’t getting hoaxed, but it’s not an assassination, they are planning an intervention on those ends. Whatever you’re doing girl it ain’t working, we need the restorative masque and some oil