Aaron A. Dalton
@aaronadalton.bsky.social
sound designer 🎙️mixer🎚️producer 🔊 fmr: intoamericapod nbcnews msnbc podcasts 🔈 WNYC/WQXR/ NakedSongbook 🎧 arts lover, occasional Southerner
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Aaron A. Dalton
@aaronadalton.bsky.social
· Mar 19
"Hello, I hope this message finds you appropriately outraged"
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“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
grist.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
"For all we know, these men, too, felt that the system 'was fundamentally broken and rigged against' them.
But they are long dead and largely anonymous, and so they can be whoever we want them to be."
archive.is/fDWLP
But they are long dead and largely anonymous, and so they can be whoever we want them to be."
archive.is/fDWLP
archive.is
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
"For all we know, these men, too, felt that the system 'was fundamentally broken and rigged against' them.
But they are long dead and largely anonymous, and so they can be whoever we want them to be."
archive.is/fDWLP
But they are long dead and largely anonymous, and so they can be whoever we want them to be."
archive.is/fDWLP
Another year requiring that I submit myself early to the holiday playlist. Please let me know if you have additions: open.spotify.com/playlist/4UR...
Holiday Party 2025!
Playlist · earondalton · 1019 items
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November 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Another year requiring that I submit myself early to the holiday playlist. Please let me know if you have additions: open.spotify.com/playlist/4UR...
Last two semi-funeral festivals were restorative, wish I'd been at this year's celebration of life, Resonate podcast conference
I expected this podcast festival to feel like a funeral, but it was surprisingly optimistic. Once you hit rock bottom, you can only really go up.
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The Bad News Is There’s No More Money, But That’s Also The Good News | Defector
RICHMOND, VA – The audience was booing Ira Glass. It was the opening session of Resonate, a podcast festival founded three years ago by Chioke l’Anson at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Institute ...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Last two semi-funeral festivals were restorative, wish I'd been at this year's celebration of life, Resonate podcast conference
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"Hello, I hope this message finds you appropriately outraged"
March 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
"Hello, I hope this message finds you appropriately outraged"
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basic problem is none of these folks is capable of saying “i was wrong”
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
basic problem is none of these folks is capable of saying “i was wrong”
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New York electing its first Muslim mayor 24 years after 9/11 and rejecting the idiotic racism that would connect those events is actually a legit excuse for American triumphalism, but the people who say they love America the most hate all the best things about it.
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
New York electing its first Muslim mayor 24 years after 9/11 and rejecting the idiotic racism that would connect those events is actually a legit excuse for American triumphalism, but the people who say they love America the most hate all the best things about it.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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"To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”
-- mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
-- mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Trump will deny it’s a referendum on him. But it’s a referendum on him and his disgraceful regime that couldn’t care less about the needs of people.
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM
"To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”
-- mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
-- mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
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I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us:
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us:
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
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“So [you’re] not concerned about the appearance of corruption with this?” O’Donnell asked.
“I can’t say, because-- I can’t say-- I’m not concerned. I don’t-- I’d rather not have you ask the question. But I let you ask it,” Trump said. (10/x)
“I can’t say, because-- I can’t say-- I’m not concerned. I don’t-- I’d rather not have you ask the question. But I let you ask it,” Trump said. (10/x)
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“So [you’re] not concerned about the appearance of corruption with this?” O’Donnell asked.
“I can’t say, because-- I can’t say-- I’m not concerned. I don’t-- I’d rather not have you ask the question. But I let you ask it,” Trump said. (10/x)
“I can’t say, because-- I can’t say-- I’m not concerned. I don’t-- I’d rather not have you ask the question. But I let you ask it,” Trump said. (10/x)
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
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They got the part right about the main character making his fortune by committing crimes.
November 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
They got the part right about the main character making his fortune by committing crimes.
"Stop hating American children!"
- Minnijean Brown-Trickey of the Little Rock Nine
(fyi both of these quotes are from today, October 30th of the year 2025)
- Minnijean Brown-Trickey of the Little Rock Nine
(fyi both of these quotes are from today, October 30th of the year 2025)
"I have a message for young people: I am sorry we did not leave you a world in which you are valued...
We are going to be better tomorrow than we are today. It's true for all of us, you don't have to be the same idiot that you are right now."
-- Terrance Roberts of the Little Rock Nine
We are going to be better tomorrow than we are today. It's true for all of us, you don't have to be the same idiot that you are right now."
-- Terrance Roberts of the Little Rock Nine
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"Stop hating American children!"
- Minnijean Brown-Trickey of the Little Rock Nine
(fyi both of these quotes are from today, October 30th of the year 2025)
- Minnijean Brown-Trickey of the Little Rock Nine
(fyi both of these quotes are from today, October 30th of the year 2025)
"I have a message for young people: I am sorry we did not leave you a world in which you are valued...
We are going to be better tomorrow than we are today. It's true for all of us, you don't have to be the same idiot that you are right now."
-- Terrance Roberts of the Little Rock Nine
We are going to be better tomorrow than we are today. It's true for all of us, you don't have to be the same idiot that you are right now."
-- Terrance Roberts of the Little Rock Nine
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"I have a message for young people: I am sorry we did not leave you a world in which you are valued...
We are going to be better tomorrow than we are today. It's true for all of us, you don't have to be the same idiot that you are right now."
-- Terrance Roberts of the Little Rock Nine
We are going to be better tomorrow than we are today. It's true for all of us, you don't have to be the same idiot that you are right now."
-- Terrance Roberts of the Little Rock Nine
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“.. The question is why this hasn’t all collapsed yet. The answer is actually simple: time.”
@kyla.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
@kyla.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
October 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“.. The question is why this hasn’t all collapsed yet. The answer is actually simple: time.”
@kyla.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
@kyla.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
Current head of the FAA ran an airline for 16 years before it went bankrupt, citing pilot shortages. He advocated for reducing the required hours to obtain a pilot’s license by HALF, and opposes the mandatory retirement age of 65.
October 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Current head of the FAA ran an airline for 16 years before it went bankrupt, citing pilot shortages. He advocated for reducing the required hours to obtain a pilot’s license by HALF, and opposes the mandatory retirement age of 65.
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CZ’s exchange “facilitated transactions for the military wing of Hamas, hackers and money launderers ..
.. Between 2018 and 2022, Binance allegedly processed at least 1.1 million transactions that violated sanctions ..”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
.. Between 2018 and 2022, Binance allegedly processed at least 1.1 million transactions that violated sanctions ..”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
October 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
CZ’s exchange “facilitated transactions for the military wing of Hamas, hackers and money launderers ..
.. Between 2018 and 2022, Binance allegedly processed at least 1.1 million transactions that violated sanctions ..”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
.. Between 2018 and 2022, Binance allegedly processed at least 1.1 million transactions that violated sanctions ..”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
"This is the logic of endless violence, a logic that allows one to destroy entire populations and to feel totally justified in doing so. It is a logic of victimhood... and nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood" www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel
The long read: This summer, one of my lectures was protested by far-right students. Their rhetoric brought to mind some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history – and overlapped with mainstream ...
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 AM
"This is the logic of endless violence, a logic that allows one to destroy entire populations and to feel totally justified in doing so. It is a logic of victimhood... and nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood" www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Reminder what a protest full of Trump supporters looks like. Charlottesville, 2017
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Reminder what a protest full of Trump supporters looks like. Charlottesville, 2017
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To illustrate what I mean, among many, many examples, this is what the opposite of a tangible, easy to understand policy proposal looks like:
October 17, 2025 at 5:33 AM
To illustrate what I mean, among many, many examples, this is what the opposite of a tangible, easy to understand policy proposal looks like:
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A satisfying takedown of all things Bari, but I especially enjoyed the description of Skydance failson David Ellison as having "resting checking-into-the-White-Lotus face."
October 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A satisfying takedown of all things Bari, but I especially enjoyed the description of Skydance failson David Ellison as having "resting checking-into-the-White-Lotus face."
“We live in a hollowed-out ecosystem where media consolidation and an efficiency mindset means that the breadth of work that once existed in creative fields will never return.
The creative world is cooked.”
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The creative world is cooked.”
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God, It's Brutal Out Here: lindseyadler.substack.com/p/god-its-br...
October 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“We live in a hollowed-out ecosystem where media consolidation and an efficiency mindset means that the breadth of work that once existed in creative fields will never return.
The creative world is cooked.”
🔥
The creative world is cooked.”
🔥
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Give up the hope for a better yesterday and embrace the work for a better tomorrow.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Give up the hope for a better yesterday and embrace the work for a better tomorrow.