Aaron
@aaronznj.bsky.social
Official home of the dork who decided to use my Urban Planning Master's Degree for the primary purpose of "make an alternate-history N Scale NJ Transit layout."
All opinions are mine (and you can't have them!), and they’re all wrong or your money back!
All opinions are mine (and you can't have them!), and they’re all wrong or your money back!
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God, tired of working in mysterious ways:
January 25, 2026 at 7:03 PM
God, tired of working in mysterious ways:
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Exactly this, there's a reason they keep *threatening* to do it. It's "I'm going to count to three" when you know there's zero plan for what happens at "three". You wind up with increasingly desperate "two and a half... two and three quarters..."
The threat of invoking the Insurrection Act is way more powerful than actually doing it, and anyone who thinks doing it is a good idea has a terminal case of Twelve Year Old Brain where the victory is that the Army does what I want I win forever because they’re the tough guys from the Army.
Curious if anyone has a plausible theory of victory for the administration if it were to invoke the Insurrection Act.
How does the administration "win" in such a scenario?
Best I can tell, it is magical thinking by a certain somebody at the White House, but maybe I'm missing something.
How does the administration "win" in such a scenario?
Best I can tell, it is magical thinking by a certain somebody at the White House, but maybe I'm missing something.
January 25, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Exactly this, there's a reason they keep *threatening* to do it. It's "I'm going to count to three" when you know there's zero plan for what happens at "three". You wind up with increasingly desperate "two and a half... two and three quarters..."
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The threat of invoking the Insurrection Act is way more powerful than actually doing it, and anyone who thinks doing it is a good idea has a terminal case of Twelve Year Old Brain where the victory is that the Army does what I want I win forever because they’re the tough guys from the Army.
Curious if anyone has a plausible theory of victory for the administration if it were to invoke the Insurrection Act.
How does the administration "win" in such a scenario?
Best I can tell, it is magical thinking by a certain somebody at the White House, but maybe I'm missing something.
How does the administration "win" in such a scenario?
Best I can tell, it is magical thinking by a certain somebody at the White House, but maybe I'm missing something.
January 25, 2026 at 10:13 PM
The threat of invoking the Insurrection Act is way more powerful than actually doing it, and anyone who thinks doing it is a good idea has a terminal case of Twelve Year Old Brain where the victory is that the Army does what I want I win forever because they’re the tough guys from the Army.
The cracks in their own party are already emerging! The Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee just sent a letter calling for an oversight hearing and the letter fired a shot across the bow of (paraphrasing) "and we also asked for a hearing on the 15th which you ignored".
it really is government by a bunch of bull connors. basically walking into traps set for them by their opposition. connor also did not understand that beating the hell out of demonstrators was *what they wanted*
January 25, 2026 at 3:50 PM
The cracks in their own party are already emerging! The Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee just sent a letter calling for an oversight hearing and the letter fired a shot across the bow of (paraphrasing) "and we also asked for a hearing on the 15th which you ignored".
Freeze-frame adjudication is when you dare use actual evidence like recordings from the scene to contradict the narrative I invented to justify shooting innocent people in the street.
BOVINO: He was in the scene actively impeding and assaulting law enforceme--
BASH: But he wasn't impeding. He was filming, which is a legal thing to do in the United States
BOVINO: Dana, let's not free frame adjudicate this now
BASH: But he wasn't impeding. He was filming, which is a legal thing to do in the United States
BOVINO: Dana, let's not free frame adjudicate this now
January 25, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Freeze-frame adjudication is when you dare use actual evidence like recordings from the scene to contradict the narrative I invented to justify shooting innocent people in the street.
lmao Trump just got absolutely humiliated on a global stage over the Greenland shit and is immediately turning around and going back to "make Canada the 51st state" because why not.
January 24, 2026 at 3:42 PM
lmao Trump just got absolutely humiliated on a global stage over the Greenland shit and is immediately turning around and going back to "make Canada the 51st state" because why not.
How fucking depressing do you think it has to be for some Danish NCO to get told sorry we need you to go sit around in a hotel in Nuuk for a couple of weeks.
Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
January 20, 2026 at 12:56 AM
How fucking depressing do you think it has to be for some Danish NCO to get told sorry we need you to go sit around in a hotel in Nuuk for a couple of weeks.
On the one hand I hate the e-bike law but on the other hand, the types of people that regularly use the word “incurious” hate it so now I’m conflicted perhaps even verging toward liking it.
January 19, 2026 at 5:54 PM
On the one hand I hate the e-bike law but on the other hand, the types of people that regularly use the word “incurious” hate it so now I’m conflicted perhaps even verging toward liking it.
The shocking part isn't what's in the letter; Trump's been saying this kind of shit for a long time now. It's the realization that there is just zero daylight between the way he talks on his stupid fake Twitter and the way he wants things like international diplomacy to be conducted.
(NYT) - President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a message he sent to Norway’s prime minister over the weekend.
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January 19, 2026 at 2:58 PM
The shocking part isn't what's in the letter; Trump's been saying this kind of shit for a long time now. It's the realization that there is just zero daylight between the way he talks on his stupid fake Twitter and the way he wants things like international diplomacy to be conducted.
On the one hand: as far as I’m concerned we won our super bowl last week and anything else is gravy especially because Seattle will absolutely carve up our defense.
On the other hand 🐻⬇️!!!
On the other hand 🐻⬇️!!!
January 18, 2026 at 11:39 PM
On the one hand: as far as I’m concerned we won our super bowl last week and anything else is gravy especially because Seattle will absolutely carve up our defense.
On the other hand 🐻⬇️!!!
On the other hand 🐻⬇️!!!
Just logging in, putting on a monocle and checking if anything interesting involving NJ Transit is occurring in the near future while picking up my teacup and taking a big sip from it.
January 15, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Just logging in, putting on a monocle and checking if anything interesting involving NJ Transit is occurring in the near future while picking up my teacup and taking a big sip from it.
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you can't actually suppress away a wave of discontent. (relatedly, i think a lot of you have no idea how large this country is and how small its various military and security forces are relative to its population)
January 15, 2026 at 4:51 PM
you can't actually suppress away a wave of discontent. (relatedly, i think a lot of you have no idea how large this country is and how small its various military and security forces are relative to its population)
As one of a couple of people at my job who's been told to find applications for this stuff, let me tell you it's been a VERY short list of incredibly simple stuff. Entirely tasks that could be done by a person in a few minutes.
The ceiling on these LLM's is "mildly useful productivity tool."
The ceiling on these LLM's is "mildly useful productivity tool."
Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"
January 15, 2026 at 1:58 PM
As one of a couple of people at my job who's been told to find applications for this stuff, let me tell you it's been a VERY short list of incredibly simple stuff. Entirely tasks that could be done by a person in a few minutes.
The ceiling on these LLM's is "mildly useful productivity tool."
The ceiling on these LLM's is "mildly useful productivity tool."
Better late than never I guess?
I dunno what else to say about it. I just really think it should’ve been pretty obvious idk last year that the guys shouting from the rooftops “we’re fascists! No, really, just, we’re literally fascists!” are fascists
I dunno what else to say about it. I just really think it should’ve been pretty obvious idk last year that the guys shouting from the rooftops “we’re fascists! No, really, just, we’re literally fascists!” are fascists
“.. Are we really gonna be the Gestapo, 'Where's your papers?' Is that what we've come to?"
January 13, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Better late than never I guess?
I dunno what else to say about it. I just really think it should’ve been pretty obvious idk last year that the guys shouting from the rooftops “we’re fascists! No, really, just, we’re literally fascists!” are fascists
I dunno what else to say about it. I just really think it should’ve been pretty obvious idk last year that the guys shouting from the rooftops “we’re fascists! No, really, just, we’re literally fascists!” are fascists
Link's Awakening (and the Switch remake) would like a word.
Despite being tiny and now 30 years old, the atmosphere and design of the Lost Woods in Link to the Past is the ultimate forest zone and has not been surpassed in any subsequent Zelda game or maybe any 3D game ever.
January 11, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Link's Awakening (and the Switch remake) would like a word.
spoiler alert: apparently miracles are real and we saw one last night.
I don't know if even Chicago Pope, the Pope from Chicago, can save the Bears this game.
January 11, 2026 at 1:12 PM
spoiler alert: apparently miracles are real and we saw one last night.
Bit of an...interesting development.
NJTA prints money and NJT is constantly broke. Gov-elect Sherrill wants the same person - who just spent the past year running NJT - running both...
@reginageorgebush.bsky.social interested to see if you think this is good.
www.insidernj.com/gov-elect-mi...
NJTA prints money and NJT is constantly broke. Gov-elect Sherrill wants the same person - who just spent the past year running NJT - running both...
@reginageorgebush.bsky.social interested to see if you think this is good.
www.insidernj.com/gov-elect-mi...
January 8, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Bit of an...interesting development.
NJTA prints money and NJT is constantly broke. Gov-elect Sherrill wants the same person - who just spent the past year running NJT - running both...
@reginageorgebush.bsky.social interested to see if you think this is good.
www.insidernj.com/gov-elect-mi...
NJTA prints money and NJT is constantly broke. Gov-elect Sherrill wants the same person - who just spent the past year running NJT - running both...
@reginageorgebush.bsky.social interested to see if you think this is good.
www.insidernj.com/gov-elect-mi...
The really striking thing is just how much these ICE/CBP agents just have no idea at all what they are doing and are just resorting to randomly firing stuff at people.
I mean fuck, there’s multiple instances just in this video of these guys nearly slipping and falling on ice.
I mean fuck, there’s multiple instances just in this video of these guys nearly slipping and falling on ice.
Video might be worse. bsky.app/profile/chri...
👉 ICE Abusing Protesters After Murdering Driver 1/7/26
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnfi...
January 8, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The really striking thing is just how much these ICE/CBP agents just have no idea at all what they are doing and are just resorting to randomly firing stuff at people.
I mean fuck, there’s multiple instances just in this video of these guys nearly slipping and falling on ice.
I mean fuck, there’s multiple instances just in this video of these guys nearly slipping and falling on ice.
The past few days - yesterday in particular - have really crystallized for me just how much Trump 2 is motivated by spite and seething rage that suburban white America largely turned on Trump in 2020 and in particular the George Floyd protests.
You never see these freaks happy. There is a sort of libidinal joy they perform, mostly for each other, but it comes only from of the immiseration of their enemies. No victory brings relief, just a temporary reprieve of grievance. I do not believe the machinery which drives us and them are the same.
January 8, 2026 at 12:26 PM
The past few days - yesterday in particular - have really crystallized for me just how much Trump 2 is motivated by spite and seething rage that suburban white America largely turned on Trump in 2020 and in particular the George Floyd protests.
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now up:
THE HISTORY OF CHARGING THE MOUND, EPISODE 3
this one’s about Bruce Kison, a guy i knew almost nothing about when i started this series but who ended up getting the longest episode so far
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THE HISTORY OF CHARGING THE MOUND, EPISODE 3
this one’s about Bruce Kison, a guy i knew almost nothing about when i started this series but who ended up getting the longest episode so far
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THE HISTORY OF CHARGING THE MOUND, EPISODE 3: BRUCE KISON. | Secret Base
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January 5, 2026 at 5:01 PM
now up:
THE HISTORY OF CHARGING THE MOUND, EPISODE 3
this one’s about Bruce Kison, a guy i knew almost nothing about when i started this series but who ended up getting the longest episode so far
www.patreon.com/posts/histor...
THE HISTORY OF CHARGING THE MOUND, EPISODE 3
this one’s about Bruce Kison, a guy i knew almost nothing about when i started this series but who ended up getting the longest episode so far
www.patreon.com/posts/histor...
Pretty much turned into a map of average annual snowfall.
December 31, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Pretty much turned into a map of average annual snowfall.
I just have always imagined this bit from Silmarillion being Celegorm inserting profanity between every other word.
“You want a fucking Silmaril? Well I want to use your fucking chest to sheathe my sword and I might even fucking do it.”
“You want a fucking Silmaril? Well I want to use your fucking chest to sheathe my sword and I might even fucking do it.”
December 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I just have always imagined this bit from Silmarillion being Celegorm inserting profanity between every other word.
“You want a fucking Silmaril? Well I want to use your fucking chest to sheathe my sword and I might even fucking do it.”
“You want a fucking Silmaril? Well I want to use your fucking chest to sheathe my sword and I might even fucking do it.”
This was too much for Pippin. His thoughts went back to the Field of Cormallen, and here was a squint-eyed rascal calling the ring-bearer ‘little cock-a-whoop’.
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word?
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
December 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This was too much for Pippin. His thoughts went back to the Field of Cormallen, and here was a squint-eyed rascal calling the ring-bearer ‘little cock-a-whoop’.
Oh no who could have possibly seen this obviously airtight business plan not getting any attention.
If Ameristar was smart, they'd have talked to Andy Byford, he seems to be willing to buy just about any crap that weirdos throw in at Amtrak.
www.trains.com/pro/passenge...
If Ameristar was smart, they'd have talked to Andy Byford, he seems to be willing to buy just about any crap that weirdos throw in at Amtrak.
www.trains.com/pro/passenge...
Amtrak turns down ‘Trancontinental Chief’ proposal: News report - Trains
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Amtrak has turned down a private company’s proposal for a transcontinental passenger train that would have included an auto-carrying feature. WPMT-TV reports that Amtrak said in a st...
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December 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Oh no who could have possibly seen this obviously airtight business plan not getting any attention.
If Ameristar was smart, they'd have talked to Andy Byford, he seems to be willing to buy just about any crap that weirdos throw in at Amtrak.
www.trains.com/pro/passenge...
If Ameristar was smart, they'd have talked to Andy Byford, he seems to be willing to buy just about any crap that weirdos throw in at Amtrak.
www.trains.com/pro/passenge...