Aaron Kimball
@gremblor.bsky.social
I like circuitry (synth DIY), software, bio stuff, and sailing. aka Firefly )'(. Roar!
Behold, the humble potato:
November 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Behold, the humble potato:
What the hell is going on in New York today? Are they OK over there?
I thought nothing could top this until Lil Jon did "Turn Down for What" on the Toys R Us float
I don’t think you understand how hard it is to explain to two very uninterested kids how important it is for mom and dad to see Long Island’s own Busta Rhymes perform with the Ninja Turtles at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
What the hell is going on in New York today? Are they OK over there?
Language models are the essence of moisture
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Language models are the essence of moisture
Lyft has started blatantly lying about pickup ETA. I'm amazed this isn't a consumer protection law issue yet
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Lyft has started blatantly lying about pickup ETA. I'm amazed this isn't a consumer protection law issue yet
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Indivisible in an email tonight, starting project to primary Senate capitulators:
"At some point, you gotta either change your leaders’ minds or you gotta change your leaders. And the time for changing minds is over."
"At some point, you gotta either change your leaders’ minds or you gotta change your leaders. And the time for changing minds is over."
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Indivisible in an email tonight, starting project to primary Senate capitulators:
"At some point, you gotta either change your leaders’ minds or you gotta change your leaders. And the time for changing minds is over."
"At some point, you gotta either change your leaders’ minds or you gotta change your leaders. And the time for changing minds is over."
My Alma mater living up to its founder's famous principle:
“I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study, as long as the Fascists approve.” - Ezra Cornell, probably.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
“I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study, as long as the Fascists approve.” - Ezra Cornell, probably.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My Alma mater living up to its founder's famous principle:
“I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study, as long as the Fascists approve.” - Ezra Cornell, probably.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
“I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study, as long as the Fascists approve.” - Ezra Cornell, probably.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
I just gotta know who are the 7% of NYC voters motivated enough to get out and vote in an otherwise odd year, but so low education or so delusional they bothered to cast a vote for Silwa.
I need a 5,000 word profile on one of them, stat.
I need a 5,000 word profile on one of them, stat.
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I just gotta know who are the 7% of NYC voters motivated enough to get out and vote in an otherwise odd year, but so low education or so delusional they bothered to cast a vote for Silwa.
I need a 5,000 word profile on one of them, stat.
I need a 5,000 word profile on one of them, stat.
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So apparently NYC got a Democratic mayor over dick Cheney's dead body.
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
So apparently NYC got a Democratic mayor over dick Cheney's dead body.
A reminder that if you think Governor Newsom's stance on trans youth in sports is pathetic, you can let him know right here!
www.gov.ca.gov/contact/
Takes two minutes. Feels cathartic to remind him he'll never be president if he can't grow a spine.
www.gov.ca.gov/contact/
Takes two minutes. Feels cathartic to remind him he'll never be president if he can't grow a spine.
Contact the Governor | Governor of California
You can contact the Governor a few different ways. The best way is through his online form.
www.gov.ca.gov
October 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
A reminder that if you think Governor Newsom's stance on trans youth in sports is pathetic, you can let him know right here!
www.gov.ca.gov/contact/
Takes two minutes. Feels cathartic to remind him he'll never be president if he can't grow a spine.
www.gov.ca.gov/contact/
Takes two minutes. Feels cathartic to remind him he'll never be president if he can't grow a spine.
In light of today's antisemitism, your periodic reminder that it used to be US Government policy to shoot nazis on sight.
We can bring it back. A better tomorrow is possible.
We can bring it back. A better tomorrow is possible.
October 31, 2025 at 2:26 AM
In light of today's antisemitism, your periodic reminder that it used to be US Government policy to shoot nazis on sight.
We can bring it back. A better tomorrow is possible.
We can bring it back. A better tomorrow is possible.
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"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
Had some time last night and I wrote up a small analysis of how a fairly new comparator IC (TLV1871) is super handy for interfacing audio-rate analog signals with digital logic.
blog.gremblor.com/2025/10/grem...
blog.gremblor.com/2025/10/grem...
Gremblnote Application Note GN-0002: Fast Audio Zero-Cross Detector – The Gremblog
blog.gremblor.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Had some time last night and I wrote up a small analysis of how a fairly new comparator IC (TLV1871) is super handy for interfacing audio-rate analog signals with digital logic.
blog.gremblor.com/2025/10/grem...
blog.gremblor.com/2025/10/grem...
If you wanted to drill a small hole in a ceramic DIP IC, how would you do it?
Both a regular 1mm drill bit and a diamond-dusted HSS bit have basically had almost no effect...
Both a regular 1mm drill bit and a diamond-dusted HSS bit have basically had almost no effect...
October 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
If you wanted to drill a small hole in a ceramic DIP IC, how would you do it?
Both a regular 1mm drill bit and a diamond-dusted HSS bit have basically had almost no effect...
Both a regular 1mm drill bit and a diamond-dusted HSS bit have basically had almost no effect...
I think we should start chanting "ICE can't read" at them. Make them deny their illiteracy--if they can.
The Overton window will continue to slide on these absolute dumbfuck weirdo goons.
The Overton window will continue to slide on these absolute dumbfuck weirdo goons.
October 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I think we should start chanting "ICE can't read" at them. Make them deny their illiteracy--if they can.
The Overton window will continue to slide on these absolute dumbfuck weirdo goons.
The Overton window will continue to slide on these absolute dumbfuck weirdo goons.
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If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: sfilen.org/resources/sf...
SFILEN
San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network
sfilen.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 AM
If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: sfilen.org/resources/sf...
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In the event of an encounter with immigration agents in the East Bay, make sure you and your family know your rights. (1/2)
October 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
In the event of an encounter with immigration agents in the East Bay, make sure you and your family know your rights. (1/2)
Genuinely maybe the most-positive streamer online and a generational talent.
I must have watched a hundred hours of his videos or more this year learning chess.
I'm not usually broken up about a famous person passing but this one hits. Absolute theft for us to lose him at 29.
I must have watched a hundred hours of his videos or more this year learning chess.
I'm not usually broken up about a famous person passing but this one hits. Absolute theft for us to lose him at 29.
Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster, the highest title given to competitors by the International Chess Federation, and a former Junior World Champion, has died at 29.
Daniel Naroditsky, Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 29
He earned the highest title in the chess world as he built a career as an accomplished chess teacher, commentator and author.
nyti.ms
October 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Genuinely maybe the most-positive streamer online and a generational talent.
I must have watched a hundred hours of his videos or more this year learning chess.
I'm not usually broken up about a famous person passing but this one hits. Absolute theft for us to lose him at 29.
I must have watched a hundred hours of his videos or more this year learning chess.
I'm not usually broken up about a famous person passing but this one hits. Absolute theft for us to lose him at 29.
Just to be clear, are we all rooting for Team Heist or Team Louvre?
Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre
October 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Just to be clear, are we all rooting for Team Heist or Team Louvre?
This Louvre heist story is absolute movie plot shit, completely wild:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...
Louvre Closed After Thieves Steal ‘Priceless’ Jewels in Brazen Daylight Robbery
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This Louvre heist story is absolute movie plot shit, completely wild:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...
"Women don't like the operating system."
“What Linux distribution do you use?”
“My wife left me”
“My wife left me”
Lore
October 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"Women don't like the operating system."
Sedition will remain a crime on the books until they amend it out of the constitution, and the statute of limitations runs far longer than this administration has left.
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Sedition will remain a crime on the books until they amend it out of the constitution, and the statute of limitations runs far longer than this administration has left.
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When you’ve pissed off WeRateDogs so much they’re calling you “fucking losers” on Main you have absolutely lost all merit in the court of public opinion
October 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
When you’ve pissed off WeRateDogs so much they’re calling you “fucking losers” on Main you have absolutely lost all merit in the court of public opinion
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
That can sponsor a lot of over-the-top art car.
lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful
what would you buy to break the curse?
what would you buy to break the curse?
October 15, 2025 at 6:22 AM
That can sponsor a lot of over-the-top art car.
Sound ON
October 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Sound ON