Aaron Morrison
@saaronmorrison.bsky.social
Data Analyst in the childcare industry, gardener, historic preservationist, isolated Anglo-Catholic Socialist 🌹in rural Indiana, Don’t panic! Organize. He/Him
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Here’s a bit of an introduction for new followers: I live in rural, west central Indiana. Grew up charismatic evangelical (think Calvary Chapel) and homeschooled k-12. Discovered TEC in college. Worked in higher ed for 10 years. Aspired to be Theo prof. Landed in data analytics.
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Man, fuck McAfee and fuck his stupid show. What a disgrace to punters
Trump to Pat McAfee: "I'm only joining you because I hear you say such nice things about me. When people say nice about me, I join. When they don't say nice about me, I take a pass."
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Man, fuck McAfee and fuck his stupid show. What a disgrace to punters
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If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that’s not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. They haven’t begun to pull the knife out. They won’t even admit the knife is there. — Malcolm X
October 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that’s not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. They haven’t begun to pull the knife out. They won’t even admit the knife is there. — Malcolm X
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If rich people have to be "incentivized" to contribute to the common good they probably just shouldn't be allowed to have all that money if you ask me.
Want to use rich people like me to your advantage? Incent us to help those who need it the most. Lower corp taxes for comps that pay a min of $25 per hour. Lower corp taxes if employees get stock at the same pct as the CEO.
Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch
Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch
August 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
If rich people have to be "incentivized" to contribute to the common good they probably just shouldn't be allowed to have all that money if you ask me.
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I am not a Social Security recipient but even if I was: Why am I getting an email from SSA celebrating this legislation? How is this an appropriate use of that ostensibly massive database?
July 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I am not a Social Security recipient but even if I was: Why am I getting an email from SSA celebrating this legislation? How is this an appropriate use of that ostensibly massive database?
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Zen at War is a phenomenal book and a great reminder that it doesn’t matter what explicit doctrines your religion proposes, political systems like fascism can redirect religious powers to their service quite readily. There is no religious or ethical system that cannot be redirected toward violence!
The other day someone was saying Christianity has a unique capacity to promote violence, unlike Buddhism and, um, Burma begs to differ.
June 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Zen at War is a phenomenal book and a great reminder that it doesn’t matter what explicit doctrines your religion proposes, political systems like fascism can redirect religious powers to their service quite readily. There is no religious or ethical system that cannot be redirected toward violence!
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Longtime conservative writer David Brooks wrote an opinion essay for the New York Times yesterday in which he calls for a bipartisan “national civic uprising” with enough power to stop Donald Trump.
This whole thing is worth reading, but this section is especially stunning…
This whole thing is worth reading, but this section is especially stunning…
April 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Longtime conservative writer David Brooks wrote an opinion essay for the New York Times yesterday in which he calls for a bipartisan “national civic uprising” with enough power to stop Donald Trump.
This whole thing is worth reading, but this section is especially stunning…
This whole thing is worth reading, but this section is especially stunning…
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Poverty is the least complicated social problem because everyone hates it and you can solve it by giving poor people money. But everyone also hates giving people money. So the solution we have come up with is dividing the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor and only giving the former money.
the only interesting one of these experiments i've seen is one where they also asked how they felt about the other participants having it and the responses were overwhelmingly "they don't deserve it." lol
April 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Poverty is the least complicated social problem because everyone hates it and you can solve it by giving poor people money. But everyone also hates giving people money. So the solution we have come up with is dividing the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor and only giving the former money.
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I am fully stuck in this loop. 🫠
April 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I am fully stuck in this loop. 🫠
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Claiming that America is a “Christian nation“ while actively creating legislation that directly harms the very people Jesus called us to serve—namely the poor, the sick, the hungry, the immigrant, and the marginalized—is the height of both religious and political hypocrisy.
April 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Claiming that America is a “Christian nation“ while actively creating legislation that directly harms the very people Jesus called us to serve—namely the poor, the sick, the hungry, the immigrant, and the marginalized—is the height of both religious and political hypocrisy.
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I know people like to think tariffs are good for unions, and maybe that was true at one point, but right now a big tariffs just cause disruptions that are likely to lead to plant closures and a lot of short-term pain
April 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I know people like to think tariffs are good for unions, and maybe that was true at one point, but right now a big tariffs just cause disruptions that are likely to lead to plant closures and a lot of short-term pain
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Listen. I believe ardently in criticizing our leaders for their failures and inaction but if you refuse to acknowledge their efforts when they do make them and if you refuse to recognize a step in the right direction, you don’t really want change. You just want to complain.
Right. The most salient point is that he could have done this over the CR, but now he's just using the energy of the filibuster without its power.
April 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Listen. I believe ardently in criticizing our leaders for their failures and inaction but if you refuse to acknowledge their efforts when they do make them and if you refuse to recognize a step in the right direction, you don’t really want change. You just want to complain.
Finally finished Disco Elysium. It’s not for everyone, but its story is so relevant now. I’ll be thinking about the unexpectedly hopeful question the game posed, “In dark times, should the stars also go out?”
I’d recommend giving it a try. It is a beautiful story.
I’d recommend giving it a try. It is a beautiful story.
March 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Finally finished Disco Elysium. It’s not for everyone, but its story is so relevant now. I’ll be thinking about the unexpectedly hopeful question the game posed, “In dark times, should the stars also go out?”
I’d recommend giving it a try. It is a beautiful story.
I’d recommend giving it a try. It is a beautiful story.
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This is the broken-brained white American mythologizing that made a TV show called “Happy Days” that took place during Jim Crow.
This is an example of how nostalgia for the old days is simply nostalgia for when you were younger.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
March 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is the broken-brained white American mythologizing that made a TV show called “Happy Days” that took place during Jim Crow.
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Reading poetry during Lent and thought I'd share a poem a day, starting with a favorite by English Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins. God created a beautiful world that we have nevertheless "seared with trade." And still "the Holy Ghost over the bent / World broods with warm breast and ah! bright wings."
March 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Reading poetry during Lent and thought I'd share a poem a day, starting with a favorite by English Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins. God created a beautiful world that we have nevertheless "seared with trade." And still "the Holy Ghost over the bent / World broods with warm breast and ah! bright wings."
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March 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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I love pre-ordering books because—without fail—I forget about the order and then when the book arrives in the mail, it feels like Christmas!
I'm glad we're supposed to have a snow day tomorrow, because this baby arrived in the mail today.
I'm glad we're supposed to have a snow day tomorrow, because this baby arrived in the mail today.
March 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I love pre-ordering books because—without fail—I forget about the order and then when the book arrives in the mail, it feels like Christmas!
I'm glad we're supposed to have a snow day tomorrow, because this baby arrived in the mail today.
I'm glad we're supposed to have a snow day tomorrow, because this baby arrived in the mail today.
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Interesting recession indicator: more students applying to law school
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Everyone who graduated undergrad in 2007-2012 just felt the hair go up on the back of their necks
This is the PMC version of when every wild animal starts running away just before an earthquake
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LindyMan @ @PaulSkallas • 1d
I wonder why so many people want to go to Law School all of a sudden
The number of applicants to the nation's nearly 200 law schools is up 20.5% compared with last year. Georgetown University Law Center alone received 14,000 applications to fill 650 spots, while the University of Michigan Law School now has more applications than at any point in its 166 years of existence.
When Michigan Law's admissions dean, Sarah Zearfoss, shared the numbers with faculty members, "The whole room gasped," she said.
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March 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Interesting recession indicator: more students applying to law school
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Today, officially is the launch of Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine. This volunteer charity comics project is the long-gestating effort of Palestinian comics creators and their allies to tell some important stories of resistence, resilience, joy, and life! www.samidoonanthology.com
SAMIDOON: COMICS FOR A FREE PALESTINE
www.samidoonanthology.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Today, officially is the launch of Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine. This volunteer charity comics project is the long-gestating effort of Palestinian comics creators and their allies to tell some important stories of resistence, resilience, joy, and life! www.samidoonanthology.com
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If the Young Boys These Days are looking for a role model, Larry here gives a pretty solid one -- cares about his community, listens to critics and grows, and yeah, is man enough to admit he's wrong and apologize.
This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it
By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind
Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds
By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind
Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds
Wisconsin man who showed up to support an anti-trans bill does something amazing - Queerty
“I have a very little knowledge of gay people and things like that there…” “I have a very little knowledge of gay people and things like that there…”
www.queerty.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
If the Young Boys These Days are looking for a role model, Larry here gives a pretty solid one -- cares about his community, listens to critics and grows, and yeah, is man enough to admit he's wrong and apologize.
One more aspect of being 35 for me is the realization that I only have so many 20+ hour single-player video games left in me. 🥴 The time is just not there, no matter how much want to play that award-winning RPG.
March 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
One more aspect of being 35 for me is the realization that I only have so many 20+ hour single-player video games left in me. 🥴 The time is just not there, no matter how much want to play that award-winning RPG.
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SAME. Not a single penny.
I'm not donating to a single Democratic Senate candidate while Chuck Schumer is Senate Leader.
March 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
SAME. Not a single penny.
Switching to Firefox as my web browser and trying out Linux for the first time today. Hoping for more data privacy and less ads.
March 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Switching to Firefox as my web browser and trying out Linux for the first time today. Hoping for more data privacy and less ads.
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"We're taking away the tools that make it possible for you to pursue gainful employment, because SURELY that will make you want to have more children! It's a foolproof plan!"
Heritage: "reducing federal higher education subsidies and loan cancellation that place the federal thumb on the scale in favor of spending years in postsecondary work of questionable value will help young Americans to start and expand their families." www.heritage.org/education/re...
Education Policy Reforms Are Key Strategies for Increasing the Married Birth Rate
The fertility rate in the United States has dropped to 1.6,
www.heritage.org
March 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"We're taking away the tools that make it possible for you to pursue gainful employment, because SURELY that will make you want to have more children! It's a foolproof plan!"
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This is true in at least one way which is that I hope in the resurrection and I’m pretty sure he will see the Second Death
Hey, look at me.
You will outlive HIM.
You will OUTLIVE him.
You WILL outlive him.
YOU. WILL. OUTLIVE. HIM.
You will outlive HIM.
You will OUTLIVE him.
You WILL outlive him.
YOU. WILL. OUTLIVE. HIM.
March 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This is true in at least one way which is that I hope in the resurrection and I’m pretty sure he will see the Second Death