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Aaron Laffin

@laffinaw.bsky.social

Minneapolis, after the fires.

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โ€œFirst cousin once removedโ€ just rolls off the tongue.

28.10.2025 21:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A pardon is an official act.

23.10.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

01.10.2025 14:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25092    ๐Ÿ” 8369    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 664    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2203

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

28.09.2025 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12239    ๐Ÿ” 2693    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 349    ๐Ÿ“Œ 91
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26.09.2025 00:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29093    ๐Ÿ” 8948    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1804

I had food from Cava once when visiting Denver. I recall enjoying it.

22.09.2025 14:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.

06.09.2025 12:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1415    ๐Ÿ” 577    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 84    ๐Ÿ“Œ 81

Right? What was I thinking paying for the whole year?

03.09.2025 18:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Mon Rovรฎa - Heavy Foot (official lyric video)
YouTube video by Mon Rovรฎa Mon Rovรฎa - Heavy Foot (official lyric video)

Please donโ€™t Rich Men North of Richmond this nice man but this is a hell of a protest song.

youtu.be/xOAeiRQsA4k?...

24.08.2025 22:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 411    ๐Ÿ” 70    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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(Guardian) - Household electricity bills have increased by 10% since Donald Trump re-entered the White House, a new report has found, with its authors highlighting the impact of the presidentโ€™s datacenter boosterism .. as part of the cause.

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

19.08.2025 18:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 954    ๐Ÿ” 410    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 47    ๐Ÿ“Œ 41

This morning I listened to the @volts.wtf podcast about how grid operators are curtailing less expensive generation sources ahead of coal. Here we have the administration forcing not just the use of more expensive and dirty sources, but perpetuating their existence!

19.08.2025 16:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 78    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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A photographer friend of mine had one of her sd memory cards die after a photo shoot. Sheโ€™s tried Easeus and it can recover about 1300 of 1600 files, but sheโ€™s asking if there are other tools/tricks anyone knows from the forensics community that might be able to get the rest. I have a feeling [โ€ฆ]

16.08.2025 01:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Big-Game Hunter, Eying His Next Trophy, Is Killed by Buffalo During Safari Asher Watkins, a real estate executive from Texas, was tracking a Cape buffalo in South Africa when he was attacked, a safari company said.

Big-Game Hunter, Eying His Next Trophy, Is Killed by Buffalo During Safari Asher Watkins, a real estate executive from Texas, was tracking a Cape buffalo in South Africa when he was attacked, a safari company said.

nature is healing

09.08.2025 00:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3013    ๐Ÿ” 283    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 248    ๐Ÿ“Œ 47

Minnesota, referring to what?

29.07.2025 17:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How a time bomb in Trump's signature tax law fueled mass tech layoffs Understanding the Trump-era tax tweak that quietly turned research and development into a liability โ€” and rewrote the economics of tech employment

Some people say this is a significant contributor:
qz.com/tech-layoffs...

25.07.2025 21:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My rant on Justice Alitoโ€™s homophobic misreading of Uncle Bobbyโ€™s Wedding in a horrible Supreme Court decision that will censor LGBTQ books in public schools.

From UC Irvine Lawโ€™s Term in Review event last week! Watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/Zj3T7ZAxjYM?...

17.07.2025 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 427    ๐Ÿ” 118    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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Leavitt: โ€œAs for the takeover of Gaza, I don't believe the President ever said that.โ€

Trump in February: โ€œThe U.S. will takeover the Gaza Strip.โ€

07.07.2025 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1182    ๐Ÿ” 476    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 170    ๐Ÿ“Œ 39
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STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAIDโ€™s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

01.07.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3738    ๐Ÿ” 2373    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 96    ๐Ÿ“Œ 811
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This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

21.06.2025 17:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7276    ๐Ÿ” 3521    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 140    ๐Ÿ“Œ 363
Plot showing the amount of power supplied to the CA grid from each source vs time of the day for July 16, 2025. Renewables dominate throughout the day, peaking at ~27 GW. But from 7:30-10pm, batteries are the largest single source, peaking at a new record of 10.4 GW.

Plot showing the amount of power supplied to the CA grid from each source vs time of the day for July 16, 2025. Renewables dominate throughout the day, peaking at ~27 GW. But from 7:30-10pm, batteries are the largest single source, peaking at a new record of 10.4 GW.

Itโ€™s pretty wild that even on a really hot day yesterday, batteries were the largest source of power on the CA grid for a couple of hours. This has become pretty common this Spring. ๐Ÿ”Œ๐Ÿ’ก

18.06.2025 01:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

14.06.2025 22:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32090    ๐Ÿ” 12666    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2090    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1692
speaker melissa hortman and her husband

speaker melissa hortman and her husband

Speaker Hortman was a bold and brave leader who made hard decisions and fought for the people of Minnesota every single day.

She and her husband Mark did not deserve to die. My heart goes out to their children.

14.06.2025 14:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1168    ๐Ÿ” 344    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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A reverse-Robin Hood situationโ€ฆ Congressional Republicans are trying to steal from the poor to give to the rich.

20.05.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 103    ๐Ÿ” 46    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people?

P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes

M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process

08.05.2025 14:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32919    ๐Ÿ” 9033    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1949    ๐Ÿ“Œ 765

Possibly the greatest Tesla takedown video ever - maybe the best thing ever

07.05.2025 21:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2052    ๐Ÿ” 426    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 76    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31
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RFK Jr and Statistics:

05.05.2025 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11844    ๐Ÿ” 3982    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 314    ๐Ÿ“Œ 309

Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.

04.05.2025 07:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2585    ๐Ÿ” 913    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 65    ๐Ÿ“Œ 45

This looks amazing. The White Christian Nationalist I'm writing about who was chair of the OR GOP in 1978-9 ran a bunch of MLMs in his day through which he ripped off people who trusted him, and he also got ripped off by a bunch of rich MLM'ers he trusted as well. Financially it was a wash for him.

02.05.2025 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 200    ๐Ÿ” 52    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

01.05.2025 15:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66430    ๐Ÿ” 8967    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1939    ๐Ÿ“Œ 981
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NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths NIH has cancelled its participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep

NIH has cancelled its participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep

www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/n...

01.05.2025 13:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 456    ๐Ÿ” 288    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 38    ๐Ÿ“Œ 179

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