Aaron N

Philosophy & @RiddellMPM graduate. Social/online media professional.

[Aaron N @Aaron_eous]

@Aizkmusic Great work

[International Space Station @Space_Station]

The Moon's shadow, or umbra, is pictured covering portions of Canada and the U.S. as the space station soared into the solar eclipse from 261 miles above on Aug. 8, 2024. More pix... https://t.co/M5y2V3p4EQ

[undecided voter @eyeballslicer]

because we’re here on earth to fart around

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

In my years on Twitter, I’ve summarized hundreds of useful concepts into tweet form.

Here are the best concepts to help you navigate 2024, as chosen by the editors at @UnHerd

Thread:

[Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!) @visakanv]

i have never been able to persuade myself to be interested in the snail thought experiment

here's one that bothers me instead:

there's some set of words in your subconscious that, if you said them out loud in the right way, would rearrange your entire reality. what are they?

[no longer respecting gardenias @NLRG_it]

when you stand under an umbrella very little rain falls on your head. it is easy for even the wise to mistake this for an absence of rain , but this is a critical error in judgment

[NASA Universe @NASAUniverse]

In the time it takes you to read this tweet, the expansion of the universe will carry this gorgeous spiral galaxy, called NGC 3147, another 31,000 miles away from us. That’s about four Earth diameters. #MondayMotivation

[Aaron N @Aaron_eous]

New this week from me

[C2C Journal @c2cjournal]

Aaron Nava lays out the evidence of our “other” pandemic – loneliness – and why some experts think we need a national strategy to help Canadians make friends again.
https://t.co/Bxli2D9zvP

[Alex Muresianu @ahardtospell]

The best role model of traditional masculinity on the internet is probably some guy that makes YouTube videos teaching you how to change tires and fix household appliances

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

"Why are bankers disproportionately Jewish?"

Bro, maybe you shouldn't have banned Jews from being guild members for hundreds of years and instead relegated them to handling money because usury was sinful and that's all they were good for. Just saying.

[shako @cauchyfriend]

The thing about fukuyamas end of history that people don't realize, is he actually meant literally nothing will ever happen again. So if you ever see anything happen, you have to let everyone know so we can finally discredit his theory.

[Kmele 🖐 @kmele]

The "Twitter Apocalypse" chatter has a lot of Y2K energy.

[Aaron N @Aaron_eous]

@eigenrobot Ah yes, the best ea cause area

[Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!) @visakanv]

a recurring class of conflict is one between people looking to minimize negative variance and people looking to maximize positive variance

[Thomas Sowell Wisdom @TheThomasSowell]

While it is true that you learn with age, the down side is that what you learn is often what a damn fool you were before.

[roon @tszzl]

not onboard with people who think that humans are irrelevant in the scale of the universe. there’s obviously something special about intelligence. like in the entire universe you can either convert iron to gold in a supernova or in a particle collider on earth and nowhere else

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

Hey @elonmusk - you now have the power to bring back Vine. Seriously. Vine ruled AND it'll be a TikTok killer. #BringBackVine

[Thankful Musgrave 🦃 @profmusgrave]

Policymakers: I need a solution
Academics: here's a critique 😚