Aaron H
@benefiction.bsky.social
Just out here indulging an appetite for marvels. Religion scholar & interreligious peacebuilder, part-time professor in NYC & Rome, lifelong musician & outdoorsman, feral tabletop nerd, goofy dad.
The Hudson, my Beloved
January 12, 2026 at 11:40 PM
The Hudson, my Beloved
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Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help:
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
Second Harvest Heartland | Local Minnesota, Wisconsin food bank | 2harvest.org
There is more than enough food for everyone. As one of the nation’s largest hunger relief agencies, it’s our job to make sure healthy, nutritious food gets to the households who need it. Every day, we...
www.2harvest.org
January 10, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help:
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
get their asses, your grace
"I urge any who are involved in the administration of the current immigration enforcement regime at any level to seek the counsel of their clergy, given my urgent pastoral concern for the moral and spiritual injury that their participation is causing them." - Bp. Rob Price of Dallas, 1/1/2026
January 8, 2026 at 1:10 PM
get their asses, your grace
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People say AI is a magic shortcut to creativity & success. I’ll tell you the real secret and it’s voraciously reading, being interested in everything, being diligent in the pursuit of learning, paying attention to the interior lives of others & keeping a heart open to the world.
December 17, 2025 at 4:24 AM
People say AI is a magic shortcut to creativity & success. I’ll tell you the real secret and it’s voraciously reading, being interested in everything, being diligent in the pursuit of learning, paying attention to the interior lives of others & keeping a heart open to the world.
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
Tried to make this case to my 7-year-old and it, uh, did not exactly land
IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Tried to make this case to my 7-year-old and it, uh, did not exactly land
More horrid little games set in Maine, please! My favorite wharfside beer, once upon a time, was the Black Fly Stout…
Black Flies by @goosepoopgames.com is so close funding! Can you be the one who brings Zzrtrzz to life?
Will you be the #1 cultist of our hearts?
Check out this fabulously fly filled fantasy fenomenon!
TTRPG.link/BlackFlies
If we can get it funded tonight, I promise Jordan will eat a fly!
Will you be the #1 cultist of our hearts?
Check out this fabulously fly filled fantasy fenomenon!
TTRPG.link/BlackFlies
If we can get it funded tonight, I promise Jordan will eat a fly!
Black Flies
A horror TTRPG where YOU'RE the villain! Join a cult, gather Followers, and turn townsfolk into flies in this rules-lite GM-less TTRPG. Will you seek your Fortune? Great for fans of Hot Fuzz, The Fly,...
TTRPG.link
October 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
More horrid little games set in Maine, please! My favorite wharfside beer, once upon a time, was the Black Fly Stout…
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if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
September 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
Should I play through Skyrim again (with my kids, in fairness)? 1 like = 1 yes vote, 1 comment = 1 favorite memory of yours from the great wild northlands
August 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Should I play through Skyrim again (with my kids, in fairness)? 1 like = 1 yes vote, 1 comment = 1 favorite memory of yours from the great wild northlands
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At some point, the AI tulip fever bubble will pop, and it will be messy, so I strongly advise you all to keep up your skills in reading, writing, comprehension, programming if you do that, thinking for yourself, not being a bigoted jerkass, and having some respect for the creative work of others.
August 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
At some point, the AI tulip fever bubble will pop, and it will be messy, so I strongly advise you all to keep up your skills in reading, writing, comprehension, programming if you do that, thinking for yourself, not being a bigoted jerkass, and having some respect for the creative work of others.
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reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
August 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
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For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
August 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
Collaborative excellence: pass it on
If more academics started thinking like this, the world would be so much better off. This is what academia *should* be!
Even though academia has too many hot dog stand merchants, we can still choose to operate as a borderless, free-sharing, collaborative social ecosystem.
Even though academia has too many hot dog stand merchants, we can still choose to operate as a borderless, free-sharing, collaborative social ecosystem.
my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries
- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support
youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand
- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support
youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand
August 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Collaborative excellence: pass it on
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This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.
It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.
They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.
It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.
They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.
Yo, historians, what the actual ****?
I've seen how LLMs handle "history." This is... not good.
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I've seen how LLMs handle "history." This is... not good.
🗃️
July 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.
It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.
They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.
It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.
They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.
The idea that the papers you write in graduate school are the aim, rather than forming the person who has something worth saying and worth learning from, is among other things a crisis of confidence and imagination. We used to worry about impostor syndrome - this is just impostor manufacture.
If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
July 31, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The idea that the papers you write in graduate school are the aim, rather than forming the person who has something worth saying and worth learning from, is among other things a crisis of confidence and imagination. We used to worry about impostor syndrome - this is just impostor manufacture.
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If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
July 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
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my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls
July 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls
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how do i get this good at worldbuilding
December 12, 2024 at 9:32 PM
how do i get this good at worldbuilding
And this is how I discovered the Sprigs & Kindling and Silt Verses redbubble shop... imindanger.gif
Hot new Shirts arrived :)
#siltverses #brindlewood
Give a click to: @thesiltverses.bsky.social & @iamatrex.com
#siltverses #brindlewood
Give a click to: @thesiltverses.bsky.social & @iamatrex.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
And this is how I discovered the Sprigs & Kindling and Silt Verses redbubble shop... imindanger.gif
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This is why I love bibliography: i want to do a really good job on a small little piece and add it to the wealth of human knowledge. Then 50 years later, someone else finds it and adores this stranger who helped them so thoroughly. I want to be for others who bibliographers were to me.
July 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is why I love bibliography: i want to do a really good job on a small little piece and add it to the wealth of human knowledge. Then 50 years later, someone else finds it and adores this stranger who helped them so thoroughly. I want to be for others who bibliographers were to me.
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Today is Jane Austen’s deathiversary. She was just 41, at work on the novel draft we now call Sanditon.
I now wear part of it (“more tenderness”) for many reasons, not least of which is that tomorrow is not promised, & to meet the world with a tender heart, open to the reality of pain, is a gift.
I now wear part of it (“more tenderness”) for many reasons, not least of which is that tomorrow is not promised, & to meet the world with a tender heart, open to the reality of pain, is a gift.
This morning I was reading Jane Caplan’s edited collection WRITTEN ON THE BODY to finish the essay I told @jsench.bsky.social I’d write about my Austen tattoo to make up for getting it during Bibliographical Society of America meeting.
Done by the fab @timespace.place, photo by @aabria.bsky.social
Done by the fab @timespace.place, photo by @aabria.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Today is Jane Austen’s deathiversary. She was just 41, at work on the novel draft we now call Sanditon.
I now wear part of it (“more tenderness”) for many reasons, not least of which is that tomorrow is not promised, & to meet the world with a tender heart, open to the reality of pain, is a gift.
I now wear part of it (“more tenderness”) for many reasons, not least of which is that tomorrow is not promised, & to meet the world with a tender heart, open to the reality of pain, is a gift.
I love him, your honor
July 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I love him, your honor
I offer you this helpful new antidote for the Scrolling. Made up a rule whereby, whenever I see something I have seen before, I have to stop then and there and put the phone away. Not a perfect solution, but it works on every app and disrupts the moment just enough to let in the light again
July 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I offer you this helpful new antidote for the Scrolling. Made up a rule whereby, whenever I see something I have seen before, I have to stop then and there and put the phone away. Not a perfect solution, but it works on every app and disrupts the moment just enough to let in the light again