Aaren
banner
aarenp.bsky.social
Aaren
@aarenp.bsky.social
Prairies and the Salish sea. Working on 49 words for rain, using technology for good, trying apartment life, 5th floor dog friend.
Reposted by Aaren
YOU COME FOR ME LIKE THIS ON MY OWN FEED?!? *attempts to close cupboard over mountain of rustic pottery*
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Reposted by Aaren
New Yorkers are tired of being asked to believe in a system that has delivered little for them. They want a politics that can see the scale of the crisis, and actually start to tackle it.
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Reposted by Aaren
A lesson from history:

China was the most advanced nation on earth for millennia. Most advanced in sciences and medicine, metallurgy, agriculture, textiles, government, ceramics, printing, paper, magnetic compasses, gunpowder, etc. Then bad isolationist governance put it behind for centuries.
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by Aaren
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Reposted by Aaren
Are their board members in the files?
The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting.
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Reposted by Aaren
The trump mamdamni thing proves that we are all NPCs in somebody's first D&D campaign. He went in there with high charisma, rolled a 20 and the inexperienced DM had no option but to change the antagonist's entire character
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Reposted by Aaren
Losing in extra time. Welcome to Seattle, Torrent!
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Reposted by Aaren
Good morning, Bluesky!

Even when it's overcast, it's beautifully serene!

Sinclair Inlet, Bremerton (l), Bainbridge Island (c), Port Orchard (r), Washington
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Reposted by Aaren
Miller as soon as Zohran leaves the WH
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Reposted by Aaren
The #WestCoastHealthAlliance continues to strongly recommend vaccines to protect our children, noting that rigorous research of millions of people in multiple countries over decades provides high quality evidence that vaccines are not linked to #autism. (1/
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Reposted by Aaren
JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Reposted by Aaren
oh it’s like this was designed for me specifically
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Reposted by Aaren
Keep this story in the news.

"Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney"

www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Reposted by Aaren
They are so funny. Our neighbors are being stuffed into unmarked vans, and they’re all like let’s vote against a term we probably can’t define instead.
The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.

86 Dems joined Republicans in supporting the measure, incl. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Such a lovely afternoon
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Reposted by Aaren
Wait until they hear about the drug cascade that untreated ADHD tends to lead to.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Reposted by Aaren
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Reposted by Aaren
Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Glass museum free night
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Reposted by Aaren
I love games like Hollow Knight and Silksong cuz I am a sucker for those pockets of quiet, almost blissful dread in video games where there’s no enemies, no boss in the room—just melancholy music, green-apocalypse backdrops, & space to really feel how small you are in a vast, dead, beautiful world.
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Reposted by Aaren
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Reposted by Aaren
Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Reposted by Aaren
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM