Aaron Helton
@aaronhelton.com
He/Him
Library systems dev @ UN Library
en/es
TTRPGs, ♾️ DM
Reader. Writer. Digital Humanist in training @ CUNY GC. William Blake stan.
Queens, NY
www.aaronhelton.com and blog.hilltown.studio
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Library systems dev @ UN Library
en/es
TTRPGs, ♾️ DM
Reader. Writer. Digital Humanist in training @ CUNY GC. William Blake stan.
Queens, NY
www.aaronhelton.com and blog.hilltown.studio
Likes/Reposts ≠ endorsements.
And this is literal theft. All of these works are in the public domain.
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
And this is literal theft. All of these works are in the public domain.
This bullshit keeps popping up in history just about everywhere you look.
> Walter Scott never complied with Seward’s wish to see it published.
> Walter Scott never complied with Seward’s wish to see it published.
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This bullshit keeps popping up in history just about everywhere you look.
> Walter Scott never complied with Seward’s wish to see it published.
> Walter Scott never complied with Seward’s wish to see it published.
— Michael Holquist, writing in the prologue (1984) to Bakhtin’s work, Rabelais and His World.
Apropos of absolutely nothing.
Apropos of absolutely nothing.
November 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
— Michael Holquist, writing in the prologue (1984) to Bakhtin’s work, Rabelais and His World.
Apropos of absolutely nothing.
Apropos of absolutely nothing.
You know what? I missed this shit. We really took for granted physical copies of The Onion back in the day.
@theonion.com thanks to you I can look forward to my mail.
@theonion.com thanks to you I can look forward to my mail.
October 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
You know what? I missed this shit. We really took for granted physical copies of The Onion back in the day.
@theonion.com thanks to you I can look forward to my mail.
@theonion.com thanks to you I can look forward to my mail.
Enclosure of the commons is the main fear, especially if legal fictions can (re)define what the commons are in the first place, or make choices about who can place things into or remove them from the commons. There's productive scholarship in this around Indigenous archives, for instance.
October 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Enclosure of the commons is the main fear, especially if legal fictions can (re)define what the commons are in the first place, or make choices about who can place things into or remove them from the commons. There's productive scholarship in this around Indigenous archives, for instance.
"Now that everyone has their Consciousness Transference Device in place, we're all going to drink this artificially flavored vaguely fruity beverage and take a nap. When we wake up, we'll all be uploaded to the Cloud."
October 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"Now that everyone has their Consciousness Transference Device in place, we're all going to drink this artificially flavored vaguely fruity beverage and take a nap. When we wake up, we'll all be uploaded to the Cloud."
Morning activity: scanning through this book by @bvlsingler.bsky.social which I found while looking for scholarly sources tracing the origin of the "count the fingers count the knuckles" means of determining if something is fey. I'd love to know if there are earlier instances of this!
October 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Morning activity: scanning through this book by @bvlsingler.bsky.social which I found while looking for scholarly sources tracing the origin of the "count the fingers count the knuckles" means of determining if something is fey. I'd love to know if there are earlier instances of this!
As I'm reading and annotating for my MA in Digital Humanities classes, I'm really appreciating Obsidian's features. Here I have a Base, where I can see how many authors I'm missing from the stuff I'm annotating. The Web Clipper gets some info, but of course not always accurately.
October 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
As I'm reading and annotating for my MA in Digital Humanities classes, I'm really appreciating Obsidian's features. Here I have a Base, where I can see how many authors I'm missing from the stuff I'm annotating. The Web Clipper gets some info, but of course not always accurately.
September 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
September 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Obsidian + Obsidian Web Clipper + the Note Annotations plugin = 😚👌
![A screenshot of some annotated text in Obsidian. The annotation includes a highlight and a comment that's visible in the right margin.
The visible main text reads:
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The history of digital humanities is marked by many laudable efforts to create tools with GUIs that allow scholars to create digital scholarship in the humanities without having to develop much symbolic computational literacy. However, these tools are inextricably linked to the dominance of English as a lingua franca for programming and markup languages, with downstream implications for those working with languages other than English — namely the emphasis on Anglophone scholarship in digital humanities and the comparative underdevelopment of multilingual digital humanities, particularly languages in scripts other than Latin and those read from right to left [] [] []. In addition, we have increasingly come to
The highlighted text is the sentence beginning with "However", and the comment in the margin reads:
A continual problem even in organizations that strive for a baseline of multilingualism.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hrhephy6hyb7qq33hrcau5ro/bafkreia5hegovaonc6kxnsm5odv7fdz5hd3zohf7yfxlv766c5cuhymf2e@jpeg)
September 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Obsidian + Obsidian Web Clipper + the Note Annotations plugin = 😚👌
This is my first deck, The William Blake Tarot of the Creative Imagination. I love this deck, but so far I haven't been able to make it work for what I want to do. That doesn't mean I have abandoned either the deck or the tarot mechanics I am examining.
September 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This is my first deck, The William Blake Tarot of the Creative Imagination. I love this deck, but so far I haven't been able to make it work for what I want to do. That doesn't mean I have abandoned either the deck or the tarot mechanics I am examining.
Just bought my second deck, the classic on easy mode so I don't have to flip through a book. Bought it to go with HMtW and also to do a class presentation about a playable object.
My first deck was a gift from @hewhocutsdown.bsky.social (one tradition holds that your first deck should be a gift)
My first deck was a gift from @hewhocutsdown.bsky.social (one tradition holds that your first deck should be a gift)
September 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Just bought my second deck, the classic on easy mode so I don't have to flip through a book. Bought it to go with HMtW and also to do a class presentation about a playable object.
My first deck was a gift from @hewhocutsdown.bsky.social (one tradition holds that your first deck should be a gift)
My first deck was a gift from @hewhocutsdown.bsky.social (one tradition holds that your first deck should be a gift)
Wall $treet? If you say so.
Spotted in far eastern Queens.
Spotted in far eastern Queens.
September 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Wall $treet? If you say so.
Spotted in far eastern Queens.
Spotted in far eastern Queens.
New albums this year from Coroner, Helloween, and Testament?
Will post some videos below.
Will post some videos below.
September 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
New albums this year from Coroner, Helloween, and Testament?
Will post some videos below.
Will post some videos below.
Image credit: Chaos Star by Fibonacci, CC BY-SA 3.0, from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_...
September 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Image credit: Chaos Star by Fibonacci, CC BY-SA 3.0, from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_...
Do not hit the Forbidden Piñata.
No golpees la Piñata Prohibida.
No golpees la Piñata Prohibida.
September 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Do not hit the Forbidden Piñata.
No golpees la Piñata Prohibida.
No golpees la Piñata Prohibida.
New arrival from @beefsen.bsky.social
Gonna read it on the train.
Wanna know more?
www.uneven-keel.com
Gonna read it on the train.
Wanna know more?
www.uneven-keel.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
New arrival from @beefsen.bsky.social
Gonna read it on the train.
Wanna know more?
www.uneven-keel.com
Gonna read it on the train.
Wanna know more?
www.uneven-keel.com
Ford commercials lately are talking about how much they make in the US, and how that's good for me.
Looking at this picture of the only Ford vehicles I could even consider (all electric, maaaybe hybrid), I can confidently say that I will not be buying anything Ford makes. They're all too big.
Looking at this picture of the only Ford vehicles I could even consider (all electric, maaaybe hybrid), I can confidently say that I will not be buying anything Ford makes. They're all too big.
September 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Ford commercials lately are talking about how much they make in the US, and how that's good for me.
Looking at this picture of the only Ford vehicles I could even consider (all electric, maaaybe hybrid), I can confidently say that I will not be buying anything Ford makes. They're all too big.
Looking at this picture of the only Ford vehicles I could even consider (all electric, maaaybe hybrid), I can confidently say that I will not be buying anything Ford makes. They're all too big.
Not gonna lie: I am concerned.
August 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Not gonna lie: I am concerned.
Oh, I have an update! Some of these monster mushrooms were still there today when I was walking my dogs, and they're all opened up and drying out. I included my foot in one shot to help establish scale. I wear a US men's size 10 for reference.
August 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Oh, I have an update! Some of these monster mushrooms were still there today when I was walking my dogs, and they're all opened up and drying out. I included my foot in one shot to help establish scale. I wear a US men's size 10 for reference.
Spotted these large mushrooms in the park today. I almost didn't even think they were mushrooms given their size.
August 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Spotted these large mushrooms in the park today. I almost didn't even think they were mushrooms given their size.
Maybe we can finally dust off those old plans to extend the subway in Queens all the way out to Nassau County? The border, at least. This 1939 proposal would be a good guideline.
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upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
August 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Maybe we can finally dust off those old plans to extend the subway in Queens all the way out to Nassau County? The border, at least. This 1939 proposal would be a good guideline.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
The light green on this map is the network of envisioned new greenways in Queens. Of course, we also need more bike lanes, especially out in Eastern Queens, but having those greenways would allow me to replace at least a portion of my current commute to Manhattan from Queens Village with my bike.
August 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The light green on this map is the network of envisioned new greenways in Queens. Of course, we also need more bike lanes, especially out in Eastern Queens, but having those greenways would allow me to replace at least a portion of my current commute to Manhattan from Queens Village with my bike.
I can't really make these numbers make sense. In every month I've logged, my system says I'm producing more than I consume. ConEd does not agree. And the difference isn't a simple linear equation. Who's right?
August 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I can't really make these numbers make sense. In every month I've logged, my system says I'm producing more than I consume. ConEd does not agree. And the difference isn't a simple linear equation. Who's right?