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Aaron Oldenburg
@aaronoldenburg.bsky.social
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artist, game designer, living in Baltimore
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This doll's name is "hair baby"
A white baby doll with a lot of wild blond hair is held up by a large hand in a car. The front windshield is in the background, with a parking lot
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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#extremeweather
A rickety wooden gate has one large plastic googly eye. The other eye is lying on the ground on grass and dead leaves. Green trees in the background to the left, a white house in the background to the right.
November 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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I normally don't post pictures of my child on the Internet but he just looked so cute sipping from that little juice box

Happy #halloween
A small child, two fake adult dummies and a man in a baby mask (drinking from a toy juice box) share a pile of Halloween candy at a small table in a living room.
November 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Reading a parenting guide for academics
Freaks And (Child) Prodigies: Historicising Cuteness […] As a strategy for managing the radical Otherness of the child, cuteness is […] intimately bound up with the history of the ‘freak’. There are obvious parallels between child and freak: both are liminal figures, residing on the boundaries that separate the ‘fully human’ from the ‘less-than-human’. 4 That ‘cute’ child and ‘freak’ are reciprocally defined is supremely evident in the film E.T., which constructs an identification between child and freak (only the children can communicate with E.T.) in order to position the freakish extraterrestrial as a (cute) monster to be adopted. The monstrosity of the ‘alien’ E.T. does not diminish but rather intensifies his cuteness – in part because his desire for ‘home’ (as well as his docility) renders him sentimentally recuperable, available to assimilation within normative domestic and affectional structures. From Lori Mersh's Cuteness and Commodity Aesthetics, in the Whitechapel contemporary art theory survey, The Cute
October 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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From makertube.net/w/izqfNgtvN6...
August 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Mossy rocks and dog vomit #slimemold in upstate New York.
Frothy yellow blobs on an old tree stump Some mangy green rocks in a turgid stream, shaded by trees
August 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Really thought this was an intentionally-created face every time I drove past it.

#pareidolia
August 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Inexpensive retreat space in WV. I've stayed here and it's great.
March 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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February 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM