aaron
@cityofportland.bsky.social
not / yet / not / queer. writing a dissertation about queerness, feelings, archives, and neoliberalism at UC [redacted]. he/him.
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
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I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
walking my cat outside
September 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
walking my cat outside
hundred-degree heat, writing, sweating, blasting PJ Harvey
August 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
hundred-degree heat, writing, sweating, blasting PJ Harvey
at my local cafe—I just overheard one man, as he stood up to leave his seat, compliment another man’s handwriting. They bonded for a moment over their shared love of journaling by hand.
August 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
at my local cafe—I just overheard one man, as he stood up to leave his seat, compliment another man’s handwriting. They bonded for a moment over their shared love of journaling by hand.
increased hookup frequency is a recession indicator
August 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
increased hookup frequency is a recession indicator
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seems very bad and should be resisted with a wide variety of tactics
Karoline Leavitt indicates the administration is open to a denaturalization-oriented investigation against Zohran Mamdani
June 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
seems very bad and should be resisted with a wide variety of tactics
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This reminds me of a passage from Bertell Ollman's 2005 "Letter of Resignation from the Jewish People":
July 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This reminds me of a passage from Bertell Ollman's 2005 "Letter of Resignation from the Jewish People":
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Good morning 🫡
July 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Good morning 🫡
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Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important:
He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.
He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.
Donald Trump authorizes U.S. military to take control of land on southern border
President Donald Trump issued a memorandum Friday giving the U.S. military jurisdiction over federal lands at the southern border.
www.usatoday.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important:
He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.
He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.
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happy international women’s day
March 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
happy international women’s day
when USians say “boomers ruined X for us all,” I think many of us are trying to articulate a real critique of the last 80 years of capitalism, but in the language of bourgeois economics (ie propaganda), which is the closest most of us can get to political economy from inside mainstream US culture
February 20, 2025 at 5:27 AM
when USians say “boomers ruined X for us all,” I think many of us are trying to articulate a real critique of the last 80 years of capitalism, but in the language of bourgeois economics (ie propaganda), which is the closest most of us can get to political economy from inside mainstream US culture
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sorry i can't get over the fact that this lady is ten years younger than me
Karoline Leavitt: "The real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch."
February 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
sorry i can't get over the fact that this lady is ten years younger than me
reading stuff I wrote eight years ago and wondering what has happened to my brain
February 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
reading stuff I wrote eight years ago and wondering what has happened to my brain
how do you continue to believe in the value of a dissertation while also witnessing or reading daily about state assaults on people’s lives, resources, housing, access to medicine, freedom of movement? I am struggling so much with this.
January 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
how do you continue to believe in the value of a dissertation while also witnessing or reading daily about state assaults on people’s lives, resources, housing, access to medicine, freedom of movement? I am struggling so much with this.
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"As I watched Twin Peaks: The Return each week, I couldn’t help but recall the words of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky: “The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.”
To the Very End | Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) - Bright Wall/Dark Room
As I watched Twin Peaks: The Return each week, I couldn’t help but recall the words of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky: “The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his so...
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January 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"As I watched Twin Peaks: The Return each week, I couldn’t help but recall the words of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky: “The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.”
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“I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.”
- David Lynch
- David Lynch
a man is sitting in a car and talking to someone .
ALT: a man is sitting in a car and talking to someone .
media.tenor.com
January 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
“I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.”
- David Lynch
- David Lynch
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“And then of course, you find brothers, ‘I was there, I helped you’ -What are you doing today, brother?
If we’re not careful, we allow mobilization to become events. The struggle is never an event — it’s a process. A continual, eternal, process.”
7/7
Ft. Kwame Ture
#OnPeopleWhoWeren’tThere
If we’re not careful, we allow mobilization to become events. The struggle is never an event — it’s a process. A continual, eternal, process.”
7/7
Ft. Kwame Ture
#OnPeopleWhoWeren’tThere
January 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
“And then of course, you find brothers, ‘I was there, I helped you’ -What are you doing today, brother?
If we’re not careful, we allow mobilization to become events. The struggle is never an event — it’s a process. A continual, eternal, process.”
7/7
Ft. Kwame Ture
#OnPeopleWhoWeren’tThere
If we’re not careful, we allow mobilization to become events. The struggle is never an event — it’s a process. A continual, eternal, process.”
7/7
Ft. Kwame Ture
#OnPeopleWhoWeren’tThere
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JUST PUBLISHED: It has been the honor of my career to co-author "Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza" with Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com —a story about Palestine, AIDS, genocide, and an extraordinary survivor named E.S. Please read & share. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...
Queer, HIV-Positive, and Running Out of Medication in Gaza
A year in Palestine, living in fear of not just genocide — but AIDS.
theintercept.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
JUST PUBLISHED: It has been the honor of my career to co-author "Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza" with Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com —a story about Palestine, AIDS, genocide, and an extraordinary survivor named E.S. Please read & share. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...
more evidence that the goal of AI use in classrooms is not to pay wages to actual humans: “the reality is that teachers and teaching assistants are often strapped for time and can’t always provide this thoughtful feedback” lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/news-notewor...
University Writing Program Wins $1.5 Million Grant in AI Grand Challenge
A collaborative project led by UC Davis, working with four California Community Colleges and three California State University campuses, has won a $1.5 million grant to help address equity gaps in wri...
lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu
January 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
more evidence that the goal of AI use in classrooms is not to pay wages to actual humans: “the reality is that teachers and teaching assistants are often strapped for time and can’t always provide this thoughtful feedback” lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/news-notewor...
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I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
December 23, 2024 at 2:45 PM
I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
nice to see that Barnes & Noble is still a haven for the queers
December 18, 2024 at 11:31 PM
nice to see that Barnes & Noble is still a haven for the queers
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