aaron r.
@r--aaron.bsky.social
He/him.
Hi. I don't post much.
Interests: writing, books, history, art, origami, game development, and anarchism.
Learning Korean and Japanese.
Website: https://disorientation.bearblog.dev/
Hi. I don't post much.
Interests: writing, books, history, art, origami, game development, and anarchism.
Learning Korean and Japanese.
Website: https://disorientation.bearblog.dev/
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aaron r.
@r--aaron.bsky.social
· Dec 4
Hello. I'm Aaron.
I don't post much, but if I do, it'll be about one of the following below.
Interests: writing, books, history, art, origami, game development, and anarchism.
I'm currently learning Korean and Japanese and may post in those languages, too.
#introductions
I don't post much, but if I do, it'll be about one of the following below.
Interests: writing, books, history, art, origami, game development, and anarchism.
I'm currently learning Korean and Japanese and may post in those languages, too.
#introductions
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They killed anas. I cant believe it.
August 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
They killed anas. I cant believe it.
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1/🧵A damming report on Syrian state's involvement:
"Syria’s government, including the Defense Ministry & president’s office, did not respond to a detailed summary of the findings of the report or questions from Reuters about the role of gov. forces in the massacres."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
"Syria’s government, including the Defense Ministry & president’s office, did not respond to a detailed summary of the findings of the report or questions from Reuters about the role of gov. forces in the massacres."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Syrian forces massacred 1,500 Alawites. The chain of command led to Damascus.
A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres following an Assad loyalist insurgency. The chain of command led from the attackers directly to men serving alongside Syria’s new leaders in Damascus. The killings now threaten Syria's fragile transition.
www.reuters.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
1/🧵A damming report on Syrian state's involvement:
"Syria’s government, including the Defense Ministry & president’s office, did not respond to a detailed summary of the findings of the report or questions from Reuters about the role of gov. forces in the massacres."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
"Syria’s government, including the Defense Ministry & president’s office, did not respond to a detailed summary of the findings of the report or questions from Reuters about the role of gov. forces in the massacres."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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LAPD when they think nobody is watching
June 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
LAPD when they think nobody is watching
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When you went to the Iowa Writers Workshop but ended up in journalism
June 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
When you went to the Iowa Writers Workshop but ended up in journalism
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June 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Finished up my second ever game jam today.
Wrote a short interactive fiction game for the Neo-Twiny Jam 2025.
Had a lot of fun with the 500-word limit.
erleck.itch.io/liquid-demon...
#gamedev #interactivefiction #gamejam
Wrote a short interactive fiction game for the Neo-Twiny Jam 2025.
Had a lot of fun with the 500-word limit.
erleck.itch.io/liquid-demon...
#gamedev #interactivefiction #gamejam
Liquid Demonology by Aaron R.
Witness your transformation
erleck.itch.io
June 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Finished up my second ever game jam today.
Wrote a short interactive fiction game for the Neo-Twiny Jam 2025.
Had a lot of fun with the 500-word limit.
erleck.itch.io/liquid-demon...
#gamedev #interactivefiction #gamejam
Wrote a short interactive fiction game for the Neo-Twiny Jam 2025.
Had a lot of fun with the 500-word limit.
erleck.itch.io/liquid-demon...
#gamedev #interactivefiction #gamejam
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Today, May 1, is International Workers' Day! It commemorates the sentencing to death of eight anarchist workers in Chicago who were framed for throwing a bomb at police who attacked a strike demonstration in May 1886 shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...
May 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Today, May 1, is International Workers' Day! It commemorates the sentencing to death of eight anarchist workers in Chicago who were framed for throwing a bomb at police who attacked a strike demonstration in May 1886 shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...
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Happy International Asexuality Day!!!🖤🩶🤍💜
April 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Happy International Asexuality Day!!!🖤🩶🤍💜
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New Fellowship of the Ring washi tape for SDCC! 🌱🌙🏔️☁️ #lordoftherings
April 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
New Fellowship of the Ring washi tape for SDCC! 🌱🌙🏔️☁️ #lordoftherings
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@soilent.bsky.social recently asked me to put together an introductory list of introductory socialist/communist readings, and I thought it might be helpful.
The goal of this is not to be definitive, or to say these are the only important texts, but rather to give a starting point.
Thread 🧵📚☭
The goal of this is not to be definitive, or to say these are the only important texts, but rather to give a starting point.
Thread 🧵📚☭
October 3, 2024 at 7:15 PM
@soilent.bsky.social recently asked me to put together an introductory list of introductory socialist/communist readings, and I thought it might be helpful.
The goal of this is not to be definitive, or to say these are the only important texts, but rather to give a starting point.
Thread 🧵📚☭
The goal of this is not to be definitive, or to say these are the only important texts, but rather to give a starting point.
Thread 🧵📚☭
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We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
February 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
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I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.
www.ft.com/content/a0df...
www.ft.com/content/a0df...
January 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.
www.ft.com/content/a0df...
www.ft.com/content/a0df...
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Live your life so that when you die, some joyless schmuck is annoyed that his entire social media feed is a wall of people's posts talking about how much you and your work meant to them
January 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Live your life so that when you die, some joyless schmuck is annoyed that his entire social media feed is a wall of people's posts talking about how much you and your work meant to them
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January 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
Getting back into game development with PICO-8 by doing some visual / particle experiments.
I'm not good at making actual games, but I always liked messing around and making neat effects and I think PICO-8 is perfect for that.
So here's a glitchy solar system.
Tutorial below.
#gamedev #pico8
I'm not good at making actual games, but I always liked messing around and making neat effects and I think PICO-8 is perfect for that.
So here's a glitchy solar system.
Tutorial below.
#gamedev #pico8
January 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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[opens WaPo app]
[closes WaPo app]
[closes WaPo app]
December 31, 2024 at 1:28 AM
[opens WaPo app]
[closes WaPo app]
[closes WaPo app]
Yay, I did it!
Made a goal at the start of 2024 to read 12 books... and I did it!
That's nothing for some people but it's a lot for me.
For 2025, I'm planning on reading 24 books. Going to start with Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars Trilogy."
#books
Made a goal at the start of 2024 to read 12 books... and I did it!
That's nothing for some people but it's a lot for me.
For 2025, I'm planning on reading 24 books. Going to start with Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars Trilogy."
#books
December 31, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Yay, I did it!
Made a goal at the start of 2024 to read 12 books... and I did it!
That's nothing for some people but it's a lot for me.
For 2025, I'm planning on reading 24 books. Going to start with Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars Trilogy."
#books
Made a goal at the start of 2024 to read 12 books... and I did it!
That's nothing for some people but it's a lot for me.
For 2025, I'm planning on reading 24 books. Going to start with Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars Trilogy."
#books
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Here's mine
December 24, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Here's mine
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So the bluesky head of trust and safety saw that a trans user created a bot to track his activity and it caught him liking a porn scraper bot. He then banned the her and banned the bot. This is some moderators madness level idiocy.
Okay I'm going to sleep now, but for the folks asleep now, or just waking up;
I got banned! I appealed and was denied! And yet here I am! Posting from my silly account.
My aaron tracking bot got banned though, Cause aaron liked a porn scraper bot and didn't like that it was public.
Anyway, im alive🥰
I got banned! I appealed and was denied! And yet here I am! Posting from my silly account.
My aaron tracking bot got banned though, Cause aaron liked a porn scraper bot and didn't like that it was public.
Anyway, im alive🥰
December 20, 2024 at 1:30 PM
So the bluesky head of trust and safety saw that a trans user created a bot to track his activity and it caught him liking a porn scraper bot. He then banned the her and banned the bot. This is some moderators madness level idiocy.