Rajel Aran
@rajelaran.cyberelf.space
Galactic Nostalgia Hunter.
she/her/flesh
Halfway between the black and gray is no place for a life to waste away
I'll take the road with all the stakes
~ TWRP - Starlight Brigade
she/her/flesh
Halfway between the black and gray is no place for a life to waste away
I'll take the road with all the stakes
~ TWRP - Starlight Brigade
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Rajel Aran
@rajelaran.cyberelf.space
· Nov 9
greetings new followers!
just so you know what you're in for, I'm a middle-aged transfemme who mostly posts about video games, anime, retrocomputing, and sometimes gamedev or writing (both sfw and nsfw).
I'm the sort of girl who writes stories on a G3 Powerbook and backs up to MiniDisc.
Welcome!
just so you know what you're in for, I'm a middle-aged transfemme who mostly posts about video games, anime, retrocomputing, and sometimes gamedev or writing (both sfw and nsfw).
I'm the sort of girl who writes stories on a G3 Powerbook and backs up to MiniDisc.
Welcome!
Capt. Vasiliy: "-and drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?"
Capt. Ramius: "I suppose"
Vasiliy: "No papers?"
Ramius: "maybe we should go back to the Soviets and claim it was all a secret security test that nobody can verify"
Capt. Ramius: "I suppose"
Vasiliy: "No papers?"
Ramius: "maybe we should go back to the Soviets and claim it was all a secret security test that nobody can verify"
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Capt. Vasiliy: "-and drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?"
Capt. Ramius: "I suppose"
Vasiliy: "No papers?"
Ramius: "maybe we should go back to the Soviets and claim it was all a secret security test that nobody can verify"
Capt. Ramius: "I suppose"
Vasiliy: "No papers?"
Ramius: "maybe we should go back to the Soviets and claim it was all a secret security test that nobody can verify"
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So... spells.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
So... spells.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
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"Honey you're attractive and gorgeous and I want to have sex, but could we fuck to something that isn't Horsell Common and the Heat Ray (Official Audio) from Jeff Wayne and Richard Burton's progressive rock album War of the Worlds based on the works of HG Wells?"
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"Honey you're attractive and gorgeous and I want to have sex, but could we fuck to something that isn't Horsell Common and the Heat Ray (Official Audio) from Jeff Wayne and Richard Burton's progressive rock album War of the Worlds based on the works of HG Wells?"
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
it's rough but I adore those queer magical disasters
it's rough but I adore those queer magical disasters
November 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
it's rough but I adore those queer magical disasters
it's rough but I adore those queer magical disasters
This is one of the reasons why Hackers (1995) has aged as well as it has—a large focus of the effort of "hacking" in the movie doesn't even involve using computers!
You may have a misunderstanding from common culture, that computer hacks are novel.
A company reliably patching all their endpoints and operating under even 50% of security guidance are essentially invulnerable.
Few people even hacking them have deep IT skills whatsoever.
This is a human problem.
A company reliably patching all their endpoints and operating under even 50% of security guidance are essentially invulnerable.
Few people even hacking them have deep IT skills whatsoever.
This is a human problem.
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM
This is one of the reasons why Hackers (1995) has aged as well as it has—a large focus of the effort of "hacking" in the movie doesn't even involve using computers!
if most of you knew the things I get up to in order to keep my garbage brain from catastrophic self-destruction, you'd probably try to have me committed.
i'm not really a danger to myself but if you knew *why* I'm not you'd freak out anyway and that just does not help things.
i'm not really a danger to myself but if you knew *why* I'm not you'd freak out anyway and that just does not help things.
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
if most of you knew the things I get up to in order to keep my garbage brain from catastrophic self-destruction, you'd probably try to have me committed.
i'm not really a danger to myself but if you knew *why* I'm not you'd freak out anyway and that just does not help things.
i'm not really a danger to myself but if you knew *why* I'm not you'd freak out anyway and that just does not help things.
The Phoenician Scheme.
It's the sort of film one might study in a cinematography course
and it's frickin hilarious with a fairly heartwarming ending
It's the sort of film one might study in a cinematography course
and it's frickin hilarious with a fairly heartwarming ending
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The Phoenician Scheme.
It's the sort of film one might study in a cinematography course
and it's frickin hilarious with a fairly heartwarming ending
It's the sort of film one might study in a cinematography course
and it's frickin hilarious with a fairly heartwarming ending
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CITIZENS OF SEATTLE:
I'll be performing at Ass-tronauts & Robo-tits, a sci-fi burlesque show on December 6th in West Seattle! It's gonna be a great show, get your tickets now!
www.ticketleap.events/tickets/the-...
I'll be performing at Ass-tronauts & Robo-tits, a sci-fi burlesque show on December 6th in West Seattle! It's gonna be a great show, get your tickets now!
www.ticketleap.events/tickets/the-...
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
CITIZENS OF SEATTLE:
I'll be performing at Ass-tronauts & Robo-tits, a sci-fi burlesque show on December 6th in West Seattle! It's gonna be a great show, get your tickets now!
www.ticketleap.events/tickets/the-...
I'll be performing at Ass-tronauts & Robo-tits, a sci-fi burlesque show on December 6th in West Seattle! It's gonna be a great show, get your tickets now!
www.ticketleap.events/tickets/the-...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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EMERGENCY
The hearing went badly, and we're not considered tenants. I may have to leave without my partner and daughter imminently.
PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP. I HAVE NO RESOURCES LEFT
The hearing went badly, and we're not considered tenants. I may have to leave without my partner and daughter imminently.
PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP. I HAVE NO RESOURCES LEFT
... I've avoided doing this for as long as possible but my partner is not able to support both me and our child with their earnings, and I currently have no money coming in other than a potential compensation for the trespass and assault on me last month.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
EMERGENCY
The hearing went badly, and we're not considered tenants. I may have to leave without my partner and daughter imminently.
PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP. I HAVE NO RESOURCES LEFT
The hearing went badly, and we're not considered tenants. I may have to leave without my partner and daughter imminently.
PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP. I HAVE NO RESOURCES LEFT
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A terrible idea I must put out into the world just so I seem prophetic when someone searches back and says WHAT DID SHE KNOW?!:
There will be LLM pets at some point in the future. When folk get sick of hallucinations and creepily emulating humanity, we'll have strange small furry things -
There will be LLM pets at some point in the future. When folk get sick of hallucinations and creepily emulating humanity, we'll have strange small furry things -
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
A terrible idea I must put out into the world just so I seem prophetic when someone searches back and says WHAT DID SHE KNOW?!:
There will be LLM pets at some point in the future. When folk get sick of hallucinations and creepily emulating humanity, we'll have strange small furry things -
There will be LLM pets at some point in the future. When folk get sick of hallucinations and creepily emulating humanity, we'll have strange small furry things -
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Cozy books can fuck and still be cozy.
They can fuck a LOT, in fact.
Almost too much, according to some readers.
That’s cozy to me.
They can fuck a LOT, in fact.
Almost too much, according to some readers.
That’s cozy to me.
If you like your fantasy romance scalding-hot but filled with tenderness & wonder
The World Within, a C4T lesbian romance set in a wellness center complete with mineral baths, spa, & sex shop.
Meet-cute over a crate of magical vibrators!
danifinn.itch.io/the-world-wi...
books2read.com/b/md2L8W
The World Within, a C4T lesbian romance set in a wellness center complete with mineral baths, spa, & sex shop.
Meet-cute over a crate of magical vibrators!
danifinn.itch.io/the-world-wi...
books2read.com/b/md2L8W
The World Within by danifinn
A cozy/steamy trans sapphic fantasy romance
danifinn.itch.io
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Cozy books can fuck and still be cozy.
They can fuck a LOT, in fact.
Almost too much, according to some readers.
That’s cozy to me.
They can fuck a LOT, in fact.
Almost too much, according to some readers.
That’s cozy to me.
Someone posted this blank so I had to fill it out.
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Someone posted this blank so I had to fill it out.
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I've just released the first version of my Skifree DOS port.
#DOSember #DOSGaming
All the features you know and love from Skifree windows are there. Just now in MS-DOS
rocketfry.itch.io/skifree-dos-...
#DOSember #DOSGaming
All the features you know and love from Skifree windows are there. Just now in MS-DOS
rocketfry.itch.io/skifree-dos-...
Skifree - DOS Edition by rocketfry
The classic game Skifree - Ported to MS-DOS
rocketfry.itch.io
November 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I've just released the first version of my Skifree DOS port.
#DOSember #DOSGaming
All the features you know and love from Skifree windows are there. Just now in MS-DOS
rocketfry.itch.io/skifree-dos-...
#DOSember #DOSGaming
All the features you know and love from Skifree windows are there. Just now in MS-DOS
rocketfry.itch.io/skifree-dos-...
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🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
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The improved Magic Wand tool is exhilarating.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The improved Magic Wand tool is exhilarating.
"OP, why are you a woman"
"when I was 13 my parents turned me into Mom 2.0 so my incubator could spend her days out shopping"
"when I was 13 my parents turned me into Mom 2.0 so my incubator could spend her days out shopping"
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"OP, why are you a woman"
"when I was 13 my parents turned me into Mom 2.0 so my incubator could spend her days out shopping"
"when I was 13 my parents turned me into Mom 2.0 so my incubator could spend her days out shopping"
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A few shots from my test run this evening with @gingerdraven.bsky.social
It felt good to get back into the studio, but how wrecked I felt afterwards physically really told me where I’m at on the road to recovery.
It felt good to get back into the studio, but how wrecked I felt afterwards physically really told me where I’m at on the road to recovery.
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
A few shots from my test run this evening with @gingerdraven.bsky.social
It felt good to get back into the studio, but how wrecked I felt afterwards physically really told me where I’m at on the road to recovery.
It felt good to get back into the studio, but how wrecked I felt afterwards physically really told me where I’m at on the road to recovery.
oh my god
is this why LLMs are containing such a rapid foothold in schools, because they're basically teaching kids to read the same way? "predicting" what the next word *should* be?
is this why LLMs are containing such a rapid foothold in schools, because they're basically teaching kids to read the same way? "predicting" what the next word *should* be?
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
oh my god
is this why LLMs are containing such a rapid foothold in schools, because they're basically teaching kids to read the same way? "predicting" what the next word *should* be?
is this why LLMs are containing such a rapid foothold in schools, because they're basically teaching kids to read the same way? "predicting" what the next word *should* be?
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We're nearly a decade deep into politics driven by "vote-against".
We The People want something to vote FOR.
"Do you want (X) to win?" is not a policy position, it's a confession that the only alternative you're offering is "anti-(x) vibes".
We The People want something to vote FOR.
"Do you want (X) to win?" is not a policy position, it's a confession that the only alternative you're offering is "anti-(x) vibes".
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
We're nearly a decade deep into politics driven by "vote-against".
We The People want something to vote FOR.
"Do you want (X) to win?" is not a policy position, it's a confession that the only alternative you're offering is "anti-(x) vibes".
We The People want something to vote FOR.
"Do you want (X) to win?" is not a policy position, it's a confession that the only alternative you're offering is "anti-(x) vibes".
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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)
(Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)
(Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)
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A team that isn't laid off immediately after release.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
A team that isn't laid off immediately after release.
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predator is a slasher movie and arnold schwarzenegger is the final girl
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
predator is a slasher movie and arnold schwarzenegger is the final girl
BTW if anyone in the Houston, TX area wants Mac SE and/or a G3 iMac for free, DM me and I'll put you in contact with the person with these, they're trying to save them from the dumpster.
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
BTW if anyone in the Houston, TX area wants Mac SE and/or a G3 iMac for free, DM me and I'll put you in contact with the person with these, they're trying to save them from the dumpster.