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Aaron H

@benefiction.bsky.social
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Just out here indulging an appetite for marvels. Religion scholar & interreligious peacebuilder, part-time professor in NYC & Rome, lifelong musician & outdoorsman, feral tabletop nerd, goofy dad.

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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pitched a screening of The Addams Family to my kids to celebrate spooky season; they counterpitched Muppet Christmas Carol. Category error notwithstanding, it’s a gray area, no choice but to allow it
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
At the center of my message to faculty yesterday was: 1.) We may not be adequately prepared for how angry students are about tech. 2.) They are not all angry for the same reasons. 3.) Being angry at it doesn’t mean they aren’t using it. The sense of entrapment fuels the anger.
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Not that I *prefer* instrumentalizing the humanistic aims of education, but boy howdy do my students (and their parents) need to hear this.
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Forza Canada da bella Napoli!!
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Neapolitan Maradona merch in a chill piazza.
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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A photo of algae with white letters in the upper left: Pantene Color of the year 2026 and a paint chip appearing box with a solid block the color of the algae labeled Pantone #658a2a American Flag Blue.
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🦇 Hallow-Ina! 🎃 @ina-strangeworld.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
very happy to see that the oot remake sticks to its localized title in the german version
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Having definitively mixed feelings that research for a scholarly article is going to be the thing that finally ropes me into deep dives on Tumblr
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Public service announcement:
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Chuck Tingle coming in hot with a big old firehose of wisdom
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I see no lies here
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The whole thread:
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Say what you will about the death of the take-home college essay. Being formed in curiosity, reflexivity, and ethical attention are vital for any dignified work that will survive this craziness—and for recognizing the degree-as-rubber-stamp narrative as parasitic on the actual aims of education.
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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The Omelas Child Was No Angel - NYT Opinion
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I try not to cross the streams too often between my professional life and this hobby account dedicated to refilling my cup amidst the horrors, but I’m honored that Fordham is featuring my new book at this event on Thursday. Theology and politics, saints and dragons - and open to the public!
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 19/04/2026
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I try not to cross the streams too often between my professional life and this hobby account dedicated to refilling my cup amidst the horrors, but I’m honored that Fordham is featuring my new book at this event on Thursday. Theology and politics, saints and dragons - and open to the public!
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Big if true
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Mackyuu @kmacku.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau... Part of me genuinely thinks that, as D&D continues to be "the" heroic fantasy standard, this game will become *the* horror standard. Because the horror is backed by the mechanics in ways no other system can, or has. Don't miss this.
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Public Access Analog Horror Mystery TTRPG
From the creator of Brindlewood Bay and The Between, Public Access is a roleplaying game inspired by analog and found footage horror!
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The Youths clamor for brainpower
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Secrets of the Vibrant Isle (GM-led) was my kid’s first RPG; we’ve got Vibrant Sea with us right now on vacation. This family for one is feeling the hype. Ad astra!
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Exactly, and also in the arts, and the humanities - efficiency isn’t the problem, it’s voluntarily becoming smaller and weaker and worse. Read the quoted article too.
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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆。˚ 𓆝⋆。˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Melkor, Sauron
A man with a dark crown and armor, eyes piercing green, sitting on a throne that looks like glass, staring downA man enrobed in fire, light. His eyes a pale amber color
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
My children have become true-blue tabletop roleplayers in the last two years or so. Favorites now include Yazeba’s and The One Ring (be still my heart!) but it all started with @jdragsky.bsky.social’s Wanderhome…
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Thinking a lot about how we were told that this would be transformational, society-reshaping technology and how important it was to adopt and adapt. How there was no limit to how much money should he invested in it. For no particular reason
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Major yn Literature of any kynde: • Focused studye & writinge prepare you for anythinge • Research, analysis, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even inventid yet • Meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes will staye wyth you forevir • It ys awesome • Bookes!
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!" counterpoint! the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Niche context here but the point is applicable at every level. We used to worry about imposter syndrome, but now we’re just mass-producing imposters. It’s not about whether new tools can help you do the work, it’s about whether you’re going to have anything worth saying.
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
A “literally chef’s kiss” analogy, as my kid would say.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
It is one thing for professors to resist AI in education; it is far more powerful when students do. Only a coalition between the two groups of students and teachers —and not the antagonistic one between “cheaters” and “cops”—will be powerful enough to create a movement.
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Another Olympics down, another four years of waiting for a figure skating finalist to choose Dancing Mad for her free skate number
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I love it when the scientists reinvent the humanities for the 14th time in a decade.
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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I teach a lot of working class first generation students at Nicholls in South Louisiana. I will never give up my conviction that my students deserve Homer and Sappho and Sophocles and Ovid and Dante too. It's not too good for them.
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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.
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Mr. Legendarium @legendarium.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
among everything else this week dunno if you heard but coding is over. huge opp for humanities folks. should be megaphoning 'learning to think never goes out of style'
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
@schumer.senate.gov, this organization is rotten to the core, and business-as-usual deal-making is not a substitute for moral courage. Half-reforms are not nearly sufficient. Defund, dissolve, and prosecute.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good
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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I've found this resource helpful. naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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Somewhere along the way, being wrong about facts was reclassified as "having an opinion," and knowing facts was stigmatized as "having bias." It's a big part of why we're in hell now.
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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped from Minneapolis. He was my neighbor and he died in an American concentration camp. He was not "illegal," he was a human being made in the image of the divine. May his memory be a blessing, and may the rest of us fight like hell until we stop this brutality.
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The Hudson, my Beloved
Mist and shifting light upon the Hudson River, at the tip of Manhattan island.
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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 10/01/2026
Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org
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Second Harvest Heartland | Local Minnesota, Wisconsin food bank | 2harvest.org
There is more than enough food for everyone. As one of the nation’s largest hunger relief agencies, it’s our job to make sure healthy, nutritious food gets to the households who need it. Every day, we...
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
get their asses, your grace
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
People say AI is a magic shortcut to creativity & success. I’ll tell you the real secret and it’s voraciously reading, being interested in everything, being diligent in the pursuit of learning, paying attention to the interior lives of others & keeping a heart open to the world.
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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Tried to make this case to my 7-year-old and it, uh, did not exactly land
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