Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Pitched 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 030
Reposted by Aaron HMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026At 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. 301220319
Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Not that I *prefer* instrumentalizing the humanistic aims of education, but boy howdy do my students (and their parents) need to hear this. 020
Reposted by Aaron H🦇 Hallow-Ina! 🎃 @ina-strangeworld.bsky.social · 09/06/2026very happy to see that the oot remake sticks to its localized title in the german version 25103843466
Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Having definitively mixed feelings that research for a scholarly article is going to be the thing that finally ropes me into deep dives on Tumblr 120
Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Chuck Tingle coming in hot with a big old firehose of wisdom 000
Reposted by Aaron HLuiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I see no lies here 4477043491
Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Say 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. 020
Reposted by Aaron HKeifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 04/05/2026The Omelas Child Was No Angel - NYT Opinion 17225
Reposted by Aaron HAaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I 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! 031
Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I 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! 031
Reposted by Aaron HMackyuu @kmacku.bsky.social · 12/04/2026www.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.kickstarter.comPublic Access Analog Horror Mystery TTRPGFrom the creator of Brindlewood Bay and The Between, Public Access is a roleplaying game inspired by analog and found footage horror! 11210
Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Secrets 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! 010
Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Exactly, 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. 110
Reposted by Aaron H🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆。˚ 𓆝⋆。˚ 𓇼 🏳️⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Melkor, Sauron 2417130
Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 20/03/2026My 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… 140
Reposted by Aaron HRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Thinking 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 0428
Reposted by Aaron HChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Major 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! 112116
Reposted by Aaron HEric 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 3948801671
Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Niche 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. 0244
Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 26/02/2026A “literally chef’s kiss” analogy, as my kid would say. 052
Reposted by Aaron HSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026It 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. 112738
Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Another Olympics down, another four years of waiting for a figure skating finalist to choose Dancing Mad for her free skate number 000
Reposted by Aaron HLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I love it when the scientists reinvent the humanities for the 14th time in a decade. 317746
Reposted by Aaron HRichmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 13/02/2026I 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. 417635
Reposted by Aaron HPhillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I 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. 9889197
Reposted by Aaron HAvery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Democratizing 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. 2243771886
Reposted by Aaron HKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/02/2026If 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. 667196996001
Reposted by Aaron HDan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 30/01/2026among 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' 721540
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. 030
Reposted by Aaron HREwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 28/01/2026if 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 111582496
Reposted by Aaron HSteeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I've found this resource helpful. naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...naomikritzer.comHow To Help if You are Outside MinnesotaLast 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… 2257228
Reposted by Aaron Hgeri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Victor 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. 131630639
Reposted by Aaron Hem. rowene @queerenigma.com · 10/01/2026Hi 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.org2harvest.orgSecond Harvest Heartland | Local Minnesota, Wisconsin food bank | 2harvest.orgThere 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... 1920742184
Reposted by Aaron HBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 17/12/2025People 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. 61051336
Reposted by Aaron HHarriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫 246228788269
Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Tried to make this case to my 7-year-old and it, uh, did not exactly land 030