Air and Steel

On Site Contents (By Article)

aka the Table of Contents

Here's the table of contents, sorted by date. It's autogenerated with a script.

TODO: set up the ability to also run it automatically, on commit or build.


September 2022

On This Site - 2022-09-01 - "ie. how I'm organizing the organizing."

On Site Contents (By Article) - 2022-09-02 - "aka the Table of Contents"

On Site Contents (By Category) - 2022-09-03 - "this is just another sorting for the table of contents"

On Site Contents (By Topic) - 2022-09-04 - "aka the Index"

On Access - 2022-09-05 - "aka getting stuff"


October 2022

"Air and Steel" - 2022-10-07 - "Why the name?"

On Organizing - 2022-10-08 - "ie. I'm an engineer and I'm serious about it."

On Charity and Charitability (ie. what you can do) - 2022-10-09 - "Be the helper."

On Philosophy - 2022-10-09 - "Philosophy 0"

On Values - 2022-10-09 - "My highest placed value is seriousness in organizing. I believe they're one and the same. You should act with a purpose."

On Food - 2022-10-10 - "Keep well stocked and ensure others are getting enough."

On Siddhartha - 2022-10-10 - "Philosophy I: Understanding the River"

On Meditations - 2022-10-11 - "Philosophy II: Understanding Aurelius (ie. Stoicism)"

On Communists - 2022-10-12 - "Philosophy III: On getting fucking teargassed."

On Learning - 2022-10-14 - "My lifelong passion, I guess, if I had to pick one lifelong passion in some arbitrary hypothetical."

On Technology - 2022-10-14 - "Hint: it's a weapon"

On Uniting - 2022-10-15 - "Work together, let's do this."

On Wikipedia - 2022-10-16 - "or: using resources for what they are, getting the best out of everything we've got"

On Astrology and Religion - 2022-10-18 - "False Prophets, Kindness, Jesus, Muhammad, Brahma, Intifada, etc."

On Hobbies - 2022-10-18 - "I like doin stuff, you should try it"

On Media - 2022-10-19 - "I'm gonna pull this out whenever someone asks me what I'm watching"

On Sleep, and Death - 2022-10-20 - "The times when eyes get to rest closed"


November 2022

On North American Communists (and similar) - 2022-11-01 - "The Hometown. Learnings from my people, all of em."

On Latin America and the rest of the Americas - 2022-11-02 - "As well as all the hard working people, communist and not, fighting for the emancipation of the Latino and indigenous peoples."

On Asia - 2022-11-03 - "We may as well address Mao now, since everyone keeps talking about rent these days (and I'd like to maybe own a house someday)."

On Europe - 2022-11-04 - "Marx; Lenin; Stalin. If you've been putting it off, you should get to reading em. They're smart folks and they understood how the world works. Listen to what they have to say, and learn from their experiences."

On Africa - 2022-11-05 - "Oh man you're gonna see the circle in a second, you're gonna love this"

On Black Liberation - 2022-11-06 - "This is the tie-in page between North America and Africa"

On the Middle East - 2022-11-07 - "Mostly concerning the Apartheid state in Palestine rn."

On Feminism - 2022-11-08 - "Women's Liberation, Gender Studies, LGBTQ+ Politics and Media, etc."

On Modern (Non-Fiction) Literature - 2022-11-20 - "There are a bunch of books around. Let's look at a few authors that have materialist perspectives, if not communist ones."

On Fiction - 2022-11-21 - "Books, articles, short stories, novellas, zines, and other forms of words."

On Music - 2022-11-22 - "Tunes."

On Audiovisual Media - 2022-11-23 - "Movies, shows, videos in the news and on the web."


December 2022

On Che Guevara - 2022-12-01 - "'If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. ~Che Guevara' ~Aaron Steel"

On Michael Parenti - 2022-12-02 - "Mikey P from New Yawk"

On Covid - 2022-12-03 - "The (Ongoing) Pandemic."

On Einstein - 2022-12-04 - "Another notable communist."

On Abolition - 2022-12-05 - "Abolition reading list and tweets"

On Marx - 2022-12-06 - "and Marxism, and communism, etc."

On Engels - 2022-12-07 - "(the second head of Marxism)"

On Lenin - 2022-12-08 - "Ah, now we get to this 'Marxism-Leninism' stuff."

On Stalin - 2022-12-09 - "(The synthesizer of aforementioned 'Marxism-Leninism')"

On Mao - 2022-12-10 - "...if you got a buncha Marxism-Leninism stewin in a pot, sprinklin in a bit of Mao Zedong Thought can never hurt. adds some full-bodied perspective."

On Sankara - 2022-12-11 - "Why Sankara next? I like him. I like his discipline and ideals, I like his concrete actions, I like what he stands for to this day. I like his symbolic heart and the material change he affected, and I like how he focused on improving things for those who didn't have the vantage. He's a Robin Hood type, he's a hero in my eyes. I also like that he's a fellow guitar head, that's cool too, plus he was always fitted with the military suit and beret, I mean I could list here all day"

On Voting - 2022-12-12 - "Literally just so we don't waste time"

On Hồ Chí Minh - 2022-12-13 - "Uncle Ho, "

On Pornography - 2022-12-14 - "full disclosure: I'm anti"

On Cops - 2022-12-15 - "another anti, I'm afraid"

On George Jackson - 2022-12-16 - "fitting one to come after the cops"

On IronProle - 2022-12-17 - "aka Red, aka Red Army Duck, aka Junkyard Duck, aka a comrade in the Washington area who's been very helpful towards my education."

On Kids Books - 2022-12-18 - "books are cool; kids are cool; what books should we be giving to kids to learn from?"

On Red Sails - 2022-12-19 - "and Roderic Day, and Nia Frome"

On All Power Books - 2022-12-20 - "and LASD Gangs, and @tankiepilled aka @whatsantifa aka coffeenpedagogy"

On Red Prints Publishing - 2022-12-21 - "and Marxist-Leninist Reading Hub, and Mount Tai Press, and Comrade Duck aka @DengistDuck"

On Unity-Struggle-Unity - 2022-12-22 - "and The Red Clarion, and @primarycatdad"

On The Fall of Twitter - 2022-12-23 - "aka all my bookmarks"

On Trans Rights - 2022-12-24 - "== Human Rights"

On Indigenous Resources - 2022-12-25 - "Books and Threads"

On Prole Academy - 2022-12-27 - "Briefings and Book Reviews for working people in a hurry"

On Eugene Debs - 2022-12-28 - "and US Socialism in early 20th century, and the IWW"

On Homelessness and Homeless Resources - 2022-12-29 - "This is an important topic and I want to convey the seriousness with which I care about it, but also I'm moving really fast to get stuff done. I'll come back later"

On Unions - 2022-12-30 - "Why and how we should be working together"

On Aren LeBrun - 2022-12-31 - "aka @ProustMalone"


January 2023

On Joe Clark - 2023-01-01 - "aka @ScottishCommie"

On Bail and Criminalization - 2023-01-02 - "More stuff about the Prison Industrial Complex, the psyche of those most at risk of criminalization, etc."

On Brigid - 2023-01-03 - "aka ComradeBrigid, of Probably Cancelled Pod"

On Foreign Languages Press - 2023-01-04 - "an MLM Publishing House, with lots of free pdfs."

On Yasha Levine - 2023-01-05 - "a Soviet-American journalist, and historian of technology."

On Nicky Case - 2023-01-06 - "a digital creator, who's made some neat stuff."

On Communist Anarchist Society Saboteur (C.A.S.S.) - 2023-01-07 - "aka @Casswantsrevolt."

On TechEmails - 2023-01-08 - "at techemails.com or @TechEmails"

On Alec Karakatsanis - 2023-01-09 - "aka @equalityAlec"

On Historic.ly - 2023-01-10 - "at historicly.net, with @eshaLegal and @uncle_authority"

The Cost of a Watch - 2023-01-11 - "originally a tumblr post, by user inkskinned"

The Five-Four Pod - 2023-01-12 - "with Peter (@The_Law_Boy), Michael (@_FleerUltra), and Rhiannon (@AywaRhiannon)"

People's Freedom Assembly - 2023-01-13 - "A Greensboro-based, Black (New Afrikan) and Indigenous-led decolonial socialist organization, serving working-class and houseless peoples in Greensboro."

On Vi Hart - 2023-01-14 - "A rare middle school throwback I still stand by - and a very early source of inspiration"

On Dilan - 2023-01-15 - "idk anything about this dude but he's got some good tweets"

On Indigenous Rights - 2023-01-16 - "and reading lists, topics of note, etc"

On Palestine - 2023-01-17 - "From the River to the Sea"

On Mental Health - 2023-01-18 - "Keeping your brain thinking and feeling ok, an important one!"

On Transit and Cars - 2023-01-19 - "and new urbanist memes for transit oriented teens"

On New York Resources - 2023-01-20 - "aka stuff for those in local Lenapehoking"

On Matt Korostoff - 2023-01-21 - "An engineer creating very good visual websites and other interesting stuff"

On Aaron Thorpe - 2023-01-22 - "A comrade in Atlanta. aka @borgposting, aka @paradoomer, aka @thotteusstevens, aka a bunch of other @s I don't remember"

On Z-Library - 2023-01-23 - "A useful site that's also crumbled recently"

On Nia Frome - 2023-01-24 - "Lots of stuff Nia posted on Twitter, mostly"

On Roderic Day - 2023-01-24 - "Roderic's MediaList and tweet dump"


index tags: Site Info, Table of Contents, Organization, Site Map


category tags: Site Info


Hi! Aaron, nice to meet ya. This site is where I'm documenting as I go, in order to keep my learnings and thoughts in an easily accessible digital notebook. My purpose in life is organizing (engineering, if you will) and building the change I want to see in the world; to help as much as possible, while I've got the chance to do it.