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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂

@violetvolume.bsky.social

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Pittsburgh. she/her. we gladly feast on those who would subdue us. it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · Apr 22

If you follow me and I go to your profile and the only thing you post about is politics I probably won't follow you back. No offense intended, I just can't stomach a constant firehose of that kind of content.

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Lee Harveryscary @valleyguitarist.bsky.social · 3h

If my computer ever talks to me, I will kill it with a gun

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 7h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 58m

oh wow.

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 1d

Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family.

What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.

On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/

The Blurring

What I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.

www.dataandpolitics.net

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 1h

Nothing really puts the lie to the idea that capitalism is the most efficient and innovative economic system like inventing an entire swathe of jobs that can be done at home cheaper and more efficiently, then throwing a tantrum and insisting everyone drive to the office to use the computer instead

Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 3h

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 1h

The happiest boy.

An orange cat in a turquoise harness and leash luxuriates in the sun-warmed grass (or what's left of it).

🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 2h

like talking about the naked bike ride being the "most threatening thing they've ever seen" girl really? who's going to go for that? people are just gonna be like "ok, sure thing boss, the Ladies Who Lunch are Hamas terrorists and also worship Satan. you got it big guy 🙄"

🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 2h

I don't really see this strategy working out for them outside of the 10% of True Believers. Eventually regular people are going to realize they're just trying to make everything sound as bad as possible, even if it means simply making stuff up, and they'll go the way of the boy who cried wolf.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 2h

who doesn't like a nice grilled cheese really

🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 2h

also you can see his little fangies and that tickles me

🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 3h

god I love Strongbad. It's crazy how much of my vocabulary comes from this website, like, to the point where I barely register its origin anymore.

"my focus is all... crocused."

"look who thinks he's Clever Dan"

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 4h

Do y'all remember saying "shibby" for a hot minute in like 1999? Was that a thing? I think that was a thing.

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 5h

He's a sweetie though.

A black and white tuxedo cat lays in a woman's lap, gazing adoringly up at her. She is petting his neck.

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 5h

Me, laying in bed for an hour and a half after I wake up:
Tybalt, elsewhere:
Me, finally sitting up to get out of bed:
Tybalt: Here comes Mommy's special boy! I have arrived for cuddles! It is snuggle hour with Mommy!

🫠

Every day.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 15h

We’re finding fault, when you kissed her
Or you slept with him or you didn’t care
Now it all breaks, disintegrates
Well this is the last thing I’ll take
'Cause I can’t face you now
#NowPlaying

Fight Song

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 15h

If you asked me if I wanted to be 23 again I would say absolutely not but if you asked if I wanted to have that same body I would not hesitate to say yes

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Jimmy Two Heads 👻🎃💀 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 22h

It’s funny when someone has a weird term for grandparents and expects you to know what the hell they’re talking about. “You going to see your nee-naw and your glee-bo over the holidays” are you gonna make some god damned sense before thanksgiving

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 22h

weird, I know tons and tons of cishet white guys who are NOT abominable bigots?

/r/AskFeminists: Petty WAP @todayonaf.bsky.social · 22h

"All I have is anger. For the crime of being born a cis, straight, white male, I have no choice but to become an abominable bigot. This was not my choice. This was the role I was given. I am only living up to the expectations placed before me."

okay dude.

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 1d

tearing all the skin off your lips tonite queen? 👀

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blown a wish @mkw16.bsky.social · 1d

My Mood Daily

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 1d

There is a very plausible theory that it was being exposed to lead as children that led to the peak serial killer era of the '70s-'80s.

I can't help but think about which kind of podcasts & influencers have made a career of peddling protein powder & supplements to men, & which kind of men listen.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 1d

so maybe you're a little stoned and you have your headphones on and you start drifting off and the next thing you hear is someone screaming THIS PLANE IS DEFINITELY CRASHING in your ears. that will wake you up music.apple.com/us/album/shi...

Shit Luck by Modest Mouse on Apple Music

Song · 1997 · Duration 2:22

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 1d

But we're supposed to see the video-game-boss-level kitted out federal mooks and not get scared. Because fear makes you guilty.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 1d

Been there. Ugh.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 1d

"That’s the part of this video that remains so provocative. Not the suggestion of nudity, or even that there’s sex happening offscreen: the fact that it was designed for women."

Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · Aug 14

www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip...

Why D’Angelo’s ‘Untitled’ Video Is Still Uniquely Provocative, Nearly Two Decades Later

The video for Dâ€™Angeloâ€™s â€œUntitled (How Does It Feel)â€ is famously simple: a man, nude as far as the edge of the frame sitting low on his hips, singing so passionately it seems like his inspir...

www.billboard.com

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