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essie ruth

@essieruth.bsky.social

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Artwright 🎨 Wordstress 📝 Craftician 🪡 She/ her Lesbitannical menace. Married to my bestest girl. Proudest of mamas to the most glorious enby teen. essieruth.com

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Lee Knox Ostertag @mollyostertag.bsky.social · May 30

kind of obsessed with 2025 pride merch...I'm calling it cowardcore.

abercrombie and fitch 'pride mid rise jorts' which are literally just jorts with a rainbow tag inside the pant.

abercrombie & fitch 'pride long sleeved striped button up shirt' that is...a green and white striped shirt. hello am I going crazy.

beige terrycloth shorts from target. nothing about them indicates pride except that they are listed as such on the website.

levi's 'pride icon' skirt which is literally just a short dark denim skirt. nothing to indicate 'pride' except that there is one image of a male model wearing it which technically you could do with any item of clothing but go off I guess

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muck witch @bogbody.kindboys.online · May 30

Target FORGOT TO WRITE COPY for their pride line this year i’m obsessed with how much big box stores dgaf and have stopped pretending to

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essie ruth @essieruth.bsky.social · May 30

MSF are doing the work in Gaza. Support them by signing the petition and or donating if you can
msf-au.raiselysite.com/donate/audl2...

Protect the people of Gaza | Médecins Sans Frontières Australia

Make a donation today

msf-au.raiselysite.com

essie ruth @essieruth.bsky.social · May 24

Look what my wife made! You’re so clever @essjayess.bsky.social

A wooden stool and cutting board displayed on a bench in a woodworking workshop.

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Pumpkinspiced 🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · Feb 18

become ungovernable

a pigeon sits on a nest made in a drinking fountain

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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · May 23

When Charles II became king they dug up Oliver Cromwell’s body just so they could cut his head off. Cunty

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essie ruth @essieruth.bsky.social · May 23

Thank you for the reminder @artfuldolebludger.bsky.social

A paste-up with the slogan: “you’re never too old to punch naz!s”. It has an illustration of an elderly person serving a skinhead with an uppercut that’s lifted them bodily from the ground.

essie ruth @essieruth.bsky.social · May 22

The vine says it’s autumn 🍁🍂

A vine whose leaves are wet with rain, and are a range of colours from green, through yellow, into a lovely coral red. You get the sense that they will go redder and more yellow over time.

essie ruth @essieruth.bsky.social · May 16

On the off chance that anyone who sees this is both on #musicleague and as into folk music as I am… app.musicleague.com/l/f10a75bf06...

Music League | Login

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · May 13

Victorian Socialists are expanding Australia-wide! Join today at socialists.org.au
youtu.be/r4oEuSC4CpE

Victorian Socialists are expanding Australia-wide

YouTube video by PurplepingersTV

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Jacquis Neal @jacquisneal.bsky.social · May 12

Damn this a word

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Monroe, like Marilyn @mxmonroe.bsky.social · May 11

May every mother be willing and every child be wanted; happy mother's day!

Artist: @liberaljane.bsky.social

#HappyMothersDay

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essie ruth @essieruth.bsky.social · May 12

Once is a bit, twice is a shtick

A gif of Brennan Lee Mulligan as Greg Excitement, stuffing handfuls of candy down his pink Lycra pants

essie ruth @essieruth.bsky.social · May 12

Vic could steal anyone’s spouse and the only reasonable response would be to accept it and wish them all the best.
#dropout

A meme showing Vic Michaelis in screenshots of varying degrees of on-screen intimacy with the spouses of various dropout cast members, and the caption “hands up if Vic has ever stolen your wife”.

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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · May 9

American Pope sounds wrong for real life but perfect for a limited comedy miniseries

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essie ruth @essieruth.bsky.social · May 10

It’s kind of great to meet someone you admire and find them to be as excellent as you’d hoped they’d be
#mwf #levgrossman

The title page of Lev Grossman’s “The Bright Sword”, signed by the author, with a little sword hand drawn beneath the autograph.

essie ruth @essieruth.bsky.social · May 7

I have a couple of high school level text books, a Latin dictionary, and I’m doing exercises and translations at my own pace. I get a lot more out of that than the app.

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essie ruth @essieruth.bsky.social · May 7

I’ll just say upfront that I’m not interested in debating the ethics of AI in this format, so if that’s where you’d like this conversation to go I won’t be taking it there. But for language learning, I was using Duolingo as a supplement to learning Latin from text books.

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essie ruth @essieruth.bsky.social · May 7

Canceling our family’s #duolingo membership. It wasn’t that great a learning experience anyway, and it’s only going to get worse now that it’s going fully #ai .
Glad to see we’re joined by our favourite @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social and many others

A comment from Brennan Lee Mulligan (funny human, genius DM, and modern nerd’s breakfast crumpet) on the Duolingo Instagram account that reads: “Hey @duolingo just wanted you to know I threw out a 1200 day streak, unsubscribed to Duolingo plus and deleted the app based on
your CEO's decision to fire your contractors and become an Al first company. Will happily be looking for a "Humans First" replacement.
¿Quizás tu CEO debería reconsiderar su estupida idea?”

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essie ruth @essieruth.bsky.social · May 7

“Unholy shriek”
#poetry #foundpoetry

A poem constructed (by me) from words carefully cut from old books. It’s words create a curving shape down the page and read:
“When
everry good
thing

seems
to
be
disintegrating

and even
hope
seems
obsolete

it is our
solemn duty

to give an
unholy shriek
in the face
of despair

and
carry on
working
for each
other”

Each word is in slightly different font, on papers that have aged to various shades of ivory, beige, and brown. The cream surface they’ve been adhered to has the texture of hot pressed watercolour paper.

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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · May 5

Some really solid results for VS in this election, with big swings to us in the lower house seats we ran in, and a more than tripling of our vote in the Senate (on current numbers). And we've got big plans for what comes next. Join VS now and be part of it! (link below)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · May 4

The Trump family's crypto business just got a huge $2 billion investment from a UAE government-backed firm.

We are witnessing a foreign government effectively bribe the President of the United States — right out in the open.

Hello?

Trump Crypto Corruption Intensifies as Abu Dhabi Firm Invests $2 Billion

President Donald Trump and his family are deeply involved in the world of cryptocurrency as his administration seeks to

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · May 5

No matter how bad you imagine smallpox was, it was worse than that.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · May 3

Ben Franklin on inoculation, after his son died from smallpox.

“In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · May 5

Felt disgusted by Facebook's alleged actions, might delete later

Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads

A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.

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