Ronja Rovardottir
@ronjarovarsdottir.bsky.social
Midwestern public librarian|art-maker|person. Socialist tendencies but it would be nice if my dryer gave me back all my socks. She/her. Odyssey|Codex.
#freepalestine #landback
#freepalestine #landback
Pinned
do the cookies have chocolate chips? Accept.
do the cookies have raisins? hmm *accept* yum
are the cookies online? REJECT ALL
do the cookies have raisins? hmm *accept* yum
are the cookies online? REJECT ALL
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
Extreme heat doesn’t just feel exhausting — it ages your body.
A new study shows repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking.
Climate change is literally speeding up our biological clock.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A new study shows repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking.
Climate change is literally speeding up our biological clock.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking
Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing.
www.nature.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Extreme heat doesn’t just feel exhausting — it ages your body.
A new study shows repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking.
Climate change is literally speeding up our biological clock.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A new study shows repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking.
Climate change is literally speeding up our biological clock.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
To deal with stagflation, Trump could enforce antitrust laws, reform healthcare, or swear off tariffs. Since he won’t do any of those, inflation and unemployment will continue to worsen. From Robert Kuttner: trib.al/X26JpDe
Trump’s Self-Imposed Economic Trap - The American Prospect
Even if he gains control of the Fed, monetary policy can only do so much—and Trump rejects other policies that could cut the high cost of living and improve growth.
trib.al
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
To deal with stagflation, Trump could enforce antitrust laws, reform healthcare, or swear off tariffs. Since he won’t do any of those, inflation and unemployment will continue to worsen. From Robert Kuttner: trib.al/X26JpDe
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
Sunset vista in Horizon Zero Dawn. Panoramic -open to view. #virtualphotography #vpredfriday #hzd #gaming #pcgame #sunset #red
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Sunset vista in Horizon Zero Dawn. Panoramic -open to view. #virtualphotography #vpredfriday #hzd #gaming #pcgame #sunset #red
Libraries. The last free places to foster community, where you don't have to buy a membership or a latte to come in and stay awhile. They can be practical or magical according to your needs. A place to find info and people (or not!), to enjoy serendipity and the pleasure of discovery.
"Implicit in the bargain was permission to do with that time whatever the kid saw fit. No educational goal had to be attained. Nothing had to be learned... The exchange itself carried value for having happened. It taught that kid a lesson in the nature of generosity."
On the Infinite Lives of the Library
One might say that a library’s most abundant resource—what it lends most freely—is not books and information but time. Time to think, breathe, be, and become. Last spring, in exchange for my servic…
lithub.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Libraries. The last free places to foster community, where you don't have to buy a membership or a latte to come in and stay awhile. They can be practical or magical according to your needs. A place to find info and people (or not!), to enjoy serendipity and the pleasure of discovery.
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
"Why not just close prisons and reduce the population, instead of building resilient buildings where people continue to suffer? ... [D]ecarceration must be a centerpiece of addressing prisons' climate vulnerability."
Incarcerated Californians are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis — and the state’s water restrictions.
buff.ly/p3MNKmQ
buff.ly/p3MNKmQ
As California Limits Water Use, People in Prison Face Punishment for Showering
Incarcerated Californians are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis — and the state’s water restrictions.
truthout.org
December 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"Why not just close prisons and reduce the population, instead of building resilient buildings where people continue to suffer? ... [D]ecarceration must be a centerpiece of addressing prisons' climate vulnerability."
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
Honestly it’s real useful to understand that centrists are eager to meet fascists in the middle but not anybody else lol
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Honestly it’s real useful to understand that centrists are eager to meet fascists in the middle but not anybody else lol
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
Should we all get healthcare? “Ah, no, unrealistic.” Should we end constitutionally protected birthright citizenship? “Let’s discuss the merits.” Centrism!
December 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Should we all get healthcare? “Ah, no, unrealistic.” Should we end constitutionally protected birthright citizenship? “Let’s discuss the merits.” Centrism!
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
St Louis is a good training ground to show how any self driving car will experience STL driving, then park itself in the darkest, dankest floor of a downtown garage, turn off its GPS and hope no one finds it before they make it go to a truly insane spot like Boston or (oh god) Miami.
December 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
St Louis is a good training ground to show how any self driving car will experience STL driving, then park itself in the darkest, dankest floor of a downtown garage, turn off its GPS and hope no one finds it before they make it go to a truly insane spot like Boston or (oh god) Miami.
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
I never saw a purple cow
I never hope to see one
But I can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see than be one
I never hope to see one
But I can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see than be one
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I never saw a purple cow
I never hope to see one
But I can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see than be one
I never hope to see one
But I can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see than be one
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
would not take the garbage out.
She'd candy the yams and spice the hams
but though her daddy would scream and shout,
she simply *would not* take the garbage out.
And so it piled up to the ceiling,
coffee grounds, potato peelings--
would not take the garbage out.
She'd candy the yams and spice the hams
but though her daddy would scream and shout,
she simply *would not* take the garbage out.
And so it piled up to the ceiling,
coffee grounds, potato peelings--
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
would not take the garbage out.
She'd candy the yams and spice the hams
but though her daddy would scream and shout,
she simply *would not* take the garbage out.
And so it piled up to the ceiling,
coffee grounds, potato peelings--
would not take the garbage out.
She'd candy the yams and spice the hams
but though her daddy would scream and shout,
she simply *would not* take the garbage out.
And so it piled up to the ceiling,
coffee grounds, potato peelings--
Delete account: joindeleteme.com/delete-your-...
December 2, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Delete account: joindeleteme.com/delete-your-...
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
FYI as you head into the holiday season:
Shopify is a Canadian company, but its CEO Tobi Lütke is Maple MAGA in both words & monetary support (under the guise of “free speech” & “open commerce”).
Shopify is a Canadian company, but its CEO Tobi Lütke is Maple MAGA in both words & monetary support (under the guise of “free speech” & “open commerce”).
Really beginning to hate Shopify, they are doing a lot to make shopping shittier lately
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
FYI as you head into the holiday season:
Shopify is a Canadian company, but its CEO Tobi Lütke is Maple MAGA in both words & monetary support (under the guise of “free speech” & “open commerce”).
Shopify is a Canadian company, but its CEO Tobi Lütke is Maple MAGA in both words & monetary support (under the guise of “free speech” & “open commerce”).
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
Before AI came along with their rot (and at least *I* have never used/installed chatGPT, midjourney or any of those programmes) there was digital art, vector art, clipart, & any number of photo manipulation tools. Some of the elements in apps use these things. Not everything digital is AI.
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Before AI came along with their rot (and at least *I* have never used/installed chatGPT, midjourney or any of those programmes) there was digital art, vector art, clipart, & any number of photo manipulation tools. Some of the elements in apps use these things. Not everything digital is AI.
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
My short story “Moult” which is written in both English and Malay is now reprinted in @innerworlds.bsky.social in very good company!
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul...
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul...
Moult by Anita Harris Satkunananthan
I shed my skin every seven years. I never realise it till long after the act of shedding has taken place.
inner-worlds.ghost.io
November 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
My short story “Moult” which is written in both English and Malay is now reprinted in @innerworlds.bsky.social in very good company!
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul...
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul...
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
The NYT giving people involved in all of this anonymity to protect themselves from accountability and so they can try to get others out of war crimes, murder charges, or both is a choice.
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The NYT giving people involved in all of this anonymity to protect themselves from accountability and so they can try to get others out of war crimes, murder charges, or both is a choice.
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe.
“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe.
“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
Target:
We will comply in advance like cowards, please keep shopping here while we jack up the prices and let quality slip into the trash
Costco:
We kept the price of staple goods stable to protect our customers. We’re suing to get the tariffs removed from everyone.
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
We will comply in advance like cowards, please keep shopping here while we jack up the prices and let quality slip into the trash
Costco:
We kept the price of staple goods stable to protect our customers. We’re suing to get the tariffs removed from everyone.
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
The wholesaler is the latest company to sue a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Target:
We will comply in advance like cowards, please keep shopping here while we jack up the prices and let quality slip into the trash
Costco:
We kept the price of staple goods stable to protect our customers. We’re suing to get the tariffs removed from everyone.
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
We will comply in advance like cowards, please keep shopping here while we jack up the prices and let quality slip into the trash
Costco:
We kept the price of staple goods stable to protect our customers. We’re suing to get the tariffs removed from everyone.
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
Hey y'all! I wrote a story with help from my late grandmother's diaries, "Entries From My Grandmother's Diary Pertaining To My Father's Early Inflammation," and you can read it (and several other excellent stories) in this issue of Small Wonders!
Go get yourself some good reading!
Go get yourself some good reading!
Issue 30 (ISSUE 30!!!), with cover art by Amanda Yskamp, comes out tomorrow! It's not too late to subscribe and get all of our stories and poems as an ebook and in your inbox as they show up on our website. smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...
December 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Hey y'all! I wrote a story with help from my late grandmother's diaries, "Entries From My Grandmother's Diary Pertaining To My Father's Early Inflammation," and you can read it (and several other excellent stories) in this issue of Small Wonders!
Go get yourself some good reading!
Go get yourself some good reading!
yes please hit him with everything. all the shit he's doing isn't legal (or good!), etc etc so call him out on it.
Breaking: Costco is suing Donald Trump for his tariffs, declaring them illegal and demanding a “full refund” for raising prices nationwide.
December 2, 2025 at 5:14 AM
yes please hit him with everything. all the shit he's doing isn't legal (or good!), etc etc so call him out on it.
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
I don't disagree with John but there's another layer too which is people like him should never get near power and yet they get near it often.
There's something wrong with the system that allows people like Miller to do anything more significant than bookkeeping.
There's something wrong with the system that allows people like Miller to do anything more significant than bookkeeping.
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I don't disagree with John but there's another layer too which is people like him should never get near power and yet they get near it often.
There's something wrong with the system that allows people like Miller to do anything more significant than bookkeeping.
There's something wrong with the system that allows people like Miller to do anything more significant than bookkeeping.
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
From Vermont to California, local governments are contracting with the same private prisons doing deportations for Trump. Activists are pressuring local officials to cancel their contracts with brutal prison contractors. From @matthewcook5.bsky.social: trib.al/9pOIVHn
State and Local Contracts Prop Up For-Profit Prisons - The American Prospect
CoreCivic and GEO Group profit from Trump’s immigration policies while also receiving lucrative contracts from state and local governments, including areas controlled by Democrats.
trib.al
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
From Vermont to California, local governments are contracting with the same private prisons doing deportations for Trump. Activists are pressuring local officials to cancel their contracts with brutal prison contractors. From @matthewcook5.bsky.social: trib.al/9pOIVHn
Reposted by Ronja Rovardottir
If you want to give/get signed books by me for the holidays, you can place an online order with Hyperbole Bookstore (a family-owned indie) in College Station, TX hyperbolebookstore.com and ask for signature via their email contact for the Murderbot books, Witch King, Queen Demon, anything in print.
Hyperbole Bookstore
A family-owned independent bookstore in College Station, TX
hyperbolebookstore.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If you want to give/get signed books by me for the holidays, you can place an online order with Hyperbole Bookstore (a family-owned indie) in College Station, TX hyperbolebookstore.com and ask for signature via their email contact for the Murderbot books, Witch King, Queen Demon, anything in print.