Ruth Adar
@rruth.bsky.social
Rabbi, Granny, Teacher, Queer. Proud Californian still rocking my Tennessee accent in English and Hebrew.
Lots of poodle and sunset photos. Make room for laughter and wonder, if we are to survive!
Lots of poodle and sunset photos. Make room for laughter and wonder, if we are to survive!
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Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
Does anyone think that Putin will stop at the conquest of Ukraine?
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Estonia says 3 Russian fighter aircraft entered its airspace - The Mercury News
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December 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Does anyone think that Putin will stop at the conquest of Ukraine?
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LAMBCHOP 5 YR OLD 11LB WHITE POODLE. VERY NEGLECTED. IN DIRE NEED OF RESCUE FROM HIGH KILL SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER IN LONG ISLAND NY CODE RED
📞Phone: (631) 728-7387
✉️Email Adoption/Foster: [email protected]
📞Phone: (631) 728-7387
✉️Email Adoption/Foster: [email protected]
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
LAMBCHOP 5 YR OLD 11LB WHITE POODLE. VERY NEGLECTED. IN DIRE NEED OF RESCUE FROM HIGH KILL SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER IN LONG ISLAND NY CODE RED
📞Phone: (631) 728-7387
✉️Email Adoption/Foster: [email protected]
📞Phone: (631) 728-7387
✉️Email Adoption/Foster: [email protected]
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"The hepatitis B vaccine — and the current recommendation to give it at birth — is likely why. I cannot recall caring for a patient with liver cancer caused by this virus...
"Yet the Trump administration is set to make this ... unavailable for the youngest, most vulnerable group of Americans."
"Yet the Trump administration is set to make this ... unavailable for the youngest, most vulnerable group of Americans."
A story about Hepatitis B. Why open the door to a horrible disease?
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Opinion | The Virus That Took My Father Could Become a Greater Threat
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December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"The hepatitis B vaccine — and the current recommendation to give it at birth — is likely why. I cannot recall caring for a patient with liver cancer caused by this virus...
"Yet the Trump administration is set to make this ... unavailable for the youngest, most vulnerable group of Americans."
"Yet the Trump administration is set to make this ... unavailable for the youngest, most vulnerable group of Americans."
A story about Hepatitis B. Why open the door to a horrible disease?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Opinion | The Virus That Took My Father Could Become a Greater Threat
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A story about Hepatitis B. Why open the door to a horrible disease?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Satellite captures the first detailed look at a giant tsunami: www.earth.com/news/satelli...
Satellite captures the first detailed look at a giant tsunami
A rare SWOT pass mapped a Pacific tsunami in detail, exposing hidden wave complexity and showing why forecasting models need a major update.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Satellite captures the first detailed look at a giant tsunami: www.earth.com/news/satelli...
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Multiple disabilities. Was hard enough for me to accept but then to deal with judgement from others was awful.
Disability isn’t a bad word.
There’s nothing wrong with being disabled.
There’s nothing wrong with identifying as disabled.
Ableism teaches us that we have to hide our disabilities.
Self acceptance means we stop hiding.
We won’t go gently for the comfort of others.
There’s nothing wrong with being disabled.
There’s nothing wrong with identifying as disabled.
Ableism teaches us that we have to hide our disabilities.
Self acceptance means we stop hiding.
We won’t go gently for the comfort of others.
December 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Multiple disabilities. Was hard enough for me to accept but then to deal with judgement from others was awful.
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"Don't be a sucker", a film made in 1943 by the US Department of War, showing how fascists weaponize prejudice to divide and take over nations. 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
"Don't be a sucker", a film made in 1943 by the US Department of War, showing how fascists weaponize prejudice to divide and take over nations. 🔥
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”
— Nelson Mandela
— Nelson Mandela
November 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”
— Nelson Mandela
— Nelson Mandela
A thoughtful piece about the roles we all play in perpetuating the misery.
It’s much easier to turn populist rage against an identifiable enemy — especially as the cost of living continues to go up and up, and quality of life decreases — than it is to build a better society.
Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A thoughtful piece about the roles we all play in perpetuating the misery.
November 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Good people doing good things for each other and the country.
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Transforming the coalfields of West Virginia and expanding economic opportunity
Transforming the coalfields of West Virginia, Stand Together is expanding economic opportunity. Learn how we're making a difference. Join us today!
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November 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Good people doing good things for each other and the country.
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standtogether.org/stories/the-...
Heartbreaking. I cannot imagine why RFK Jr persists with his murderous obsession.
National public health “leadership” (hi RFK Jr 🙄) keeps poisoning public health with lies.
Vaccines prevent needless childhood deaths.
No baby in America should be dying of whooping cough — not when we have safe, effective vaccines literally ready to go.
This is a national tragedy
Vaccines prevent needless childhood deaths.
No baby in America should be dying of whooping cough — not when we have safe, effective vaccines literally ready to go.
This is a national tragedy
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Heartbreaking. I cannot imagine why RFK Jr persists with his murderous obsession.
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We’re doing the work in impossible conditions—scrambling with too few resources, pivoting constantly, exhausted. And we wonder: does this even count? Can anything meaningful be built on such unstable ground?
But Vayetze tells us: the sacred work happens exactly where you are. shorturl.at/7mYZj
But Vayetze tells us: the sacred work happens exactly where you are. shorturl.at/7mYZj
Jacob’s Ladder is Our Theory of Change.
This week in Vayetze (Genesis 28:10-32:3), Jacob is on the run—leaving home, unsure of what comes next, sleeping with a stone for a pillow.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
We’re doing the work in impossible conditions—scrambling with too few resources, pivoting constantly, exhausted. And we wonder: does this even count? Can anything meaningful be built on such unstable ground?
But Vayetze tells us: the sacred work happens exactly where you are. shorturl.at/7mYZj
But Vayetze tells us: the sacred work happens exactly where you are. shorturl.at/7mYZj
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Bobcat
Skunk
White-tailed deer
Tule elk
Gray fox
Bobcat
Skunk
White-tailed deer
Tule elk
Gray fox
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Bobcat
Skunk
White-tailed deer
Tule elk
Gray fox
Bobcat
Skunk
White-tailed deer
Tule elk
Gray fox
Shabbat shalom from San Leandro, CA.
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Shabbat shalom from San Leandro, CA.
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“There are no clean demarcations between feminism and its backlash and the backlash to the backlash, between progress and regress. It was always fanciful to conceive of progressive victories as permanent, just as it was a shortsighted fantasy that edgelord heterodoxy would remain cool.”
Me Too Forever
Why the backlash was so short-lived.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“There are no clean demarcations between feminism and its backlash and the backlash to the backlash, between progress and regress. It was always fanciful to conceive of progressive victories as permanent, just as it was a shortsighted fantasy that edgelord heterodoxy would remain cool.”
The civil rights of LGBTQ+ youth in the foster care system are under attack.
For Trump, “Fostering the Future” Looks a Lot Like the Past
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For Trump, “Fostering the Future” Looks a Lot Like the Past
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For Trump, “Fostering the Future” Looks a Lot Like the Past
By putting the religious rights of potential foster parents above the civil rights of L.G.B.T.Q. youth, a new executive order reënacts the original sin of the child-welfare system.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
The civil rights of LGBTQ+ youth in the foster care system are under attack.
For Trump, “Fostering the Future” Looks a Lot Like the Past
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
For Trump, “Fostering the Future” Looks a Lot Like the Past
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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What an incredible resource
Workers Circle Unveils Fully Digitized Archive of the Call, a Landmark of American Jewish History — The Workers Circle
The Workers Circle today announced the unveiling of a fully digitized and publicly accessible archive of the Call , its historic English-language newsletter published from 1929 through the twentieth ...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
What an incredible resource
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The prophetic tradition I come from has always insisted that the measure of a nation is how it treats the vulnerable, not how fiercely its people defend its borders.
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The prophetic tradition I come from has always insisted that the measure of a nation is how it treats the vulnerable, not how fiercely its people defend its borders.
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Come and learn
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Come and learn
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This friend is in search of a forever home: Bear, located in Hillsborough ,NC.
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bear-79378745/nc/hillsborough/crisisdogsnc-nc1004/
#CrisisDogsNC #RescueDog #WakeCounty #RaleighNC #DurhamNC #CharlotteNC #AshevilleNC
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bear-79378745/nc/hillsborough/crisisdogsnc-nc1004/
#CrisisDogsNC #RescueDog #WakeCounty #RaleighNC #DurhamNC #CharlotteNC #AshevilleNC
November 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This friend is in search of a forever home: Bear, located in Hillsborough ,NC.
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bear-79378745/nc/hillsborough/crisisdogsnc-nc1004/
#CrisisDogsNC #RescueDog #WakeCounty #RaleighNC #DurhamNC #CharlotteNC #AshevilleNC
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bear-79378745/nc/hillsborough/crisisdogsnc-nc1004/
#CrisisDogsNC #RescueDog #WakeCounty #RaleighNC #DurhamNC #CharlotteNC #AshevilleNC
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The Snap Judgement podcast, produced in Oakland, CA, recently produced an episode about Agency co-founder Jen Angel and the restorative justice efforts in the wake of her tragic death in 2023.
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Snap Judgement: Jen Angel (Season 16 – Episode 54)
Jen Angel is a beloved cupcake baker whose life was taken in a smash and grab gone wrong. Now a young man accused of the crime has his future hanging in the balance. Cries for justice, retribution and...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The Snap Judgement podcast, produced in Oakland, CA, recently produced an episode about Agency co-founder Jen Angel and the restorative justice efforts in the wake of her tragic death in 2023.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM