Ruby S.
@rubyji.bsky.social
❤️🩹Hope is a discipline.
💀Capitalism is a death cult.
🍉Solidarity is the antidote to fascism.
Awakening 🙈🤩
Living 🐈🪴🌌
Loving ♾️🏳️🌈
Raising a teen 🎮🏹
Durham 🐂🚬 NC, USA
https://lotusmedia.org
💀Capitalism is a death cult.
🍉Solidarity is the antidote to fascism.
Awakening 🙈🤩
Living 🐈🪴🌌
Loving ♾️🏳️🌈
Raising a teen 🎮🏹
Durham 🐂🚬 NC, USA
https://lotusmedia.org
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"Not everyone is rising to the occasion because the times you live in do not immediately shape who you are and what you do... you rise to the level of your training and practice, not to the level of your imagined self." @prisonculture.bsky.social
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We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
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"We need to be encouraged to take some big swings... and that means we will make mistakes. The current construct seeks to limit our imaginations. Who will remind us to shoot for a place beyond the moon? The status quo is unrealistic and impractical."
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I cant believe we all witnessed the richest man in the world buy a president and then dismantle our government and social safety net -- and we haven't learned the lesson that these freaks need to be taxed more.
November 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I cant believe we all witnessed the richest man in the world buy a president and then dismantle our government and social safety net -- and we haven't learned the lesson that these freaks need to be taxed more.
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👇🎯 Today in “Marginal income & wealth taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic”
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
👇🎯 Today in “Marginal income & wealth taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic”
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it’s fun watching people see what trans folks have been warning of for years. the media has no capacity to inform about the politicization of health care
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
it’s fun watching people see what trans folks have been warning of for years. the media has no capacity to inform about the politicization of health care
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I just saw a headline describing the incredible work yesterday of preventing dozens of ICE from doing a mass raid on Canal st as "police arrest and pepper spray dozens of people outside garage". That IS NOT the story!!!
November 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I just saw a headline describing the incredible work yesterday of preventing dozens of ICE from doing a mass raid on Canal st as "police arrest and pepper spray dozens of people outside garage". That IS NOT the story!!!
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Everything about the bombings of boats in the Caribbean Sea has been illegal under both US and international law
Everything
Everything
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Everything about the bombings of boats in the Caribbean Sea has been illegal under both US and international law
Everything
Everything
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So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.
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Think about how the PR people trying to rehab sex pests like Louis CK are the same ones suggested by Epstein to his friends in his many, many emails right up til his death in 2019 for rehabbing *their* images.
November 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Think about how the PR people trying to rehab sex pests like Louis CK are the same ones suggested by Epstein to his friends in his many, many emails right up til his death in 2019 for rehabbing *their* images.
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AI is good for … democracy?
@alexhanna.bsky.social and I think not. But of course the hypemongers would try this angle too giving us great fodder for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream:
Monday, December 1, noon Pacific
twitch.tv/dair_institute
@alexhanna.bsky.social and I think not. But of course the hypemongers would try this angle too giving us great fodder for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream:
Monday, December 1, noon Pacific
twitch.tv/dair_institute
Twitch
Twitch is the world
twitch.tv
November 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
AI is good for … democracy?
@alexhanna.bsky.social and I think not. But of course the hypemongers would try this angle too giving us great fodder for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream:
Monday, December 1, noon Pacific
twitch.tv/dair_institute
@alexhanna.bsky.social and I think not. But of course the hypemongers would try this angle too giving us great fodder for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream:
Monday, December 1, noon Pacific
twitch.tv/dair_institute
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Check out this protest for better care and research $ for ppl affected by post acute infectious syndromes like ME, long COVID, Lyme and other illnesses harming millions globally (& more undocumented cases). You know people suffering. You could be one next.
Speak out now. #PAISprotest
Speak out now. #PAISprotest
Some photos from the #PAISProtest now happening at the Malieveld in The Hague.
Looks like a nice crowd has gathered.
Looks like a nice crowd has gathered.
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Check out this protest for better care and research $ for ppl affected by post acute infectious syndromes like ME, long COVID, Lyme and other illnesses harming millions globally (& more undocumented cases). You know people suffering. You could be one next.
Speak out now. #PAISprotest
Speak out now. #PAISprotest
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We are already a nation that can’t rely on our eyes and ears. The documentary “Outfoxed” came out in 2004, proving that America was being fed propaganda as news, and nothing was done. Fast forward to today, and we have an alternate reality being fed to folks as “news”.
November 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
We are already a nation that can’t rely on our eyes and ears. The documentary “Outfoxed” came out in 2004, proving that America was being fed propaganda as news, and nothing was done. Fast forward to today, and we have an alternate reality being fed to folks as “news”.
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not to be outdone by UPK's 40% off sale (including my collection, The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife) WSUPress also has a 45% off sale for their titles, including my collection, The Second Stop Is Jupiter -
wsupress.wayne.edu
use discount code RHOLIDAY at checkout. 🥰
wsupress.wayne.edu
use discount code RHOLIDAY at checkout. 🥰
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
not to be outdone by UPK's 40% off sale (including my collection, The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife) WSUPress also has a 45% off sale for their titles, including my collection, The Second Stop Is Jupiter -
wsupress.wayne.edu
use discount code RHOLIDAY at checkout. 🥰
wsupress.wayne.edu
use discount code RHOLIDAY at checkout. 🥰
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Reporting like this makes people unreasonably afraid when crime is down, promotes the fraud that more prosecution would make them safer, and more basically, eats away at basic notions of truth and integrity on which a more beautiful world would need to be based.
November 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Reporting like this makes people unreasonably afraid when crime is down, promotes the fraud that more prosecution would make them safer, and more basically, eats away at basic notions of truth and integrity on which a more beautiful world would need to be based.
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To be a centrist in this current environment means you’re only kinda-sorta-a-fascist.
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
To be a centrist in this current environment means you’re only kinda-sorta-a-fascist.
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When I see something simple like a basic tool or website I liked suddenly integrate AI I immediately dislike the product
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 AM
When I see something simple like a basic tool or website I liked suddenly integrate AI I immediately dislike the product
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Ahhhh it’s not as if people haven’t been yelling this at journalists for the last seven years
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Ahhhh it’s not as if people haven’t been yelling this at journalists for the last seven years
In addition to brain rot and AI, brain fog from Long COVID is surely a factor as well. Especially for this generation who were students in schools that let COVID run wild with no testing, no clean air policies, and of course no masking.
This is not a "students today" post--it's more "this is a new form of dysfunction" that doesn't look exactly like it's been in previous decades. It's more than just "first-year chaos." It's an across-the-board inability to process instructions, engage with longer texts, and *connect* with others.
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In addition to brain rot and AI, brain fog from Long COVID is surely a factor as well. Especially for this generation who were students in schools that let COVID run wild with no testing, no clean air policies, and of course no masking.
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See.
This capitulation will do untold amounts of harm — by design.
This capitulation will do untold amounts of harm — by design.
*adds Northwestern to growing list of US universities whose research published in 2025 and after is now questionable*
November 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
See.
This capitulation will do untold amounts of harm — by design.
This capitulation will do untold amounts of harm — by design.
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
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can’t wait for my phone in a couple of months to create one of those photo slideshows no one asks for featuring “Fall in Chicago 2025” and it’s just a series of masked goons and constitutional violations.
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
can’t wait for my phone in a couple of months to create one of those photo slideshows no one asks for featuring “Fall in Chicago 2025” and it’s just a series of masked goons and constitutional violations.
This is me all the time, but especially at work. Everything that isn't stopping genocide and restoring democracy feels kind of pointless (even though it actually isn't).
The worst part is the constant gaslighting. My fears of what would happen have come true over and over and over again. And yet I am still told I am alarmist and overreacting. How anyone can just work and do laundry and buy groceries and not be thinking about what is happening ALL THE TIME?
November 29, 2025 at 4:37 AM
This is me all the time, but especially at work. Everything that isn't stopping genocide and restoring democracy feels kind of pointless (even though it actually isn't).
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The government will continue the extra-judicial killings until law and order are restored.
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The government will continue the extra-judicial killings until law and order are restored.
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Underrated part of the Internet's development into one of the vectors for distributing news and thought about the news is that US & Western Europe's totally unique indifference to the colonial aspects of the Palestinian issue are now constantly put up against the unanimity of the rest of the world.
Basically she misconstrued what Third Worldism is and what Mamdani's anti-Zionism in practice means and insisted that Mamdani's worldview is first and foremost centered on Israel being the vanguard of European colonialism. It is true he thinks Zionism is colonialism but she doesn't understand him.
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Underrated part of the Internet's development into one of the vectors for distributing news and thought about the news is that US & Western Europe's totally unique indifference to the colonial aspects of the Palestinian issue are now constantly put up against the unanimity of the rest of the world.
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this really quieted down because of biden but he should be viewed, at best, as interregnum to a much more serious constitutional crisis that can only be resolved with a revolutionary (in the evolutionary sense) step forward in our legal order
November 29, 2025 at 3:12 AM
this really quieted down because of biden but he should be viewed, at best, as interregnum to a much more serious constitutional crisis that can only be resolved with a revolutionary (in the evolutionary sense) step forward in our legal order
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At some point you just gotta trust the other person will do the right thing. Or at least the sensible thing or the thing agreed upon.
Eroding trust is eroding the foundations of society.
A society without a stable foundation is easier to prey on by those looking only after their own gain.
Eroding trust is eroding the foundations of society.
A society without a stable foundation is easier to prey on by those looking only after their own gain.
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
At some point you just gotta trust the other person will do the right thing. Or at least the sensible thing or the thing agreed upon.
Eroding trust is eroding the foundations of society.
A society without a stable foundation is easier to prey on by those looking only after their own gain.
Eroding trust is eroding the foundations of society.
A society without a stable foundation is easier to prey on by those looking only after their own gain.