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Stephanie Ruble

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I draw and paint animals, mostly cats. I also sell art and stickers. Shop & Site: http://sruble.com Also: @srublenews.bsky.social Pronouns: She / Her

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Stephanie Ruble @stephanieruble.bsky.social · 9d

Hello #PortfolioDay!
I'm a children's book & puzzle artist.
Below are a few images that I think would make fun puzzles.

* Looking for #puzzle and #kidlitart projects
* sruble.com + new site coming soon: ArtworkByStephanie.com
* email: hello at sruble.com

#kidlit #halloween #cats #birds #pumpkins

a group of colorful birds wearing witch hats are driving and riding on two pumpkin cars, with a post in front of them with multiple signs, top to bottom: "This Way To:" (arrow shaped), picture of a ghost and pumpkin, "Halloween" and "Spooky Town" with an arrow pointing to the right. blue swirling sky with big yellow sun and clouds.

big, tall, and small grey birds right side up, upside down, and all over in a pattern with pumpkins, clouds, stars, and one cat in the middle.

big black cat sitting on giant pumpkin with lots of stripes, surrounded by black birds, with clouds and sun in sky. The birds have orange wings and the cat has an orange heart nose. they all have green eyes..

grey cat sitting in garden, looking up at the big sun in upper left. flowers and bugs are in the garden. Text is hand written in the sun, "PEACE", sky, "JOY" (with a heart in the O). and grass, "LOVE" (the O is a heart). blue clouds and hearts in sky

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21h

Harriet Powers (1839 -1910), African-American former enslaved woman, folk artist, quilt maker from Georgia who used traditional appliqué techniques to record local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events on her quilts #WomensArt #BlackHistoryMonth

Quilt with stylised simple figures and significant symbols

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Stephanie Ruble @stephanieruble.bsky.social · 19h

Happy birthday! 🎂

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 5d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Stephanie Ruble @stephanieruble.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, this!

Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 20h

🧵I want more electeds to push back hard on the idea that funding the ballroom with "donations" somehow makes it OK.

Funding an addition to the White House with private donations is WORSE than taxpayer funding. We should be MORE angry because of this, not less. 1/3

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Trump Is Wasting No Time in Tearing Down the East Wing

www.nytimes.com

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Molly Crane-Newman @mollycranenewman.bsky.social · 1d

New York AG Tish James has urged members of the public who have witnessed and documented ICE activity to share their videos and photos with her office through an online portal ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

Federal Action Reporting Form

Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start

ag.ny.gov

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Stephanie Ruble @stephanieruble.bsky.social · 1d

So true. There was a big jump from one version to the next. Same thing happening now with the new Photoshop. I don’t like it and don’t want to learn the new AI features, so I went back to PS2024.

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Stephanie Ruble @stephanieruble.bsky.social · 1d

That is exactly how I got on the subscription model in 2023, in the middle of illustrating final art for a picture book. In the twelve years since, I have paid way more money to keep the subscription than I would have to buy the programs I need.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 20d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Stephanie Ruble @stephanieruble.bsky.social · 1d

This.
Artists struggle to survive making art but are supposed to give it to AI companies for free so they can thrive and also destroy the planet with their massive energy usage?
That’s just wrong.
Pay artists.
Give artists credit for their work.
Do not steal art.

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 15d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Stephanie Ruble @stephanieruble.bsky.social · 1d

I do this too! And then almost always miss #kidlitchat and #kidlitartchat 🫠

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Boni Ashburn @boniashburn.bsky.social · 2d

I’m old enough to remember the outrage when Nancy Reagan replaced the White House china.
THIS is insane.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

It looks even worse by video 😢

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Stephanie Ruble @stephanieruble.bsky.social · 2d

Be creative. Then take a break if you need one so you can be creative again.

Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Friendly reminder that creative work drains you in a way that 'normal' work doesn't so it's totally cool and necessary to have (what seems to be) inordinately longer breaks and/or weird ways of refuelling.

This goes extra if you're a neurodivergent sort.

Stephanie Ruble @stephanieruble.bsky.social · 2d

Same question. 😳😬🫠

Stephanie Ruble @stephanieruble.bsky.social · 2d

This is a good question.

Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 2d

Who is saying yes to this? Don't the citizens of Washington get a say whether they now have to host a bunch of nuclear reactors at an incalculable risk to their safety and that do not benefit them at all?

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

Amazon has released the first images of its small modular nuclear reactors planned for Washington state.

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 2d

🥳🥢📚The first ever YO! Book Fest in the greater Philly area is this Saturday! I’m joining with TRICKY CHOPSTICKS for a fun 11am chopstick challenge station, and signing books w/swag all day long. Hope to see you there!

#KeystoneStateLiteracy #yobookfest
@simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social

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Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · 6d

Legendary Final Fantasy Composer Nobuo Uematsu says he’s never used generative AI, and never will.

"I think it still feels more rewarding to go through the hardships of creating something myself."

automaton-media.com/en/news/fina...

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 6d

RT of the front page of the Indiana student newspaper, updating an earlier tweet.

No alt text, but it's an image of the digital front page of the paper, with CENSORED in red. Below that, the subhead reads "This is not about print. This is about a breach of editorial independence."

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6d

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today

issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

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Karen (Cryin’) Yin 😢🎃 | Buy My BOOOOks @karenyin.bsky.social · 6d

Know your protest rights. @aclu.org #NoKings

Square black graphic. At top in bold block letters: Know your protest rights:. Then a numbered list, in brief: (1) You don't need a permit to march in the streets as long as you're not obstructing traffic or building access. (2) You have the right to photograph anything in plain view. (3) If you believe your rights have been violated, write down everything you remember. (4) If you get stopped by the police, ask if you're free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away. (5) If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don't sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present. (6) If you get stopped by military, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you'll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney—no matter your citizenship or immigration status. At the bottom, two logos: Know Your Rights and ACLU.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 7d

If Republicans don’t extend health care subsidies, the uninsurance rate for young adults will go up 25%. Democrats are holding the line to make sure that doesn’t happen.

It’s the 16th day of this shutdown. It’s time for Republicans to open the gov’t and protect health care.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8d

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

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Stephanie Ruble @stephanieruble.bsky.social · 7d

No.
Nope.
No thank you.
Didn’t like Microsoft before.
Dislike Microsoft even more now.
Please get out of here with your “Let’s put AI in every-f*ing-thing!” mentality.*
Not surprised, but still.
UGH.
(* Also applies to all the other companies putting AI in everything. Just f*ing stop already.)

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 7d

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

Stephanie Ruble @stephanieruble.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you! 💜

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 8d

The Pentagon just stripped reporters of their credentials for refusing to sign a policy over its "implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting." It’s a direct strike at the free press. Democracy is in danger when the government controls who can ask questions.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 8d

A VERY GOOD UPDATE!!

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 8d

EVERY BOOK BANNED FROM THE READING BOWL HAS BEEN RESTORED!!!!!

The kids will be able to read and compete over all 20 books. Raising the issue made a difference. Teen advocates made a difference.

docs.google.com/document/u/0...

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 8d

"What can we even do?"

For those already doing things, the answer is keep going.

For those who aren't doing anything, the answer is pick a thing to do.

There's no one magic "to do" item that will fix everything immediately, even though that's what the question often hopes for.

Keep doing.

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