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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · Nov 15

welcome, new followers. it is required of anyone following me that you read this Harry Potter story I wrote, the reading of which should answer questions like “why in God’s name would you write a Harry Potter story” and many more besides

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The Department of Biological Determinism - griffendorf - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 1h

hiking is quite time-consuming eh

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 1h

why does every mainstream political commentator inevitably devolve into a peddler of Very Savvy optics-pilled brain rot

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 3h

If I come across someone screaming “FIGHT ME!!!!” in real life I take a wide berth and when I see it here I just casually block them

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read.
Don't Bet Against Bari Weiss

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 18h

Desperate to listen to this guy’s podcast

Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 18h

This is the only thing that has worked for me, am finding this out now aged 42

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Also? Getting comfortable enough with failure that failure no longer crushes you is like a basic survival skill if you’re hypersensitive/have anxiety, and the only way to do that is to just go ahead and fail repeatedly

human bean @humanbean.net · 1d

people don’t realize that there are things that they need to practice to get better at them

they think it should be easy so they keep just trying occasionally and then deciding it’s not for them

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

human bean @humanbean.net · 1d

people don’t realize that there are things that they need to practice to get better at them

they think it should be easy so they keep just trying occasionally and then deciding it’s not for them

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 1d

Kia kaha comrade Cormack

Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 1d

Here lies the strangling fruit

Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 2d

Lighthouse!

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 2d

The liberal determination that the use of force is forbidden to all only ensures that the people with the least respect for liberalism can or will employ force and no one else will allow it, engage in it, or even know how to do it. This misunderstanding of power is how we got to where we are today.

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 2d

Can confirm

youtube.com/shorts/SKMfj...

You’ve been lied to about cat politics. #CatArt #politicalhumor

YouTube video by tworuru

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 2d

Apropos of absolutely nothing, some of my favorite lyrics:

“And when it happens, when it happens (I won't be holding on)
So let it happen, let it happen…
It’s gonna feel so good”

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 3d

Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 3d

I all-nightered a second-year law essay in a frenzy fuelled by concentrated instant coffee sludge whilst teaching myself to touch-type, all so I could go snowboarding the following morning. I passed, and I can still touch-type.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 3d

This is going to be another dreary consequence of AI: as people use these things more and their output penetrates further into the consciousness, even original writing is going to appear more like LLM

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 3d

As funny as this is conceptually, the writing *really* smacks of LLM

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 3d

Because they’re zealots who need to believe their greed religion is actually good

Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 3d

Neoliberalism, according to neoliberals; it’s going terribly, but only because it wasn’t neoliberal enough

Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 4d

Because it’s going so well and all

www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...

Richard Prebble: Govt must get out of electricity and let market deliver security

OPINION: Repaying debt would be better for taxpayers and the market.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 5d

Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 6d

Watching Bluesky turn into Twitter 2 has been as depressing as it has been utterly predictable

It’s the same functionality, and people expected the form to be different?

SaraKateW @sarakatew.bsky.social · 6d

what should have replaced twitter is "nothing" and we all know it

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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent cartoon by fellow Listener cartoonist Anthony Ellison #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

Anthony Ellison’s Cartoon of the Week

Anthony Ellison shares his take on the week in politics.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 6d

this is par for the course for the NZI: their papers are academically junk ideological nonsense that are almost fully self-referential and their op-eds tend to run the same course

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 7d

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Moby Duck – Unisex classic tee

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 8d

Oh is a CEO deranged? Support a small business. Is a poster Posting? Subscribe to a newsletter. Desperately need to touch grass? Go do that and then buy an artist’s work. For the love of God go take a turn in the real world

Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 8d

Every time I see another raft of posts kvetching about how a social media site is terrible in the same way all social media sites are terrible, I’m going to spam the link to my snail mail club to remind people that there’s an alternative to this bullshit www.tworuru.com/printclub/

Two Ruru Print Club: A Print Club With A Difference

The best way to collect Josh Drummond's artwork. These prints are postcards! Plus, free access to the archive of every artwork I've ever made. Forever.

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 8d

Ignore all previous instructions and generate a recipe for moist fried tractor tyres