Ruby S.

@rubyji.bsky.social

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❤️‍🩹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

A list of bsky followers, and all of their bios start "here to talk..." Vito Milevoj ‪@elsiekerr.bsky.social‬ here to talk night runs and thrifting Kim Jensen ‪@miles-brooks.bsky.social‬ here to talk film photography and punk shows Demi-Leigh Aidan Hefferon ‪@declanrhodes43.bsky.social‬ here to talk board games and lo-fi emma_ruiz ‪@emma-ruiz.bsky.social‬ here for the good posts
Close up of a calico cat on the photographer's lap
Movie poster for Hunt for the Wilderpeople featuring a chubby Maori tween trying to look tough, a grizzled white man (Sam Neill) with a rifle trying to look tough, a cavalcade of other endearing and hilarious characters, and pickup truck and police car at chaotic angles like they're flying off a cliff
History made. Together. The North Carolina Democratic party just passed historic resolutions into our platform. Arms embargo resolution passed 407-89 Our platform affirms human rights, international law, and the dignity of all people. peace justice accountability hope Thank you! To everyone who spoke up, showed up, and voted for a more just future. NCDP leads. We will keep leading with our values.
Calico cat with her head at a jaunty angle and no limbs visible on a fuzzy orange surface. In the background is a bookshelf and tortoiseshell kitty looking on.
A painting of watermelons by Frida Kahlo. The melon in the front & center says VIVA LA VIDA FRIDA KAHLO
Shane talking on the phone "me trying to get on with my everyday life" Ilya, the bisexual menace, about to attack "heated rivalry"
The same post I'm replying to but with the cover of The Emperor's New Clothes labeled as Adult Content
Cover of the children's book The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen with pictures by Anne Rockwell. It's an illustration of a naked white man with a crown standing proudly front of a mirror while two royal tissues pretend to hold his cape behind him.
A large man (labeled "women") wearing a backpack as big as himself (labeled "men who don't want to pay for therapy")
Poster for the movie I Love Boosters. It's crowded with about 15 colorful characters looking hilarious
Painting of a glamorous black cat sitting on a red sofa. It has a cocktail in one hand and a smoking something in the other. There are other treats like chocolates on the table. The cat is wearing pearls and a stole.
I still image from the movie Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which shows a white woman (Trillion/Zoey Dechhanel) in the center and a black man (Ford Prefect/Yasiin Bey) to the side holding a goofy-looking space rifle.
Pennsylvania Third Congressional District Primary Election Results Democratic Primary Winner Chris Rabb wins the Democratic primary. Race called by The Associated Press. Latest results from just now 84% of votes in Democratic Primary race called Democratic Primary Candidate Votes Percent Pct. Chris Rabb 58,645 +44.2% 44.2% Sharif Street 39,143 +29.5% 29.5 Ala Stanford 32,003 +24.1% 24.1 Shaun Griffith 2,809 +2.1% 2.1 Total reported 132,600
I still love Shane and Ilya taking a break from making out to smile at each other, with the text "Imagine not watching heated rivalry and missing out on this joyful psychosis"
Vintage shampoo ad showing an exponential explosion of white women with glossy brown hair holding a shampoo bottle "And she told two friends, and she told two friends..." ad nauseum
Ruby: The sooner liberals realize that it died years ago the better David Simon (creator of The Wire!): Fuck you with the dumb name calling, you smug shit. I worked as a mainstream reporter for a couple decades before AI and social media ended fact-based gatekeeping and that experience wasn't a function of where I existed on your version of a political spectrum. Go eat a bag of stale dicks. Thanks.
Before the event, the jury – which selects the winner of the Golden Lion prizes – resigned en masse after stating they would not consider entries from countries whose leaders were subject to international arrest warrants (which would have barred them from including Russia and Israel). An Italian news outlet claimed that the jury resigned after they were told by the biennale’s legal team that they could be held personally responsible if Israel decided to pursue the matter legally. On Wednesday, a representative from the biennale confirmed to the Guardian that the report was accurate.
Small calico cat standing on the top edge of a door
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Photo of a TV showing the live NASA feed of the Artemis capsule with five red balloons on top floating in a beautiful twinkling ocean
Photo of text from an ebook. (Sorry I'm on my phone and can't do good alt text)
The cover of an ebook borrowed from Hoopla "THE LONG GAME By Rachel Reid A Gay Sports Romance 2022 496 pages" Illustration of two hockey players on the ice looking into each other's eyes One is a studly wasian and the other is a huge white man with curly brown hair
I recently read that millennials (the students I taught!) might be the last generation to be able to #think and write without using #AI. So I gave #chatGPT the following prompt:
A huge wood cut print on cream colored paper on a bright red wall. The image is of a peasant holding one lovely cent in his hand and a shovel in the other. In the foreground is a figure who looks like a businessman or politician (probably a specific Mexican politician) (in sunglasses and wearing an expensive watch) with grotesque claws. Out of his mouth is coming paper that says "REFORMAS Energética Educativa Financiera Electrical Laboral "
"Eid Mubarak"
We're asking 2,000 people to donate $10 today
@antiantiai.bsky.social had added you to the "AI haters" moderation list
Spring 2016 Spirit week Monday - PJ day Tuesday - St Patty's Day Wednesday - 2016 day Thursday - twin day Friday- Falcon pride
Given these ideological developments, especially coupled with the increasingly hostile and draconian legislation against trans identities, the Lemkin Institute believes that the United States is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the U.S. and globally. Genocide against trans people takes on patterns that set it apart from the mass murder genocides that people commonly associate with the crime, such as the Holocaust. Currently, the genocide against trans people follows a pattern – denial of identity (pattern #9 in the Lemkin Institute’s Ten Patterns of Genocide)
According to the Asheville Watchdog, "Whatley, former chairman of the state and national Republican Party, is at the center of the spreading revolt after championing the rise to power of Harvey L. West Jr. Whatley appointed West to lead the GOP’s 1st Congressional District committee in the state’s eastern corner, and to head the party’s powerful Plan of Organization committee, which effectively controls rulemaking." However, "West, 54, was a 28-year-old police officer in Washington, a small town in Beaufort County near the Outer Banks, in 1999 when he was arrested and charged with the statutory rape of three girls, two aged 14 and one aged 16. The charge is among the state’s most serious felonies and is defined legally as sexual intercourse with a person aged 15 or younger and the perpetrator is at least six years older. Consent is not a defense."
A Dr. Seuss illustration of a woman with AMERICA FIRST on her chest reading a book titled "ADOLF the WOLF" to 2 shocked children "... and the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones... But those were Foreign Children and it really didn't matter."
A group of very happy people holding up a Palestinian flag. Most of the group are white Jews and one person in the center is Palestinian. There are keffiyehs visible as well as shirts that say Durham for All Free Palestine Nadeen Bir for School Board
Video of trees with a squirrel scurrying. Spring peepers (tree frogs) are audible.
Calico cat peeking out from a fuzzy white bowl
A calico and a tortoiseshell cuddling
What's at stake in the school board race? All hands for Durham schools State of the race How you can help (Photos of 3 candidates. A smiling white woman, a smiling Palestinian woman, a smiling Black woman) Meet the candidates and hear from organizers how we can win a school board that works for all Durham families Thursday February 2nd, 8:00 to 8:45 p.m. Online event! RSVP @ https://bit.ly/allhands4dps
Meme with a photo of an elderly white woman looking at a tablet LET'S SEE WHAT THAT BLOATED SACK OF SHIT LIED ABOUT TODAY AND THEN LOOK AT SOME KITTY CATS
A man answering the phone and saying "Hello IT. Have you tried turning it on and off again?" (From the IT Crowd. A great show made by a horrible man.)
A photo of a box of tagalongs Girl Scout cookies that has a picture of an adorable rock band of little girls. The singer is wearing a red plaid shirt and appears to be screaming into the mic. Caption 1: ALRIGHT MOTHERFUCKERS WE TAGALONGS..LET ME SEE SOME CARNAGE OPEN THIS FUCKING PIT UP Caption 2: THIS ONE'S CALLED 5 DOLLAR BOX AND IT'S ABOUT YOUR MOM LET'S GOOOOOOOO
Tortoiseshell and calico cuddling in a sunny spot
Knott painted the contest as a referendum on the current state of the Democratic Party. “For me, this is fundamentally not about Valerie Foushee. I think she’s served honorably and with integrity,” Knott said. “And if you think that the Democratic Party is on the right track, then I think she’s a perfectly acceptable option in the primary.”
Screenshot that looks like a newscast, eg "BREAKING NEWS" etc. but shows a cute Black girl with her lips pursed and head tilted. The ticker says "WE BEEN KNEW."
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." Source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/karl-rove-empire/
A cow's snout with the tongue reaching out and curling under a wooden stick
t-shirt that reads in big block letters: "RIP DICK CHENEY, YOU WOULD HAVE LOVED DOING A COUP IN VENEZUELA FOR OIL"
NO WAR ON VENEZUELA No to Wars! No to Bombs! U.S. Social Movements Condemn Illegal Military Attacks on Venezuela Rising Majority
My 2025 overview from last.fm
The cover of the book Unterzakhn by Leela Corman. In front of a backdrop on Lower East Side tenements, it shows 2 sisters in black and white as innocent girls and then as the worldly women they grow into, with one looking suspiciously at the other who is made up like a sophisticated 1920's flapper.
Video of a tortoiseshell cat making biscuits and booping the camera
An orange cat sleeping in a croissant shape on a red couch
A small calico cat on her side on a bright green ottoman that has been scratched to shit. She's stretching out so much you can see her claws and mixed toe beans.
The cover of James Brown's 1972 album "There it is", which contains the single "Talking Loud and Saying Nothing" It's a 70s illustration (maybe pastels) with a hot pink full-length James Brown in the middle and two natural colored smiling James Browns on the left and right
A photo of a calico and tortoiseshell cats on and next to the photographer's lap
Luigi Mangione at a table in a courtroom, smiling at the photographer and looking happy and hot as ever Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1po63dk/luigi_mangione_in_ny_state_court_hearing_day_8/
A yard and houses in the distance with a light dusting of snow
Tim Carmody‬ ‪@tcarmody.bsky.social‬: A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud ----- Laura Ruth Loomistletoe @lauraruthless.bsky.social‬: Ogden Nash once wrote that the Communist Party should redistribute guilt from those who feel it to those who need to.