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BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 19h

Im sure it is very easy to, it any given time, to argue that it is the wrong time to cut off israel. Im sure you can keep making that argument week after week, month after month, but then you rub your eyes and its been three years and gaza and southern Lebanon look like this. Was it the lesser evil?

Satellite images of demolished villages in Lebanon

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 14h

in the house of stone AND light??? in THIS economy??????

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HAL @hal-monitor.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

BASEBALL YURI (1/5)

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's hard for me to say if I had some existing inclination towards a brisk 3/4 setting before I was 16, but even if I did, 1960-64 John Coltrane (and co) certainly cemented that in my aesthetics as home. Happy 100 to the best guy. Listening to this centennial on WKCR connects me back to being 16...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Aaaaaaanyway this whole thing is a perfect example of how disabled and chronically ill and marginalized people are forced out of society and then if they make a tiny enclave together where they try and make space for each other the society that forced them out tells them they can’t have that either.

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If food was sentient and you picked up hitch hikers, which foods would you be most excited to give a lift to (note: it’s bad etiquette to eat your passenger)?

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Now that it’s time to pay the piper, the state and its media allies are working desperately to sever the connection between COVID-19 and its consequences." Julia Doubleday takes down an ableist Telegraph column that denies the reality of Long COVID. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/21/c...

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COVID-19 — not TikTok — is disabling young women - The Sick Times

The Telegraph published an article titled, “How having a disability became cool." This article shores up the government narrative that rising rates of disability are being driven, not by the ongoing a...

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is it better to sing "Jump" over the backing track of "The Touch", or to sing "The Touch" over the backing track of "Jump"?

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Miranda 🌸 @crookedneighbor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In honor of Lorem's 30th birthday, and with the blessing of his loved ones, I'm sharing this piece that I wrote, somewhat by accident. It's about Lorem, but also about turning disabled grief into action. Please take the trigger warnings (at the top) seriously, but I hope you will read if you can.

just-following-up.ghost.io

Some thoughts on direct action, and my friend Lorem, on his 30th birthday

My friend Lorem died this week. A few days later, I was supposed to speak to a group of community organizers as part of a panel about Long Covid and direct action, and how we can center access for tho...

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

tfw you see a poem that’s as lovely as a tree

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I see some people out in NYC today wearing Dallas Cowboys jerseys and I think about my grandmother. She grew up in Manhattan and got married at ~20 to a guy from Dallas. She lived there a couple years before divorcing him and coming back to NYC. She never gave a shit about football as a kid…

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"The entire structure of the War on Terror could not have been a more decisive failure," @attackerman.bsky.social tells @joshnathankazis.bsky.social. Read the Q&A on our site: jewishcurrents.org/no-bigger-fa...

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Does having "Rold Gold" as a brand name imply that the pretzels are full of/made out of cocaine?

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Before I fell asleep last night, I was bedeviled by not being able to remember whether or not Russell Crowe is Australian

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Captain Planet He’s a weasel Got a portrait of him On my easel

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Asked in a Bills women’s group for advice on the most Covid-safe area of a football stadium (least crowded, most ventilation) and I was told “Please stay home if you have this many concerns.” This is how ableds view the disabled: You don’t deserve to leave the house. Don’t make us perceive you.

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I like the idea that someone could be a “night member” of an org but I don’t know what it means

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

aaaaand in pre-order today is Strand Line, a solo violin album from Marina Kifferstein of TAK and the Rhythm Method, featuring Berio, Liza Lam, Ashkon Behzadi pieces and improvisations too marinakifferstein.bandcamp.com/album/strand...

marinakifferstein.bandcamp.com

Strand Line, by Marina Kifferstein

5 track album

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

out today (in time for BC Friday) is Paul Pinto & Quince's "The Approach, Ep. 1-3", a very wonderful collection of stories about four singers on the G train encountering a sailor and experiencing a whole world quinceensemble.bandcamp.com/album/the-ap...

quinceensemble.bandcamp.com

The Approach, Ep. 1-3, by Paul Pinto & Quince Ensemble

3 track album

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

hey hey we're the parties and people say we party around

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I think that if Sloppy Joe could be said to have a last name that that last name would be Beef

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I feel like “Goose Island” is one of the better things you can name an island

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If I were going to go back to school, it would be for either perfecting my duck face, or for learning to look like a little curly teddy bear style doggo

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

And there are people who might say, “looks like it’s Goonsday again”

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Every time a right winger points and laughs at a socialist who was born rich, it should be understood as a desperate attempt to justify their own moral failure to themselves. If you grew up rich and are now a leftist and someone points that out, the proper response is: “Yes I am. Why aren’t you?”

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

one of the clearest ways I can try to demonstrate to you that Covid is still a big problem and killing/disabling more people all the time (more words and charts in the piece) www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

chart showing US deaths from circulatory/heart disease with a pre-Covid baseline and increased deaths in all the years following that baseline period

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dogs that go “woof” or “ruff” are nice, but to me, the finest dogs are the ones that go “boof”

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 18/08/2026

The vanguard of the settlement movement would like to do mass expulsion and murder but many US conservatives who support annexation think the Israelis need to treat the Palestinians and Syrians like the US treated Indigenous people between the late 19th century and 1924.

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sometimes it's August and you think about October. You realize that that's in two months, and that doesn't seem possible, but it will happen nonetheless.

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It is my belief that if he were around today, he would style his name as dwight DAVID eisenhower

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Dangerously close to “Hear the Hair” if you ask me

NY Phil brochure with pink letters that say “hear feel here” beside a photo of Dudamel

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The coolest innovation about the Beethoven movies is that if you say the name of the big drooly dog three times, he will appear before you

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"My cancer experience wasn’t without setbacks or issues — but there was no unknown, and no one questioned its legitimacy. No doctor suggested the cancer was “in my head.”" thesicktimes.org/2026/08/14/b...

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Breast cancer exposed the lack of care I receive for Long COVID - The Sick Times

Cancer has a sadly well-worn path. It showed me that I deserve dignity and support for Long COVID.

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Greater Baltimore DSA @baltimoredsa.org · 14/08/2026

Amidst union negotiations in Hampden, MOMs has banned its workers from wearing respiratory safety masks unless they get a doctor's note. Masking makes EVERYONE safer and should not be impeded. Email the owner and demand he respect workers' safety rights and public health! tinyurl.com/supportmomsw...

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MOM ORGANIC MARKET
Mom's Organic Market has banned employees from wearing masks at ALL locations.
If an employee wants to wear a mask at work, they have to submit a doctor's note for company approval.
If an employee isn't masking for themself, but for someone in their household, they are still banned from masking.
Tell CEO Scott Nash:
CUSTOMERS SAY NO MASK BANS AT MOM'S.
tinyurl.com/supportmomsworkers

[image includes a surgical mask in a crossed-out (🚫) symbol]

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Spotted in Brooklyn this week: several fruiting peach trees

A peach tree with green fruits on it over a sidewalk

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Is this anything? I can't tell if it is or not.

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

What about machines that go poot poot poot?

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geb @geb1999.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

obligatory

@Kali_de_Armas
feudal MF DOOM:
on the mic, he's a freeholder
known to lift an ox over each shoulder
ahem... wheat sower and a wif stroker
can't plant the crops if it gets one degree colder

*woman's voice says "Villein"*

his work is agricultural
everything he makes, the lords tax it multiple

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

She had dumps. They were like a truck, but they were not exactly a truck. Does that make sense?

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

one track is up now from Paul Pinto's "The Approach" for Quince, a shaggy dog tale about a sailor in the NYC subway. full thing comes out a month from today on Gold Bolus quinceensemble.bandcamp.com/album/the-ap...

quinceensemble.bandcamp.com

The Approach, Ep. 1-3, by Paul Pinto & Quince Ensemble

3 track album

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

also, if your proposed alternative to protesting is to “make clear that we stand with Israelis like former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, former prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid” who all oppose a Palestinian state, describing yourself as a liberal Zionist is just window dressing

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/07/2026

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

newrepublic.com

ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community

While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

One more thing I want to be clear about: Most people are not talking about the trauma of lockdowns. They’re overwhelmingly talking about the trauma of being forced “back to normal” when “normal” had a new level of danger and cruelty.

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

immediately turned off the giant tv that plays ads about health in the doctor’s office (For Clinical Staff -> Sleep)

Big stupid vertical TV that plays advertorial content (silent, but always moving, I’m trying to read a book in here)

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Are you now or have you ever been a Big Kahuna Burger?

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Our facial recognition system is necessary to stop terrorists from killing everyone inside our venue, which is why we turned it off when we had 1,000 of the world's most famous and powerful people inside" This is the official position of Madison Square Garden. www.wired.com/story/for-ta...

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For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.

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