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Kaitlin Ruiz

@kaitlinruiz.bsky.social
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I have a zest for despair kaitlinruizplease (at) gmail

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Indivisible Westside LA ❌👑 @indivisiblewestsidela.com · 30/09/2026
Breaking the 4th wall for a second: I find our meetings to be very helpful in making me feel less despair, and even with everything that's going on in my life and the world taking one small action feels good, especially when there are other people doing it with me. Our group can help you. Join us.
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MASHFanficChick @mashfanficchick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rabbi Tarfon said: “You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
in case you need it: here's my favorite tiny orange, George, the rescue / foster fail who owns my parents.
impossibly fluffy orange and white kitten. he's feeling silly, splayed upon a striped tablecloth, belly-up, gaze comical and fixed upon the viewer.
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
one thing I tell myself these days, when everything feels irreparable, is that you don't have to fix everything, and you never have to go it alone. if you find one thing you can do consistently in the company of others, you will have accomplished so much more than you can rightly enumerate.
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@jpinckney.bsky.social simply dropping in to say: you seem like a cool cat! keep up the great work :)
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
if we were numerate enough--if we understood how many women and girls are made sacrifice to the altar of promising young men with bright futures--we might not survive it. accounting for that loss will take the rest of my life, and yours. but we've got to; that's the only way of killing the thing.
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
investigative podcast into Yorkshire Tea's (discontinued) Toast & Jam brew...
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
happy Saturday. this morning I met with an antiques dealer, ostensibly to discuss early box cameras, but in effect to be pursued from room-to-room by his eleven-year-old grandchild who is "more talented than Jaafar Jackson."
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
so many of you supported Pat's fight. he passed away last night, warm and generous to the end. I think of him as the best of us; but his care, his open heart? they're still here. I see them reflected in the kindness of strangers. I see them in you.
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
AHHHH!!!! exciting stuff from one of my favorites!
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the ponderin' girl (Tarragon loves you)
fluffy gray cat sits upright upon an orange upholstered chair amid a tangle of blankets
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
today in the boonies: my mom asked the internet provider if they could please look into why the connection keeps getting interrupted, and the lady told her to get off her phone and try gardening 😭😭😭
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
I think of Santos when I see my cousin, talking shop at our grandma's house. I swear that I've seen him cross the street, engulfed by a backpack full of schoolwork and permission slips, the possibilities paper makes incarnate.
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
July 24. we miss you.
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
I don't get paid enough for this, my role as God's precious scamp
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
in further updates, here is Not My Cat, Percy (Persimmon), princess and custodian of my father's heart. she likes to try shoes on for size.
tiny dilute calico, mostly grayish, sits politely upright; her front paws rest in a pair of sneakerssame cat, from a much closer angle: her expression, just barely missing the camera, is demure. she seems shyly pleased by her choice of shoes--sensible, Keds-type sneakers.photo cropped to show paws in shoes
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Tarragon is happy because for the space of a day, she thought Berg had gone from us, leaving her Mother's Sole Comfort (Bergamot was in hiding on account of a repairman, he is very much ok and still among us)
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@frood.bsky.social he hangs out by the tea things
tiny felted toy raccoon in a striped shirt
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@frood.bsky.social I am currently looking at the little French raccoon you sent me ages ago!
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
for your joy: Tarragon, the happiest girl
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
thanks so much for sharing my excitement for this gorgeous book--and for bearing with me, and my sporadic social media appearances! the winner is...
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
@ouisequitur.bsky.social what is the clarimy situation?
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
happy pride
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
happy pride
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
another Pride Month, another year in which my dad refers to the queer community as "LGBQT," that is, "LGBcuties"
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
when will his vision be realized
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
happy Pride! to celebrate, I'd like to share something beautiful: @sjane.bsky.social's miraculous HOTEL ALMIGHTY. joy is more than something scavenged, in this meeting of collage and erasure. it's carved in relief, every page triumphant. comment "pick me!" I'll draw a name at the end of the month.
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Hotel Almighty, Sarah J. Sloat — SARABANDE BOOKS
AIGA 50 Books 50 Covers of 2020 The New York Times Book Review, “New & Noteworthy Poetry, from the Ancient Greeks to Billy Collins” Library Journal, "Versifying / Collection Development: Poetr...
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
:)
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 16/06/2026
She is a WHOLE PRINCESS NOW instead of just a little soot ball!!
a fluffy black cat sitting on the windowsill looking outside
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
@stabbyabby.bsky.social your hair is having such a pre-raphaelite moment
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 16/06/2026
The... potato man and the shadow sister!
a large, fluffy grey tabby lying on a floral patterned rug in a hallway with a wood floor. in front of him, closer to the photographer, is a large, fluffy black cat.
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
me: ok guys, let's look at the camera! tarragon: :) bergamot: -.-
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
the smiley girl and the shadow brother
fluffy gray cat sits proudly, sphinx-like, upon a red and gold jacquard throw. a fluffy black cat, smudged in shadow, crouches beside her, expression skeptical.
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Tarragon says HELLO
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
last night, half drawn under the tide of sleep, I texted myself an important reminder
text which reads: eric andre too many teeth
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
in other news, I've gone about thinking this is Father's Day weekend, a falsehood my mother implanted and encouraged "so I don't procrastinate." happy Friday to all the grand manipulators out there, keeping things moving.
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
:)
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Allison @stanley2chainz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I got this book on Kaitlin’s rec (which also introduced me to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social) and it is a triumph
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
happy Pride! to celebrate, I'd like to share something beautiful: @sjane.bsky.social's miraculous HOTEL ALMIGHTY. joy is more than something scavenged, in this meeting of collage and erasure. it's carved in relief, every page triumphant. comment "pick me!" I'll draw a name at the end of the month.
sarabandebooks.org
Hotel Almighty, Sarah J. Sloat — SARABANDE BOOKS
AIGA 50 Books 50 Covers of 2020 The New York Times Book Review, “New & Noteworthy Poetry, from the Ancient Greeks to Billy Collins” Library Journal, "Versifying / Collection Development: Poetr...
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
Tarragon is not allowed in the laundry closet, so she has to behave like some sort of Gothic heroine on the threshold of a terrible discovery
fluffy gray cat peers through the gap between a (nearly closed) door and its doorframe. her expression is one of gentle startlement, like a frozen ingenue.same cat, expression now alert and curioussame cat, head now swiveling toward some sudden sound, expression alarmedsame cat, mouth wide as if to scream
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Marty is attentive to your needs and Max will chase the demons away.
Fluffy white dog on a couch in an attitude of attentiveness.Max is an absolute coiled spring.  A small whitish dog with brown ears.
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Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
*chomping on unlit cigar* skedaddle toots
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Jim Burlingame @jimburlingame.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Is a scram lady from Scramton, PA 🤔
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
it's pretty glorious tbh
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 14/04/2026
"scram, lady" I don't think the Internet is a good place for 1930s Chicago bootlegger colloquialisms. they feel out of place
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
every day people say things to me online
screenshot of an IG comment that reads "ok scram lady you're officially giving me the creeps now"
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
the reason I feel kind of insane is that this guy is mad at me for speaking about a region of Texas I don't reside in, but buddy is himself a transplant from the Midwest lol 😭
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
today a member of my adoring public accused me of being "rich" (I am not), a "kid" (I am in my thirties), and having "strange identity politics," which is ostensibly a way of getting at the fact that I am a lifelong Tejana... the perils of having combination-oily skin and a sparkling personality...
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