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Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I cancelled my landline today like tears in rain, etc

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Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Only three rules on a Copenhagen ferry

Three signs in the passenger compartment of a ferry boat, indicating no sausages, no ice pops, and no wine

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Every used book store, little free library, and thrift shop in Denmark has a shelf Ken Follett novels. I can't throw a rock without hitting a copy of The Pillars of the Earth. What is happening

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Visiting my rural Midwestern hometown only to find that they’re

a sign at the edge of a farm field that says “currently out of meat”

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Probably shouldn’t admit this but I have spent my whole life saying “tele-MAH-cuss” and here comes Nolan’s film with “tell-AM-uh-cuss” 🧐

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Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I can't/won't be explaining this further, but these came off the grill and it's time to play the music it's time to light the lights

two homemade hamburgers that bear a striking resemblance to statler and waldorf

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

boneset catmint bugbane bee balm gardening is just constant 1970s heavy metal song names

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Achievements that I, an emigrant to NYC from Ohio, have been told will make me a "a real New Yorker:" - living here for (x) years - getting mugged - winning a Tony - crying on the 6 train - living in queens - ignoring a celebrity - grieving the restaurant that used to be on that one corner

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Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

points for the correct apostrophe usage I guess

sign hanging in a grocery store produce case that reads “For our customers’ safety, health and eating experience, we ask that you not shuck your corn in-store. We appreciate your understanding.”

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

We've been living just outside of town part-time for nearly 20 years now; it's a fascinating place. I mean, this bit of history alone www.nytimes.com/1994/10/21/n...

nytimes.com

Hudson Casts New Light on Its Red-Light Past (Published 1994)

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Last night I remembered there's a fish called a Boops Boops and giggled myself to sleep

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

From my New Yorker subscription renewal notice email: “NEW YORK RESIDENTS: PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE REQUIRED TO INFORM YOU THAT THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA” thanks I hate it

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Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Forget the kid, I’m here for Antonio’s slutty little shucking knife

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

name your product what it does

a vintage garden product can labeled “Corry’s Slug Death, the magical slug and snail killer powder”

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Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

You might like to know about the folks at Down Nature’s Path (off 127 n of Greenville) They doula’ed my family’s switch from lawn to native meadow. So knowledgeable, and their land is an inspiration.

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Not so short-lived, it turns out

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I planted *a lot* of flower bulbs around the NYC street tree I adopted last fall. Now, amidst the dog shit and the drug baggies, more than half are sprouting. I’m the Capability Brown of the Lower East Side, fuckers

Picture of a tulip sprout pushing up through dead leaves and litter

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Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Post your best #nycblizzard pics of yore I'll start: presidents day blizzard, 2003 28th Street 1/9 station

a picture of a Moira in winter clothes standing on a snowdrift engulfing the stairs of the 28th Street subway station in Manhattan from floor to ceiling

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Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

"We had whistles. They had guns."

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The smirking, jejune, I-read-a-Brecht-once commentary foisted upon the Arbiter in the new CHESS book is not the worst artistic sin of this misbegotten revival (that’d be the sound mixing, which is criminal), but it’s the one that I’m still mad about, days later.

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

also, and inextricably, and forever: fuck ICE

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Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Oh hey. It's my semi-annual appeal on behalf of my regular volunteer gig, Ruth's Refuge. We furnish the homes of the newest New Yorkers. Drop off in person in Brooklyn or buy from the wishlist. ruthsrefuge.org/thanksgiving...

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Thanksgiving Drive 2025 — Ruth's Refuge

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Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Matisse’s Young Sailor at The Met today fucked me right up. Color that’s impossible to describe.

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Growing up in an 18th century house museum has given me very strong, very niche home decor opinions e.g. wall pockets are superior to vases for flowers salt belongs in a cellar, not a shaker Beds need curtains I can go on

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Proud IDS alum (Editorial Board & columnist ‘96-‘98) horrified but unsurprised how IU is betraying its own student journalists. Purdue’s solidarity here is legend-level, but I am so sad it’s come to this

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Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

this is entirely accurate

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

As a NYer who already gets their groceries at a city-run grocery store - Essex Market, first of its name, may it go on forever - I genuinely think Mamdani should aim higher than one in each borough. Cause we already have that, and it's awesome, so let's expand so everyone has one nearby.

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

@wfuv.bsky.social spinning Everybody Hurts into New York Morning. Last Fare of the Day into Empty Sky into Imagine. The DJs aren’t talking about it, they’re playing it. This is the magic of live radio made by people. Text & subtext, obvious & oblique, evanescent over the airwaves.

Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Accidentally ended up in a crypto bar this evening and - I kid you not - the back room had a mosquito problem. My ankles are littered with bites Bloodsuckers in the bitcoin bar quelle surprise

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Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Frisée is deeply unserious lettuce

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After a small eternity, he got me up and into a shower stall and left me there to rinse “BUT NO SOAP!!!” After, he handed me a fresh robe, guided me into the salt sauna, cocooned me in a nest of towels in a lounger, looked me straight in the eyes, and said, “nap now.”

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At this point, I feel actually high. Floating. Legless. He carried me back to the sauna, put me back on the cedar slab, and scrubbed me with salt and oil. My pulse dropped into the 30s.

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Then he hauled me over to stand under a scalding hot shower which he interspersed with deluges of more ice water.

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And then suddenly he got me up, put a towel around my waist, and when I discovered I had gone all rubber-legged, basically half carried me to an ice plunge pool, where I had to completely submerge myself. It was so cold it burned.

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Every once in a while he’d pause to sprinkle cold water over me, or put a cold towel on my head, or say, “ok?” It was stupidly hot.

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a woman in a crop top and blue pants is holding two fire torches

It got hotter and hotter. The slapping got more forceful and baroque. I couldn’t see him, but from the weird angles and rhythms, this is what I was imagining

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ALT: a woman in a crop top and blue pants is holding two fire torches

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This giant, taciturn, shirtless dude had me change into skimpy as hell disposable paper underwear, bade me lay face down in a small semi-private cedar sauna, and then gently sort of slapped me all over with these two bunches of leaves.

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Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Recently I booked what was simply called “signature scrub” at a day spa in Brooklyn. It was … more than that.

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I cannot claim this joke, it just made me guffaw earlier today Subway Yeet Fash

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Moira @moiraruby.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I would argue that a right-wing worldview is intrinsically and inextricably a patriarchal one, and therefore a startling number of modern classics would fit your brief. A story that is structurally opposed to women having agency - to say nothing of actively hating such - is easy to find.