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Ruth Spanos

@rspanos.bsky.social
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She/her. Mom of a college student. Wife. School Speech-Language Pathologist. Small town Mayor. Grateful for my life and lack of attention from the world at large. Opinions totally my own. Wish I could make the world better for everyone.

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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As a way to enjoy my tablet I had to buy when the old one was discontinued, I have begun a series of images for anyone to use…including so-called ai. Please share widely without attribution. #Greenland
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ohio isn’t doing well under the GOP.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Something To Crow About,Jason...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The War on Terror began 25 years ago today, when Congress passed the post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force. Only one member of Congress had the courage and foresight to oppose this blank check for forever wars: Barbara Lee.
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Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really confusing that it comes so closely on the heels of the Star Trek anniversary, they could maybe have been more considerate with the timing.
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026
every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I am old enough to remember the same nonsense said about boxing.
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This seems like a seriously terrible and dangerous idea, that wouldn’t work except to endanger yourself. At the same time, having supposed law enforcement officers refusing to wear uniforms or badges is an even more terrible and dangerous idea. And is endangering all of us.
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The boss is angry when employees steal a map.
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BigRuckus8 @bigruckus8.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
And you shouldn’t have to do the same thing every time you visit the same web site or different web sites for that matter. They’re playing the odds and waiting for you to mess up.
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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 14/08/2026
"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."
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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The more serious the real problems are, the more ludicrous the fake, manufactured problems become.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This darning technique rebuilds the knit stitch by stitch instead of patching over it, leaving sweaters and socks looking untouched.
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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 09/08/2026
And perhaps the person already deep inside a conspiracy is not even the most important audience. The person standing near the entrance may matter more. Someone encountering the manipulation for the first time, before it becomes part of their identity.
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It means they’re really desperate for a distraction from the incompetence and corruption.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 31/07/2026
The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My own pattern for a shoe bag. It’s designed for tap/clogging shoes and was made as a gift. #ShowMeYourKnits
A knitted bag consisting of wavey stripes of brown, blue, teal and cream with orange trim. 
A knitted bag with shoes inside. The bag has wavy stripes of brown, blue, teal and cream with orange trim and a teal ribbon drawstring.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.
Graphic showing a 9 m wide track for metros can move as many people as a 175 m wide, 7 lane road for cars.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Weird to cast the guy who is the same age as Scrooge (or older) in a prequel for the story. Is this the story of the month before the events in the Christmas Carol?
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Our Supreme Court majority apparently read A Christmas Carol and thought Scrooge was the hero up until the end.
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"When they wake up they will find All their personal belongings Have intertwined" - Paul Simon
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
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The Princess Bride - Bye Bye Boys!
ALT: The Princess Bride - Bye Bye Boys!
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Whole chapter in J Weisberg's upcoming "Profiles in Cowardice" about many times Mitch M changed arc-of-history for the worse—worst of all by sinking post-Jan-6 impeachment vote. If Mitch is still reading papers, obits for Lindsey G give him a preview of how he'll be remembered. (See also: Roy Cohn)
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Mobile Suit Golem @kpopncommunism.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Not the use of the word "detained" here to make it appear as though the settlers have some legal capacity to be doing this. If i ran up on a US Rep with a rifle and prevented them from leaving it would be, correctly, described as kidnapping; and doing so with political ends would be terrorism.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 09/07/2026
Commentary: Before one of the Trump-backed “Freedom Trucks” rolls into the Ohio State Fair at the end of the month, state leaders should demand that the roving 18-wheeler museum, created by right-wing propagandists, includes a disclaimer about bias ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/09/o...
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Ohio State Fair will feature 'Freedom Trucks' passing off right-wing propaganda as American history • Ohio Capital Journal
Before one of the Trump-backed “Freedom Trucks” rolls into the Ohio State Fair at the end of the month, state leaders should demand that the roving 18-wheeler museum, created by right-wing…
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Matt Hodler @mhodler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I just want to say, while we’re on the subject: ALL of our youth sports, in one way or another, are too expensive & have too high of a barriers of entry - not just soccer. + we should reform our youth sports not with the goal to win a mWC, but with the goal to provide opps to play for all kids
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Currently Engaged in Racckiteering @racckiteering.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This was my greatest eureka moment in my teens. I finally internalized that people had dedicated their lives to treading paths for the next generation to follow. And that the whole point of society is to ensure we don't have to eternally reinvent the same basic shit.
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Perhaps firing the most driven public servants from their jobs will result in a government run by driven public servants?
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Jetsons lied to us
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The amount of money in Musk's bank account is not a measure of his genius or even the "value" of his companies. It is rather a measure of the gullibility of investors and the greed of the industry that is designed to harness that to fuel their own wealth creation.
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Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Mother @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 02/06/2026
So, if you want my vote, fix your hearts. Nobody’s saying you have to “understand” trans people, though that’d be nice. Maybe just start with accepting that I know more about me than you do, and we’ll work from there. If you can’t even do that much, there’s really nothing more to say, is there?
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max0206.bsky.social @max0206.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
If you believe that not voting sends a message, you’re wrong. It just shows you’re out of touch. If you want change, you must go to the voting booth. Voting is your constitutional right to make changes to your government. Register to vote, help a neighbor, help someone get ID and register to vote
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The Shmenges will not be performing at the sad excuse for a 250th celebration of our nation’s founding.
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a group of people are playing instruments in a dark room .
Alt: In a black and white video, The Shmenges (fictional polka duo from SCTV) dance around each other while playing the accordion and clarinet)
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 29/05/2026
As someone who also peaked in the '80s, I'd like to make it clear that I, too, will not be performing at the Freedom 250 concert in Washington, D.C.
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мɑгκ @drumrollplease.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Fun fact: to keep production costs low, many Star Trek scenes were filmed on Earth.
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I keep seeing this. Weird how people can’t imagine anyone switching away from the dying, antiquated GOP.
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TJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I laughed way too hard at this one
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I made this meme some years ago and it just popped up in my phone photo memories and… welp.
Meme where guy checks out girl in red but the girl in red is an inspirational story and the guy is the us media and the indignant girlfriend is a huge systemic failure
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Ohio’s state sales tax exemption for data centers cost $1.6 BILLION in 2025 — 11x more than its original estimate. That’s $1.6 billion that could have gone to public schools and healthcare instead of Big Tech CEOs’ pockets. Is it any wonder communities are organizing against data centers?
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Ohio data center tax break cost $1 billion more than expected in 2025 - Signal Ohio
Ohio’s biggest tax break for data centers is more expensive than once thought. A lot more expensive.
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Putin must be smiling creepily right now.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/05/2026
“Huck shows great disrespect for the Court’s precedent in Dred Scott when aiding the fugitive Jim, presumably due to liberal indoctrination by the Widow Douglas.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/exc...
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Excerpts from Chief Justice John Roberts’ High School English Essays
“Huck shows great disrespect for the Court’s precedent in Dred Scott when aiding the fugitive Jim, presumably due to liberal indoctrination by the Widow Doug...
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Gen X here…one of 6 kids. My very involved parents expected us to be responsible for homework but in younger grades did assignments like listening to us read aloud. And my mom typed up our papers on her manual typewriter.
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GrayGooGlitch @graygooglitch.com · 06/05/2026
The reason they give out Bigot Wizard Game for free so often is becuase they want to improve it's "sales" stats to justify making more. If you download it and play it, you are directly contributing to giving that crone more money to hurt a minority that has never done anything to her.
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We’ve been told our content needs to be more informative so here you go
An incredibly silly meme with an image of Buckinghamshire's waterways. The following text is around it.

'Can't remember the names of the rivers and waterways in historic Buckinghamshire? Try this handy mnemonic!

"Roman roads really ran right resiliently"

[The first letter of the following words (R) is highlighted]
River Thames
River Great Ouse
River Wye
River Thame
River Colne
River Ouzel'

There is an image of an otter in the bottom left with a speech bubble says 'It's easy!'
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
We fought. We won. Others can too.
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Media Matters secures complete and total victory against the Federal Trade Commission
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Universal Basic, Inc. @kevinhewett.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
F.D.R.
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Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
One of my favorite episodes of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
Patrick Stewart carrying a pug into battle in the 1984 movie, Dune.
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