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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 lotusmedia.org

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 2h
Macron has consistently shown contempt for democracy, refusing even to appoint a left-leaning gov after 2024 elex. Today, kids demanding investment in better futures are schooling adults in democratic agency. His gov responds with manipulation, intimidation & violence - a lesson in abuse of power.
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8 graphiques pour comprendre la colère des lycéens
Etat des bâtiments, taille des classes, heures non assurées, dépenses par élève… la situation de l'enseignement secondaire en France est disparate. Mais la mul…
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 3h
Mainstream media have been equally pathetic, demanding that left-leaning interviewees “condemn violence” - a familiar gatekeeping ritual, echoing the “Do you condemn Hamas?” routine that shifts attention from political demands to compulsory disavowals. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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Mobilisation des lycéens : les éditocrates veulent rétablir l’ordre
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 3h
Protests spread beyond the Paris suburbs, across urban and rural France. It now spans general and vocational high schools, small-town schools and universities, bringing together students from different social backgrounds and educational tracks.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2h
The radical change of saying you'll do very obvious things that people desperately want and desperately need.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h
Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1h
I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.
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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 1h
LOL happy birthday! 🎈
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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 10h
The only way AI is inevitable is if we let oligarchs violently shove it down our throats. No one wants their digital slop or their data centers.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 12h
If a guard yanks clothes off a trans woman–to satisfy his curiosity or to mock her–cis women are in danger too. I'm cis. I was misgendered most of my life. In public bathrooms, women screamed for cops. I was almost fag-bashed twice. Abusing any woman opens that door. We're all in this together.
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Christie Nold @christienold.bsky.social · 12h
“Anti-ICE protesters blocked entrances to two Department of Homeland Security buildings in Williston [Vermont] on Tuesday, turning them into temporary community gardens as part of a weeklong series of demonstrations.” 🥰🌱 www.wcax.com/2026/10/06/w...
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Week-long protests aim to put Vermont ICE presence in focus
Anti-ICE protesters blocked entrances to two DHS buildings in Williston on Tuesday, turning them into temporary community gardens.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 12h
Susan Collins in a nutshell ↘️ "[L]ike an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out" 💥 #mepoltiics
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h
anti-trust anti-trust Anti-Trust Anti-Trust ANTI-TrUST ANTI-TRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST When the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 banned mergers that threaten to significantly reduce competition, this is the sort of thing they had in mind.
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 10h
Love seeing footage of the French student protesters chanting "Nous sommes tous des enfants de Gaza" (We are all children of Gaza)💞💞
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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 13h
He lives in California and thanks to the electoral college his vote would have made no difference in stopping Trump
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Magnificent oak, covered in moss, tangled branches reach out. #ThickTrunkTuesday
a huge ancient oak tree fills the frame of the photo in a dense wood. massive branches are covered in moss. sun shines through the leaves up high. bracken and bramble down low.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15h
People don’t want to take it seriously but they’re literally working backwards from whatever will support white supremacy and it keeps working because a lot of people are quite sure they can make white supremacy work in their favor.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15h
For the first time in more than two decades, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe will not conduct oversight of the upcoming midterm elections after the Trump administration effectively blocked them from doing so.
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Trump Blocks International Board From Conducting Oversight of Midterm Elections
This is the first time in over two decades that the US has rejected OSCE participation in a federal election.
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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 15h
Durham! Urge City Council and the Planning Department to stand against the data centers that developers are trying to bring to Durham County, including a new 50 MW hyperscale facility, which is allowed under the County Commissioners’ moratorium loopholes. actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
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Urge Durham City Council & Planning To Stop New Durham County Data Centers!
No Durham City Water Connections Or "Industrial Light" Land Use Approvals For New Durham County Data Centers! Urge Durham City Council Members and the Planning Department to stand against the data ce...
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 16h
You know what "anywhere" includes? THE SOUTH! It's possible! If you actually do what's needed!
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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 15h
What crimes does the author of Project 2025 have in store for us?
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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 15h
Ah the Trump method
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 15h
An old-fashioned expression because it's been barred by international law for several decades now.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20h
Hammer and Hope Issue #12 is out now, available for free in its entirety here. A short thread featuring a few of the articles: hammerandhope.org
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Hammer & Hope
A magazine of Black politics and culture
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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 20h
ATE @schock.cc "The question is not whether AI will harm ‘our’ children someday. The question is whose children are already being harmed. And will we demand accountability?" calmatters.org/commentary/2...
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Opinion | Children are in the crosshairs of artificial intelligence. Who will we blame?
AI is already endangering children. The US military used it in the bombing of a school in Iran, and Israeli forces have used it to target Palestinians.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hey just a reminder that Maslow stole the idea of the hierarchy of needs from the Blackfoot people (and his female research partner) and then made it weird and rapey (women can’t be healthy unless we experience a “surrender reflex” when encountering “masculine power”).
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh look, RFK Jr opens an NIH vaccine injury center & the opening is attended by Drs Bhattacharya, Oz & Schwartz I’m certain this is totes legitimate & has nothing at all (😜) to do with his decades-long anti-vaxx push & the💰 he makes from suing vaccine makers! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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RFK Jr. to Announce New Vaccine Injury Research at NIH
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a new research initiative at the National Institutes of Health to study vaccine injuries on Monday, according to people familiar wit...
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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state." www.propublica.org/article/paul... #ncpol #ncgop
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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
Yes. In general I think consensus view of AI should be not as objective digital substitutes for knowledge, work, experience & thought but rather as output devices engineered to filter data through the worldview of their owners. And I think this should be obvious. That’s why every rich guy owns one.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
remember when it would have been news that the president published a slur against a tiny minority
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thousands of Cornell students have taken over the main plaza on campus to demand the Cornell 7 be held accountable for their crimes. 21% of undergraduate women are raped or sexual assaulted during their time on campus.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast
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Nikolaj Byrdman @nikolajbyrdman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Whether or not your gut reaction is to agree with Annie Altman, it is so important that people just take the time to actually listen to those who say they are victims of sexual assault. If you have ever said #MeToo or claimed to support #MeToo, I would hope that you want to amplify Annie's message.
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 05/10/2026
Sam Altman's sister has released part of her deposition in one of the lawsuits she filed against her brother, she is knitting while being deposed
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You Can't Do That On Social Media @ycdtosm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You earn votes, you don't shame folks into them. A politician not receiving a vote is their shortcoming. Not the voters and you should be nice about it or YOU ARE the one fracturing the Democratic Party.
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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These "generic national polls" are nothing but vibes. I think it's just so talking heads have something to blather about. They refuse to understand gerrymandering and voter suppression in specific states and districts.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 05/10/2026
The myth that technology was doing just fine, ethically speaking, until the evil oligarchs got ahold of it actually only serves the ends of technofascists. We can do better than this.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"We create accounts with artificial intelligence that have a certain volume, a certain credibility, to use them afterwards in a defined strategy," Worked for: Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil Javier Milei in Argentina Nasry Asfura in Honduras Rodrigo Paz in Bolivia
Cerimedo told Infobae on 10 May 2023 that his team had created close to 50,000 fake accounts "just for Argentina". "We create accounts with artificial intelligence that have a certain volume, a certain credibility, to use them afterwards in a defined strategy," he said. He said his team had also "intervened with accounts that made comments" during Mauricio Macri's 2019 campaign. Infobae ran the interview under the headline: "We have some 50,000 artificially created accounts to generate content and influence the conversation on social media."
Eduardo Bolsonaro travelled to Buenos Aires in October 2022, between the two rounds of Brazil's presidential election, on a trip organised by Cerimedo's team, and recorded videos there for his father's campaign, Agência Pública reported. Eduardo's re-election campaign paid R$3,900 to Giovanni Larosa, a Cerimedo employee and La Derecha Diario correspondent, for propaganda work. On 4 November 2022, five days after Jair Bolsonaro lost, Cerimedo broadcast a livestream titled "Brazil Was Stolen" to more than 400,000 viewers. The hashtag #BrazilWasStolen went viral the same day, boosted by a cluster of newly created accounts, the Progressive International reported. Members of the plot to stop Lula taking office later cited Cerimedo's claims as evidence the election had been stolen.
Carlos Torres, the La Paz departmental prosecutor, said a search on 20 August 2026 of a property linked to Cerimedo found "a mini bot farm". Juan Santana, a Chilean opposition deputy, has asked Chile's electoral service whether Numen SpA, Cerimedo's Chilean company, appears in any campaign spending report, El Ciudadano reported. Gustavo Petro, Colombia's former president, has alleged that Cerimedo ran about two million fake profiles in Colombia's June 2026 presidential vote.
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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes but also tech leaders are increasingly in echo chambers with dudes who never got over their gamer gate feelings
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
Reports out of the Irkutsk region of Russia reveal a potential public health crisis developing in the area after a lab accident released a “particularly dangerous infection” to a researcher, who later passed away.
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Reports of a plague outbreak in Russia follow the death of a researcher
Several hospitals in the Irkutsk region have been shut down and up to 200 workers have been quarantined.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 05/10/2026
for 25 years, versions of "need to fix declining trust in news" has been code for 'gotta get more right wing'
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Demon Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 05/10/2026
We really need to seize everything from these sociopaths.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
There is no action that can end the War on Drugs bc there has never been one, only a War on People. And ofc a war for market control, like most wars. It’s also why neither legalization or even decriminalization is federal. Bc it would severely hamper the state’s precedent to violate people’s rights
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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
AI "agents" are made by PEOPLE. Someone programmed it to do this. Hold them accountable!
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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was interviewed at the Durham Pride parade where I wrangled the coalition of groups marching for solidarity with Palestine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJfC... You can see more of my interview in the post below, but I was holding a million threads in my head and you can tell I'm a bit overwhelmed.
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Durham Pride Parade 2026
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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New personal best! 🙂 Daily Quordle 1715 4️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.
From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."
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Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No one cares what this corrupt shitbag thinks. Stop acting like he matters.
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