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@ruinista.bsky.social
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Film photographer with a day job. Silas and Hennie’s human. Doing the Guardian Quiptic puzzle in chronological order. Wants specifics on the general idea.

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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 15h
Absolutely incredible.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 23h
Don't have enough rage to spare for this smug grifter
Altman on AI: The world should accept some bad things happening
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The wheelchair at the top of the stairs in The Changeling (1980) scared the bejesus out of 7-8 year old me for YEARS.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026
Kant’s Categorical Imperative includes the Formula of the Universal Law and the Formula of Humanity. Act as if your choice/act will be repeated by everyone; treat other people as an end not a means. AI is the perfect tool to violate both laws.
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nice people of Bluesky: what is the make and model of the car I am waving out of c. 1977-1979?
Framed photo of a little kid (me!) with coke bottle glasses. I am sitting in the passenger seat of a parked yellow car with the window down, and I'm turned around slightly and waving at the camera person a few feet away from the car.
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hennie has convened a very important meeting with all of her Lambies.
Medium sized brindle hound laying on the chaise part of a sectional, her head snuggled atop various stuffed animals. Three Lamby toys, two white and one black, circle her head.
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are a gazillion things more terrible and fascist and depressing, but every couple of weeks I am reminded that the GOP said yes, fine, of course, a thing called the One Big Beautiful Bill is definitely something I want to attach my name to, forever.
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I haven't thought about T-Swizz this much, ever, but hearing Cleveland once all the way through (yikes) and viewing lots of IG reels criticizing it, it occurs to me that maaaybe if we still had vinyl 45 singles and C-land was a B side ... we would just regard it as a bloopy doo-dad and just move on?
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Brandon McNulty!!!!!! 🚴🇺🇸
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you student journalists/editors.
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When I was a grad student TA at Cornell, a student said to me, "My dad didn't pay for me to come here just so I'd get a C" then stared at me as if that should have been enough for me to change his grade (I did not, nor did the prof when he appealed). Cornell fosters a moral bankruptcy and can rot.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At my office they replaced the stalls in the ladies room with doors that reach closer to the ground and have none of the usual gaps where you can kind of see the person inside. Everyone is talking about the change like we're seeing color tv for the first time. "Who knew it could be like this?!?!"
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
what did I fucking tell you people about this guy. what did I say
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
nytimes.com
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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jane @lazylazyjane.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026
i know! I KNOW! BUT ALSO specifically how he meets her at both her eye and voice level so naturally 😭
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trying to cancel a reservation for a special event at a restaurant called Sailor involves texting a random number, and midway through I realized just how weird this all sounded.
Hi, if this is the Sailor reservation line, I'd like to cancel my reservation for [date and time] under the name [x]. Many thanks.  If this isn't the Sailor reservation line, this message isn't as tawdry as it looks!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
imagine if the WH press corp had banded together 18 fucking months ago
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Tsushi Tanuki @tsushi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This. Giving in to fascist demands for robbing trans people of their rights does NOT give fascists less power, it gives them more. Demand your politicians have spines because if they can't do the bare minimum of protecting a handful of kids in sports, how are they going to fight billionaires?
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Guy who is obviously on drugs: I built a supercomputer that is God and now I need subsidies
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My brother sent me this photo he found of the two of us from when we were kids, a perfect distillation of how my family saw us: "He's the charming one! You're the ... well, you're very smart."
Photo of two kids in the late 70s/early 80s. In the front is a smiling little boy holding a Star Wars toy above his head. Behind is his older sister, awkward looking in coke bottle glasses.
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My file during dissertation writing was called Remnants, and I'd go in there every now & then and read a discarded passage, a little bit horrified that I ever thought it was going to work in the main doc.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...
reason.com
Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think this is something candidates should lampshade relentlessly: “Why does my opponent want to talk constantly about five trans kids playing volleyball and some Twitch streamer in LA? Is that stuff really important to your daily life? If it’s not, why are they trying to make you feel like it is?”
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just read something about raccoons but my brain whispered it to me as rhyming with Laocoön, now hearing it in a loop in my head, ray-ah-cuh-wons, ray-ah-cuh-wons.
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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is why you don't hand awards shows over to people who think that awards, clips, and speeches are the show's necessary evil. Know your audience.
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Many thanks to @kottke.org for shouting out @sampotts.bsky.social's 10 day old stationery shop, Busman's Holiday!
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 14/09/2026
Occasionally DJT’s ramblings get so weird they sound like the 18th century: imagine these in descending size & ostentatiousness of font: A Report on Weapons Most Exquisite & Elite Delivered Daily to The American Forces In the Middle East & Beyond from Defense Company Factories Working Day & Night
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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The "HEAT SHOWS NO MERCY"???? How about the government? The businesses who don't pay enough to workers. The brutal Trump administration. The housing industry. The laughable minimum wage. The fact that billionaires have stolen everything from regular people... www.abc15.com/news/region-...
abc15.com
Arizona heat shows no mercy to homeless families living in cars
Arizona’s intense heat is showing no mercy to homeless people living in their cars. In some cases, entire families cannot find housing, leaving them with no alternative.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/09/2026
Acadians, we ride at dawn
The fuck are you calling ‘Cajun chicken’ a ‘taste of Italy’ what in the anglicised fucking fusion cuisine WORDS MEAN THINGS TESCO
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
This is the world JK Rowling helped create. This is what Harry Potter is funding. All the legal challenges to enforce this regime are backed by Rowling and her Harry Potter money.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Well that depends. Do you think words have meanings? Like, when people say things, should we attach linguistic definitions to the words they use? Or do you think, like, you know, nothing really means anything, language is just kinda jazz and we should just kinda groove and zone out?
USA Today headline: Trump floats $5,000 checks 'if the Republicans win.' Is that a bribe?
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/09/2026
We've got a Muslim man running the most multicultural city in the world and making space for all the people in it. That's what cultural victory over fundamentalism looks like, it's a shame that there's a part of the population that couldn't identify a cultural victory if it slapped them in the face.
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Silas the day he came home
Large beige senior mastiff mix standing with his hind legs in the backseat of a car, his front legs on the center console.  He has a red collar and he's looking straight at the camera, as are his humans.  He's just been adopted, like, just that minute!, and he looks delighted.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
lol I just realized Trump is treating the voters like his construction crews on a building project. Tell them to do a job and then stiff them on the promised compensation.
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I've basically made a pact with myself (and my knees) to keep running until the knees say stop, because there's nothing like a run on a crisp autumn morning. My husband @sampotts.bsky.social, meanwhile, decided to open an actual brick and mortar stationery shop!
busmansholiday.shop
Busman’s Holiday
Busman’s Holiday
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
we built a gun that only fires to the left and the right figured that out
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
On my run this morning I didn't notice a doe hanging out behind some bushes, and as she leapt out in front of me, startled, I yelled out, "SORRY ABOUT THAT," and it really did feel like we both simultaneously shook our heads at my ridiculousness in that moment.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
if you're the abc news editor who wrote that the nyc mayor attending the 9/11 ceremony is attracting "growing criticism" solely because he's a muslim then you are the criticism you're writing about
ABC:
Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism
Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual remembrance ceremony.
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What's an example of perfect casting?
Coach Taylor and Tami Taylor on Friday Night Lights
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
One way you could respond: "Are you kidding me? You have an incredibly powerful position as a member of the elite media to inform Americans and set the terms of debate. THIS is what you think is important? Not the war, the economy, the climate crisis, but Hasan Piker? What is wrong with you?"
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Are you a man who does the thing a woman said she doesn't like, as an impulse or as a little joke to show that her boundaries don't apply to you? Ever think about why you do that? Is it her who you imagine laughing indulgently, or other men who see you doing it? Don't write in; just have a think x
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
America is a land of contrasts
Question on a dialect quiz:

What do you call the activity of driving around in circles in a car?

Doing donuts
Doing cookies
Whipping shitties
Other
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ruinista @ruinista.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
You do you, commuter buddy, but nobody can possibly like Baked Ruffles Cheddar and Sour Cream this much.
Metro North seat with four (4) (FOUR!) bags of chips next to a guy with khaki pants and a blue blazer
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