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Ruro

@ruro.bsky.social
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30s, librarian. I like movies, cycling, history, writing, and magical girls. I use a lot of blocklists. No contracts, no masters. Nabu Malikata cult leader

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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A lot of ‘90s stuff needs to stay way the hell back in the ‘90s, but imo the ‘90s were correct that clear colored plastic is Fun and Cool.
transparently shelled video game systems of a diversity of colorsimac ad with five differently colored shells
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
been putting off announcing this one but here we go: got my master's degree. yay me. and at least as importantly, I got some major dental work done that I'd been pursuing for months. now I can finally go home.
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great, Spain has blocked archive dot today and also its mirror sites. That was an essential tool for my thesis and for a bunch of the research I did just this past year. Love to live in a free country.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Jetsons lied to us
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026
Happy Baby Safety Month.
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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Definitely not a British hillfort. Yamchun Fortress, overlooking the mountains of Afghanistan in the Wakhan Valley, Tajikistan. Still Iron Age! Originally built in 300 BCE to guard the ancient Silk Road, expanded in the 10th Century. 📸 by intrepid daughter a couple of weeks ago #HillfortsWednesday
A castle like stone fortification on a barren, rocky promontory with huge mountains behind, snowcapped in the distance
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ざはうく @zahauku.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
UN AÑO ENTERO DE PURO SANDBINA ME ENCANTAN TANTO #sandbina #columbina #sandrone
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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm pleased to announce that around 200 pages' worth of tutorial resources are coming to the Game UI Database for FREE via a brand new blog. No ads. No paywalls. No email signups. Here's a preview of the first piece dropping next week, all about crafting cross-platform control schemes and layouts!
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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I want to thank Based Green Donald for imposing the world's stupidest carbon tax.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/09/2026
I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures
Supplemento al dizionario italiano, by Bruno Munari, a white paperback with a photo of a hand giving the classic Italian finger-purse “Che vuoi” hand gesture
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ざはうく @zahauku.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sandbina como aves parte 2 #sandbina #sandrone #columbina
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Dezi (Boto) @boto.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
IT'S ONCE AGAIN SEPTEMBER FUCKERS
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's telling that some of the beliefs you can develop from an interest in making a city better for the people who live in it, like "mistakes should be survivable" and "children who make an impulsive choice around a street should not die or get hurt for it," are categorized as very socially radical.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/08/2026
Some friends are teaching their baby ASL as an early bridge to speech and they made the mistake of teaching her “want” as a concept. Now she wanders around the house signing “want” all the time as an expression of unfocused desire. They fucked up and made the baby invent the opposite of Buddhism.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I feel like I’m on fraud watch as an international relations scholar because I honestly kinda don’t fucking know why this country does anything anymore. If you held a gun to my head and demanded to know why we’re at war with Iran or feuding with Canada or want Greenland, I’d say the Lord’s Prayer.
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I don't do promos, but I just want to point out that the nonprofit that made those cute pierogi plushies for the Polish figure skating team at the winter Olympics has a bunch of them in stock now. I bought my own Pieroguszka a month ago and we are very happy together. luft-sklep.pl/en_US/p/Pier...
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Pieroguszka® :D
This little dumpling never leaves her mouth. It’s contagious—let it rub off on you, too!
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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In Termessos, a wealthy lady named Rhodope interred her little dog Stephanos in a small tomb like a human. She was later laid to rest nearby. As far as I can research, we don’t know when they lived, or much about their lives, except that Rhodope wanted us to know how much Stephanos meant to her🧡
Photo of the tomb and an example of melitan breed dog from antiquity
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I struggle to describe what Dolly meant to me as a southern blonde who spent her entire life getting disrespected to my face for being trashy and vain, but I will encourage you today to reflect on the ways YOU have treated women in your life whose aesthetics you find insufficiently respectable
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Andy Hood @mirikol33-70.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
@coolbikeart1.bsky.social
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ざはうく @zahauku.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Mi cerebro dejo de pensar por unas horas 😶‍🌫️ #sandrone #columbina #sandbina
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Tiny bicycle thieves in 1966. Photo from my collection.
Black-and-white photo of two tabby kittens perched on the seat and that bar thing above the back wheel. A third tuxedo kitten is visible on the other side of the bicycle wheel. They are outside in a scrubby field in the sun.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A post from “kavishj9611” that reads: 

“All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?”

Panel 2:
And Orange Guy and a Pink Guy are standing in a room that has two pipes in it. Both pipes are pumping raw sewage into the room. The characters are waist deep in it.
Orange Guy says smugly “Ok Mr “I don’t want to be in a room that’s filling up with raw sewage” let me ask you this”

Panel 3:
The sewage has reached their chests. Pink Guy is gagging. Orange Guy smugly continues “If all this sewage disappeared right now, could you get through the day without it?”

Panel 4:
The sewage is almost up to their eyeballs. Orange Guys says “Look at that shit floating past your face. Are you willing to give that up?”
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Anime NYC @animenyc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My convention's anime My tastes are weeb WE GOT A LETTER FROM MAMDANI CAN YOU BELIEVE We are honored to have received this welcome letter from @nycmayor! Anime NYC starts TODAY!
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"if there was a cure to cancer they wouldnt sell it to you, to sell you chemo instead" (actual market): holy fuck these guys mightve cured melanoma BUY BUY BUY
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/08/2026
This is the thing! People treat car peril as some kind of natural background that can't be controlled and that no one is to blame for. So "some SUV ran the light and killed a pedestrian" is just a thing that happens, but if a cyclist gets too close going through a crosswalk, it's an outrage.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Finally, one I'm not embarrassed to share. GeoHistory · August 9th 952 / 1,000 📜📜📜🟡🟢 www.geohistory.gg
geohistory.gg
GeoHistory — Daily history geography game
5 questions a day. 60–90 seconds. Tap where it happened in history.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Hello, my name is [...] I am 9 years old. Can you help me get out of this jail? We are children, not criminals. We are 3 siblings, my mom and my dad. Please, a federal judge see this letter and help us. We have been here for 47 days [...] Leave us in your country, don’t deport us. ⛓️👧👦👧👩👨⛓️ FREEDOM
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Hola me llamo ((D)16)(b(7/C) Tengo 9 Años me pueden ayudar a salir de esta carcel. Somo niños no delincuentes Somos 3
Hermanos mi mamó y mi Papá Por Favor que un Jues federal vea esta carta y nos ayude
(b)(6), (b)(7)(C)
(b)(6), (b)7)(C) Ye Vamos 47 dias en su Pais no nos deporten
(b)(6), (b)(7)(C) |

LIBERTAD
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sarah-rah-rasputin @fannybandit69.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
which one of you FREAKS impregnated Burger King
burger king colour pregnancy tests reading positive with 'we're expecting...' written underneath. the burger king logo in on the top left
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
fool me once.
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The image is of a Twitter(?) post with the poster paraphrasing John Adams, "I must study war so my sons can study business so their sons can study art so their sons can write gay vampire fiction."

Below this quote is another post with an image of Ulysses Grant Dietz, great grandson of Civil War general and president Ulysses S. Grant. Yes, Dietz is an author of gay vampire fiction. 

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/10/a-u-s-presidents-great-great-grandsons-big-gay-vampire-novel/

#steampunk #19thc #acw #lgbtq
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Here is me, pleading with museum shops. We do not want yet another bookmark and eraser with your logo for 11 euros. We. Want. Replicas. Of. Your. Nerdy. Stuff.
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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Its complexity may intimidate, but 𝘗𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘰 rewards gamers with surprising mechanical richness. ★★★★☆ Category: Object Permanence Games Publisher: Mom
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The ArchaeoGaming Collective @archaeogameco.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We are happy to announce the official return of the ArchaeoGaming Conference hosted by the ArchaeoGaming Collective. This is a 100% virtual event that is free to attend. We are currently accepting presentation submissions until August 16. For more details: archaeogameco.weebly.com/coninfo.html
Remastering Archaeology
AGCon 2026
Weekend of October 24th
Games, Archaeology, Fun
ArchaeoGaming CollectiveArchaeoGaming Collective
Call for Papers
AGCon 2026
Call for Papers until August 16
Con Weekend October 24
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I've used the free tier for a year now because I'm studying abroad and it's crazy how much US stuff like basic news sites is inaccessible from Europe, but I need it for my research. Proton has been very helpful. I never knew there was a smear campaign, I'll start bringing up my own experience more.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The roar on Montmarte when Pogi in yellow comes around the corner gives me goosebumps. I've watched this like a dozen times. Sport at its finest.
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My newfound evil habit is riding my bike or taking the bus through the very emptiest parts of the Spanish countryside and adding myself to slow cooking mushrooms in Pikmin Bloom that cheaters from [undisclosed locations] GPS spoof their locations to. Get rekt.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
people thought i was joking but universal basic pub/cafe
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The median newspaper columnist writing about bike infrastructure is like, "I once had to park 150 feet away from the coffee shop so I talked to 2 other drivers, a failing restaurant owner, and a person who once saw a cyclist run a stop sign about how bike lanes ruined our lives."
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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Cops measurably stopped enforcing traffic laws during COVID and never started again. We instantly lost over a decade of progress, and saw a huge increase in deadly/unsafe driving as a result.
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ざはうく @zahauku.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Un dibujo apreciación de en verdad cuando me encanta este ship las amo tanto 😭 #sandbina #sandrone #columbina
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
oddly specific advice for the future: if you are ever watching Spain in the World Cup in a Spanish main city square with several hundred of your closest friends, wear good shoes. all the bottles of beer that people brought to drink will get knocked down, stomped on, and broken over the night.
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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂
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