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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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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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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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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Is the spelling of "ecomony" on purpose?
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Source? I'd like to read more about this.
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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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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I disliked Harry Potter when I was the target audience (my 5th grade teacher read to us from Goblet of Fire when it was the newest book), so a bunch of the people who were 100% there at the midnight release parties now claiming that they always disliked HP feels like stolen valor.
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Dezi @dezi.quest · 01/09/2026
IT'S ONCE AGAIN SEPTEMBER FUCKERS
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Years later, I got to live in Pontevedra, Galicia, in the city center (just off the pilgrim trail). And I would remember that story about my childhood while watching kids run around like crazy near the fountain, and the most danger they're risking is a skinned knee, because there are no cars there.
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When I was a child, maybe 5 or 6 years old, my mother once had to hold me back from running into the street in East Los Angeles by grabbing my pigtail and yanking on it, hard. It's still a scary moment for her that she talks about. I don't remember it, but that could have been the end for me.
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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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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I was listening while cooking salmon so I did have a laugh when you said that they might have kept fish to have a nice supper. Actually, here's a question: on the topic of making people sacred, did Roman priests like the Vestals have dietary restrictions? Thanks, this was an interesting discussion!
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I know there are lots of replies here already so this may get buried, but does anyone know what app the OP was using to get those decibel measurements? I wanna use it too.
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
fettle of kish
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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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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
His name is Richard Liu, and he was interviewed about this as recently as 2024! www.boyculture.com/p/meet-richa...
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Meet Richard Liu, Our Pride Flag King of the 1996 DNC
Liu's joyful moments with the iconic rainbow flag at the DNC in 1996 captured that year's LGBTQ+ optimism.
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@drtaragoddard.com lots of great replies here but this one especially
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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
would very much like to know where you acquired these ancient Roman tracksuits
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Anyway, for people who live in Europe, I do want to point out that the Pieroguszka with a :D face is currently on sale. Go support a small nonprofit doing good work and get yourself a cute pierogi pillow. I think they should bring this one to the US for Halloween luft-sklep.pl/en_US/p/Pier...
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Pieroguszka® Dracula
What we do in the shadows? We create new, dark designs for Pieroguszka!
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
There are cheaper alternatives on Amazon and Alibaba and what have you. And I wish there were more variants available in the US; shipping on their site is EU only. But this nonprofit hires disabled people to make these and pays them dignified wages. I got a handwritten thank-you note with mine. 🥟
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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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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I appreciate the gift link, but I would like you to know, going forward, that that is no longer enough to read NYT articles. It now requires an account, regardless. (Unsure if you knew this already.) I'll still read this piece though, looks interesting.
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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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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Maybe not literally, but his mother is Mira Nair, the movie director. I have to believe that he's learned quite a lot about the power of the right image just watching her as he grew up.
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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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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'm not British, what's a "charity shop" and why is it so high on the decline side of the list?
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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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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
you joke but a few years ago I had a student named Tesla.
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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I like it but I'm not sure even appealing in the name of child safety helps. Halloween has the highest child pedestrian fatalities out of all 365 days of the year in the US, and no amount of begging drivers to be more cautious that day seems to have moved the needle.
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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?”

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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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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I have a Bluetooth speaker (Ultimate Ears Roll 2) that I put on my bike, and while riding on trails I play music so that as I come up behind people they hear my music before they hear me. There are still people who are walking with earbuds in, but they don't respond to bells or verbal calls either.
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