Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 20/05/2026These three are canonical from the childhood of my kids and my early childhood list as a librarian. I think it’s cadence that works so beautifully with the lovely art. It might be interesting to note that Brown didn’t have children and didn’t want them. I ponder that often. 010
Reposted by RuthTom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 20/05/2026It’s James Stewart’s birthday. Seen here in Donnie Darko (1950) Dir: Otto Preminger 543143
Reposted by RuthPatrick Samphire 🏴 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 16/05/2026The next James Bond should be Gary Oldman in his Jackson Lamb persona. 3767760867
Reposted by RuthInternet Archive @archive.org · 17/05/2026As high-profile websites vanish, it’s a reminder that the web has no built-in archival layer. But some publishers are now blocking the Wayback Machine. What’s at stake if the web stops being archived? Our new FAQ explains: preserving the public record matters. 🌐📚 help.archive.org/help/faq-pub...help.archive.orgFAQ: Publishers Blocking the Wayback Machine – Internet Archive Help Center 4770366
Reposted by Ruth Louise @louiseplease.bsky.social · 16/05/2026If you never read the book or saw the movie, you missed one of the greatest Pulitzer Prize winning sagas ever written. To dishonor Alex Haley like this is disgraceful. 771101833537
Reposted by RuthGeorge Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad. 22654591829
Reposted by RuthAngeliki T. 💎 in NYC @ellinidata.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 ) 736232207617
Reposted by RuthEveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 17/05/2026In many ways, storytime is the heart and soul of the library: not only does it bring together caregivers and children, but it showcases your local public library’s commitment to your community with respect to early literacy and child development. buff.ly/fLHHj4C #Libraries #Storytime #Childrenbuff.lyLibrary Storytime: It’s a Lot More than just the StoryLibrary Storytime: It’s a Lot More than just the Story 0146
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Tell me more about how terrible student loan forgiveness is the problem. 031
Reposted by RuthDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026May Day is a holiday in 144 countries www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 661707385
Reposted by RuthLogan Mischler @loganmischler1436.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Dems should be running on UBI and M4A. The time to go big is now. 25512
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Fun stuff in the youth services department at Pearl Bailey Library. 000
Reposted by RuthFOX 9 @fox9mn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026U.S. Senator Tina Smith announced her intention to hold the Senate floor to protest legislation that would remove protections for the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.bit.lyMinnesota BWCA: Sen. Smith says she will hold senate floor in protest of vote to remove protectionsU.S. Senator Tina Smith announced her intention to hold the Senate floor to protest legislation that would remove protections for the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. 10666131
Reposted by RuthJ @jjst19.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Currently listening to Senators Smith and Klobuchar go to bat for the Boundary Waters. I appreciate their late night effort, but am near tears as I listen to them talk about its importance and the major threat against it. Hasn't our state suffered enough? www.savetheboundarywaters.orgsavetheboundarywaters.orgProtect the Boundary Waters from sulfide-ore copper mining. 13805167
Reposted by RuthMinnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 16/04/2026Klobuchar pulled hard on Minnesota history while holding the floor, noting she is standing at the desk of Hubert Humphrey, who introduced the bill that was later signed to protect the Boundary Waters.startribune.comLive: Smith plans hourslong Senate speech against measure to open mining near the Boundary WatersIf passed, the legislation would head to President Donald Trump’s desk for a signature. 7554105
Reposted by RuthKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15/04/2026JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court: 342108342517
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Medicare and Social Security are also NOT "technically free stuff." If they were, they wouldn't be a line item out of employee paychecks. 130
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Can we please stop pretending like Vance ever did anything approximating diplomacy or governance prior to being VP? 010
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The elementary school down the road was renamed from a plantation owning enslaver of kidnapped and imprisoned humans to Katherine Johnson and I'm so grateful. She's one of my favorite people of all time. 030
Reposted by RuthEmily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2... 154112281784
Reposted by RuthChanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛 172195424014
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026What an amazing thing to witness. So proud of NASA and the US Navy and everyone that has worked on this mission over many years. Congratulations to the parachute folders and the tile manufacturers. Etc. Etc. You’re amazing. And congratulations to the amazing crew of Artemis II. 000
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Just over here watching the live broadcast for the re-entry of the Artemis II crew. Told my husband that I will likely cry no matter what. As a Gen-Xer, I already have some space feels. It will all be better when the capsule has splashed down and the astronauts are safe. 000
Reposted by RuthMeade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal 9197012721
Reposted by RuthAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Cuba is not in a crisis because it is communist or has an authoritarian government, it’s having a catastrophic humanitarian crisis because the United States is carrying out an illegal siege against the island with the goal of starving and killing thousands for financial gain. 481667656
Reposted by Ruths. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/03/2026Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.calmatters.orgLake Tahoe isn’t sure where it’s power will come from after the next ski seasonThe area’s longtime power supplier, NV Energy, will cut off the region next year. It has said data centers are driving “unprecedented” demand. 2731981612
Reposted by RuthEvergreen ILS @evergreenils.bsky.social · 19/03/2026The Evergreen Project is pleased to announce the release of Evergreen 3.15.11 and 3.16.5.evergreen-ils.orgEvergreen 3.15.11 and 3.16.5 releasedThanks to the March release team: Michele Morgan (NOBLE), Gina Monti (Bibliomation), Martha Driscoll (NOBLE), and Galen Charlton (Equinox) as well as the individuals and organizations who contributed and sponsored the improvements released today. 022
Reposted by RuthRichard Littauer @richlitt.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Does anyone know of any recent studies around the effectiveness of different extrinsic (e.g. financial) vs intrinsic (e.g. community altruism) motivators for open source contributors? Asking for me, a friend, and also the rest of the OSS community. 296
Reposted by RuthDefend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Henrietta Lacks was a Black woman whose (ovarian) cancer cells were used wo her/her family’s consent. Her cells are what would become the HeLa cell, the first immortalized human cell line & one of the most important in medical research. #BackHistoryMonth 532536877
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I looked up the video and have nothing but regrets and mushrooming disdain. 000
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I can say with certainty that I've never read a Supreme Court opinion as thoroughly as this one. FDT and his chaos machine. 000
Reposted by RuthSteve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026SCOTUS, in a 6-3 vote, rules against President Trump’s global tariffs. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...supremecourt.gov 1359
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Ah yes. The rancid stench of fetid and moldy locker room oversprayed with budget air freshener. 000
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026For me, my "stomach ache" was just something that happened overnight. For those that are part of the fabric of my digestive system, generations lived and died and never knew a whole life time of peace. And so I think about the times we live in. Perhaps it is an overnight bout of gastroenteritis. 10. 000
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026And, I was thinking about what that means for humans and other animals; bugs and birds; trees and flowers; and everything that is somehow its own universe no matter how simple or complex. We are changed because our constituencies change. It is a truly beautiful, delicate, and intricate dance. 9/ 100
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026But, I digress. I was not thinking about the demise of universal constituency when I die. Not when I first woke up. No. I was thinking about the role of bacteria in evolutionary processes. I was thinking about how worlds are shaped and permanently transformed by their inhabitants. 8/ 100
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I know that to them - even more so than to my children - I am their everything. I am their purpose; their context; their memory; their uncertainty; and, their future. I am their mythology and their sun that will burn out. And I will. Burn out. And some of them will escape at the last minute. 7/ 100
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026The list of interventions goes on and on and on reaching to all the places in the universe of me that I know and don't know. There are more places that I don't know in this realm than I do. More constituents that I haven't met; more neighborhoods that I haven't visited. But I know they exist. 6/ 100
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026This morning, I thought about how we are constantly being changed by our resident and transients "internal" constituents both intentionally and unintentionally. Prebiotic juices and probiotic yogurts. Sugar fasts and colonic cleanses. Vitamins for skin health and hormones for longevity. 5/ 100
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026And I thought about how we organic beings at this scale I understand share our populations. There are no citizens. Just populations. Generations will remain within me while some may migrate elsewhere through myriad modes of travel between the universes of us. 4/ 100
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Last night, I had an "upset stomach." Yes, it caused me pain; but, it also provided a reminder. My pain is not just mine. It belongs to the constituency that inhabits and creates me. It is the avalanche and the tsunami and the magnetic storm and, sometimes, the war. 3/ 100
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026This morning, I woke up thinking about the planet of me within the solar system/galaxy/universe of us. I thought about all of it throughout time and how we exist in stages and statuses. And I thought about bacteria. Not just bacteria, but they seemed to be the focus. 2/ 100
Ruth @ruthdavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026When I'm feeling a little down or lonely, a thought pops into my head. A reminder. I am not just me. Not only am part of a legacy and lineage of ancestors and cousins and descendants, I am a constituency of bacteria and other organisms; of specialized cells and entire ecosystems. 1/ 100
Reposted by RuthRob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 15/02/2026UBI isn't shot down because it doesn't make economic sense, it's shot down because it empowers workers. You don't have to hate your job under UBI because you can afford to leave. Employers will be compelled to respect your rights because they can't count on your desperation any longer. 311842