Laura Ruby
@thatlauraruby.bsky.social
Novelist, poet, teacher, unrepentant cat-lover, cancer patient, two-time National Book Award Finalist. Bone Gap, Thirteen Doorways, etc. Made of bees. @thatlauraruby on most socials. www.lauraruby.com
Did your school have a library growing up? It’s less common in the U.S. now than it used to be. And nearly one in three public schools today have no librarian at all. @becalzada.bsky.social @aaslala.bsky.social the1a.org/segments/the...
The future of the school library
At the start of another academic year, 1A is in session.
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Have you identified a pervasive societal problem or was one person weird to you
Today, the Heritage Foundation, the org behind Project2025, took credit for driving Lonnie Bunch out the Smithsonian Institution. Bunch was the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian. But sure, tell me again how it’s not about racism.
Turns out you really do need food inspectors after all
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 3d agoThe FDA has announced a recall of 25 varieties of cream cheese due to possible contamination with listeria.
We already knew Egyptian intelligence warned Israel ahead of Oct. 7 and the Netanyahu govt dismissed it. Now we learn UAE leader MBZ warned Bibi directly that Hamas was about to try something big. He dismissed that too. One of the worst security failures in history. And followed by so much awful.
Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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I'm donating right now. Help if you can.
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MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply.
Alice Weidel, the leader of the neo Nazi AfD party in Germany, is a lesbian woman married to an immigrant woman of color with two adopted kids She is proudly anti immigrant, anti LGBT and anti LGBT adoption and lives primarily in Switzerland. Rights for me, none for thee.
Studies show that watching a beaver eating cabbage lowers stress levels by 15% so enjoy 😊
Foreign billionaire meddles in German elections by openly supporting far-right extremists who achieve the largest vote share since March 1933.
Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’
Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’
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Book banners tried to have me arrested. Tried to have me fired. Tried to destroy my life. Thankfully, I didn’t run into any of them at the Emmy Awards.
If you like @anneursu.bsky.social (and who doesn't? She's already on this list!), I strongly suggest you check out @thatlauraruby.bsky.social 's YORK series: bookshop.org/p/books/york...
York: The Shadow Cipher
“The pleasures of the novel go far beyond the crackling, breathless plot and the satisfaction of watching the puzzle fall into place. The book is shot through with humor, both laugh-out-loud and subtl...
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What if a man was large. What if a man was woke. What if a man was large and woke. What if a large, woke man could also sing Norah Jones. www.threads.com/share/BAWoJE...
David C. 🇭🇹 (@elclodomiro) on Threads
Did you think you'd see Alan Ritchson singing some Norah Jones today? I sure as hell didn't!
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Hey friends! I am seeing that a certain Awful Lady and her unbroken record of sociopathic harm is back in the discourse. And boy. She really sucks. But maybe we can take this opportunity to highlight and celebrate children's authors who AREN'T transphobic pieces of shit. Great. I'll start...
And yet somehow Harry Potter got a second season without airing a single episode ALMOST AS IF QUALITY IS SECONDARY TO THE PERSONAL WHIMS AND BIASES OF THE EXECUTIVES INVOLVED
weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · last wk.yeah, who wants a series that got 11 Emmy nominations, a 92% RT score, and everyone seemed to like
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.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last wk.BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.
It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.
Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · last wk."Mr. Mamdani is a master of new media... But as mayor, he has also been able to use taxpayer funds to create a sprawling network of hundreds of friendly influencers to boost his priorities, provide positive depictions of his administration and enhance his popularity."
Reading the USPS whistleblower's narrative, it comes through quite clearly that this new rule is bad. But election administration experts are starting to do the math and demonstrating just how bad — it could take weeks or years to send ballots under this system!! Even if everything else goes right!
Under Trump’s Executive Order, Sending Mail-in Ballots Could Take Weeks or Years
‘Years’ to Send Out Mail-in Ballots Election experts are examining the new...
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It's probably too soon for them to course-correct on this, but if the Costume Institute decided to feature all of Dolly's stage costumes in an exhibit, you'd have one mf-ing epic Met Gala red carpet
This is obscene. No one in the GOP will say a word about it.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last wk.New footage of bulldozers plowing through Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to construct a border wall.
HEY did you know i made a giant starter pack of trans and trans-inclusive comic creatives? get followin'!
when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies
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Anybody gonna be asked to "disavow" this gutter racist? Or ...
New York Magazine@nymag.com · last wk.Elon Musk is expected to spend upward of $100 million to boost Republicans in the the midterm elections.
Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · last wk.I recently finished a book called "Revenge For the Sixties" by Peter Canellos about Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito. But I wanna focus specifically on the book title here, because that's what I believe is going on here, and it even alludes to it in the article 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
Quick, time to assign a research paper!
Pop Base@popbase.tv · last wk.ChatGPT, Claude & Grok are currently down, according to users.
