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Laura Ruby

Novelist, poet, teacher, NBA Finalist & Printz Winner, cancer patient. BONE GAP, THIRTEEN DOORWAYS, etc. She/her "Self-consciously fancy-pants." Made of bees. 
Lauraruby.com

#books #poetry #kidlit #PopCulture #SFF #SocialJustice #Writing #Teacher #teaching #Arts #Narrative #Genre

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Benjamin Wittesbenjaminwittes@thecooltable.wtf
2023-05-13

Can Joe Biden Nuke the Debt Ceiling?
The argument isn't bad.
Plus, an emu on the loose in Central Illinois is today's #BeastOfTheDay
dogshirtdaily.com/p/can-biden-

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chickweedearthchild
2023-05-09

Montreal-based artist Raku Inoue used sticks, seeds and petals to create his Natura Insects series. “I think about the main shape of the insect,” he says, “and try to find something to satisfy that. It’s very much like a puzzle."

The series started as a morning routine over coffee to sharpen his thoughts for the day. “It was never meant to be a complex process, but rather an easygoing, morning mind-stretching exercise.”

Article and photos:

theguardian.com/artanddesign/g

A bee made from plant parts is set against a white background. In shades of black, brown and tan, her black head and buff back are composed of ripe seed heads, and her lower end is made from a tiny pine cone tapering into a very small thorn. Her wings are winged maple seeds, and her legs and antennae are textured pieces of stems and twigs. At the bottom in red is the "Rakkan", the signature and seal pressed by the artist.
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Abandoned AmericaAbandonedAmerica
2023-05-09

I know I'm far from the first person to point this out but it blows my mind how people are going bonkers over AI and how it's going to change everything when every time I use it it just plagiarizes a pre-existing website

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Celeste PewterCeleste_pewter
2023-05-09

Well.

RT @politico@twitter.com

Santos set to face federal criminal charges ow.ly/hS79104Gpp1

🐦🔗: twitter.com/politico/status/16

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Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧charliejane@wandering.shop
2023-05-09

Dear librarians, thank you for all the amazing work you do. Just a reminder: tomorrow, May 10th, is the deadline to apply for a grant from the ALA for their inclusive futures program. #fantasy #books #ya #yafantasy #victoriesgreatherthandeath #writing #spaceopera

instagram.com/stories/charliej

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Laura Rubythatlauraruby@mstdn.social
2023-05-09

Still plenty of time to sign up for my generative writing workshop at Tinker Mountain/Hollins U in Roanoke, VA this June! Scholarships available! All levels welcome! Details here: hollins.edu/academics/workshop #writing #writingworkshop #writingworkshops #YA #MG #kidlit #writer #writers

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Tony, Pretty MuchTonyStark@progressivecafe.social
2023-05-09

Republicans run a con game. It's called the "Two Santas" scheme, developed by Jude Wanniski in the days of Reagan voodoo economics.

Republicans say they’re for limited taxes and small government.

Republicans in reality spend freely on their priorities and enact big tax cuts that mostly benefit the rich. They act like double Santas. They run up the deficit. Then they act like cutting good programs is the solution.

It’s a scam.

nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/0

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Sir Rochard 'Dock' BunsonSrRochardBunson@universeodon.com
2023-05-09

This is the message. Shout it from the rooftops and beat the GOP to death with it.

Tweet: Adam Schiff @RepAdamSchiff Let's not overcomplicate this: Republicans passed a $2 trillion tax cut for billionaires and corporations. And now they're refusing to pay for it. It's really that simple. CAPTION: “Let's not overcomplicate this: Republicans passed a $2 trillion tax cut for billionaires and corporations. And now they're refusing to pay for it It’s really that simple.”
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Rabbi Danya RuttenbergTheRaDR@mstdn.social
2023-05-09

THANK YOU, E. JEAN CAROLL.

Believe women. Believe all victim-survivors.

Create a world in which all victim-survivors are supported, believed, cared for, attended to.

Hold abusers accountable.

Create a world free from abuse, from trauma, from harm.

Today is a big day.

Laura Rubythatlauraruby@mstdn.social
2023-05-08

Still plenty of time to sign up for my generative writing workshop at Tinker Mountain/Hollins U in Roanoke, VA this June! Scholarships available! All levels welcome! Details here: hollins.edu/academics/workshop #writing #writingworkshop #writingworkshops #YA #MG #kidlit #writer #writers

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.QasimRashid
2023-04-13

In Texas, Daniel Perry—a white man—posted "he might kill a few people," drove his car past a red light & into a previously peaceful BLM march, shot & killed a protestor, was duly charged, unanimously convicted—& TX Gov Abbott is pardoning him.😳

Texas is announcing to the world that in their view, murdering people for exercising their First Amendment right to peacefully protesting racism is OK.

This isn't democracy. It's fascism. This sets a literally deadly precedent for the future.

Laura Rubythatlauraruby@mstdn.social
2023-04-13

Still plenty of time to sign up for the Tinker Mountain summer residency at Hollins U in June. I'm leading a generative workshop for everyone and anyone who writes for teens/kids or wants to. Plus, you'll be able to sit in on craft talks on poetry, non-fiction, memoir, etc. #writers #writing #writingresidency #authors #author #writingclass #writingworkshops hollins.edu/academics/workshop

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LaffyGottaLaff
2023-04-13

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 A second House Democrat has been reinstated after Republicans expelled him for protesting with gun control advocates.
The Shelby County Board of Commissioners voted 7-0 Wednesday to reinstate state Rep.

huffpost.com/entry/justin-pear

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Laura Rubythatlauraruby@mstdn.social
2023-04-10

Thrilled to be returning to Hollins University for the Tinker Mountain summer residency. I’ll be leading a generative workshop for people who write for kids/teens and those who want to. More info at lauraruby.com events page. #writing #writers #writingconferences #kidlit #yalit #authors

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Max Kennerlymaxkennerly@mstdn.social
2023-04-07

So how did the anti-choice plaintiffs have standing to challenge the FDA's approval of #mifepristone , a drug they don't use and didn't suffer any harm from?

Because the judge, a man appointed by Trump, decided he knew what was best for all women. Some excerpts.

Full opinion here: dropbox.com/s/jnm4r233xat6tv4/

Women also perceive the harm to the informed-consent aspect of the physician-patient relationship. Tn one study, fourteen percent of women and girls reported having received insufficient information about (1) side effects, (2) the intensity of the cramping and bleeding, (3) the next steps after expelling the aborted human, and (4) potential negative emotional reactions like fear, uncertainty, sadness, regret, and pain. See Katherine A. Rafferty & Tessa Longbons, #AbortionChangesYou: A Case Study to Understand the Communicative Tensions in Women's Medication Abortion Narratives, 36 HEALTH = COMMC'N. 1485, 1485-94 (2021). Plaintiff physicians’ lack of pertinent information on chemical abortion harms their physician-patient relationships because they cannot receive informed consent from the women and girls they treat in their clinics. Plaintiffs allege these actions have “radically altered the standard of care.” ECF No. 1-6 at 7.The requirements for third-party standing arc met here because: (1) the patients have “endure[d] many intense side cffects and suffer[ed] significant complications requiting medical attention” and “suffer distress and regret”; (2) the patients have a “close relation” to the physician members of the Plaintiff medical associations; and (3) “some hindrance” exists to the patients” ability to protect their interests. See ECF No. 7 at 13; Powers v. Ohio, 499 U.S. 400, 410-11 (1991); Singleton v. Wulff, 428 U.S. 106, 117 (1976) (women secking abortions may be chilled “by a desire to protect the very privacy of [their] decision from the publicity of a court suit”); Pa. Psychiatric, 280 F.3d at 290 (“[A] party need not face insurmountable hurdles to warrant third- party standing.”). The injuries suffered by patients of the Plaintiff medical associations’ members are sufficient to confer associational standing.Finally, women who have already obtained an abortion may be more hindered than women who challenge restrictions on abortion. Women who have aborted a child — especially through chemical abortion drugs that necessitate the woman seeing her aborted child once it passes — often experience shame, regret, anxiety, depression, drug abuse, and suicidal thoughts because of the abortion. See ECF No. 96 at 25; David C. Reardon et al., Deaths Associated with Pregnancy Outcome: A Record Linkage Study of Low Income Women, 95 S. MED. J. 834, 834-41 (2002) (women who receive abortions have a 154% higher risk of death from suicide than if they gave birth, with persistent tendencies over time and across socioeconomic boundaries, indicating “self- destructive tendencies, depression, and other unhealthy behavior aggravated by the abortion experience”); Priscilla K. Coleman, Abortion and Mental Health: Quantitative Synthesis and Analysis of Research Published 1995-2009, 199 BRITISH J. PSYCHIATRY 180, 180-86 (2011) (same). Subsequently, in addition to the typical privacy concems present in third-party standing in abortion cases, adverse abortion experiences that are often deeply traumatizing pose a hindrance toa woman’s ability to bring suit. In short, Plaintiffs — rather than their patients — are most likely the “least awkward challenger{s]” to Defendants’ actions. Craig v. Boren, 429 U.S. 190, 197 (1976).
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★ Amy Star ★AmyZenunim@unstable.systems
2023-04-06

so it turns out that plants will scream when injured, at around the 40-80 khz range.

cats also have a hearing that tops out around the 80 khz range.

this means that when your cat is eating cat grass, they are secretly also hearing the grass scream at them as it's devoured.

anyway. happy monday everyone

Laura Rubythatlauraruby@mstdn.social
2023-04-05

Thrilled to be returning to Hollins University for the Tinker Mountain summer residency. I’ll be leading a generative workshop for people who write for kids/teens and those who want to. More info at lauraruby.com events page. #writing #writers #writingconferences #kidlit #yalit #authors

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Adam Gessaman :vcoffee:adam@windbag.org
2023-04-04

News out of #Tennessee tonight is what a gerrymandered supermajority government does when confronted with popular dissent. But most major networks are too busy with indictment news to report on a state descending into fascism. tennessean.com/story/news/poli

Laura Ruby boosted:
LaffyGottaLaff
2023-04-04

⚠️ Via Sherrilyn Ifill:

This is a VERY SERIOUS situation unfolding in . Reps who stood w/their constituents who came to state house to demand safety are facing expulsion from the House. Their Member ID badges have already been turned off. This is how ends.

Olivia Julianna:

...The Tenn. legis is planning to expel lawmakers who stood w gun control advocates today.

They've been stripped from committee assignments & their member ID’s shut off

THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D.amydiehl@mstdn.social
2023-03-20

US anti-abortion laws "are wildly antagonistic towards pregnant women. They pose pregnancy and childbirth as punishment; they treat the pregnant patient as a person whose pain is deserved, a just consequence of recklessness or immorality."
@moiradonegan
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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