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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you!!!

Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 4h

Ha! Since the spring, I have 2 new vastly different design talks and 4 net new cable talks (although those have a lot of overlap, but 4 different audiences, themes, etc)

Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 4h

Ty!!!

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15h

That’s not how consent works.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 11h

That’s how I read it, as quietly damning, and like it had been sent back for edits to create a shift in framing, which was never quite complete.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 23h

WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 12h

Ok now I have written my talk and made my deck for my FIFTH talk in 4 weeks (although I recycled one talk twice bc it was informal) which is on Tuesday so please clap

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 12h

I’m doing a talk on it at Button! It’s more from the perspective of what it costs the discipline when we have to rent the tools for our work, how many there are, and the cost, but yes, this is a crisis!

And add to it, I have to navigate SO many consequential things in a language I’m bad at :(

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 16h

NGL if I was a cast member and I made it out of the pods, getting me to spend 4 weeks in the seaport would be like this

a woman is standing next to a bulldog in a living room with the words viralhog on the bottom

Alt: a woman is standing next to a bulldog in a living room with the words viralhog on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 16h

Love is Blind S9 is a messfest and nobody is gonna end up married, so already looking forward to the Boston season, where I suspect they’ll make the couples live in the Seaport and it will trigger a dramatic hometowner/transplant split

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Claire Phillips @clairephillips.bsky.social · 1d

N+1 is looking for a managing editor. Who's got the time? The talent? Healthcare is a definite plus!!

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

n+1 Seeks Managing Editor

n+1 is seeking a full-time Managing Editor to work in our Brooklyn office. Compensation will range from $58,000 to $64,000 and includes health and dental insurance. n+1 is a print magazine of literatu...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

The era of "It isn't fair to pick on him, he's just a kid, he didn't choose to be in the limelight" is definitely over, so feel free to say he looks like he throws pets into a woodchipper with an expressionless face and a heart rate of 60bpm.

Trump's weird, serial killer-looking son might get a top job at TikTok.

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 1d

Omg I bow to your pun skills 😂

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 2d

I would certainly never call my research electrifying! I just want the big mean man babies to have to be as humiliated as they plan to make me.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 2d

It would be my preference that someone would step in and say, “don’t answer that” and “does anyone have a question that’s not an insult?” But most people don’t know how to moderate a discussion, so I would never expect it.

(At one of my own events, you’d be kicked out without hesitation.)

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 2d

Is it passive aggressive if the next time I talk about my research, I preempt the rude “how are you valid” by saying “in case you’re waiting for question time to ask how I’m valid, I brought some pacifiers for the giant babies in the room” and like, actually have a bag of pacifiers?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 2d

The company here is funded by Lux Capital, also leading rounds for Saildrone, the company piloting USVs in the Baltic. Seems like if they get their way, there will be no more night sky, and the ocean ecosystems will just be a constellation of armed robots.

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 2d

Oof, Lux Capital, was just reading about them yesterday. One of the venture partners is a former director of the CIA, and they specialize in autonomous weapons. They’re also investing in the USV company being piloted in the Baltic.

I guess at least they won’t get far with a €20m series A?

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 2d

You dont get rapes of this scale without an official blind eye

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

mshale.com/2025/10/09/a...

African visitors to the U.S. to pay $15,000 visa bonds - Mshale

Citizens of seven African nations will need to post a bond of up to $15,000 to apply for a U.S. visitors visa in a new pilot program that runs through Aug. 2026.

mshale.com

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 2d

I mean I also pointed out that if the guy is so obsessed with attacks, he can look up any number of realtime attack maps and watch attack attempts happen through Internet networks.

Then I said “does anyone have a question that is not about security?” AND HE DID IT AGAIN