Brian Ruh
@brianruh.bsky.social
Independent scholar, PhD in communication and culture, occasional writer, always looking for a new project. I wrote a book on Mamoru Oshii’s films.
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Odd. My cranberry sauce didn’t gel as much as it usually does. It has the right flavor though, so I’m not sure what happened.
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Odd. My cranberry sauce didn’t gel as much as it usually does. It has the right flavor though, so I’m not sure what happened.
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Hey @support.bsky.team I was never told why I was put in time-out and as a result no lessons have been learned
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Hey @support.bsky.team I was never told why I was put in time-out and as a result no lessons have been learned
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Threw It On The Ground forcefully expresses a prescient critique of generative AI before its invention. In this essay, I will
a man is talking to a woman who is holding a cellphone and says man this ain t my dad
Alt: Scene from Threw It On The Ground music video in which our main character indeed throws a cell phone on the ground
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Threw It On The Ground forcefully expresses a prescient critique of generative AI before its invention. In this essay, I will
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I truly need "AI Won't Stand in Authentic Wonder" swag sold in the Vatican gift shop. Also, I will need it on a tote and shirt.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I truly need "AI Won't Stand in Authentic Wonder" swag sold in the Vatican gift shop. Also, I will need it on a tote and shirt.
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Hey, if you're in the US, you may have time in a car or on a plane this week. Do yourself a favor...download and binge the "Capitalism" season of @sceneonradio.bsky.social It made me hopeful that there IS a life after this *** waves hands around *** that is possible and maybe even BETTER.
Capitalism
Capitalism moves mountains, sometimes literally. It’s unchallenged as the world’s dominant economic system. And yet, in its current form, capitalism is on trial as it hasn’t been for at lea
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November 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Patlabor EZY x Musashino city collab.
(aka when manga/anime are used to revitalize Japanese cities)
animan634.com/animan_matsu...
(aka when manga/anime are used to revitalize Japanese cities)
animan634.com/animan_matsu...
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Patlabor EZY x Musashino city collab.
(aka when manga/anime are used to revitalize Japanese cities)
animan634.com/animan_matsu...
(aka when manga/anime are used to revitalize Japanese cities)
animan634.com/animan_matsu...
Working this morning because I got a page, even though I’m technically on PTO.
At least I have someone guarding my office door.
At least I have someone guarding my office door.
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Working this morning because I got a page, even though I’m technically on PTO.
At least I have someone guarding my office door.
At least I have someone guarding my office door.
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Delivering in the frozen moon.
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Delivering in the frozen moon.
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You meet the users where they are to stop them doing the stupidest shit imaginable.
You have no idea how much this paid off. The number of infected media players people downloaded in the age before Windows Media Player had more than three codecs is unimaginable
Who knows if I saved the firm
You have no idea how much this paid off. The number of infected media players people downloaded in the age before Windows Media Player had more than three codecs is unimaginable
Who knows if I saved the firm
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
You meet the users where they are to stop them doing the stupidest shit imaginable.
You have no idea how much this paid off. The number of infected media players people downloaded in the age before Windows Media Player had more than three codecs is unimaginable
Who knows if I saved the firm
You have no idea how much this paid off. The number of infected media players people downloaded in the age before Windows Media Player had more than three codecs is unimaginable
Who knows if I saved the firm
I'm really not a fan of books that only exist as ebooks having promo images that make them look like physical books.
It seems like a kind of a bait-and-switch to me, and then I'm even less interested in what the author has to say.
It seems like a kind of a bait-and-switch to me, and then I'm even less interested in what the author has to say.
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I'm really not a fan of books that only exist as ebooks having promo images that make them look like physical books.
It seems like a kind of a bait-and-switch to me, and then I'm even less interested in what the author has to say.
It seems like a kind of a bait-and-switch to me, and then I'm even less interested in what the author has to say.
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I have a story today about interoception--a kind of sixth sense that delivers information from within our bodies to our brains. nyti.ms/4rfTDtn
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I have a story today about interoception--a kind of sixth sense that delivers information from within our bodies to our brains. nyti.ms/4rfTDtn
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最近描いた変なでんしゃも貼っておくね。
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
最近描いた変なでんしゃも貼っておくね。
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I don’t do this often, but a group of rare prints recently made their way back to me from a collector going through a rough time. 50% of the proceeds will go to Feeding America, because times are tough for lots of us right now. Check them out here - www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?i...
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I don’t do this often, but a group of rare prints recently made their way back to me from a collector going through a rough time. 50% of the proceeds will go to Feeding America, because times are tough for lots of us right now. Check them out here - www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?i...
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"Tenshi no Tamago" sculptures created by Entei Ryu (www.instagram.com/badzrliuwt).
Her artbooks >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...
Her artbooks >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Tenshi no Tamago" sculptures created by Entei Ryu (www.instagram.com/badzrliuwt).
Her artbooks >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...
Her artbooks >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...
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"Angel's Egg" 40th anniversary exhibition is now open.
press.moviewalker.jp/news/article...
press.moviewalker.jp/news/article...
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
"Angel's Egg" 40th anniversary exhibition is now open.
press.moviewalker.jp/news/article...
press.moviewalker.jp/news/article...
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Thirty years ago I had the most damaged hair I’ve ever had, I think.
It was my first semester at university, and I’d bleached and dyed my hair green. But we were going up to Chicago to see my grandpa for Thanksgiving. So I re-bleached it and re-dyed it a more natural color.
It was my first semester at university, and I’d bleached and dyed my hair green. But we were going up to Chicago to see my grandpa for Thanksgiving. So I re-bleached it and re-dyed it a more natural color.
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Thirty years ago I had the most damaged hair I’ve ever had, I think.
It was my first semester at university, and I’d bleached and dyed my hair green. But we were going up to Chicago to see my grandpa for Thanksgiving. So I re-bleached it and re-dyed it a more natural color.
It was my first semester at university, and I’d bleached and dyed my hair green. But we were going up to Chicago to see my grandpa for Thanksgiving. So I re-bleached it and re-dyed it a more natural color.
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今日のまとめ。
今日はまず渋谷シネクイントで『天使のたまご』押井監督舞台挨拶付き上映を観て、
今日はまず渋谷シネクイントで『天使のたまご』押井監督舞台挨拶付き上映を観て、
November 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
今日のまとめ。
今日はまず渋谷シネクイントで『天使のたまご』押井監督舞台挨拶付き上映を観て、
今日はまず渋谷シネクイントで『天使のたまご』押井監督舞台挨拶付き上映を観て、
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I used to love teaching his movie, The Harder They Come. Such a brilliant film. RIP to a legend.
Wow, RIP. My father played guitar for him for several years.
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I used to love teaching his movie, The Harder They Come. Such a brilliant film. RIP to a legend.
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The oldest brewing school in the U.S. is leaving Chicago for Canada, citing Trump visa restrictions. blockclubchi.co/4oaLGmn
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The oldest brewing school in the U.S. is leaving Chicago for Canada, citing Trump visa restrictions. blockclubchi.co/4oaLGmn
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Annual pilgrimage to the Urusei Yatsura graffiti tag
November 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Annual pilgrimage to the Urusei Yatsura graffiti tag
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Apparently #AngelsEgg is getting its due flowers in Japan after 30 years and I couldn't be happier for #MamoruOshii and #YoshitakaAmano ❤
Poster illustrated by me.
#天使のたまご #anime #art
Poster illustrated by me.
#天使のたまご #anime #art
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Apparently #AngelsEgg is getting its due flowers in Japan after 30 years and I couldn't be happier for #MamoruOshii and #YoshitakaAmano ❤
Poster illustrated by me.
#天使のたまご #anime #art
Poster illustrated by me.
#天使のたまご #anime #art
The Ramones were supposedly named after a pseudonym Paul McCartney used, and if it was good enough for the brothers, it was good enough for me.
Me and the overwhelming majority of other people I knew who got into punk at least somewhat liked the Beatles; we took after Glen Matlock rather than John Lydon on this score
I am in the middle of the Gen X birth-cohort distribution and my own experience was that the two modal positions were that you either loved the Beatles or were indifferent to them. Performative Beatles hate was more or less over even among punks in my neck of the woods by the waning of the ‘80s.
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Ramones were supposedly named after a pseudonym Paul McCartney used, and if it was good enough for the brothers, it was good enough for me.
Although I’ve loved the Chronicles of Prydain since I was little, I’ve never read anything else by Lloyd Alexander. In an attempt to rectify this, I just started on Westmark. Unsurprisingly, it’s quite good as well.
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Although I’ve loved the Chronicles of Prydain since I was little, I’ve never read anything else by Lloyd Alexander. In an attempt to rectify this, I just started on Westmark. Unsurprisingly, it’s quite good as well.