Ruth Joffre
@ruthjoffre.bsky.social
Author of Night Beast | Co-founder, Nightjar Arts Collective | Instructor at Hugo House & StoryStudio | Editor at Reckoning | Contributing Editor at Copper Nickel | Codex | Queer | Bolivian American
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Ruth Joffre
@ruthjoffre.bsky.social
· Nov 11
I’m told I’m supposed to promote my writing here?? not just post pictures of my dog??? idk seems wrong but I’ll try it
my story collection Night Beast is for fans of Kelly Link and Carmen Maria Machado
it has: gay sex, sleepwalking, slime molds, soulmate timers & more
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my story collection Night Beast is for fans of Kelly Link and Carmen Maria Machado
it has: gay sex, sleepwalking, slime molds, soulmate timers & more
bookshop.org/p/books/nigh...
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won't have em for this weekend, but i've been getting a few more people at my table than I'd like lately asking *very pointedly* if i drew everything myself, so i designed a new sticker this afternoon that will hopefully quell some of those concerns.
#art
#art
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
won't have em for this weekend, but i've been getting a few more people at my table than I'd like lately asking *very pointedly* if i drew everything myself, so i designed a new sticker this afternoon that will hopefully quell some of those concerns.
#art
#art
this was one hell of a puzzle 🧩
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 AM
this was one hell of a puzzle 🧩
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
wrapping up edits on my review of this cool new anthology that comes out a week from today! shoutout to editors @annaleen.bsky.social @older.bsky.social & @drkarenlord.bsky.social
We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
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November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
wrapping up edits on my review of this cool new anthology that comes out a week from today! shoutout to editors @annaleen.bsky.social @older.bsky.social & @drkarenlord.bsky.social
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Took a detour on my way home from the city today to look for snowy owls and lucked into one just before sunset. They're such beautiful birds. #birds 🌿
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Took a detour on my way home from the city today to look for snowy owls and lucked into one just before sunset. They're such beautiful birds. #birds 🌿
this just rewrote my brain chemistry www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaG5...
Tape Bowing Ensemble - Open Reel Ensemble
YouTube video by Open Reel Ensemble
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November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
this just rewrote my brain chemistry www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaG5...
this is good but I think if we all come together and work real hard we can push Republican morale even lower. they think this is as miserable as they can get? they haven’t even begun to experience misery
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
this is good but I think if we all come together and work real hard we can push Republican morale even lower. they think this is as miserable as they can get? they haven’t even begun to experience misery
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Me after every social interaction
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Me after every social interaction
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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Just listened to this on my walk and loved it. Listening to birdsong as the last lines closed the story was just...achingly perfect. @ruthjoffre.bsky.social
#PC916: Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush by Ruth Joffre read by Julia Rios. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated G
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November 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Just listened to this on my walk and loved it. Listening to birdsong as the last lines closed the story was just...achingly perfect. @ruthjoffre.bsky.social
late night deer crossing
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM
late night deer crossing
me? at a show? at 9 PM?? I’m too old and lesbian for that
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 AM
me? at a show? at 9 PM?? I’m too old and lesbian for that
today I made my first ever zine! it was so satisfying to fold. like, I made this! with my hands! incredible
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
today I made my first ever zine! it was so satisfying to fold. like, I made this! with my hands! incredible
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don’t touch that it’s my emotional support second short story collection I must write before my first novel
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
don’t touch that it’s my emotional support second short story collection I must write before my first novel
all the AI slop out there makes me want the most aggressively analog stories out there. like I want a one-of-a-kind homemade zine someone tucked into a baggie in the hollow of a tree, and I want that zine to include a shitty hand drawn map to a treasure it may or may not take 30 years to find
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
all the AI slop out there makes me want the most aggressively analog stories out there. like I want a one-of-a-kind homemade zine someone tucked into a baggie in the hollow of a tree, and I want that zine to include a shitty hand drawn map to a treasure it may or may not take 30 years to find
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There are coincidences, and there are trends, and then there's this. This is erasure.
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
There are coincidences, and there are trends, and then there's this. This is erasure.
stop. it’s snuggle time
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
stop. it’s snuggle time
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Our ever-expanding catalog of Trump's transgressions now stands at 529 since January 20, 2025. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oct...
Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: October 2025: Atrocities 467-529
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Our ever-expanding catalog of Trump's transgressions now stands at 529 since January 20, 2025. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oct...
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I'm in the current issue of Analog. I managed to negotiate to a contract I was willing to sign. Naively, I thought that established writers giving this feedback would eventually make a dent.
It hasn't. I don't know that it will. I just wrote to Trevor withdrawing a story I'd sold to him.
It hasn't. I don't know that it will. I just wrote to Trevor withdrawing a story I'd sold to him.
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I'm in the current issue of Analog. I managed to negotiate to a contract I was willing to sign. Naively, I thought that established writers giving this feedback would eventually make a dent.
It hasn't. I don't know that it will. I just wrote to Trevor withdrawing a story I'd sold to him.
It hasn't. I don't know that it will. I just wrote to Trevor withdrawing a story I'd sold to him.
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🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
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ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
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November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
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Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
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Doing one of those earnest posts where we kindly remind you that we lost half our operating budget over the summer, and that we're looking for ways to keep this whole thing going, and that if you like what we do or that we exist, the best thing you could possibly do to support us is to subscribe
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November 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Doing one of those earnest posts where we kindly remind you that we lost half our operating budget over the summer, and that we're looking for ways to keep this whole thing going, and that if you like what we do or that we exist, the best thing you could possibly do to support us is to subscribe
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.