Ruth Spanos
@rspanos.bsky.social
She/her. Mom of a college student. Wife. School Speech-Language Pathologist. Small town Mayor. Grateful for my life and lack of attention from the world at large. Opinions totally my own. Wish I could make the world better for everyone.
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In case y’all were curious how I wrangle the yarn cakes themselves when doing colourwork, or socks w/contrast heel and toe…I use my Bon-bon Bag.
Yes, I knit a bag for my knitting, and you can too 🧶😌
#KnitSky
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Yes, I knit a bag for my knitting, and you can too 🧶😌
#KnitSky
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
January 2, 2026 at 12:55 AM
In case y’all were curious how I wrangle the yarn cakes themselves when doing colourwork, or socks w/contrast heel and toe…I use my Bon-bon Bag.
Yes, I knit a bag for my knitting, and you can too 🧶😌
#KnitSky
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Yes, I knit a bag for my knitting, and you can too 🧶😌
#KnitSky
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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It's that time of year.
December 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It's that time of year.
That Sam Altman, that Sam Altman, I do not like that Sam Altman.
---Do you like LLM AI?
I do not like it Sam Altman.
I do not like LLM AI.
---Would you like some at home and work?
I would not like it home or work
I would not like it Sam, you jerk.
---Do you like LLM AI?
I do not like it Sam Altman.
I do not like LLM AI.
---Would you like some at home and work?
I would not like it home or work
I would not like it Sam, you jerk.
I do not want AI in my house.
I do not want AI to generate a blouse.
I do not want it in my games
I do not want it to win fame.
I do not want it, to be fair,
Because I do not want it anywhere
I do not want AI to generate a blouse.
I do not want it in my games
I do not want it to win fame.
I do not want it, to be fair,
Because I do not want it anywhere
I don't want gen AI in my browser.
I don't want gen AI in my PC.
I don't want gen AI in my art.
I don't want gen AI in my games.
I don't want gen AI in my music.
I don't want gen AI in my movies.
I don't want gen AI in my books.
I don't want gen AI in my cart.
I don't want gen AI in my LIFE.
I don't want gen AI in my PC.
I don't want gen AI in my art.
I don't want gen AI in my games.
I don't want gen AI in my music.
I don't want gen AI in my movies.
I don't want gen AI in my books.
I don't want gen AI in my cart.
I don't want gen AI in my LIFE.
December 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
That Sam Altman, that Sam Altman, I do not like that Sam Altman.
---Do you like LLM AI?
I do not like it Sam Altman.
I do not like LLM AI.
---Would you like some at home and work?
I would not like it home or work
I would not like it Sam, you jerk.
---Do you like LLM AI?
I do not like it Sam Altman.
I do not like LLM AI.
---Would you like some at home and work?
I would not like it home or work
I would not like it Sam, you jerk.
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No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
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“Miss, do you agree with the sign?”
“Absolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in women’s bodies she was forced to deliver the fetus… there’s a reason God created medicine.”🔥
#ForcedBirthNation
“Absolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in women’s bodies she was forced to deliver the fetus… there’s a reason God created medicine.”🔥
#ForcedBirthNation
December 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“Miss, do you agree with the sign?”
“Absolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in women’s bodies she was forced to deliver the fetus… there’s a reason God created medicine.”🔥
#ForcedBirthNation
“Absolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in women’s bodies she was forced to deliver the fetus… there’s a reason God created medicine.”🔥
#ForcedBirthNation
Did somebody watch the Muppets Christmas Carol?
Just because you act like Scrooge doesn’t mean you get to hang out with Kermit and Miss Piggy.
Just because you act like Scrooge doesn’t mean you get to hang out with Kermit and Miss Piggy.
December 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Did somebody watch the Muppets Christmas Carol?
Just because you act like Scrooge doesn’t mean you get to hang out with Kermit and Miss Piggy.
Just because you act like Scrooge doesn’t mean you get to hang out with Kermit and Miss Piggy.
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Not wanting to host a stranger at your home, of course, is the standard for locking someone up in a foreign concentration camp.
Do I want the Salvation Army singers at my house? No. Off to the forever prison then, those are our only two options I’m afraid.
Do I want the Salvation Army singers at my house? No. Off to the forever prison then, those are our only two options I’m afraid.
December 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Not wanting to host a stranger at your home, of course, is the standard for locking someone up in a foreign concentration camp.
Do I want the Salvation Army singers at my house? No. Off to the forever prison then, those are our only two options I’m afraid.
Do I want the Salvation Army singers at my house? No. Off to the forever prison then, those are our only two options I’m afraid.
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Trump's VA just banned abortion care for veterans—even in cases of rape, incest, or threats to health.
This is cruel, and dangerous.
This is cruel, and dangerous.
December 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Trump's VA just banned abortion care for veterans—even in cases of rape, incest, or threats to health.
This is cruel, and dangerous.
This is cruel, and dangerous.
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So fascists love brutality, not because it creates safety & security & plenty, but because it creates danger & uncertainty & lack.
Creating something of value is a threat to those who create nothing and deliver only theft.
But if you hold power despite creating nothing but pain, you dominate.
Creating something of value is a threat to those who create nothing and deliver only theft.
But if you hold power despite creating nothing but pain, you dominate.
December 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
So fascists love brutality, not because it creates safety & security & plenty, but because it creates danger & uncertainty & lack.
Creating something of value is a threat to those who create nothing and deliver only theft.
But if you hold power despite creating nothing but pain, you dominate.
Creating something of value is a threat to those who create nothing and deliver only theft.
But if you hold power despite creating nothing but pain, you dominate.
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You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
There should be more stories about directors like Reiner who apparently was actively kind and supportive to children who appeared in his films. And got amazing performances from them.
two boys hugging each other with the words stand by me below them
Alt: Scene from the movie Stand By Me with one boy crying and the other comforting him
media.tenor.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
There should be more stories about directors like Reiner who apparently was actively kind and supportive to children who appeared in his films. And got amazing performances from them.
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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I'm a social scientist/behavioral analyst, specialized in cross-cultural perspectives.
About gun violence in the U.S. I have a few things to say: 🧵
1) Widespread gun violence has been the way it is for so long because the people in POWER here simply do NOT want to change it. 1/8
About gun violence in the U.S. I have a few things to say: 🧵
1) Widespread gun violence has been the way it is for so long because the people in POWER here simply do NOT want to change it. 1/8
August 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I'm a social scientist/behavioral analyst, specialized in cross-cultural perspectives.
About gun violence in the U.S. I have a few things to say: 🧵
1) Widespread gun violence has been the way it is for so long because the people in POWER here simply do NOT want to change it. 1/8
About gun violence in the U.S. I have a few things to say: 🧵
1) Widespread gun violence has been the way it is for so long because the people in POWER here simply do NOT want to change it. 1/8
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Here's a neat trick you can do.
A little background: Growing up, I adored Woody Allen. I memorized his stand up act. He helped define my identity by showing me how a nerdy little guy like me could fit into the world.
With that in mind, watch me say this: Fuck Woody Allen!
That's the trick.
(1/X)
A little background: Growing up, I adored Woody Allen. I memorized his stand up act. He helped define my identity by showing me how a nerdy little guy like me could fit into the world.
With that in mind, watch me say this: Fuck Woody Allen!
That's the trick.
(1/X)
December 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Here's a neat trick you can do.
A little background: Growing up, I adored Woody Allen. I memorized his stand up act. He helped define my identity by showing me how a nerdy little guy like me could fit into the world.
With that in mind, watch me say this: Fuck Woody Allen!
That's the trick.
(1/X)
A little background: Growing up, I adored Woody Allen. I memorized his stand up act. He helped define my identity by showing me how a nerdy little guy like me could fit into the world.
With that in mind, watch me say this: Fuck Woody Allen!
That's the trick.
(1/X)
Preschool craft…glitter
December 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Preschool craft…glitter
Don’t let them kill us.
Get vaccinated!
Get vaccinated!
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it. n.pr/4iyLXyd
CDC's vaccine advisers meet to question long-used vaccines
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.
n.pr
December 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Don’t let them kill us.
Get vaccinated!
Get vaccinated!
While there’s a lot to be said for providing child care. And for reducing the time between school years.
How does one cut funding and increase the days and hours schools are open?
And hold classes in summer in schools which don’t have air conditioning?
How does one cut funding and increase the days and hours schools are open?
And hold classes in summer in schools which don’t have air conditioning?
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
While there’s a lot to be said for providing child care. And for reducing the time between school years.
How does one cut funding and increase the days and hours schools are open?
And hold classes in summer in schools which don’t have air conditioning?
How does one cut funding and increase the days and hours schools are open?
And hold classes in summer in schools which don’t have air conditioning?
Every whisper, of every waking hour
I'm choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt, lost and blinded fool, fool
Oh no, I've said too much
I set it up
I'm choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt, lost and blinded fool, fool
Oh no, I've said too much
I set it up
Someone to hold you too close
Someone to hurt you too deep
Someone to hurt you too deep
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Every whisper, of every waking hour
I'm choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt, lost and blinded fool, fool
Oh no, I've said too much
I set it up
I'm choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt, lost and blinded fool, fool
Oh no, I've said too much
I set it up
Such a nice surprise to be treated to a @tmbg.bsky.social concert. No surprise there was a long line for the restroom…or that the line was orderly and polite.
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Such a nice surprise to be treated to a @tmbg.bsky.social concert. No surprise there was a long line for the restroom…or that the line was orderly and polite.
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while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
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"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
—FDR, 1936
—FDR, 1936
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
—FDR, 1936
—FDR, 1936
It’s almost like leaving young women in vulnerable circumstances is the whole point of the current leadership.
Oh shit it was Circumstances?? Why haven’t we arrested Circumstances yet
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It’s almost like leaving young women in vulnerable circumstances is the whole point of the current leadership.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX