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Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 19d

New post up. It's been a while, but I hope you will enjoy 🙏🫶

open.substack.com/pub/ruthkape...

On doomerism

And why not giving in makes you more powerful than you know

open.substack.com

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Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 2m

Your original post claims ‘facts don’t matter’ when the facts are literally on video.

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 3m

You certainly seem defensive about it.

You have thousands of other guests worth listening to. This one sucks and doesn’t really deserve a platform.

And I understand why people are upset about him being given one. Especially those who may be victims themselves. They matter more.

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 36m

Arrested? Come on Mike, you’re better than this.

Fergie was in a position of power and lorded it over little girls and forced intimate contact them with them against their will.

What on earth about any of that is defensible? It’s not missing nuance. It was
just wrong and always was.

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 1h

Great minds etc

bsky.app/profile/ruth...

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 2h

Strachan

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 1h

Strawn

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Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 2h

Strachan

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 2h

I found it!

Matt’s ‘Sandy Grease theory’ that the entire movie was her fading consciousness as she slowly drowned. Dark!

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Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 2h

I need to know more about this ‘Sandy is actually dead’ theory please.

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 2h

How is it only Wednesday??

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 2h

Jays fans, I think you’d do well to read this piece by @combatdavey.bsky.social before the game tonight

combatdavey.net/october-8-etc/

october 8 etc

combatdavey built your hotrod

combatdavey.net

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 5h

It also definitely wasn’t of its time as someone who was a girl then. We knew it was wrong, creepy and yes abusive then too.

There’s a reason he routinely got booed so loudly at Jays games they had to stop putting him on the Jumbotron.

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 10h

Four games again today, great baseball talk so far throughout this post season. I don’t miss Twitter at all.

A job well done by us all.

a woman in a blue dress is clapping in a crowd of people

ALT: a woman in a blue dress is clapping in a crowd of people

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Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 10h

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah exactly. The intentions were good but the delivery needs some work.

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Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 19h

I can’t decide what’s funnier. His description of his wife slingshotting his baby (who he calls that thing) out of her, or ‘women, man, what a breed’

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 21h

“If I can get seconds, thirds and fourths on that raw milk now? Ooh boy!”

Bryce Harper on the birth of his fourth child, a boy, last week: "I've got an incredible wife, man. She pushed that thing out in three pushes and 30 seconds. She's an absolute monster doing it. Women, man, what a breed.
I'm serious, it's an incredible thing."

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Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 19h

Phrasing

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Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 19h

😭😭😭😭😭😭

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 19h

I literally texted Grey that I will be heartbroken if this man is milkshake ducked.

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 19h

Never tell me anything bad about this man, I do not want to know.

This must remain wholesome. 🙏🙏

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 20h

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

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Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 19h

🙏

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 20h

That’s fair

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 20h

Me every day.

metsfan @metsfan.bsky.social · 20h

I know alt text is for accessibility, but holy crap I wish people would use just because there are so many pictures of people I have no fucking clue who they are and it would be helpful.

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Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 22h

I was however very easily entertained by Michael Winslow making various noises.

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 22h

It sounds just like my classmate Joel playing the trombone in grade 8

Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 1d

What are you not sure about?

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