Stephanie Ruble
@stephanieruble.bsky.social
I draw and paint animals, mostly cats. I also sell art and stickers.
Shop & Site: http://sruble.com
Also: @srublenews.bsky.social
Pronouns: She / Her
Shop & Site: http://sruble.com
Also: @srublenews.bsky.social
Pronouns: She / Her
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Happy #NationalCandyCornDay!
Candy corn reminds me of Halloween, so I re-imagined it as a Halloween cat!
I think this would make a great spooky season puzzle. What do you think?
#Halloween #candycorn #cats #spookyseason #kidlitart #puzzleart #holidays #OriginalArt
Candy corn reminds me of Halloween, so I re-imagined it as a Halloween cat!
I think this would make a great spooky season puzzle. What do you think?
#Halloween #candycorn #cats #spookyseason #kidlitart #puzzleart #holidays #OriginalArt
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Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW
'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix
YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix
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December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW
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It’s also well to point out how anti-capitalist this is. Products expand because there is money to be made. It’s not a movement.
Black people are in ads because they buy things. Bad Bunny is playing the SB because he has millions of fans.
The change-haters are the anticapitalist ideologues.
Black people are in ads because they buy things. Bad Bunny is playing the SB because he has millions of fans.
The change-haters are the anticapitalist ideologues.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It’s also well to point out how anti-capitalist this is. Products expand because there is money to be made. It’s not a movement.
Black people are in ads because they buy things. Bad Bunny is playing the SB because he has millions of fans.
The change-haters are the anticapitalist ideologues.
Black people are in ads because they buy things. Bad Bunny is playing the SB because he has millions of fans.
The change-haters are the anticapitalist ideologues.
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Just once I want one of these victim-blaming headlines to be phrased accurately: “Everyone With Any Real Power Over The Economy Has Purposely Made it So Young People Have No Spending Money”
“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Gen Z Shoppers Aren’t Spending Like Retailers Need Them To
More than other generations, 20-somethings are tightening their holiday-season budgets because of economic pressures.
www.wsj.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Just once I want one of these victim-blaming headlines to be phrased accurately: “Everyone With Any Real Power Over The Economy Has Purposely Made it So Young People Have No Spending Money”
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For the first time in it's 111 year history, LA public defenders will defend clients in immigration court.
A new unit at the LA County Public Defender’s office will do something unprecedented in the county: defend immigrants in court facing deportation.
bit.ly/48KAPLm
A new unit at the LA County Public Defender’s office will do something unprecedented in the county: defend immigrants in court facing deportation.
bit.ly/48KAPLm
For the first time, LA public defenders will defend clients in immigration court
A new unit at the LA County Public Defender’s office will do something unprecedented in the county: defend immigrants in court facing deportation.
bit.ly
December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
For the first time in it's 111 year history, LA public defenders will defend clients in immigration court.
A new unit at the LA County Public Defender’s office will do something unprecedented in the county: defend immigrants in court facing deportation.
bit.ly/48KAPLm
A new unit at the LA County Public Defender’s office will do something unprecedented in the county: defend immigrants in court facing deportation.
bit.ly/48KAPLm
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This is what blows me away every time. There's no one who NEEDS predictive text machines. It's not curing cancer or feeding people or producing clean energy. It's just sucking up resources, convincing CEOs to fire humans who do better jobs than it can do, and allowing founders to siphon VC money
"will require a breakthrough energy source" my dude, it requires nothing because it doesn't need to exist. you WANT a breakthrough energy source to keep playing, and you can get in line behind the people who actually need it #comemierda
«Le monde se dirige en fait vers une très grave crise énergétique à cause de l'IA, à moins que nous ne résolvions quelques problèmes» [EN] futurism.com/sam-altman-e...
January 31, 2024 at 1:54 PM
This is what blows me away every time. There's no one who NEEDS predictive text machines. It's not curing cancer or feeding people or producing clean energy. It's just sucking up resources, convincing CEOs to fire humans who do better jobs than it can do, and allowing founders to siphon VC money
Thread on OpenAI ruling and what it means for writers:
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Thread on OpenAI ruling and what it means for writers:
Heads up for the New York folks who follow me:
ICE is staging in a garage on Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan ahead of what neighbors believe is a planned large-scale raid of Canal
Street this afternoon.
Estimated 20-25 agents inside, with more steadily joining, some taken by surprise and caught with their masks down.
Street this afternoon.
Estimated 20-25 agents inside, with more steadily joining, some taken by surprise and caught with their masks down.
November 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Heads up for the New York folks who follow me:
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Remember when people on the board of OpenAI staged a coup to oust Altman because they said he couldn’t be trusted with this technology? Maybe, just maybe, everyone should have listened to them.
I deeply despise these people, need for this buble to burst ASAP, and want this man underneath a whole entire jail. This entire country is ghouls akimbo
OpenAI says teen's 'misuse' of ChatGPT is to blame for his suicide, because he broke the TOU: 'Users must comply with OpenAI's Usage Policies, which prohibit the use of ChatGPT for suicide or self-har...
The lawyer presenting Adam Raine's family calls the response "disturbing" and I have to agree.
www.pcgamer.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Remember when people on the board of OpenAI staged a coup to oust Altman because they said he couldn’t be trusted with this technology? Maybe, just maybe, everyone should have listened to them.
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Happy Thanksgiving! Have you discovered a kid who LOVES baking? Meet Ivy! Books make great gifts for the holidays--and any days! #kidlit
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! Have you discovered a kid who LOVES baking? Meet Ivy! Books make great gifts for the holidays--and any days! #kidlit
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I'm already an above average writer so any supposed advantage to using an LLM goes out the window. I am not an above average artist, but that's why I pay artists when I need art. Remember I have it in my contracts that all work on my books (art, editing, translation, etc) has to be done by humans.
I imagine LLMs are less useful for expert wordsmiths like Mr. Scalzi.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I'm already an above average writer so any supposed advantage to using an LLM goes out the window. I am not an above average artist, but that's why I pay artists when I need art. Remember I have it in my contracts that all work on my books (art, editing, translation, etc) has to be done by humans.
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Interesting video about the state of Pinterest and where else to look for references. This seems to be targeting knitters and I suspect it got pushed to me because just yesterday I was looking for Nordic textile references online (and struggling.)
youtu.be/kFknMA4cWKM?...
youtu.be/kFknMA4cWKM?...
I analysed 1000 Pinterest pins... and deleted the app
YouTube video by Steph Sewn
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Interesting video about the state of Pinterest and where else to look for references. This seems to be targeting knitters and I suspect it got pushed to me because just yesterday I was looking for Nordic textile references online (and struggling.)
youtu.be/kFknMA4cWKM?...
youtu.be/kFknMA4cWKM?...
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None of us asked for any of this crap. THEY chose to integrate it into every area of life. THEY put it in search results.
My FIL now asks his phone “chat GPT, show me a picture of a 57 Chevy” instead of looking it up. Then asks ten more times because it’s wrong.
This is on them. No bailouts.
My FIL now asks his phone “chat GPT, show me a picture of a 57 Chevy” instead of looking it up. Then asks ten more times because it’s wrong.
This is on them. No bailouts.
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
None of us asked for any of this crap. THEY chose to integrate it into every area of life. THEY put it in search results.
My FIL now asks his phone “chat GPT, show me a picture of a 57 Chevy” instead of looking it up. Then asks ten more times because it’s wrong.
This is on them. No bailouts.
My FIL now asks his phone “chat GPT, show me a picture of a 57 Chevy” instead of looking it up. Then asks ten more times because it’s wrong.
This is on them. No bailouts.
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Help light the creative spark — bid in the Kindling Words auction, and help send writers, illustrators, and editors to a retreat that changed their craft. #kidlit
KW Scholarship Silent Auction
Silent auction 'KW Scholarship Silent Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Help light the creative spark — bid in the Kindling Words auction, and help send writers, illustrators, and editors to a retreat that changed their craft. #kidlit
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Announcing the winners of the 2025 Undies Case Cover Awards: 100scopenotes.com/2025/11/24/a... @carterhiggins.bsky.social @spikypenelope.bsky.social
And the 2025 Undies Case Cover Awards Go To . . .
Announcing the winners of the 2025 Undies Case Cover Awards!
100scopenotes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Announcing the winners of the 2025 Undies Case Cover Awards: 100scopenotes.com/2025/11/24/a... @carterhiggins.bsky.social @spikypenelope.bsky.social
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A lot of disinformation is circulating about what Senators/Representatives Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, Goodlander, and Houlahan actually said. Here is the transcript. It contains no accusation that the President issued unlawful orders, no call to disobey lawful orders, and no advocacy of mutiny.
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A lot of disinformation is circulating about what Senators/Representatives Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, Goodlander, and Houlahan actually said. Here is the transcript. It contains no accusation that the President issued unlawful orders, no call to disobey lawful orders, and no advocacy of mutiny.
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Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants
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you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
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Trump’s so-called "peace plan" is a blueprint for Russian victory. Forcing Ukraine to surrender any territory under threat is not diplomacy—it’s appeasement that guarantees future conflict. We must not reward Putin’s aggression with Ukrainian land.
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Trump’s so-called "peace plan" is a blueprint for Russian victory. Forcing Ukraine to surrender any territory under threat is not diplomacy—it’s appeasement that guarantees future conflict. We must not reward Putin’s aggression with Ukrainian land.
Do you use Squarespace for sending your emails to your mailing list? Do you like how it works? Or not?
Moved my site back to Squarespace. Thinking about using their email.
Thanks for your help!
#kidlitart #kidlit #artbuisness #smallbusiness #email #newsletter #squarespace #websites #mailinglist
Moved my site back to Squarespace. Thinking about using their email.
Thanks for your help!
#kidlitart #kidlit #artbuisness #smallbusiness #email #newsletter #squarespace #websites #mailinglist
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Do you use Squarespace for sending your emails to your mailing list? Do you like how it works? Or not?
Moved my site back to Squarespace. Thinking about using their email.
Thanks for your help!
#kidlitart #kidlit #artbuisness #smallbusiness #email #newsletter #squarespace #websites #mailinglist
Moved my site back to Squarespace. Thinking about using their email.
Thanks for your help!
#kidlitart #kidlit #artbuisness #smallbusiness #email #newsletter #squarespace #websites #mailinglist
@ms.now Congrats on the new name & branding! For readability, please consider not having red text on screen (names, etc.). It’s hard to read. Please also consider not always having a red bar on the bottom. It’s harder to read text & would be better for actual breaking news, not all the time. Thanks!
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November 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
@ms.now Congrats on the new name & branding! For readability, please consider not having red text on screen (names, etc.). It’s hard to read. Please also consider not always having a red bar on the bottom. It’s harder to read text & would be better for actual breaking news, not all the time. Thanks!
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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Trump and Congressional Republicans have a little over a month to diffuse the health care time bomb they left ticking on American families.
If these tax credits expire, it will spike health care costs for everyone — whether you’re on the ACA or not.
If these tax credits expire, it will spike health care costs for everyone — whether you’re on the ACA or not.
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Trump and Congressional Republicans have a little over a month to diffuse the health care time bomb they left ticking on American families.
If these tax credits expire, it will spike health care costs for everyone — whether you’re on the ACA or not.
If these tax credits expire, it will spike health care costs for everyone — whether you’re on the ACA or not.
Wear the hat you like, no matter what that one dude says.
I am wearing a cute new hat today that my son informed me he does not like, and so I am thinking about this “Open Letter to the Female Hat-Wearing Dog in ‘Go, Dog, Go’”: theuglyvolvo.com/an-open-lett...
An Open Letter to the Female Hat-Wearing Dog From “Go Dog, Go” – The Ugly Volvo
theuglyvolvo.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Wear the hat you like, no matter what that one dude says.
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You don’t need to watch Seth Meyers to see the danger here. Presidents in democracies don’t demand that critics be fired, and federal regulators don’t amplify those demands. It undermines editorial independence and chills dissent.
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
You don’t need to watch Seth Meyers to see the danger here. Presidents in democracies don’t demand that critics be fired, and federal regulators don’t amplify those demands. It undermines editorial independence and chills dissent.
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To make art is to be human
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
To make art is to be human