Amy Rubinate
@amyrubinate.bsky.social
Audiobook producer/director, owner Mosaic Audio. Author of middle grade graphic novels Kate and the City of Fire and Annie and the Unsinkable Ship #kidlit #ADHD Hamline MFAC. Dog enthusiast. Muppet at heart.
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Recognizing that long Covid exists would also mean recognizing that there was a bipartisan effort to allow as many people in the population as possible to get sick all so the wealthy could maintain their wealth.
Both parties are complicit in forcing us into an inhuman and eugenicist situation.
Both parties are complicit in forcing us into an inhuman and eugenicist situation.
Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
October 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Recognizing that long Covid exists would also mean recognizing that there was a bipartisan effort to allow as many people in the population as possible to get sick all so the wealthy could maintain their wealth.
Both parties are complicit in forcing us into an inhuman and eugenicist situation.
Both parties are complicit in forcing us into an inhuman and eugenicist situation.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Just a reminder that today (and yesterday and tomorrow) is a great day to get a book from your local indie book shop
October 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Just a reminder that today (and yesterday and tomorrow) is a great day to get a book from your local indie book shop
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“Vaccine skeptics” are not skeptics of vaccines or anything at all, because knowledge isn’t the point. Deceit is. They’re liars. They’re cheats. And anyone who’s using the phrase “vaccine skeptics” is asking you to ignore that while advancing the lies and undermining the truth.
September 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“Vaccine skeptics” are not skeptics of vaccines or anything at all, because knowledge isn’t the point. Deceit is. They’re liars. They’re cheats. And anyone who’s using the phrase “vaccine skeptics” is asking you to ignore that while advancing the lies and undermining the truth.
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Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.
August 31, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.
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AI companies are constantly trying to deceive the public of its env & climate impacts. Each day we learn new info on how harmful AI is on ecosystems. This will only get worse as AI firms create partnerships w/ fossil fuel companies.
Keep hammering this angle (along w/ the many social & econ harms)
Keep hammering this angle (along w/ the many social & econ harms)
August 31, 2025 at 2:25 AM
AI companies are constantly trying to deceive the public of its env & climate impacts. Each day we learn new info on how harmful AI is on ecosystems. This will only get worse as AI firms create partnerships w/ fossil fuel companies.
Keep hammering this angle (along w/ the many social & econ harms)
Keep hammering this angle (along w/ the many social & econ harms)
I'm looking forward to teaching a class for authors on the audiobook market for Story Summit. It's tomorrow morning at 10:00 am PT/1:00 pm ET if anyone would like to join us! Here's a link to sign up:
Lunch and Learn: Audiobooks - An Overview for Authors | Story Summit
with Amy Rubinate
1 to 2 PM ET (10 to 11 AM Pacific)
www.storysummit.us
August 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I'm looking forward to teaching a class for authors on the audiobook market for Story Summit. It's tomorrow morning at 10:00 am PT/1:00 pm ET if anyone would like to join us! Here's a link to sign up:
What are parents to tell their children now? "AI can be anything you want to be when you grow up."
August 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
What are parents to tell their children now? "AI can be anything you want to be when you grow up."
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People on here who are poo-pooing Booker underestimate the power of storytelling in politics.
April 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
People on here who are poo-pooing Booker underestimate the power of storytelling in politics.
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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
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Martin O'Malley, former Social Security commissioner, says he believes the Trump administration has already taken 90% of the actions necessary to crater Social Security.
March 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Martin O'Malley, former Social Security commissioner, says he believes the Trump administration has already taken 90% of the actions necessary to crater Social Security.
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some more thumbs vs pages for you!
Thumbs used to be much harder for me until I realized it helps me to NOT think of them as my first draft of pencils. I treat thumbs as semiotic symbols that /represent/ the thing I'm drawing, but AREN'T the thing I'm drawing. (🧵1/3)
Thumbs used to be much harder for me until I realized it helps me to NOT think of them as my first draft of pencils. I treat thumbs as semiotic symbols that /represent/ the thing I'm drawing, but AREN'T the thing I'm drawing. (🧵1/3)
December 6, 2024 at 5:31 PM
some more thumbs vs pages for you!
Thumbs used to be much harder for me until I realized it helps me to NOT think of them as my first draft of pencils. I treat thumbs as semiotic symbols that /represent/ the thing I'm drawing, but AREN'T the thing I'm drawing. (🧵1/3)
Thumbs used to be much harder for me until I realized it helps me to NOT think of them as my first draft of pencils. I treat thumbs as semiotic symbols that /represent/ the thing I'm drawing, but AREN'T the thing I'm drawing. (🧵1/3)
This is the best exchange! Thanks for lifting my spirits!
Freaking love Pete Buttigieg 🤣….he needs to get out there and run for that Michigan senate seat and then it’s on to the White House
March 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This is the best exchange! Thanks for lifting my spirits!
Ok I think I've finally got this figured out: I make 6 calls a day, one to each congressperson/senator's office in both DC and in CA. One issue per day makes it easier for them to log it. I keep it brief after I state my constituent info; eg: "Don't let them take my Social Security, thanks, bye."
March 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Ok I think I've finally got this figured out: I make 6 calls a day, one to each congressperson/senator's office in both DC and in CA. One issue per day makes it easier for them to log it. I keep it brief after I state my constituent info; eg: "Don't let them take my Social Security, thanks, bye."
Watching Trump and Vance team up and shout down Zelensky to bully him into letting Putin take his country is one of the more horrible things I've watched in a long time. #NotMyPresident
February 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Watching Trump and Vance team up and shout down Zelensky to bully him into letting Putin take his country is one of the more horrible things I've watched in a long time. #NotMyPresident
Best quote: "I don't know why you're speeding it up but you need to look inward. And you need to drink less iced coffee." www.npr.org/2025/01/22/n...
Is there a right way — or wrong way — to listen to an audio book?
Do you listen to audiobooks at regular speed or do you crank it up? Listeners have been going back and forth on social media.
www.npr.org
February 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Best quote: "I don't know why you're speeding it up but you need to look inward. And you need to drink less iced coffee." www.npr.org/2025/01/22/n...
I love middle grade graphic novel Wildful so much, I sent my mom a copy for her birthday. It captured the sense of wonder in the natural world my parents instilled in us. Kengo Kurimoto has created a book that we will all treasure. #kidlit #graphicnovel
February 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I love middle grade graphic novel Wildful so much, I sent my mom a copy for her birthday. It captured the sense of wonder in the natural world my parents instilled in us. Kengo Kurimoto has created a book that we will all treasure. #kidlit #graphicnovel
A beautiful, heartfelt and very necessary prayer/plea.
Washington National Cathedral Bishop Calls Out Trump to His Face
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, a bishop at Washington National Cathedral, made a plea to President Donald Trump during her sermon on Tuesday.
www.rollingstone.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A beautiful, heartfelt and very necessary prayer/plea.
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My cartoon for yesterday’s Guardian Books.
November 5, 2023 at 10:44 AM
My cartoon for yesterday’s Guardian Books.
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Planning a holiday family #roadTrip? My @everylibrary.bsky.social article gives a list of seasonal #audiobooks the whole car can enjoy together, most available through your local library. 🚗🎄
@amyrubinate.bsky.social @johnnyheller.bsky.social
@audiofilemagazine.bsky.social
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@amyrubinate.bsky.social @johnnyheller.bsky.social
@audiofilemagazine.bsky.social
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Family-Friendly Audiobooks for Holiday Travel
Let library apps like Libby and Hoopla be your copilot this winter
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December 20, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Planning a holiday family #roadTrip? My @everylibrary.bsky.social article gives a list of seasonal #audiobooks the whole car can enjoy together, most available through your local library. 🚗🎄
@amyrubinate.bsky.social @johnnyheller.bsky.social
@audiofilemagazine.bsky.social
bit.ly/familyfriend...
@amyrubinate.bsky.social @johnnyheller.bsky.social
@audiofilemagazine.bsky.social
bit.ly/familyfriend...
Pretty sure my dentist's office is watching me...
November 14, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Pretty sure my dentist's office is watching me...
Kicking things off with a photo of the world's coziest dog.
December 11, 2023 at 5:17 PM
Kicking things off with a photo of the world's coziest dog.