Ruth
@teapotrabbit.bsky.social
I'm tired all the time. Huge geek. Frequently talking about sewing, fountain pens, gardening, and tea. She/her
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Timeline cleanse: Yesterday I was introduced to the teporingo (volcano rabbit) — it’s like a rabbit crossed with a pika and is only found on Popocatépetl and three of the other volcanoes near Mexico City: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano...
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Timeline cleanse: Yesterday I was introduced to the teporingo (volcano rabbit) — it’s like a rabbit crossed with a pika and is only found on Popocatépetl and three of the other volcanoes near Mexico City: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano...
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Daily bunny no.3138 going apple-picking
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Daily bunny no.3138 going apple-picking
Today was a slog, but the sun came out for a few moments right before it set and I got the kids to help me process apples for applesauce, so it wasn’t all bad.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Today was a slog, but the sun came out for a few moments right before it set and I got the kids to help me process apples for applesauce, so it wasn’t all bad.
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The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
Two inches of rain already! It is very very wet.
An atmospheric River is once again headed for the California coast, with heavy rain likely to result in some isolated flash and urban flooding into this weekend.
Weather.gov
Weather.gov
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Two inches of rain already! It is very very wet.
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Not to wade into the Discourse but living abroad (for longer than a semester) is something I wish everyone had the means to do. It’s incredible to see what’s possible in a sane country (gun control, universal health care) and what the US often does better (multiculturalism, friendliness, junk food)
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Not to wade into the Discourse but living abroad (for longer than a semester) is something I wish everyone had the means to do. It’s incredible to see what’s possible in a sane country (gun control, universal health care) and what the US often does better (multiculturalism, friendliness, junk food)
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Daily bunny no.3137 is highly invasive
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Daily bunny no.3137 is highly invasive
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"Everyone should have the right to refuse to engage with technologies that harm them, their students, and the planet."
A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal"
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
A Year of Refusal
Maggie Fernandes, University of ArkansasMegan McIntyre, University of ArkansasJennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University Photo by Francis Glenn Marciano on Pexels.com It’s been about a year …
refusinggenai.wordpress.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 AM
"Everyone should have the right to refuse to engage with technologies that harm them, their students, and the planet."
God, I feel this one.
I’ve lost the ability to enjoy a number of authors whose works meant a lot to me because they turned out to be sex pests and I have much less attachment to politicians
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
God, I feel this one.
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if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Towards a history of the hammock: An Indigenous technology in the Atlantic world - postmedieval
When Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere beginning in the fifteenth century, they learned that Indigenous groups across the Caribbean and South America valued few technologies as much as the h...
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Artist link: emibozstudios.bigcartel.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Artist link: emibozstudios.bigcartel.com
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Bound into three exquisitely colored volumes, Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods (1860–1902) features hundreds of species, collected across 42 years by a female mycologist named M. F. Lewis:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fungi-of-shropshire
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fungi-of-shropshire
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Bound into three exquisitely colored volumes, Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods (1860–1902) features hundreds of species, collected across 42 years by a female mycologist named M. F. Lewis:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fungi-of-shropshire
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fungi-of-shropshire
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うさぎさんのキャンプ🏕️
温めるだけでも
おいしいねぇ〜
温めるだけでも
おいしいねぇ〜
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
うさぎさんのキャンプ🏕️
温めるだけでも
おいしいねぇ〜
温めるだけでも
おいしいねぇ〜
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Unless a local organization is specifically asking for certain items which you already happen to have, then give money instead! (Even if it’s just $5!)
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Unless a local organization is specifically asking for certain items which you already happen to have, then give money instead! (Even if it’s just $5!)
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Daily bunny no.3136 is going home at last
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Daily bunny no.3136 is going home at last
I made a pasta carbonara type of thing with bacon and thinly sliced pigs ear chanterelle and spinach and it was pretty darn tasty.
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I made a pasta carbonara type of thing with bacon and thinly sliced pigs ear chanterelle and spinach and it was pretty darn tasty.
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New and restocked sticker designs!
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
New and restocked sticker designs!
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Daily bunny no.3135 found a cool pinecone
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Daily bunny no.3135 found a cool pinecone
Both kids just started yelling with excitement because the PBS Kids show Daughter was watching had an onscreen ASL interpreter 💖 what a lovely accessibility feature for little kids who might not be able to read subtitles yet!
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Both kids just started yelling with excitement because the PBS Kids show Daughter was watching had an onscreen ASL interpreter 💖 what a lovely accessibility feature for little kids who might not be able to read subtitles yet!
Paradox of tolerance strikes again… in the local Pokemon Go discord 🙄🫠🤬
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Paradox of tolerance strikes again… in the local Pokemon Go discord 🙄🫠🤬
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A Tufted Titmouse perched in a Tamarack tree. Tamarack trees are the only conifers that shed their needles in the winter, which turn yellow before dropping.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A Tufted Titmouse perched in a Tamarack tree. Tamarack trees are the only conifers that shed their needles in the winter, which turn yellow before dropping.
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If I have to know this, so do you:
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If I have to know this, so do you:
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![Comic. Someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen? [flowchart: start] → NO (There are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever *does* figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world’s seismologists will not shut up about it. You won’t need this flowchart.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic7wdqg4w6qfevbqzzq4esd6237pojsnpwsrbb7gaxsxobqaiwazm@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is deeply stupid and annoying and the worst part is that prices on pasta - generally a cheap staple - will go up across the board regardless; as American brands struggle to meet demand.
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This is deeply stupid and annoying and the worst part is that prices on pasta - generally a cheap staple - will go up across the board regardless; as American brands struggle to meet demand.