The Emerald Ruby
@theemeraldruby.bsky.social
I’ve been composing for music box to go with some embroidered sculptures I’ve been making.
October 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I’ve been composing for music box to go with some embroidered sculptures I’ve been making.
I’ve been dipping my toe into blue sky every now and again since invites were a precious resource.
I find this app difficult to use in the same way I used to find Twitter difficult to use
Does anyone have a recommendation for a resource that could help me learn how to use this app?
I find this app difficult to use in the same way I used to find Twitter difficult to use
Does anyone have a recommendation for a resource that could help me learn how to use this app?
October 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I’ve been dipping my toe into blue sky every now and again since invites were a precious resource.
I find this app difficult to use in the same way I used to find Twitter difficult to use
Does anyone have a recommendation for a resource that could help me learn how to use this app?
I find this app difficult to use in the same way I used to find Twitter difficult to use
Does anyone have a recommendation for a resource that could help me learn how to use this app?
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So much money promised for housing, and not a cent for public, affordable, accessible places to live
"They have a rule where you should be able to pay a third of your income [on rent]. A third of my income is $200, where am I going to find something like that?"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
"They have a rule where you should be able to pay a third of your income [on rent]. A third of my income is $200, where am I going to find something like that?"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Free camping grounds a haven for 'more people than ever' sleeping rough
John Green was an ABC reporter for 10 years and never thought he'd end up living on the streets. A mental health episode led to a decade sleeping rough.
www.abc.net.au
April 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
So much money promised for housing, and not a cent for public, affordable, accessible places to live
"They have a rule where you should be able to pay a third of your income [on rent]. A third of my income is $200, where am I going to find something like that?"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
"They have a rule where you should be able to pay a third of your income [on rent]. A third of my income is $200, where am I going to find something like that?"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
I’ve reached “bring a pillow on a long train trip” age
March 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I’ve reached “bring a pillow on a long train trip” age
COME PLAY FLUTE WITH ME IN THE FESTIVAL FLUTES ENSEMBLE AT THE @nationalfolkfestival in Canberra over Easter Long Weekend (April 17th - 21st)
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
March 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
COME PLAY FLUTE WITH ME IN THE FESTIVAL FLUTES ENSEMBLE AT THE @nationalfolkfestival in Canberra over Easter Long Weekend (April 17th - 21st)
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
COME PLAY FLUTE WITH ME IN THE FESTIVAL FLUTES ENSEMBLE AT THE @nationalfolkfestival in Canberra over Easter Long Weekend (April 17th - 21st)
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
March 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
COME PLAY FLUTE WITH ME IN THE FESTIVAL FLUTES ENSEMBLE AT THE @nationalfolkfestival in Canberra over Easter Long Weekend (April 17th - 21st)
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
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I made a video essay! It's a love letter to 3d software crammed in between several hate notes about 3d software companies. Maybe it can be something you put on in the background while you do art. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4md...
For-Profit (Creative) Software
YouTube video by EndVertex
www.youtube.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I made a video essay! It's a love letter to 3d software crammed in between several hate notes about 3d software companies. Maybe it can be something you put on in the background while you do art. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4md...
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I’m finding the “none of us expected this would happen so quickly” commentary quite odd.
The overturning of institutions and the rule of law didn’t start on January 20.
It started in the 1980s.
Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Bush and yes Obama too drove us here.
We’re now at its logical conclusion.
The overturning of institutions and the rule of law didn’t start on January 20.
It started in the 1980s.
Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Bush and yes Obama too drove us here.
We’re now at its logical conclusion.
March 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I’m finding the “none of us expected this would happen so quickly” commentary quite odd.
The overturning of institutions and the rule of law didn’t start on January 20.
It started in the 1980s.
Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Bush and yes Obama too drove us here.
We’re now at its logical conclusion.
The overturning of institutions and the rule of law didn’t start on January 20.
It started in the 1980s.
Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Bush and yes Obama too drove us here.
We’re now at its logical conclusion.
COME PLAY FLUTE WITH ME IN THE FESTIVAL FLUTES ENSEMBLE AT THE @nationalfolkfestival in Canberra over Easter Long Weekend (April 17th - 21st)
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
March 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
COME PLAY FLUTE WITH ME IN THE FESTIVAL FLUTES ENSEMBLE AT THE @nationalfolkfestival in Canberra over Easter Long Weekend (April 17th - 21st)
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
On the 21st of March I'll be joining Ekstasis Ensemble at Clyde St Arts for an evening of intimate locally composed music
DATE: Friday March 21st
TIME: 6:00pm
LOCATION: Shed 12B, 50 Clyde St, Hamilton North.
HOW MUCH: $25 https://events.humanitix.com/an-evening-the-lounge
DATE: Friday March 21st
TIME: 6:00pm
LOCATION: Shed 12B, 50 Clyde St, Hamilton North.
HOW MUCH: $25 https://events.humanitix.com/an-evening-the-lounge
March 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
On the 21st of March I'll be joining Ekstasis Ensemble at Clyde St Arts for an evening of intimate locally composed music
DATE: Friday March 21st
TIME: 6:00pm
LOCATION: Shed 12B, 50 Clyde St, Hamilton North.
HOW MUCH: $25 https://events.humanitix.com/an-evening-the-lounge
DATE: Friday March 21st
TIME: 6:00pm
LOCATION: Shed 12B, 50 Clyde St, Hamilton North.
HOW MUCH: $25 https://events.humanitix.com/an-evening-the-lounge
On the 21st of March I'll be joining Ekstasis Ensemble ) at Clyde St Arts for an evening of intimate locally composed music
DATE: Friday March 21st
TIME: 6:00pm
LOCATION: Shed 12B, 50 Clyde St, Hamilton North.
HOW MUCH: $25 https://events.humanitix.com/an-evening-the-lounge
DATE: Friday March 21st
TIME: 6:00pm
LOCATION: Shed 12B, 50 Clyde St, Hamilton North.
HOW MUCH: $25 https://events.humanitix.com/an-evening-the-lounge
March 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
On the 21st of March I'll be joining Ekstasis Ensemble ) at Clyde St Arts for an evening of intimate locally composed music
DATE: Friday March 21st
TIME: 6:00pm
LOCATION: Shed 12B, 50 Clyde St, Hamilton North.
HOW MUCH: $25 https://events.humanitix.com/an-evening-the-lounge
DATE: Friday March 21st
TIME: 6:00pm
LOCATION: Shed 12B, 50 Clyde St, Hamilton North.
HOW MUCH: $25 https://events.humanitix.com/an-evening-the-lounge
COME PLAY FLUTE WITH ME IN THE FESTIVAL FLUTES ENSEMBLE AT THE @nationalfolkfestival in Canberra over Easter Long Weekend (April 17th - 21st)
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
March 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
COME PLAY FLUTE WITH ME IN THE FESTIVAL FLUTES ENSEMBLE AT THE @nationalfolkfestival in Canberra over Easter Long Weekend (April 17th - 21st)
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
COME PLAY FLUTE WITH ME IN THE FESTIVAL FLUTES ENSEMBLE AT THE @nationalfolkfestival in Canberra over Easter Long Weekend (April 17th - 21st)
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
March 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
COME PLAY FLUTE WITH ME IN THE FESTIVAL FLUTES ENSEMBLE AT THE @nationalfolkfestival in Canberra over Easter Long Weekend (April 17th - 21st)
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
Tickets are discounted until APRIL 3rd https://events.humanitix.com/national-folk-festival
#nationalfolkfestival2025 #nationalfolkfestivalcanberra #ourNFF
I think I have to quit music.
- I can’t keep going through the now twice yearly cycle of loosing a significant chunk of income and being plunged into poverty wages.
- I can’t keep applying to endless open calls that require 6 months of work for 2 weeks pay
- I can’t do music as a hobby
- I can’t keep going through the now twice yearly cycle of loosing a significant chunk of income and being plunged into poverty wages.
- I can’t keep applying to endless open calls that require 6 months of work for 2 weeks pay
- I can’t do music as a hobby
March 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I think I have to quit music.
- I can’t keep going through the now twice yearly cycle of loosing a significant chunk of income and being plunged into poverty wages.
- I can’t keep applying to endless open calls that require 6 months of work for 2 weeks pay
- I can’t do music as a hobby
- I can’t keep going through the now twice yearly cycle of loosing a significant chunk of income and being plunged into poverty wages.
- I can’t keep applying to endless open calls that require 6 months of work for 2 weeks pay
- I can’t do music as a hobby
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The bottom 90% have got just 7% of economic growth from 2009 to 2019. The top 10% got 93%.
Our research shows inequality has been supercharged in the last 20 years, and it will only get worse unless we fix it.
A super profits tax is a good start, and cracking down on tax rorts. #auspol
Our research shows inequality has been supercharged in the last 20 years, and it will only get worse unless we fix it.
A super profits tax is a good start, and cracking down on tax rorts. #auspol
February 28, 2025 at 5:54 AM
The bottom 90% have got just 7% of economic growth from 2009 to 2019. The top 10% got 93%.
Our research shows inequality has been supercharged in the last 20 years, and it will only get worse unless we fix it.
A super profits tax is a good start, and cracking down on tax rorts. #auspol
Our research shows inequality has been supercharged in the last 20 years, and it will only get worse unless we fix it.
A super profits tax is a good start, and cracking down on tax rorts. #auspol
Are you “not creative” or have you not had access to creative materials/education ?
It saddens me greatly that lack of access/resources is mistaken for a lack of creativity :(
It saddens me greatly that lack of access/resources is mistaken for a lack of creativity :(
February 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Are you “not creative” or have you not had access to creative materials/education ?
It saddens me greatly that lack of access/resources is mistaken for a lack of creativity :(
It saddens me greatly that lack of access/resources is mistaken for a lack of creativity :(
Image reads: I grieve all the art not made because of income inequality
February 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Image reads: I grieve all the art not made because of income inequality
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Found on the internet
February 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Found on the internet
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also adding to that, monetising your creativity is a nightmare on so many levels, from customer service, to losing the joy of creation... so i guess its a lose lose situation for the creatives ;c
February 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
also adding to that, monetising your creativity is a nightmare on so many levels, from customer service, to losing the joy of creation... so i guess its a lose lose situation for the creatives ;c
Being underemployed is a nightmare for participating in creative community.
I’m spending so much time and energy trying to get enough work to survive that am unable to participate in those magical unpaid/Basically unpaid creative social situations.
This income situation has left me isolated.
I’m spending so much time and energy trying to get enough work to survive that am unable to participate in those magical unpaid/Basically unpaid creative social situations.
This income situation has left me isolated.
February 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Being underemployed is a nightmare for participating in creative community.
I’m spending so much time and energy trying to get enough work to survive that am unable to participate in those magical unpaid/Basically unpaid creative social situations.
This income situation has left me isolated.
I’m spending so much time and energy trying to get enough work to survive that am unable to participate in those magical unpaid/Basically unpaid creative social situations.
This income situation has left me isolated.
I cannot full express the grief that accompanies being working class and needing a job, but having trained and dedicated my life to the flute at age 10 and realising that there are no real flute jobs. (I’ve been piecing together a poverty wage running a teaching business for over a decade)
February 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I cannot full express the grief that accompanies being working class and needing a job, but having trained and dedicated my life to the flute at age 10 and realising that there are no real flute jobs. (I’ve been piecing together a poverty wage running a teaching business for over a decade)
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The cycle of abuse: we are currently headed back to the tension building phase. The longer abuse goes on, the less time is spent in "calm". When victims start to anticipate the cycle, the abuse increases in intensity and rapidity. We are there.
January 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The cycle of abuse: we are currently headed back to the tension building phase. The longer abuse goes on, the less time is spent in "calm". When victims start to anticipate the cycle, the abuse increases in intensity and rapidity. We are there.
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All this text and silence makes me feel naked.
January 19, 2025 at 7:52 AM
All this text and silence makes me feel naked.
There is a chilling and uncanny silence on my fyp in the space left by my American mutuals.
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January 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
There is a chilling and uncanny silence on my fyp in the space left by my American mutuals.
💔
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Looking for flautists/recorder players (haven’t spent enough time here to find out if this is how it works here, but worth a shot!)
January 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Looking for flautists/recorder players (haven’t spent enough time here to find out if this is how it works here, but worth a shot!)