Tom Ruen
@tomruen.bsky.social
I share geometry, astronomy, running and interesting things. Heterodox. It is hard to avoid politics, sorry! Gender identity is a cult. Stand w/🇺🇦, w/🇮🇱.
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Tom Ruen
@tomruen.bsky.social
· May 17
Bluesky: The Online Cone of Silence
Do you Bluesky? If you are a COMMENTARY reader, the odds that you’re also a user of the alternative social-media site are slim. Bluesky began as an experimental side project
www.commentary.org
Blue sky, the cult enforced echo chamber of the spotless mind.
www.commentary.org/articles/jam...
www.commentary.org/articles/jam...
Gender identity disorder must be repathologized. Affirming delusion has promoted a social contagion among teen age girls most vulnerable and leading to irreversible bodily harm as "treatment".
youtu.be/a8uBdSoQCKQ
youtu.be/a8uBdSoQCKQ
The Upstream Battle: Challenging the False Belief Fueling Medical Harm | Mia Hughes
YouTube video by Genspect
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October 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Gender identity disorder must be repathologized. Affirming delusion has promoted a social contagion among teen age girls most vulnerable and leading to irreversible bodily harm as "treatment".
youtu.be/a8uBdSoQCKQ
youtu.be/a8uBdSoQCKQ
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Many people claim that all vertebrate embryos begin as females.
Is this true? And what does the science of embryology have to say about it?
www.theparadoxinstitute.com/watch/do-we-...
Is this true? And what does the science of embryology have to say about it?
www.theparadoxinstitute.com/watch/do-we-...
Do We All Begin Female? — Paradox Institute
www.theparadoxinstitute.com
June 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Many people claim that all vertebrate embryos begin as females.
Is this true? And what does the science of embryology have to say about it?
www.theparadoxinstitute.com/watch/do-we-...
Is this true? And what does the science of embryology have to say about it?
www.theparadoxinstitute.com/watch/do-we-...
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My book, Binary, analyzes a new popular belief called the sex spectrum, showing how its tenets deny evolution, development, and genetics.
I also explore how it fails to explain the diversity across species and within humans, teaching the reader to understand diversity within the correct framework.
I also explore how it fails to explain the diversity across species and within humans, teaching the reader to understand diversity within the correct framework.
June 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My book, Binary, analyzes a new popular belief called the sex spectrum, showing how its tenets deny evolution, development, and genetics.
I also explore how it fails to explain the diversity across species and within humans, teaching the reader to understand diversity within the correct framework.
I also explore how it fails to explain the diversity across species and within humans, teaching the reader to understand diversity within the correct framework.
Blue sky, the cult enforced echo chamber of the spotless mind.
www.commentary.org/articles/jam...
www.commentary.org/articles/jam...
Bluesky: The Online Cone of Silence
Do you Bluesky? If you are a COMMENTARY reader, the odds that you’re also a user of the alternative social-media site are slim. Bluesky began as an experimental side project
www.commentary.org
May 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Blue sky, the cult enforced echo chamber of the spotless mind.
www.commentary.org/articles/jam...
www.commentary.org/articles/jam...
March 14, 2025 lunar eclipse from Minneapolis
March 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
March 14, 2025 lunar eclipse from Minneapolis
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This book review is a good neutral overview of the inner sanctum, trans-humanism or anti-humanism.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdV7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdV7...
March 1, 2024 at 2:04 AM
This book review is a good neutral overview of the inner sanctum, trans-humanism or anti-humanism.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdV7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdV7...
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Newly leaked #WPATHfiles expose the World Professional Association for Transgender Health #WPATH pushing shocking experimental and irreversible #trans surgery for underage kids.
nypost.com/2024/03/04/o...
nypost.com/2024/03/04/o...
Secret files show how international group pushes shocking...
Newly leaked files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health reveal it is pushing hormonal and surgical transitions for minors, including stomach-wrenching experimental...
nypost.com
March 5, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Newly leaked #WPATHfiles expose the World Professional Association for Transgender Health #WPATH pushing shocking experimental and irreversible #trans surgery for underage kids.
nypost.com/2024/03/04/o...
nypost.com/2024/03/04/o...
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Regular hexagon play continued in March! I will be using scaled up equilateral triangles to create the hexagons. A question I am thinking about while constructing these hexagons: How will these designs be similar/different from last month’s hexagon designs? #21CenturyPB #iTeachMath
March 1, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Regular hexagon play continued in March! I will be using scaled up equilateral triangles to create the hexagons. A question I am thinking about while constructing these hexagons: How will these designs be similar/different from last month’s hexagon designs? #21CenturyPB #iTeachMath
Cults have layers of revelation.
Gender ideology’s outermost layer is “gender identity exists inside of you that tells you what you are.”
Its innermost layer is “Sylvester McMonkey McBean can modify your physical body to match your ideals”.
That’s it!
Gender ideology’s outermost layer is “gender identity exists inside of you that tells you what you are.”
Its innermost layer is “Sylvester McMonkey McBean can modify your physical body to match your ideals”.
That’s it!
March 1, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Cults have layers of revelation.
Gender ideology’s outermost layer is “gender identity exists inside of you that tells you what you are.”
Its innermost layer is “Sylvester McMonkey McBean can modify your physical body to match your ideals”.
That’s it!
Gender ideology’s outermost layer is “gender identity exists inside of you that tells you what you are.”
Its innermost layer is “Sylvester McMonkey McBean can modify your physical body to match your ideals”.
That’s it!
Looks like 100% agreement from social conservative, Tiffany Justice, to environmental conservative, Derrick Jensen - the left, especially queer-infected left had left reality and is a danger to civilization unless hard boundaries can be raised over their trauma-induced madness.
youtu.be/GWeNG6Kogh8
youtu.be/GWeNG6Kogh8
January 28, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Looks like 100% agreement from social conservative, Tiffany Justice, to environmental conservative, Derrick Jensen - the left, especially queer-infected left had left reality and is a danger to civilization unless hard boundaries can be raised over their trauma-induced madness.
youtu.be/GWeNG6Kogh8
youtu.be/GWeNG6Kogh8
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Pattern block play! Koch snowflake created with #21CenturyPB. #iTeachMath
January 17, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Pattern block play! Koch snowflake created with #21CenturyPB. #iTeachMath
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Dragon Aurora over Iceland - ©
Jingyi Zhang & Wang Zheng
- Photo
- HD Photo
- About NASA Astronomy Picture Of the Day
#apod #science #astronomy #astrophotos #🔭
Maintained by @shinyakato.dev
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Jingyi Zhang & Wang Zheng
- Photo
- HD Photo
- About NASA Astronomy Picture Of the Day
#apod #science #astronomy #astrophotos #🔭
Maintained by @shinyakato.dev
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January 14, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Dragon Aurora over Iceland - ©
Jingyi Zhang & Wang Zheng
- Photo
- HD Photo
- About NASA Astronomy Picture Of the Day
#apod #science #astronomy #astrophotos #🔭
Maintained by @shinyakato.dev
🧵 READ MORE 🧵
Jingyi Zhang & Wang Zheng
- Photo
- HD Photo
- About NASA Astronomy Picture Of the Day
#apod #science #astronomy #astrophotos #🔭
Maintained by @shinyakato.dev
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For our new year, I’ll share a fun essay by Carl Sagan, with my favorite line “Because we have a talent for deceiving ourselves, subjectivity may not freely reign.”
Still, subjectivity is what makes us real: “We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
youtu.be/cIANk7zQ05w
Still, subjectivity is what makes us real: “We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
youtu.be/cIANk7zQ05w
A Universe Not Made For Us (Carl Sagan on religion)
Carl Sagan reading from his book "The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"For more great videos, be sure to check out The Sagan Series on Yo...
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December 31, 2023 at 11:21 PM
For our new year, I’ll share a fun essay by Carl Sagan, with my favorite line “Because we have a talent for deceiving ourselves, subjectivity may not freely reign.”
Still, subjectivity is what makes us real: “We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
youtu.be/cIANk7zQ05w
Still, subjectivity is what makes us real: “We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
youtu.be/cIANk7zQ05w
What happens when we start with a belief system claiming no harm without actually looking at predictable harm, when civil rights is co-opted by a faith that defines questions as bigoted?
The costs of truth are too high to the faithful.
It stops when nonbelievers set boundaries.
youtu.be/C5I5NVYuafo
December 26, 2023 at 7:20 PM
What happens when we start with a belief system claiming no harm without actually looking at predictable harm, when civil rights is co-opted by a faith that defines questions as bigoted?
The costs of truth are too high to the faithful.
It stops when nonbelievers set boundaries.
youtu.be/C5I5NVYuafo
Christmas party patterns, made at my cousins home, with my special tiling set of Penrose rhombi and pentagons.
December 25, 2023 at 11:59 PM
Christmas party patterns, made at my cousins home, with my special tiling set of Penrose rhombi and pentagons.
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Full MACS J0138.0-2155 image by JWST.
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December 21, 2023 at 4:24 PM
Full MACS J0138.0-2155 image by JWST.
🔭 🧪
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Iceland volcano live: eruption begins in Reykjanes peninsula after weeks of activity
Iceland volcano live: eruption begins in Reykjanes peninsula after weeks of activity
Volcano in southwest Iceland has erupted, spewing lava and smoke across a large area after weeks of intense earthquake activity
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2023 at 8:20 AM
Iceland volcano live: eruption begins in Reykjanes peninsula after weeks of activity
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Fagradalsfjall - Live from Iceland [webcam of eruption]
livefromiceland.is/webcams/fagr...
livefromiceland.is/webcams/fagr...
Fagradalsfjall - Live from Iceland - Webcams around Iceland
Looking towards Grindavík from Mt. Þorbjörn. Watch live feeds from our webcams with spectacular views of Iceland. Our streaming cameras are placed all around Iceland and broadcast 24/7. The ultimat...
livefromiceland.is
December 19, 2023 at 9:49 AM
Fagradalsfjall - Live from Iceland [webcam of eruption]
livefromiceland.is/webcams/fagr...
livefromiceland.is/webcams/fagr...
Orion star Betelgeuse occulted by asteroid Leona for some 10 seconds from parts of Europe and tip of Florida. Their angular size very similar with the red supergiant and nearby asteroid.
x.com/_astroselva/...
x.com/_astroselva/...
December 12, 2023 at 4:56 AM
Orion star Betelgeuse occulted by asteroid Leona for some 10 seconds from parts of Europe and tip of Florida. Their angular size very similar with the red supergiant and nearby asteroid.
x.com/_astroselva/...
x.com/_astroselva/...
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Fertility vs longevity. George Williams meets UK Biobank. Here's my story of an old evolutionary theory meeting new data. 🧪 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/s...
December 8, 2023 at 8:44 PM
Fertility vs longevity. George Williams meets UK Biobank. Here's my story of an old evolutionary theory meeting new data. 🧪 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/s...
Halley’s orbit viewed from south of the ecliptic plane. Approaching aphelion December 8, 2023, beyond Neptune.
Next perihelion July 28, 2061.
I’ll be 93 if I’m still alive.
youtu.be/VfFXsIXZhpE
Next perihelion July 28, 2061.
I’ll be 93 if I’m still alive.
youtu.be/VfFXsIXZhpE
December 6, 2023 at 8:45 AM
Halley’s orbit viewed from south of the ecliptic plane. Approaching aphelion December 8, 2023, beyond Neptune.
Next perihelion July 28, 2061.
I’ll be 93 if I’m still alive.
youtu.be/VfFXsIXZhpE
Next perihelion July 28, 2061.
I’ll be 93 if I’m still alive.
youtu.be/VfFXsIXZhpE
Reposted by Tom Ruen
Very cool James Webb data processing of the Carthweel galaxy by GiovanniAlbaniLattanzi (@GioAlbLat on Twitter) 🔭
December 2, 2023 at 7:07 PM
Very cool James Webb data processing of the Carthweel galaxy by GiovanniAlbaniLattanzi (@GioAlbLat on Twitter) 🔭
Saturn as seen from Jupiter (simulation)
youtu.be/mj9GVkilvD8
youtu.be/mj9GVkilvD8
December 3, 2023 at 9:26 AM
Saturn as seen from Jupiter (simulation)
youtu.be/mj9GVkilvD8
youtu.be/mj9GVkilvD8