ruthbrarian’s Twitter Archive

Popular Tweets

A list of popular tweets by retweets and favorites.

1. “Why don’t women report rapes?” ...to who? These guys? @nwmalinowski/933904135619076096
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 28,288 Retweets ❤️ 51,220 Favorites 2017 Nov 24 Mood 0
2. Airlines: We have to keep burning carbon or we will lose our slots. Universities: we have to be in-person X percent or Y laws will kick in. Y'all know these are just agreements and we could... CHANGE THEM. WAIVE THEM. PUT THEM ON HOLD. @airlivenet/1480163323123490819
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 655 Retweets ❤️ 1,786 Favorites 2022 Jan 9 Mood 0
3. "Real food is things that your great-grandmother would recognize" -- sir, my great-grandmothers were born in the late 1800s. Before The Jungle was written. Do you have ANY idea what they ate?
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 426 Retweets ❤️ 4,027 Favorites 2021 Nov 9 Mood 0
4. Not confusing: bisexuality. Confusing: Whether this bimonthly publication comes 6 times or 24 times a year.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 287 Retweets ❤️ 343 Favorites 2015 Jun 23 Mood 0
5. …in reply to @ruthbrarian
   Gonna read Virginia Sole-Smith's piece about this fallacy, which also looks at race, class, and misogyny: bit.ly/3n0IjlH
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 187 Retweets ❤️ 1,024 Favorites 2021 Nov 9 Mood 0
6. Reminder for folks going to GenCon, if you see someone in a Nazi uniform, they're breaking show rules. Tell staff gencon.com/attend/policies
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 132 Retweets ❤️ 142 Favorites 2017 Aug 12 Mood 0
7. hey folks with anxiety -- there really are scary things in the world and techniques that help when our brains are being unreasonable can feel like gaslighting when our anxiety is caused by real fears. you're not alone if you're having a hard time. <3
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 114 Retweets ❤️ 470 Favorites 2020 Mar 3 Mood -1 🙁
8. How does a ghost librarian search? BOOoooooooLEAN 👻
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 111 Retweets ❤️ 676 Favorites 2021 Oct 21 Mood 0
9. Snoot Coming Out of His Nap to Yell At Me For Laughing Too Loud

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   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 95 Retweets ❤️ 737 Favorites 2021 Sep 27 Mood +1 🙂
10. It's really something to see university after university realizing they have to shift to online and all the other ones still insisting "no, we'll be different, we'll be ok."
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 93 Retweets ❤️ 329 Favorites 2020 Aug 19 Mood -1 🙁
11. My game, Snake People: A Game of Anticipatory Grief, is now live on Kickstarter. Sit down with your friends to craft a shared world of mortality and hope. bit.ly/3bvibaX
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 86 Retweets ❤️ 115 Favorites 2020 Feb 11 Mood +1 🙂
12. People who act like baristas organizing is frivolous are willfully overlooking the ways in which Starbucks is engaging in classic union-busting behaviors up to and including Pinkertons etc. @MorePerfectUS/1556466211399110657
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 85 Retweets ❤️ 187 Favorites 2022 Aug 8 Mood +2 🙂
13. "A total of eight staff members working in the same building in an academic organization participated in the study." nice try 😂 @ajc/1498362381084372993
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 79 Retweets ❤️ 217 Favorites 2022 Mar 1 Mood +4 🙂
14. TIL: 1) there's a journal of Capitalism, Nature, and Socialism. 2) Taylor and Francis owns it. 3) An issue costs $927 or I can access it just one day for $42. 4) I have acute irony poisoning. 5) I might faint.

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    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 78 Retweets ❤️ 155 Favorites 2017 Nov 20 Mood -1 🙁
15. Aurora police marching into a vigil in a way that would be 1000% coded as evil if this were a film @kianseararey/1277194027893510144
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 76 Retweets ❤️ 124 Favorites 2020 Jun 28 Mood -3 🙁
16. Much like the image of a goose chasing down a person saying "states rights" and asking "states rights to do WHAT?" I feel like "free exchange of ideas" should be met with the question "free exchange of exactly WHAT ideas?"
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 45 Retweets ❤️ 322 Favorites 2022 Oct 25 Mood +6 🙂
17. Just finished a new quilt, one I've been picking up and putting down for a while now. Quilting the T-Rexes was a challenge, and then figuring out how to do background. I wanted to get the shape and movement.

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    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 33 Retweets ❤️ 343 Favorites 2022 Oct 9 Mood -1 🙁
18. Friends, this is what I made.

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    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 29 Retweets ❤️ 406 Favorites 2018 Dec 20 Mood 0
19. …in reply to @ruthbrarian
    I don't have ANY idea what they ate, I would bet that THEY didn't have any idea what they ate
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 16 Retweets ❤️ 768 Favorites 2021 Nov 9 Mood 0
20. …in reply to @ruthbrarian
    The above ^^^^^ was a great read and now I'm reading everyone's quote-tweets/replies and eating popcorn with Old Bay seasoning on it, using chopsticks. At minimum my youngest great-grandma would recognize this snack :P
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 5 Retweets ❤️ 364 Favorites 2021 Nov 9 Mood +3 🙂
21. I have mixed feelings about sharing good news in these times but... after nearly 13 years, we paid off my husband's student loans.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 3 Retweets ❤️ 470 Favorites 2020 May 15 Mood +3 🙂