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🎃 Ray Ryan 👻

@rjrjr.com

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Proud dad. Loving and perfectly adequate husband. Core http://github.com/square/workflow hacker. Retired!? Former: Distinguished Senior Software Citizen at Square. Instigator at Google. Chief Pedant at Lighthouse Design. https://mastodon.social/@rjrjr

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🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · Aug 8

Actually seems to be more about napping so far.

🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · Jul 27

So I'll be retiring on Friday, and people ask me what my plans are. I mainly say I don't know, the plan is to see what the plan is. But this is a strong possibility.

🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · Jul 27

#DayDrinking

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 18h

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained.

These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

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🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · 4h

#ToDo

Stack o' Books

Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf

Ravens In Winter / Bernd Heinrich

Satchmo / Louis Armstrong

Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett

The Golden Road / William Dalrymple

The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey / Carol (C J) Verburg

Life Drawing / Jaime Hernandez

Love and Rockets, The Sketchbooks

Love And Rockets, The Covers

🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · 5h

It works for me.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 10d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · 1d

Just block the trolls, don't give them any oxygen.

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🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · 1d

This was a thing. And…it was pretty good?

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🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · 1d

Really need more reasons to use this.

a man wearing a wig and a white shirt is making a surprised face

Alt: Hugh Laurie, wearing a wig and a white shirt, is making a surprised face.

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🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · 1d

Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only.)

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Tim Bray @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 2d

The title is “DC’s Access Journalists Turned the News Into a Luxury Good” and I for one hadn’t realized how true this is until I read https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/dcs-access-journalists-turned-the-news-into-a-luxury-good

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heathcliff, but frog @hopcliff.heathcliff.cat · 2d

based nancy

two panels of a Nancy comic by Ernie Bushmiller. Nancy sees a NOTICE board and then blacks out the T with a pencil so the board reads NO ICE. Nancy smiles.

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🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · 2d

#seen

Maartjejan 🔻 @maartjejan.bsky.social · 2d

🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · 2d

But of course. Seeing La Fille du. Regiment tonight and just learned that Sandra Oh will be in it. www.metopera.org/about/press-...

Sandra Oh Makes Her Met Debut as the Duchess of Krakenthorp in Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment October 17

Mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and bass-baritone Peter Kálmán make their Met role debuts as the Marquise of Berkenfield and Sgt. Sulpice

www.metopera.org

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🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · 2d

Saw them this week, loved it. Running through January. #Godot

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"What Are We Doing Here?" - Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter Explain "Waiting for Godot" With One Question

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 18d

It's Black Speculative Fiction month!

All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.

1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...

2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
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🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · 3d

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Josh Koehn @joshkoehn.bsky.social · 3d

Scott Wiener is done waiting on Nancy Pelosi. He’s running in 2026, sources say

San Francisco’s state senator previously said he would wait for Pelosi to retire from Congress, but polling and a progressive challenger changed the game.

sfstandard.com/2025/10/16/s...

Scott Wiener is done waiting on Nancy Pelosi. He’s running for Congress

San Francisco’s state senator previously said he would wait for Pelosi to retire before running, but polling and the emergence of a progressive challenger changed the game.

sfstandard.com

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🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · 3d

Did you just read this Mark?

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

‘Bored aliens’: has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth?

Astrophysicist proposes a ‘radically mundane’ theory for why humans have yet to encounter extraterrestrials

www.theguardian.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

“The night was as black as the inside of a cat. It was the kind of night, you could believe, on which the gods moved men as though they were pawns on the chessboard of fate. In the middle of the elemental storm a fire gleamed among the dripping furze bushes like the madness in a weasel’s eye. It illuminated three hunched figures. As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice shrieked: ‘When shall we three meet again?’ There was a pause. Finally another voice said in far more ordinary tones: ‘Well I can do next Tuesday.’"

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🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · 3d

Yay! This was _so good_, can't wait to see it again.

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Merrily We Roll Along | In theatres starting December 5

YouTube video by Fathom Entertainment

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 4d

Anyways, this passed! In a purple city in a county that Trump won in 2024, they will enforce laws requiring ICE agents to unmask.

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 4d

NJ Transit is advancing plans to develop land next to transit hubs, potentially 8,000 acres, with a goal of raising up to $1.9 billion for the agency. The program is called "Leveraging Assets for Non-farebox Dollars" or LAND. Gov. Murphy has been promising this for a while. Very good news, imho.

Department of 🐸™ @porcupunk.bsky.social · 4d

This is completely out of my wheelhouse.

Reading this article gave me a few immediate concerns but again, no knowledge...

Thoughts on this?

NJ Transit announces plan to raise money without increasing fares or cutting service

NJ Transit unveiled a plan that could earn $1.9 billion over 30 years by monetizing the 8,000 acres it owns and reduce the reliance on fares, officials said.

www.nj.com

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🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · 4d

YouTube was certain I would like this, and it was right.

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Punctuation's Weird Backstory | Otherwords

YouTube video by Storied

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Zach Margolis @zach.margolis.club · 4d

long ago, the four nations lived in harmony. then everything changed when the firescraper nation attacked

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 5d

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 5d

October 10–11 2025, I walked, roughly, around #SanFrancisco

The Crosstown Trail people published The Roundabout, a walking guide to streets and trails around the edge of SF. I saw it would take me throu…

lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/departures/S...

In the foreground, a bush covered with yellow-white webby stuff, something like dandelion puffs. in the background, the ocean and a big guano-spattered rock

in the foreground, walking path by the bay with walkers and
joggers. In the background, the Golden Gate Bridge

in the foreground: a trail winds through rocky cliffs, dotted with shrubs. Beyond, a blue bay. Beyond that, the marin headlands, mostly brown but dotted with green

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🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · 5d

You're a madman! This is really inspiring.

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🎃 Ray Ryan 👻 @rjrjr.com · 5d

In the '80s a friend's cousin was in the Young Republicans and a group of us crashed in the basement of the YR house in Georgetown. It was full of anti-gay literature, really hateful stuff.

They have always been garbage, it's not just the new Trump kiddies.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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