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Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · Feb 15

2025 Reading List

1.) Martyr, Kaveh Akbar

5/5 - I couldn’t put this book down. The whole thing was thought provoking, meaningful, and the ending had me running to Reddit to see what others thought.

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Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 29m

He fried their brains so incredibly badly.

Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 13h

Party was cracked

Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 13h

I beat Honor Mode if u even care

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Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 16h

I think what the world needs in this moment is a bunch of celebrities singing Imagine

Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 17h

I had this btw

Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 18h

You’ve hit your protein goal for the day. You have the following macros left:

~500 cal
~85g carb
~25g fat

What are you reaching for? (Pic unrelated)

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Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 19h

I think you’d be surprised at how little the people on the periphery of your friend group know about what is going on in the world at any given time. Does posting help that? Maybe, or maybe not. But better to fill that space than not imo

Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 19h

It’s made it incredibly easy to weed out the closet conservatives, so imma keep doing it. You can scroll tho!

Ranch Devereaux @thejacko.bsky.social · 1d

Girl, who exactly are you sharing these 4000 political posts on your IG stories for?????

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Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 22h

If he’s a Mamdani ally then my first assumption is that he is good. Just don’t want to get dog walked into another Ritchie Torres

Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 23h

I need to learn more about him before I’m all in, but frankly, getting Jeffries out is all I care about

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 1d

If your video begins “starting off strong with” immediately no. Immediately no. I’ve heard what I needed to hear and

Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 1d

They will never 25 him. He’s too to them useful in this state

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Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 1d

Decided to kill gortash, once you knock him prone he’s easy. On to the brain. Gale, you’re up

Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 9d

Orin dead in 2 turns, I’ve been sleeping on Arcane Synergy. Now, do I betray Gortash or take the easy way out to the brain

Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 1d

Oh sorry, the honor mode and campaign comments were about BG3

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Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah! I wanna know what people think 😊

Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone played Ghost of Yotei? I’m about to finish my honor mode run and need a new game before I start a 6th campaign

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Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 1d

Hey everyone look at my new shirt

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Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 1d

Doing my warm up sets - hamstring curls, hip abduction etc, getting ready to DL and someone just comes in off the street and raw dogs 310# no warm up 😭

Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 1d

Pussy Riot

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Which praise and worship band would Mike Johnson prefer to do the Super Bowl halftime show, wrong answers only

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Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 1d

Wait should I play Legion Remix

Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 2d

I ate too many potatoes

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 2d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 2d

Did @jaketapper.bsky.social cover this in his “text interview” with Trump?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water. They're not coming. There are no boats anymore. Frankly, there are no fishing boats. There are no boats out there period, if you want to know the truth. Does anybody go fishing anymore?"

Ryan, of the Rapture @ryrapture.bsky.social · 2d

I’m reading Babel right now and it’s great

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 2d

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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