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Ryan Godfrey

@ryangodfrey.com

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Philadelphia, elections, baseball, databases. Dadge oak arborist. Movies from three years ago, and 103 years ago. https://letterboxd.com/rgodfrey/ Signal: rgo.99

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · Nov 14

Philly people: lots of words will get your post into the feed linked below, such as “Schuylkill” or “cheesesteak” or “Phanatic.” If your post is Philly-specific but doesn’t have obvious Philly keywords (“Someone just mooned the Portal”), stick a single 🔔 somewhere in the post & it goes in the feed.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 13m

That baby has been very nasty to me. Very unfair and very nasty. We think it's an antifa baby, the baby is antifa and we're looking into it very strongly.

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 33m

Until you specified, I had no idea what product or company the commercial I've now seen several times was for, and now that I know, it is not affecting my feelings for that company in a positive manner.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 54m

I'm definitely calling it the PhArt Museum.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 1h

It's pronounced just like it looks ("Shaquille")

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 1h

Schuylkill

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 2h

Like, [email protected]? No, that's the real Zelle address.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 2h

What's the domain of the email address?

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Lair Of The Gurt Sherm (Stoker 1911) @gurtsherm.bsky.social · 10h

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 3h

Oh wow, awesome work!

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 3h

I don't think TRIPE/TRICE is by itself ideal, but my goal is always 3 and in combo with SALON it's very powerful. And yeah, the S is probably not as effective as it could be but when it hits it gives a lot of info.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 3h

I know, who can believe it?

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 3h

I think they thought "inspector of elections" was a citywide office rather than a Pennsylvania-specific type of pollworker for a neighborhood of like eight square blocks. Did they ask me to clarify my job or approve the chyron before putting me on the air? They did not.

Me on CNN. Chyron says Ryan Godfrey, Inspector of Elections for Philadelphia

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 3h

In summer 2016 I had a tweetstorm about so-called election-rigging in Philadelphia go viral and roughly 24 hours later I was a talking head on a cable news show.

A screenshot from CNN on August 9, 2016 with a chyron reading "RACED FOR THE WHITE HOUSE: TRUMP SAYS ELECTION WILL BE RIGGED"

Five talking heads: Don Lemon, Brian Stelter, Dennis Prager, Angela Rye, Ryan Godfrey

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 4h

How often does he throw it to righties?

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 5h

Because of social media I got to debate Dennis Prager about “voter fraud” in Philadelphia on Don Lemon’s CNN show. So no, nothing great.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 16h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 5h

To say nothing of the ChachiVerse.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 7h

Please be aware that there is a scrapple sculpting contest at the Reading Terminal Market tomorrow at noon. (If you don’t know what this means you probably don’t want to.)

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 5h

Also Bader’s mom is first cousins with Scott Baio, so he’s connected to the GOD’S NOT DEADverse too.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 5h

Video was directed by Richard Ayoade, so Bader is let’s call it three degrees of separation from basically all of Hollywood.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 5h

Wow, 12yo Harrison Bader’s in the “Oxford Comma” video.

Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · 5h

Hell yeah www.inquirer.com/phillies/har...

Harrison Bader brings rhythm to the Phillies. His cousin, Chris Baio, does the same as the bassist for Vampire Weekend.

Harrison Bader brought his rock star looks to the Phillies. His cousin, Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio, is a real rock star. And the two are fans of one another.

www.inquirer.com

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 6h

Lower Hoagiemouth is an important, if distinct, dialect and regional marker of our friends to the south.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 6h

TRIPE/TRICE followed by SALON, or the opposite order, usually.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 6h

I see the analogy, but IPAs are some of the worst things the hipsters ever imposed upon us, whereas black coffee is the water of life.

drew @adrew.dadguy.help · 7h

people who like black coffee are just morning ipa drinkers

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 7h

Wawaphart is a real medical condition we should not make fun of.

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Steve KleinedLRRR @skleinedler.bsky.social · 7h

🎵 gonna PhArt now

Rocky on the art museum steps looking down Franklin parkway toward city hall, arms raised , from the movie ROCKY