ryan
youfoundryan.bsky.social
ryan
@youfoundryan.bsky.social
former software engineer at twitter before the apartheid kid took over. denver.

mostly post about my native landscape project and ska
i grew up with a lisp and another kid in my boy scout troop bullied me about it CONSTANTLY and so did his asshole father...

...right up until he was making fun of me at camp and i lunged at him. he took off into the forest while two other guys held me back
November 22, 2025 at 4:44 AM
polis sucks but at least he's solid on trans rights compared to newsom
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
my dude you are spiraling and should log off for a bit. this is not a good look for you.
November 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I think it is? You have a huge audience. Alex is a rando.

With great follow count comes great responsibility.
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
uh punching down at alex on trans day of remembrance is perhaps not the best idea
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I just bought that one!
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Peter Hopkirk’s “The Great Game” on the cold war of espionage between Tsarist Russia and the British Empire in the 19th century as they vied for control of Central Asia
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I was out there for my brother’s wedding in August (kent island) and I was jealous of how many staghorn sumacs I saw!
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
most counties in colorado offer public tours of the whole process. also anyone can sign up to be an observer. literally none of this is secret you just have to do like two seconds of research to not sound like a moron.
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
in CO, yes. (not saying other states don't, i just haven't bothered researching any others)
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
also the count is done by bipartisan teams. you would need people with DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED INTERESTS to both be in on the scam. glwt.
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
colorado audits every election by law. every vote is cast on paper. even if you got past the trusted build process (which is done by the secretary of state, not dominion), the paper audit would catch any rigged tabulation by dominion machines.

like, worst case is colorado falls back to a hand count
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
people should at least read their state's election security briefing. i live in CO, i've read a lot on our we run elections here (and most counties use dominion). there are SO many safeguards built into the entire election system that make rigging dominion machines both near-impossible and POINTLESS
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
begging the people who think buying dominion lets them rig elections to read even one thing about how those machines actually work in practice
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
on saturday i got to see devotchka perform with the colorado symphony and the mayor showed up to deliver remarks celebrating $20m in new capital funding for the symphony hall
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
last week i went on a date with someone who turned out to be a nazi and literally got a ranting text the next morning about living in the bsky bubble while she learns the truth on X

just crazy levels of needing to touch grass
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The really fun part is that hash maps end up treating URLs that point to different places as equal so they are the same key. Now imagine using a hash map to route outbound requests…

I’ve seen some horrifying security incidents from this thing. If your linter doesn’t already ban it, go do that now.
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
my grandfather never spoke a word about his service in the war (european theater, normandy to battle of the bulge to remagen to leipzig). it was just a Thing You Don't Ask Grandpa About because it was so triggering for him

i only learned the details when he finally wrote it down at age 80
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
i was photographing an event back in san antonio when he was still mayor. he was delivering opening remarks and someone tried to feed him a foursquare joke about being literally the mayor and lmao he flopped so bad

took it on the chin though. he was a good mayor.
November 18, 2025 at 5:02 AM
i was one of the few named authors of the internal memo at twitter, signed by like 800 employees, demanding jack ban trump after 1/6 and i have to admit i’ve spent too many sleepless nights since then wondering if we—twitter employees—won the battle but lost the war when we sent that to leadership
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
worlds worst 9 to 5 remake
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
they just sorta wander around the concourses. anyone can just walk up and pet the dogs!
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 AM
trying to imagine elon taking improv classes and i don't think he'd like ten minutes without getting kicked out
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 AM