Ryan
@banjosdad.bsky.social
Privacy lawyer & writer & a third thing
I am reading The Maltese Falcon for the first time and I am 16 pages in and Sam Spade has had five cigarettes and three glasses of Bacardi.
December 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I am reading The Maltese Falcon for the first time and I am 16 pages in and Sam Spade has had five cigarettes and three glasses of Bacardi.
Good contribution Naomi.
December 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Good contribution Naomi.
Their entire m.o. is just acting like petulant trolls so they can go “lmao u mad???” It’s not more complicated than that.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Their entire m.o. is just acting like petulant trolls so they can go “lmao u mad???” It’s not more complicated than that.
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(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee
We are the richest and most powerful society in the history of ever and our primal fear is that someone, somewhere, is getting something for free when they don't deserve it.
People (Americans especially) get so caught up in means-testing and gatekeeping and a scarcity and competition mindset. We have to realize that things like “enough time to finish a test” or “enough money to pay for every kid to eat lunch” are well within our capacity. Even more, but that’s a start.
December 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
We are the richest and most powerful society in the history of ever and our primal fear is that someone, somewhere, is getting something for free when they don't deserve it.
Not to post about Wordle of all things but I’ve been using the same opening word since 2021 and it was finally the Wordle today.
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Not to post about Wordle of all things but I’ve been using the same opening word since 2021 and it was finally the Wordle today.
I would pay ten bazillion dollars to never read about what’s happening at an Ivy League institution ever again.
December 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I would pay ten bazillion dollars to never read about what’s happening at an Ivy League institution ever again.
TPUSA is for undergrad what the Federalist Society is for law school.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
TPUSA is for undergrad what the Federalist Society is for law school.
Regrettably the hostages left on X The Everything App (and Hakeem Jeffries’s staff) are going to take Bluesky dunking on “strong floor, no ceilings” as a sign that it’s electoral gold.
November 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Regrettably the hostages left on X The Everything App (and Hakeem Jeffries’s staff) are going to take Bluesky dunking on “strong floor, no ceilings” as a sign that it’s electoral gold.
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Kiss of death
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Kiss of death
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when a comediän jaçks-œff in front of women nònconsensűally
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
when a comediän jaçks-œff in front of women nònconsensűally
Everyone who is less skeptical of AI than I am is a credulous rube and everyone who is more skeptical of AI than I am is a bedwetting Luddite.
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Everyone who is less skeptical of AI than I am is a credulous rube and everyone who is more skeptical of AI than I am is a bedwetting Luddite.
Republican officials in Indiana of all places see the light at the end of the tunnel on Trumpism but elite institutions like Northwestern just nod and assume Trumpism is forever.
I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Republican officials in Indiana of all places see the light at the end of the tunnel on Trumpism but elite institutions like Northwestern just nod and assume Trumpism is forever.
Right now I’m thinking about my cousin Andy, who died at age 33 from AIDS and was the only other out gay person on either side of my family. Nobody even told me about him until I was 34, an age he never got to see.
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
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Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Right now I’m thinking about my cousin Andy, who died at age 33 from AIDS and was the only other out gay person on either side of my family. Nobody even told me about him until I was 34, an age he never got to see.
I don’t know what’s more damning, that the political system allowed these people to, well, do all this, or that they are pretty certain they won’t be held accountable when power shifts in Washington.
At minimum, Hegseth, Miller, and Rubio need to be prosecuted. There are a lot more people who should be, but that’s the minimum you need to kill the idea of elite impunity in government.
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I don’t know what’s more damning, that the political system allowed these people to, well, do all this, or that they are pretty certain they won’t be held accountable when power shifts in Washington.
I had third party counsel swear up and down for two months straight they had no updates for us and at 9:48 PM the night before Thanksgiving dropped a massive bombshell on us that will require a response in 48 hours.
Hello, please see attached. They want to sign on Monday so we have our work cut out for us before then. I have a prior family engagement this weekend, but I’ll be available for update calls 9pm each night. I’ve put time on your calendars for those. Let’s get started.
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I had third party counsel swear up and down for two months straight they had no updates for us and at 9:48 PM the night before Thanksgiving dropped a massive bombshell on us that will require a response in 48 hours.
Put “reschedule colonoscopy” on my to do list today, leapfrogging into middle age while still comfortably in my thirties.
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Put “reschedule colonoscopy” on my to do list today, leapfrogging into middle age while still comfortably in my thirties.
New Strong Bad email, maybe this country is worth saving after all.
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
New Strong Bad email, maybe this country is worth saving after all.
Zohran Mamdani the people of the District need you
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announces she will not seek a fourth term
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Zohran Mamdani the people of the District need you
Hardly the most important thing but why does he spell it “liddle’.” Why is there an apostrophe. Why not l’il.
Trump on Rand Paul: “He's a nasty liddle' guy”
Trump on Thomas Massie: “a sick Wacko”
Trump on Thomas Massie: “a sick Wacko”
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Hardly the most important thing but why does he spell it “liddle’.” Why is there an apostrophe. Why not l’il.
Entering a new stage of my thirties where I listen to “Vienna” by Billy Joel alone in my living room while crying softly.
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Entering a new stage of my thirties where I listen to “Vienna” by Billy Joel alone in my living room while crying softly.
Remains funny to me how much the Washington Post’s godawful editorial board keeps getting owned by the Washington Post’s AI.
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Remains funny to me how much the Washington Post’s godawful editorial board keeps getting owned by the Washington Post’s AI.