John Conor Ryan
@johnconorryan.bsky.social
Co-founder: Calx Institute. @calxinstitute.social.bsky
Physicist, writer, learning to play jazz on cello.
Co-steward of https://getdweb.net/principles/ ... values for the Web we deserve.
Physicist, writer, learning to play jazz on cello.
Co-steward of https://getdweb.net/principles/ ... values for the Web we deserve.
A joyous evening at @archive.org last night - celebrating archiving ONE TRILLION web pages, from the distant mists of earliest web times to the current day. And announces the "fundraise with us" decentralized funding campaign. @brewster.kahle.org
donate.archive.org/campaign/1-t...
donate.archive.org/campaign/1-t...
October 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A joyous evening at @archive.org last night - celebrating archiving ONE TRILLION web pages, from the distant mists of earliest web times to the current day. And announces the "fundraise with us" decentralized funding campaign. @brewster.kahle.org
donate.archive.org/campaign/1-t...
donate.archive.org/campaign/1-t...
Tiny Sausalito had an impressive #nokings turnout. #sanfrancisco
October 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Tiny Sausalito had an impressive #nokings turnout. #sanfrancisco
Supernumerary rainbow over #sanfrancisco bay a few days ago.
October 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Supernumerary rainbow over #sanfrancisco bay a few days ago.
Where I live
(San Francisco bay) #sanfrancisco
(San Francisco bay) #sanfrancisco
September 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Where I live
(San Francisco bay) #sanfrancisco
(San Francisco bay) #sanfrancisco
Pertinent advice from a century ago, inscribed by a detained would be-immigrant into the walls of the Detention Center at Angel Island, near San Francisco. I visited it, again, this weekend.
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September 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Pertinent advice from a century ago, inscribed by a detained would be-immigrant into the walls of the Detention Center at Angel Island, near San Francisco. I visited it, again, this weekend.
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San Francisco Bay this morning.
August 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
San Francisco Bay this morning.
Here's a piece that helped bring those horrors to the front in pre-abolition London: Turner's 1840 painting "the Slave Ship" or "Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon coming on"
Painting is now in Boston's MFA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sla...
Painting is now in Boston's MFA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sla...
August 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Here's a piece that helped bring those horrors to the front in pre-abolition London: Turner's 1840 painting "the Slave Ship" or "Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon coming on"
Painting is now in Boston's MFA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sla...
Painting is now in Boston's MFA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sla...
Today, a hero came by our home. It was his home 35 or more years ago.
We had a great visit.
Who is this?
Rusty Schweikart, Apollo 9 astronaut, first pilot of the Lunar Landing Module - and then post-NASA, an advisor to the California Governor.
We had a great visit.
Who is this?
Rusty Schweikart, Apollo 9 astronaut, first pilot of the Lunar Landing Module - and then post-NASA, an advisor to the California Governor.
August 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Today, a hero came by our home. It was his home 35 or more years ago.
We had a great visit.
Who is this?
Rusty Schweikart, Apollo 9 astronaut, first pilot of the Lunar Landing Module - and then post-NASA, an advisor to the California Governor.
We had a great visit.
Who is this?
Rusty Schweikart, Apollo 9 astronaut, first pilot of the Lunar Landing Module - and then post-NASA, an advisor to the California Governor.
Heron on neighbor's float.
Sausalito, Calif.
Sausalito, Calif.
August 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Heron on neighbor's float.
Sausalito, Calif.
Sausalito, Calif.
Hello San Francisco!
(It's there, somewhere)
(It's there, somewhere)
August 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Hello San Francisco!
(It's there, somewhere)
(It's there, somewhere)
July 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
And then, the Magnificent Frigate Bird, a bird shaped like a perfect dart; a bird that flies for days and weeks, napping / sleeping; a bird that wheels, effortlessly, endlessly in the warm air.
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
And then, the Magnificent Frigate Bird, a bird shaped like a perfect dart; a bird that flies for days and weeks, napping / sleeping; a bird that wheels, effortlessly, endlessly in the warm air.
@bluesky has deep medical juice.
I had 😞 to look up a pathological term and it led me to @pathologyoutlines.bsky.social and the page I needed - and, it turns out, every page - has this image: FOLLOW US ON BLUESKY
#MedSky for the win!
I had 😞 to look up a pathological term and it led me to @pathologyoutlines.bsky.social and the page I needed - and, it turns out, every page - has this image: FOLLOW US ON BLUESKY
#MedSky for the win!
June 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
@bluesky has deep medical juice.
I had 😞 to look up a pathological term and it led me to @pathologyoutlines.bsky.social and the page I needed - and, it turns out, every page - has this image: FOLLOW US ON BLUESKY
#MedSky for the win!
I had 😞 to look up a pathological term and it led me to @pathologyoutlines.bsky.social and the page I needed - and, it turns out, every page - has this image: FOLLOW US ON BLUESKY
#MedSky for the win!
O look, @nytimes.com came up with Yet Another Way to avoid saying Trump is breaking the law.
"No, your honor, I didn't break the law, I collided with it."
"No, your honor, I didn't break the law, I collided with it."
June 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
O look, @nytimes.com came up with Yet Another Way to avoid saying Trump is breaking the law.
"No, your honor, I didn't break the law, I collided with it."
"No, your honor, I didn't break the law, I collided with it."
Warm, sunny days are here again and so here are California's grid data from yesterday. At 1pm 22GW was from grid-based renewables (large solar + wind). 2M+ homes and businesses with solar panels could add perhaps 4GW at peak.
(Somewhat surprised at how large the gas power was)
(Somewhat surprised at how large the gas power was)
May 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Warm, sunny days are here again and so here are California's grid data from yesterday. At 1pm 22GW was from grid-based renewables (large solar + wind). 2M+ homes and businesses with solar panels could add perhaps 4GW at peak.
(Somewhat surprised at how large the gas power was)
(Somewhat surprised at how large the gas power was)
With alt text added
@katewagner.bsky.social , architecture critic and creator of mcmansionhell
@katewagner.bsky.social , architecture critic and creator of mcmansionhell
April 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
With alt text added
@katewagner.bsky.social , architecture critic and creator of mcmansionhell
@katewagner.bsky.social , architecture critic and creator of mcmansionhell
Not nuts at all.
Lazard's 2024 report has the lowest levelized cost of energy in the USA as onshore wind and then utility-scale solar (but this excludes storage). Tiny thread in support of Amy.
Lazard's 2024 report has the lowest levelized cost of energy in the USA as onshore wind and then utility-scale solar (but this excludes storage). Tiny thread in support of Amy.
April 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Not nuts at all.
Lazard's 2024 report has the lowest levelized cost of energy in the USA as onshore wind and then utility-scale solar (but this excludes storage). Tiny thread in support of Amy.
Lazard's 2024 report has the lowest levelized cost of energy in the USA as onshore wind and then utility-scale solar (but this excludes storage). Tiny thread in support of Amy.
We do really need more political cartoonists here. (Note the Z lapel pin!)
Creator: Morton Moreland, UK.
Creator: Morton Moreland, UK.
April 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We do really need more political cartoonists here. (Note the Z lapel pin!)
Creator: Morton Moreland, UK.
Creator: Morton Moreland, UK.
There likely are some floor prices, with one for Putin, perhaps and another for MBS, etc. But below 224 rn.
March 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
There likely are some floor prices, with one for Putin, perhaps and another for MBS, etc. But below 224 rn.
This is some good writing:
"the legal profession is again confronted with the specter of some of its prominent members penning meritless, even frivolous, justifications of a President’s desire to violate the basic human rights of a vulnerable population"
"the legal profession is again confronted with the specter of some of its prominent members penning meritless, even frivolous, justifications of a President’s desire to violate the basic human rights of a vulnerable population"
March 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is some good writing:
"the legal profession is again confronted with the specter of some of its prominent members penning meritless, even frivolous, justifications of a President’s desire to violate the basic human rights of a vulnerable population"
"the legal profession is again confronted with the specter of some of its prominent members penning meritless, even frivolous, justifications of a President’s desire to violate the basic human rights of a vulnerable population"
The just-booted head of 18F posted on LinkedIn. From which: "We were living proof that the talking points of this administration were false. Government services can be efficient. You can work with agencies as they are now and work with them to better manage their services. This made us a target."
March 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The just-booted head of 18F posted on LinkedIn. From which: "We were living proof that the talking points of this administration were false. Government services can be efficient. You can work with agencies as they are now and work with them to better manage their services. This made us a target."
O, I didn't know about your book, which I shall buy. The Neuenschwander book I already have.
February 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
O, I didn't know about your book, which I shall buy. The Neuenschwander book I already have.
Massachusetts law might be relevant here?
www.mass.gov/regulations/...
www.mass.gov/regulations/...
February 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Massachusetts law might be relevant here?
www.mass.gov/regulations/...
www.mass.gov/regulations/...