Ryan Brock
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📚 PhD Materials Science #Stanford #Northwestern
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📚 PhD Materials Science #Stanford #Northwestern
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wrote about the state of the Rizzo Crash, my worries about the Rizzo Straddle, and the shock on Rizzo Weekend pebblehunting.substack.com/p/the-rizzo-...
The Rizzo Special
On charging bunts, on straddling bases, on living the good life.
pebblehunting.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
wrote about the state of the Rizzo Crash, my worries about the Rizzo Straddle, and the shock on Rizzo Weekend pebblehunting.substack.com/p/the-rizzo-...
It's never going to stop bothering them that Obama won it
HURT: Do you think we'll see the first felon get a Nobel Peace Prize?
JIM JORDAN: Well, he certainly deserves it
JIM JORDAN: Well, he certainly deserves it
July 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It's never going to stop bothering them that Obama won it
It's so clear Bluesky doesn't have separate algos for different sports. If you like one major US sport they serve you all major US sports. Maybe I'm the odd man out but I really only care about MLB and am tired of seeing NBA/NHL/NFL...
April 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
It's so clear Bluesky doesn't have separate algos for different sports. If you like one major US sport they serve you all major US sports. Maybe I'm the odd man out but I really only care about MLB and am tired of seeing NBA/NHL/NFL...
If @aoc.bsky.social left the Dems and started "The Fight Party" I would knock doors for them every week til we're out of this
The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.
March 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If @aoc.bsky.social left the Dems and started "The Fight Party" I would knock doors for them every week til we're out of this
Supply chains are long, anyone that works in manufacturing has been thinking about it for months but very soon it's going to reach the end users.
From a shoe company whose shoes I really like. I feel like we're going to be seeing a lot more "we're raising prices because of tariffs" emails these days...
February 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Supply chains are long, anyone that works in manufacturing has been thinking about it for months but very soon it's going to reach the end users.
Welcome to the truck stop dog jail
February 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Welcome to the truck stop dog jail
It's time for a yearly tradition, reading the Oct-Feb @jeffwzimmerman.bsky.social blogroll on FanGraphs to figure out what's happened since last season
February 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's time for a yearly tradition, reading the Oct-Feb @jeffwzimmerman.bsky.social blogroll on FanGraphs to figure out what's happened since last season
Bad news, all websites are on track to look like a version of this, it is not Twitter specific
February 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Bad news, all websites are on track to look like a version of this, it is not Twitter specific
One thing I'm trying this year for #fantasybaseball projections is reducing IP for bad pitchers. Even if you draft Erick Fedde and he throws 180ip, you're not playing him every start in fantasy.
February 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
One thing I'm trying this year for #fantasybaseball projections is reducing IP for bad pitchers. Even if you draft Erick Fedde and he throws 180ip, you're not playing him every start in fantasy.
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
I keep seeing this one guy's posts about mushroom pictures on here. I've started clicking 'not interested' and yet still the mushrooms persist. Please, Bluesky, I don't care about the man's mushrooms, I'm begging you
February 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I keep seeing this one guy's posts about mushroom pictures on here. I've started clicking 'not interested' and yet still the mushrooms persist. Please, Bluesky, I don't care about the man's mushrooms, I'm begging you
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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
It's "we tried" season amongst teams that are going to miss the playoffs in 2025
December 29, 2024 at 2:10 AM
It's "we tried" season amongst teams that are going to miss the playoffs in 2025
Mike Soroka got $9 mil?? Are you sure??? The guy who has had one good season and it was back in 2019?
At this rate I'm going to get a couple milly just for sitting on the couch watching the games.
At this rate I'm going to get a couple milly just for sitting on the couch watching the games.
Mike Soroka signs a 1-year, $9 million contract with the Washington Nationals. He'll be in their starting rotation
@Ken_Rosenthal 1st with the agreement.
@Ken_Rosenthal 1st with the agreement.
December 20, 2024 at 3:16 AM
Mike Soroka got $9 mil?? Are you sure??? The guy who has had one good season and it was back in 2019?
At this rate I'm going to get a couple milly just for sitting on the couch watching the games.
At this rate I'm going to get a couple milly just for sitting on the couch watching the games.
Listening to episodes of @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social and @pjvogt.bsky.social's Search Engine back to back to get the 2024 Reply All experience. This week: Airport Luggage Stores and a Diarrhea Button.
December 7, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Listening to episodes of @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social and @pjvogt.bsky.social's Search Engine back to back to get the 2024 Reply All experience. This week: Airport Luggage Stores and a Diarrhea Button.
Used this over the Thanksgiving holiday, it was cool.
Downside: TSA can't be bothered to know how their own machines work, so in practice the physical ID is much faster.
Downside: TSA can't be bothered to know how their own machines work, so in practice the physical ID is much faster.
Google Wallet can now be your passport at many airports
Google Wallet can now be your passport at many airports
Google says you should still carry physical ID, though.
buff.ly
December 7, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Used this over the Thanksgiving holiday, it was cool.
Downside: TSA can't be bothered to know how their own machines work, so in practice the physical ID is much faster.
Downside: TSA can't be bothered to know how their own machines work, so in practice the physical ID is much faster.
No way to prove this, but I really strongly believe the Twitter exodus is MOSTLY related to the app/algo themselves being bad now. The election was the inciting incident but people aren't primarily leaving "because they don't like Elon". This was all a long time coming.
December 1, 2024 at 8:51 PM
No way to prove this, but I really strongly believe the Twitter exodus is MOSTLY related to the app/algo themselves being bad now. The election was the inciting incident but people aren't primarily leaving "because they don't like Elon". This was all a long time coming.
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You can take a selfie with the Earth using this YouTuber’s satellite
You can take a selfie with the Earth using this YouTuber’s satellite
Anyone want an Earth selfie?
buff.ly
November 29, 2024 at 9:30 PM
You can take a selfie with the Earth using this YouTuber’s satellite
New King of Combo Meals
2024 games with a homer AND a stolen base:
16 Shohei Ohtani 😮
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8 Francisco Lindor
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6 Gunnar Henderson, Elly De La Cruz, Jazz Chisholm
5 Bobby Witt Jr., Luis Garcia Jr.
16 Shohei Ohtani 😮
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8 Francisco Lindor
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6 Gunnar Henderson, Elly De La Cruz, Jazz Chisholm
5 Bobby Witt Jr., Luis Garcia Jr.
November 30, 2024 at 4:31 PM
New King of Combo Meals
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Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont...
It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.
It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.
November 26, 2024 at 4:25 AM
Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont...
It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.
It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.
Silicon Valley 2024:
Gilfoyle has created AGI but he keeps having to unplug it and start over because it keeps demanding employment perks like a 40 hour work week, paid time off, a microkitchen.
Gilfoyle has created AGI but he keeps having to unplug it and start over because it keeps demanding employment perks like a 40 hour work week, paid time off, a microkitchen.
It’s wild to me that the same people who say AGI is just around the corner cannot conceive of a world in which that intelligence believes it deserves labor protections.
November 23, 2024 at 7:35 AM
Silicon Valley 2024:
Gilfoyle has created AGI but he keeps having to unplug it and start over because it keeps demanding employment perks like a 40 hour work week, paid time off, a microkitchen.
Gilfoyle has created AGI but he keeps having to unplug it and start over because it keeps demanding employment perks like a 40 hour work week, paid time off, a microkitchen.
We were on Fukuyama's timeline until that time traveler killed Harambe
November 14, 2024 at 4:57 PM
We were on Fukuyama's timeline until that time traveler killed Harambe