Ryan Howse
@ryanhowse.bsky.social
This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
For my ongoing steampunk TTRPG I've been making 'newspaper articles' to explain what happened that session for those who missed.
Here's the last paragraph from last night:
Here's the last paragraph from last night:
November 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
For my ongoing steampunk TTRPG I've been making 'newspaper articles' to explain what happened that session for those who missed.
Here's the last paragraph from last night:
Here's the last paragraph from last night:
My brother's old desktop, circa late 90s, would boot to the sound of cows laughing in an eerily similar way.
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
My brother's old desktop, circa late 90s, would boot to the sound of cows laughing in an eerily similar way.
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"Between 1919 and 1930, the terms Remembrance Day and Armistice Day were used interchangeably. In 1931 the name was officially changed to Remembrance Day, emphasizing the memory of the war and the soldiers who died in battle, rather than the armistice, which was a political achievement"
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"Between 1919 and 1930, the terms Remembrance Day and Armistice Day were used interchangeably. In 1931 the name was officially changed to Remembrance Day, emphasizing the memory of the war and the soldiers who died in battle, rather than the armistice, which was a political achievement"
gonna start my right-wing grift by complaining the new predator is misandrist
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
gonna start my right-wing grift by complaining the new predator is misandrist
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it is a sacred day today.
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 AM
it is a sacred day today.
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I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮
![A meme depicting a woman staring at her phone with one hand on her head, with the following text below:
IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD?
What your Great Lakes maritime history-obsessed teen's text messages actually mean:
brb = bell rang bro
rofl = rang out for lost (crew)
bff = big freakin' freigher
lol = Load of Ore on the Lake
smh = shift minutes to hours
glhf = Great Lakes hella freighter
tbh = taconite be haulin'
stfu = steer the freighter upwind
tfw = that freakin' witch (of November)
asl = a ship lost
gg = Gitche Gumee
idc = immoderate deadweight capacity
btw = beneath the waves
afk = a freighter kaput
hbd = hauler's beacon down
ily = iron load yonder
jk = just [24] kilometers
lmao = lost my abyssal ore
nbd = north bound draft
glhf = good lord, hold flooding
omg = obliteratingly massive gales
tmi = too much iron
wtf = White Fish (Bay)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccm7gttkbfs2eyyrlpshmeun/bafkreib6ughtj23oqdskaisavrueyn6fijujbp2e663h6p6ukx74lbibyu@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮
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This is the plot of Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is the plot of Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk
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Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning
From The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, proof that Sherlock Holmes is a phrenologist
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
From The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, proof that Sherlock Holmes is a phrenologist
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attention canadian authors!
Because the huge Anthropic class action settlement limits eligibility to works registered w/ US Copyright Office, non-US writers are mostly locked out. But there's a similar proposed class action covering Canadian authors (click Documents link, then Amended Notice) www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...
Anthropic PBC AI Copyright - CFM Lawyers
www.cfmlawyers.ca
November 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
attention canadian authors!
I've been asked this question and I'm a dude:
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I've been asked this question and I'm a dude:
To be fair its a hard word to spell
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
To be fair its a hard word to spell
Re-reading Sherlock Holmes and it's strange that halfway through A Study in Scarlet Doyle says "That's enough clever investigation, here's the history of some Mormons."
November 3, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Re-reading Sherlock Holmes and it's strange that halfway through A Study in Scarlet Doyle says "That's enough clever investigation, here's the history of some Mormons."
My kids just watched a Pokémon ep where they thought there was a haunted hotel but it turned out to just have mushroom-type Pokémon in it.
Which was almost the plot of a pretty great horror book a few years back!
Which was almost the plot of a pretty great horror book a few years back!
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
My kids just watched a Pokémon ep where they thought there was a haunted hotel but it turned out to just have mushroom-type Pokémon in it.
Which was almost the plot of a pretty great horror book a few years back!
Which was almost the plot of a pretty great horror book a few years back!
you guys should've all been watching deep space nine
November 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
you guys should've all been watching deep space nine
I saw this so now you have to
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I saw this so now you have to
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I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
'who should the villain of this series be? ah yes the pirate who just keeps freeing slaves.'
October 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
'who should the villain of this series be? ah yes the pirate who just keeps freeing slaves.'
Happy birthday to me
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Happy birthday to me
i keep getting ads for THE FIRST BEDSHEET MADE...FOR MEN over on fb and if you think you need specific bedsheets to be a man i've got bad news for you about your deep-seated insecurities
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
i keep getting ads for THE FIRST BEDSHEET MADE...FOR MEN over on fb and if you think you need specific bedsheets to be a man i've got bad news for you about your deep-seated insecurities