Ryan Pitts
@ryanpitts.bsky.social
Journalist, coder, community developer. Managing director, Big Local News at Stanford.
“I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
… who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.”
“I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
… who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.”
I feel like we haven’t even scratched the surface of how bad it can get
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I feel like we haven’t even scratched the surface of how bad it can get
I’ve been thinking so much about this. A class I was in last year did an exercise applying a Black Mirror episode to surveillance capitalism tech, and my contribution was “what if the chatbot with your dearly departed grandpa starts casually mentioning how much he enjoyed a cold Pepsi on a hot day”
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I’ve been thinking so much about this. A class I was in last year did an exercise applying a Black Mirror episode to surveillance capitalism tech, and my contribution was “what if the chatbot with your dearly departed grandpa starts casually mentioning how much he enjoyed a cold Pepsi on a hot day”
How would you describe its influence on Tubin’ and Mudlarkin’?
November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
How would you describe its influence on Tubin’ and Mudlarkin’?
Sumerlands! I missed them on the list, they are fun as hell.
Sounds like an awesome honeymoon trip you have coming up, congrats!
Sounds like an awesome honeymoon trip you have coming up, congrats!
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sumerlands! I missed them on the list, they are fun as hell.
Sounds like an awesome honeymoon trip you have coming up, congrats!
Sounds like an awesome honeymoon trip you have coming up, congrats!
Have seen David Eugene Edwards a few times, in solo and Wovenhand forms. Totally transfixing
November 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Have seen David Eugene Edwards a few times, in solo and Wovenhand forms. Totally transfixing
Yeah! I’m from eastern Washington, not far from my neck of the woods. (16 HP + Yob? Come on, that’s hard to resist.)
Really appreciated this backstory on the festival: www.instagram.com/reel/DQwxWcZ...
Really appreciated this backstory on the festival: www.instagram.com/reel/DQwxWcZ...
High Country News on Instagram: "When a string of teen suicides ripped through the Blackfeet Nation, local teachers banded together to shelter their students from suicidal distress. The plan: bring ki...
The heavy metal scene has long been a staple of alternative culture, but for Indigenous youth, it's become a source of strength and hope. A group of high school teachers in the Blackfeet Nation recogn...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Yeah! I’m from eastern Washington, not far from my neck of the woods. (16 HP + Yob? Come on, that’s hard to resist.)
Really appreciated this backstory on the festival: www.instagram.com/reel/DQwxWcZ...
Really appreciated this backstory on the festival: www.instagram.com/reel/DQwxWcZ...
Never imagined I’d even have a chance to see them live
November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Never imagined I’d even have a chance to see them live
w/ companion second-screen web app a la the NPR elex Big Board
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
w/ companion second-screen web app a la the NPR elex Big Board
but Erin really whose child is this, because this child is much too big
November 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
but Erin really whose child is this, because this child is much too big
Glad you were OK, but Derek now I cannot WAIT for the next time I see you
November 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Glad you were OK, but Derek now I cannot WAIT for the next time I see you
A true gift to the world from the Royals
October 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
A true gift to the world from the Royals
Love it. Always been fascinated with tinkering on derived statistics
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Love it. Always been fascinated with tinkering on derived statistics
Have you considered a bonus for exceptional individual performances? (Like maybe triple doubles, 40 pts, 20 boards, etc)
October 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Have you considered a bonus for exceptional individual performances? (Like maybe triple doubles, 40 pts, 20 boards, etc)
I love this. Are these all additive? (Curious how “low maximum lead” and “comeback bonus” interact with each other.)
October 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I love this. Are these all additive? (Curious how “low maximum lead” and “comeback bonus” interact with each other.)
I also keep thinking about the way he distinguishes science fiction from “mimetic fiction”
October 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I also keep thinking about the way he distinguishes science fiction from “mimetic fiction”
I got to see him speak last night, and it was every bit as great as I hoped. Just one of the tabs open on my phone now from his namechecks: poets.org/poem/you-are...
You Are Who I Love
You, selling roses out of a silver grocery cart You, in the park, feeding the pigeons You cheering for the bees You with cats in your voice in the morning, feeding cats You protecting the river You ar...
poets.org
October 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I got to see him speak last night, and it was every bit as great as I hoped. Just one of the tabs open on my phone now from his namechecks: poets.org/poem/you-are...