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this is ryan
@thisryan.bsky.social
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Here are my concerns:
1. ending violence against women and children
2. reforming the legal system to better recognize (and protect families from) emotional abuse
3. anti-racism
4. public records law
5. crochet
[originally tweeted Nov 6, 2018]
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We have Die Hard on and gas is 74¢
Reginald VelJohnson as Sgt. Al Powell in Die Hard. He is looking up at the Nakatomi building and there is a gas station sign advertising gas at 74 cents per gallon.
December 12, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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comment by @this_fckn_guy: Absolute best case scenario, giving him every benefit of the doubt, we have a guy running for office in a time when fascism is coming back in a big way, who wouldn't recognize a Nazi image if it were tattooed on his chest.
October 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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the @dril tweet that says "and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that I got mad."
September 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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My favorite doctor and companion
Jesse "The Body" Ventura and Alex Trebek dressed as Men in Black from an episode of the X-Files
August 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Post yourself from another era
Ryan circa 2006 with hair on top of his head, oversized sunglasses, and his beloved Motorola PEBL flip phone
June 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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If you see this repost with an image you saved because it made you laugh
Linda Hamilton from the Terminator with the caption "Sarah Connor watching you use AI for everything"
June 21, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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It's #moss season in the PNW, heck yeah
A healthy wet moss growing on a tree stump in my driveway
February 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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A sketch from the early 2000s for "The Bear, The Jackalope, & The Angry, Lovesick Russian." Still not convinced I wasn't cooking with this one.
A crude drawing of a bearded man holding a gun and a bottle of vodka, a bear, and a rabbit with antlers also holding a gun, with the text "The Bear, The Jackalope, The Angry, Lovesick Russian."
February 19, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Started a #Northeasterly scrap blanket. I already frogged this & started over bc it wasn't good enough, but it's a great pattern to bang out a couple rows when you have a few minutes. Been thinking about knitting on the bus, this might be the perfect project.
#ShowMeYourKnits
A knitting project on circular needles with DK weight yarn. The pattern makes a narrow column of angled stitches in a chevron pattern which will later be joined with other columns to make a blanket.
February 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Dec. 24, 2009:
It's been misty in PDX for two days.

From my old Tumblr, the only good social media.
A bus stop sign on a cold misty morning. Everything past the sign is increasingly hard to make out as the mist obscures details.
February 16, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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an old photo of a tiny green landscape thriving between the cracks of a bench
#moss
a close-up image of damp, healthy moss growing in a crack between slats of a bench at Portland State University
February 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Tweet by Andrew Nadeau that says "Running was invented in 1612 by Thomas Running when he tried to walk twice at the same time."
February 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Without downloading any new pics where are you mentally?
a picture of Twin Rocks on the Oregon coast, taken on the water so the arch in one of the rocks is clearly visible
January 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Couple things I made recently.
#CraftSky
A crochet wreath made with bulky yarn crocheted around a round foam craft circle A swatch of a hand-knit basket weave stitch
January 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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New reason to be mad about #AI: I just had to explain to my kiddo that Disney has NOT made an Encanto sequel and it is NOT coming out at the end of the year, and the "AI overview" when you Google "Encanto 2" is quoting an "idea wiki" and is NOT real
Screenshot of a Google search for "Encanto 2" and an AI overview that claims a sequel will be released on August 25, 2024, which is false Screenshot of the "idea wiki" from which Google's AI pulled the information about an imaginary film called Encanto 2: A New Generation
January 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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A meme I made 12 years ago from an idea I had several years before that:
A Pimp My Ride meme that says "yo dawg i heard you like law & order so we put a serial killer in your car so you can solve your own murder while you're driving"
January 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025.
Tweet by @redpraxis that says: "y'all brainwashed by this "individualist" capitalist mindset and it shows. we do owe each other and we are connected to each other and we should go out of our way to love and care for one another."
December 29, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025
skeet by @o-c.bsky.social that says "put your heart to good use "
December 28, 2024 at 1:15 AM
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A tweet that says "being a millennial captured in one picture" above a zillow listing for a house that sold in 1999 for $162,000 and then was listed in 2023 for $1,400,000
December 18, 2024 at 5:32 AM
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I know bluesky has the sauce because it feels like goofy old Twitter
Three old tweets: @smartassjen: hey, in case you weren't already feeling old today, I just heard an intern say they loved successions "new weekly drop model" and that it was a smart way to get people hooked. @XanaxInACinnabon: You want me to go to a meeting? The thing that killed Julius Caesar? @HotPinkFurby: The backwards baseball cap stays ON during sex
December 8, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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We have a tradition in my house where the fairies leave random gifts. The fairies brought me this adorable card.
A child's hand drawn card with a picture of a holiday wreath The inside of a child's handmade card, it reads "JINGGL BELS JINGGL BELS JINGGL OL THE WAE I 💜 YOU"
December 6, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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An update on that #crochet project: I've started the second hexagon. Working up nicely, love the ombre color waves.
A ball of yarn, a crochet hexagon, a crochet hook, a crochet pattern, and the author's knee, on the couch. Not pictured is an episode of House playing in the background.
December 6, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Post a pic you took to add calm to the timeline.

Here's how my current #crochet project is coming along
A picture of a large crocheted granny square hexagon
November 29, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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Timeless advice from @chuckwendig.bsky.social
A series of posts by Chuck Wendig that say "We've a lot of anger, grief, trauma to unpack. A labyrinth of feelings to untangle. Take a moment every day to breathe deep, to keenly feel what lies inside that space between your heart and your stomach, to realize it's a bundle of snakes, now barf those snakes onto your enemies. You've gotta untie that knot of emotions, and also that knot of snakes, it's okay, they're venomous, let them out to play, they just want to bite those who oppose your healing, who stand in the way of joy, they want to bite the faces of joy thieves and share their wonderful venom. vomiting up copperhead snakes onto shitheads is how we achieve unity"
November 28, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie
Dialogue that reads "Me: wakes up" then "Pain:" but it's a picture of a dog on a surfboard crashing through a wave with the word BONJOUR in big letters
November 27, 2024 at 6:57 PM