Ryan O

Great book

shel silverstein was a prophet

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

i like how whenever the baseball men need to calm down they take a lil walk

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Predictive text models do not ever "answer your question"

They predict what an answer to your question would probably look like.

Which is very, very, very different

Made the kids watch Sneakers with me for Fathers' Day last night and man does it hold up. Criminally slept-on film.

This seems like it should all be one crawl actually

Opinion: This is a perfect distillation of how suburbanites feel entitled to the benefits our world-class city offers despite not contributing to the tax base that pays for such amenities

160 years ago today, the traitor Jefferson Davis and his treasonous cabinet abandoned Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, spelling the beginning of the end of the Civil War. A day for all patriots to celebrate.

Trump is largely just an idiot, but Vance knows exactly what he's doing and that makes it worse

people that live in chicago love to be like “i love living in chicago”

What's happening in America is that, in the most literal sense, internet trolls have taken over the government.

Sometimes I accidentally click on a website's AI button, and it always makes me recoil like I stepped in a puddle of shower water with fresh socks on.

Every lifelong Catholic I’ve ever met is like “I think we’re supposed to give this food to poor people” and every adult convert is like “the Archon of Constantinople’s epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the Eucharist clearly states that women shouldn’t have drivers licenses”

Adult catholic converts are some of the weirdest people who uniformly seem to miss the main points Jesus was trying to make

Great Lakes secession now more than ever

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

What an absolutely wild swing the Lord of the Rings trilogy was. If they'd been bad or unpopular movies it would have been a world-historical cinematic catastrophe. Instead it's a 12-hour parade of the most bitchin' shit you've ever seen in your life.

the McConaughey/Harrelson Salesforce commercial has to be the most nonsensical one going. Literally no part of it makes any sense.

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

Spotify Wrapped top five artists - Laura Stevenson, Waxahatchee, Winona Fighter, Beach Bunny, Paramore

Spotify Wrapped top five songs - “I’m in the Market to Please No One” by Winona Fighter, “Subaru” by Winona Fighter, “I Think You Should Leave” by Winona Fighter, “Mid-Life Crisis” by House Parties, and “Jellyfish” by Laura Stevenson

Another year of excellent taste in music

They Might Be Giants have existed for *ten times as long* as the Confederacy

Ten (actually an even dozen) writers of whom I've read more than five books:

Neil Gaiman
Ursula K LeGuin
Tom Clancy
James SA Corey
Robert Jordan
Brandon Sanderson
NK Jemisin
CS Lewis
Terry Pratchett
Kim Stanley Robinson
John Scalzi
Neal Stephenson

The Hainish Cycle by Ursula K. LeGuin, or The Expanse if we are sticking to tv/movies