Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026At the McDonalds in Munich because 50% of my ancestry is German but I am 100% American. 000
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I am in Munich and when we got to the hotel as a show of how German they can possibly be there was a mandatory onboarding to show us all the fire exits. 120
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The dog has been sick for four days and we are supposed to leave for a weeklong vacation tomorrow 😩 000
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Conservatives love “the marketplace of ideas” until it means all the people who are fun to socialize with don’t want to talk to them. 020
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Worst thing about my dog waking me up at 5 AM so he could go to the bathroom was I saw someone outside jogging. 110
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Zohran is preternaturally charismatic, you can’t copy him, it will just make you look like a youth pastor and not even a very good one 010
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Zohran Mamdani has unleashed something very bad in the Democratic Party I’m afraid (juiceless officeholders thinking they have rizz doing video content) 110
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026East of Eden is great because Adam Trask is always like “gosh I love my mean wife :)” and Cathy is always like “I’ll kill you & everyone else.” 021
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It’s interesting to me how the needs of theoretical people absolutely trump the hapless 26-year-old effectively bullied into homelessness, but go off I guess 1140
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Uber’s suggested location for me at 5:40 AM are the hospital and the local lesbian bar. 000
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Relatedly making the Medicaid expansion a bizarro opt-in that’s completely contrary to the intent of the legislature is one of the most grating things the Supreme Court has done. 010
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And semi-earnest follow up: how many of those voters think of it as “Obamacare” and how many of them will blame the Democrats for this? 110
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Earnest question: how many of the people who will suddenly find themselves without health insurance are Republican voters? 110
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I guess if I was I could have leveraged my dizzying success to get a podcast with Puck to interview *checks notes* Rahm Emanuel. 000
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Anyway I think the real problem is straight guys who treat women and gay men like unknowable Martians but what do I know, I was not the news editor for the photo sharing app SnapChat. 100
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is getting dragged to shit with good reason but I would like to ask the guys on staff who play fantasy football how the Graham Platner thing is working out. 100
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I think there is also very much the sense among some of the Commentariat that every resident of DC works for the offices of Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer and so our concerns aren’t real. 1144
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Got a question about the Clippers right at gay trivia (#masc) and followed that up by getting a question about Kiss Me Kate right (#🏳️🌈masc) 021
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026About 10 years ago I wound up sitting next to Dick Durbin’s table at a restaurant in downtown Chicago and I thought about stealing some of his French fries and decided against it because I’d voted for him and I look back on that with so much regret. 020
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Just wrote “estoppel” in a legal document like I’m a 1L all over again. 010
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is interesting to read about because I cannot genuinely think of an instance of a consumer-facing corporation endorsing a Democratic candidate. I think Republicans might SAY there’s plenty but like, allowing “gay days” at Disney World isn’t “endorsing” a Democrat. 000
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Another gay guy having his birthday party at this wine bar… 000
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 10/09/2026A true fact that sounds fake is Tatte didn’t arrive in DC until August 2020. 010
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I am receptive to the argument that these academics are trying to make themselves political actors and they should talk like they’re trying to convince a swing voter and not like they are outlining a dissertation chapter but I personally think we have bigger problems right now!!! 001
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Okay like yes I think the Socialism 2026 clips are a little ridiculous but ultimately the academics exploring the transradical geographies of fatphobic colonialist baking are not gonna be hanging out in a Democratic White House whereas a 24 year old Nazi single-handedly ended USAID last year so. 120
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 03/09/2026My law firm’s office is directly adjacent to the law firm I worked at as a staffer ten years ago so today I walked by all the restaurants I couldn’t afford back then and it was a weird full circle thing. 000
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Uber drove me by the Diner Grill on Irving Park and I felt my body ascending into Heaven. 100
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I broke my glasses and have them taped together until the glasses store opens tomorrow and one of my friends said “Oh just like Harry Potter” and I shrieked and dissolved on the spot. 000
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026His presidential campaign in 2020 didn’t even last long enough to get its own Wikipedia article. 130
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It’s deeply tedious to watch Seth Moulton throw a minority group under the bus just so he can come in fourth in New Hampshire in 2028. 181
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 28/08/2026“Nice to e-meet you” does as much psychic damage to me as those countless godawful “Midwestern Meme” pages do. 010
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If I were a Democrat with a subcommittee chairmanship in 2029 I would find an excuse to drag Google executives to DC and make them state on the record why they changed the name. 130
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Excited for our friends at Google to immediately update Google Maps to call Lake Ontario “Lake America.” 120
Ryan @banjosdad.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Bad week to be a gay icon. Stay safe oomfs you’re all icons to me. 020
