Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Yesterday I needed an Uber because I was 4 miles from home, it was the hottest day of the year, and my public transit was not working. But my phone battery was low and I remembered that Lyft/Uber both charge more when their software detects a low battery so I was like fuck that and I walked home. 010
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026140 pages into Henry James’s The Awkward Age and we’ve finally left the drawing room—for a quiet bench on a forested path. How a book this boring can be this interesting is totally beyond me. I have to read every chapter twice to piece together the meaning. It’s excruciating. And TOTALLY WORTH IT. 031
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The giant stack of cartons of cage-free eggs behind the $2.99 sign? They cost $8.49. 010
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I was watching Magnus Carlsen puzzle over a tricky position and I said aloud “any reason not to take that pawn?” and at that moment he took the pawn and I was so proud. Then immediately his face fell and he said “Oh wow that was really stupid” and he spent the rest of the game complaining about it. 020
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I’m sure many have made this observation but it is astonishing how much damage Amazon has done to their formerly useful music player and the whole Amazon Music ecosystem. It’s practically unusable for me now without a subscription, in fact it’s so poor I wonder if it would work even if I had one. 010
Reposted by Erik RybergShane @incompleteness.bsky.social · 29/03/2026David Roberts - the U.S. is basically aligning itself as the last big petrostate. And will go down with the fossil fuel ship; and China is aligning itself as the first electrostate. It is rapidly electrifying its economy, dominating the technology, supply chains, world markets, everything 24850141577
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 29/03/2026My feed is full of sneering animadversions about No Kings, perhaps in part to my own small contribution to that community in my last post. But I went to the fucking protest and I’ll do it again, too. 020
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 28/03/2026I have every kind of bad attitude about tomorrow but I’m going anyway and you have to go too. 010
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026If you push the door that say “Push,” you will abruptly find it to be locked. But if you push on the one that doesn’t say “Push,” you will meet with no resistance, and be free. Does this happen more to me than other people. 000
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Surveillance, control, incarceration, and war. That’s what this lawless gang of pedophiles is offering us with their data centers, their surveillance systems, their detention camps, and, soon, robotic-assisted law enforcement in everyday policing. We can do better. 010
Reposted by Erik RybergChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/02/2026ICYMI - Dems flipped a seat in Tarrant County and Republicans called an emergency meeting. Trump carried the district by 17 points in 2024, so if Texas Republicans are in panic mode there, the entire state is in play. 1191483565
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026What a useful thing to know how to do. handshucked.com/blog/wheat-p...handshucked.comFlour Power: Everything You Need to Know About Wheat Pasting 000
Reposted by Erik RybergRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/06/2025"THE END OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC AS WE KNOW IT COULD BE HAPPENING NOW" 646144804955
Reposted by Erik RybergPoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Stop saying you’re fine….none of this is fine. youtu.be/SPtMGaYLaasyoutu.beThis Is Not NormalYouTube video by PoliticsGirl 37907298
Reposted by Erik RybergConrad Benner @streetsdept.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Who did this?! 💀 But also, yes, #FundSEPTA! 423340
Reposted by Erik RybergU.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 17/06/2025The Juneteenth flag symbolizes liberation. The star marks Texas, where the enslaved were freed in Galveston in 1865. The arc is a new horizon, and the red, white & blue colors affirm that the enslaved are American. 64 days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountdowntoSRD 81086257
Reposted by Erik RybergThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/06/202530 years 21443281549
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 07/06/2025I’m at Cumberland Gap National Park in Tennessee reading signs about how people came through here in the late 1700’s with their “African servants.” Wtf. 110
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Seeing as ICE is evidently just deputized internet trolls in fake XXXL military/gang wear without badges or identification, it seems like it would be easy to don the gear and become one of them, on-site. What horrible confusion that would cause. 000
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 05/06/2025trump is going to destroy him this is henry viii shit 000
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 05/06/2025shit it looks like I need to newsgoogle Harriet Tubman now and I know it is not going to make my day better 000
Reposted by Erik RybergLeslie Mac @lesliemac.com · 16/05/2025🧵The largest plantation in the South burned down this week. And the way white folks—especially wedding vendors—are mourning “memories” and “brides who won’t get to have their special day there”? It’s giving cognitive dissonance. Because let’s be real... 659124202077
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 08/05/2025remembering back to a time when I believed the greatest threat to the republic was a man named Mitt Romney 000
Reposted by Erik RybergBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/04/2025The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery. 1206213416151
Reposted by Erik RybergChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/04/2025America, you f**ked up! She warned us. She had a plan that would have benefited everyday Americans. But too many ignored her—because it was never really about the economy. Now folks are scared, struggling—and we’re cooked. 1170235446542
Reposted by Erik RybergSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Good morning. Listen, you have to just decide. They are not taking the Black Smithsonian. Resolve it in your spirit. 365144212757
Reposted by Erik RybergPhilosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social · 28/03/2025The New American Reich and “The Struggle for Greenland?” This is indeed insane, it’s predatory. 46739203
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I wish podcasts had a “jump to interview” button the way food bloggers have a jump to recipe option. 000
Reposted by Erik RybergThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025This one hasn’t aged great 26848511262
Reposted by Erik Rybergmistergrueso.bsky.social @mistergrueso.bsky.social · 24/03/2025She is telling you the real reason these greedy criminal fucks want Greenland is cuz they know earth is warming and Greenland will be prime territory! It’s a troll… 1291
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Every time something embarrassing for Trump hits the news I get worried about what he’ll do to knock it out of the headlines. Feels like there must be some domestic analogue to this . . . 000
Reposted by Erik RybergDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/03/2025Holy shit. This is *the* gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts. 882070893
Reposted by Erik Rybergsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Dog bites man isn’t news. Dog shoots man is news. www.1news.co.nz/2025/03/13/m...1news.co.nzMan injured after being shot by his dog in TennesseeThe man had been lying in bed with his girlfriend when the firearm went off. 5849737
Reposted by Erik RybergJesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency. via Brett Murphy: The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building: 458195484271
Reposted by Erik RybergAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Alongside cooperation with Canada to contain Russian aggression and fallout from the America Crisis, the EU/UK need to reach out to President Sheinbaum and the Mexican government to signal European engagement with other potential areas Trump is willing to destabilise 826344
Reposted by Erik RybergCountry (and Western) hating Sleazeball @rsgreacen.bsky.social · 01/03/2025This is the way To cover these thugs 031
Reposted by Erik RybergD. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 01/03/2025📌NOTE: Immediately after the vile attack on Zelensky by Putin's puppets Friday, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should have called a joint press conference and explained to the American public the significance, heinousness and danger of that sickening surrender. 📌They should STILL be talking now. 2375395097649
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025the eu is looking like a better and better fit for Canada. maybe even Mexico. 000
Reposted by Erik RybergMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025the andrew tate news has solidifed this. they want women to be afraid because they think if we're afraid, then we won't thrive. 983835682
Reposted by Erik Rybergsoonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025There's only a couple ways this ends. 1241
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025hey art of deal guy what did we get for this arrangement www.independent.co.uk/news/world/c...independent.co.ukAndrew Tate live: Flight tracker shows private jet flying brothers ‘to Florida, US’Romanian prosecutors confirmed they had approved the travel request 010
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025balloon-juice.com/wp-content/u...balloon-juice.com 000
Reposted by Erik RybergFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 25/02/2025New FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino calls for Trump to “fabricate executive powers” by setting up a fake courtroom in the White House to override federal judges: “Why can’t the executive be the judge?” 114523
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025www.knoxnews.com/story/news/l... Great piece about steps legal aid is taking to try to stay alive after losing federal funding. So much of what we are losing is objectively worth the money spent on it.knoxnews.comEviction prevention funding will expire soon. Advocates are looking to elected officialsLegal Aid of East Tennessee's eviction prevention program was established with federal COVID-19 relief dollars set to expire in May. 010
Reposted by Erik RybergThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/02/2025WATCH: “Trump should ignore the judge — Who’s gonna arrest him? The U.S. marshals? They work for Trump.” New Deputy Director of the FBI Dan Bongino makes it clear he believes Trump is above the law. (While saying hello to “Big Balls Mcgroin”) 🎪 🇺🇸 102763318
Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2025every federal worker should respond to that email in the form of a foia request. 000