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Erik Ryberg

@erikryberg.bsky.social
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Yesterday 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.
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
140 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.
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The giant stack of cartons of cage-free eggs behind the $2.99 sign? They cost $8.49.
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I 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.
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I’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.
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Shane @incompleteness.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
David 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
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
My 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.
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I have every kind of bad attitude about tomorrow but I’m going anyway and you have to go too.
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
If 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.
Double doors, with “Push” sign on one door.
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Surveillance, 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.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/02/2026
ICYMI - 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.
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
What a useful thing to know how to do. handshucked.com/blog/wheat-p...
handshucked.com
Flour Power: Everything You Need to Know About Wheat Pasting
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
"THE END OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC AS WE KNOW IT COULD BE HAPPENING NOW"
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Stop saying you’re fine….none of this is fine. youtu.be/SPtMGaYLaas
youtu.be
This Is Not Normal
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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Conrad Benner @streetsdept.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Who did this?! 💀 But also, yes, #FundSEPTA!
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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 17/06/2025
The 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
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
30 years
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I’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.
Official Nat’l Park sign referring to “African servants.”
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Seeing 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.
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
trump is going to destroy him this is henry viii shit
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
shit it looks like I need to newsgoogle Harriet Tubman now and I know it is not going to make my day better
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Elle Glass @uberbabe.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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Leslie 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...
A large, two-story Southern plantation-style mansion engulfed in flames, with fire consuming the upper floors and thick black smoke billowing into the sky. The mansion features tall white columns and a grand staircase at the entrance. In the foreground, several firefighters in yellow helmets and protective gear work to manage hoses and battle the blaze, while a white fence separates them from the burning structure. The scene is chaotic and dramatic, with intense fire and smoke dominating the image.
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
remembering back to a time when I believed the greatest threat to the republic was a man named Mitt Romney
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/04/2025
America, 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.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Good morning. Listen, you have to just decide. They are not taking the Black Smithsonian. Resolve it in your spirit.
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Philosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The New American Reich and “The Struggle for Greenland?” This is indeed insane, it’s predatory.
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I wish podcasts had a “jump to interview” button the way food bloggers have a jump to recipe option.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This one hasn’t aged great
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mistergrueso.bsky.social @mistergrueso.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
She 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…
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Every 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 . . .
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/03/2025
Holy shit. This is *the* gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Dog bites man isn’t news. Dog shoots man is news. www.1news.co.nz/2025/03/13/m...
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Man injured after being shot by his dog in Tennessee
The man had been lying in bed with his girlfriend when the firearm went off.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Some "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:
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Alongside 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
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Country (and Western) hating Sleazeball @rsgreacen.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This is the way To cover these thugs
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D. 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.
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lumberjackieo.bsky.social @lumberjackieo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
the eu is looking like a better and better fit for Canada. maybe even Mexico.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
the andrew tate news has solidifed this. they want women to be afraid because they think if we're afraid, then we won't thrive.
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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
There's only a couple ways this ends.
snip of a shot of two men and a woman standing at a table with their right hands held up to swear an oath to testify truthfully in a hearing. The caption reads "Justice Dept. Nominees Subbest Some Court Orders Can Be Ignored. At a confirmation hearing, the nominees, two of whom have been defense lawyers for President Trump, offered little to assuage Democrats' fears."
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
hey art of deal guy what did we get for this arrangement www.independent.co.uk/news/world/c...
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Andrew Tate live: Flight tracker shows private jet flying brothers ‘to Florida, US’
Romanian prosecutors confirmed they had approved the travel request
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
New 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?”
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
www.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.
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Eviction prevention funding will expire soon. Advocates are looking to elected officials
Legal Aid of East Tennessee's eviction prevention program was established with federal COVID-19 relief dollars set to expire in May.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
WATCH: “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”) 🎪 🇺🇸
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Erik Ryberg @erikryberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
every federal worker should respond to that email in the form of a foia request.
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