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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 20/09/2026

@waymo.bsky.social Your car squatted on a crosswalk in one of the most dangerous intersections in San Francisco, forcing at least four of us to step out into traffic. This new aggressive behavior will get someone killed. It is inexcusable, and worse than I've ever seen a human driver do here.

Waymo covering the crosswalk at Twin Peaks, Clayton and Carmel for no reason.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 24/08/2026

Local hardware store set up their Halloween aisle last week. Which I suppose is better than seeing a Christmas display, but come on now.

An aisle of Halloween lights and plastic skeletons and jack o'lanterns. Sheesh.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 15/07/2026

Greetings from San Francisco circa September 2020.

Orange row houses under an orange sky, with one rear window showing normal colors

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 04/07/2026

San Francisco fireworks.

Grand finale flaming orange dahlia. This thing is huge!

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 30/06/2026

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When I last wrote a diary like this in 2019, I felt a gnawing anxiety about global heating that never quite left me. But now my feeling is one of outright fury.

The homegrown fossil fuel company TotalEnergies brought in a profit of €5.8bn (£5bn) in the first quarter of 2026, and the AI lobby is pushing the EU to abandon its already inadequate climate ambitions to prioritise building datacentres. The city authorities have put in place some measures to cope, but it still feels as though we are being abandoned to our fate by those in power. And yes, even pregnant, I am still one of the lucky ones.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 09/06/2026

Hearing a gramophone for the first time. I especially love the comparison to using the telephone. #ReadingPilgrimage

Whistling softly Gerald placed a small square box on the table amongst the breakfast things.

“Oh dear me,” moaned Harriett from behind the coffee pot, smirking coyly backwards over her shoulder, “hoh, ar’n’t we grand.” “It’s the new toy” she rapped avertedly towards Miriam, in a despairing whisper. Gerald interrupted his whistling to fix on to the box a sort of trumpet, a thing that looked like a wide-open green nasturtium.

“Is it a musical box?” asked Miriam.

“D’you mean to say you’ve never seen a gramophone yet?” murmured Gerald, frowning and flicking away dust with his handkerchief. They did not mean as much as they appeared to do when they said life was not worth living … they had not discovered life. Gerald did not know the meaning of his interest in things. “People grieve and bemoan themselves, but it is not half so bad with them as they say” …

“I haven’t. I’ve heard them squeaking inside public houses of course.”

“Now’s your chance then. Woa Jemima! That’s the ticket. Now she’s off—”

Miriam waited, breathless; eagerly prepared to accept the coming wonder. A sound like the crackling of burning twigs came out into the silence. She remembered her first attempt to use a telephone, the need for concentrating calmly through the preliminary tumult, on the certainty that intelligible sounds would presently emerge, and listened encouragingly for a voice. The crackling changed to a metallic scraping, labouring steadily round and

round, as if it would go on forever; it ceased and an angry stentorian voice seemed to be struggling, half-smothered, in the neck of the trumpet. Miriam gazed, startled, at the yawning orifice, as the voice suddenly escaped and leapt out across the table with a “Edison-Bell Record!” Lightly struck chords tinkled far away, fairy music, sounding clear and distinct on empty space remote from the steady scraping of the machine. Then a song began. The whole machine seemed to sing it; vibrating with effort, sending forth the notes in a jerky staccato, the scarcely touched words clipped and broken to fit the jingling tune; the sustained upper notes at the end of the verse wavered chromatically, as if the machine were using its last efforts to reach the true pitch; it ceased and the far away chords came again, fainter and further away. In the second verse the machine struggled more feebly and slackened its speed, flattened suddenly to a lower key, wavered on, flattening from key to key and collapsed, choking, on a single downward-slurring squeak—

“Oh, but that’s absolutely perfect” gasped Miriam.

“You want to set it slower silly; it all began too high.”

“I know, la reine, he knows, he’ll set it slower all right.”

This time the voice marched lugubriously forth, with a threatening emphasis on each word; the sustained notes blared wide through their mufflings; yawned out by an angry lion.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 28/05/2026

Dorothy Richardson at her best.

A day of blazing heat changed the season suddenly. Flat threatening sunlight travelled round the house. The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs. Some of them were languid. But none of them suffered. They kept their freshness and freedom from exhaustion by living away from toil and grimy heat; in cool clothes, moving swiftly through moving air in carriages and holland-blinded hansoms; having ices in expensive shade; being waited on in the cool depths of west-end houses; their lives disturbed only by occasional dentistry. The lean dark patients were like lizards, lively and darting and active even in the sweltering heat.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 13/05/2026

Lux Interior cited this as an inspiration for Bikini Girls with Machine Guns. youtu.be/XnBbjc5hmho?...

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 07/05/2026

Back in the Castro and it looks spectacular. The ceiling in particular is a revelation. Balcony seats are still traditional. (And reupholstered, comfy!) I've heard the main level seating isn't so bad.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 01/05/2026

doctor i trust more than rfk jr

Terrifying blood red Shock Treatment poster, featuring a bald headed Richard O'Brien with thick round specs saying "Trust me, I'm a doctor."

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 21/04/2026

This is a great summary of jj's appeal.

There are a number of things that Jujutsu got right, he said. For example, history is malleable by default. "It's almost as if you were permanently in an interactive rebase mode, but without all the confusing parts." When history is rewritten in Jujutsu all dependents update automatically "so if you added a commit, all children are rebased automatically". Conflicts are data, not emergencies. "You can commit them and resolve them at any later point in time." These features are nice to have, he said, and fundamentally change how users think about commits. "You stop treating them as precious artifacts and rather start treating them as drafts that you can freely edit".

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 25/03/2026

Why is that in protest quotes?

Blue PG&E sign with white lettering reading:

DO NOT ENTER WORKSITE

WITHOUT RECEIVING "SAFETY BRIEF"

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 02/03/2026

Watching UFO. Future looks great. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_%28...

A retro future drinks dispenser. A man's thumb presses the green button beneath the rectangular Whisky light. To the right is a Bourbon light and button.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 12/12/2025

Keep waiting to see this one in the thread.

Lance Link Secret Chimp tin lunchbox and thermos. Yellow frame around a picture of three chimps: a Q type,with gray hair in a suit, holding a transmitter and pointing at; Lance in a trenchcoat and fedora; and a smaller chunk in a trenchcoat and red hat.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 04/12/2025

I can think of worse ways to spend a year.

Your top songs of 2025, featuring a photo of a bowl of meal worms.

1. Wrecked with God • Bobby Fingers
2. It's Getting Boring by the Sea • Blood Red Shoes
3. The Machine • Bobby Fingers
4. Horse Outside • The Rubberbandits
5. Little Foot Big Foot • Childish Gambino

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 01/12/2025

Drop something MIRRORED

Classic Charles Addams cartoon of parallel mirrors reflecting a man in a barber's chair. One of his infinite reflections is a demon.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 20/11/2025

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

The cover of King Crimson Discipline, featuring a silver Celtic knot outlined in black with an entirely red background.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 17/11/2025

SF Opera really outdid themselves with The Monkey King. Standing room only crowd. Like a lot of contemporary opera there was a strong emphasis on visual spectacle, and wow did they deliver that. But not at the expense of the music, which just got stronger and stronger all evening.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 09/11/2025

if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Pete Gabriel in a rain spattered blue car

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 08/11/2025

Name your fav superhero that isn’t DC or Marvel

Cover of volume one of Reid Fleming / World's Toughest Milkman. Reid has male pattern baldness, a square nose, is smoking a cigarette, looks furious, and is pointing at you while saying "I am not bald! I get my hair CUT this way!"

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 29/10/2025

The Dodgers had Ultraman on the field in August. And I guess you could say he's on the mound tonight.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 28/10/2025

My brother found the explanation.

Post by Jerry Clark of Moffet Field: Pathfinder 1. Getting ready for its capstone flight, going all the way to the Golden Gate and back!

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 28/10/2025

Zeppelin over the Golden Gate Bridge!

A bright white Zeppelin flying west over the Golden Gate Bridge

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 18/10/2025

This was a thing. And…it was pretty good?

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 13/10/2025

"Learned." Wikipedia says the tradition is that January and February were in fact inserted. And historians say "maybe? shrug." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_c...

Romulus's successor Numa Pompilius was then usually credited with a revised calendar that divided winter between the two months of January and February, shortened most other months accordingly, and brought everything into rough alignment with the solar year by some system of intercalation. This is a typical element of lunisolar calendars and was necessary to keep the Roman religious festivals and other activities in their proper seasons.

Modern historians dispute various points of this account. It is possible the original calendar was agriculturally based, observational of the seasons and stars rather than of the moon, with ten months of varying length filling the entire year. If this ever existed,

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 28/09/2025

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A driver about twenty feet down from the ocean surface, framed by at least nine sperm whales.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 24/09/2025

Any chance of it getting a little mobile browser love? Don't know if this issue is just the tutorial.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 22/09/2025

The other week at Green Apple Books I got to see Josephine Rowe discuss and read from her new gem, Little World (which I devoured). Now I want to know more about saints and incorruptible bodies. It's published by Transit Books, which is also a gem. #HellaScape

Ashley Nelson Levy and Josephine Rowe at Green Apple Books

The dog runs back up the embankment, weaving between my legs, lovingly jeopardizing me. A gorgeous animal—red-gold with fennec-like ears, and as always it feels radiant to be the subject of her attention. We put on speed over the bare red bull ant fields, so the jumpers don't have time to get purchase, and we keep up that pace until Tilde's forest comes into view; a grove started from a handful of seeds, tipped out of a secondhand coat pocket decades ago, with no notion of what they were. A kind that oughtn't usually grow here, it turned out. Canoe timber, so far inland, coaxed from this clay-clotted soil.

She'd raised them to cover a three-acre plot with all the density of a plantation. Now they towered, blotted the sky. Or sheltered you from it, as you like. The world had gone to the knackery, Tilde said, but she was making her own climate out here. Actually, what she said was: _Fuck 'em, Grow my own fucking air_.

The cover of Little World by Josephine Rowe.

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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 22/09/2025

Built in, maybe a Pixel thing?

At a Glance settings, Earthquake alert toggle enabled. "Alert when earthquake larger than magnitude 4.5 detected nearby"

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