ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 15/10/2026me trying to figure out word boundaries while doing my sanskrit homework: 020 0
Reposted by ryanweird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 12/10/2026 1340981143 0
Reposted by ryanrob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 09/10/2026i'm not looking for rocks in my dried black beans i'm not a fucking geologist 4574 0
Reposted by ryanJjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Crazy to be learning about the (if contemporary sources are to be believed) bizarre-delusion induced genocide of an entire province from a culinary history videom.youtube.comWhat was Sichuan Food before the chili pepper?YouTube video by Chinese Cooking Demystified 25119 0
Reposted by ryanShōei 韶英 🪷 @redlotus108.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This goes for Buddhist clergy too particularly acutely 😤 152 0
Reposted by ryanBruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 01/10/2026This is why I'm so hardline on this shit. "Oh I'm just going to casually use the product of a corporation that's engaged in an unprecedented assault on the concept of there being such a thing as a society." Eat shit, sincerely. 210122 0
Reposted by ryan🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 29/09/2026Really odd that we accept that judges can just tell elected officials they're not allowed to levy taxes. 15621 0
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026me, reading in high school about some russian monarch issuing a decree: "wait he just wrote up a decree and people did it? ayfkm?" me, now: "oh" 0112 0
Reposted by ryanPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026*residents of the exploded corpse of a slave state as it enters advanced decomposition*: of course it would be unacceptable to run society according to any other principles 0105 0
Reposted by ryanBruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/09/2026I feel like I am going insane. If your job is to move data around and massage it in various ways yet doing this is "too technical" for you then I think something has clearly gone very wrong somewhere 4564 0
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026can't wait to hear more from the data center understanders about how actually they're not a big deal 011 0
Reposted by ryanAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.opb.orgOregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new reportA first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities. 7931241848 0
Reposted by ryanJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The other thing to remember amidst all the Steven Pinker discourse is that the book that made him an NPR-darling celebrity academic, The Blank Slate, was essentially an argument that non-evopsych social science is ideologically corrupt and possibly evil. 412620 0
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026along these lines, you can just not share shit from the ontologically evil new york times 000 0
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026personally i wouldn't be maudlin about an SS officer killing himself 000 0
Reposted by ryanMichael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026indeed, political discourse *just is* what people say often and loudly. 0464 0
Reposted by ryanUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Liberals pave the way for fascists 33703147 0
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026it's darkly funny to me that liberal currents reshared a "the left is so mean to will stancil" piece amidst a multi day stancil meltdown where he insists that trans people shouldn't have opinions about democrats selling them out for votes in exactly the same way labour did. unserious shit. 0211 0
Reposted by ryanPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Like I can't stress enough that this tension is at the heart of everything and if you try and get round it your analysis is going to fall apart. You need wages to live. The people who own everything don't want to pay you. That's it. Everything else is commentary. 610138 0
Reposted by ryanutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 13/09/2026What is up with this godforsaken website and trying to litigate with a political minority for why they need to level on politicians who negotiate their status right after a primary cycle that proved this kind of political calculus is equally illusory and delusional for genocide denying democrats 365980 0
Reposted by ryanAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToonature.comRewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal 192514846 0
Reposted by ryanDana Mirsalis @danamirsalis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026SSJR will be hosting a virtual book talk with @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social later this month. Open to the public, so please come join us! Registration link: furman.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Link to the book: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/how-bu... 084 0
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026it seems kind of dishonest to compare active reforestation efforts to reforestation as a result of massive social collapse but sure 000 0
Reposted by ryanalex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 08/09/2026one of the big lessons from the buddha about your life is that the seeds you water are the only ones with a chance to grow 1417 0
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 07/09/2026i see the timeline is debating the merits of shoju vs shakubuku 000 0
Reposted by ryanae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026we are going to have to do this with the military too. Senior leadership that went along with things like murdering hundreds of randos in boats have to be publicly made examples of 162081 0
Reposted by ryanYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026just ran across this cartoon from the year of our lord two thousand and nine, and, welp. 35695176 0
Reposted by ryanutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 02/09/2026WE ARE $170 DOLLARS FROM CROSSING THE FUNDRAISING GOAL FOR ISAIAH HARRIS'S CAMPAIGN. BLUE SKY IS $170 SHORT OF HAVING FUNDED *****20%***** OF AN ENTIRE STATE HOUSE RACE FOR A DISTRICT THAT IS CONSIDERED IN PLAY FOR THIS CYCLE. ..... pls 🥺👉👈 secure.actblue.com/donate/isaia...secure.actblue.comDonate to Isaiah HarrisShow your support with a contribution. 53215 0
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026fuck that, post your notes for the case as an appendix to the decision at the time it's released. it's already been finally decided, so why should the public have to wait? 000 0
Reposted by ryanryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026they literally just exist to ratify the actions of the powerful and quash dissenters or anything that smells of reform 001 0
Reposted by ryanRocco e la sua vita moderna @rossisok.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Trying to get a read on this guys stance on the major questions doctrine based on his questions during oral arguments 011 0
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026the supreme court and american legal elite are analogous to the court astrologers of heian era japan 120 0
Reposted by ryanMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026What is the point of having a Supreme Court if it consistently allows tyranny, but blocks what the people want? 1828278 0
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026"it's not genocide denial to have a different view, although I do deny it's genocide," 000 0
Reposted by ryangrapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026it has not presented liberals with a grim choice; rather it has presented them with the question of whether they are actually liberals, and a lot of them are answering, explicitly and enthusiastically, "no we are not" 1967 0
Reposted by ryanNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It is simply not realistic to insist that your political opponents in a fight over a seventy-year old apartheid/occupation also constantly validate the innocence of your own position, and the "Liberal Zionist" insistence on this is just pathetic. At some point you have to accept your own beliefs. 843872 0
Reposted by ryanaohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It would be wonderful if a mainstream news organization did a 'splainer about how many steps it would take to send every US president to be prosecuted to serve out life sentences at The Hague 011 0
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