ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 15/10/2026me trying to figure out word boundaries while doing my sanskrit homework: 020 2
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026oh i didn't get that far it just came into my head and i needed to get it out :) 020 2
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 57
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 51
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026same!! my 8 pro can barely hold a charge for 24 hours now, so i need to replace it with something soon. i just want phone w/o ai slop 010 1
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026lol i remember being so excited to buy an android phone w/o manufacturer bloatware shit back in like 2017. lmao. 120 2
Reposted by ryanShōei 韶英 🪷 @redlotus108.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This goes for Buddhist clergy too particularly acutely 😤 152 5
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 101
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 56
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026sorry are you saying we have to accept rationality from politicians as an article of faith? 130 3
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 11
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026wasn't this part of the project of dogen's kana shobogenzo 120 2
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 10
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the western half of the country produces the most cursed presidential candidates 010 1
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026we got a new system that was supposed to replace them but the vendor was honest from the very beginning that they couldn't implement anything as flexible as what we had. suffered with hand editing "system generated" shit for two months before my manager got IT to reenable the macro docs for me 050 5
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the it dept at my work recently decided to abandon a bunch of visual basic macro enabled documents I use every week 130 3
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 56
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 1
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. 7931271852 3.1K
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 126
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026fmla doesn't even mandate that your employer pay you if you haven't accrued paid leave!!! 021 2
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 · 15/09/2026politicians with a sense of shame and personal honor when 030 3
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026personally i wouldn't be maudlin about an SS officer killing himself 000 0
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026kind of a poetic way for him to go out given the whole terri schiavo thing imo 020 2
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026if he can smile he can feel joy and that means he can vote 010 1
ryan @rsperkins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026it is happening tho. and it's good that children (who, i should stress, are capable of making decisions!) who really need it are able to get it. 100 1
![The Drevlians responded that they would submit to tribute, but that they were afraid she was still intent on avenging her husband. Olga answered that the murder of the messengers sent to Kiev, as well as the events of the feast night, had been enough for her. She then asked them for a small request: "Give me three pigeons ... and three sparrows from each house."[22] The Drevlians rejoiced at the prospect of the siege ending for so small a price, and did as she asked.
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