ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/09/2026propaganda on my doorknob. don’t threaten me with a good time! 4454844
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/09/2026way to go, you fucking morons. I hope you're happy with how things are going 1160174
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10/09/2026still thinking about this, why MAGA is celebrating the new Uwe Boll movie about a piece of shit landlord who murders people 49213
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 09/09/2026my insurance company is apparently convinced that I have diabetes and keeps trying to give me a free diabetes monitor kit. I do not have diabetes 7642
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/09/2026suing a mother with a 9-month-old baby over *129 bucks* and then garnishing her fuckin bank account. Republicans: the party of, by, and for evil pricks 214024
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/09/2026or put another way, strong growth tends to defuse extremism of all stripes. as Hobsbawm put it in Age of Extremes 4353
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/09/2026barely managed 12 percent growth since 2008, and flat for the last decade. when more income must come at someone else's expense, it plays right into friend-enemy politics 4472
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 31/08/2026my sense for why data centers have become heinously unpopular in the space of one year prospect.org/2026/08/31/d... 2632879
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/08/2026Ezra Klein said almost exactly this same thing the other day. also Piker was not remotely "hard in the paint" on Platner www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o... 31339
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/08/2026galaxies. as in, more than one. the things that are 2.5 billion+ light years away 100100477
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/08/2026important piece of how journalism works right here www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/never-apol... 231610439
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21/08/2026she went Republican in 2008 *because* of Sarah Palin. now that's what I call good judgment www.wsj.com/articles/SB1... 1020513
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19/08/2026boy is this kind of thinking common. I see it all the time on here www.programmablemutter.com/p/no-one-mak... 5370
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13/08/2026I will say this style is the best phone I've ever used for writing, bar none. typing on a screen sucks ass and it somehow manages to get worse every year 8972
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13/08/2026I had one of these for my whole time in South Africa, 2009-11. battery lasted for like 6 days 5491
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/08/2026credit to this lady for constructing the perfect Do Your Own Research sentence heated.world/p/the-influe... 613515
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/08/2026Laura, and I can't emphasize this enough, LOOMER doing this. what the fuck man 2218518
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/08/2026good question, how on earth did they even think of this 0322
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/08/2026oh yeah the broader newspaper industry is turbo fucked. down ~80 percent since 1990 727453
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/08/2026more than 8 percent of all American newspaper journalists work in Manhattan, up from 2 percent in 2005 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... 14487102
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/07/2026reminded of this piece I wrote after a half dozen right-wing radio guys killed themselves by refusing to get the Covid vax theweek.com/politics/100... 416920
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/07/2026not too shabby for an old fart given the beastly climb in the middle 2900
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17/07/2026for the record median voters basically don't give a shit about affirmative action, which does not exist, or banning trans kids from sports. they got real problems www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/7/... 935752
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17/07/2026dang it, I guessed Yale, but should have gone with the obvious choice 31585
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 06/07/2026correction on this post, Norway didn’t spend any GPFG money for the first 20 years of its existence, but they did tap it in 2016 for the first time, and repeatedly since then due to the pandemic and rearmament post-2022 www.ipe.com/norway-takes... 513716
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/06/2026I'm reminded of this old Pareene distinction between the rude press and the anti-P.C. press newrepublic.com/article/1556... 3648
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/06/2026righteous paragraph. I don't think I'm alone in being sick to fuckin death of hearing about Donald Trump 732090
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17/06/2026curious that Trump is not getting the screaming hysterical condemnation from the media that Biden got when he faced facts and ended the Afghanistan occupation 371118233
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/06/2026he put the work in there like few others. funny story about that www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio... 0162
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/06/2026Wall Street people will straight up say this. oh Elon has lied literally hundreds of times about what Teslas will be able to do for 15 years, you ask? well, 41349
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10/06/2026TIL there are already somewhat obscure stock indices that use the kind of rules Elon Musk foisted on Nasdaq, and the result according to research is billions in losses for index fund investors prospect.org/2026/06/10/e... 625760
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/06/2026I have plainly seen it a million times, "mate." I grew up in Colorado ranch country 110
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/06/2026aw man I sure hate it when operational decisions directly affecting combat on the ground are being influenced in real time by a foreign country. really feeling bad for the IDF guys here us18.campaign-archive.com/?e=2128a5bfb... 311195196
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/06/2026yes, I got into that in the article! prospect.org/2026/06/03/a... 1895
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/05/2026we need a clear regulatory line between bike-type devices and motorcycle-type devices. and a scooter this fast should probably not be legal at all. dude was wearing a full face helmet and he still died 1632636