Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 29/09/2026Any company that participates in shrinkflation should be legally obligated to add a label like "Now with less for the same price!" 020
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 24/09/2026Regarding the hullabaloo on Carney today, can I just say I'd be really scared to have a Prime Minister (ever) who hadn't studied the risk of US Invasion? The thought is an absolute nightmare, but it would be foolish not to be think through it as a possibility. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comCanada’s Carney says he studied risk of US invasionThe prime minister said it’s his responsibility to “look at extreme tail risk” of American military action but said he now has a “good relationship” with Trump. 001
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 21/09/2026Had to look up the word "mendacious" today. Any guess what the context was? 020
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 21/09/2026Spent a chunk of the weekend in the "You can only get anywhere by car" part of town, and I am so, so grateful for my walkable neighbourhood. 030
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 21/09/2026Type of guy who only types "lol" when he actually laughs out loud. 120
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 21/09/2026This weekend was all about Dungeon Crawler Carl, and this makes me very happy. #Booksky 050
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 21/09/2026Going to Japan next year. 🇯🇵✈️ What is the most futuristic thing I can see? What's the most uniquely Japanese thing I can see? Recommendations welcome! 010
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 20/09/2026Toss up between King's Quest and Simcity for me. These two solidified my love of single-player PC games, which is still going strong ~40 years on. 020
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 17/09/2026I am an associate European, and this makes me very happy. 010
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 06/09/2026I'm starting to think corporate advertising was never actually about rebellion... ;-) 100
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 31/08/2026I spent a few hours goofing around searching for old sci-fi novels and Nintendo games this weekend at the Stittsville Flea Market. They're closing down at the end of September and I'm sad because places like this are disappearing. Truly "one person's trash is another's treasure." 120
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 29/08/2026It's so cold outside, but I refuse to stop enjoying my evenings until they will literally freeze the blood in my veins. 000
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 28/08/2026Just encountered this as a description of Cyberpunk advertising: "cheerful, frictionless, aspirational copy sitting directly on top of something ontologically horrifying" 000
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 28/08/2026Imma pet so many dogs in GTA VI in three years when it comes out for pc. 070
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 28/08/2026Just installed LibreOffice and it looks good! It's lean, focused, and seems highly functional. The dream is to replace Word, which had gotten less and less functional over time. 120
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 28/08/2026The only thing about the hydronym controversy is that two parallel realities now fork off from a single point. Each becomes laden with its own meanings, and becomes harder to undo the longer this fork persists. 100
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 27/08/2026When I was raising toddlers, I came to recognize the critical importance of not engaging when one was throwing a tantrum. 120
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 26/08/2026I don't think AI is nearly as dangerous as the psychopaths wielding it to extract capital from everyone and everything. 220
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 24/08/2026I have no love for Doug Ford except when he talks smack to Trump. 010
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 24/08/2026I try to live in the moment and all that, but seriously can we collapse time so that it can be Neuromancer's date of release? 110
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 24/08/2026Smh at the Economist headline, "The costs of defying Donald Trump are mounting for Canada". Dude wanted us to break our constitution and become a vassal state. Some things are worth far more than immediate cash pay-offs. How about an analysis of the benefits? 110
Reposted by Ryan MelsomPᴜʀᴇ Dᴇᴀᴅ Gᴀᴍɪɴɢ @puredeadgaming.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Indie developer Nas Nakarus is making a game where you are trying to find a needle in a haystack. 1 needle. 5,000,000 pieces of hay. Pure madness 😂 5427
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 22/08/2026Since we're celebrating Canadian culture today, how about some love for my debut cyberpunk novel, Gods of a New World? 🪐📚 shadowpawpress.com/product/gods...shadowpawpress.comGods of a New World | Shadowpaw PressIn the near future, the most powerful people to have ever lived have formed a new pantheon of gods . . . 130
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 22/08/2026Reading Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman and wow I have not been this riveted by a book in like 20 years. Finished half of it in two sittings. #BookSky 160
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 21/08/2026Curious about how Adramelech, supervisor of Satan's wardrobe, feels about his job. 010
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 21/08/2026Thinking of Belial, a la Paradise Lost: "...though his Tongue Dropt Manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest Counsels: for his thoughts were low;" Thank goodness we don't have any contemporary figures like this. 010
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 21/08/2026Thinking of starting one of those accounts that posts one cute dog picture and an infinitude of inflammatory political memes. They really seem to get traction! Also, what's a botnet? 020
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 20/08/2026I can't tell if the pacing of my WIP is painfully slow, or if this is feeling just a byproduct of editing one page a day. The next read-through will reveal all. 000
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 20/08/2026Here's as far as I got on my editing notes, before just diving in on a full rewrite: Pixies at the beginning? Pacifica District—is it ok to use this reference? VR headset— Slicer Neural link—maybe not a product—just a commodity 010
Ryan Melsom @ryanmelsom.com · 20/08/2026Was it a mistake writing 3 novels before starting editing on them? Let's just say would not repeat. I miss writing. Maybe I'll start on another novel. 190