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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Sophia Wilson is (still) world class.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

(Ashburn’s own!) Emily Fox has done really well out there today despite the rest of the back line being, uh, troubling.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

(Looked up and the answer to #2 is Gisele!)

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We are at the USWNT vs Spain game and we have some questions at halftime. 1. Who is marking the best player in the world? It’s not Lily or Lindsay. 2. Can anyone play a through ball to Trinity? 3. When will Rose Lavelle get her Ballon d’Or?

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the DC exurbs, Thumbtack has been reliable lately for anything the neighborhood doesn’t provide via word of mouth. It’s closer to “AI does my chores” than “I have to do a lot of research.”

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Julian Hall can stay. Not really buying Westfield at this level. I would love to see Seb Berhalter play a full CONCACAF tournament or qualifying cycle for the vibes.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We once more unto the breach, dear friends.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#2 is the time honored debate: Better to train with varsity and ride the bench until your moment comes, or be a star on the JV team?

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Stop slouching and get a move on!”

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Morning after USMNT analysis: 1. Play your kids. 2. Sebastian Berhalter belongs in a top five league, not sure how he settled for Boro, although it’s fun there are like seven US players there now. 3. Cavan got that dawg in ‘im.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oliver Nelson - Blues and the Abstract Truth Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch Andrew Hill - Point of Departure Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lowkey pumped to see Diego Kochen finally get a senior cap!

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I understand *why* Apple Music plays me Arcade Fire after M83 every time, but I need Apple Music to understand I may not be emotionally ready to listen to Arcade Fire again for like, a decade.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Not only is it hard to run with the weight of gold, but also with the weight of lead."

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy 100th Birthday, John Coltrane. (This version of Love Supreme live at Antibes is my favorite.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWuh...

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John Coltrane 4tet "A love supreme" | Archive INA

YouTube video by Ina Best Of Jazz

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jeff Bezos Monkey’s Paw energy though.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Power Converters and JSON: What Tosche Station can teach us about API interconnectivity

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When the Acela to Climate Week loses power and takes a few minutes to cycle the breakers and restart? That's not an outage; that's flexibility.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The adjustments I’m making to a certain methodology brief on the train to New York? Climate Tweaks.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Going to use this when I'm racewalking through the drizzle to 14th Avenue or wherever the next event is, somewhere a pint of sweat away from the subway stop at 8th and 50th.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

[The Doomsday Clock people sighing in unison]

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Someone finally nailed my parenting style

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am going to assume the “battery storage area” is a roomful of 12Vs inside the building to smooth out voltage and not a pleasant four-hour battery backup outside, but I still have questions.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Errrrrr that’s a data center fire, and crews remaining on scene… “actively cooling a battery storage area” brings up some questions…

A screenshot of an Instagram post from Loudoun County Combined Fire and Rescue System. The text of the post indicates there was a structure fire at a building in the 21000 block of Uunet Drive in Ashburn, Virginia. The fire was quickly extinguished but crews remained on the scene “cooling a battery storage area affected by the fire.” No reported injuries.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The best thing about purchasing a toilet is having a new toilet instead of an old one. The worst thing about purchasing a toilet is weeks (months?) of retargeting ads for toilets.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

PSA for content marketing folks: When you download a PDF from Google Docs and change the filename later, it still shows up with the Google Doc title in the Chrome PDF view unless you change it in Google Docs first. That's how people end up seeing things like "__whitepaper-final-final-091426"

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

yeah but how does he index for "good head on his shoulders." Kim, we have tropes to adhere to!

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Is AI going to kill us all? (This is not a rhetorical question, I want to know if I have to keep planning for the future or if I can just chill for a while.)

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

No picture, but I want to add that I also found the term paper I wrote on Neal Cassady for a Comparative Literature class in college wherein I ignored most of the semester's reading and instead argued that Cassady was portrayed as a Trickster by Kerouac, Kesey, and The Dead, etc. I got a B!

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

how my brain works, chapter 129893.23124.a

It's Doctor Who wearing a fez, except the text is "I WEAR AN OBSERVABILITY NOW" and "OBSERVABILITY IS COOL"

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Me over breakfast: The chorus of the My Chemical Romance song I have stuck in my head goes "Teenagers scare the living shit out of me..." My 16yo: *raises eyebrows to the ceiling*

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Here’s one of my most powerful Gen X relics: A paper I wrote on a 512KB PC (and printed on our household dot matrix printer) on Anna Karenina, having read only the first 50 pages. Sorry, Ms. Nobil, but at least I didn’t use ChatGPT.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Like, "Teenagers" could slot right into Dr. Feelgood.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am 20 years late to My Chemical Romance (well, Welcome to the Black Parade on repeat, at least) and I know I'm supposed to say they sound like Queen playing an emo rock opera, but I'm getting A LOT of Motley Crue. And I love it.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Anyone who compares the water cost of computing to the water cost of food should be required to eat a GPU.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Happy to report that I am listening to the Flea album again, and again I forgot the Nick Cave Wichita Lineman was coming, and again it is delightful.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How it feels to support Everton today

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We have a very local neighborhood power outage tonight, probably just a transformer. No data to look at, no interesting root cause, and highly unlikely data centers are involved. Just some good ol’ maintenance.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The disappointing plot twist (uh other than the murdering) is that he was complaining his enchiladas were *too* spicy.

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