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While I was on my little online break I took this picture of Barry and it was so hard to not post it immediately

Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Years ago I did a photo shoot for the state dept of tourism which then became a stock photo for the gov. most recent use is this manual for IPERS (gov employee retirement fund)

Book you get when your a Iowa gov employee about your retirement fund

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

River is looking a bit full. But at least the sun is out. Happy October!

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m going to be taking a break from online until October when the political junky in me will need his fix. Until then… smell ya later

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ok, review of the My Chem show. It was quite fun. They did all of the Black Parade set in some mythic former Soviet republic, lots of theatrics, a dictator, a murderous clown, etc. After that they came back out as just a rock band and tore it up for another 45 minutes.

Gerard Way taking ownership of the stage

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Baseball is best played in stadiums specifically made for baseball, but baseball stadiums are absolute crap for all other uses.

Target Field in Minneapolis, getting ready for My Chemical Romance

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Why is Carrie Browstein this hot?

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/12/2025

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Today I finally sold a car that I've been wanting to sell for a long time but that my ADHD, the county auditor, and Nissan Financial all conspired against me selling. My long automotive nightmare is over!!

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My review: I think a lot of people showed up for a evening with Pete Seeger, and Jesse gave them that for the 1st 20 minutes and then proceed to rock the fuck out for the rest including covers of "War Pigs" and "Come As You Are". This guy is legit.

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Why is Jessie Wells this hot?

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’m at the Jessie Wells show at the Val Air, and the opening band “Ratboys” was quite awesome.

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Good morning! I for one am ready for football weather

Sunrise over Des Moines North high school

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

IDK who needs to hear this but you don't have to be gay to cut your parents off.

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Ok do the “three artists” thing but it’s the most divisive artists you legitimately like: - Throbbing Gristle - Tiny Tim - Chicago

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Rolling coal is the automotive equivalent to crapping your pants to own the libs.

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I remember as a kid in Iowa schools I was taught that Amana was proof that communism doesn’t work. And well, it wasn’t exactly communism, and also it did work for a long time. I wouldn’t call it a failure. Kids not being into their parent’s religion was most of the problem

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Stopped in Amana today and that’s a whole very interesting thing that happened. Also I got the BEST popcorn.

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I still refuse to use the webp format out of spite

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The other day I was having the robot upgrade a dependency and it got to a method it couldn’t fix. I tried all the models, none of them could do it. It was just one little method. They all faceplanted on it. Absolutely fascinating. I fixed it myself in 2 minutes

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

Grandpa Simpson saying “so I saved my files on my own local computer. Which was the style at the time”

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

After repeated listens I’m going to finally take a stand and say that “Use Your Illusion I” > “Use Your Illusion II”. Although there are specific songs on II that are better than the majority of I. (You Could Be Mine, Civil War)

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

. @flavorflav.bsky.social gave a fantastic speech at the end of the PE show in Minneapolis. I teared up a bit. He should run

Public Enemy performing in Minnesota. The crowd is doing the black power salute

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Every man I know is currently reading or at least listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Oh my the cicadas are horny today!

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"I enjoy programming" and "I enjoy solving problems" are two different things. I enjoy programming for it's own sake. It doesn't need to solve any problem at all.

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I just wrote a 4 page policy position paper for work completely on my own. No AI. You can do it kids!

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I kind of feel like this lettuce thing is on purpose in order to drive meat sales.

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Downplay a book or movie: no country for middle aged men

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Today I was helping my daughter set up her new classroom at Smouse elementary and I got a private tour from the chief maintenance guy. It’s a really cool building with a cool history. Bonus: it’s haunted.

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It's a Prince day ya'll.

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

LinkedIn is weird. At this point, with the exception of a few, it's mostly nothing but AI generated post, with nothing but AI generated responses.

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

One thing they left out of the movie was that Odysseus had multiple children with both Circe and Colypso. I guess we will leave that for the HBO series that will come next

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I don't get the idea that AI means you don't need junior developers. If AI is so great and so powerful, why wouldn't you hire mostly junior developers who have now been embiggened?

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The most upsetting part of The Odyssey for me was Matt Damon's abs. He's 2 years older than I am and I just don't understand how you do that at our age.

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The party of grievance and spite is confused why the foreign country ruled by grievance and spite towards them won’t compromise

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

One of the big reasons I switched into management (again), was that professional programming just isn’t that fun anymore. It’s mostly futzing with yaml and gluing OSS libs together. Very little actual programming.

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is misleading, shockwave didn’t use groovy, it’s scripting was called Lingo and was similar to HyperTalk

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

When I was a kid my uncle took me to a Ray Harryhausen film series at @thevarsitydsm.bsky.social. That was a major influence on my love of Greek mythology. I would love to go see those same films at the same theatre (nudge nudge)

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Its so weird how outlook still doesn't have a "find a meeting slot for these 5 people" feature. I'm still here just trying to find it a screen with all 5 people's schedules. You were 99% of the way there outlook! I could literally write the fucking feature myself.

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My FIL owns 3 Edsels. Including a somewhat rare wagon form, you would think they would be super valuable but they aren't. People still don't want an Edsel. I personally think they look like everything else in the late 50's and I don't get the hate.

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Ryber @ryber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Ruby is a lovely language.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

i think people look at homelessness as a relatively new phenomenon and reason backwards to think that in the Before Times, poor people must've all been able to afford houses/their own apartments etc. Most of the housing types the poor used were actually just outlawed (boarding houses, SROs etc)

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