this is ryan

@thisryan.bsky.social

Here are my concerns: 1. ending violence against women and children 2. reforming the legal system to better recognize (and protect families from) emotional abuse 3. anti-racism 4. public records law 5. crochet [originally tweeted Nov 6, 2018]

1980s vaporwave-style meme with stars, rainbows, and floating geometric objects under the text "never gonna give you up never gonna let you down"

Fireworks reflecting off the Willamette River, Portland, OR

Xzibit with the text "Yo dawg I heard you like Law & Order so we put a serial killer in your car so you can solve your own murder while you're driving"

Hayao Miyazaki holds his glasses and looks exasperated.

Hayao Miyazaki holds his glasses and looks frustrated

Meme of Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen on Mars describing how he perceives time non-linearly. Captions read:
It is 2002. Cillian Murphy is in the new Danny Boyle movie.
It is 2007. Cillian Murphy is in the new Danny Boyle movie.
It is 2026. Cillian Murphy is in the new Danny Boyle movie.

A Tumblr post which reads: RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but I'm different. And better. Maybe even better than the gods.

Reginald VelJohnson as Sgt. Al Powell in Die Hard. He is looking up at the Nakatomi building and there is a gas station sign advertising gas at 74 cents per gallon.

comment by @this_fckn_guy: Absolute best case scenario, giving him every benefit of the doubt, we have a guy running for office in a time when fascism is coming back in a big way, who wouldn't recognize a Nazi image if it were tattooed on his chest.

the @dril tweet that says "and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that I got mad."

Jesse "The Body" Ventura and Alex Trebek dressed as Men in Black from an episode of the X-Files

Ryan circa 2006 with hair on top of his head, oversized sunglasses, and his beloved Motorola PEBL flip phone

Linda Hamilton from the Terminator with the caption "Sarah Connor watching you use AI for everything"

A healthy wet moss growing on a tree stump in my driveway

A crude drawing of a bearded man holding a gun and a bottle of vodka, a bear, and a rabbit with antlers also holding a gun, with the text "The Bear, The Jackalope, The Angry, Lovesick Russian."

A knitting project on circular needles with DK weight yarn. The pattern makes a narrow column of angled stitches in a chevron pattern which will later be joined with other columns to make a blanket.

A bus stop sign on a cold misty morning. Everything past the sign is increasingly hard to make out as the mist obscures details.

a close-up image of damp, healthy moss growing in a crack between slats of a bench at Portland State University

Tweet by Andrew Nadeau that says "Running was invented in 1612 by Thomas Running when he tried to walk twice at the same time."

a picture of Twin Rocks on the Oregon coast, taken on the water so the arch in one of the rocks is clearly visible

A crochet wreath made with bulky yarn crocheted around a round foam craft circle

Screenshot of a Google search for "Encanto 2" and an AI overview that claims a sequel will be released on August 25, 2024, which is false

A Pimp My Ride meme that says "yo dawg i heard you like law & order so we put a serial killer in your car so you can solve your own murder while you're driving"

Tweet by @redpraxis that says: "y'all brainwashed by this "individualist" capitalist mindset and it shows. we do owe each other and we are connected to each other and we should go out of our way to love and care for one another."

skeet by @o-c.bsky.social that says "put your heart to good use "

A tweet that says "being a millennial captured in one picture" above a zillow listing for a house that sold in 1999 for $162,000 and then was listed in 2023 for $1,400,000

Three old tweets:
@smartassjen: hey, in case you weren't already feeling old today, I just heard an intern say they loved successions "new weekly drop model" and that it was a smart way to get people hooked.
@XanaxInACinnabon: You want me to go to a meeting? The thing that killed Julius Caesar?
@HotPinkFurby: The backwards baseball cap stays ON during sex

A child's hand drawn card with a picture of a holiday wreath

A ball of yarn, a crochet hexagon, a crochet hook, a crochet pattern, and the author's knee, on the couch. Not pictured is an episode of House playing in the background.

A picture of a large crocheted granny square hexagon

A series of posts by Chuck Wendig that say "We've a lot of anger, grief, trauma to unpack. A labyrinth of feelings to untangle. Take a moment every day to breathe deep, to keenly feel what lies inside that space between your heart and your stomach, to realize it's a bundle of snakes, now barf those snakes onto your enemies. You've gotta untie that knot of emotions, and also that knot of snakes, it's okay, they're venomous, let them out to play, they just want to bite those who oppose your healing, who stand in the way of joy, they want to bite the faces of joy thieves and share their wonderful venom. vomiting up copperhead snakes onto shitheads is how we achieve unity"

Dialogue that reads "Me: wakes up" then "Pain:" but it's a picture of a dog on a surfboard crashing through a wave with the word BONJOUR in big letters

A screen capture of Jane Lynch, with a caption that says "god about to make olives: I am going to create a grape that is so disgusting."

a photo of the author wearing a Kesha tee shirt smiling

A post by Maya Tribbitt that says "my media law professor explaining defamation" and a post by @byanijames that says "idk who needs to hear this but it's not shade if its tea!"

"AI accidentally made me believe in the concept of a human soul by showing me what art looks like without it."

Get to know my trash taste. For every like, I will post one trash I love.

Poster for Vanishing Son, starring Russell Wong

The homemade spaceship from Explorers (1985)

Picture of a man in a blue hoodie and sunglasses over a happy background with the words "Everything hurts!"

Andrew Scott, playing Jim Moriarty, with a speech bubble drawn so it looks like he's saying the previous post

A post that says "Is the USA is so great then why did they make USB" above a picture of Philomena Cunk made to look at if she's saying that

Text that says "when your dad farts in the car" over a picture of Leonardo DiCaprio making a face like he's told the funniest joke he knows.

Text that reads "you've heard of elf on the shelf, now get ready for" and then a picture of Ted Cruz on top of a picture of a caterpillar.

Relaxing video of the sound of waves at a beach in Hawai'i

Screenshot of a comment on Threads that was removed for "encouraging violence." The comment reads "Love the moment when he says "I can teach you the ways of the Force" and she gasps and says "the Force" and closes her eyes and kicks his ass"

chat transcript that says "say please, say thank you, ask instead of ordering. management is actually simple."

Sunset at Twin Rocks on the Oregon coast

Screenshot of an Onion article from 2019 that says "5 things to know about Beto O'Rourke. Could he flip Texas blue in the general election? According to the multiverse theory anything is technically possible."

$Image with this text: “I am not ‘half Japanese’ and ‘half Lithuanian Jewish.“ When I’m singing a Japanese folk song, I don’t sing with half my voice, but with my whole voice. When I’m taping together my grandparents’ Jewish marriage contract, worn by time but still resilient, it’s not half of my heart that is moved, but my whole heart. I am complete, and I embody layers of identities that belong together. I am made of layers, not fractions.” — Yumi Tomsha$