Ryan Steven Reed

How cool is this?

Every so often I marvel at how much I love the laptop I use daily, for everything, and then I am stunned to remember that it is over five years old. The 2020 Apple M1 MacBook Air is hands down the best machine I have ever owned and it is still kicking ass.

The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com

You can almost hear the swelling, epic orchestration as you get to the end of this essay by @dansinker.com dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

Update> The young folks at the bar trying to determine that The Stone Roses were not, in fact, Nirvana and getting to fall in love with "I Want to Be Adored" for the first time may have usurped the previous joy.

I rolled into the South Plaza Mildreds in time for a delightful Pixies>Kate Bush>The Cure jam session. Might have made my day.

Right? Everyone wants to say it’s not good, but I’m tired of the excuses everybody uses.

I love this. Pens and paper and planners forever.

I am trying to follow every single person on here posting about Kansas City. Please help.

King Biscuit Blues Festival's future uncertain after federal grants paused - Arkansas Times The future of the famed King Biscuit Blues Festival appears to be threatened after federal grants from the National Endowment for the Arts were paused, though organizers have not yet made an official…

The future of the famed King Biscuit Blues Festival appears to be threatened after federal grants from the National Endowment for the Arts were paused, though organizers have not yet made an official statement. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

I was not expecting Bill Burr to lead the revolution, but I am ready to go.

Did I share this? I don't think I shared this. Check out this delightful story by @karammck.bsky.social from the February issue of Cutleaf Journal. #writing #stories #writingcommunity

The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos Live news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world. Subscribe for coverage of U.S. and international news, poli...

I am trying to determine if the nytimes.com homepage changes based on reader or if it offers a uniform presentation independent of who is viewing it. Can anyone help? @nytimes.com #NewYorkTimes

Library Job How an Application Showed Me My Path, Why Libraries are Great, and Tools to Disagree On.

Looking for some good news/encouragement? I am applying to be the director of a small library in Midcoast Maine and the process has clarified my purpose and given me direction. Check it out in my latest newsletter:
#libraries #library #goodnews #community #communication

#booksky how does this work?

Good Faith Ben Lerner, The Hatred of Poetry, and How My Own Contempt for the Genre May Have Made Me a Better Human

Hey folks, my Substack is live! This is my little project to perpetuate a literary life post-MFA and hopefully connect with other letter-people. Please give me a follow/read if you like poems and stories and songs and communication in general. #writingcommunity #reading #bookstagram #booktok #lol

Both surprised and disappointed to find out that an entire sleeve is not the suggested serving size for Saltines.

You’ve obviously never seen 12 Pups of Christmas and it shows.

a snowy front lawn with a few bare trees and blue sky.

an evergreen tree's branches covered with snow.

if winter has no defenders I am dead

The Painted Protest, by Dean Kissick How politics destroyed contemporary art

I really enjoyed Dean Kissick's piece in last month's Harper's. I think I agree? But that is the fun. That is the thing to figure out with any statement.

I was behind on reading this, but yes. I feel like the stances here are something I need to come back to at some point.

I am interested in the rubric you have in mind!

Scott Galloway: public outrage should be directed at voters | CNN NYU Stern Business School Professor Scott Galloway shares his take on the public condemnation towards the healthcare industry after a suspect shot and killed UnitedHealth’s CEO Brian Thompson.

Always great @profgalloway.com speaking with @smerconish.bsky.social about US healthcare. This is a great watch.

My last seven-song playlist and album of the year pick is up on my blog at: write.as/grumpwizard/ #music #records #besto

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

Well this is grim

Why do people back into parking spots? Asking for a friend.

Finished my penultimate Seven Songs #playlist for the year. Working on picking a best new record for 2024 and it ain't easy folks. #bestof2024 #records #music

Yes, I liked my own post because I am just really, really excited about this.

A Playlist That’s as Cool as Kim Deal Hear tracks from her first solo album, the Breeders, Pixies and more.

NEW KIM DEAL YALL NEW KIM DEAL
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/a... #Breeders #Rock #Records

I have been really trying to take to heart what @kclibrary.bsky.social Executive Director Abby Yellman said recently about the need to be right clouding productive outcomes.

Creed's 'Are You Ready?' tour stop at T-Mobile was a bizarre epilogue for the 2024 election Creed @ T-Mobile in 2024. // Photo by Isabella Galvan My attendance at the T-Mobile Center on November 6th for the Creed “Are You Ready?” tour presented by 98.9 The Rock! reminded me that no matter ho...

I semi-ironically went to see Creed the day after the election at the T-Mobile center in Kansas City and wrote about it for @thepitch.bsky.social #creed #meme #election