ryan wolf @ryan@hates.company

Lately I've been reading a lot of children's picture books, over and over? I thought "Goodnight Moon" was pretty spooky, but I had trouble finding anyone writing about that online. @redoak jokingly suggested that I become the conspiracy theorist blogger I want to see in the world, so... I did it. Here's a totally serious take on why "Goodnight Moon" is an esoteric text, from me, a serious scholar of esotericism (aka podcast listener): https://pseudony.ms/blags/goodnight-nobody.html

you vs the horse statue they tell you not to worry about

people i know having swords is worrying, but strangers on the internet having swords is hilarious. comedy is swords plus distance.

when your tests are hermetic it's all "attaboy," but when your api docs are Hermetic suddenly it's all "you are scaring the QA testers" and "you are getting DMCA takedown notices from Alistair Crowley"

Strega Nona is not a communist https://www.gawker.com/culture/strega-nona-is-not-a-communist

The Vanishing (1988), Bubbles from the Trailer Park Boys is a normal French guy with the usual loving family, sensible euro car, hobbies, etc.

according to melt, it's 130% done concatenating some smaller videos into a single file. 130%, and still doing... something.

one guard only tells lies, the other only eat hot chip

it is absolutely wild that the head of the federal reserve does not have to have their stocks held in a blind trust: https://www.thedailybeast.com/federal-reserve-chair-jerome-powell-sold-millions-in-stock-as-dow-tanked-during-covid-19

this is the person who can tank the market just by picking up their coffee mug funny during a press conference, that person is allowed to play the market.

at the 1618 LARP, my anachronistic "refenestrator" skull t-shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by my anachronistic "refenestrator" skull t-shirt

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=596413874576876