Jimmy Ryals
@jpryals.bsky.social
Write, editor, crafter of fine puns and sandwich bard.
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Read some of my stuff!
https://www.theassemblync.com/author/jimmy-ryals/
https://www.jimmyryalswrites.com/
https://slate.com/author/jimmy-ryals
Public employees should never--under any circumstances--be forced to sign NDAs. They work for us, not the would-be god-kings that happen to occupy the top spots at the agencies that employ them.
Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
February 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Public employees should never--under any circumstances--be forced to sign NDAs. They work for us, not the would-be god-kings that happen to occupy the top spots at the agencies that employ them.
Remember: YouTube can listen to Christmas music any time of year, as long as it’s snowing.
February 1, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Remember: YouTube can listen to Christmas music any time of year, as long as it’s snowing.
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Also trying to parse all the emails that read like they were written by a concussed golden retriever I think I finally get why these guys are so enthusiastic about getting chatbots to write for them
January 31, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Also trying to parse all the emails that read like they were written by a concussed golden retriever I think I finally get why these guys are so enthusiastic about getting chatbots to write for them
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When the NRA finds out that a citizen was shot and killed by Federal troops merely because he was carrying a gun, there is going to be hell to pay. This is the exact scenario they have been warning us about! These are the jack-booted government troops from which we need unfettered liberty!
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM
When the NRA finds out that a citizen was shot and killed by Federal troops merely because he was carrying a gun, there is going to be hell to pay. This is the exact scenario they have been warning us about! These are the jack-booted government troops from which we need unfettered liberty!
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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The Hmong are here because they fought for the US in a war we lost.
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The Hmong are here because they fought for the US in a war we lost.
Johnny 5 will return in Avengers: Doomsday.
January 7, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Johnny 5 will return in Avengers: Doomsday.
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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity. media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity. media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
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For years, the process of getting your business's name on one of those blue highway signs was the same. That all changed in July, when the state privatized the program after more than 40 years managing it.
www.theassemblync.com/news/busines...
www.theassemblync.com/news/busines...
Businesses Pay to Get On Those Blue Road Signs—and the Price Just Went Up
Ever wonder how a restaurant or gas station gets on those blue road signs? For many N.C. businesses, it just got more expensive.
www.theassemblync.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
For years, the process of getting your business's name on one of those blue highway signs was the same. That all changed in July, when the state privatized the program after more than 40 years managing it.
www.theassemblync.com/news/busines...
www.theassemblync.com/news/busines...
A thing to add to your gratitude list: Somehow, the CPSB didn’t get DOGE-d and it’s still being weird and helpful on social media.
Black Friday reminder - that product with a great price being sold by a company with a name that's just a bunch of random letters may end up on our website someday because it explodes.
November 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A thing to add to your gratitude list: Somehow, the CPSB didn’t get DOGE-d and it’s still being weird and helpful on social media.
I've always wondered who decides which gas stations, restaurants & hotels get their logos on blue highway signs. As it turns out: There's a market for that. For @theassemblync.bsky.social I dug into the recently privatized logo sign program: www.theassemblync.com/news/busines...
Businesses Pay to Get On Those Blue Road Signs—and the Price Just Went Up
Ever wonder how a restaurant or gas station gets on those blue road signs? For many N.C. businesses, it just got more expensive.
www.theassemblync.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I've always wondered who decides which gas stations, restaurants & hotels get their logos on blue highway signs. As it turns out: There's a market for that. For @theassemblync.bsky.social I dug into the recently privatized logo sign program: www.theassemblync.com/news/busines...
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food takes are what got jean valjean into trouble
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
food takes are what got jean valjean into trouble
McMaggot salad
McDonald's Shrimp Salad (1985-1986): A garden salad topped hardboiled eggs and mini shrimp cocktail. This offering made national headlines when improperly stored shrimp led to a typhoid outbreak in Maryland. This salad has popped back up in some European markets in recent years
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
McMaggot salad
There's guys you can hit and guys you can't. Now, that's not quite a guy you can't hit, Charlie Brown. But he's almost a guy you can't hit.
I’m not the guy you kill, Charlie Brown. I’m the guy you buy!
This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
There's guys you can hit and guys you can't. Now, that's not quite a guy you can't hit, Charlie Brown. But he's almost a guy you can't hit.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
How did he not use Zohran Mam-COMMIE.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
How did he not use Zohran Mam-COMMIE.
Courage works.
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Courage works.
Surely we can all agree on the best album of 1989.
October 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Surely we can all agree on the best album of 1989.
This is absolutely how health care for trans people should be covered.
Health and science reporters should lead the coverage of all these health-related conspiracy theories & newsroom leaders should keep their both-sides political reporters out of their way.
September 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is absolutely how health care for trans people should be covered.
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False. I recently checked the ADL data, which has some issues because they include non-ideological murders. But even with those removed, over the past decade right-wing extremists would account for about half of the murders, with about 35% by Islamist extremists, and 8% by left-wing extremists.
Vance: "While our side of the aisle certainly has its crazies, it is a statistical fact that most of the lunatics in American politics today are proud members of the far-Left."
September 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
False. I recently checked the ADL data, which has some issues because they include non-ideological murders. But even with those removed, over the past decade right-wing extremists would account for about half of the murders, with about 35% by Islamist extremists, and 8% by left-wing extremists.
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the way the right keeps obsessively trying to blame this shooting on trans people is deeply sick and incredibly dangerous, and powerful people and institutions turning a blind eye to it are complicit
just leave them alone
just leave them alone
September 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
the way the right keeps obsessively trying to blame this shooting on trans people is deeply sick and incredibly dangerous, and powerful people and institutions turning a blind eye to it are complicit
just leave them alone
just leave them alone