Ryan Pitts
ryanpitts.bsky.social
Ryan Pitts
@ryanpitts.bsky.social
Journalist, coder, community developer. Managing director, Big Local News at Stanford.

“I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
… who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.”
love you Chicago
October 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
October 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Chicago ❤️💪
October 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
August 12, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The great thing about Iceland, though, is that if you feel like that hike isn’t the right one, you’ll drive past 800 other waterfalls, too. This one very near Nauthusagil was very accessible, and you can walk back behind it if you want.
August 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
There is a secret ~30- to 40-foot waterfall if you go all the way along the stream, but that part does take a very precarious crossing and using some chains attached to the far wall before you climb up and over the first waterfall. My son and I and his fiancée made it.
August 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Now that I’m looking back at photos, it may depend on what type of mobility issues. The path to the canyon is easy, but there are sections along the stream where you need to step carefully, often on the rocks sticking up out of the water.
August 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
You are just 2 hours from one of my favorite places in the world maps.app.goo.gl/1fhM7gdegMtF...
August 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
proud to be a board member for @rangemedia.co because (among so many other reasons) I know they'll never ever publish something that looks like this

Support local news, everyone.
August 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
😔
June 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Never forget
June 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
When the target is a building where civilians live
March 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
@pelicansong.bsky.social happy to say you’re no longer my favorite band I’ve never seen live. Only took 20 years for the calendar to finally work out.

You all kicked ass at The Fillmore last night, and the new stuff sounds amazing! Love it when my head still feels like this in the morning.
March 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
when AI hype folks talk about productivity
March 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
in the years since they have discovered stomp
March 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Made a little tool handle
February 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
February 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Yay for lumpy little vases that feel weirdly right in your hand!
February 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Did some hand-building with clay, which I was really intimidated by, and recently got back a few things I never expected to see again after a traditional wood firing. This one from a VERY naive attempt at deforming a cylinder. I love how it feels and how the fire gives it a finish you can’t predict.
February 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“America Needs a Working-Class Media.” God yes, amen to this piece by @alissaquart.bsky.social. The Economic Hardship Reporting Project gets stories about inequality into places that wouldn’t cover it well (if at all) on their own. It’s such important work.

www.cjr.org/analysis/ame...
February 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Places like the Cato Institute are writing blueprints for killing federal data on race and ethnicity. They identify data collection as a "weak point" they can use to destroy equity policies.

This writer testifies to Congress and gets published by mainstream news orgs. www.cato.org/blog/how-tru...
February 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Stenography journalism is activism in favor of the powerful.
January 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Proud to be a supporter, and even small gifts really do make a difference.
January 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Dealing with this news in my own way
January 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@erikahall.bsky.social pretty majestic chicken overlooking Los Gallos in Redwood City
January 15, 2025 at 4:35 AM