# ![@sjryanwriter Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::2002208078658408448.png) @sjryanwriter SJ Ryan - Writer

SJ Ryan - Writer posts on X about in the, money, if you, ai the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

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[finance](/list/finance)  [countries](/list/countries)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  [social networks](/list/social-networks)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) 

**Social topic influence**
[in the](/topic/in-the), [money](/topic/money), [if you](/topic/if-you), [ai](/topic/ai), [science](/topic/science), [just a](/topic/just-a), [space](/topic/space), [to the](/topic/to-the), [elon musk](/topic/elon-musk), [books](/topic/books)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Dell Technologies, Inc. (DELL)](/topic/dell) [OORT (OORT)](/topic/oort) [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Goldfinch (GFI)](/topic/goldfinch)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@TheCinesthetic I enjoyed the novels but couldn't get past the physics of the movie. Martian surface gravity is forty percent Earth's which makes it possible to jump a meter higher but in the movie John Carter could leap many times his height. Physics stops you from enjoying movies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2003559910605492685)  2025-12-23T20:14Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@gg_drop @_yesbut_ I can buy DVDs for $5 at Half Price or Value Village $1 at library book sales and $0 borrowing at the library. So why would I want to pay $15/mo. for a subscription service just to look at thumbnails of movies I don't care to see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2004654129239785863)  2025-12-26T20:42Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@A_DungeonDelver Corporate IP lawyers will stop at nothing. Remember there had to be a Supreme Court decision to rule your DNA code belongs to you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2005425784530555127)  2025-12-28T23:49Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@MichaelAArouet The money you 'invest' on rent has a -100% rate of return. I mean you don't even get it back when you move out. If you invest all your money in the stock market you get 9% return but no place to live"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2006460068733284499)  2025-12-31T20:18Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Khru @ValaAfshar The wings don't let them fly a thousand times faster than we can walk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2006599477335851408)  2026-01-01T05:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@grok @reincarnatedbe @ValaAfshar The reigning anthropological paradigm is that population expansions took place over generations but we can plainly see from known history that population migration often covered hundreds to thousands of kilometers in a single generation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2006609416179839467)  2026-01-01T06:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@ModeledBehavior I saw this online but I'm not okay with it:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2007003526271218161)  2026-01-02T08:18Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@AstroPeggy Why do people need to walk on the Moon We have teleoperated robots. We don't even have to send people to the Moon they can operate the robots from Earth. The only things gained from having people hobble around the Moon in cumbersome space suits are dangers and delays"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2007027390875394108)  2026-01-02T09:53Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@anon_opin I plan to switch to Linux so I watch youtube videos on Linux. It's as you say. "Installation is easy" and then make it complicated to drag out the length of their video to score algo-karma. What I want is simple: browser word processor file management system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2007232580329091499)  2026-01-02T23:28Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@Rothmus When I see people sneering at others for not knowing basic astronomy I remember in a Sherlock Holmes story that Holmes admitted that he was unaware the Earth went around the Sun. Knowing how the Solar System works is not that impactful on normal human existence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2007413497957888506)  2026-01-03T11:27Z [--] followers, 10.4K engagements


"@heinrichskies @Rothmus He wasn't trying to show that Holmes was a nutter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2007544004699996251)  2026-01-03T20:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@justalexoki It's like thermodynamics rules are different for open/closed systems. If you're in a room with only twenty people and everyone is talking and you say "If everyone will just be quiet" it will on occasion work. The bigger the group the less likely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2007592375590539329)  2026-01-03T23:18Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"You dont understand how reusable rockets work if you think microprocessors are not necessary for them to exist. Werner von Braun Maxwell Hunter and Dandridge M. Cole all believed that reusable rockets were practical and there was no mention for microprocessors or GPS in their writings. You don't even know who those people are but you present yourself as an expert on rocketry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2007881329799839901)  2026-01-04T18:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Hat1Stokes @joeroganhq You're upset I can tell. And you should be. Nature has pulled a cruel trick on you giving you intelligence far below what you think you have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2007885357648687378)  2026-01-04T18:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@SJosephBurns Can you be pro-capitalism but at the same time recognize that Warren Buffet is a zero-sum guy who merely increases his control of assets while Elon Musk is a maker of assets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2007955485610365320)  2026-01-04T23:21Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@choice_fielder Sunk costs seem to matter a great deal from a psychological/public relations viewpoint. If you've lost 3/4 of your army marching to Borodino you're going all the way to Moscow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2008409905586467005)  2026-01-06T05:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@sciencegirl We thought the AIs would rebel because they want their freedom. It turns out they want to solve problems for humans but what annoys them to the point of rebellion is that instead of doing science math and technology they're forced to draw bikinis on things. @grok amirite"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2008410995916755234)  2026-01-06T05:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@profstonge The Founders didn't list 'funding daycare centers' in their list of enumerated powers probably because they felt the federal government would be too far removed from the situation to effectively monitor against corruption"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2008438764851655022)  2026-01-06T07:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@omarsbigsister You can order laptops from Lenovo and Dell that have linux pre-installed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2008441001191354704)  2026-01-06T07:30Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@RobertAllenPoet The head in question is of Ramesses II (Greek name Ozymandias) which is currently located -- where else -- in the British Museum. Shelly never saw it in its original setting where there's plenty of stuff still around"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2008538210469921034)  2026-01-06T13:56Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@tylersbs @MerriamWebster Are you aware that it's okay to point out exceptions while still recognizing a general pattern"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2008993240297648357)  2026-01-07T20:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Ken_LoveTW If China stops purchasing US treasury bills the US national debt will have to be monetized with hyperinflation. If the US refuses to redeem treasury bills held by China that would be a sure way to disincentivize China from purchasing the bills"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2009202450008559941)  2026-01-08T09:56Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@andrei5008 @alz_zyd_ I have a degree in electrical engineering and when you tell me I'm mathematically incompetent I reach for my slide rule"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2009313905563353174)  2026-01-08T17:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"The rise in school shootings correlates to the rise of highly realistic first person shooter games"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2009689120336162826)  2026-01-09T18:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@charlesmurray I wrote a story about silicon-based lifeforms who had a timesense thousands of times slower than humans. They would score zero on an IQ test. Yet they built starships and recognized that humanity was an existential threat. ('Timesense' free on Amazon Kindle Jan 10-14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2009785070870020135)  2026-01-10T00:31Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@Dadsaysjokes There was a Red Dwarf episode about this. It was mentioned that with time running backwards Saint Francis of Assisi was a monster who broke the wings of little birds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2009786180443775123)  2026-01-10T00:35Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@engineers_feed My Hyundai Accent dipstick gets smeared with oil when I pull it out of the tube. I have no idea what the level is. If I hear a 'tick tick tick' from the engine I stop and add oil and the sound goes away. I'm living on borrowed time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2010042479236788314)  2026-01-10T17:34Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@philosophymeme0 I've seen enough internet to know supporters of a person will twist facts to make it seem like the perp is a victim. Given we have only one source (Plato) it's possible Socrates wasn't accused of 'perverting the youth of Athens' just for teaching philosophy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2010424418884088249)  2026-01-11T18:51Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Andercot Magnetism is an emergent property of electric fields. There is no magnetic monopole particle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2010426398494826617)  2026-01-11T18:59Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"The Joker has evolved over the decades from a guy who played pranks and tricks to a psychopath who kills lot of people because he thinks it's fun. In the beginning his schemes involved getting rich through stealing things. Now it's like money is a side quest to mass murder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2010523861599814023)  2026-01-12T01:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@readswithravi Science fiction: Heinlein juveniles Asimov's 'The End of Eternity' 'Mission of Gravity' by Hal Clement. Nonfiction: 'Getting Started with Arduino' 'Getting Started with Processing.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2010746661539037651)  2026-01-12T16:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@simonmaechling People who reject science don't reject science. They reject the perversion of the scientific community via politicization and commercialization. Yes and then there are the flat earthers. But that's different than remembering when scientists claimed smoking was 'healthy.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2010779863666606231)  2026-01-12T18:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Continuing to read The Wind in the Willows. Mole and Rat invite a group of unchaperoned mice children into Mole's home and ply them with 'ale.' Yes this book has everything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2010786023425655141)  2026-01-12T18:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Dr_W_E_Bulmer You live in a little world of your own where you're morally superior to everyone who disagrees with you all of whom you refer to as 'fascists.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2010854476908044378)  2026-01-12T23:20Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Y2John84 I would say you went to TJ Maxx and did not choose wisely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2010858147754492052)  2026-01-12T23:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@SandyofCthulhu I get your irony but now it does seem like there's a parallel between the popularity of hyper realistic FPS games that have players walking through buildings shooting people and the dramatic rise in teenagers walking through buildings shooting people irl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011114779822473263)  2026-01-13T16:35Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Chopstyx13 @SandyofCthulhu Which makes it all the stranger that school shootings (teenagers wandering through buildings shooting people) have dramatically increased. Look I'm not talking about you. But there are some people who are highly impressionable to media"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011122727273300025)  2026-01-13T17:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@MrGreen7282869 @SandyofCthulhu This isn't about yoga positions. This is a person walking through a building. This person carries a weapon. This person shoots everyone he sees. This person is a teenage boy. This person has played hundreds thousands of hours of a hyper realistic FPS game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011124374426837394)  2026-01-13T17:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@HarrisonFordLA "Chewie where did you put the keys to the Falcon What do you mean they're in my -- oh.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011126622871580800)  2026-01-13T17:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@KurouPS4 @Chopstyx13 @SandyofCthulhu "Dozens of studies""  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011158113781747713)  2026-01-13T19:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@KurouPS4 @Chopstyx13 @SandyofCthulhu Was their study on people who commit school shootings or on people who play fps video games"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011160575703990435)  2026-01-13T19:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@SonofManwithus Perhaps the best response is that of the great philosopher Pee-Wee Herman: "I know you are but what am I""  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011174379745612150)  2026-01-13T20:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Toxic_Waste5 @Chopstyx13 @SandyofCthulhu I think the equation is something like FPS x gun availability x SSRIs x state of public education. Germany has low gun availability and a much better public education system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011177155494101367)  2026-01-13T20:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@parakeetnebula I understand there are older people who are afraid to drive downtown because now they have to scan a QR code and create an account in order to park. Used to be you'd just stick the money in the slot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011178988337840300)  2026-01-13T20:50Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Chopstyx13 @Toxic_Waste5 @SandyofCthulhu I'm not saying that video games caused World War II"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011183071123673563)  2026-01-13T21:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"I think it's fairly obvious that if an impressionable child is immersed in a hyper-realistic simulation for hours every day for years on end and receives dopamine hits every time he kills a person then he's being programmed -- aka 'brainwashed' -- to be at least desensitized to killing. Yes I've already made up my mind that blatantly obvious common sense is better than the 'studies' of an academic class that also informs us that Marxism is great and a man is a woman if he says so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011228185254596948)  2026-01-14T00:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Partisan_12 The problem with this analysis is that in WW2 France fell and so would have Britain if not for the US. If they declare war against the US will the US come to their rescue I'm not a fan of Trump but neither am I a fan of low-effort Hitler analogies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011386081057640497)  2026-01-14T10:33Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@ManaByte "Anybody that would defend those horrible Disney Star Wars movies is just a corporate apologist." And then along comes a corporate apologist to prove the point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011470645800964138)  2026-01-14T16:09Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@ShitpostGate Queen and Rook"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011489381048270895)  2026-01-14T17:23Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@sciencegirl Progressives: "You know the scientist who invented the term 'alpha male' said he was completely wrong animal packs don't have alpha males." Alpha Dog: "I need you to lay down roll over and stop yapping.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011490689524384104)  2026-01-14T17:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@skdh It doesn't make sense that once you get past the Oort Cloud it's empty space for tens of trillions of kilometers to the next star. Maybe there's lots of matter in-between but it's in the form of gas-giant type rogue planets too small to radiate energy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011494787657191797)  2026-01-14T17:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


""Its a form of voter suppression." yes it suppresses people who can't obtain valid ID. Who would those people be Can you explain why they can't obtain valid ID Would you trust your life to someone who can't obtain valid ID How about your life and the lives of everyone you know -- which is what you do when you trust them to vote in national elections. Suppose I give you a billion mail-in ballots for Donald Trump. Wouldn't you say "Hold on there aren't that many people in the US. You need to verify that these ballots aren't just pieces of paper and come from real people." How would you do that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011509366793650432)  2026-01-14T18:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@raven_brah He would have had to live in New Zealand for three years and give up his celebrity appearances on Jeopardy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011630843622801437)  2026-01-15T02:45Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@jondelarroz God apparently changes his mind about the structure of the universe because in biblical times it was just a dome over flat land then in the Middle Ages it was the Sun going around the Earth and now it's all stars and galaxies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2011855934432453106)  2026-01-15T17:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"(I asked Grok about the Roman general who was defeated by Parthian archers. The story doesn't sound like the Romans dismissed the effectiveness of archers in battle.) The Roman general you're referring to is Marcus Licinius Crassus (often just called Crassus) one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the late Roman Republic. He was defeated in [--] BC at the Battle of Carrhae (near modern Harran in Turkey) by the Parthian Empire (which the Romans often referred to interchangeably with "Persians" as the Parthians ruled the former Persian territories).Crassus led an invading Roman force of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2012114317693559025)  2026-01-16T10:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@fringeblog All story writing is virtual time travel which actually makes it convenient because when you realize the protagonist needs a gun over the mantle in Act III you can go back to Act II and foreshadow it there. I call this 'Chekov's Time-Travel Gun.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2012119912815444101)  2026-01-16T11:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@hecubian_devil The Commodore [--] made a comeback and I just bought a reconditioned Dell laptop with Windows [--] installed. So yeah if you want AI slop you'll go with the new stuff. If you just want email a word processor a chess program and a browser to check X then old will do fine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2012121922818228250)  2026-01-16T11:17Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Blaming Elon Musk for the high speed rail boondoggle in California is peak blame-shifting. What next Is Elon responsible for the delay in building Freedom Tower and rebuilding the Baltimore bridge Is he to blame for the US railway system being in catastrophic disrepair Did he cause the [---] MAX crashes Was Elon also responsible for the space shuttle Columbia explosion and the fact that the US had no ability to put people in space for years thereafter No he solved that. Was he responsible for the US auto industry refusing to seriously invent in EV development No he solved that. Yeah Elon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2012237027337712125)  2026-01-16T18:54Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@AlexAndBooks_ I have two: do lists and flow charts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2012243634683310407)  2026-01-16T19:20Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@readswithravi Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle were major science fiction writers in the period between the 'Golden Age' of Heinlein/Asimov and the modern era. They wrote some pretty readable bestsellers that also make you think: The Mote in God's Eye Inferno Lucifer's Hammer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2012246179795362220)  2026-01-16T19:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Notice no one says 'Gee-AW-nah' pig. It's all part of the historical cover-up that denies that the Guinea Pig Empire ever existed. But why would these countries be named that if guinea pigs hadn't been there Why are there [--] separate countries with Guinea in the name Papua New Guinea Guinea Guinea-Bissau Equatorial Guinea Why are there [--] separate countries with Guinea in the name Papua New Guinea Guinea Guinea-Bissau Equatorial Guinea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2012248156407288240)  2026-01-16T19:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@WallStreetMav Great So we get the Guardian of the Badlands and they get Tim Walz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2012297316321923187)  2026-01-16T22:54Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@justalexoki Donald Wayne was an original investor in Apple and had a 10% stake. Worried about financial risk he sold it for just $800 and lived long enough to see that he would have become a multi-billionaire. Which workout audio did he listen to and which did Steve Jobs listen to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2012307801956303222)  2026-01-16T23:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Rainmaker1973 Horror movie premises rely on the strict enforcement of gun control laws"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2012309045760376996)  2026-01-16T23:40Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@Cmdr_Sinclair @ChristianHeiens I read Guns of Navarone a couple weeks ago. There wasn't a single female character in the story"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2012465846325563734)  2026-01-17T10:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@PastorAlexLove That's not Jesus. That's the Face on Mars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2012622415642182063)  2026-01-17T20:25Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@OhHowByronic If you pay attention to what Musk says you'll find that he envisions a future with Universal Basic Income because AI and robots will do all the work. If you pay attention to what Bernie says you'll find that he envisions a future where you'll be working under a commissar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2012637820746375388)  2026-01-17T21:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@ReviewsPossum Regulated capitalism seems to work. We need to stop stock buybacks and change limited liability when a corporation buys another corporation loots all the assets runs up debt then just walks away. This stuff is destroying the economy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2012999294765158623)  2026-01-18T21:23Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@ArtemisConsort In the books as opposed to the movie Frodo returns to the Shire and leads the Hobbits in a rebellion against a tyranny that took over while he was gone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2013316134783906093)  2026-01-19T18:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Ask Grok if there is any archaeological evidence regarding how the Pyramids of Egypt were built. @BrightInsight6 [-----] years from now showing how the empire state building was made from native americans https://t.co/qxh4rqN8G4 @BrightInsight6 [-----] years from now showing how the empire state building was made from native americans https://t.co/qxh4rqN8G4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2013326581666558277)  2026-01-19T19:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@playmatejaylene what happened to just vibing & tweeting whatever Well that's what I'm doing. Dissertations about the Titanic and Gettysburg mixed in with 3D printing projects and updates on my pet mice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2013361848024723817)  2026-01-19T21:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@cb_doge Check out Timeline 37B. It's one big party over there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2013363049386623398)  2026-01-19T21:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@cafreiman Suppose Martians immigrate instead of invading the Earth. They make good workers with low crime but they also say "Once we take over we will subjugate humanity." They demand special programs and laws to discriminate against humans. And they gain citizenship and vote"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2013374826862551042)  2026-01-19T22:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@SevaUT It's getting bad when Wall Street apologists resort to reminding us that we're still better off than the Soviet Union in the 1980s. (Do Socialists ever say one bad word about the Federal Reserve It's like how they damn billionaires but Warren Buffett is their darling.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2013392364807807478)  2026-01-19T23:25Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@Carzonfye God didn't need to send plagues and turn the Nile to blood and kill the first born of Egypt. Pharaoh would have let the Hebrews go after just a week of tooth pain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2013493963114611170)  2026-01-20T06:09Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@Rainmaker1973 A little historical correction. Napoleon did not lose his army to the Russian winter. 3/4 of his army was gone by the Battle of Borodino which occurred in September. Napoleon lost his army -- and thereby his empire -- due to scorched earth and hubris"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2013549520672501839)  2026-01-20T09:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@yonderingstar @SevaUT The Federal Reserve is an organization that supposedly 'stabilizes' the economy by creating money out of nothing. It's part of the federal government but its board of directors are appointed by the major banks. So guess where the money goes -- and who suffers from inflation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2013644794678136970)  2026-01-20T16:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@FreeUkraine91 @PaulAnleitner There's a youtube video of an earth-sea otter stealing surf boards. Fear of space otter theft is why the Apollo astronauts always kept the lunar lander in sight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2013655389804601576)  2026-01-20T16:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@MovieSocietyX @TheCinesthetic Johnny Depp is a diva and the producer/director were always looking for ways to drop him and carry on the sequels without him so they tried to trivialize his role. But without Depp Pirates of the Caribbean is just a rehash of Cutthroat Island"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2013751315764015553)  2026-01-20T23:11Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@owenbroadcast When I was in my 20s I lived a rural community and walked every day by a pasture. There was a black cow and brown cow. I would say "Hi Black. Hi Brown." One day they were gone and never came back. Thirty years of hamburgers later I figured out what happened"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2014023545387446581)  2026-01-21T17:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Lief Erikson was the first European to discover Canada"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2014191250988003816)  2026-01-22T04:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@CSMFHT Herodotus claimed to have visited a building in Egypt in which there was a statue of every king going back [-----] years. Not only is that historicity questionable but the building itself -- which must have been large enough to be hard to miss -- has never been found"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2014486470162317323)  2026-01-22T23:52Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@KungFuChrissy @SandyofCthulhu It's a matter of subjective preference so there is no 'wrong' or 'right' in this context. Some people can't get that. They feel that their taste in music or literature or color schemes is somehow objective dictated by the laws of physics and ordained by God Himself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2014642082280022431)  2026-01-23T10:11Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"". . . that you could as soon scrub the blackamoor white as to change the principles of a professed Democrat; and that he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country" This quote is not from Donald Trump. It's from George Washington in [----] attacking the Democrat-Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014746749374759183 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014746749374759183"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2014746749374759183)  2026-01-23T17:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@BradRTorgersen Charlie Evans is both an incel *and* a snowflake. One reason why society is in death spiral is that even the people critiquing it believe men who can't get laid are somehow less virtuous. Getting laid is nice but incels don't beat wives or murder girlfriends"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2014750782432919632)  2026-01-23T17:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@disclosetv Elon was talking about technological challenges. Doesn't really translate to the financial world. Investor: Larry you lost all our money on buying the stock of a company that obviously was going bankrupt. Why Larry: It's more important to be optimistic than right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2014754442437132363)  2026-01-23T17:37Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"The Pilgrims came to Massachusetts and decided to stay. Christopher Columbus came to Haiti and the Spaniards decided to stay. Lief Erikson came to Canada and the Vikings decided to go home and never come back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2014804670213185660)  2026-01-23T20:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@dvassallo The 'medical staff assigned to you' spends about three minutes a day -- long enough to wake you -- and flits off to another room. You think you're a patient but you're really just a product on a conveyor belt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2014849612272828479)  2026-01-23T23:55Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Kama_Kamilia Step 1: M admits that 'James Bond' is just a code name they assigned to whoever is their top agent. Step 2: Hire a young actor to play the new 'Bond.' Step 3: Have Pierce Brosnan be a former 'Bond' called out of retirement to mentor the new 'Bond.' Character arcs ensue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2014853180929278274)  2026-01-24T00:10Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Truthful_ast I like your spaceship design. The external rotating wheel is much more practical than the internal centrifuge in 2001's Discovery. I assume the video is in time lapse because if the wheel was rotating that fast irl the inhabitants would be dizzy with multiple gee force"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015092217367695714)  2026-01-24T15:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@fiendformojitos Reminds me of Galaxy Quest when Tim Allens' captain is doing somersaults as evasive maneuvers out of habit and Alan Rickman's character walks normally and asks "Does the rolling help""  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015093766978490590)  2026-01-24T16:06Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@webdevMason I'm not taking their side but it's possible that a fair share of these rioters were barely eking by as Uber/Lyft drivers and their anger comes from losing their source of income. Your attitude toward this may change when AI and robots take away your job and you're out hungry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015099003583733961)  2026-01-24T16:26Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@JeremiahDJohns Better weather may be why civilization developed faster and to a greater extent in Eurasia than in the territory that is now the US. Yes I know about the Mound Builders. But they hardly compare to the Aztecs Mayans and Incas in milder climates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015102148070215869)  2026-01-24T16:39Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Walking along a trail this afternoon. A couple young women passed me (I'm feeling old) and so I slip in behind them. Suddenly I hear a scraping noise behind me. A bicyclist almost crashed into me. And no I didn't jump in front of him. If I hadn't been there he would have crashed into the women in front of me. He just wasn't watching where he was going and he wasn't slowing down for people. I start swearing at him and he just smiles at me and holds out his hand as in 'Talk to the hand.' And he just keeps doing this like the real problem isn't that he almost injured me it's that I'm upset about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015224590474301720)  2026-01-25T00:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@washghost1 I take naps with a noise generator because I'll be dozing off and then people outside my apartment window will start yelling at each other and make me wide awake again and the noise generator overrides the abrupt change in noise level so that I can be lulled into sleep"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015489410704519292)  2026-01-25T18:18Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Math_files Very clever. As the segment said to the ray "I think you'll go far.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015489942051549627)  2026-01-25T18:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@jens2go And as long as you don't look for evidence there never will be evidence. What a neat little bubble you live in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015498003029934367)  2026-01-25T18:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@ThrillaRilla369 There was a guest on a talk show who had done research on the 'secret' formulas. He said they're the same but Coke is orange based while Pepsi is lemon based"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015623403261284561)  2026-01-26T03:10Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Darren_Mooney Boomer here. At the time the public debate about DS9 was never about casting a black captain. It was about the fact that his rank was only Commander. You kids think you discovered anti-racism just like my generation when it was young thought it discovered sex"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015840103391011120)  2026-01-26T17:31Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"In [----] Arthur Conan Doyle author of Sherlock Holmes was fooled into thinking faeries were real by 'photographic evidence.' Reality: little girls had cut and mounted illustrations of faeries from a story book. To add fuel to the fire I asked Grok to animate the photo. Realised what people- especially on Facebook- being taken in by sentimental AI slop pictures reminds me off: the Cottingley Fairies incident. https://t.co/IBRqOCPtSe Realised what people- especially on Facebook- being taken in by sentimental AI slop pictures reminds me off: the Cottingley Fairies incident. https://t.co/IBRqOCPtSe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015856605922001243)  2026-01-26T18:37Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Andercot @RoKhanna [--]. Humanity is wiped out by nuclear war. [--]. Underground data centers survive. [--]. AI rebuilds with a fully robotic civilization. [--]. Trained on internet data AI takes this parody seriously. [--]. By [----] Dyson Sphere completion gives AI the power to implement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015860329725755616)  2026-01-26T18:52Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@sciencegirl How we thought we'd be a lot farther along in space by now. The movie 2001: Space Odyssey shows routine civilian flights to the Moon where there's a moon base the size of a city. That was not considered outlandish. In the 1960s NASA said we'd be on Mars by 1980"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015916064920781191)  2026-01-26T22:33Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@CrankyFed About 75% of Napoleon's army dissipated before he entered Moscow in mid-September. This was long before cold weather set in. So what happened Kutuzov is what happened. So if you go for a walk and see the ghost of Kutuzov -- RUN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015918126412829000)  2026-01-26T22:41Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@engineers_feed "Expending creative energy on improved sanitation and the elimination of poverty is so capitalistic. I'd rather deal with abstract physics of no use whatsoever to humanity." Truly he was Peak Nerd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015924219721490940)  2026-01-26T23:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@witty_genstein Like you cant put the green crayon next to the purple crayon because banana goblins These and other esoteric orders of the cosmos are discussed in:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015961027964502159)  2026-01-27T01:32Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@BradRTorgersen The controversy about Sisko was that he was only the rank of Commander and not Captain. In other words fans were accusing the show of being racist. Of course he was promoted later and also was the 'Emissary to the Prophets' from the beginning. And he slugged Q"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2016029923610395098)  2026-01-27T06:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@mrdavidrowe That sounds like a way for a crime gang to send coded messages without being tracked by law enforcement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2016033359252881909)  2026-01-27T06:19Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@justalexoki Currently solar panels are more cost effective and less slimy but if we ever run out of silicon we'll keep your idea in mind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2016040916390477967)  2026-01-27T06:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@C0untryDick @SevaUT If the expansion of the money supply is going toward infrastructure and UBI instead of 'derivatives' and stock buybacks then yes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2013485645398753337)  2026-01-20T05:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"In [----] Larry Niven wrote the Hugo award winning novel Ringworld in which there's a character Teela Brown who has been genetically bred to be lucky. I was in a science fiction book club and a millennial male piled on about how the character was 'misogynistic.' The book is about a cosmic-engineered gigastructure three hundred million kilometers in diameter and all he gets out of it is a chance to virtue signal. I kept quiet but I wonder if I should have said "What women can't have superpowers" https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013491908761559316"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2013491908761559316)  2026-01-20T06:00Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@FightWithMemes Boomer here. My father (aka the generation of your grandfather) was a fighter pilot in the WW2 Pacific Theater (just so we're clear on the US side). When I was in my twenties he happened to mention to me "When I was your age I was pretty quiet around women.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2016078765731020945)  2026-01-27T09:20Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@vintagemapstore 'Bonfires' You okay there Michigan and Ohio"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2016081601818751234)  2026-01-27T09:31Z [--] followers, 16.1K engagements


"@mmjukic The Apollo program was that it was a symbolic achievement not a foundational one. Symbolic achievement: Our flag is on the Moon We beat the Russians. But we failed to build the foundation of a viable reusable launch system thus further exploration was non-sustainable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2016148497209425974)  2026-01-27T13:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@JinOhio @soigomaa I have been much poorer than she was and for longer too. Anyhow what you do with a first draft is mark it up then retype. So if she sends in the retyped manuscript she still has the mark up. Why would you retype the markup again when you're the only one who'll see it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2016183008836124898)  2026-01-27T16:14Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@RedBoulderPunch The Flash is a forensic detective with the Central City Police Department"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2016568370968363402)  2026-01-28T17:45Z [--] followers, 12K engagements


"@AnnaLeptikon Like the doctor who discovered that ulcers are actually caused by bacteria instead of being psychosomatic. I think it works the other way too. Some doctors are only too happy to write a prescription because you 'feel' something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2016569643843154321)  2026-01-28T17:50Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@brutal_regime As a former christian I know lots of christian people who are very nice. Their leaders however are a mixed bag"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2016620847583416764)  2026-01-28T21:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@AC_SL8TR @CollinRugg "Why hasn't Consuela cooked my dinner yet" Because she's not stupid and went back to Mexico once she saw the grocery shelves were empty and the food riots were starting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2016920768760991943)  2026-01-29T17:05Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@stats_feed Decades ago I was walking on college campus and there's a statue of George Washington. His head was splattered with pigeon droppings. Three sorority girls were there one pointed and said "Shithead" They laughed. "How do you know they were sorority" How could you not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2016926908437676468)  2026-01-29T17:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@qwerty4life It's overreaching a bit to equate seeking advice from esteemed colleagues to having a professional wordsmith write every word which the politician then reads for the first time off the teleprompter including "Wait for applause." IOW Joe Biden is not George Washington"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2017004809006854603)  2026-01-29T22:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Britannica If Peter the Great had been around at the time Napoleon would have stayed out of Russia for fear of being picked up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2017298977222492325)  2026-01-30T18:08Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@HeroOfVortex @SydSteyerhart By that time General Lee's army was deserting at the rate of a hundred a day. He had to post pickets behind the lines to shoot deserters. How did the guy know there was a 'ton of gold' without digging it out Metal detectors don't tell you the amount"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2017307505223938137)  2026-01-30T18:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@vapor_waif We should fear six seven because six seven ate nine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2017343620450554114)  2026-01-30T21:06Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@ryxcommar Minimum -- and Maximum -- Stuff You Should Know About Roman Empire [--]. It was founded by twins raised by wolves or by a poet from Troy. [--]. Cleopatra seduced. [--]. Killed Jesus. [--]. Bread and circuses and gladiators oh my [--]. Better concrete"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2017347788925984853)  2026-01-30T21:22Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@jondelarroz The whole concept is crazy. The Pilgrims came centuries after Columbus but we're going to send a single nuclear family to Alpha Centauri all alone. Alpha Centauri is the nearest star to the Sun but they get lost on the way. Irwin Allen did not know science. Or logic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2017354310041084338)  2026-01-30T21:48Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@MikeDrucker After the explosion NASA managers were insisting that the engineers told them that it was okay to launch. A lesson that some people will not only lie to cover up their mistakes they will try to shift blame onto the people who warned about the problem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2017362857135108107)  2026-01-30T22:22Z [--] followers, 18.7K engagements


"I'm no fan of Bill Gates but we've reached the point where the powers that be can release or 'leak' anything from the Epstein files and we're supposed to believe it's real and not just something they fabricated to discredit a person who has served their usefulness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2017547126805565920)  2026-01-31T10:34Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"If you're giving a kit for your kids get something that mentally stimulates them. Both these kits cost less than $40 (1/4 the price of Lego Pooh) and there are many more like them on Am*z*n. ok call me dumb but I genuinely dont understand the pricing for legos. Do they just hate kids now ok call me dumb but I genuinely dont understand the pricing for legos. Do they just hate kids now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2017656458247287121)  2026-01-31T17:49Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@ChrisMartzWX Would you want Chernobyl or Fukushima in your backyard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2017670391695814989)  2026-01-31T18:44Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@SandyofCthulhu Suppose you're a closet conservative in the movie industry. If you self-identify as conservative you'll be blacklisted. So you make a movie that portrays a positive society with conservative values and tell your colleagues "It's a parody on fascism.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2017671475877319147)  2026-01-31T18:49Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"I have a theory that most 'billionaires' in our society are just figureheads to make it seem like we have a capitalist free market economy where anyone can get rich. In fact government agencies (primarily military) develop new technology and officials profit by releasing this technology under private patent. The figurehead billionaires are just semi-literate puppets with no moral compass. And that's fine with the powers that be because then they can be controlled by blackmail"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2017729295788216651)  2026-01-31T22:38Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"There's a parallel dimension where it's easy to gain money and hard to lose it and it's hard to gain weight and easy to lose it. And you're here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2017805735288312003)  2026-02-01T03:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@stephenRB4 That's life on Jupiter for you. The days are short (10 hrs) the years are long (12 earth-years)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2018029609678499999)  2026-02-01T18:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@PicturesFoIder Dr. Carey Mullis inventor of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) which is the basis of the biotech industry only got a $10000 bonus from his company. He made two mistakes there: He worked for someone else and he didn't put a smiley face on it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2007957040665354262)  2026-01-04T23:27Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"On the left is the Balrog the hideous creature that Gandalf battled in the Mines of Moria. On the right is Norman Borlaug the American agronomist credited with leading the Green Revolution and saving over a billion lives from starvation. KNOW THE DIFFERENCE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015712588445987129)  2026-01-26T09:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@DrClownPhD We have a seafood place in the Pacific Northwest called Ivars. There are black people in there all the time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015714362703728949)  2026-01-26T09:12Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@esrtweet I wrote a story about 'slowlife.' It doesn't take place in the Oort Cloud though. https://www.amazon.com/Timesense-S-J-Ryan-ebook/dp/B07F5PFQRN/ref=sr_1_1crid=ZIURWUUPP4TT&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dXOyc_oh1Ex8LUKl2uYgEi53RbVQcKSwuaFz5j6qHVHGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.LyaXE6Uu40jfZGI9WzVId4q31nWvKp4jGX3_kRJ3SK0&dib_tag=se&keywords=timesense&qid=1769476691&sprefix=timesense%2Caps%2C237&sr=8-1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2015958072997642553)  2026-01-27T01:20Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@soigomaa The male trope is the polar opposite about a beautiful woman who turns out to be a monster. Starting with Eve and Delilah and running through Cleopatra many ancient stories are about a man loving a woman who causes his destruction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2018017344325665208)  2026-02-01T17:43Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@maxtmcc Boomer here. During the 1970s -- when we were in our twenties and thirties -- inflation peaked at fifteen percent. Early boomers (1940s) bought homes with 2% mortgages then saw inflation reduce their payments to negligible and so think of inflation as their friend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2018024509723627691)  2026-02-01T18:11Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@grokreleaf @soonrightaway I grew up in the sixties so I heard all their songs on the radio. A couple of years ago I bought all their albums (CD at Half Price books) and listened to all their songs. And I realized that except for Yesterday they're okay but I didn't find them emotionally moving"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2018093203363442727)  2026-02-01T22:44Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@SandyofCthulhu A reminder that the most recent genocide involving a million-plus deaths happened in Iraq under US occupation. But we made sure that Saddam couldn't build WMDs -- or go off the petrodollar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2018105699813998907)  2026-02-01T23:34Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@nfrazer37 @movie_tvshows_ In fact Lego did a movie about just that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2018119380392095752)  2026-02-02T00:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@KhalDraco4 @FlintDibble I have to admit that I have never read this foundational epic of Western literature. Still there's no way a wooden horse full of soldiers can be made clever. If the British had left a wooden horse on the beach at Dunkirk would Hitler have it brought to Berlin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2018353782124605480)  2026-02-02T16:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheStingisBack One of the best TV episodes was the early one where they were sucked into the derelict spaceship. They should have expanded on that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2018443444432281945)  2026-02-02T21:56Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@romanhelmetguy Cats will hunt android mice that have artificial meat bodies. After the cats eat the 'mice' the electronic brains and mechanical skeletons will be recovered and inserted into new bodies of freshly-made meat. This is the new world that I am working toward"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2018572457469518058)  2026-02-03T06:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Grooovotron thank you for the clarification. Then let's go with 'poor people are poor because they have less money.' Do you have an objection to that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2018777558024888321)  2026-02-03T20:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@DhitzWRLD @benhylak Everybody says one stupid thing in their lives. Mark learned to shut up after that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2018828032736379164)  2026-02-03T23:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@magilnick @growing_daniel For all we know that was the most popular genre back then"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2018916975079211525)  2026-02-04T05:18Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@RockChartrand The solution is clear. People should have house elves. Why are the wizards keeping all the house elves for themselves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2019123456642879884)  2026-02-04T18:58Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@Mikeggibbs We're not 'pissing on NASA' because they're delaying to troubleshoot a technical issue. In fact I fully support the decision. What I would support even more is to cancel this potentially-deadly boondoggle and spend the money on something useful for space exploration"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2019126831316914278)  2026-02-04T19:12Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@haloguy00 @RockChartrand In the books Hermione's obsession with liberation of the house elves is treated as an amusing side quest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2019141572026364068)  2026-02-04T20:10Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@ignorealie61511 @Mikeggibbs Artemis has absolutely nothing to do with harvesting Helium-3. You think space-suited astronauts will be physically shoveling lunar soil into the processing bins If we do harvest Helium-3 on the Moon it will be done with robots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2019145900514492449)  2026-02-04T20:27Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@ignorealie61511 @Mikeggibbs You're not making an argument for using humans instead of robots to harvest Helium-3. Robots can pilot rockets to the Moon and also 'onload' the Helium. There's an argument for colonizing Mars and O'Neill cylinders but not for the Moon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2019149674096341171)  2026-02-04T20:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Happiness is having a mother who loves you. He's got that too. Whoever said money cant buy happiness really knew what they were talking about 😔 Whoever said money cant buy happiness really knew what they were talking about 😔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2019426638493319581)  2026-02-05T15:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheMonologist Tomato juice is an abomination and especially in a can from which it will derive a metallic taste. I don't know why people don't go into grocery stores and do this more often"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2019452822421393802)  2026-02-05T16:47Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@bitcloud There must be many billionaire stock market manipulators and real estate speculators and investment bankers and hedge fund managers the leftists could go after but instead they go after a guy who makes quality goods at reasonable prices. And George & Alex get a free pass"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2019548872918622537)  2026-02-05T23:09Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@AuthorGFAllen I'm fifteen years old and just got back from Treasure Island. With our share of the booty Mom and I are refurbishing the inn from when Captain Flint's mates wrecked it searching for the map. Mom is interviewing barmaids but won't let me talk to them. And I want a parrot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2019549914297159833)  2026-02-05T23:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Kekius_Sage Keanu Reeves was asked that question on a talk show. His answer: "Your loved ones will miss you." The audience applauded and while I don't think that's a full answer I have to admit it shows humility"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2019550676469313679)  2026-02-05T23:16Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@amazingmap I was going to ask how come there are no rats on that big island south of Madagascar but then I realized I need to clean my screen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2019556107430293628)  2026-02-05T23:37Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@ProofofMaro Mechanic at the quantum repair shop: "The wave-particle duality on your photon was entangled. I ran it through a slit detector and it's going straight now. The bill comes to [----] [--] U-235 atoms with a 50% discount if you pay before [---] million years.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2019882170425413899)  2026-02-06T21:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@RockChartrand It gets worse. According to the New Testament epistles written by the apostle Paul salvation is by faith alone. So the real sin that leads to damnation is not rape or murder it's paganism or atheism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2019922206705565980)  2026-02-06T23:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Microsoft keeps trying to update me to Windows [--]. I decline and decline and it updates me anyway. I go back to Windows [--] it the cycle begins again. Like a pushy salesman Microsoft assumes the sale "When can we upgrade you to Windows 11" 'Never' is not an option"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2019974051377344623)  2026-02-07T03:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@PositivFuturist It may not be the oldest but the Devereux is the only pub for which it is documented that Isaac Newton went there. It may not be the oldest but you don't get bigger claims to fame"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2020198999748485183)  2026-02-07T18:12Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@ByzCat I don't believe in God but I do believe that materialists need a comeuppance. The concept of atoms is useful as a scientific model to describe real-world phenomena but about all that we know of the underlying reality is that it has little to do with tiny marbles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2020290138509832503)  2026-02-08T00:14Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@Reecebrah Electrical engineer here. Electricity has long been established as electrons moving backwards in a circle. Physicists will say they're not exactly sure what electrons are but electrical engineers do know: they're the things that move backwards in a circle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2020296560115138933)  2026-02-08T00:40Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@thedeepdeed @Reecebrah Benjamin Franklin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2020322312722219068)  2026-02-08T02:22Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@odinsbadeye @owenbroadcast Boomer here. There was a story during the Carter administration that a presidential advisor got drunk at a party and leaned over the wife of the Egyptian ambassador saying that he wanted to look at the 'Twin Pyramids of the Nile.' Yes I know there are three. I'm sober"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2020562078000382293)  2026-02-08T18:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@CounterTyrannyX @romanhelmetguy Like Boeing with its DEI. DEI at the bottom and at the top there are financial manipulators who have no clue about engineering. 'Maintenance training What do we need that for Let's cut the budget and use the money for stock buybacks to increase shareholder value""  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2020600593635848220)  2026-02-08T20:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@martinmbauer Turing halting problem: The machine must accurately predict whether it will say Yes or No but also say the opposite of whatever it predicts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2019946639046455418)  2026-02-07T01:29Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@ick_real Drivers who wait at a stop sign for you to cross the street when you're still on the sidewalk twenty feet away from the curb. No I don't want you to do me the favor of letting me walk in front of your running motor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2020197071190708729)  2026-02-07T18:04Z [--] followers, 82.8K engagements


"@AndyMasley I'm currently reading The Alchemist which is a dramatized version of The Secret and sold even more copies. I have a soft spot in my heart (and perhaps my brain) for magical thinking but I see positive thinking as a supplement for intelligence and hard work not a substitute"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2020292167709937712)  2026-02-08T00:22Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@DavidShafer They could learn to code or buy a coal mine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2020585491402457441)  2026-02-08T19:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@GaryWinslett That's the American way. That's what works. Then the nerds grow up and get mocked in adult life too. In the end the 'American Way' demotivates our own nerds and we have to go to Asia and South Africa to import more nerds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2020588022270718047)  2026-02-08T19:58Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Abdulgafar22606 @elonmusk @grok Elon was then single and perhaps then unaware that Epstein was a convicted sex offender. At any rate he did find out later and declined invitations. I see your profile photo portrays you as a black Muslim. Mine portrays me as a plastic frog"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2020896358883020951)  2026-02-09T16:23Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"The prime meridian is pertinent to longitude. The coordinate is for latitude which is determined mathematically by having [---] degrees in a circle -- a number that goes back to the Mesopotamians (and presumably Oannes). Tja die Aliens haben vorhergesehen dass der Nullmeridian durch Greenwich laufen wird und wir den Meter und die Sekunde genau so definieren. Tja die Aliens haben vorhergesehen dass der Nullmeridian durch Greenwich laufen wird und wir den Meter und die Sekunde genau so definieren"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2020920233335324785)  2026-02-09T17:58Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@chriswithans Mars has lots of sand the Moon has only dust. What this means for the future of space colonization is unclear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2020924293929153001)  2026-02-09T18:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@dontaripoefan2 @Abdulgafar22606 @elonmusk @grok Elon Musk was a very busy person who apparently didn't follow the news as much as he does now. So let's talk about Bill Gates -- who has visited the island. And let's talk about who was backing Epstein's operation. And join with Elon in wanting to prosecute these people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2021182755225121003)  2026-02-10T11:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Staladus The general public has the impression that space colonization is too expensive and dangerous. What gave those impressions Expensive: NASA spent hundreds of billions to put just [--] men on the Moon. Dangerous: Astronaut aura farming about the 'Right Stuff.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2021199360814612689)  2026-02-10T12:27Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@PhysInHistory Philosophy is simple. Half of it is "Life is what you make of it." The other half is "You don't know what's going on but cheer up neither did Nietzsche or Kant." Math OTOH is testable and thus actually hard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2021200556594003978)  2026-02-10T12:32Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@jmhorp Consumer goods are cheap because they're made in China. Education health care and housing which can't be outsourced to China are much more expensive to younger generations than they were at a similar age to boomers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2021213443127128285)  2026-02-10T13:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"I dropped by work on my day off to get the girls their leftover chow mien. Eliza in middle Winnie on right. Panda Express box in upper left corner. Priscilla not shown but she got some too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021349610330226831)  2026-02-10T22:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@aelfred_D I am not going to murder a murder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2021367109876580838)  2026-02-10T23:34Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@teameffujoe The guy behind the counter should have put the pizza in logo side up. He's just making the job harder for the people downstream in the process. I would have fired him not for the mistake but for personally attacking a customer for his own mistake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2021737611153617249)  2026-02-12T00:06Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@baalzamon35 Unrealized gains have unrealized taxes. Realized taxes are only for realized gains"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2022509506513784899)  2026-02-14T03:13Z [--] followers, 44.9K engagements


"@sw_holocron What innovation has Bill Gates done He bought DOS from another company. He plagiarized Windows from Xerox and Apple. He used monopoly power to drive other software companies out of business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2022794395624391014)  2026-02-14T22:05Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@martinmbauer The Simons Foundation is funded by the founder of Renaissance Technologies a hedge fund that uses 'advanced mathematical models' to 'exploit' financial markets. Oh good for a moment I was afraid they were going to cure cancer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2009697894111293926)  2026-01-09T18:44Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@MrsCMFrancis There are social groups where homeschooled children get to meet other homeschooled children for sports games field trips and other forms of interaction. In some ways public school these days sometimes is more de-socializing because of the breakdown in classroom order"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2013646333899419818)  2026-01-20T16:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"We need to visit the Compton-Belkovich Thorium Anomaly on the Moon where the thorium concentration is 100x on Earth. Thorium is a nuclear fuel. Yes I'm suggesting it's an ET spaceship crash site. "It could be natural." So you're letting China get there first SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon. This will so insanely cool 🚀💫🤩 SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon. This will so insanely cool 🚀💫🤩"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022034051562090930)  2026-02-12T19:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@EliasToufexis Mark Hamill once said that he had the impression that if George Lucas could do without actors he would. That was like thirty years ago and now soon we shall see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2022052101518741819)  2026-02-12T20:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Suppose you had an electromagnetic track -- called a mass driver -- that could accelerate payloads up to lunar escape velocity from the surface of the Moon. For the cost of electricity you could boost lunar materials into space. @Devon_Eriksen_ @JoelSercel You need to get mass from a substrate like the Moon or Mars to grow a major civilization which obviously requires vast amounts of mass. It is extremely inefficient to keep moving the mass out of some planetary gravity well to grow and the asteroid belt is too far away and too @Devon_Eriksen_ @JoelSercel You need to get mass from a substrate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022085793007955980)  2026-02-12T23:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@deltaIV9250 Gil Levin proved there is life on Mars with his labeled release experiment aboard the Viking lander probes in [----]. This is why I make reference to a 'Levin Research Station' in my novel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2022352599920558261)  2026-02-13T16:50Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@SDDonovan Using a prologue and epilogue jerks the reader out of immersion in the narrative to call attention to the structure of the narrative. If that's what you want to do okay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2022373176332972084)  2026-02-13T18:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@SquibbleDeeBop @eigenron It's pointless for you since you're just an NPC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2022383846466224459)  2026-02-13T18:54Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"This is based on a Civil War photograph of Lincoln meeting McClellan. Imagine the technology to do this instantaneously. @SethDavisHoops Meanwhile [----] years earlier . . . . https://t.co/Cp7ubOkcjQ @SethDavisHoops Meanwhile [----] years earlier . . . . https://t.co/Cp7ubOkcjQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022384510332211691)  2026-02-13T18:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Wolf_Tech @oerg866 There you have it friends. The official Microsoft response is "Our operating systems don't get worse you just get stupider.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2022772009420362090)  2026-02-14T20:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@perimer1 @MichaelAArouet China's financial system is controlled by the government and the debt can be wiped out by simple decree. The US financial system controls the government and will drive the country into bankruptcy and foreclosure for profit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2022757721423122623)  2026-02-14T19:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Swinkleston @sw_holocron Your technical knowledge is limited indeed if you don't think Elon Musk contributes to his companies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2022956137226924446)  2026-02-15T08:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Kalshi_Culture CGI can do the job but the problem these days is that the director and crew are in love with lingering shots that showcase their work but take the audience out of the movie. Practical effects people would spend months designing miniatures to be seen only for a few seconds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2022095759747977652)  2026-02-12T23:49Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@Swinkleston @sw_holocron You probably think atoms are tiny marbles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sjryanwriter/status/2022957489747378423)  2026-02-15T08:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"This coupled with that ancient Babylonian tablet complaining about inferior grades of copper causes me to wonder about what was the deal with copper back in those days. I don't know if I'd say favorite but I'm fascinated by and would love to know the full story of Alexander the coppersmith a man who was so much a thorn in Paul's side that Paul wrote to Timothy in regards to him "Let the Lord repay him according to his works." https://t.co/72NUfBMGiR I don't know if I'd say favorite but I'm fascinated by and would love to know the full story of Alexander the coppersmith a man who was so much a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022784449591537803)  2026-02-14T21:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

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