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Ryan Vanasse @ryanvanasse

MN-bred, wide eyed old person in New Media

Joined June 2008
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My flight that I'm on had to move around the @SpaceX launch range, but we happened to be passing by Boca Chica right as it launched! I was on the wrong side of the plane so I missed the launch and only got pictures of the plume, but still, how cool!
A porthole window in an airplane door, showing the airplane wing as well as a plume of rocket exhaust

ALT A porthole window in an airplane door, showing the airplane wing as well as a plume of rocket exhaust

A picture through a porthole window in an airplane door showing a rocket plume alongside the airplane wing and winglet

ALT A picture through a porthole window in an airplane door showing a rocket plume alongside the airplane wing and winglet

A closer up view of the plume

ALT A closer up view of the plume

A view of the Boca Chica launch site, showing a huge cloud of smoke on the ground

ALT A view of the Boca Chica launch site, showing a huge cloud of smoke on the ground

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Unwinder@UnwinderH
6 Nov 2024
I've decided that I'm going to be less angry and less doomery this time around. I don't think it's going be any better (it will be worse) but I can't keep that up. Need to take care of myself and my kid and focus on the practical street-level things I can do for my neighbors.
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So excited to have RCS on iPhone with iOS 18 but it's too bad it's not coming to most MVNOs for (potentially) months. Dampens the excitement of it dropping all at once: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024…

iOS 18 brings RCS to major carrier iPhones, but prepaid plans are still waiting

A future iOS update may be needed to unlock better Apple-to-Android messages.

arstechnica.com
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Ryan Vanasse retweeted
Unwinder@UnwinderH
2 Sep 2024
Elon Musk when he was thinking about buying Twitter: Maybe a good way for Twitter to make money would be for me to introduce paid features in such a way that choosing whether or not to buy them serves as a referendum on me, personally.
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In the "Only Murders in the Building" S4 premiere, Steve Martin only hums "Which of the Pickwick Triplets did it" for a second. But it's been stuck in my head for hours.
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On my flight yesterday there was a person sitting behind me who was asking the flight attendant how to put her seatback entertainment system into airplane mode as requested.
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Surprisingly even-handed look at the initial success of the new Borealis Amtrak route here. I'm encouraged by its relative success even while acknowledging that the data the public has to measure that is fairly limited. tcbmag.com/is-the-amtrak-bor…

Is the Amtrak Borealis Train Really Profitable?

The new Amtrak Borealis route from St. Paul to Chicago had a good first month, but most of what’s been reported beyond that is hyperbole.

tcbmag.com
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Sitting next to people on a first date at a restaurant is a secret delight you just can't pay for. I still remember the meal we had in Munich sitting next to people who clearly just met online and were speaking English as the only language they had in common
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Apropos of absolutely nothing except that this is the most hilarious of the long string of tweets @unwinderh made of Christian Mingle "cards" back in 2015 (and since this was before proper Twitter threading, and storify went kaput, it's hard to find this again)
Unwinder@UnwinderH
18 Nov 2015
Here we go. Here's a great card for initiating a conversation with a romantic interest.
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I tried to install Gif Brewery on a new Mac and found that it was no longer in the app store, and honestly I'm still in mourning.
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Look at this good in the world.
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@itseieio
26 Jun 2024
I made a website. it's called "one million checkboxes dot com". it has one million checkboxes on it. checking a box checks it for everyone. that's it. have fun!
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We're just a little over a year away from being further away from "Trials and Tribble-ations" as we that DS9 episode was from "The Trouble with Tribbles." (We'll be further away on 9/12/2025) #startrek
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This is gonna sound weird, but do you ever just miss Google of all things?
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I feel like Minnesota may be leading in shots on goal, but Boston has had more "close calls" where the shots look like they might actually go in. But that might just be the MN sports fan pessimism in me. #pwhl
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Watching NBA basketball with your parents is just 2 hours of "How is that not traveling?"
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Maddie Rooney has been killing it for @PWHL_Minnesota these playoffs. My MVP!
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I just realized that today is April 29th and now I'm going to have that one Taylor Swift lyric stuck in my head all day 🤣
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Meta: One of the things we have gotten in trouble the most for in the past few years is the spread of misinformation on our platforms Also Meta: If our new search bar can't find what you're looking for it will just make it up!
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Imma need a citation on this one...Cannot imagine why a Roman statue would be shipped to London hundreds of years after the Romans left. This kind of stuff is how we all get the facts wrong years later.
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Ok, which one of you pranksters named the playground in Google maps for @thewheatgerm ?
A Google maps Satellite view of Merlischachen Switzerland, showing "Benjamin Doyle Children's Playground"

ALT A Google maps Satellite view of Merlischachen Switzerland, showing "Benjamin Doyle Children's Playground"
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