Ryan Hyde

Never let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Trans rights are human rights.

Professional #nonprofit #database manager and donor analyst. Need training? Talk to me, or visit my site.

Hobbyist musician and song writer; former bassist for Stereo Valley.

See photos of mine on Pixelfed (link below)

I do not automatically follow back, sorry. I’ll look at your posts and think about it, but I cultivate a very specific vibe in my timeline.

Business: https://rlhdata.com/
Stereo Valley: https://linktr.ee/stereovalley
Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/AbstrctLnguist

Last Notes

2026-05-22 00:52:24 UTC

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I didn’t realize it was a collaboration. I love that!

2026-05-21 23:58:00 UTC

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Correct! Something the team at The Verge has been building on their own stack. David Pierce is the only one whose quick posts matriculate like this right now (still a beta build), but it’s a great demo of how the open social web can work.

2026-04-17 17:07:40 UTC

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Thing is, most households in 2026 have zero computers, but everyone has a phone. The aim of all of this is intervene on the most ubiquitous internet machine to have ever existed.
I don’t have a fully formed opinion on the whole topic at hand here, but you shouldn’t be thinking about desktops and laptops. The lawmakers sure aren’t.

2026-01-14 23:58:01 UTC

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Anders is the one who confused me the most. There was just something so incongruous about his trauma response and how it informed his decision making. I mean, I think that’s by design to make him unsettling, but he made a pretty unconvincing hero at the end. Again, maybe the point.
But yes, they’re all unlikable. And so is the vision of humanity presented (which was a pretty naked commentary on the unreliability and vapid nature of social media). Again, maybe all of that is the point. The Mak Tek were actual monsters (I did kinda get chills when Martin revealed that they’d killed off two other species), but so was the version of humanity in this novel. They didn’t actually know the salamanders were going for all out genocide before the humans made their own genocidal plan.
Anyway, I’ll add Shroud to my hold list. I’ve been meaning to try Adrian Tchaikovsky out.

2026-01-14 23:44:14 UTC

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I feel like this author has a little trouble sticking the landing. I felt that way after Lexicon as well. He even congratulates himself in the Afterward that he learned to “fire the gun,” but he very distinctly did not fire the gun in question. He implied it maybe, but there’s the possibility that some other ship came in and fired their gun.
Apart from that, I felt pretty sure from the start that everything was going to go wrong. And that part was satisfying just from a pure storytelling point of view. I think it may have been better yet, though, if Beanfield didn’t survive, the ship did destroy her (and we saw the gun fire) and the ending is more about how they got the intel off the planet and that’s how they won.
But overall, I enjoyed the read. I’ll probably read more by the author eventually.
What did you think?

2026-01-14 02:24:07 UTC

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Heh, literally reading this right now. 77% finished. Read Lexicon immediately before this and thought I’d give the author another go.
I really appreciate one-and-done stories in this era of franchises and series

2025-11-21 18:52:38 UTC

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I have to imagine you can scrape up $20 once a year.

2025-09-27 11:30:20 UTC

I’m going to try to start using my Pixelfed account more for photo stuff. In case you want to follow me there. @npub17pn…d0x8 https://pixelfed.social/p/AbstrctLnguist/877503246081278708

2025-04-28 13:19:27 UTC

Mostly agree, except for the moving part. Any user who feels uncomfortable with their instance should move. It’s easy to do, and that’s what the Fedi is for.
Otherwise, yes, have a little grace. #Fosstodon, like everywhere else, is run by volunteers who seem to be trying their best. Dogpiling is a bad instinct.
All that said, yeah, I moved. And in a note to friends, I used the term “nazi apologists.” Maybe that was too harsh as it likely doesn’t reflect the inner hearts of the two guys who run the place, but their knees jerked just like everyone else’s. We’re all human. https://fosstodon.org/@Gina/114415525599424591