Ryan Randall

@ryanpatrickrandall

A better world is possible, together. Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work, accessibility, ADHD.

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Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· 28d

{ sickos.jpg } There are footnotes on the previous & following pages as well.

Two pages of D.A. Miller's The Novel and the Police, where a single footnote takes up half the left page and maybe seven eights of the right page. The footnotes are in a smaller font than the main text.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Jul 9

Best STAR TREK captain. Wrong answers only.

It's John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness. He's wearing a device on his wrist that could conceivably be a Star Trek communicator; it most certainly isn't. He's also looking directly into the camera as if he might be about to flirt with you, the viewer; yes, he most certainly is.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Jun 14

Perhaps the ancient prophecy will come true today.

A huge lightening bolt strikes the dome of an official building in DC on the cover art of the Bad Brains first album. It's actually the Capitol but for a long time I thought it was striking the White House. Notably, the album art is all red, yellow, green, and black.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Jun 10

Not me saving a screenshot of the originator of this discourse into Zotero out of spite… Simultaneously, this person's post felt so intensely like engagement bait that I still don't want to do them the dubious "honor" of tagging, directly naming, etc.

Syed AbuMusab writes:

Some people, in their anti-Al stance, claim they don't even use citation software like Zotero. They do all their citation manually... I'm sure you do. lol

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Jun 8

In my experience, @zettlr.com handles this sort of visual split very well. The first image is from the app's site. And at least on MacOS, recent versions of the app also use transparency for that left-most "Workspace" file navigation pane background—an approach I can't recall seeing elsewhere.

Screenshot of Zettlr showing a far-left pane with a middle grey background and the other sections various distinctly darker backgrounds.

Zettlr screenshot with semi-transparent effect on the left pane.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Jun 7

Why use that tired "Blue in a Red State" framing when we can share rainbows everywhere? #Boise #Idaho #IDpol If you want to beautify your neighborhood with an "Idaho is Too Great for Hate" sign or a flag, Pride in the North End is hosting pop-up giveaways on Mon. June 8th & Thurs. June 11! (🧵 1/3)

North End Pride 2026 distribution info graphic with the times, dates, and locations. It also has the pridenorthendboise handle next to the icons for Facebook and Instagram, plus the progressive pride flag and the Idaho is Too Great for Hate images that are printed on either side of the yard signs.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· May 30

Deanna Troi addressing a terminal of the Star Trek computer system with the question: Computer, Why are men?

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· May 28

Hopefully this helps somehow? The yellow zones are power outages. It just added the name of the Cloverdale Fire, but clicking on it doesn't say how many acres or etc. The Mcconn Fire says it's about 7 acres. Hopefully that's all you're smelling?

Watch Duty map showing Treasure Valley power outages and brush fires at about 4:30pm on 2026-05-28

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· May 23

The title screen of Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Instead of an actual episode title, I put in these famous lines of dialog: Curzon, my beloved old friend. I'm Jadzia now. Jadzia, my beloved old friend.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· May 10

Casual or Fancy Winnie the Pooh meme. Casual Pooh is looking at the words Tropical Depression. Fancy Pooh is smirking at the words Tristes Tropiques.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· May 8

Never a bad time for @justseeds.bsky.social graphics… …and this classic by Josh MacPhee feels extra timely.

University as Factory — No! Accompanying this slogan is a lightning bolt hitting the dome (I think the fancy architecture word is cupola) of a university building's roof. It's a stark black and white, easily reproduced style that visually quotes the protest posters of May 1968.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· May 7

For anyone interested, a reminder that this page exists: status.instructure.com

Screenshot saying Canvas, Canvas Beta and Canvas Test are currently unavailable. Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue. May 07, 2026 - 14:41 MDT

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Apr 30

As the prophets foretold…

beck's One Foot in the Grave cover art. It's him and Calvin Johnson looking impossibly young.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Apr 27

Adorno when he logs on and realizes that 1/4th of the way through the 21st century, "middlebrow" as a descriptor still primarily includes music with a tonal center.

Adorno in a suit making a thumb's down gesture while looking directly at the camera. I actually don't know where this photo initially came from, but I've always assumed that it was compiled in something like Photoshop. For one thing, the shadows around where his neck meets his collar and tie seem unlikely.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Apr 25

🎶 🎤 I've admired your heart-shaped phlox for weeks #bloomscrolling

A patch of phlox in bloom with dark pink or magenta flowers, surrounded by gravel. The patch is so big it almost stretches this hellstrip from the sidewalk to the curb. The patch is rounded on top and pointed at the bottom, so it looks reasonably like a heart.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Apr 20

ADHD 🤝 BSKY

Willem Dafoe saying you know, I'm something of a 500 internal server error myself.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Apr 20

The Most Interesting Man in the World declaring I don't always buy things but when I do, it's not from a right wing billionaire.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Apr 17

So, like… is the dog named "Crazy Horse"? Is it the dog singing "la la-la laa" back up vocals on "Everybody knows this is nowhere"‽!??!

Neil Young stretching his arm out to kinda sorta resting awkwardly against a big tree, with a medium sized dog near one of his feet. It's the cover photo of Everybody knows this is nowhere by Neil Young with Crazy Horse.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Apr 14

Yet another example of bad alt text, presumably written by "powerful" GenAI. The default alt text for a gif on here reads "a man with glasses looks at a plant in a can that says pepsi on it". I don't recognize the can's logo, but it's clearly not Pepsi, and they've never used those colors.

Screenshot of gif with incorrect default alt text

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Apr 13

What looks like a post from Pope Leo XIV saying "I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for you tho. Or sorry that happened."

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Apr 7

That peculiar "fun" when your so-called representatives don't have sufficient spine to even have their office staff answer their phone lines.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Apr 3

If you see this, why not post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation?

A grey and black cylindrical surveillance device is attached to the very light grey bark of a tree, pointing off to the right. Above the device there's a small laminated paper note saying This is a trail counter, not a camera. PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB! Property of Wood River Trails Coalition / US Forest Service.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Mar 16

You're on the air, hello? Hello? Terminator X

The u-card of Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet opened flat. The front cover image is on the right, the artist and album name on the spine in the middle, and the track listing is to the left. I think this was the first cassette I has with a u-card, a bigger track listing panel, not just a j-card. And definitely the first with a separate fold-out lyric sheet folded up like a tiny map.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Mar 11

In his lane, which quite possibly is also "your" lap. Unbothered. Festooned with a necktie that accentuates his ears. Redmond could never.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Mar 9

this is how i access bluesky

1980s or 1990s TTY/TTD device with a corded phone on top, plus feminine hands with multiple rings shown typing. This device looks like the ones we had in the house when I was growing up. It has only displays a single row of LCD characters. If you zoom in, the conversation currently reads Who is this Q GA.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Feb 24

No cheating. Your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

Screenshot of gold-medalist Alysa Liu smiling with her medal around her neck, overlaid with the quote I have ADHD and I love situations that I'm not expecting. It gives me a dopamine rush. The image is from ADDitude Magazine's Instagram, and their account tagged the post with the Donna Summers version of MacArthur Park. Yep, the song Liu skated to when winning the Olympics.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Feb 6

With no new pictures, where are you mentally?

We're at a cafe on Deep Space Nine, looking over Julian Bashir's shoulder at Miles O'Brien holding a funky space mug of funky space coffee to his scowling face. Julian's saying That's your fifth cup of coffee in 20 minutes.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Jan 20

Yet again, Melville's descriptions & the oddly comic heroism granted Queequeg make me wonder how explicitly he might have been partial inspiration for Star Trek's "peculiar and dignified 'savage' who lives among 'us'" character Worf. 🐋🖖🏼

A two image ad for the BBC show Call the Widwife, but here it's Call the MidWorf. The top image is Rosalind Chao gritting teeth in labor as Keiko in Star Trek, from the episode where (spoilers!) Worf delivers her baby. The bottom image is Worf looking at the swaddled newborn, photoshopped into presumably the Call the Midwife cast (I've yet to watch that show, sorry).

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Dec 30

Post a perfect album* from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains. (Only about half is on Bandcamp, split across two ep-sized releases, presumably bc licensing? - battletrax.bandcamp.com/album/indust... - battletrax.bandcamp.com/album/indust... ) *for its genre

cover art for Industrial Bass Machine - A Taste of Armageddon. It's some late 80s or early 90s Big Robots of the type you might know from Gundam, Voltron, or Pacific Rim. There's at least three of them standing in front of a murky purplish cloudy sky. The letters I, B, and M in the band's name are set off in a bluish purple color as well.

Ryan Randall@ryanpatrickrandall· Dec 16

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.