Director of Engineering / Builder of high-trust engineering orgs. Keeper of Metrics, Teaser of Topologies, Agent of Change. he/him/sé/é @djryan@mastodon.ie
Cambridge, UK
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“Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker djryan.co.uk/2023/05/efficie…
That was almost as good as the 2012 opening ceremony. Did Danny Boyle write it? #LondonFireworks #HappyNewYear2026
Watching Misery in memorium:
Me: That’s Lauren Bacall.
Herself: I know. She was Lauren Bacall at the start of the movie.
Me: This was just a Lauren Bacallback.
I’m locked in the basement now.
#RobReiner
Domestic terrorists at it again
Garda van set alight at Citywest protest in Dublin rte.ie/news/dublin/2025/1021…
#TronAres has a title that, with a small spelling correction, could have reviewed itself.
Damien Ryan retweeted
Like you, I'm sick to the back teeth of talking about AI. Like you, I keep getting dragged into AI discussions. Unlike you‡, I spent the summer writing a book on why I'm sick of AI⹋, which @fsgbooks will publish in 2026.
‡probably
⹋"The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI"
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ALT A Zimbabwean one hundred trillion dollar bill; the bill's iconography have been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' and a stylized, engraving-style portrait of Sam Altman. Image: TechCrunch https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sam_Altman_-_TechCrunch_Disrupt_SF_2017_(36522988343).jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en -- Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
Damien Ryan retweeted
I’m so pleased to hear that you’ve cancelled your English Heritage membership, because it means we have less chance of bumping into shitty little racists like you.
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🕹️ Retro Game Trivia — 2025-08-01
🎯 You revealed all letters with 2 mistakes!
🔥 Letter Streak: 1
🔢 Attempts: 8
💡 Clues used: 2
🟥🟨🟨·🟥🟨🟨🟨🟨🎯
🧠 Guess this retro game
👉 retrotrivia.games
#RetroTrivia #GuessTheGame #RetroGaming
It has been 0 days since the Federation has been at it #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds #Brits
Trying to pretend Dublin is Sheffield would work a lot better if they didn’t film in front of Boland’s Mill #Mixtape
Nearly three decades after an apocalypse, the Brits continue to be at it. #28yearslater
Good God, #28WeeksLater contains a million percent more PTSD after going through The Pandemic.
#movies #28YearsLater
Okay, so I just screamed “You Melonfarmer, Jeremy Renner”.
I might not be ready to watch the sequel in public.
#28WeeksLater
Monday is when we watch depressing shows about the end of the world and people obsessed with meal deals.
And also #TheLastOfUs
If @celinedion doesn’t come on soon Graham Norton is going to have a conniption. #Eurovision2025
Damien Ryan retweeted
EBU: We don't like you using the word "Kant." Can you please tone it down?
Malta: sure ok.
#Eurovision
Serving is better appreciated in the original Maltese #Eurovision2025
youtu.be/_4lsnIrjrIQ?si=iOVn…