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Ryan P. Wilson

@mainstgazette.bsky.social

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he|him Steward of philanthropy, working for equity, living with auto-immune dysfunction, husband, cat parent, creator of the Main Street Gazette, lifelong student, LEGO builder, writer, vinylophile, photographer, and consumer of good whiskey.

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Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 1h

That’s enough internet for tonight. Good night everybody. Be present, loud, and safe tomorrow!

The Advocate @advocate.com · 2h

"Good luck George, have a great life," the president wrote about the convicted felon.

Breaking: Donald Trump commutes fraudster George Santos's prison sentence

"Good luck George, have a great life," the president wrote about the convicted felon.

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Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 3h

A year ago, our power came on in the middle of the night and went back out in 90 seconds. A few hours later it came back on for good. It had been more than three weeks since Helene came through and we had been left in the dark. I can’t begin to explain the rollercoaster of emotions from that night.

Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 13h

Destroy the Evidence (September 2024)

A display of Major Sweets candies, including three oversized lollipops, Buttered Discs, and Gooey Chews.

Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 1d

Something Wicked This Way Comes never fails to hit the spot.

Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 1d

There are LGBTQIA+ youth who face hate in all its forms daily. They deserve love, to feel safe, to know that they are seen every day. That is why I wear purple today on Spirit Day. If you’re reading this, know that you are seen and loved, and that the world is better with you in it.

Ryan, in a purple button down shirt and black mask, sitting in an office.

Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Haul-O-Ween (October 2022)

A view of Radiator Springs, illuminated in neon, decked out for Haul-O-Ween.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

It's the worst thing watching resegregation happen in real time to please a bunch of white supremacist nazis in power.

www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

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Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 2d

If there are any wealthy patrons looking for a writer (and amateur photographer) to support that they’ll never have to meet, I’m available.

Quite Interesting @qi.com · 2d

Tchaikovsky was able to quit his day job with the support of a wealthy patron.

Her only condition for her support was that they never meet in person.

Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 2d

Halloween is the real punk rock (September 2024)

A skeleton in punk rock clothing has lightning bolts on his skull and a neon pink and purplish-blue mohawk.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3d

This has to stop. It's extrajudicial, extraterritorial mass murder.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 3d

Tower Gallery Halloween Decor (April 2017)

A cobweb-covered window display featuring a jack-o’-lantern, Egyptian statues, and a sign reading, “Shop the world over at the exclusive Tower Gallery.”

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 4d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 4d

Grandad’s Apples (October 2025)

A green cart surrounded by hay bales and pumpkins, in front of a red wooden fence, pumpkin patch, and cornfield.

Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 5d

Ellie was the incarnate of sassy, and so many loved her for it, but she was such a proper little lady. She had many health issues that wore her tiny body out and we had to say goodbye to our Little Miss today. We love you, Ellie, beyond what words could express. You will live in our hearts forever.

Ellie, a tortoiseshell cat, lays on a blue and cream comforter with one paw outstretched towards the camera.

Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 5d

Vino de los Muerta (September 2024)

Several green wine bottles sit on a shelf, the feature an ornate label that reads “Vino de los Muerta Vintage 1934.”

Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 6d

They also tried a lot of varying acts, for lack of a better word, to keep guests (and television viewers) interested. It seems likely she was assigned to the show and not streetmosphere. I can’t be certain, but that’s my best hypothesis based off of the information I have.

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Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 6d

I went through the list of Citizens of Hollywood that I have, and I don’t have anything close to Mildred.

I do know there were a lot of entertainment CMs assigned to the show, especially since they weren’t always filming and some of the shows were fake, similar to the filming at Indy.

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Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 6d

Not sure I qualify as a full historian, but happy to help if I can.

Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 6d

The Mummy’s Tomb (September 2024)

A sarcophagus stands against a stone wall. A coral snake, with bands of red, yellow, and black, hangs from a wooden beam.

Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 7d

Mickey on Main (September 2016)

An autumnal wreath featuring a Mickey Mouse jack-o’-lantern in the center hangs on a lamppost on Main Street, U.S.A.

Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 7d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 8d

“Putting your political opponents in jail because they are your opponents—not because of what they did—is the heart of tyranny. It is an obviously impeachable offense,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the indictment of NY AG Tish James on Trump-ordered charges.

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Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 8d

I second this.

Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 8d

The Brazen Bull (September 2024)

A jester stands next to a sculpted metal bull with smoke pouring out of it.

Ryan P. Wilson @mainstgazette.bsky.social · 8d

Absolutely. My wife is from there and, really, the whole state is a mispronunciation nightmare!