Ryan McGreal
@ryanmcgreal.bsky.social
Off course but constantly correcting. One of Penny’s favourite scent clouds. (he/him)
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Someone needs to do a mashup of Tina Belcher panicking and Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman”
December 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Someone needs to do a mashup of Tina Belcher panicking and Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman”
Most people REALLY don’t appreciate just how harmful it is to have millions of literal fires burning in our cities all the time. Between traffic calming, public space reclaiming, increased walking/cycling/transit and vehicle electrification, we could enter a golden age of air quality in our cities.
December 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Most people REALLY don’t appreciate just how harmful it is to have millions of literal fires burning in our cities all the time. Between traffic calming, public space reclaiming, increased walking/cycling/transit and vehicle electrification, we could enter a golden age of air quality in our cities.
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“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
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In places like Pakistan, surging cheap solar power is pushing the country to renegotiate LNG contracts and cancel cargoes.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year
Pakistan's rooftop solar generation will for the first time exceed power demand on the country's electrical grid during daytime hours in some major industrial regions next year, a senior government of...
www.reuters.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
In places like Pakistan, surging cheap solar power is pushing the country to renegotiate LNG contracts and cancel cargoes.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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The report also rests on bad economic arguments. It assumes that all LNG projects currently under consideration get built. But currently, there’s a supply glut emerging in global LNG markets and cheap renewables are beating out fossil power at a blistering pace.
December 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The report also rests on bad economic arguments. It assumes that all LNG projects currently under consideration get built. But currently, there’s a supply glut emerging in global LNG markets and cheap renewables are beating out fossil power at a blistering pace.
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Wow... NYC's congestion pricing has led to big drops in PM2.5 and real improvements in local air quality.
December 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Wow... NYC's congestion pricing has led to big drops in PM2.5 and real improvements in local air quality.
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Not the main point but when you scroll to the bottom of the quote-posts, you get to see this:
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Not the main point but when you scroll to the bottom of the quote-posts, you get to see this:
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Lysenko overhauling Soviet agriculture
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Lysenko overhauling Soviet agriculture
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How about a correct headline: “How RFK Jr. is working to destroy vaccines, despite objections of the scientific and medical communities”
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
How about a correct headline: “How RFK Jr. is working to destroy vaccines, despite objections of the scientific and medical communities”
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Oops forgot my Alt text
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Oops forgot my Alt text
So I did a thing. I started making music during the pandemic and realized I’d better start releasing it at some point, so you can now find my first single, “Bots”, on all the major music streaming platforms under my name, Ryan McGreal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Apple Music:
music.apple.com/ca/album/bot...
Apple Music:
music.apple.com/ca/album/bot...
Bots (Demo)
YouTube video by Release - Topic
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
So I did a thing. I started making music during the pandemic and realized I’d better start releasing it at some point, so you can now find my first single, “Bots”, on all the major music streaming platforms under my name, Ryan McGreal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Apple Music:
music.apple.com/ca/album/bot...
Apple Music:
music.apple.com/ca/album/bot...
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Insulting to have to point this out, but if you have spent even 30 minutes reading US history, you realize that every decade has been dominated by racist hysteria that the "new" people won't ever fit in.
This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.
This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Insulting to have to point this out, but if you have spent even 30 minutes reading US history, you realize that every decade has been dominated by racist hysteria that the "new" people won't ever fit in.
This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.
This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.
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Canada actually speeding up the construction of high speed rail?? Do my eyes deceive me??
“This will enable construction on Alto to begin in four years — as early as 2029 — instead of the original timeline of in eight years, towards the middle of the 2030s.”
www.blogto.com/travel/2025/...
“This will enable construction on Alto to begin in four years — as early as 2029 — instead of the original timeline of in eight years, towards the middle of the 2030s.”
www.blogto.com/travel/2025/...
300km/h train through Ontario will happen years earlier than expected
Construction on one of the most ambitious and expensive transportation infrastructure projects to ever be undertaken in Canadian history is now targe…
www.blogto.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Canada actually speeding up the construction of high speed rail?? Do my eyes deceive me??
“This will enable construction on Alto to begin in four years — as early as 2029 — instead of the original timeline of in eight years, towards the middle of the 2030s.”
www.blogto.com/travel/2025/...
“This will enable construction on Alto to begin in four years — as early as 2029 — instead of the original timeline of in eight years, towards the middle of the 2030s.”
www.blogto.com/travel/2025/...
The new book by @billmckibben.bsky.social just came into my local bookstore and I’m super excited to read it!
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The new book by @billmckibben.bsky.social just came into my local bookstore and I’m super excited to read it!
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Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
Putin’s anti-western ideology is built on the premise that liberal countries are venal, cosmopolitan and decadent and their leaders are weak and gullible. The best thing the European democracies can do to disavow that is by sustaining their resolve against Russia’s lawless invasion of Ukraine.
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Putin’s anti-western ideology is built on the premise that liberal countries are venal, cosmopolitan and decadent and their leaders are weak and gullible. The best thing the European democracies can do to disavow that is by sustaining their resolve against Russia’s lawless invasion of Ukraine.
The American peace proposal for Ukraine sounds better in the original Russian.
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The American peace proposal for Ukraine sounds better in the original Russian.
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So terrible. More important than ever that Canada beef up its health communications to protect Canadians.
U.S. CDC C.D.C. Changes Website to Reflect Kennedy’s Vaccine Skepticism. A previous version denied a link between vaccines and autism. It now echoes the doubts about that conclusion voiced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h... via @nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
So terrible. More important than ever that Canada beef up its health communications to protect Canadians.
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“Nazis are bad,” he said anonymously.
For fear of reprisal.
For fear of reprisal.
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“Nazis are bad,” he said anonymously.
For fear of reprisal.
For fear of reprisal.
Some more great movie soundtracks:
- The Crow
- Lost Highway
- Trainspotting
- Dumb and Dumber
- Clueless
- Until the End of the World
- Boyz N the Hood
- The Crow
- Lost Highway
- Trainspotting
- Dumb and Dumber
- Clueless
- Until the End of the World
- Boyz N the Hood
The Lost Boys (1987) [including the Gerard McManus theme, "Cry Little Sister]
Dead Presidents (1995) [including Danny Elfman on *that* theme music]
Chef (2014) [I am telling you this. Jon Favreau KNOWS music, food, & sound supervision *and* cinematography. This entire movie is a sensory feast.]
Dead Presidents (1995) [including Danny Elfman on *that* theme music]
Chef (2014) [I am telling you this. Jon Favreau KNOWS music, food, & sound supervision *and* cinematography. This entire movie is a sensory feast.]
Bring back Movie Soundtracks that were great……
Love Jones
The Bodyguard
New Jack City
Bonus GOAT: Superfly
Love Jones
The Bodyguard
New Jack City
Bonus GOAT: Superfly
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Some more great movie soundtracks:
- The Crow
- Lost Highway
- Trainspotting
- Dumb and Dumber
- Clueless
- Until the End of the World
- Boyz N the Hood
- The Crow
- Lost Highway
- Trainspotting
- Dumb and Dumber
- Clueless
- Until the End of the World
- Boyz N the Hood
Canada can’t decouple from this historic shit show fast enough.
This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
November 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Canada can’t decouple from this historic shit show fast enough.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance