Ryan McGreal
@ryanmcgreal.bsky.social
Off course but constantly correcting. One of Penny’s favourite scent clouds. (he/him)
Pinned
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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
Scene: The Dems are marvelling at the happy coincidence that all this Epstein stuff has already made voters forget they caved on the shutdown. The waiter who has been clearing their plates says, “Oh, a coincidence?” and he takes off his hat and it’s Gene Parmesan but he’s played by Chuck Schumer.
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Scene: The Dems are marvelling at the happy coincidence that all this Epstein stuff has already made voters forget they caved on the shutdown. The waiter who has been clearing their plates says, “Oh, a coincidence?” and he takes off his hat and it’s Gene Parmesan but he’s played by Chuck Schumer.
This seems to be a general pattern: the shift to renewables is happening faster - and accelerating faster - than even the most optimistic models. This fuels my urgent sense that Canada needs to decouple from the US on energy policy as quickly as possible.
Good morning with good news: India meets 50% renewables & nuclear capacity target 5 years early!
As clean capacity deploys, clean electricity production surges.
Solar grew from 5 TWh in 2014 to 48 TWh in 2019 & 137 TWh in 2024.
Hydro was 157 TWh; wind 82 TWh; nuclear 55 TWh in 2024. #energysky
As clean capacity deploys, clean electricity production surges.
Solar grew from 5 TWh in 2014 to 48 TWh in 2019 & 137 TWh in 2024.
Hydro was 157 TWh; wind 82 TWh; nuclear 55 TWh in 2024. #energysky
November 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This seems to be a general pattern: the shift to renewables is happening faster - and accelerating faster - than even the most optimistic models. This fuels my urgent sense that Canada needs to decouple from the US on energy policy as quickly as possible.
In Helsinki, Vision Zero has become a reality.
Cities are not natural formations that we have to accept as we find them. Cities are designed and built - and we have the power to design them better and build them better.
Cities are not natural formations that we have to accept as we find them. Cities are designed and built - and we have the power to design them better and build them better.
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
In Helsinki, Vision Zero has become a reality.
Cities are not natural formations that we have to accept as we find them. Cities are designed and built - and we have the power to design them better and build them better.
Cities are not natural formations that we have to accept as we find them. Cities are designed and built - and we have the power to design them better and build them better.
Those in the know are aware of Marty’s Pickles, an illicit and extremely delicious 🇨🇦product made right here in #HamOnt martyspickles.ca
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Those in the know are aware of Marty’s Pickles, an illicit and extremely delicious 🇨🇦product made right here in #HamOnt martyspickles.ca
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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A discussion sparked by a piece whose opening argument was that Larry Summers was the tragic, rational victim of a feminized woke mob
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
I mean
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
A discussion sparked by a piece whose opening argument was that Larry Summers was the tragic, rational victim of a feminized woke mob
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every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
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I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 16, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
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I think a way to think about the Epstein shaped fracture in the Republican coalition is people who were deluded that they were the good guys vs the people who are extremely conscious that they are the bad guys.
November 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I think a way to think about the Epstein shaped fracture in the Republican coalition is people who were deluded that they were the good guys vs the people who are extremely conscious that they are the bad guys.
This exasperated me: “This tragedy is a devastating reminder of how fragile life is and how important it is that we all look out for one another on our roads,” the mayor said.
Dammit, NO! Mohawk and Upper Wentworth is one of the most dangerous intersections in the city. It was DESIGNED that way 1/2
Dammit, NO! Mohawk and Upper Wentworth is one of the most dangerous intersections in the city. It was DESIGNED that way 1/2
Devastating news out of Hamilton. Crossing guards are on the front lines in the fight for safe streets. That job is truly terrifying. Distracted to contemptuous drivers, the full range of road violence on display all day, just so we can cross the street safely...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
52-year-old crossing guard dead after being hit by dump truck in Hamilton
Hamilton police are investigating after a 52-year-old crossing guard was struck and killed by a truck at the intersection of Mohawk Road and Upper Wentworth Street.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This exasperated me: “This tragedy is a devastating reminder of how fragile life is and how important it is that we all look out for one another on our roads,” the mayor said.
Dammit, NO! Mohawk and Upper Wentworth is one of the most dangerous intersections in the city. It was DESIGNED that way 1/2
Dammit, NO! Mohawk and Upper Wentworth is one of the most dangerous intersections in the city. It was DESIGNED that way 1/2
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turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique