Ryan McGreal
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Off course but constantly correcting. One of Penny’s favourite scent clouds. (he/him)
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Can you imagine people's reaction if Trump went on TV and said "I am asking every American to give $20,000 to the noble goal of rebuilding Venezuela's oil fields and refineries to ensure Chevron and Exxon are profitable." Well, he just did.
January 6, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Can you imagine people's reaction if Trump went on TV and said "I am asking every American to give $20,000 to the noble goal of rebuilding Venezuela's oil fields and refineries to ensure Chevron and Exxon are profitable." Well, he just did.
“Now I realize that intentions do shape consequences.”
–Michael Ignatieff, talking about a regime change operation
–Michael Ignatieff, talking about a regime change operation
January 6, 2026 at 1:40 PM
“Now I realize that intentions do shape consequences.”
–Michael Ignatieff, talking about a regime change operation
–Michael Ignatieff, talking about a regime change operation
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So far the Mamdani administration’s strategy is “we have all these ideas about how to help people so let’s try to do them” which seems like such a rare thing and which then makes you say “wait why is that a rare thing?”
January 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
So far the Mamdani administration’s strategy is “we have all these ideas about how to help people so let’s try to do them” which seems like such a rare thing and which then makes you say “wait why is that a rare thing?”
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Climate advocates lost some political battles in North America last year, but technology and economics are winning the war everywhere else.
2026 will make the inevitability of the energy transition even more difficult to ignore.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/02/o...
2026 will make the inevitability of the energy transition even more difficult to ignore.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/02/o...
How to (still) be a climate optimist
2025 was a year defined by climate policy retreats in North America — and climate technology expansion in the rest of the world. Good news: Nothing stops this train.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Climate advocates lost some political battles in North America last year, but technology and economics are winning the war everywhere else.
2026 will make the inevitability of the energy transition even more difficult to ignore.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/02/o...
2026 will make the inevitability of the energy transition even more difficult to ignore.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/02/o...
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🧵Day 3 and we have a new meaning for "running Venezuela," courtesy of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, who is in charge of Venezuela as well as the National Archives. We're going to insist they do what's in the US national interest. Time for some principal-agent theory. 1/
January 5, 2026 at 1:50 PM
🧵Day 3 and we have a new meaning for "running Venezuela," courtesy of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, who is in charge of Venezuela as well as the National Archives. We're going to insist they do what's in the US national interest. Time for some principal-agent theory. 1/
“If someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders and they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep following their orders.”
–Cory Doctorow
–Cory Doctorow
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January 5, 2026 at 1:11 PM
“If someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders and they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep following their orders.”
–Cory Doctorow
–Cory Doctorow
Between its nakedly imperialistic stance toward the whole hemisphere and its open support for antiliberal regimes and parties, the “Donroe Doctrine” outlined in the 2025 National Security Strategy is a grotesque embrace of the ugliest caricature of traditional US foreign policy that you can imagine.
January 3, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Between its nakedly imperialistic stance toward the whole hemisphere and its open support for antiliberal regimes and parties, the “Donroe Doctrine” outlined in the 2025 National Security Strategy is a grotesque embrace of the ugliest caricature of traditional US foreign policy that you can imagine.
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don't sleep on Ryan's favs
Here’s my year-end list of my favourite new songs of 2025: quandyfactory.com/blog/287/my_...
My Favourite Songs of 2025 - Ryan McGreal
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December 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
don't sleep on Ryan's favs
Here’s my year-end list of my favourite new songs of 2025: quandyfactory.com/blog/287/my_...
My Favourite Songs of 2025 - Ryan McGreal
Personal website for Ryan McGreal
quandyfactory.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Here’s my year-end list of my favourite new songs of 2025: quandyfactory.com/blog/287/my_...
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Translation: Russia keeps Zaporizhzhya and graciously allows Ukraine to buy back its own electricity.
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Translation: Russia keeps Zaporizhzhya and graciously allows Ukraine to buy back its own electricity.
Make a Bond film casual.
Try To Avoid Saying Never But Don’t Stress It If You Mess Up
Try To Avoid Saying Never But Don’t Stress It If You Mess Up
Make a Bond film casual.
The Spy Who Loved. Meh.
The Spy Who Loved. Meh.
Make a Bond film casual.
Dr. Nah
Dr. Nah
December 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Make a Bond film casual.
Try To Avoid Saying Never But Don’t Stress It If You Mess Up
Try To Avoid Saying Never But Don’t Stress It If You Mess Up
Make a Bond film casual.
Dr. Nah
Dr. Nah
Make a Bond film casual
Lawnraker
Lawnraker
Make a Bond film casual
License to Chill
License to Chill
December 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Make a Bond film casual.
Dr. Nah
Dr. Nah
My first song blew up with literally tens of streams, so I’ve released a new single, “Crunch Time”, a somewhat harder, more alternative sounding track.
You can listen to it on all the major streaming services.
You can listen to it on all the major streaming services.
Crunch Time
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December 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My first song blew up with literally tens of streams, so I’ve released a new single, “Crunch Time”, a somewhat harder, more alternative sounding track.
You can listen to it on all the major streaming services.
You can listen to it on all the major streaming services.
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I need some of the people insisting that attacks on Jews worldwide are the fault of Israel to explain the absence of attacks on Russians worldwide.
December 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I need some of the people insisting that attacks on Jews worldwide are the fault of Israel to explain the absence of attacks on Russians worldwide.
A lot of the people who fall for the scam know it’s a scam, but it gives them a permission structure to indulge their hatreds.
incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works
December 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A lot of the people who fall for the scam know it’s a scam, but it gives them a permission structure to indulge their hatreds.
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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
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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