Brendan Ryan
@brendanryan.bsky.social
previous: deval patrick; hubweek; center for public leadership.
now: heat pumps mostly, at Elephant Energy.
Boston-based.
now: heat pumps mostly, at Elephant Energy.
Boston-based.
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Sonny Rollins getting ready to go onstage at the Apollo Theatre in New York City, 1961.
Photograph by Steve Schapiro.
Photograph by Steve Schapiro.
December 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Sonny Rollins getting ready to go onstage at the Apollo Theatre in New York City, 1961.
Photograph by Steve Schapiro.
Photograph by Steve Schapiro.
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Life is short, you should like some stuff
Honestly, following your journey into WH40K and other assorted nerdom has been really freeing. I, too, love the football AND weird nerd shit.
December 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Life is short, you should like some stuff
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It’s really strange the vice president of the United States is a white supremacist, who says white supremacist slogans, who publicly praises and follows the work of white supremacists, and it’s simply not mentioned or discussed in political media
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It’s really strange the vice president of the United States is a white supremacist, who says white supremacist slogans, who publicly praises and follows the work of white supremacists, and it’s simply not mentioned or discussed in political media
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
what the fuck are you talking about man
December 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
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And I'd go further: I think the ability to laugh at and mock people in power *is* powerful and important, it erodes the aura of inevitability that they rely so much on
December 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
And I'd go further: I think the ability to laugh at and mock people in power *is* powerful and important, it erodes the aura of inevitability that they rely so much on
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Diego Pavia in Vandy's final four games, 400+ total yards each Saturday, 16 total touchdowns.
November 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Diego Pavia in Vandy's final four games, 400+ total yards each Saturday, 16 total touchdowns.
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DuckDuckGo now lets you filter out AI images in search results. Obviously not infallible or exhaustive but it’s a start.
How To Filter Out AI Images in DuckDuckgo Search Results - DuckDuckGo Help Pages
Learn how to use filters on DuckDuckGo Private Search to hide AI-generated images in results.
duckduckgo.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DuckDuckGo now lets you filter out AI images in search results. Obviously not infallible or exhaustive but it’s a start.
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This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
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the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history
Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history
crime ridden Foxborough
Trump threatens to move World Cup games out of blue cities due to "crime"
September 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
crime ridden Foxborough
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The past few days have been a really interesting chapter in my reawakening. Trying to brush away some of the most racist commentary of the past decade as “politics” or “differences of opinion” has really confirmed how poisoned the culture is. Nobody will ever cop to this particular type of pathology
September 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The past few days have been a really interesting chapter in my reawakening. Trying to brush away some of the most racist commentary of the past decade as “politics” or “differences of opinion” has really confirmed how poisoned the culture is. Nobody will ever cop to this particular type of pathology
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@rewiringamerica.bsky.social just launched the Save on Better Appliances campaign, "a nationwide effort to help homeowners lock in valuable energy tax credits before they expire at the end of 2025." www.rewiringamerica.org/newsroom/pre... 🔌💡
Save on Better Appliances campaign helps households act fast to save big | Rewiring America
Rewiring America's Save on Better Appliances campaign is helping households future-proof their energy bills.
www.rewiringamerica.org
August 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
@rewiringamerica.bsky.social just launched the Save on Better Appliances campaign, "a nationwide effort to help homeowners lock in valuable energy tax credits before they expire at the end of 2025." www.rewiringamerica.org/newsroom/pre... 🔌💡
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The key to Trump’s authoritarian encroachments is pretext.
He pairs some shockingly dictatorial move with an incredibly thin pretext everyone knows is false - fighting crime, concerned about fraud - and every public figure talking about the situation feels the need to debate the pretext.
He pairs some shockingly dictatorial move with an incredibly thin pretext everyone knows is false - fighting crime, concerned about fraud - and every public figure talking about the situation feels the need to debate the pretext.
August 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The key to Trump’s authoritarian encroachments is pretext.
He pairs some shockingly dictatorial move with an incredibly thin pretext everyone knows is false - fighting crime, concerned about fraud - and every public figure talking about the situation feels the need to debate the pretext.
He pairs some shockingly dictatorial move with an incredibly thin pretext everyone knows is false - fighting crime, concerned about fraud - and every public figure talking about the situation feels the need to debate the pretext.
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“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
www.npr.org
June 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
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I increasingly feel certain that the thing that has driven politics insane is the growing ability of people to find ways to validate their beliefs, no matter how incorrect and irrational. It started in right-wing media but has become central to all political discussion.
June 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I increasingly feel certain that the thing that has driven politics insane is the growing ability of people to find ways to validate their beliefs, no matter how incorrect and irrational. It started in right-wing media but has become central to all political discussion.
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They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
June 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
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“Viewpoint diversity”: Promoting white nationalists, banning ideas white nationalists don’t like
“Viewpoint discrimination”: Holding white nationalists to basic standards of evidence and logic
“Free speech”: If white nationalists speak, others are obligated to listen, treat it as worthy of respect
“Viewpoint discrimination”: Holding white nationalists to basic standards of evidence and logic
“Free speech”: If white nationalists speak, others are obligated to listen, treat it as worthy of respect
June 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“Viewpoint diversity”: Promoting white nationalists, banning ideas white nationalists don’t like
“Viewpoint discrimination”: Holding white nationalists to basic standards of evidence and logic
“Free speech”: If white nationalists speak, others are obligated to listen, treat it as worthy of respect
“Viewpoint discrimination”: Holding white nationalists to basic standards of evidence and logic
“Free speech”: If white nationalists speak, others are obligated to listen, treat it as worthy of respect
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When you’re totally into free speech and open ended curiosity no matter where it leads.
“rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge”
June 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
When you’re totally into free speech and open ended curiosity no matter where it leads.
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In Florida, “free speech” and “institutional neutrality” mean that a Nazi arguing that nonwhites have no rights wins a prize while a course with “race” in the title is censored for violated the law.
Congratulations to all the credulous centrists who helped this along.
Congratulations to all the credulous centrists who helped this along.
June 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
In Florida, “free speech” and “institutional neutrality” mean that a Nazi arguing that nonwhites have no rights wins a prize while a course with “race” in the title is censored for violated the law.
Congratulations to all the credulous centrists who helped this along.
Congratulations to all the credulous centrists who helped this along.
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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
June 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...