Ryan McIlvain
@rmcilvain.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, husband, father, gardener -- other identities mostly provisional.
Author of Elders, The Radicals, more TK.
Author of Elders, The Radicals, more TK.
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Ryan McIlvain
@rmcilvain.bsky.social
· Feb 21
I'm told it's less hellish here?
Congrats to my friend Paul! What better way to ring in the new year than read brilliant analysis of a less than brilliant political moment
December 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Congrats to my friend Paul! What better way to ring in the new year than read brilliant analysis of a less than brilliant political moment
How nice to be back in the cold! At the Bloedel Reserve here, ahead of a Winter Solstice walk by lamplight
December 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
How nice to be back in the cold! At the Bloedel Reserve here, ahead of a Winter Solstice walk by lamplight
Warily noting the Turning Point USA ads in my YouTube feed lately. Of course I go in to block those fuckers, but do they know something I don’t? I’ve got runner’s yoga in my watch history, extended soccer highlights, and what — does that mean I’m primed for fascism?
December 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Warily noting the Turning Point USA ads in my YouTube feed lately. Of course I go in to block those fuckers, but do they know something I don’t? I’ve got runner’s yoga in my watch history, extended soccer highlights, and what — does that mean I’m primed for fascism?
True Christianity and undefiled means telling your diocese to fuck off sometimes
Massachusetts Church Keeps Anti-ICE Nativity Scene, Defying Diocese Leaders
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
True Christianity and undefiled means telling your diocese to fuck off sometimes
This trophy is perfect, actually: it’s as if Trump’s hellish minions have come up from the deep to grab the prize. And there’s Infantino who made it for him
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This trophy is perfect, actually: it’s as if Trump’s hellish minions have come up from the deep to grab the prize. And there’s Infantino who made it for him
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Please add "puppy killers" to your proposed travel ban.
WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.
WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Please add "puppy killers" to your proposed travel ban.
WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.
WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.
Winter light on a bowl of oranges. It’s the best we can do in terms of Florida hygge
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Winter light on a bowl of oranges. It’s the best we can do in terms of Florida hygge
Jamie meets Sweetie, the two-hundred-pound house-trained pig my sister’s brought into their hearth and hearts. A sweetie indeed
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Jamie meets Sweetie, the two-hundred-pound house-trained pig my sister’s brought into their hearth and hearts. A sweetie indeed
A tableful of donated groceries at my son’s Tampa middle school — bags, boxes of them . . .
And thinking that if we can elect #Mamdani and a growing cohort of socialist Democrats, donate a bunch of food to help people in need, in Tampa Fucking Florida, then goddamnit the revolution is happening!
And thinking that if we can elect #Mamdani and a growing cohort of socialist Democrats, donate a bunch of food to help people in need, in Tampa Fucking Florida, then goddamnit the revolution is happening!
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A tableful of donated groceries at my son’s Tampa middle school — bags, boxes of them . . .
And thinking that if we can elect #Mamdani and a growing cohort of socialist Democrats, donate a bunch of food to help people in need, in Tampa Fucking Florida, then goddamnit the revolution is happening!
And thinking that if we can elect #Mamdani and a growing cohort of socialist Democrats, donate a bunch of food to help people in need, in Tampa Fucking Florida, then goddamnit the revolution is happening!
Daisy in quiet light
October 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Daisy in quiet light
A brief, brief essay of mine (five-minute read!) in the latest issue of Image. I've loved this magazine for years and very proud to be a part of it.
The Leaf Rake - Image Journal
Why did Jesus make the nights here so beautiful, soft to the touch? And did I really have a substitute explanation to offer my son?
imagejournal.org
October 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A brief, brief essay of mine (five-minute read!) in the latest issue of Image. I've loved this magazine for years and very proud to be a part of it.
Trying to say something constructive about a deeply destructive time, with the help of two remarkable poets.
The Deep Engine of Witness | Los Angeles Review of Books
Ryan McIlvain finds the truth worth telling in Rickey Laurentiis’s “Death of the First Idea” and Geoff Bouvier’s “Us from Nothing: A Poetic History.”
lareviewofbooks.org
October 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Trying to say something constructive about a deeply destructive time, with the help of two remarkable poets.
Good god
Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move.
1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
September 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Good god
Fucking love this guy
Mamdani blasts World Cup ticket pricing model
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is calling on FIFA to make it cheaper for New Yorkers to attend the World Cup.
www.espn.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Fucking love this guy
Reposted by Ryan McIlvain
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
Tuesday tableaux: car into the shop for a genuine laundry list of things to fix, but a good espresso afterward and a nice walk back along Bayshore. Tampa’s not entirely irredeemable
September 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Tuesday tableaux: car into the shop for a genuine laundry list of things to fix, but a good espresso afterward and a nice walk back along Bayshore. Tampa’s not entirely irredeemable
The Trump Administration just hired this guy to disperse aid to children’s organizations
Video shows millionaire snatch signed hat from child at US Open
YouTube video by ABC7
youtu.be
September 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The Trump Administration just hired this guy to disperse aid to children’s organizations
Daisy and me writing together. Or really Daisy’s window hunting, and I’m dreaming in my own way
August 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Daisy and me writing together. Or really Daisy’s window hunting, and I’m dreaming in my own way
Really owning the libs again, Florida. Nice one.
By now that trolling rationale doesn’t hold anymore and it’s just a bunch of bullies getting off on their cruelty
By now that trolling rationale doesn’t hold anymore and it’s just a bunch of bullies getting off on their cruelty
'Cruel political act': Pulse Memorial rainbow crosswalk in Orlando removed overnight
"We are devastated to learn that overnight the state painted over the Pulse Memorial crosswalk on Orange Avenue," the mayor said.
www.wesh.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Really owning the libs again, Florida. Nice one.
By now that trolling rationale doesn’t hold anymore and it’s just a bunch of bullies getting off on their cruelty
By now that trolling rationale doesn’t hold anymore and it’s just a bunch of bullies getting off on their cruelty
Back in Tampa and readjusting to the heat. Dig the light, the green, the efflorescence of the place. Could do without the unchecked developer capitalist greed, etc., etc., but it’s home
August 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Back in Tampa and readjusting to the heat. Dig the light, the green, the efflorescence of the place. Could do without the unchecked developer capitalist greed, etc., etc., but it’s home
This is a great country
July 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This is a great country
Daisy, getting ready for a Zoom interview, apparently. With all those books in the background she’s never read
July 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Daisy, getting ready for a Zoom interview, apparently. With all those books in the background she’s never read
Visions of the Bush-era torture program. Which Trump has said he’d like to bring back
Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied one of succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Visions of the Bush-era torture program. Which Trump has said he’d like to bring back
Reposted by Ryan McIlvain
