Chris Ryan
@thatchrisryan.bsky.social
Author of Sex at Dawn and Civilized to Death. Host of Tangentially Speaking podcast. Disillusioned utopian.
I've decided to come clean about being a gay straight man. open.substack.com/pub/chrisrya...
Confessions of a Gay Straight Man
I can’t keep living a lie.
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March 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I've decided to come clean about being a gay straight man. open.substack.com/pub/chrisrya...
Need something positive? This is a very cool story about a little bar I used to frequent when I lived in the East Village in '88-'89. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/s...
The Unlikely Friendship That Saved Lucy’s, a Homey New York Tavern (Gift Article)
When Lucy’s, a homey New York tavern, closed down and underwent a renovation, some longtime patrons feared the worst.
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March 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Need something positive? This is a very cool story about a little bar I used to frequent when I lived in the East Village in '88-'89. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/s...
Just posted my conversation with intrepid Cormac McCarthy scholar, Vincenzo Barney. Does "Believe Women" also apply when they DON'T consider themselves to be victims? open.substack.com/pub/chrisrya...
639 - Vincenzo Barney (Cormac McCarthy and Sudden Fame)
Young guy writes a Substack piece about his favorite author, Cormac McCarthy.
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February 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Just posted my conversation with intrepid Cormac McCarthy scholar, Vincenzo Barney. Does "Believe Women" also apply when they DON'T consider themselves to be victims? open.substack.com/pub/chrisrya...
Looking forward to watching Florida take care of its own problems.
January 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Looking forward to watching Florida take care of its own problems.
Trump proposes changing "New Mexico" to New America.
January 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Trump proposes changing "New Mexico" to New America.
Hat as birth control.
January 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Hat as birth control.
Beware the daiquiri of death!
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Beware the Daiquiri of Death!
Are we being scared to death?
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January 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Beware the daiquiri of death!
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This profile of Elon, from 2017 is worth a read. Beautifully reported and written, Strauss shows Musk to be a lonely, frightened, lost man.
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Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow
Inside Elon Musk's world-changing plans to inhabit outer space, revolutionize high-speed transportation, reinvent cars – and find love along the way.
www.rollingstone.com
December 30, 2024 at 3:53 PM
This profile of Elon, from 2017 is worth a read. Beautifully reported and written, Strauss shows Musk to be a lonely, frightened, lost man.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Just posted my fireside conversation with Pete Anderson, poet and author and a damned good neighbor. open.substack.com/pub/chrisrya...
634 - Peter Anderson (Author/Poet/Mountain Man)
Pete and I entertain a few questions and we talk by the fire.
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December 24, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Just posted my fireside conversation with Pete Anderson, poet and author and a damned good neighbor. open.substack.com/pub/chrisrya...
Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather have Congressmen snorting coke with hookers than Supreme Court Justices sipping champagne with billionaires.
December 24, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather have Congressmen snorting coke with hookers than Supreme Court Justices sipping champagne with billionaires.
What does it mean when your child remembers another life? wapo.st/3ZOv0H3
The children who remember their past lives
What happens when your toddler is haunted by memories that aren’t hers?
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December 21, 2024 at 9:19 PM
What does it mean when your child remembers another life? wapo.st/3ZOv0H3
Injuries aren't incidental to the NFL, they're central to the sport's resonance with war and thus, it's popularity.
December 21, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Injuries aren't incidental to the NFL, they're central to the sport's resonance with war and thus, it's popularity.
In light of all that's happened in the past year or so, maybe we all owe Dean Phillips a huge apology? (I'm looking at you, Democratic power-brokers.)
December 20, 2024 at 4:13 PM
In light of all that's happened in the past year or so, maybe we all owe Dean Phillips a huge apology? (I'm looking at you, Democratic power-brokers.)
In a world dominated by institutions, institutionalized cruelty and killing would be excused as "just doing business" or "collateral damage," while individual or organized resistance would be demonized as "terrorism" or "mental illness."
December 13, 2024 at 8:15 PM
In a world dominated by institutions, institutionalized cruelty and killing would be excused as "just doing business" or "collateral damage," while individual or organized resistance would be demonized as "terrorism" or "mental illness."
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I don’t think people realize just how bad this is. Wow. www.climate.gov/news-feature...
2024 Arctic Report Card: The Arctic tundra is now a net source of carbon dioxide
The Arctic tundra, which has been a carbon sink for millennia, has shifted to become a carbon source.
www.climate.gov
December 11, 2024 at 12:41 AM
I don’t think people realize just how bad this is. Wow. www.climate.gov/news-feature...
Worth reading what drove him to take that shot. archive.is/7jUsF
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December 11, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Worth reading what drove him to take that shot. archive.is/7jUsF
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A single person should be able to afford rent without roommates. Any system that can't produce such basic results is fundamentally bullshit. I'm looking at you capitalism!
December 9, 2024 at 7:27 PM
A single person should be able to afford rent without roommates. Any system that can't produce such basic results is fundamentally bullshit. I'm looking at you capitalism!
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I seriously think this is the pivot point of where we're at. The ruling class as successfully normalized killing us with denial of care, lack of regulation, and pollution as part of "just the way it is." None of those things are morally right but they're all legal and therefore "OK."
December 8, 2024 at 11:05 PM
I seriously think this is the pivot point of where we're at. The ruling class as successfully normalized killing us with denial of care, lack of regulation, and pollution as part of "just the way it is." None of those things are morally right but they're all legal and therefore "OK."
Relative finger lengths indicate T exposure in utero, which predicts cognitive and athletic ability. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...
Your fingers show your athletic potential and anxiety
By comparing your index and ring fingers, a neuroscientist can tell if you are likely to be anxious, or if you are likely to be a good athlete.
www.sciencedaily.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Relative finger lengths indicate T exposure in utero, which predicts cognitive and athletic ability. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...
There is no path forward because the enemies of the potential Democratic voter are the allies/employers/funders/friends of the Democratic party establishment. What Democratic candidate is going to go after banks, media, elite universities? None. Some will pretend, but that act has grown thin.
December 3, 2024 at 2:51 AM
There is no path forward because the enemies of the potential Democratic voter are the allies/employers/funders/friends of the Democratic party establishment. What Democratic candidate is going to go after banks, media, elite universities? None. Some will pretend, but that act has grown thin.
Stunning photos of a very hard year. apnews.com/associated-p...
Associated Press 100 Photos of 2024: An epic catalog of humanity
In nearly 100 countries and all 50 U.S. states, visual journalists with The Associated Press are eyewitnesses to the world’s news, and have won 36 of AP's 59 Pulitzer Prizes since the award was establ...
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December 3, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Stunning photos of a very hard year. apnews.com/associated-p...
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The experiences of these children show the profound impact that having UFO encounters has on people. Emily was one of the children who were shown the effects of climate change and the need to be better stewards of this planet our home. RIP Emily Trim your legacy will not be forgotten. ❤️
#UFO #UAP
#UFO #UAP
December 1, 2024 at 9:54 AM