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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Toronto skyline across Lake Ontario from Vineland Station

Photo of the Toronto skyline with the distinctive shape of the CN Tower. The sky is dusk with a few scattered clouds and Lake Ontario is dark blue.

Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The world is watching. But we’re no longer waiting passively for a few tens of thousands of American swing voters to save us. quandyfactory.com/blog/297/the...

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The World is Done Waiting For America to Return - Ryan McGreal

Personal website for Ryan McGreal

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For the first time in the postwar era, countries that have been invested in the international system now regard the US not as the pillar that holds the system up but rather as a strategic risk to hedge against. A fundamental shift has been set in motion that will play out over the coming decades.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Andy Burnham after hearing Ursula von der Leyen announce that a the European Union is willing to accept associate members

Meme of Andy from Parks and Recreation looking excited

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Dipn asserts that it is rationally self-serving for other countries to rush to recognize sovereignty. But his analysis doesn’t apply to the current US president, who would regard the absolute chaos that would ensue from him recognizing a secession in Alberta or Québec as a feature, not a bug.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Under current global policies, Canada warms five degrees above preindustrial levels by century’s end. Under a scenario with no climate policies, warming reaches 6.9 degrees and the area burned by wildfire climbs 287 per cent. Under net zero, warming stabilizes after 2050 and reaches 3.5 degrees.”

theglobeandmail.com

Ottawa issues comprehensive climate report that reflects country’s physical transformation

From retreating glaciers to wildfires and marine heat waves, climate change will likely become even more pronounced, assessment finds

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

With senior Trump administration officials openly calling for the breakup of Canada, a couple of thoughts: 1) This may well have the effect of suppressing sovereigntist sentiment in Quebec; and 2) It supports my contention that most Alberta separatists are just wannabe Americans in drag.

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ValeMB @valpmb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🧵 Something occurred to me this morning: the natural history of enshittification as @doctorow.pluralistic.net describes it closely resembles the pattern of a relationship with someone who has narcissistic personality disorder.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Most pundits severely underestimate the cumulative effect of four years in which the Democratic Party was led by someone who rapidly lost the capacity to communicate or defend the party’s principles and values.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’m not sure Democrats really appreciate just how fundamental this rupture is for Canadians. We know in our guts that we’re never more than 60,000 voters in a handful of swing states away from becoming the next President’s punching bag. I don’t think we’re ever going back to the way things were.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Does everyone else already know about overnight oats and I’m just woefully late to the party? This is the best thing to happen to breakfast on as long as I can remember!

Photo of two mason jars in a refrigerator. The jars are partially full and contain quick oats, oat milk, hemp hearts and blueberries.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The air quality in the B.C. interior is apocalyptic right now. We just drove through Salmon Arm and the AQI hit 570, which is literally higher than the scale goes.

Photo of dead trees in front of a ridge through a smoky haze

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

From time to time I like to read The Second Coming by Yeats to cheer me up. It comforts me somehow to know that the state of affairs felt just as disjointed and irreparable in 1919 as they do in 2026. They were able to persist through it, and we can too.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“Canada’s area burned has surged, and it has surged in step with warming: hot, dry fire seasons burn far more forest, with area burned rises roughly 80% for each 1C increase in fire-season temp.This relationship is robust to a variety of statistical tests and controlling for confounding variables.”

theclimatebrink.com

Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management

Higher fire season temperatures are strongly correlated with increased area burned

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

For everyone hyping up Trump’s speech tonight like it’s going to be some kind of revolutionary proof of election fraud: Why is he saying it on national television and not to a grand jury? Why has nobody been charged with anything? Should be a slam dunk case, right?

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Deer at the foot of the Dundurn Stairs #hamont

Photo of a young deer standing on a path among the dense green leaves of deciduous trees in a northern Carolinian forest along the Niagara Escarpment

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A whole Hamilton Spectator article about the historically poor air quality in Hamilton due to wildfires and not a single word about global warming or climate change. #hamont

Photo of the Hamilton Spectator article “Hazy smoke disrupts city’s air quality” by Annaliese Gumboc, published on July 16, 2026.

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Frances @frances2023.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Ontario election dates should be legislated to be held in "wildfire season", not February

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Martin Z.ombie @pxtl.ca · 15/07/2026

The sky above the port was the color of an IBM 5155 after a video card crash.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The sky is greige and the air pollution index is almost as high as the scale goes. We are breathing smoke from massive wildfires hundreds of km away, damaging our cardiovascular systems and lungs. Are we going to allow this to become normalized, something to shrug off as an expected part of summer?

Ontario Air Quality Index for downtown Hamilton at 11:00 AM on July 15, 2026. Current index is 10, meaning very high air pollution.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I’m reminded of the British navy discovering what causes scurvy and how to prevent it, then implementing a health policy, then forgetting the policy and letting scurvy come back. Except it took them decades to forget what they knew and it only took America about a year.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The folks who brought you new screwworm and Ebola outbreaks have just released another banger: severe explosive diarrhoea caused by Cyclospora, a microscopic parasite that the genius running the US Health Department stopped monitoring a little over a year ago.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Obviously I’m not in favour of any country assassinating another country’s leadership, and this serves as a reminder that the US/Israeli attack on Iran was a gross violation of international law that had the effect of further weakening the norms of the postwar system the US itself once led.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Trump thought that forcing NATO members to increase their military spend would benefit American military contractors. Instead, he frightened and angered the NATO allies so much that they’re decided they need to diversify away from suppliers that are subject to the caprices of the US government.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I’m listening to the latest Ezra Klein episode and it’s an interview with Rula Hardal and May Pundak, E-Ds of A Land for All, a group advocating an intriguing solution to the Israel/Palestine crisis by layering two nations onto the same territory. More of this and less Chris freaking Rufo, please!

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I’m at the grocery store on a Saturday afternoon and they’re playing “Last Train to Trancentral” by the KLF over the P.A. I think this is what people mean by an out-of-body experience.

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Doovie @jasonduvall.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The great thing about us seeing how much the elites can pour into elections is that we are also learning how much more taxes they can afford. Obviously they’re not missing these dollars.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 28/06/2026

How much does normalcy bias affect media reporting? Here is a chart of global sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) from 1982 to 2026 with the years 2023, 2024 and 2025 omitted. As of June 27th, global SSTs have set 26 daily record highs in a row. Media? Is there anybody out there?

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 24/06/2026

Rakes as far as the eye can see.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

From the folks who turned $15 million in screwworm prevention into a $1 billion bill for screwworm mitigation, I give you turning $1.6 million in Ebola prevention into a $1.4 billion bill for Ebola mitigation. But “respect the taxpayer” or something.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If more people were to become familiarized with @doctorow.pluralistic.net’s concept of centaurs and reverse centaurs, the quality of liberal/progressive discourse on AI could improve dramatically.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A decade later, the classic observation stands that Trump’s steak order - well done then slathered in ketchup - perfectly encapsulates his approach to everything: stubbornly ignore expert advice, demand a solution that manufactures a problem, then ‘solve’ the problem by making it even worse.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The Republicans were never really pro-life. They’re no longer even meaningfully pro-birth.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The Strait of Hormuz is closed due to an algae bloom after Trump fixed it.

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Ronan @ronan.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026

Getting a head-start for Paddy's Day

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

ICYMI I’ve released a new single called “Stranger”. It’s about, well, it’s about welcoming the stranger. You can find it on all the streaming platforms, including: Apple music.apple.com/ca/album/str... YouTube youtu.be/ZQkBRqR07dk?... Spotify open.spotify.com/track/4aucFk...

Cover art for the song “Stranger” by Ryan McGreal. It is a square photo of a park at night with amber lamp lights illuminating a path and a bench under bare trees.

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

♪ I get knocked down, and sometimes I don’t get up again ♪

Photo of Aberdeen Ave in Hamilton, Ontario, with a newly installed knockdown bollard lying broken on the roadway

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

My newest single, “Stranger”, is now available on all streaming platforms

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Stranger

YouTube video by Ryan McGreal - Topic

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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Now here are some people who really should be entitled to compensation for malicious prosecutorial misconduct.

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