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Chris Ryan

@thatchrisryan.bsky.social
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Author of Sex at Dawn and Civilized to Death. Host of Tangentially Speaking podcast. Disillusioned utopian.

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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I've decided to come clean about being a gay straight man. open.substack.com/pub/chrisrya...
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Confessions of a Gay Straight Man
I can’t keep living a lie.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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...
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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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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
So ... lot's of premature ejaculation?
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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...
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639 - Vincenzo Barney (Cormac McCarthy and Sudden Fame)
Young guy writes a Substack piece about his favorite author, Cormac McCarthy.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Well, he's often misquoted as having talked/written about "survival of the fittest."
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Looking forward to watching Florida take care of its own problems.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trump proposes changing "New Mexico" to New America.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Hat as birth control.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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The Myth of F*ck You Money
I have a friend who explained his alcoholism to me thusly: “I have a drink, I feel good.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Beware the daiquiri of death! open.substack.com/pub/chrisrya...
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Beware the Daiquiri of Death!
Are we being scared to death?
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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...
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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.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Just posted my fireside conversation with Pete Anderson, poet and author and a damned good neighbor. open.substack.com/pub/chrisrya...
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634 - Peter Anderson (Author/Poet/Mountain Man)
Pete and I entertain a few questions and we talk by the fire.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather have Congressmen snorting coke with hookers than Supreme Court Justices sipping champagne with billionaires.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
What does it mean when your child remembers another life? wapo.st/3ZOv0H3
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The children who remember their past lives
What happens when your toddler is haunted by memories that aren’t hers?
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Injuries aren't incidental to the NFL, they're central to the sport's resonance with war and thus, it's popularity.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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.)
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Yes, thanks. Saw that, too. But now I'm wondering, how do we know THIS one is real? Feels like a lot of fog is being generated to obscure his message.
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J. BOO!👻ma @broccoliwizard.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I don’t think people realize just how bad this is. Wow. www.climate.gov/news-feature...
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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.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Worth reading what drove him to take that shot. archive.is/7jUsF
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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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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Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
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."
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Relative finger lengths indicate T exposure in utero, which predicts cognitive and athletic ability. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...
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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.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Stunning photos of a very hard year. apnews.com/associated-p...
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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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Susan Demeter @susandemeter.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This is a beautifully written “inappropriate love story.” www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
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Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.”
When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history...
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Is the Iceman a Nice Man? My thoughts on the Wim Hof controversy. chrisryan.substack.com/p/is-the-ice...
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Is the Iceman a Nice Man?
Should we care?
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
So, was Fanni Willis a plant or just a total idiot?
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The culture pushes the narrative that serves it. A culture in fear of losing control pushes narratives that legitimize its hegemony: Zimbardo, Lord of the Flies, Dawkins, etc. All that "nature, red in tooth and claw" makes us eager to agree to a bad deal.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
That fight was one of the strangest sporting events I've ever seen. And I've seen transvestite elephant polo in Bangkok.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
As it began, I was hoping the old man would humble the young punk. As it went on, I feared I was watching the young punk beat up an old man. As it ended, I realized the young man was protecting the old guy. When it was over, the old guy walked away with $20 million.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
There must be a German word for the mixture of dismay and amusement many of us are feeling right now.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Doing my best to keep mine small!
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
I heard a newscaster mention Trump’s NY trial and said, as one is required to, “Trump has denied the charges.” No, he hasn’t. He hasn’t denied doing any of the things he’s accused of, in all four cases. He just denies they were crimes, or, if they were, that he should be tried for them.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/04/2024
This was avoidable.
Maps of US comparing Google search volume for "eyes hurt" with total solar eclipse path on April 2024
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
The Taliban destroyed a storied bookshop in Kabul where the owner had lovingly amassed 100,000 books in many languages. The owner, in exile, has recreated it online. Please support this beautiful act of resilience and resistance and treat yourself and loved ones to books. www.indoaryanabookco.com
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Home | Indo Aryana Book Co
Find the best products near you
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
what is it like to have david brooks’ sense of pattern recognition? does your wife ask you to get the laundry out of the dryer and you instead make her a turkey sandwich? are your friends constantly asking if you’ve suffered a concussion?
Screenshot of David Brooks’ column from 3/28/24

Today, those words ring with disturbing force.
The enemies of liberal democracy seem to be full of passionate intensity - Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Donald Trump, campus radicals.
Meanwhile, those who try to defend liberal norms can sometimes seem like some of those
Republicans who ran against Trump in the 2016 primaries - decent and good, but kind of feckless and about to be run over.
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
I just got straight murdered by this. Like it didn’t just attack me, I am now dead
A tweet:

Axe Murder
@mccarthyjames
all of my plans for the future involve me waking up tomorrow with a sudden sense of discipline and adherence to routine that i have never displayed even once in my life
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
Serious good news/bad news situation here. Drs. Wang and Wangding have found that penis length inversely correlates to IQ. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3...
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
Just a few of the things Darwin didn't know about sex. chrisryan.substack.com/p/what-darwi...
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
True, I guess, but there's something very wrong with a system that only allows those two options.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
Handcrafted is what you need.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
You’d never think anything starting with “Mutant wolves roaming the deserted streets of Chernobyl” would have a positive ending, but here we are.
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Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
What if Mike Bloomberg had spent his money fixing the water system in Flint instead of utterly incompetent political consultants and failed advertising?
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
america fuck yeah
(Florida) Daily Sun headlines side-by-side on the front page: “proposal would lower gun-buying age” and “17–year-old opens fire on Iowa School”
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