Reposted by Tom RyanTom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Joshua trees are uncommon, with a limited range, and threatened by climate change. Read what scientists are doing to stabilize the species. 05522
Reposted by Tom RyanJames Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Andrew Garfield on the need for prayer in confusing times. Listen to our whole conversation on "The Spiritual Life" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yxe... 17411
Reposted by Tom RyanMichelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o... 34836185
Reposted by Tom RyanBarb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Google Maps app, 10 pm ET. I stand corrected. Google is a disgrace. 3072690471
Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Postcards from the Open Road: Joshua Tree National Park From a stop on our long road trip before the crash, when the car was totaled exiting Yosemite.tomryan.substack.comPostcards from the Open Road: Joshua Tree National ParkI couldn't help but lead with an iconic shot of the member of our traveling party who won’t be returning to New England. 020
Reposted by Tom RyanThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026“What kind of man would cheat at this golf?” 😂 21085323187
Reposted by Tom RyanMichael C. Bailey - Indie Author, Stage Combat Guy @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026TIRED: Fireworks. Outdated, scares pets, pollutes air and water, causes fires, limited variety. WIRED: Drone shows. Quiet, colorful, versatile, pet friendly, environmentally friendly, won't burn down hundreds of acres due to flaming debris. 0113
Reposted by Tom RyanBill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon… 81504345
Reposted by Tom RyanCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion 10096012452
Reposted by Tom RyanKeithSmithNBA @keithsmithnba.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Given the circumstances, this is one of the worst games Jaylen Brown has played this season. He's struggled with his handle, gotten called for a couple of pushoffs, has missed jumpers and layups. Celtics have come to expect a lot more from him and they need it now. 5291
Reposted by Tom RyanPasquinel 🦇🎃👻 @pasquinel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets 943654935
Reposted by Tom RyanJames Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I doubt that Pope Leo XIV will lose any sleep over this, before he begins his pilgrimage to Africa tomorrow. But the rest of us should. Because it is unhinged, uncharitable and unchristian. Is there no bottom to this moral squalor? 2323188799
Reposted by Tom Ryanhardbap @hardbap.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Maine what can't you do? First you give us Cooper Flagg and now you're telling the data center scumbags to piss off. 🫡 2383
Reposted by Tom RyanNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are. 269126813351
Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I tossed my beloved Ultra Fine Point Sharpies after yesterday. We take stands where and when we can. Sometimes in the smallest ways. Letters will still be written. 051
Reposted by Tom RyanMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/03/2026NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this. 20769612952
Reposted by Tom RyanBob Socci @bobsocci.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Excited to share some personal news, and an answer when asked, "So Bob, what are you doing this offseason?" Extremely grateful to Joe Perry at Perry Literary, Peter Wolverton @stmartinspress.bsky.social and everyone who has helped me to reach this project's starting line. A long way to go! #BookSky 5293
Reposted by Tom RyanDan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 22/03/2026In Haverhill, Mass., WHAV Radio had already decided to drop CBS News and expects to announce an agreement with a different news service soon. “It is a sad end for what was once called the ‘Tiffany Network,’” says station president and CEO Tim Coco. #journalism whav.net/2026/03/21/w...whav.netWHAV Reports No Local Impact From Coming End of Nearly Century-Old CBS Radio - WHAV(Additional photograph below.) Friday’s reporting of the demise of the nearly century-old CBS News Radio will have no effect on WHAV or its listeners. WHAV President and CEO Tim Coco said in a stateme... 1234
Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 15/03/2026“Only yesterday . . . I looked so poorly the casual observer might have taken me for a Republican.” ~ Frank Skeffington, the lead character in Edwin O’Connor’s The Last Hurrah (1956). 020
Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 01/03/2026The first Substack letter of March. National Park Road Trip planning begins. An important anniversary approaches.open.substack.comMarch Greetings from the Cape Cod National SeashoreRecipes, a gift for a reader, planning the next coddiwomple, Route 66 celebrates a birthday, and my big 10th anniversary 092
Reposted by Tom RyanSam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I guarantee that huge swaths of "good people" in New Hampshire have NO IDEA this is happening. People are incredibly checked out of even state politics now, let alone the municipal stuff. 042
Reposted by Tom RyanHistorical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 13/02/2026New omissions to the Medgar Evers home tour include why there are bloodstains in the driveway, and who killed him, and why mississippitoday.org/2026/02/12/m...mississippitoday.orgMedgar Evers home visitors question omissions to his story - Mississippi TodayMedgar Evers home visitors said park rangers told them they can no longer discuss bloodstains on the driveway or refer to his assassin as a racist. 073
Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Today on Race Point Beach, Provincetown, Massachusetts 130
Reposted by Tom RyanMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 08/02/2026This is a great piece. Loved this anecdote. 371527165
Reposted by Tom RyanSusan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 06/02/2026This is who he is, and who he always was. 1223228
Reposted by Tom RyanCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.wsj.com7 Reasons Teens Say No to AISome young people only turn to artificial-intelligence chatbots as a last resort, citing concerns about relationships, creativity, the environment and more. 6324127
Reposted by Tom RyanLeigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 31/01/2026I’m just going to pretend Bruce Springsteen owns the Patriots. That’s my plan. 1242
Reposted by Tom RyanCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 27/01/2026"If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. [T]heir neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu." 627880
Reposted by Tom RyanDan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 26/01/2026Interesting essay by Jonathan Rauch on why he's concluded that Trump is an actual fascist. I've been calling Trump an authoritarian for a long time, and a racist hate-monger for even longer, but I wasn't quite sure how you'd go about defining fascism. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comYes, It’s FascismUntil recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny. 082
Reposted by Tom RyanPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 25/01/2026Pretti died after asking a woman he was with if she was OK. Good died after telling the man who killed her that she wasn’t mad at him. 341394367
Reposted by Tom Ryanghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21/01/2026really wish we'd opted against having the worst people in the world run my country 542490279
Reposted by Tom RyanMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Someday corporations and technology companies will pretend they were always against this 468116491987
Reposted by Tom RyanDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 17/01/2026you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review 157163873276
Reposted by Tom Ryanderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Trump accepting Machado's Nobel Peace Prize is a great insult to the FIFA Peace Prize committee 17297761539
Reposted by Tom RyanNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck. 224742850
Reposted by Tom RyanCathy Fuller @cathyclassical.bsky.social · 15/01/2026www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/6-bos...thebostoncalendar.com6 Boston-area Museums & Zoos Offering Free Admissions in Honor of MLK Day 2025 [01/19/26]Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is an opportunity to reflect on the work of a great civil rights leader. It’s also a day off from work (hopefully) and a day when many Boston museums open their doors f... 041
Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 14/01/2026In a world where Tr*mp’s jackboot icy thugs are an example of the worst of us, Provincetown is a heart healthy alternative, and seeks the best of us. 010
Reposted by Tom RyanC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Just a reminder that you've never seen a Calvin & Hobbes animated movie or cartoon is because Bill Watterson didn't want to give Hobbes a voice so he could always live inside your head exactly the way you imagined him. And to this day you have no idea who he ever has voted for. But you can guess. 34979160
Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026My morning routine of letter writing grounds me during these fractured, post-truth times. It centers my soul. The quiet and stillness is everything. “The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.” ~ Rachel Carson 030
Reposted by Tom RyanThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Home Alone 3 looks awful 41753051351
Reposted by Tom RyanJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I watched an interview of a woman from Greenland. The interviewer asked her about Trump. She replied that she didn’t like Trump because he interrupts her sleep. I mean…same. 281380194
Reposted by Tom RyanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/01/2026"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed 644214735946
Reposted by Tom RyanEdward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Losing the vocabulary to capture the grotesquerie we're witnessing. 1635762
Reposted by Tom RyanBob Socci @bobsocci.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Coach of the Year? The Patriots Mike Vrabel, who regularly signs autographs and interacts with fans, took a moment before Sunday’s game for a selfie (or, for fellow Ted Lasso fans, an “ussie”). Then his team went out and gave the entire home crowd a 14th win to celebrate. 0244
Reposted by Tom RyanRenée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Man, please.You're Bari Weiss's handpicked boy. Your whole job will be kowtowing Trump and corporate interests. 3526