Ryan McGreal

@ryanmcgreal

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Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· 1d

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.

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· 13d

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

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· 27d

The sun is super eerie right now #hamont

Photo of a tall building, looking hazy. To the Lowe right behind the building, the low-hanging sun is a deep blotchy orange red

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· 29d

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

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· 29d

Lovely view of downtown #hamont

Overlooking downtown Hamilton from the top of the escarpment

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· 29d

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.

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Jul 15

Sun’s out

Photo of the sky above downtown Hamilton, ON. The sky is greige and the sun is a hazy pink dot.

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Jul 15

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.

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Jun 16

Make America Green Algae

Algae in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool on Monday in Washington DC.
Photograph: Jessica Koscielniak/Reuters

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Jun 15

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.

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Jun 3

Photo still from Dr. Strangelove of the titular doctor struggling to control his right hand

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· May 31

♪ 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

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· May 22

Image of Bob Loblaw from Arrested Development. Text reads:

Were you found guilty of violently attacking the Capitol to usurp the legal transfer of power, assaulting police officers, and attempting to murder the Vice President and House Majority Leader?

You may be entitled to compensation!

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· May 14

Meme from The Simpsons of the bus driver tapping a sign. The sign reads: “There is no such thing as a backdoor that hackers can’t access.”

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Apr 30

Freshly painted ladder crosswalks on Aberdeen Ave at Spruceside and Mapleside #hamont #thelittlethings

Freshly painted ladder crosswalk on Aberdeen Ave at Spruceside

Freshly painted ladder crosswalk on Aberdeen Ave at Mapleside

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Apr 29

Safe consumption facilities are the worst policy option aside from no safe consumption facilities

Hamilton Spectstor article reporting that the number of 9-1-1 calls for overdoses doubled after the province ordered the closure of safe consumption facilities

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Apr 29

Best magnolia in #HamOnt

Photo of a flowering magnolia tree at Bay and Markland in Hamilton, ON

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Apr 29

Really? Does it “loom”? Spec headline treats LRT construction contract as an ominous impending threat

Hamilton Spectator article about LRT. Headline reads: “Hamilton LRT construction contract announcement looms”

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Apr 23

Pick your 5th Ninja Turtle: Bronzino

Cropped image of Agnolo Bronzino’s portrait of Giovani de’Medici as a child with a creepy middle-aged face and holding a bird

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Apr 17

It has begun.

Closeup photo of a pink magnolia flower with a front lawn blurred in the background.

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Mar 28

My copy of Enshittification by @doctorow.pluralistic.net just came in and I’m excited to get started reading it!

A hand holding a copy of the book Enshittification:Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Mar 20

I’ve released a new single, “There’s No Way” by Ryan McGreal, streaming on all the platforms. Links to major platforms and lyrics available on the song’s home page: quandyfactory.com/blog/294/new...

Image of a folding chair in a close cropped landscape of dead leaves. This is the album cover for my new song, “There’s No Way”.

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Mar 19

Just got my copy of Such Great Heights by @chrisdeville.bsky.social and can’t wait to start reading it!

A hand holding a copy of the book Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion by Chris DeVille

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Feb 3

NO. You don’t get to be pro-life and anti-vaccine.

Article published on The Interim on January 20, 2026, titled, “Alberta Conservatives pass pro-life, pro-family motions”. The text reads: “Paul Tuns: Delegates at the Alberta United Conservative Party (UCP) annual general meeting Nov. 28-30, held in Edmonton, passed several pro-life and pro-family motions including a call to defund late-term abortions, restricting, and upholding parental rights. Campaign Life Coalition endorsed 12 of the 36 policy resolutions and all 12 passed, most with large majorities of the more than 4000 delegates attending the…”

Article published in the Globe and Mail on February 3, 2026, titled, “Death of premature Alberta baby with measles was not made public for months, documents show”. The text of the article, not pictured, reads in part: “Alberta has the highest rate of cases per capita of any province or territory, and has been under scrutiny for its measles response and approach to public transparency. Canada’s measles outbreak began in November, 2024, and continues to simmer, resulting in the country losing its long-held measles elimination status last November.
The Globe previously reported that Alberta rejected expert advice to include probable measles cases in public reporting and has delayed efforts by public-health officials to stifle the transmission of measles.”

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Jan 23

I recently read Bill McKibben’s latest book, Here Comes the Sun, and I highly, highly recommend it! It’s a bracing, lively and briskly evidence-based antidote to despair.

Photo of the hardcover edition of the book Here Comes the Sun by Bill McKibben

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Jan 18

Canadian looking across the border like

Screenshot from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in which Gandalf and some Gondorian guards look from the parapets of Minas Tirith toward the distant fires of Mordor.

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Dec 5

Not the main point but when you scroll to the bottom of the quote-posts, you get to see this:

Screenshot of Bluesky app in which the user has scrolled to the bottom of the list of quote-posts about the post reporting the Netflix offer to buy Warner. The image in the linked news article has the iconic “That’s all folks!” Card from the end of the old Warner Brothers cartoons, and the message on the Bluesky app below the last quote post also reads, “That’s all, folks!”

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Nov 26

The new book by @billmckibben.bsky.social just came into my local bookstore and I’m super excited to read it!

A hand holding up the book Here Comes the Sun by Bill McKibben

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Nov 19

Screenshot from Arrested Development of Tobias looking sideways at Lindsay and saying, “…But it might work for us.”

Ryan McGreal@ryanmcgreal· Nov 17

There’s something particularly wretched about the “Angry Bootneck” guy complaining about critical thinking skills in a screed in which he admits jumping instantly to unsubstantiated conclusions. Also, congratulations on a huge milestone achievement in an important field of research!