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Brett Pardy

@brettpardy.bsky.social
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Social, Cultural, and Media Studies assistant professor interested in media theory and history, film, comics, hockey, and empathy.

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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not the slogan I'd go with after employing Babcock, Bowman, and Formenton
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"I want to experience new cultures, new things outside of what I know". It's almost unfathomable to me that a male hockey player would ever say this.
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Sounds like John Chayka used AI to write his intro speech
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Shireen Ahmed @shireenahmed.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It's time to talk about hockey media in Canada. Actually, it has been time for awhile. My thoughts on comments from Insiders, hockey media approaches, using language correctly, and accountability - or the lack of it. www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...
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OPINION | Media needs to be better when it comes to covering the difficult issues in hockey | CBC Sports
The SNL appearance by U.S. hockey players provided an opportunity to focus on hockey again, and offered audiences and fans some closure. But has anything really changed? As a journalist, I often ask: ...
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
As a Canucks fan, this is sounding like a relief. Thank you China.
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
It seems cruel to make the Vancouver Canucks play another 38 games this season
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I'm sure a man who's never lived one moment outside hockey culture knows how to fix a deeply broken system
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/01/2026
1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
LA Times: Elon Musk company bot apologizesNewsweek: Elon Musk's Grok ApologizesInternational Business Times: Grok Issues ApologiesThe Hill: Musk's AI chatbot Grok apologizes
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Wasn't expecting Global News to be a major figure in Bari Weiss' downfall (she'll unfortunately continue in her role, but at least both her malice and incompetent are more widely known now)
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Disney decided their long standing core value of suppressing creative labour rights trumped their other long standing core value of zealously expanding copyright law
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.
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a cartoon of a duck wearing a sombrero and riding a bike .
ALT: a cartoon of a duck wearing a sombrero and riding a bike .
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The problem is Netflix doesn't even want you to watch movies at home. It wants you to have content on in the background.
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Hockey (men's hockey in particular) could honour Ken Dryden by embracing a culture where players have multiple interests and are encouraged to be curious
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
That part
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.” - 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (FREDERICTON, August 18th, 2025) A group of 413 Canadian and Canadian-based scholars, athletes, sports journalists, and sports officials have signed a public letter calling on Tennis Canada to cancel the Davis Cup tournament with Israel this September in Halifax. Signatories include three United Nations Special Rapporteurs, four-time Olympian distance runner Mohammed Ahmed, two members of the Palestinian women’s soccer team who compete for York University, a former Canadian Olympic beach volleyball coach, sports journalists Shireen Ahmed and Ian Kennedy, public intellectuals and activists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis and some of Canada’s most distinguished and internationally-recognized scholars. The letter is signed by prominent individuals from 46 different academic institutions in Canada, as well as by Canadians at prominent global institutions. One hundred and six of the signatories are based in Atlantic Canada, where the event is slated to occur. The call to cancel the Davis Cup event comes amidst rising condemnation of Israeli conduct in Gaza and the West Bank, which leading legal scholars, activists and human rights groups have described as a genocide. Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the letter says that allowing the competition to go ahead is “unconscionable” and calls on the Canadian government to prevent Canadian athletes from competing against Israeli athletes in all international sporting competitions. Despite Tennis Canada’s claims that the event isn’t political and is just about playing tennis, the letter states in part that Canada should follow the lead of other nations who “refuse to legitimize Israel’s crimes” by withdrawing from international sporting competition. “This includes Jordanian tennis player Abdellah Shelbayh, who recently withdrew from a tennis competition in Greece after being slated to play an Israeli athlete,” the letter says. The letter points to the use of sporting sanctions in South Africa as a meaningful …
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I can't believe the NHL actually put out a good statement (alas they won't stick to it): globalnews.ca/news/1130336...
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NHL says world junior players acquitted of sex assault ‘ineligible’ to play | Globalnews.ca
Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dubé and Cal Foote were found not guilty of all charges, but the NHL says they are ineligible to play as it reviews the ruling.
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Big media conglomerates love to use the excuse of streaming for why traditional distribution is unprofitable and people largely buy it, but it's just a replication of killing still profitable newspapers because of "the internet". These are mostly ideological cuts.
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Christmas in July is currently on Hallmark. Christmas in July comes earlier ever year
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
New NHL draft format looks like the set of an early 2000s game show
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Featuring my article on how mainstream hockey media offers easy redemption arcs
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I seem to remember when Daniel Sedin took this approach, it was received a lot less heroically
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
19 companies that have pulled support of Pride parades, in whole or in part, this year: Lowe's Dyson Nivea Tiffany & Co. Toyota Capital One UPS Disney DoorDash Live Nation Anheuser-Busch Diageo PepsiCo Nissan PricewaterhouseCoopers Citi Mastercard Booz Allen Hamilton Deloitte
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19 companies pulling back their support for Pride
For years, major corporations publicly celebrated the LGBTQ community.
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Excellent start, smart to target the Frost's Canadian stars
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Prioritizing empathy is needed to combat fascism, especially because fascists are deliberately trying to eliminate empathy from society.
A picture of three books 

Against Empathy
Toxic Empathy
The Sin of Empathy
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/05/2025
Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an Accident
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Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an Accident
Panahi, long censored and previously imprisoned in his home country, took top prize as Sentimental Value and The Secret Agent also honoured The dissident Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has won the top prize at the Cannes film festival for his drama It Was Just an Accident, inspired by his stints of imprisonment at the hands of the Iranian government. The film was the first in many years made by the director after a ban on film-making was lifted – although he has continued to direct despite being expressly forbidden to do so. In 2011, a year after his first arrest, a copy of his drama This Is Not a Film was snuck into Cannes on a USB stick hidden in a cake. Continue reading...
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Pete DeBoer, the Carolina Hurricanes of the Western Conference Finals
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Maybe the Leafs will spend the next year pretending Matthews isn't hurt and just telling him he needs to get in better shape
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
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harriett @harriettlmao.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
like what the fuck are we even doing here
Douthat: What is the coding? To a listener for whom it seems absurd to call “No Country for Old Men” right wing, what makes that right wing to you?

Keeperman: Because I like it, it’s good, and therefore I want it to share my political preferences.
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Listened to the NYT interview a far right boutique press publisher who publishes both Curtis Yarvin and hilariously Hardy Boys books in their original unwoke text. The guy was going on about the need for truth while also saying it's important to publish things like Holocaust denial. A deep thinker
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Sad in a world of endless Star Wars merchandise there's no Kathryn Hunter Andor action figure
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sam @samanthacp.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
it is incredibly telling and unfortunate that every single publication seems hell-bent on punishing WB for giving a successful black director money for an original movie, even if it's actually going over well. and that's something the industry should examine but of course they will not
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David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
this is the NEW YORK TIMES griping over Sinners having an "enormous" budget. it cost one third of whatever Netflix action pap that literally spends one week in one theater. it just had an amazing opening weekend with guaranteed WOM. WHAT ARE WE DOING www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/b...
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‘Sinners’ Is a Box Office Success (With a Big Asterisk)
Ryan Coogler’s original horror film was expected to sell a strong $46 million in tickets over the weekend, enough for No. 1. But its profitability remains a long way off.
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Disturbing state of the theatrical experience: Cineplex is advertising holding your hybrid Zoom meeting in the theatre
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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I went down a rabbit hole into the "physical Switch 2 games cost $90" claim and found a self-feeding cycle of misinformation that speaks to how Google is making us all dumber. www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/no-sw...
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The confusion around $90 Switch 2 games proves how broken the internet is
The internet seems to believe that Nintendo Switch 2 games cost $90, but that's not entirely accurate based on what we know.
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The NHL's idea of finding celebrities to congratulate Ovechkin included... Pat Monahan from Train 🤨
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 03/04/2025
"the first large-scale application of AI technology to geopolitics" has led to absurd policy, based on laughably stupid math, that will fuel cross-hemispheric economic devastation. any tech bros celebrating this should never be taken seriously ever again bsky.app/profile/dans...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
💔 I will be posting a video about this soon, too.
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I’m sure this is true in many, many disciplines but often the secret to writing a provocative take that everybody talks about is to know very, very little about your subject matter
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
OK, this is almost funny
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Got to hand it to Chicago for acquiring Shea Weber from Utah. Not often you can acquire someone already in the Hall of Fame
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 04/03/2025
Now, if readers want an AI powered tool to defend the KKK, their only option is Elon Musk :/
The 'Los Angeles Times' has removed its new AI-powered “insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
What a trip. 20 years later Kanye is selling t-shirts with swastikas on them and Mike Myers is the one calling out an American president on live television.
Mike Myers standing next to Kanye West during the hurricane Katrina relief telethon in 2005 when Kanye famously said “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people.” Myers looks shocked by the statement.Mike Myers at the end of this week’s SNL episode proudly displaying a shirt that says “Canada is not for sale.”
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
It is truly fucking wild how the introductory thesis of this argument is, "As we all know, men will find any loophole they can to be sex criminals and degenerates. My primary source on this is me, a degenerate."
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Austin Shinn @untitleduser.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
What’s hysterical is reading about the origins of it. He had a deal with Marvel to appear in a comic. No writer would write it because of the whole con artist thing. So Marv Wolfman had to do it as editor in chief in his own book. And he was NOT happy. He was even sarcastic in the letters column
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right argues @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
You know the lesson Hockey Canada is going to take from this tournament is they need Tom Wilson on the Olympic team
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