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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is a decent ratio of the Head of Instagram but I can’t help but feel it should be even higher. Less Meta AI for those of us who keep using the free version? Don’t threaten *me* with a good time.

Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri tweets that a new subscription service will allow people who pay for Meta products to access their full range of AI product products. Neil sarcastically responds that this sounds like an incentive to keep using the free product.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I rewrote the headline to this column by a “MAGA-lite” Republican who can’t get dates to make it more accurate:

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I’m less concerned by the existence of an “AI actor” than I am with the msm’s insistence that Tilly Norwood deserves to be treated as anything other than a bad joke.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My only problem with Vozinha is that he makes me believe that I, too, can move like that on the field at my age. Spoiler: I cannot. Only pain and tears lie here.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just a reminder that cis women - and especially women of color - will be the target of the majority of sports transvestigations. Transphobia is, and always has been, a close sibling of misogyny. And transphobes will use ‘fairness in sports’ as an excuse to police the femininity of *all* women.

Photo of Ilona Mayer at a World Cup game accompanied by tweet questioning whether she is actually a woman.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

An unexpected side-effect of parenting my music-obsessed toddler? The cartoonishly enthusiastic Australian accent that’s now become a small piece of my personality.

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Geriatric Millennial @83millennial.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

@neilshyminsky.bsky.social provides excellent comentary on cops abusing power, being creepy fucks, and covering up the crimes of other cops. While we deserve better, we can't expect better, because All Cops Are Bastards! #ACAB #1312 #defundthepolice #cdnpoli youtube.com/shorts/su0mO...

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This is not rare or unusual. And nicely asking them to quit isn’t going to change a single thing.

YouTube video by Professor Neil

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding at the Great American State Fair bc he knows no one is there.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

If I had a nickel for every tv show where Hamish Linklater played the recently returned leader of a fictional, down-on-its-luck island village in New England who made a deal with an evil creature to gain supernatural power that he believed would save the town, I’d have two nickels.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I caught a mouse (in a catch and release trap!) after being quoted $600 for a rodent removal service and we’ve seen no more mice since. If I know my math, this basically means I made $600 (minus the cost of the trap) and can now spend it however I want, right?

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The government of Ontario just took over a college because of ‘serious mismanagement’. Conestoga was (in)famous for recruiting (and exploiting) international students more aggressively than any other public college in the country, peaking at 3 international for every 1 domestic student. /1

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Glad to see that Eric Swalwell dropped out. Wish more of the folks defending him on the basis of suspicious timing had listened to… Eric Swalwell.

2018 tweet of Eric Swalwell criticizing defenders of Brett Kavanaugh for ignoring the substance of accusations against him and casting doubt on the timing.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Every sentence Naomi Wolf writes from now on should begin with “call me ill-informed…”, just to play it safe.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A mini-rant against mindset coaches: All this framing does is reveal the hustle bro mindset. He’s provided only 2 options & already rendered a judgement against people who choose the latter. This isn’t some grand insight into how people respond, it’s a heuristic for INTERPRETING how people respond.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This might actually be my biggest ratio yet! (I can’t take all the credit - it was an exceptionally bad post and basically every commenter got more likes than the original.)

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I seem to have moved directly from a cold to spring thaw allergies and I think my body is now 70% phlegm.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

[SCENE: watching this week’s Survivor with my wife] Her: I’d just like to let you know that if you shit your pants on Survivor, I wouldn’t divorce you. Me: … Her: In fact, you can shit your pants on *any* gameshow. If you cast a gameshow? Please take note.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

It’s wild that the enduring memory of these two hockey teams is probably going to be how the men’s team laughed at a misogynistic joke made at the expense of the women’s team.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

One of the things no one tells you about running an influencer side-gig is that at least 1 morning every week is eaten up reading & writing emails, entering data into spreadsheets, completing & submitting invoices, and also reading, signing, & submitting contracts. Because paperwork is inescapable.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

An old white man complains, in a column published in the country’s second-largest national newspaper, that no one will publish or listen to old white men in Canada anymore. His book on the topic is being released in two days. Irony is dead. /1

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Book Excerpt: How Trudeau Liberals' DEI obsession helped kill Canadian culture

Former CBC exec says DEI wasn't meant to be a punishing exercise in ideological purity but to celebrate what had been arbitrarily suppressed

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I allow the conversation about ‘common sense’ in my communication classes to come up organically (it always does) because it’s the best way to look at how its appearance conceals a bias. Sometimes it’s not conscious? But just as often it’s actively weaponized to reframe bias as undeniable truth.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

It took 360 days but we found it, the video of the year:

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

TikTok’s moderation makes zero sense. I posted sponsored content. Clicked the box to indicate as much. Tagged the brand as sponsor. And it was removed for violating sponsored content rules IMMEDIATELY. I also can’t appeal - I’m given the option but the submit button simply… doesn’t work. Ffs

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Got a diagnosis of a type IV allergic reaction, which prompted a joke about how I ‘look like [i’ve] been poisoned’. The cause is still a mystery, though, because it wasn’t poison ivy. So that’s fun.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

This FAQ for baseball player Jhostynxon García somehow doesn’t include what I imagine is the *most* frequently asked question about him:

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Utilities $300 Mortgage $1500 Blackberries $200 Raspberries $400 Strawberries $3,600 Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. My toddler is bankrupting us.

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Brendon Boo-zard 🎃 @brendonbouzard.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.

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Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore

YouTube video by Like Stories of Old

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The son of a former Conservative Prime Minister - who also inexplicably hosts 1 of the country’s few mainstream media political tv shows - thinks the left in Canada says ‘pretty abhorrent things that simply don’t exist on the right’ and I have to wonder whether he’s a terrible liar or just an idiot.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I don’t know what this actually says because this is what i heard: ‘You know that thing you enjoy doing? We can make a robot that replaces you. And those people who enjoy watching you do it? Yeah, fuck those suckers.’ Thanks, AI company, I hate everything you said and stand for.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 02/11/2025

Because the huge Anthropic class action settlement limits eligibility to works registered w/ US Copyright Office, non-US writers are mostly locked out. But there's a similar proposed class action covering Canadian authors (click Documents link, then Amended Notice) www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

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Anthropic PBC AI Copyright - CFM Lawyers

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I was asked by the CBC what it would take to save the college system. I replied that since Doug Ford loves giving $ to his pals, maybe we should see if Ford Fest’s hot dog supplier is available to become president of our school. I hope they run the quote as an excuse to mention this again:

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Venue of $10M Skills Development Fund recipient, partners now licensed as an ‘adult entertainment club’

For decades, Zlatko Starkovski has leased the historic Exhibition Place building, which hosted PC fundraisers and the party’s campaign manager’s wedding in recent years

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I tweeted on Threads yesterday that men make terrible electoral choices - and added a tongue-in-cheek suggestion that men just shouldn’t be allowed to vote. (In seriousness, tho, I think removing voting rights is always bad and we should instead expand voting to as many people as possible.) /1

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

This is maybe the least shocking thing I’ve heard all year but it’s still disappointing.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

For my progressive and left-of-center🇺🇸 friends, this is cool: a political donation platform that directs you to the close races where your money will make the biggest impact, based on the issues you care about. It specifically seeks out campaigns that need funds and stand a real chance of winning.

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OATH

Your one-stop-shop for political giving

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Sports fandom guarantees you’ll be unhappy most of the time. There are far more losers than winners! But at least you get to be unhappy in a community.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

If anyone remembers anything from this Blue Jays World Series run, I hope it’s this: never slide on a force play at first or home. Never.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

World Series Game One! (The last picture was taken immediately after the Barger grand slam)

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The Vampire LesMak @lesleynope.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

WERE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES OH MY FUCKING GODDDDDD

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

A story in three parts

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

…what kind of group chats was Vanc€ involved in when he was in college???

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I’m certain that this meme is too online to work as a softball team logo but I would LOVE to make this my softball team’s logo.

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Jason Takes Man-Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 09/10/2025

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I’m not paying to read the rest of this on The Free Press so can someone tell me whether the subhead means something other than what it appears to mean? Because what the fuck.

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