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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 · 07/09/2026

You just cost someone soooo many 8-week program subscribers, Geoff!

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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

Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.

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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 · 16/05/2026

In Alberta? I assume so. But not the near-sweep we usually see.

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

But for most of my colleagues? It’s been dark days, and more of them are ahead. (And the provincial government simply does not give a fuck.) /7

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

Anyway, this is the public college system I work in! And I’m tremendously lucky to be at one of the very small handful of schools that committed to stop growing in order to avoid being dependent on international students - and saved some of the money. /6

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

All of which is to say, the mismanagement started at the top with the same people who are now taking over. Which also means we have no reason to expect the management will get any better. /5

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

But the provincial government also set them up to fail and did zero to dissuade them from pursuing this. Worse, there’s a strong case to be made that they encouraged it through chronic underfunding and freezing tuition. What other options were there? /4

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

Was it mismanaged? Yes, definitely. Its whole business model was predatory and incredibly fragile - the introduction of any new limits on immigration would be catastrophic, much less the severe restrictions we’ve seen. They should’ve been prepared. /3

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

And then the federal government introduced sudden and dramatic limits, driving the new student numbers down more than 75% (last time I checked, anyway). /2

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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 · 18/04/2026

I’ve only watched the tv show and i cannot tell from moment to moment whether someone is going to shrug off a punch or the fist will explode their skull.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Have you watched any Invincible? Easily the wildest of wildly oscillating powers.

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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

I think she’d get a little more leeway if she didn’t believe in literally every conspiracy theory. Even this tweet had me thinking ‘she doesn’t believe space travel is real, she just isn’t ready to say it’.

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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 · 18/02/2026

However… then they shared the link on Twitter. 17 comments, none of whom appear to have actually watched it, and they’re all negative. Just in case you were wondering how things were going over there.

A screenshot of several tweets repeating misogynistic Manosphere talking points and slamming feminism.

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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

So you bemoan the lack of men’s voice in our contemporary literature - while also failing to mention that men don’t buy or read books, and they could be a factor? And complain that ‘Canadian’ culture - by which you obviously mean ‘white, male, settler’ - is being lost? Just fuck right off. /5

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

And I realize that we can’t choose the exact moment that a book, which was presumably in the works for years, will be released… But this is when you choose to vilify DEI? When white supremacy and white nationalism is gaining traction everywhere? When violent xenophobia is increasingly normal? /4

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

Or that books about Canada will not be funded or published if they lack a certain number of POC. (When I edited a book about Canadian culture, the only note we were given from the publisher was that we must have a chapter on hockey.) /3

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

Also? I spotted multiple factual errors in the column (actually a book excerpt) on my first read. And not just small things. Like claims that a white journalist, Wendy Mesley, was fired for simply reading a book title. (Someone who was present on the call reported that she said the n-word.) /2

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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

nationalpost.com

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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