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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 19/07/2026

The other screen was too small. Lol... Not sure who that halftime show was targeted at.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 09/07/2026

I never get over how weird it is to be online while flying at 30k+ feet over the Atlantic.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 29/06/2026

😍 Gorgeous night in Toronto.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 24/06/2026

OK... Last flowers pic for the morning. Have a great day, everyone.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 24/06/2026

More🏵️🌸🌺 to come. 😍

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 24/06/2026

What a gorgeous morning in Toronto. A few more days and these beauties will be in full bloom. 😍 #bloomscolling #flowers #gardening

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 02/06/2026

What a gorgeous morning in #Toronto ... sunlight spilling over the skyline, the city easing into its rhythm, and everything feeling just a little lighter than usual. #summer2026

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 26/05/2026

Hello summer! Major #poweroutage in downtown #Toronto. All the signage at the Eaton Centre is out, as are all traffic lights.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 23/05/2026

Erasing history and facts didn't work for the USSR, and they were better at it than anyone else.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 16/05/2026

"Pomp, pageantry but precious little to show for Trump’s Beijing excursion" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 14/04/2026

It’s interesting, I tend to get a lot of bot followers whenever I post about China. This has been happening for a couple of years now. Bluesky can't seem to shake these ladies who stare into distant horizons.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 04/04/2026

Spring has returned to Toronto, undaunted by us and our petty squabbles. Nature keeps her own time. #doomscrollingbreak

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 03/04/2026

The trolling of America continues. Thanks to social media algorithms, the distribution of propaganda, for better or for worse, has now been democratized.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 23/03/2026

So all STEM, all of the time? My alma mater, Syracuse University, to sunset’s 9 majors, reimagine others after the Art & Science portfolio review. Can't imagine why we would need Russian or classical history anymore. 🙄 dailyorange.com/2026/03/suns...

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 18/03/2026

Hurray for political cartoonists. They can cut with a paint brush 🖌️. This one is by Bill Bramhall of the New York Daily News

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 07/03/2026

Canada a liberal democracy still under construction. Back in Ottawa for a couple of days, thinking about how this place is constantly being built, debated, and reimagined.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 28/02/2026

Look over there, don't look over here: "Trump’s approval rating with independents hits a new low..." www.cnn.com/2026/02/23/p...

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 28/02/2026

More winter fun in Canada. ☃️⛸️❄️

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 22/02/2026

Fact: People in Denmark and Greenland live longer than Americans. They, unlike the US, have good, free, nationalized health care. So, if anybody should send a medical ship, it should be Denmark.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 05/02/2026

How is it that Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is now 25 years old? Gosh, I feel old.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 02/02/2026

There's something magical about the light at sunrise. Happy Monday, everyone. #twilight #Toronto

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 29/01/2026

The claim: Online rumours claim the EU is creating a taxpayer-funded social network called “W” to replace X and serve as a censorship tool. The facts: W is not an EU project but a private venture backed by Swedish investors, led by a Swiss privacy expert. www.bilanz.ch/people/w-soc...

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 27/01/2026

Not sure how we made it back to Toronto with all of the flight cancellations today, but it's good to be back home!

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 26/01/2026

What a day to fly... So many cancelled flights.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 21/01/2026

Yes, because actors are known for arriving on set in bathrobes.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 17/01/2026

Calling all gamers... Bluesky is testing a new feature that lets users apply a "Live" ring indicator when they're streaming on Twitch. If you click it, it takes you directly to the person's Twitch stream.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 14/01/2026

Not sure what Tony Dokoupil is trying to say here, but this isn’t about viewers deciding for themselves or ‘audience choice.’ His assertion completely ignores selection bias, framing narratives, and elevating voices through his show which is shown on a network that once traded on credibility.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year from Toronto! Cheers to fresh starts and great moments ahead. 🎉 #HappyNewYear2026

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 29/12/2025

Awesome, more rolling blackouts for Americans and Canadians in the decades ahead. As this map shows, the U.S. and Canada are deeply integrated. (P.S. If politicians start talking about cutting these power links, that’s when you know the wheels have truly come off Canada–U.S. relations.)

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 28/12/2025

"New Balance of Power" by @deadder.bsky.social is brilliant. The architecture of global alliances is shifting before our eyes. With Zelenskyy meeting Trump in Florida today, we may soon see signals of further geopolitical realignments in Europe and even here in Canada. #StrangeTimes #SenseMaking

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 27/12/2025

A little slice of the tropics right here in Canada. One of my favourite places in Toronto. #AllanGardens

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 26/12/2025

Gardening is how I recharge; it’s the one activity where my mind finally goes quiet, and everything else fades out. Unfortunately, with winter blasting down for the next few months here in Canada, that escape is on pause. Hope you are well. Happy Holidays! 🎉

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 22/12/2025

Alfonsi argued in her memo that the administration’s strategic silence cannot be allowed to become a “veto” of a critical story.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 22/12/2025

This can't be good. Trump is convening a press conference with all of his Secretaries (Secretary of War, Navy, and State) tomorrow. Could this be the last warning before Caracas is bombed?”

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 05/12/2025

"The survivors could hypothetically have floated to safety, been rescued, and carried on with trafficking the drugs, the logic went."

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 29/11/2025

I hate that my first instinct was to wonder whether this picture of the Pope holding a baseball bat on a plane was generated by AI. #newnornal #sensemaking

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 23/11/2025

Guten Morgen! According to X, my old X account is based in Germany. 🙄

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 22/11/2025

Everyone is overanalyzing the Trump and Mamdani bromance. But it's actually pretty simple ...

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 22/11/2025

It’s great to be back in Halifax, NS, a place that truly feels like my second home in Canada. Dalhousie is where my academic career first began.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 16/11/2025

What is this all about?!! "Send photos of you and child." If you have been itching to rummage through all 20k emails released by the House Oversight Committee, here's a nifty tool to help you explore. See what you can find. journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 09/11/2025

Out there somewhere, #Toronto lies quiet beneath the year’s first snowfall. Bring back summer! #IamNotReady

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