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Tyler Shipley

@shipster.bsky.social
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Professor and purveyor of takes of all temperatures. All opinions my own but willing to share. Details: fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/canada-i… and linktr.ee/TylerShipley

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 19/01/2025
Respectfully & from the bottom of my heart, if you think anything in the world could justify this, you’re a monster or an idiot or some impressive combination of both.
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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 29/05/2026
Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I don't know a single person who thinks the offside challenge is good use of technology in hockey, and no one can convince me that a hairline offside 30 seconds before a goal makes a single lick of a difference, but the nhl is run by the dumbest and worst people on earth
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Should be the obvious move, but most postsecondary institutions are run by bankers whose friends in the tech industry need their shit to be bought by big colleges so that they can promise their shareholders that "AI" sells when, in fact, most people either actively hate it or have no real use for it
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I can't decide if I'm more angry about the stupidity of this or the villainy, but I'm definitely angry www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Telus using AI to alter the accents of customer service agents
Company says tech is meant to improve clarity and reduce ‘accent-related friction,’ but its use is stirring up debate
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
That first brush with a new toothbrush, always takes you places
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This monstrosity is the curse, take it down and give the artist some run support
Painting by Dylan Cease with childlike lettering of "Toronto"
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The lowest possible bar - "denounce and distance yourself from the guy openly threatening genocide" - but Carney is incapable of clearing it
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Blue Jays are oofmaxxing this April
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The nightmare is always the same, doc. I hear this deep velvety voice in the distance saying "Brendon Little is getting loose in the bullpen"...
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
There's a strong argument that Trump and Israel have set into motion a catastrophe that will imminently transform all of our lives, for the much worse.
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The world energy shock is coming
The US and Israel's illegal attack on Iran will provoke a global economic catastrophe
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Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🙀 @sarahkite.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Seen tacked to a community board on my walk
laminated flyer pushpinned to a community board. we see a photo of a coyote, and the text reads:

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS DOG?

[photo of a coyote]

DUMMY THAT'S A COYOTE.
OH MY GOD WHAT DO I DO???:
—NO ACTION REQUIRED
—IT IS WILDLIFE IN THE WILD (!)
-HERE TO EAT DELICIOUS RODENT
-LET HER COOK
—NOT INTERESTED IN YOU, LOL GET OVER YOURSELF BABE;)
—KEEP DOGS ON LEASH AND CATS INDOORS
-(LIKE YOU SHOULD BE DOING ANYWAY)
—YOTE IS A RESPECTED NEIGHBOR AND CRITTER CONTROL PROFESSIONAL
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Never thought I'd be sharing anything written by a Yankees fan, but this gets it absolutely right: www.pinstripealley.com/yankees-edit...
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The World Baseball Classic, Team USA, and the war problem
On conduct unbecoming.
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Morris “Day and The Time” Katz @vodkasnowflake.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
thinking about the hero of this game for Team Venezuela, Eugenio Suárez, and his comments about ICE’s effect on Latino baseball players just last week
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Empires always begin by telling themselves that they are bringing the light to the dark corners of the world. The reality is always the opposite.
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Lost among the many other horrors of 2026, Israel is attempting to create another Nakba in Lebanon, no one is even attempting to explain or justify this, they're just bombing and killing and taking
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Get ABS in the WBC so I don't have to watch the Americans win on a "strike" that's a foot low
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Tragic to watch Canada knock Cuba out of the WBC even while -in real life- the Canadian govt is helping Trump commit mass murder against Cubans. Watching baseball in Cuba is one of the most joyous experiences of my life: no ads, no luxury boxes, just incredible baseball played by normal people.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Can't imagine why Carney would be eager to protect data centres in the region. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Brookfield and Qatar launch $20-billion AI infrastructure joint venture
Partnership aims to position Qatar as leading AI hub in the Middle East
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This is a guy who has Nazi-affiliated tattoos on his body and whom the US military itself (!) flagged as a potential 'insider threat' for his far-right politics. A guy who has draped himself in the idea of a Christian crusade against Islam. I'm seeing a lot of "this will be evidence at The Hague..."
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"What happens to Iran's nuclear weapons" is that they'll continue to not exist. For anyone who doesn't know, his father the Shah was one of the most hated despots of the 20th century. He was installed to rule Iran by the CIA after they (CIA) overthrew the government elected by Iranians in the 1950s.
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Israel and the United States is bombing elementary schools in Iran and, by the way, the heroic Ukrainian resistance supports that
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Trump does it more explicitly, but this is the same death-cult logic as we are witnessing south of the border. Billions of dollars into a stalemate war where both sides are fully captured by far-right forces, but no money for libraries and hospitals and schools and culture.
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Man someone's gotta do something about cheese packaging, I shouldn't be this banged up from trying to access a block of marble cheddar
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Truly a society humiliating itself, completely enslaved to a logic of capital (which it doesn't even fully understand because it is too terrified of its critics to actually read and understand them). Language models will (obviously) write garbage and (less obviously I guess) not support profits.
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Liberals are so hard-wired to follow the rules that Trump says anything and they just do it, "stop measuring presidential approval" "ok" like they are constitutionally incapable of saying "nah fuck you man" no wonder they hate protestors so much
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Speaking of acquiescence, Canadian airlines are now cancelling all flights to Cuba, obviously at the direction of the Carney govt. Other airlines are making fuel arrangements, but Canada is going the extra mile in helping Trump starve Cuban people and destroy their revolution.
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The United States - with acquiescence and support from Canada and other allies - is seeking to murder millions of Cubans and destroy the Revolution that has carried and embodied so many of our aspirations for a just world. This is effectively genocide and must be stopped.
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Crazy thing about learning the French language is needing to know if a telephone is a girl or boy
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
All this disaster, just so students can cheat on their assignments
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I'm sure there's some heinous shit I don't know about Firefox, but don't tell me right now because I'm switching all my browsers
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Absolutely bloodcurdling headline. This is the Canada they want to protect; you ought to be disgusted by it.
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A memo for anyone who thinks Canada is standing up against Trump's fascism
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I'm excited to hear Mark Carney's speech about the importance of standing up to this flagrant colonial intervention in a foreign country's sovereignty
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The irony of everyone fawning over how Mark Carney is 'standing up' for Canada is that he is simultaneously eroding the few institutions that actually distinguish the Canadian state from the US, and those which theoretically could be used to shield Canadians from the disaster area to the south.
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Yeah no shit the "rules based international order" is a lie, it always was, and those of us not in kindergarten always knew it. Carney built his whole career pretending it was real now he wants to play hero for saying it's not. Oh and his solution? "Suck it up, you fucks, this is gonna suck."
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Canadian banks feeling great about attempted US overthrow of Venezuelan govt. This gets reported as news, because apparently we should all share in whatever joys Scotiabank is feeling. Elbows fly wherever and whenever the Canadian elite want to make money, an evergreen lesson.
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World BEYOND War @world-beyond-war.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Paul Singer dropped $5.9 B on Citgo right before Trump’s coup in Venezuela, after bankrolling his campaign with millions. Now he’s set to rake in billions as U.S. forces seize control of Venezuelan oil and industry for U.S. interests. buff.ly/k1tPzgY #HandsOffVenezuela
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Meet Paul Singer, the Billionaire Trump Megadonor Set to Make a Killing on Venezuela Oil | Common Dreams
Trump megadonor Paul Singer bought Citgo, the US subsidiary of Venezuela's state oil company, at a rock-bottom price last month. Now, the hedge fund "vulture" is expected to make a killing from…
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
empire wants a war, drop those elbows to the floor
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Hundreds of my colleagues at Conestoga just got fired after submitting their grades for the holidays. Meanwhile, the President is enjoying his raise to over $630k. opseu.org/news/hundred...
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Hundreds of faculty and support staff at Conestoga College handed lay-off notices before the holidays – province has to step in, says OPSEU/SEFPO
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, ON – The union representing Ontario college faculty and support staff, OPSEU/SEFPO, is calling for immediate intervention by the province after Conestoga College issued ...
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Mark “Elbows up” Carney’s $83 billion military spending spree has to get funds from somewhere: today it’s stripping libraries of mission-sustaining cost controls. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Least bewildering development
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
'Watchlists' are used to harass and target marginalized people and community organizers. On the 'bright' side, AI is such garbage tech that it will inevitably make false identifications and lead to more arrests of random people who look a little bit like the targets (a bit of eugenics for a treat).
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Will soon be digging back into offering non-credit courses without assignments or assessments, as a spiritual antidote to all of this
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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
One of the worst things about do-called AI is that it pits my students against me. Over decades of teaching, I have built relationships of trust with my students, where I don't bs them about the world they live in, and they don't bs me about the work they do for me about it. "AI" interrupts this.
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