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mjaysmith.bsky.social
writer, jock. author of the eclipse: poems after antonioni. an antelope with a bad attitude, forthcoming 2026 with freehand books. actually a lawyer. yeg/amiskwacîwâskahikan
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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Danielle Smith is one of Pierre Poilievre's biggest fans. She also just torpedoed his election campaign. Whoopsie daisy. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/23/o...

submitted 41 days ago • 76 comments

bwahahaha

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

submitted 58 days ago • 124 comments

read this

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

I miss DEI

submitted 67 days ago • 2234 comments

as someone who is not a fan of catholicism, but who respects liberation theology (yes), i'm kind of sad about the pope. the play-by-plays on the hourly news is a lot. 🥲

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

RB & I just looked at an open house & sometimes I'm like, I don't really care about the concrete countertops (though they're nice), I just want to know the person who has such a good bookcase.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk's mother is from the City That Rhymes With Fun?! (Sign the petition.)

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

i think you're supposed to be invested in hockey rn?

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Something something free speech

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

When I was 19 (so young!) kicking through South America, I found a mercado negro cassette copy of a Maná album & proceeded to listen to it on repeat on repeat on repeat. Listening to "Rayando el sol" just made me cry for nostalgia. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

They have no intention of giving us voting rights. Stop sane washing this nonsense, please.

submitted 78 days ago • 33 comments

the logo! be still, my heart!

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I'm a lawyer, and there's one way to spell "judgement" that, in my principal's parlance, makes you look like a rube and there's another way to spell "judgment" that doesn't. Which is which? I don't know. Still. Don't tell me because I won't remember, but also, I want to know.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know if you've noticed, but Google has been serving up trash search engine results (so counterproductively that I've been relying on Duck Duck Go). Also, they're fucking awful. www.theverge.com/news/608858/...

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Could someone request my book of poems at @epldotca.bsky.social? If you're not in Edmonton — *also could you request my book for your local library*? #yegwriters #canlit www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-eclips...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

submitted 81 days ago • 39 comments

So far "defending women from gender ideology" (as Trump puts it) looks a lot like shutting down programs that prevent rape and domestic violence

submitted 82 days ago • 13 comments

This prejudices my bias for all-inclusive resorts.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

still my favorite t-shirt

submitted 84 days ago • 4 comments

The UCP apparently ended Housing First yesterday afternoon. You know it's shameful when it's a Friday afternoon. Part of the City's 10-year plan to end homelessness, it allowed housing for those who were not yet sober (it's hard to sober up while unhoused). Now it's gone. #abpoli

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Update: I watched LEE, the biopic of wartime (& fashion) photographer Lee Miller. I read the book upon which it was based last summer (one of many thematic digressions while reading The History of Art Without Men). It was great.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Someone tell me what to binge (in Canada) that isn't too demanding for a sick-headed person but also isn't total crap. I just queued up Below Deck Down Under & I'm humiliating myself & my two currently-functioning brain cells. 😱

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

I had to withdraw from my upcoming marathon — turns out children continue to bring home illness & my doc thinks I have walking pneumonia — but I got credits for flight, hotel, and the race entry. Pinch me. I thought this was going to be the most expensive virus I had ever had.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment