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myrick.bsky.social
Former journalist and corp comms, occasional freelancer in both, editor. Old and cynical, but occasionally still mistaken for middle-aged and cheerful.
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FTW.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Had some thoughts on the narrative about Bluesky's exaggerated death and supposed bubble

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

👀

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Doctors at the CDC say children should receive Covid vaccines. A disgraced ex-environmental lawyer who spent 20 years abusing heroin says they shouldn't. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

submitted 23 days ago • 41 comments

No, say it louder. It's absolute bullshit how Across the Spider-Verse made over $300 million in profit, yet neither Marvel nor Sony could be bothered to defray the hospital bills of the man who co-created Miguel O'Hara. Instead they left his wife and family scrambling to afford to live.

submitted 29 days ago • 16 comments

Raise your hand if Imzadi was the hottest book you ever read as a nerdy Star Trek obsessed teen & you still think about the scene where Riker sees Troi naked for the first time. RIP Peter David, what a legend.

submitted 29 days ago • 25 comments

Headline at left, from 'Independent' in UK. Headline at right, from "most prestigious" news org in US. -Hard to believe they're about same event. -All too easy to believe that NYT again went with sane-washing.

submitted 29 days ago • 27 comments

The country with the most sophisticated intelligence capabilities in the world, and the president is holding up "a months-old blog post" from an obscure, conspiracy-mongering site "featuring a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo" while making allegations against South Africa to its president

submitted 33 days ago • 220 comments

Me - can you make me a waxwork that shows both Lee Harvey Oswald’s murder and The Fall live in concert? Madame Tussaud - Will this do?

submitted 63 days ago • 15 comments

Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...

submitted 40 days ago • 244 comments

Fixed it.

submitted 52 days ago • 13 comments

Reports indicate a member of the Conservative Freedom Convoy is now illegally occupying the residence intended for use by Canada's official Opposition Leader.

submitted 52 days ago • 6 comments

I was leaning Tilda Swinton or Paul Giamatti, but the obvious choice is Rowan Atkinson.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Kamala Harris didn't kill any popes when she was Vice President.

submitted 63 days ago • 94 comments

This is a very useful paragraph from ‪@jasonfurman.bsky.social‬, and one that might explain our current tariff debacle.

submitted 67 days ago • 32 comments

BREAKING: The ROM has confirmed to me that their board director — who I reported is tied to Trump’s mass deportations — has stepped down!

submitted 68 days ago • 121 comments

I keep puzzling over how Rubio thinks it'll bring PROSPERITY to kidnap gay hairdressers based on their tattoos & then pay $20K/year to detain them in a slave camp. We could have spent that $6M on supporting trade with Congo instead, but Rubio has decided torture is better for profits?

submitted 71 days ago • 318 comments

Trump/Musk/RFK Jr are gutting US research. A smart guy would see that as an opportunity to poach some top-quality talent. Ontario’s Doug Ford just announced a program to attract medical research talent. Poilievre is so fucking dumb he has me complimenting Doug Ford’s intelligence. That’s impressive.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

CBC's Evan Dyer reports on how Pierre Poilievre is treating #cdnmedia on the campaign trail. Poilievre's staffers pushing reporters around. Denying access. Not allowing questions. #cdnpoli

submitted 79 days ago • 86 comments

The best sign of the day, by far.

submitted 79 days ago • 25 comments

As if you didn’t already have a good reason to get a shingles vaccine!

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

I’ll say it again. If you - and I’m looking at you 5D chess players in the City and on the Street - still believe this administration will not blow up the IMF and World Bank, let alone roll back the Feds swap and repo lines - think again.

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

submitted 81 days ago • 561 comments

Fuck Elon.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments