neilshyminsky.bsky.social
English professor; co-editor of Spaces & Places of Canadian Popular Culture; feminist dad; he/him; @professorneil on TikTok; @professor_neil on Instagram
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Always!
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There will eventually be a point where I’m annoyingly promoting it, I’m sure 😅
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Did I go wildly off-topic several times, like when I described pasting James van der Beek’s face on to my student ID when I was in high school? Also yes.
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Anyway, this is my personal reminder that not every week can be my best. And this one has not been my best.
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There are a handful of schools that can’t continue operating past the next couple years, even without further reductions in int’l students. Colleges and universities are in a terrible spot and no one seems to want to save them.
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Is there a secret competition to see which party can more quickly destroy college education in Ontario? Because if so, they’re doing super. 🫠
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This is a college system that’s ALREADY underfunded by $1.2 billion under the current Conservative government. And that according to an expert panel report commissioned by THAT SAME government.
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And Marvel has already said AI wasn’t used. But, like…
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It feels like something from a Grant Morrison comic? So we need a Grant Morrison response.
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That’s definitely more entertaining but might very well make it worse, yes 😅
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I’m still baffled! I can understand the crass, white nationalist appeal of the CPC and Poilievre (especially as a foil to the perceived post-nationalism of Trudeau), but what’s Ford’s appeal? How is he still coasting on the phony everyman folksiness?
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And in case you’re wondering - no, Joey didn’t die. I found him on LinkedIn! He just didn’t update his contact info with dozens of people. (And the kind of people who text you on your birthday, which is the weirdest part!)
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These numbers are completely baffling. Ford is doing irreparable damage to our health and education sectors through malicious neglect and the response is… thunderous applause?
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I think the ‘all embryos start out female’ stems from someone oversimplifying the process of SRY expression, without which masculinization wouldn’t occur and we’d all appear anatomically female. ‘We would all be AFAB’ is more accurate.
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I mean, that also works
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That *does* sound like a lot of fun 🤔