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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky

@neilshyminsky.bsky.social

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English professor; co-editor of Spaces & Places of Canadian Popular Culture; feminist dad; he/him; @professorneil on TikTok; @professor_neil on Instagram https://linktr.ee/neilshyminsky

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 3h

…what kind of group chats was Vanc€ involved in when he was in college???

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 3d

I’m certain that this meme is too online to work as a softball team logo but I would LOVE to make this my softball team’s logo.

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 6d

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 3d

And i can totally see how that would work, like, the first 10 times. IT SHOULDNT STILL BE WORKING!!

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 6d

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 6d

No! Not his girlfriend!

Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 8d

I have been informed that the author of this article is a very vocal teetotaler and frequently brings up sex and virginity at wildly inappropriate times in his writing.

Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 12d

I love that someone was IMMEDIATELY updating that page.

Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 12d

No, I mean the reference to ‘seeing a virgin on-screen’.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 12d

I’m not paying to read the rest of this on The Free Press so can someone tell me whether the subhead means something other than what it appears to mean? Because what the fuck.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 12d

Couldn’t have happened to a better person. (Literally. A better person wouldn’t be so awful.)

Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 12d

Get — and I cannot stress this enough — fucked.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 15d

Just opened a mold testing kit, only to discovered that it’s used. Petri dishes labelled and just disgustingly full of mold. Of all the things that someone might return used AND that a company would resell without checking, first… 🤢

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 17d

DEI for me but not for thee

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 17d

Every time you tweet, your own supporters mercilessly dunk on you. When are you gonna stop being so bad at your job??

Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 25d

Atrocious.

Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 25d

3) This feels like it dooms us to more Mark Carney and his Progressive Conservatives, though. Because we can’t have nice things, only less-bad things.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 26d

"cancel culture"—a left wing censorship campaign—never existed. is one problem with framing right censorship as cancel culture. 1

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 26d

1) Glad to see a continued virtual consensus among non-Conservative voters in Canada, something you almost never find in politics.
2) If this holds, I have no idea how Conservatives win the next election. Any stance you take will piss off half your base and there’s no in-between option? Good luck.

Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 26d

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 29d

Presenting at a conference and the organizers put me up in a Robert De Niro themed room. There are 7 photos/posters of De Niro in here, including one directly over the toilet. (There was clearly a missed opportunity to put a Taxi Driver poster directly opposite the bathroom mirror.)

Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · 29d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · Sep 13

About his debate style - it was all non-sequiturs and thought-terminating cliches designed to stun his opponents into silence and make it appear he ‘won’. And it was always in bad faith.

So let’s also not commend him for popularizing a debate style designed to short-circuit, y’know, actual debate.

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is indefensible. You can commend Kirk for engaging with dissenters in discussion and debate without preposterously elevating that to a full-blown positive appraisal of the way he practiced politics, which, in the main, involved being an indefatigable reactionary provocateur.

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · Sep 10

There are repeated mentions in the reporting that the faculty member and people who defended them were fired for ‘breaking the law’. But - surprise! - no one citing that as the reason can name an actual law that was broken.

And this is what cancel culture ACTUALLY looks like, btw.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Sep 9

Faculty in red states are being punished for failing to signal in their course descriptions that their classes will include content on "gender ideology."

Remind me again which party was appalled by idea of "trigger warnings"?

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A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · Sep 7

Who could possibly have foreseen?

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Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social · Aug 31

*film festival, good gawd 🙃