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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 15m

First Illibuck game in 8 years! I want the turtle to stay in Columbus.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 13h

At some point, we should talk about writing something together. :-)

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 13h

If you do, wear it with pride.

ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 13h

That actually is a rather well written post.

As to your thoughts, I think that could be one outcome. But the issue, on both sides, is that Land Back is approached as if it is a monolith, versus a term that refers to various different forms of land relations.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 13h

It is disappointing that the winner of this game 5 is probably going to get dog walked by the Blue Jays in the ALCS.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 14h

I see we have reached the point where white people are proudly proclaiming in magazines that they smell terrible. We have come full circle, eh?

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15h

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 14h

Best description I’ve heard of Kid Rock’s music:

“Kid Rock is the musical equivalent of a coffee can full of water and cigarette butts”

John Roddy @roddyi.com · 16h

Kid Rock remains the human equivalent of an above-ground pool.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 15h

This history is why I get wary when settlers on the left dismiss Indigenous sovereignty and the prospect of Land Back (which admittedly is very poorly defined) as ethnonationalism because it is based in settler logics around ultimate control of land.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 15h

Blood and soil comes from German ideologies in the 19th century that pushed for a return to rural areas and an embrace of agrarianism, something the Nazis took up as part of the ‘philosophy’ of Lebensraum, an extremely settler colonial ideology if there ever was one.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 15h

The argument that Land Back is ethnonationalism in the “blood and soil” vein is especially shoddy when one looks at the origins of “blood and soil” and see that it actually has a lot in common with settler colonialism versus anything to do with Indigenous land relations.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 23h

Besides her problematic politics, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Corina Machado, praising Trump won't do anything in the long run, because Trump thinks he deserves the award--I expect he'll view her as some brown person stealing what's rightfully his.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 23h

I agree. These folks have their minds made up. I could give the perfect evidence-based reply, and they will hear what they want to hear: that density is bad and we should go back to a neighbourhood full of $1 million+ CAD single-family homes.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 23h

Unfortunately, no; that's within the purview of the United States Board on Geographic Names, a governmental office. NACIS is an academic organization.

That being said, I do feel there is room for NACIS to push back against the renaming of geographical bodies such as the Gulf of Mexico.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 1d

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d

Just one more.

The Study
Every Study Ever:
Reliable transit, safe active transportation options and fewer cars will improve cities.
City:
Hmm, can we really trust every study ever done?

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 1d

I’m assuming the guy is mostly just on some “the city isn’t gonna tell me what to do kick” rather than actually engaging with that I said.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 1d

Right, but the guy was just trying to fling out some ad hominem attack saying that folks like me are trying to stifle seniors’ mobility, or something like that. I’m not even really sure where the guy was going with his arguments to be fair.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 1d

James Bay is an interesting place. Beautiful neighbourhood, tons of history, but also home to a very strange form of NIMBYism where tall buildings gain or lose support based on whether or not “the Poors” might be able to live there.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 1d

I woke up to the wonderful news that I have been elected to a term on the board of the North American Cartographic Information Society.

I am looking forward to advocating for Indigenous geographies during my time on the NACIS board!

This Nish geographer from South Minneapolis is doing big things!

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 1d

Me, in my local neighbourhood Facebook group: More sustainable transportation options might include transit, or bike lanes, which can ease traffic as development densifies.

Random neighbourhood man: You’re suggesting the city legislate seniors onto bikes!

Me:

a picture of a chicken with the words did i say that

ALT: a picture of a chicken with the words did i say that

media.tenor.com

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 1d

It makes sense that he’d worship a known criminal and sexual predator who made up fanciful stories of his own exploits and overestimated his own intelligence and savvy.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 1d

For the record, I don’t care what Donald Trump has to say about Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

He nor his ancestors have any relationship with these lands outside of theft and bigotry.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight, I'll be presenting about some of the qualitative and mixed-method research I've done to a qualitative methods graduate seminar at Texas State University. I'm excited to return to San Marcos (albeit virtually); here's me & folks from the Texas State Geography department at my 2023 seminar!

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 3d

Also, for no reason at all, if someone wants to buy me this inflatable Mothra costume, I would absolutely love that. I’d buy it myself but they don’t sell it here in Canada. Boo.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 3d

This is hilarious and delightful, and even though the situation is very serious overall, this also shows how ridiculous of an overreach Trump/Miller/Noem/ICE are making.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 3d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 3d

"An article in the Federalist" is an incorrect sentence, as it suggests that the Federalist is a legitimate news source, versus a bunch of edgelords disguising their unfiltered thoughts as journalism.

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