Geoff Girvitz
@geoffgirvitz.bsky.social
Father, founder, physical culturist
I explore health through writing, behaviour design, and community-building
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I explore health through writing, behaviour design, and community-building
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Geoff Girvitz
@geoffgirvitz.bsky.social
· Sep 22
Geoff Girvitz - geoff.site
Writing and projects by Geoff Girvitz
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Personal site is up – along with an archive of my published writing – and a pretty good URL, if I do say so myself.
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“Laserbeak, accept and embrace.”
January 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM
“Laserbeak, accept and embrace.”
Hobbes' Leviathan in a bad jacket
Shoutout to Dwayne T. Robinson, whose incompetence is superseded only by that of the FBI. Onscreen representation for idiots who are wrong about everything.
December 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Hobbes' Leviathan in a bad jacket
Moral licensing and supplement salesmen
The concept of moral licensing (or moral cleansing – perhaps a more intuitive term) describes how a history of behaviour that *feels* morally righteous will sometimes be used to justify or cancel out other immoral behaviors.
The concept of moral licensing (or moral cleansing – perhaps a more intuitive term) describes how a history of behaviour that *feels* morally righteous will sometimes be used to justify or cancel out other immoral behaviors.
December 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Moral licensing and supplement salesmen
The concept of moral licensing (or moral cleansing – perhaps a more intuitive term) describes how a history of behaviour that *feels* morally righteous will sometimes be used to justify or cancel out other immoral behaviors.
The concept of moral licensing (or moral cleansing – perhaps a more intuitive term) describes how a history of behaviour that *feels* morally righteous will sometimes be used to justify or cancel out other immoral behaviors.
Today on Dad Strength: an important update on prostate cancer screening, a strategy for opening minds before getting critical, and a physical culture book review. Plus a banger of a dad joke.
A book, a quote, and a dad joke
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A book, a quote, and a dad joke
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When Fitness Went Global
Today on Dad Strength
Prostate cancer warning
Yes and…
Book review: When Fitness Went Global
A book, a quote, and a dad joke
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December 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Today on Dad Strength: an important update on prostate cancer screening, a strategy for opening minds before getting critical, and a physical culture book review. Plus a banger of a dad joke.
A book, a quote, and a dad joke
dadstrength.com/archive/when...
A book, a quote, and a dad joke
dadstrength.com/archive/when...
This is an objectively hilarious bit.
You don't need the government's permission to celebrate your own holiday. You do need it, however, if you want mandate it for others.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
You don't need the government's permission to celebrate your own holiday. You do need it, however, if you want mandate it for others.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
B.C. MLA wants statutory holiday to honour Freedom Convoy
A B.C. legislator who previously argued Truth and Reconciliation Day should not be recognized as a statutory holiday is proposing a new one that would celebrate the self-described “Freedom Convoy.”
www.ctvnews.ca
December 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is an objectively hilarious bit.
You don't need the government's permission to celebrate your own holiday. You do need it, however, if you want mandate it for others.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
You don't need the government's permission to celebrate your own holiday. You do need it, however, if you want mandate it for others.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Thank you for asking what my wrestling walkout song would be. That’s very important in my culture.
December 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thank you for asking what my wrestling walkout song would be. That’s very important in my culture.
New piece up for @theglobeandmail.com on motivation and overcoming the obstacles to a lifelong exercise practice
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes...
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes...
November 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
New piece up for @theglobeandmail.com on motivation and overcoming the obstacles to a lifelong exercise practice
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes...
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes...
Stretching isn’t the only way to increase range of motion
New piece for @theglobeandmail.com that includes other ways up the f̶l̶e̶x̶i̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ range of motion mountain
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes...
New piece for @theglobeandmail.com that includes other ways up the f̶l̶e̶x̶i̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ range of motion mountain
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes...
Stretching isn’t the only way to increase range of motion
Many types of resistance training can provide similar benefits, research shows
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Stretching isn’t the only way to increase range of motion
New piece for @theglobeandmail.com that includes other ways up the f̶l̶e̶x̶i̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ range of motion mountain
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes...
New piece for @theglobeandmail.com that includes other ways up the f̶l̶e̶x̶i̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ range of motion mountain
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes...
* If you don’t like traffic congestion
* If you like quieter, safer cities and cleaner air
* If you wish that physical movement were easier to integrate into daily life
* If you would like to see more local businesses thriving
Bikes – and the infrastructure for them – do this.
* If you like quieter, safer cities and cleaner air
* If you wish that physical movement were easier to integrate into daily life
* If you would like to see more local businesses thriving
Bikes – and the infrastructure for them – do this.
This is another gross jurisdictional overreach from a government that feels no shame peddling false statements.
Doug Ford’s Toronto is a shortcut for cars to drive through unimpeded, not a city of vibrant communities where people live and thrive.
Doug Ford’s Toronto is a shortcut for cars to drive through unimpeded, not a city of vibrant communities where people live and thrive.
October 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
* If you don’t like traffic congestion
* If you like quieter, safer cities and cleaner air
* If you wish that physical movement were easier to integrate into daily life
* If you would like to see more local businesses thriving
Bikes – and the infrastructure for them – do this.
* If you like quieter, safer cities and cleaner air
* If you wish that physical movement were easier to integrate into daily life
* If you would like to see more local businesses thriving
Bikes – and the infrastructure for them – do this.
Another post? In this attention economy!?
October 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Another post? In this attention economy!?
@avansi.bsky.social paints a picture of what food affordability and quality could look like through publicly owned grocery stores.
"Instead of the President's Choice, imagine... the People's Choice"
An explainer I made with @breachmedia.ca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPuE...
An explainer I made with @breachmedia.ca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPuE...
Why Canada needs public grocery stores
YouTube video by The Breach
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October 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
@avansi.bsky.social paints a picture of what food affordability and quality could look like through publicly owned grocery stores.
If I say "Rasputin dancing to Bony M" or "Saturday Night Fever from Measles," you get the idea. Your first mental pass is as good or better than an AI-generated video. Better, probably. And it won't burn as much electricity as a microwave running for an hour.
theconversation.com/openais-newl...
theconversation.com/openais-newl...
OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore
As AI shifts from text to video, its appetite for power and water soars, presenting a climate-policy issue.
theconversation.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If I say "Rasputin dancing to Bony M" or "Saturday Night Fever from Measles," you get the idea. Your first mental pass is as good or better than an AI-generated video. Better, probably. And it won't burn as much electricity as a microwave running for an hour.
theconversation.com/openais-newl...
theconversation.com/openais-newl...
If cigarettes have to display health warnings, car commercials could, at a minimum, show people driving through congestion and/or making it impossible for kids to bike to school.
October 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
If cigarettes have to display health warnings, car commercials could, at a minimum, show people driving through congestion and/or making it impossible for kids to bike to school.
Today on Dad Strength
A band pull-apart tip
The burden of carrying things silently
High protein diets vs strength training for muscle
A book, a quote, and a dad joke
dadstrength.com/archive/high...
A band pull-apart tip
The burden of carrying things silently
High protein diets vs strength training for muscle
A book, a quote, and a dad joke
dadstrength.com/archive/high...
October 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Today on Dad Strength
A band pull-apart tip
The burden of carrying things silently
High protein diets vs strength training for muscle
A book, a quote, and a dad joke
dadstrength.com/archive/high...
A band pull-apart tip
The burden of carrying things silently
High protein diets vs strength training for muscle
A book, a quote, and a dad joke
dadstrength.com/archive/high...
Whenever the current U.S. administration makes a statement about public health, my questions aren’t about where they got their science from (LOL) – but how they benefit.
From today's edition:
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From today's edition:
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We're all trying to find the guy who did this
Plus: Find your master exercise
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September 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Whenever the current U.S. administration makes a statement about public health, my questions aren’t about where they got their science from (LOL) – but how they benefit.
From today's edition:
newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/we-re-all-...
From today's edition:
newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/we-re-all-...
Personal site is up – along with an archive of my published writing – and a pretty good URL, if I do say so myself.
geoff.site
geoff.site
Geoff Girvitz - geoff.site
Writing and projects by Geoff Girvitz
geoff.site
September 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Personal site is up – along with an archive of my published writing – and a pretty good URL, if I do say so myself.
geoff.site
geoff.site
Nepal's Gen-Z revolution was a short, wild ride that ended up with the world's first democratic election taking place on Discord. I get into it in today's newsletter.
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newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/the-gen-z-...
The Gen Z revolution
Plus: How to maintain power as you age
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September 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Nepal's Gen-Z revolution was a short, wild ride that ended up with the world's first democratic election taking place on Discord. I get into it in today's newsletter.
newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/the-gen-z-...
newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/the-gen-z-...
September 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The defining element of a civilization is how it encodes wisdom and values into long-term memory. This wisdom lives as institutions, laws, and public works — the structural encoding of more wisdom than anyone can accumulate within a single lifetime.
medium.com/p/caabef640c5d
medium.com/p/caabef640c5d
Our Persistence of Memory
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
medium.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The defining element of a civilization is how it encodes wisdom and values into long-term memory. This wisdom lives as institutions, laws, and public works — the structural encoding of more wisdom than anyone can accumulate within a single lifetime.
medium.com/p/caabef640c5d
medium.com/p/caabef640c5d
"Chronically angry people can turn high blood pressure into a contagious disease."
In today's edition: sleep, school, and agility.
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In today's edition: sleep, school, and agility.
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Sleep science
Today on Dad Strength: Sleep science; What is school; The agility map is not the territory; A book, a quote, a dad joke
Exercise, mindset, parenting.
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September 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Chronically angry people can turn high blood pressure into a contagious disease."
In today's edition: sleep, school, and agility.
newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/sleep-scie...
In today's edition: sleep, school, and agility.
newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/sleep-scie...
@dadstrength.bsky.social The em in em-dash stands for "emotional support"
September 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
@dadstrength.bsky.social The em in em-dash stands for "emotional support"
I don't know how many science skeptics are out there but if it only takes one issue (vaccines, climate change) to count, it might be close to 40% of North Americans. Feel free to check me on this.
But it would be good for them to know that many scientists want to/are trying to repair this.
But it would be good for them to know that many scientists want to/are trying to repair this.
August 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I don't know how many science skeptics are out there but if it only takes one issue (vaccines, climate change) to count, it might be close to 40% of North Americans. Feel free to check me on this.
But it would be good for them to know that many scientists want to/are trying to repair this.
But it would be good for them to know that many scientists want to/are trying to repair this.