Miguel Santa Maria
@miguelsanvan.bsky.social
Journalist/Producer for Global News. Exhausted Vancouverite. My mild takes are my own.
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And it’s only January.
The legendary Catherine O’Hara has died.
She was 71.
Per TMZ.
She was 71.
Per TMZ.
January 30, 2026 at 6:24 PM
And it’s only January.
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I am honoured to announce I’ve been appointed as a member to the Order of Canada. Thank you to everyone for the support! I dedicate this to my late Mom who taught me so much about history, local independent media & research. I know that she would be, like me, screaming with joy! #orderofcanada
December 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I am honoured to announce I’ve been appointed as a member to the Order of Canada. Thank you to everyone for the support! I dedicate this to my late Mom who taught me so much about history, local independent media & research. I know that she would be, like me, screaming with joy! #orderofcanada
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mad max forever. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO4X...
The Wolf of Wall Street - Rob Reiner's underrated performance
YouTube video by Frankie Saitta
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:20 AM
mad max forever. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO4X...
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And God saw the boys that he had made, and behold, they were back in town
December 17, 2024 at 10:24 PM
And God saw the boys that he had made, and behold, they were back in town
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The prevailing argument in favor of using AI in media is that it lowers the cost for local news and under-served communities.
But the core of that argument is fundamentally that we should paper over a loss of institutions with a deeply inferior and unreliable product.
People deserve better!
But the core of that argument is fundamentally that we should paper over a loss of institutions with a deeply inferior and unreliable product.
People deserve better!
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The prevailing argument in favor of using AI in media is that it lowers the cost for local news and under-served communities.
But the core of that argument is fundamentally that we should paper over a loss of institutions with a deeply inferior and unreliable product.
People deserve better!
But the core of that argument is fundamentally that we should paper over a loss of institutions with a deeply inferior and unreliable product.
People deserve better!
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Love a good mystery in the hands of @nickhunebrown.bsky.social
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Love a good mystery in the hands of @nickhunebrown.bsky.social
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I’m gonna come out and say it: Vancouver is having a spectacular fall.
- Minimal rain
- But also nice CRISP temperatures, puts us in the season
- Summer not too hot, so trees kept their leaves, creating full cover for nice colours
- No elections or giant weather events to distract from joy
10/10
- Minimal rain
- But also nice CRISP temperatures, puts us in the season
- Summer not too hot, so trees kept their leaves, creating full cover for nice colours
- No elections or giant weather events to distract from joy
10/10
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I’m gonna come out and say it: Vancouver is having a spectacular fall.
- Minimal rain
- But also nice CRISP temperatures, puts us in the season
- Summer not too hot, so trees kept their leaves, creating full cover for nice colours
- No elections or giant weather events to distract from joy
10/10
- Minimal rain
- But also nice CRISP temperatures, puts us in the season
- Summer not too hot, so trees kept their leaves, creating full cover for nice colours
- No elections or giant weather events to distract from joy
10/10
This is going to land on my desk at work tomorrow, isn't it?
November 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
This is going to land on my desk at work tomorrow, isn't it?
I have not watched a single minute of baseball live this entire Blue Jays arc, but reading you guys has been a hell of a time
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I have not watched a single minute of baseball live this entire Blue Jays arc, but reading you guys has been a hell of a time
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The Jays and Dodgers will break for Christmas Eve to share a drink in no man’s land, show each other photos of the family they left back home, before heading back to their respective trenches.
October 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
The Jays and Dodgers will break for Christmas Eve to share a drink in no man’s land, show each other photos of the family they left back home, before heading back to their respective trenches.
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
so, baseball huh
October 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
so, baseball huh
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This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
Journalism school profs bookmarking this post for their 'Headline Writing 101' units
A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga
Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'
A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.
n.pr
October 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Journalism school profs bookmarking this post for their 'Headline Writing 101' units
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australian street style, 1973
October 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
australian street style, 1973
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Gonna take this opportunity to be the nth person to say 'One Battle After Another' genuinely rocks, and some of the best and wildest 170 minutes of my year. 'Terminator 2' but it's powered by endearing and clumsy-as-all-hell revolutionary washouts, up against some unnervingly timely bad guys.
October 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Gonna take this opportunity to be the nth person to say 'One Battle After Another' genuinely rocks, and some of the best and wildest 170 minutes of my year. 'Terminator 2' but it's powered by endearing and clumsy-as-all-hell revolutionary washouts, up against some unnervingly timely bad guys.
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Fantastic Ms. Rachel profile by @aishacounts.bsky.social and @felixgillette.bsky.social. The children's YouTube star is advocating for children in Gaza, and amid social-media controversy, says her posts have not shrunk her audience or damaged business relationships: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Why the Queen of Toddler TV Became an Activist for Gaza
Ms. Rachel has enchanted millions of kids with lo-fi, educational videos. Now she’s in her “advocacy era.”
www.bloomberg.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Fantastic Ms. Rachel profile by @aishacounts.bsky.social and @felixgillette.bsky.social. The children's YouTube star is advocating for children in Gaza, and amid social-media controversy, says her posts have not shrunk her audience or damaged business relationships: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Any fellow Canadians/Vancouverites film industry or comedy scene -- or writes a lot about either -- wanna be interviewed about our boy Seth Rogen for Global News in the next few hours? (Or knows anyone who would?)
Feel free to hit me up.
Feel free to hit me up.
September 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Any fellow Canadians/Vancouverites film industry or comedy scene -- or writes a lot about either -- wanna be interviewed about our boy Seth Rogen for Global News in the next few hours? (Or knows anyone who would?)
Feel free to hit me up.
Feel free to hit me up.
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Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
September 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
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these are the two "fashion" outfits men know
September 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
these are the two "fashion" outfits men know
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"I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you."
'Lord of the Rings' star Sean Astin elected SAG-AFTRA president
'Lord of the Rings' star Sean Astin elected SAG-AFTRA president
Astin, who was also in "Rudy" and "The Goonies," will succeed Fran Drescher, who decided not to run for reelection.
www.latimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you."
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So anyways some advice that I’m glad I finally learned to listen to:
1. You do not need to post. You are not a public figure. People are not waiting for you to weigh in.
2. You can log off (see above).
1. You do not need to post. You are not a public figure. People are not waiting for you to weigh in.
2. You can log off (see above).
September 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
So anyways some advice that I’m glad I finally learned to listen to:
1. You do not need to post. You are not a public figure. People are not waiting for you to weigh in.
2. You can log off (see above).
1. You do not need to post. You are not a public figure. People are not waiting for you to weigh in.
2. You can log off (see above).
Takes a lot for me to actually chime into this website, but it's days like today that remind me how emotionally exhausting it is to be in my field.
And it's not even mainly because what was on the news today.
Nor was I even working today.
And it's not even mainly because what was on the news today.
Nor was I even working today.
September 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Takes a lot for me to actually chime into this website, but it's days like today that remind me how emotionally exhausting it is to be in my field.
And it's not even mainly because what was on the news today.
Nor was I even working today.
And it's not even mainly because what was on the news today.
Nor was I even working today.