Bob Basil
@professorbasil.bsky.social
CMNS prof at University Canada West, retired from Kwantlen Polytechnic U. Author / editor / publisher + Vancouver flâneur. Stanford U. & Univ. Buffalo alum.
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Teen Vogue has become a top-tier political journalism authority and doing this the day before election day is just cruel.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Teen Vogue has become a top-tier political journalism authority and doing this the day before election day is just cruel.
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In June I announced that I was retiring from NYU after 39 years, but I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press.
Today I can explain what I meant by not leaving the field. I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Read on. newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...
Today I can explain what I meant by not leaving the field. I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Read on. newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...
I joined up with News Creator Corps by putting two and two together… Allow me to explain. - News Creator Corps
The consumers of news and information, the people formerly known as the audience, have gone into the production side.
newscreatorcorps.org
October 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In June I announced that I was retiring from NYU after 39 years, but I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press.
Today I can explain what I meant by not leaving the field. I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Read on. newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...
Today I can explain what I meant by not leaving the field. I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Read on. newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...
After more than 22 years, I am retiring from Kwantlen Polytechnic University. That place was my anchor for a long time. I had colleagues whom I adored and students whom I cherished.
September 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
After more than 22 years, I am retiring from Kwantlen Polytechnic University. That place was my anchor for a long time. I had colleagues whom I adored and students whom I cherished.
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my institution just introduced an IT Service Desk virtual assistant that has the same name as the person who runs the psych lab, and maybe this is a good reason why you don't give virtual assistants human names?
July 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
my institution just introduced an IT Service Desk virtual assistant that has the same name as the person who runs the psych lab, and maybe this is a good reason why you don't give virtual assistants human names?
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my friend @professorbasil.bsky.social taught me the phrase "good mental hygiene" and I am glad that my ethical stance against the use of ChatGPT and other forms of GenAI is also an act of good mental hygiene.
July 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
my friend @professorbasil.bsky.social taught me the phrase "good mental hygiene" and I am glad that my ethical stance against the use of ChatGPT and other forms of GenAI is also an act of good mental hygiene.
Ten authors by whom I’ve read more than 5 books (not including poetry):
Henry James
James M. Cain
Janet Malcolm
Zora Neale Hurston
Hugh Kenner
Guy Davenport
Roland Barthes
Barbara Kingsolver
Ron Chernow
Joan Didion
Henry James
James M. Cain
Janet Malcolm
Zora Neale Hurston
Hugh Kenner
Guy Davenport
Roland Barthes
Barbara Kingsolver
Ron Chernow
Joan Didion
Ten authors by whom I’ve read more than 5 books:
Daphne Du Maurier
Iain M. Banks
James M. Cain
Cornell Woolrich
Rachel Ingalls
Stephen King
Charles Dickens
Margaret Millar
P.G. Wodehouse
Georgette Heyer
Daphne Du Maurier
Iain M. Banks
James M. Cain
Cornell Woolrich
Rachel Ingalls
Stephen King
Charles Dickens
Margaret Millar
P.G. Wodehouse
Georgette Heyer
Ten writers by whom I’ve read more than 5 books:
1. Kate O’Brien
2. Sydney Owenson
3. Walter Scott
4. Charles Dickens
5. Elizabeth Bowen
6. John McGahern
7. Edna O’Brien
8. Jane Austen
9. Arthur Conan Doyle
10. Eoin McNamee
1. Kate O’Brien
2. Sydney Owenson
3. Walter Scott
4. Charles Dickens
5. Elizabeth Bowen
6. John McGahern
7. Edna O’Brien
8. Jane Austen
9. Arthur Conan Doyle
10. Eoin McNamee
July 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Ten authors by whom I’ve read more than 5 books (not including poetry):
Henry James
James M. Cain
Janet Malcolm
Zora Neale Hurston
Hugh Kenner
Guy Davenport
Roland Barthes
Barbara Kingsolver
Ron Chernow
Joan Didion
Henry James
James M. Cain
Janet Malcolm
Zora Neale Hurston
Hugh Kenner
Guy Davenport
Roland Barthes
Barbara Kingsolver
Ron Chernow
Joan Didion
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Rep. Raskin is 100% on target. The administration is setting Jews up as scapegoats for its destruction of higher education & research infrastructure. These policies don’t protect Jews bc they aren’t intended to protect us. I’m begging non-Jews not to buy into the lie that Jews are to blame for this.
Thanks @raskin.house.gov for seeing through the right’s smokescreen antisemitism and saying what we know:
We will never dismantle antisemitism with authoritarian measures that make Jews — and all of us — less safe.
Especially when doing so in the name of Jewish safety paints Jews as scapegoats.
We will never dismantle antisemitism with authoritarian measures that make Jews — and all of us — less safe.
Especially when doing so in the name of Jewish safety paints Jews as scapegoats.
June 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Rep. Raskin is 100% on target. The administration is setting Jews up as scapegoats for its destruction of higher education & research infrastructure. These policies don’t protect Jews bc they aren’t intended to protect us. I’m begging non-Jews not to buy into the lie that Jews are to blame for this.
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[2 million people are on Trump's concentration camps]
Project 2029: what we need are bipartisan commonsense solutions to the camp problem
Project 2029: what we need are bipartisan commonsense solutions to the camp problem
June 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
[2 million people are on Trump's concentration camps]
Project 2029: what we need are bipartisan commonsense solutions to the camp problem
Project 2029: what we need are bipartisan commonsense solutions to the camp problem
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Nothing scares me more than how little the average person considers the environment when thinking about technological "advancements." We're sentencing ourselves to death in the name of meaningless short term efficiencies
June 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Nothing scares me more than how little the average person considers the environment when thinking about technological "advancements." We're sentencing ourselves to death in the name of meaningless short term efficiencies
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Big news! The Davie Village Pride Festival is back after a six-year hiatus marking a meaningful homecoming on August 3rd.
This year's #Vancouver #Pride Parade will have its route reversed so that it once again culminates in the heart of Vancouver's 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
This year's #Vancouver #Pride Parade will have its route reversed so that it once again culminates in the heart of Vancouver's 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
Davie Village Pride Festival
Davie Village Pride Festival is Aug 3 marking a homecoming to the heart of Vancouver's 2SLGBTQIA+ community at the finale of the Pride Parade
miss604.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Big news! The Davie Village Pride Festival is back after a six-year hiatus marking a meaningful homecoming on August 3rd.
This year's #Vancouver #Pride Parade will have its route reversed so that it once again culminates in the heart of Vancouver's 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
This year's #Vancouver #Pride Parade will have its route reversed so that it once again culminates in the heart of Vancouver's 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
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2/2 I asked the officers to call the property representative & offered to give them the number. One gave my bike & trailer a cursoryblook. Said they didn't need to do street check but did one anyway. Admitted they were clueless about #Vancouver Fairview. Rotational, drive-by-policing sucks!
June 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
2/2 I asked the officers to call the property representative & offered to give them the number. One gave my bike & trailer a cursoryblook. Said they didn't need to do street check but did one anyway. Admitted they were clueless about #Vancouver Fairview. Rotational, drive-by-policing sucks!
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1/2 Dodgy-looking guy who turned out to be plainclothed #Vancouver police officer stepped into my #homeless parkade sleeping spot. Matked VPD cruiser rolled in to join him. Driver curtly asked me when I'd be leaving. To this intimidation I said I had no plan to leave & was there by permission...
June 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
1/2 Dodgy-looking guy who turned out to be plainclothed #Vancouver police officer stepped into my #homeless parkade sleeping spot. Matked VPD cruiser rolled in to join him. Driver curtly asked me when I'd be leaving. To this intimidation I said I had no plan to leave & was there by permission...
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I feel like a million bucks. Defunded from a state-sanctioned violence organization that defends capital 🙌
May 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I feel like a million bucks. Defunded from a state-sanctioned violence organization that defends capital 🙌
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I passed my PhD defense!! I'm officially a Doctor of Full Luxury Queer Space Decolonial Anarchist Witchcraft! 🎉
May 30, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I passed my PhD defense!! I'm officially a Doctor of Full Luxury Queer Space Decolonial Anarchist Witchcraft! 🎉
No nation will or would accept Palestinian refugees en masse, because that nation would then be under Israel's gun, targeting "terrorists" in the new host nation.
The Trump administration is working on a plan to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip and move 1mm of its residents to Libya.
Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya
Details are murky and no final agreement has been reached, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership.
www.nbcnews.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
No nation will or would accept Palestinian refugees en masse, because that nation would then be under Israel's gun, targeting "terrorists" in the new host nation.
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when you've given it your all and it's only tuesday
April 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
when you've given it your all and it's only tuesday
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There is an underlying racism to this that devalues the expertise, knowledge, and craftsmanship of the Chinese engineers that bring this product to market.
Stop buying into it.
Stop buying into it.
April 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
There is an underlying racism to this that devalues the expertise, knowledge, and craftsmanship of the Chinese engineers that bring this product to market.
Stop buying into it.
Stop buying into it.
My good neighbours, buy Canadian and buy Mexican.
February 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
My good neighbours, buy Canadian and buy Mexican.
My least favourite maxim belongs to George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Remembering the past is a necessary step in *repeating* its calamities. Trump has read Stalin and the rest, fine-tuning. Forget the fucking past.
February 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
My least favourite maxim belongs to George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Remembering the past is a necessary step in *repeating* its calamities. Trump has read Stalin and the rest, fine-tuning. Forget the fucking past.
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we have a new rallying cry
![Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jky6uuetr73nlbaml6ytlzbi/bafkreibjh2gbp75z5bojibdoefdpfdwlclxwspai2i7qfjotajpraru3zm@jpeg)
January 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
we have a new rallying cry
Buffalo Bills play the Chiefs today. I am calling my intense anxiety a "high level of appropriate anticipation" to please my psychiatrist.
January 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Buffalo Bills play the Chiefs today. I am calling my intense anxiety a "high level of appropriate anticipation" to please my psychiatrist.
She relished her ignorance. And that made her evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/a...
Anita Bryant, Whose Anti-Gay Politics Undid a Singing Career, Is Dead at 84
The former beauty queen and spokeswoman for Florida orange juice was an all-American entertainer before she began crusading against L.G.B.T.Q. rights.
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
She relished her ignorance. And that made her evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/a...
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I will pay any amount to have fire fighters, except my property taxes, I am very intelligent
January 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I will pay any amount to have fire fighters, except my property taxes, I am very intelligent
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It was a "nonevent" because thousands of people worked extremely hard to prevent it from becoming an event, you twits.
Yes, the Y2K software problem turned out to be a nonevent. But 25 years ago, The New York Times took it seriously, publishing over 100 stories.
Our tech reporter who wrote a front-page article on Jan. 1, 2000, reflects on the crisis that never was.
Our tech reporter who wrote a front-page article on Jan. 1, 2000, reflects on the crisis that never was.
Inside the Y2K Crisis That Never Was, 25 Years Later
Planes didn’t fall from the sky on Jan. 1, 2000. A technology reporter who wrote a front-page article early that morning reflects on a crisis that never was.
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2024 at 9:41 PM
It was a "nonevent" because thousands of people worked extremely hard to prevent it from becoming an event, you twits.