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Neil Shyminsky

@neilshyminsky

English professor; union guy; co-editor of Spaces & Places of Canadian Popular Culture; writing about the X-Men; feminist dad; he/him; @professorneil on TikTok

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If I'd been asked to share a Chart of the Year, it would've been this one showing just how obscene Canadian corporate markups have been since the pandemic. Markups were already trending higher. The pandemic turbo-charged them.

If I'd been asked to share a Chart of the Year, it would've been this one showing just how obscene Canadian corporate markups have been since the pandemic.

Markups were already trending higher. The pandemic turbo-charged them.
raine🦂 (@thegorezone) 's Twitter Profile Photo

john waters, paul verhoeven and david cronenberg are all working on new movies right now. it’s like they saw all the anti-sex scene discourse and assembled the pervert film elder avengers

Neil Shyminsky (@neilshyminsky) 's Twitter Profile Photo

One of the reasons that the rich and powerful can be so outrageously wrong and make such surprisingly stupid decisions? They can afford it.

Geoff Klock (@geoffklock) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The mutability of the physical world is frightening because it means you will change into a skeleton and fertilizer and that’s why people invented philosophy and religion — to provide unchanging verities

Neil Shyminsky (@neilshyminsky) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I made a similar point on Threads, when someone DMed me to demand that I do a better job of moderating my TikTok comments. Which would take HOURS, every day. It just isn’t possible.

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Why does any millionaire think that crying about a tax on the rich is going to go over well with us, the unwashed masses? (Spoiler: it won’t.)

Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd on blu sky) (@rothschildmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"I've left the cult of science" she declared on her livestream sent over high-speed internet while speaking into a sound amplification device, staring at a laptop computer, and drinking from a vessel designed to keep hot and cold liquids at their original temperature.

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I truly can’t tell if this is poking fun at how certain Star Wars fans are just awful people prone to laughable melodrama… or an actual Star Wars fan who is just an awful person with zero self-awareness. 🤷‍♂️

Eliza Orlins (@elizaorlins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ever wondered about the biggest injustices in the U.S. criminal legal system? I explored this using Perplexity and found some eye-opening insights. Check out what I discovered below👇 What do you think is the most urgent issue to address? Let’s discuss!

Ever wondered about the biggest injustices in the U.S. criminal legal system? 

I explored this using <a href="/perplexity_ai/">Perplexity</a> and found some eye-opening insights. Check out what I discovered below👇 

What do you think is the most urgent issue to address? Let’s discuss!
Neil Shyminsky (@neilshyminsky) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So, I decided to test Perplexity by asking it the most divisive and contentious question I could imagine. And to its credit? It gave me the correct answer! (I will not be entertaining alternatives or nuance. Any other answer is simply wrong.)

So, I decided to test <a href="/perplexity_ai/">Perplexity</a> by asking it the most divisive and contentious question I could imagine. And to its credit? It gave me the correct answer!

(I will not be entertaining alternatives or nuance. Any other answer is simply wrong.)