M Jay Smith
@mjaysmith.bsky.social
writer, jock. author of the eclipse: poems after antonioni. an antelope with a bad attitude, forthcoming 2026 with freehand books. actually a lawyer. yeg/amiskwacîwâskahikan
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M Jay Smith
@mjaysmith.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Look at how cute this little book of poems is! You can buy *the eclipse* locally from Magpie Books or Porchlight, or use the internet to buy from magpiebooks.ca or barnesandnoble.com/w/the-eclipse-m-jay-smith/1146449264
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If today’s New York Times editors had been working in London in 1888, they would’ve said Jack the Ripper was “testing societal norms“ and “straining the bounds of propriety.”
July 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
If today’s New York Times editors had been working in London in 1888, they would’ve said Jack the Ripper was “testing societal norms“ and “straining the bounds of propriety.”
wow. our real estate agent keeps trying to convince us that having a yard like this is a good idea. i keep saying no. good thing i spent 15 years playing indoor soccer!
Oh great so the stuff that gets all over our house after a soccer game can cause cancer and other health problems 🙃
June 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
wow. our real estate agent keeps trying to convince us that having a yard like this is a good idea. i keep saying no. good thing i spent 15 years playing indoor soccer!
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seen some people complaining that this is a political stunt and lemme say if this was the kind of political stunt more politicians were doing on a regular basis we wouldn't be where we are today
dude is actually putting himself on the line here, fuck off with that shit
dude is actually putting himself on the line here, fuck off with that shit
Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE
June 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
seen some people complaining that this is a political stunt and lemme say if this was the kind of political stunt more politicians were doing on a regular basis we wouldn't be where we are today
dude is actually putting himself on the line here, fuck off with that shit
dude is actually putting himself on the line here, fuck off with that shit
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Radio-Canada's investigation was remarkable - and this goes to show that sometimes journalism is all the justice people will get. So we need to make the effort and do it right.
Electronics magnate Robert Miller was charged with having sex with minors -- 11 victims, some who were less than 14.
Crown agrees to drop charges against the 83-year-old after doctors testify he's in poor health, has Parkinson's.
www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...
Crown agrees to drop charges against the 83-year-old after doctors testify he's in poor health, has Parkinson's.
www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...
Crown agrees to stop criminal trial against Montreal billionaire Robert Miller
The Future Electronics founder was charged last summer with paying minors to have sex.
www.montrealgazette.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Radio-Canada's investigation was remarkable - and this goes to show that sometimes journalism is all the justice people will get. So we need to make the effort and do it right.
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it's like a feud between two drakes, not a kendrick in sight
June 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
it's like a feud between two drakes, not a kendrick in sight
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The phrase “Bigfoot is bears” is going to be part of my mental landscape for the rest of my life
is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.
June 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM
The phrase “Bigfoot is bears” is going to be part of my mental landscape for the rest of my life
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Happy pride month ❤️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
June 2, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Happy pride month ❤️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
today in mediclinics-on-a-monday, we are very very old, or very young & coughing, or very covered in face tattoos.
June 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
today in mediclinics-on-a-monday, we are very very old, or very young & coughing, or very covered in face tattoos.
I'm not really a fan of the sport of dumping Lena Dunham, but also — wtf, the death of Ana Mendieta is not romantic in any context. How did she think this? How was it even published?
May 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I'm not really a fan of the sport of dumping Lena Dunham, but also — wtf, the death of Ana Mendieta is not romantic in any context. How did she think this? How was it even published?
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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Danielle Smith is one of Pierre Poilievre's biggest fans. She also just torpedoed his election campaign.
Whoopsie daisy.
#cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/23/o...
Whoopsie daisy.
#cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/23/o...
Danielle Smith is Mark Carney's secret weapon
In a recent interview with far-right U.S. media site Breitbart, Smith handed Carney a gift-wrapped sledgehammer in the form of an admission that Pierre Poilievre would be "in sync" with Trump.
www.nationalobserver.com
March 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Danielle Smith is one of Pierre Poilievre's biggest fans. She also just torpedoed his election campaign.
Whoopsie daisy.
#cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/23/o...
Whoopsie daisy.
#cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/23/o...
bwahahaha
March 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
bwahahaha
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Absurd we still need to go through this
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March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
Absurd we still need to go through this
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read this
Republicans just dropped their first open attack on women's right to travel. jessica.substack.com/p/montana-bi...
February 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
read this
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as someone who is not a fan of catholicism, but who respects liberation theology (yes), i'm kind of sad about the pope.
the play-by-plays on the hourly news is a lot. 🥲
the play-by-plays on the hourly news is a lot. 🥲
February 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
as someone who is not a fan of catholicism, but who respects liberation theology (yes), i'm kind of sad about the pope.
the play-by-plays on the hourly news is a lot. 🥲
the play-by-plays on the hourly news is a lot. 🥲
RB & I just looked at an open house & sometimes I'm like, I don't really care about the concrete countertops (though they're nice), I just want to know the person who has such a good bookcase.
February 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
RB & I just looked at an open house & sometimes I'm like, I don't really care about the concrete countertops (though they're nice), I just want to know the person who has such a good bookcase.
Elon Musk's mother is from the City That Rhymes With Fun?! (Sign the petition.)
Hey, Canada!
Sign the petition to revoke Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Sign the petition to revoke Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Sign this Petition - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
February 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Elon Musk's mother is from the City That Rhymes With Fun?! (Sign the petition.)
i think you're supposed to be invested in hockey rn?
February 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
i think you're supposed to be invested in hockey rn?
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Something something free speech
"One FAA employee who was fired over the weekend suggested he was targeted for his views on Tesla and X..'The official DOGE Facebook page started harassing me on my personal Facebook account..Less than a week later I was fired, despite my position allegedly being exempted due to national security.'"
Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in Washi...
apnews.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Something something free speech
When I was 19 (so young!) kicking through South America, I found a mercado negro cassette copy of a Maná album & proceeded to listen to it on repeat on repeat on repeat. Listening to "Rayando el sol" just made me cry for nostalgia. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Maná Thinks Their Rock Hall of Fame Nod Is 'the Start of Something Much Bigger'
Maná opens up about their 40-year career and why they dedicated their historic Rock Hall of Fame nomination to Latino immigrants in the U.S.
www.rollingstone.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
When I was 19 (so young!) kicking through South America, I found a mercado negro cassette copy of a Maná album & proceeded to listen to it on repeat on repeat on repeat. Listening to "Rayando el sol" just made me cry for nostalgia. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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They have no intention of giving us voting rights. Stop sane washing this nonsense, please.
I get that they’re doing this mostly as a weird flex to look tough to their base of incel losers.
But if they actually got this — ten new states full of voters who hate Trump, with 20 senators and who knows how many House members — it would absolutely end them.
But if they actually got this — ten new states full of voters who hate Trump, with 20 senators and who knows how many House members — it would absolutely end them.
This is Andrew Beck.
Beck is Vice President of the Claremont Institute, one of the intellectual braintrusts of radical Trumpism.
He's been all in on the anchuluss of Canada.
Beck is Vice President of the Claremont Institute, one of the intellectual braintrusts of radical Trumpism.
He's been all in on the anchuluss of Canada.
February 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
They have no intention of giving us voting rights. Stop sane washing this nonsense, please.
the logo! be still, my heart!
I'm getting word that—yes, yes, we've got that confirmed—the people ostensibly covering the government came up with another way to say "patriarchy"
I mean, Jesus Christ, can you people even *hear* yourself?
I'm about to die of secondhand embarrassment just reading this crap.
I'm about to die of secondhand embarrassment just reading this crap.
February 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
the logo! be still, my heart!
I'm a lawyer, and there's one way to spell "judgement" that, in my principal's parlance, makes you look like a rube and there's another way to spell "judgment" that doesn't. Which is which? I don't know. Still.
Don't tell me because I won't remember, but also, I want to know.
Don't tell me because I won't remember, but also, I want to know.
February 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I'm a lawyer, and there's one way to spell "judgement" that, in my principal's parlance, makes you look like a rube and there's another way to spell "judgment" that doesn't. Which is which? I don't know. Still.
Don't tell me because I won't remember, but also, I want to know.
Don't tell me because I won't remember, but also, I want to know.
I don't know if you've noticed, but Google has been serving up trash search engine results (so counterproductively that I've been relying on Duck Duck Go). Also, they're fucking awful.
www.theverge.com/news/608858/...
www.theverge.com/news/608858/...
Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’
Some users are angry that some events have been removed.
www.theverge.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I don't know if you've noticed, but Google has been serving up trash search engine results (so counterproductively that I've been relying on Duck Duck Go). Also, they're fucking awful.
www.theverge.com/news/608858/...
www.theverge.com/news/608858/...