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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 5h

For those unfamiliar with the term, the SLA was an Israeli sponsored & backed militia that fought against Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon until Israeli withdrawal in 2000–it carried out atrocities and arguably functioned as a way for Israel to have plausible deniability around military actions there.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 5h

Ahhh, I see we’ve entered the “South Lebanese Army” stage of the conflict in Gaza.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7h

Sources say the 28-year-old was killed by members of Israel-linked 'militia' fighting Hamas in the Sabra neighbourhood.

Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi shot dead in Gaza City clashes

Sources say the 28-year-old was killed by members of Israel-linked 'militia' fighting Hamas in the Sabra neighbourhood.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 5h

Just a really mediocre troll is all.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 5h

I would say that many, if not all, are not ethnonationalist.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 11h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure this has already been covered ad nauseaum, but I think the best thing about stuff like this is that it not only takes away the MAGA narrative that these protests are violent, but it also mocks the administration too—they’re so unserious that people wear inflatable costumes to protest them.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Portland 🔥

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 1d

I post something geography related: Minimum to moderate engagement

I post something about pop culture: Tons of engagement

At this rate, the Indigenous Geographies Twitch show is going to just be me giving all kinds of hot takes on pop culture, versus witty, accessible academic stuff 😆

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 1d

First Illibuck game in 8 years! I want the turtle to stay in Columbus.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

At some point, we should talk about writing something together. :-)

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

If you do, wear it with pride.

ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

That actually is a rather well written post.

As to your thoughts, I think that could be one outcome. But the issue, on both sides, is that Land Back is approached as if it is a monolith, versus a term that refers to various different forms of land relations.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

It is disappointing that the winner of this game 5 is probably going to get dog walked by the Blue Jays in the ALCS.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

I see we have reached the point where white people are proudly proclaiming in magazines that they smell terrible. We have come full circle, eh?

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

Best description I’ve heard of Kid Rock’s music:

“Kid Rock is the musical equivalent of a coffee can full of water and cigarette butts”

John Roddy @roddyi.com · 2d

Kid Rock remains the human equivalent of an above-ground pool.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

This history is why I get wary when settlers on the left dismiss Indigenous sovereignty and the prospect of Land Back (which admittedly is very poorly defined) as ethnonationalism because it is based in settler logics around ultimate control of land.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

Blood and soil comes from German ideologies in the 19th century that pushed for a return to rural areas and an embrace of agrarianism, something the Nazis took up as part of the ‘philosophy’ of Lebensraum, an extremely settler colonial ideology if there ever was one.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

The argument that Land Back is ethnonationalism in the “blood and soil” vein is especially shoddy when one looks at the origins of “blood and soil” and see that it actually has a lot in common with settler colonialism versus anything to do with Indigenous land relations.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

Besides her problematic politics, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Corina Machado, praising Trump won't do anything in the long run, because Trump thinks he deserves the award--I expect he'll view her as some brown person stealing what's rightfully his.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

I agree. These folks have their minds made up. I could give the perfect evidence-based reply, and they will hear what they want to hear: that density is bad and we should go back to a neighbourhood full of $1 million+ CAD single-family homes.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately, no; that's within the purview of the United States Board on Geographic Names, a governmental office. NACIS is an academic organization.

That being said, I do feel there is room for NACIS to push back against the renaming of geographical bodies such as the Gulf of Mexico.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 2d

Just one more.

The Study
Every Study Ever:
Reliable transit, safe active transportation options and fewer cars will improve cities.
City:
Hmm, can we really trust every study ever done?

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

I’m assuming the guy is mostly just on some “the city isn’t gonna tell me what to do kick” rather than actually engaging with that I said.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

Right, but the guy was just trying to fling out some ad hominem attack saying that folks like me are trying to stifle seniors’ mobility, or something like that. I’m not even really sure where the guy was going with his arguments to be fair.

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 2d

James Bay is an interesting place. Beautiful neighbourhood, tons of history, but also home to a very strange form of NIMBYism where tall buildings gain or lose support based on whether or not “the Poors” might be able to live there.

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