Philip Mai
@philipmai
Executive Director of SocialMediaLab.ca | M.S., J.D. | Media interviews PhilipMai.com/Press/ | Researcher & Developer of social media analysis tools for research in the public interest: SocialMediaLab.ca/apps/
The other screen was too small. Lol... Not sure who that halftime show was targeted at.
I never get over how weird it is to be online while flying at 30k+ feet over the Atlantic.
😍 Happy Monday! Here's a flowers update. #bloomscolling #flowers #gardening #Toronto
What a gorgeous morning in Toronto. A few more days and these beauties will be in full bloom. 😍 #bloomscolling #flowers #gardening
What a gorgeous morning in #Toronto ... sunlight spilling over the skyline, the city easing into its rhythm, and everything feeling just a little lighter than usual. #summer2026
Hello summer! Major #poweroutage in downtown #Toronto. All the signage at the Eaton Centre is out, as are all traffic lights.
Erasing history and facts didn't work for the USSR, and they were better at it than anyone else.
"Pomp, pageantry but precious little to show for Trump’s Beijing excursion" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
It’s interesting, I tend to get a lot of bot followers whenever I post about China. This has been happening for a couple of years now. Bluesky can't seem to shake these ladies who stare into distant horizons.
Spring has returned to Toronto, undaunted by us and our petty squabbles. Nature keeps her own time. #doomscrollingbreak
The trolling of America continues. Thanks to social media algorithms, the distribution of propaganda, for better or for worse, has now been democratized.
So all STEM, all of the time? My alma mater, Syracuse University, to sunset’s 9 majors, reimagine others after the Art & Science portfolio review. Can't imagine why we would need Russian or classical history anymore. 🙄 dailyorange.com/2026/03/suns...
Hurray for political cartoonists. They can cut with a paint brush 🖌️. This one is by Bill Bramhall of the New York Daily News
Canada a liberal democracy still under construction. Back in Ottawa for a couple of days, thinking about how this place is constantly being built, debated, and reimagined.
Look over there, don't look over here: "Trump’s approval rating with independents hits a new low..." www.cnn.com/2026/02/23/p...
Fact: People in Denmark and Greenland live longer than Americans. They, unlike the US, have good, free, nationalized health care. So, if anybody should send a medical ship, it should be Denmark.
How is it that Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is now 25 years old? Gosh, I feel old.
The claim: Online rumours claim the EU is creating a taxpayer-funded social network called “W” to replace X and serve as a censorship tool. The facts: W is not an EU project but a private venture backed by Swedish investors, led by a Swiss privacy expert. www.bilanz.ch/people/w-soc...
Not sure how we made it back to Toronto with all of the flight cancellations today, but it's good to be back home!