Marta
@martalinsky.bsky.social
I don’t feel the need to explain my art to you, Warren.
Every time Anxiety Shark shows up in my inbox I am simultaneously delighted I get to read it and also preemptively professionally jealous because Niko’s writing is just that good. I *loved* this piece.
got annoyed with people calling AI a tool, so i wrote a little newsletter about hammers www.anxietyshark.ca/any-hammer-y...
Any hammer you can hold
This is the nature of a tool, which is only ever just a thing and nothing more. An item that exists in the world, that you might hold in your hand and learn to master, with tricks and secrets to its n...
www.anxietyshark.ca
June 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Every time Anxiety Shark shows up in my inbox I am simultaneously delighted I get to read it and also preemptively professionally jealous because Niko’s writing is just that good. I *loved* this piece.
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it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig
May 31, 2026 at 11:47 PM
it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig
My dad insisted on saying the name of Werthers Originals like “vehr-tares”, because, as he would explain, it’s a German word. (We are Anglo Canadians) 30 years later my siblings and I still sneer “vehr-tares” at each other when one of us is pretentious or precious with pronunciation.
hit me with your hyperspecific friend or family slang. when i was a kid my friend once ate too many sour patch kids and then had some ketchup on fries and it was painful because of how acid blasted his tongue was. he told this story a few times, so "a ketchup story" came to mean an oft-repeated tale
June 1, 2026 at 7:29 AM
My dad insisted on saying the name of Werthers Originals like “vehr-tares”, because, as he would explain, it’s a German word. (We are Anglo Canadians) 30 years later my siblings and I still sneer “vehr-tares” at each other when one of us is pretentious or precious with pronunciation.
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"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not
May 19, 2026 at 7:50 PM
"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not
Let’s petition the academy to present a posthumous Oscar to Gene Kelly’s ass.
April 26, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Let’s petition the academy to present a posthumous Oscar to Gene Kelly’s ass.
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“You beat Mario but inauthentically” I yell, realizing that there are actual problems in the world
April 12, 2026 at 3:18 AM
“You beat Mario but inauthentically” I yell, realizing that there are actual problems in the world
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Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them
Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life
Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food.
Me: That's--Hold on,
Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life
Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food.
Me: That's--Hold on,
April 3, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them
Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life
Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food.
Me: That's--Hold on,
Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life
Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food.
Me: That's--Hold on,
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William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:
March 27, 2026 at 2:46 PM
William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:
Greer’s The Female Eunuch, age 10 or so. 😬
So what was everyone's book they read way too young?
March 22, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Greer’s The Female Eunuch, age 10 or so. 😬
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🎵the world is a vampire / im gonna ride it all night long 🎵
March 21, 2026 at 2:07 PM
🎵the world is a vampire / im gonna ride it all night long 🎵
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It's amazing people will claim "Canada and the USA have the same culture" and then on something as fundamental as "do you trust your fellow citizens to be good" we are further apart than any other two countries
Very disturbing implications for a couple of places where I’ve lived, and encouraging ones for the place where I’m from.
From Pew: “We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.”
From Pew: “We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.”
March 6, 2026 at 3:26 PM
It's amazing people will claim "Canada and the USA have the same culture" and then on something as fundamental as "do you trust your fellow citizens to be good" we are further apart than any other two countries
Want to feel all-powerful, like you can do ANYTHING?
Successfully get a pill into your cat’s stomach with no injury to yourself or distress to the cat. A high like no other!
Successfully get a pill into your cat’s stomach with no injury to yourself or distress to the cat. A high like no other!
March 4, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Want to feel all-powerful, like you can do ANYTHING?
Successfully get a pill into your cat’s stomach with no injury to yourself or distress to the cat. A high like no other!
Successfully get a pill into your cat’s stomach with no injury to yourself or distress to the cat. A high like no other!
Something about this referring to Judge Reinhold is extremely funny to me.
February 24, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Something about this referring to Judge Reinhold is extremely funny to me.
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ok yes to be fair, the mikado has fantastic music and also white people are obligated to pretend it doesn't exist for another 100 years
A lot of G&S needs CAREFUL directing and usually a rewrite but PIRATES! A PENZANCE MUSICAL last summer was a personal top-five theatrical experience
the time is RIPE for gilbert & sullivan revivals!!!! they are tiktokcore!!!! they are basically musical letterkenny!!!!!!!!
February 21, 2026 at 6:54 AM
ok yes to be fair, the mikado has fantastic music and also white people are obligated to pretend it doesn't exist for another 100 years
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Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
February 12, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
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too much of fiction is dedicated to trying to convince everyone that being a immortal vampire with a huge rack would be sad actually
February 4, 2026 at 10:47 PM
too much of fiction is dedicated to trying to convince everyone that being a immortal vampire with a huge rack would be sad actually
“One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.” - Chateaubriand
Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.
February 5, 2026 at 12:54 AM
“One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.” - Chateaubriand
February 2, 2026 at 6:11 AM
What a lovely homage to the great and weird of Canadian TV. I tried to explain Today’s Special recently, and I think you just had to be there.
For CBC Arts, I wrote about why I think Canada needs to revel in the beauty of its weirdest impulses www.cbc.ca/arts/canadia...
OPINION | Canadian TV needs to get weird again | CBC Arts
In the ‘80s and ‘90s, English Canadian screens were filled with bizarre, fever dream-like shows. Writer Niko Stratis argues that we need to back to that
www.cbc.ca
January 22, 2026 at 4:23 AM
What a lovely homage to the great and weird of Canadian TV. I tried to explain Today’s Special recently, and I think you just had to be there.
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it took making fun of that little paul dano boy on a podcast to snap the populace out of hypnotic curse miramax warlocks placed on them decades ago
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
it took making fun of that little paul dano boy on a podcast to snap the populace out of hypnotic curse miramax warlocks placed on them decades ago
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Building muscle is mostly about diet. If you want to get big you have to eat other people at the gym
December 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Building muscle is mostly about diet. If you want to get big you have to eat other people at the gym
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Loretta Lynn
Po’girl (Allison Russell’s early band)
Death Cab/Franz Ferdinand double bill
Alanis Morissette
Savage Garden
Loretta Lynn
Po’girl (Allison Russell’s early band)
Death Cab/Franz Ferdinand double bill
Alanis Morissette
Savage Garden
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
cast of Glee
The Kingston Trio
Bo Diddley
Ani DiFranco
Simon & Garfunkel
cast of Glee
The Kingston Trio
Bo Diddley
Ani DiFranco
Simon & Garfunkel
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Yo La Tengo
Taylor Swift
Wilson Pickett
Gang of Four
Spice Girls
Yo La Tengo
Taylor Swift
Wilson Pickett
Gang of Four
Spice Girls
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Loretta Lynn
Po’girl (Allison Russell’s early band)
Death Cab/Franz Ferdinand double bill
Alanis Morissette
Savage Garden
Loretta Lynn
Po’girl (Allison Russell’s early band)
Death Cab/Franz Ferdinand double bill
Alanis Morissette
Savage Garden
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Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
“passive-aggressive weirdos living in isolated weird places” man, let’s put this on the flag. After 7-8 years in NW BC I know it to be true.
people always stereotype Canadians as being polite, and its not true at all. We are passive-agressive weirdos who live in isolated weird places and the sooner we make peace with that the better
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“passive-aggressive weirdos living in isolated weird places” man, let’s put this on the flag. After 7-8 years in NW BC I know it to be true.
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COVID-19 should have brought us together. Instead, it accelerated our turn towards toxic hyper-individualism.
On Remembrance Day, let's rediscover the importance of values like shared sacrifice and mutual interest -- and remember why it mattered.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/10/o...
On Remembrance Day, let's rediscover the importance of values like shared sacrifice and mutual interest -- and remember why it mattered.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/10/o...
In the age of selfishness, let’s rediscover our sense of shared sacrifice
Remembrance Day is a reminder of what we were willing to fight for in the past — and how much it mattered that we fought together.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
COVID-19 should have brought us together. Instead, it accelerated our turn towards toxic hyper-individualism.
On Remembrance Day, let's rediscover the importance of values like shared sacrifice and mutual interest -- and remember why it mattered.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/10/o...
On Remembrance Day, let's rediscover the importance of values like shared sacrifice and mutual interest -- and remember why it mattered.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/10/o...