Maria Schamis Turner
@turnmaria.bsky.social
Editor, writer, and collage artist based in Montreal. Owner of a neurotic dog.
Author of The Life and Design of Frédéric Le ShoeShoe (collage book)
turneredits.com
Author of The Life and Design of Frédéric Le ShoeShoe (collage book)
turneredits.com
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This morning, the Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace performed a tribute to Dolly Parton.
The last time I remember the guards at the palace honoring the memory of an American entertainer was when they paid tribute to Aretha Franklin after she passed away.
The last time I remember the guards at the palace honoring the memory of an American entertainer was when they paid tribute to Aretha Franklin after she passed away.
August 26, 2026 at 1:39 PM
This morning, the Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace performed a tribute to Dolly Parton.
The last time I remember the guards at the palace honoring the memory of an American entertainer was when they paid tribute to Aretha Franklin after she passed away.
The last time I remember the guards at the palace honoring the memory of an American entertainer was when they paid tribute to Aretha Franklin after she passed away.
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Just a head’s up to everyone who hasn’t reassessed their relationship with Shopify yet: its CEO is actively pushing far-right politics in Canada, now with Elon Musk’s explicit support!
lol, annnnnnnd there's the nail in the coffin, if there was still any doubt:
July 29, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Just a head’s up to everyone who hasn’t reassessed their relationship with Shopify yet: its CEO is actively pushing far-right politics in Canada, now with Elon Musk’s explicit support!
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1/ Climate change is not some far-off threat. It is here. It is happening.
And it is caused by the burning of fossil fuels that the Liberal government is pouring billions of public money into expanding.
This is the crisis we cannot afford to ignore.
And it is caused by the burning of fossil fuels that the Liberal government is pouring billions of public money into expanding.
This is the crisis we cannot afford to ignore.
July 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
1/ Climate change is not some far-off threat. It is here. It is happening.
And it is caused by the burning of fossil fuels that the Liberal government is pouring billions of public money into expanding.
This is the crisis we cannot afford to ignore.
And it is caused by the burning of fossil fuels that the Liberal government is pouring billions of public money into expanding.
This is the crisis we cannot afford to ignore.
@aircanada.bsky.social I booked a flight through Air Canada to Bologna. The flight was through Lufthansa and went through Frankfurt. Thanks to a delay leaving Montreal and the new immigration system in Germany I missed my connecting flight. 1
June 16, 2026 at 7:00 AM
@aircanada.bsky.social I booked a flight through Air Canada to Bologna. The flight was through Lufthansa and went through Frankfurt. Thanks to a delay leaving Montreal and the new immigration system in Germany I missed my connecting flight. 1
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The preliminary ruling of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is a sobering reminder that the harms of colonialism are not confined to Canada’s past. (🧵1/4)
June 1, 2026 at 4:37 PM
The preliminary ruling of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is a sobering reminder that the harms of colonialism are not confined to Canada’s past. (🧵1/4)
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Me when the conversation turns to what AI has done, not done, will do, fails to do, fucks up, or offers.
May 19, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Me when the conversation turns to what AI has done, not done, will do, fails to do, fucks up, or offers.
Photo of the painter Marc Chagall taken by my father in Chicago in the late fifties.
April 18, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Photo of the painter Marc Chagall taken by my father in Chicago in the late fifties.
No Kings collage available to download and print
My No Kings collage is now available to download for free. Please share!
drive.google.com/file/d/1pexD...
drive.google.com/file/d/1pexD...
March 28, 2026 at 2:51 PM
No Kings collage available to download and print
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I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
March 26, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
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When I was embarking on my first book of narrative non-fiction, I wrote
a proposal for publishers that cited three examples of the form that I thought beautiful and flawless. Two were "Soul of A New Machine" and "Among School Children." Tracy Kidder was a gentle, graceful master of the form.
a proposal for publishers that cited three examples of the form that I thought beautiful and flawless. Two were "Soul of A New Machine" and "Among School Children." Tracy Kidder was a gentle, graceful master of the form.
Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer-winning author who turned unlikely subjects into bestsellers, dies aged 80
Writer looked to topics such as computer engineering and life in a nursing home to produce richly researched books
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2026 at 11:55 PM
When I was embarking on my first book of narrative non-fiction, I wrote
a proposal for publishers that cited three examples of the form that I thought beautiful and flawless. Two were "Soul of A New Machine" and "Among School Children." Tracy Kidder was a gentle, graceful master of the form.
a proposal for publishers that cited three examples of the form that I thought beautiful and flawless. Two were "Soul of A New Machine" and "Among School Children." Tracy Kidder was a gentle, graceful master of the form.
Well worth the read.
Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite
The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...
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March 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Well worth the read.
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my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
February 24, 2026 at 7:42 PM
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
RIP She was one of the best.
January 30, 2026 at 9:52 PM
RIP She was one of the best.
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Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.
January 19, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.
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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
Thank you Jamelle
January 8, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Thank you Jamelle
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masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
January 7, 2026 at 7:36 PM
masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
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Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
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Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
January 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
Season’s Greetings!
December 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Season’s Greetings!
Santasaurus preferred to pull the sleigh himself.
December 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Santasaurus preferred to pull the sleigh himself.
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Turns out climate change keeps happening even when we decide we don't want to talk about it anymore
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Turns out climate change keeps happening even when we decide we don't want to talk about it anymore
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Today, unionized nonprofit newsrooms across the country are standing shoulder-to-shoulder to demand that news industry leaders agree to common-sense guardrails around the implementation of artificial intelligence to protect the integrity, quality and accuracy of our journalism.
December 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Today, unionized nonprofit newsrooms across the country are standing shoulder-to-shoulder to demand that news industry leaders agree to common-sense guardrails around the implementation of artificial intelligence to protect the integrity, quality and accuracy of our journalism.
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On this day in 1989, an armed gunman murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Another ten women and four men were injured.
The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
December 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
On this day in 1989, an armed gunman murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Another ten women and four men were injured.
The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
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"Reguly implies, correctly I think, that the best argument for buying the F-35 is political, not economic or strategic. That they would remain under US control, giving the US a veto over Canadian military missions, strategy, & potentially over other areas of the relationship, should IMO be decisive"
Another story that encouragingly foregrounds the question of who controls the F-35’s software when considering which jet Canada should buy.
Ideally, reporters would also look beyond the F-35 to the military & government’s pervasive software dependency problem. The F-35’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Ideally, reporters would also look beyond the F-35 to the military & government’s pervasive software dependency problem. The F-35’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Opinion: Sweden offers Canada a chance to revive its near-dead defence aerospace industry
Building Saab’s Gripen fighter jet and GlobalEye surveillance plane in Canada would create thousands of jobs – and infuriate Trump
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"Reguly implies, correctly I think, that the best argument for buying the F-35 is political, not economic or strategic. That they would remain under US control, giving the US a veto over Canadian military missions, strategy, & potentially over other areas of the relationship, should IMO be decisive"