Today my alt-monthly newspaper got an email from a student at Harvard asking if we would be interested in donating drinks to an alumni get-together, indicating that perhaps Google literacy is not on the list of skills that Harvard undergrads are expected to have.
My partner's parents didn't tell her she was diagnosed with ADHD as a pre-teen until she was 25
They also cut off a family friend who suggested her sister might be autistic... and then said sister was diagnosed as an adult. Some families are wild about neurodiversity.
not very feminist for Big Clock to steal an hour of sleep from the girls on International Women's Day
For transfemme and non-binary folks in B.C., this also means that many hormones are free!
Estrogen pills and patches, and progesterone pills, are included for everyone so long as you have a prescription.
Somehow my boss let me refer to this as a "clock tease"
huge news for clock fans and people who hate changing them www.straight.com/city-culture...
It's a three-pronged attack: subliminal, liminal, and super-liminal
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Wonβt
I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.
A huge victory for progressive politics in the UK, as well as the Greens' first byelection win!
concept: urbanist EDM producer called PassiveHaus
Dropout Improv is happening at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver tonight, so it's the perfect time to reread my interviews with the cast (from last year) here: www.straight.com/arts/dropout...
Birthy happday!
As most of my followers probably aren't British, UK student loans are a bit different -- they are held by the government, and are wiped 30 years after you graduate. The debt does not count against your personal finances for getting a loan, etc. But, it's still crazy that I owe the government 55K
A screenshot of my student loans account, which tracks my direct repayments from the last year (Β£442) and the amount of interest added (Β£2,079.27)
oh yeah baby I love student loans, I love throwing money into a hole that only ever gets deeper and then lighting it on fire for good measure
NEW from me today:
Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.
xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...
pretty bleak that the women's Olympic hockey is presented by Ozempic
The amount of work we do -- digital, newsletters, print -- is enormous. You would be shocked to learn how low our budget is and how small our team is that does all of this work. People say they want small media and historically significant things to survive, but they don't survive without money.
The Georgia Straight is free, and it remains free.
But if you'd like to give us money, we have a program called Straight Insiders. For $10/month, you can support our work covering Vancouver's arts and culture scene. Sometimes you can enter draws for free events.
www.straight.com/news/were-la...
ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
maybe we are entering the gastrocene. between ozempic and protein coffee and intermittent fasting and IBS and keto, who doesn't have a constant tummyache?
Let buses be fun!!
V has short blond hair pushed back and is wearing a black turtle neck, green raincoat, and chunky chain. Their face has cosmic purple and blue eyeshadow with a blue Virgo sign and white stars dotted around.
The problem with doing fun makeup before getting on the bus is a lot of people do not know how to respond to fun makeup on the bus
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2026 refuses to have a normal one
today's discovery: the original drummer for The Offspring went on to become a gynecologic oncologist, got sued for medical malpractice, and then saved the life of a potential juror who went into cardiac arrest at jury selection
just sent off my application for permanent residency, time to wait seven months to find out if I fucked up the paperwork
Grok probably: "You want to invade Canada? That's based bro! You're so sigma, just like Elon, and you're emotionally ready for such a big commitment because you're the alpha. Remember that Canada is really cold, so you'd better wear lots of clothes--unlike those teenage girls you sent me photos of!"
Kafkaβs metamorphosis but with PokΓ©mon
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself transformed into an enormous Bug-type.
I'm excited to catch up on Awful Block tomorrow, always the best part of the week
