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"There's only one rule that I know of, babies. God damn it, you've got to be kind." Toronto-based writer, editor and journalist. Opinions are my own. she/her

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Eating this at a ballpark on a sunny day would fix me.

11.03.2026 18:27 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think I would probably enjoy playing with friends who don’t expect me to be good. Playing with my family was a sure-fire way for me to get yelled at, so I noped out. But, theast time I went home, we played gin rummy and I won and I will never let them forget it.

09.03.2026 22:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think my family didn’t have the patience to teach me. I’m a slow and methodical decision maker and card games often move quickly and sometimes involve the kind of fast math that I struggle to do in my head.

09.03.2026 22:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

But I DO like Oh Hell.

09.03.2026 19:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I suffered as a child who wasn’t adept at cards but whose family had a weekly card night with grandparents to play whist and euchre and various other trick-taking games that I refused to learn. While my brother played, I would watch SNL and dream of one day writing Weekend Update bits.

09.03.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And if I’m in Montreal, then it’s cafΓ© allongΓ© all day, baby!

09.03.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If I’m at an indie coffee shop, I do a flat white. If it’s Starbucks, then the brown sugar oat cortado is decent.

09.03.2026 19:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Mine too. I wish I had a photo of him easily accessible from the time. He looks straight out of central casting.

09.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My parents are OG hippies and the Woodstock album was so interesting to me as a kid, but my favourite song on it was Country Joe’s Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag. It was so sarcastic and darkly funny, but it also felt like the plaintive wail of a generation.

09.03.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Country Joe & the Fish - VietNam Song - Live Woodstock 1969 - Full HD Video
Country Joe & the Fish - VietNam Song - Live Woodstock 1969 - Full HD Video YouTube video by Dima T

Country Joe McDonald dying days after the spectre of the draft was raised in America as the U.S. pushes into yet another war nobody wants is a little on the nose. RIP to a real one.

09.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, what’s that? Your appetite commands you to get what YOU want WHEN you want it at the expense of everyone around you who wants something different? It sounds like you might need to read an opinion piece about how that is dangerous for, um, society. According to Edmund Burke.

09.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, it must be said that if you are THIS upset about a service that a coffee shop provides to paying customers, then you should maybe just buy a moka pot and make your own espresso, you freak.

09.03.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Railing against Starbucks drinks was literally an extremely minor plot point in You’ve Got Mail, which is almost 30 years old! I would LOVE to go back in time to the days when multi-millionaires wanted to sell me cheap books and legal addictive stimulants.

09.03.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It astounds me that people listen to podcasts sped up. When I was learning radio, all the teachers would tell us to sloooooowwwww down.

09.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think, on International Women’s Day, women should be able to commit all the crimes they want. We can have little a purge. As a treat.

08.03.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The perfect Saturday: wake up at 11:30am (still technically morning! Already winning), make and drink a latte, eat some leftover Nutella/Biscoff dessert pizza for breakfast. Sprawl out on the sofa under a heated blanket. Have a nap.

07.03.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

07.03.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 21838 πŸ” 6564 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 162
I ask for a horse and I get a horse! Humans > aI

I ask for a horse and I get a horse! Humans > aI

Wheeeee!

07.03.2026 05:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ahhhh! His little dobok! πŸ₯‹

07.03.2026 05:03 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I LIKE working nights, but something (perimenopause) has upset my sleep rhythms lately and I think this knocked it back into place. So yes, it’s good to know that I can request an occasional string of morning shifts if I need to recalibrate!

07.03.2026 00:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Recently, I filled in for a colleague who starts her day at 8am. I’ve been on nights for most of my adult life and had been having horrible insomnia, so I was anxious about the gig, but it actually helped reset my sleep schedule. My phone just told me my average sleep time has increased by 2 hours!

06.03.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Would that we could get off social media, buddy! That shit is hardwired in!

I remember learning about Gopher protocol in junior high. That was the internet before the internet, baby.

If I think hard, I can still hear the tear of the perforated edges on the paper from the dot matrix printer.

06.03.2026 07:50 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am a Hateful Eight hater. I sub in Misery and/or The Shining as definitively winter movies.

06.03.2026 01:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well what else are we going to do with all the dirt that will result from the giant tunnel he wants to build under the highway?

06.03.2026 00:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Insane.

02.03.2026 22:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

02.03.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 803 πŸ” 560 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 10

He wasn’t a Much Music host. He was the host of Canadian Idol.

02.03.2026 17:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Daal/doll, SAG/saag

02.03.2026 04:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have been enjoying Dark Winds, but the clothing and hair and makeup is taking me right out of it. I keep forgetting that it’s supposed to take place in the 70s. The collars need to be, like, 80% pointier and the pants should be much MUCH tighter.

02.03.2026 04:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I recall a time when Trump was on Late Night and Conan pulled a condom from Trump’s pocket and Trump was legit pissed at him for it. Like a psycho.

01.03.2026 21:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0