I truly only make Yorkshire puddings twice a year and every time I do I am reminded I should make them more. (I use the J. Kenji Lopez-Alt recipe with oat milk and 25g of cornstarch subbed in)

Wait is this why my musical friend got confused when I commented on semiquavers

we’re shooting ourselves in the foot because we’re letting racists shape the immigration and housing crisis discourses instead of taking on landlords and developers through mass public housing construction

Last week I got very upset when a permanent residency draw stopped 2 points above my score. But then! Today there was a surprise draw -- and I got an invitation to apply for permanent residency in Canada.

Some thoughts on some things I've been dealing with lately. 1/6

shout out to the guy next to us who dropped a 10,000 yen note into Sensoji Temple, would've been way more boss if you didn't film the whole thing 💀

Things I have managed to do in Japanese: - report my passport missing (and find it again) - figure out what is vegetarian and get things without meat - ask someone in a tiny town to call a taxi for me - explain to a card game store that their English sign doesn't mean what they think it does

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Yutoku Inari Shrine in Kashima (northern Kyushu) is one of my favourite shrines I've been to in Japan. For one of the three most famous Inari shrines, it was incredibly quiet.

Fukuoka malls are wild. This one closes at 8:30! This one mostly closes at 8 but some floors close at 9! This one is entirely underground connecting four other malls! Also we turned off some of the elevators but won't tell you that

Every mall in Japan is blasting Christmas music; not even in semi-rural Shimane Prefecture can I escape from Michael Bublé

Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.

Had a young guy come up to me in Kyoto Station to practice English and ask me why I was in a hurry, and I responded in Japanese that my wife was waiting for me. "You got married to a woman? ... sugoi"

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

has anyone in the federal government said what the plan to give 33,000 temporary workers permanent residency mentioned in the budget actually is? This is the one (possibly) good thing for migrants in the budget and there are just no details on it whatsoever, which is pretty par for the course.

RIP Guy Fawkes you would have loved Guy Fawkes Night

man I love hair salon conversations. A client telling her hairdresser that autistic people have telepathic powers, hairdresser discussing her serious interest in quantum physics texts

trying to guess how the blue jays are doing based purely on my timeline feels like when priestesses used to burn animal bones to divine the future

The platforming of the LGB Aliiance in the UK has helped mainstream this idea that cis queer people are turning on trans people, even though it is only supported by a small number of vocal bootlickers.

at least cricket, which has matches that stretch for several days, has the decency to schedule tea breaks

2025 is protein in everything and joy in nothing. There are no more little treats, there are only GAINS and MACROS and ozempic ads on Spotify and COFFEE THAT WILL DESTROY YOU IN THE PURSUIT OF SICK DELTS

a trans person when they misgender someone: oops sorry bud a cis person when they misgender someone: I am so sorry. It was thoughtless and unwarranted and a mistake is no excuse. I have taken the time to reflect on my actions and will be more mindful. I will send you this apology every single time

a trans person when they misgender someone: oops sorry bud a cis person when they misgender someone: I am so sorry. It was thoughtless and unwarranted and a mistake is no excuse. I have taken the time to reflect on my actions and will be more mindful. I will send you this apology every single time

ADHD tax is taking off your bracelet to make Thanksgiving dinner, cleaning the house, remembering a week later you're not wearing a bracelet, and having simply no idea where it could be. Another toll paid to the trinket goblin.

Come work with me! Xtra is bringing on five early-career BIPOC journalists for a paid editorial project on LGBTQ2S+ people and work. Applications are due later this month.

I know: - mine - my fiancee's - my parents' landline - my old mobile - maybe my dad's mobile - one friend from when I was 10 - OH EIGHT HUNDRED DOUBLE-OH TEN SIXTY SIX

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

The paedophile ex-lead singer of Lostprophets has been killed in prison, after getting arrested in 2013. People knew of parts of his terrible behaviour years earlier, but the police refused to investigate tips from predominantly women and teenage girls.

I completely blanked on Ghibli Museum tickets being an absolute nightmare to buy. 90 seconds after ticket sales opened and i was number 36,000 in the queue like it's a Taylor Swift concert

Worcestershire, Slough, Middlesborough, Portsmouth, Reading...

I made a flyer! Know anyone in CA, OR, WA, or BC who might be interested in collecting mushrooms for research purposes? #mycology #citizenscience Please share widely! 🧪 🍄‍🟫 🌲 A PDF version can be found here: drive.proton.me/urls/W1MM4FG...

If you wanna listen to a horny straight pop song Carly Rae Jepsen is right there

mangaka with a cold, call him Gunji Ito

Opinion so far on Hades II: just let me fish

Twitch's Subtember should logically be followed by Toptober

I'm less gender diverse, more gender averse

Tepid take: more video games should have a built in randomizer. Cassette Beasts does and it slaps!

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

I am once again thinking about this monumental video esssy today. A worthwhile watch, if you haven't already seen it: youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...

I think we should bring back lyricposting. No more thoughts, just whatever song you're really into rn

The uniquely disconcerting feeling of being woken up by the fire alarm going off 😵‍💫

Rest in Peace, Haru Urara

Marcy and I are having an extended debate over whether cooking beans counts as "using" beans and therefore whether it's accurate to call baked beans "used beans"

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

Treating myself to a new ereader, happy early birthday to me 🥰

Oh man, I'm already so tired, and then the Parks Board announced they're going to put up a bunch of Harry Pitter tat in Stanley Park this fall

The Best of Vancouver awards are live! Please vote for a bunch of your favourite stuff in the city so we can make a newspaper telling you what everyone voted for: www.straight.com/living/vote-...

The Best of Vancouver awards are live! Please vote for a bunch of your favourite stuff in the city so we can make a newspaper telling you what everyone voted for: www.straight.com/living/vote-...

Weird Al deserves more props for irrevocably tying mundane things (eBay, hardware stores, drive-thrus) with his bangers