The Economist here is telling you that it hates young people and does not consider them part of its reader demographic. A great idea to only continue appealing to the older generations, because it's not like they're dying or anything.

When it's too hot outside, take the coldest shower you can. No, colder. Colder. Colder. Chill all of your meat and feel the icy fingers grasp deep into your bones. This is "coldboning", a summer staple in our house.

The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival that runs in Stanley Park on August 28-30 has announced its full lineup of comedians. Which do you think the lineup has more of: women, or men named Pete?

laughed so hard at Game Changer that I think I pulled a muscle in my ribs

actually you should be able to get an ice cold Arizona ice tea at the metal show

There was a random exploding noise in my building about half an hour ago -- kind of like a balloon popping at 100x volume, followed by a hissing sound. My ears are still ringing. No alarms went off and I don't think it was from my apartment. Does anyone have a wild guess what it could have been?

A 2016 ministerial order from Health Minister Terry Lake said health authorities needed to open OPSs "as needed". “It’s required by law, and yet we see terribly low numbers of overdose prevention sites, astronomical death rates,” says Pivot lawyer Caitlin Shane. www.straight.com/news/2500-da...

really mixing thing* up today** * my morning tea ** using two different kinds of oat milk

"Art rock" and "baroque pop" are fancy ways of saying "harpischord enjoyer"

the thing about being a trans immigrant who left the UK is that things are good for me here but it doesn't stop my heart fucking aching that my homeland is becoming more and more hostile to the existence of me and my loved ones. The UK slides out of global relevance, screaming about toilet politics.

trans people in the UK now have to use bathrooms based on their birth sex or otherwise gender-neutral facilities? Radical

Boring question, but is this correlation or causation? Are there other things (changes to legal aid, rising prices, etc. and so forth) that could help explain this jump, or are we pinning it on purely ChatGPT?

Last weekend, migrant workers from across BC shared stories in a small Victoria living room Stories of farms where they say supervisors pursue sexual favours Where a work injury can get you blacklisted Where bosses won't pay, & threaten deportation if you object www.defactomedia.ca/a-two-tier-s...

talking to the Canadian government: anxious, nervous, oh god I need to get this right or I'll be deported talking to the British government: greetings shitheads, you fucked up again

Carney announces environment to be eliminated as cost-cutting measure

very disappointed that the suit professional I was speaking to today wasn't familiar with The Menswear Guy

so far I have spent the morning running from one room in my apartment to the other as a huge wasp follows me, ominously buzzing

It's really cool how sometimes you have to fill in forms for the Canadian government that you have to sign and the signature field simply does not let you fill it in 🙃

Take Your Time Back was flourishing on Kingsway -- until city inspectors came knocking. New in the Straight: what's going on with Vancouver’s indie venues, and why are they struggling to survive? www.straight.com/music/take-y...

Take Your Time Back was flourishing on Kingsway -- until city inspectors came knocking. New in the Straight: what's going on with Vancouver’s indie venues, and why are they struggling to survive? www.straight.com/music/take-y...

Superb owl spotted outside Bin 4

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

never before has my blood run cold in the way it did just now, when I choked on an ice cube

WE WON. Amnesty named me People’s Human Rights Champion for exposing a scandal in British healthcare. My team and I found abuse, neglect, conversion therapy, and deaths, all ignored by NHS managers. See the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S5w... Support our work: www.patreon.com/c/Philosophy...

Bombshell investigation by my colleagues @godfrey.bsky.social and @emmaarkell.bsky.social: VPD calls to CBSA to check people's immigration status (even without crime) skyrocketed just after Vancouver's new mayor&council assumed office. Privileged to have edited this file. Please give it a read! 👇

Marcy made fun of me for using potatoes in the fridge for dinner when it turns out they were a couple of weeks old. And then after chopping and boiling them I realized I hadn't peeled them, so I scraped the skins off with a spoon. But in the end, the roast potatoes were very tasty!

This International Workers’ Day, we're putting media back in workers’ hands. De Facto Journalism Co-op is a new non-profit of 6 worker-owners producing in-depth journalism focused on justice issues and systems of power. To get our first investigations next week, subscribe here: defactomedia.ca

Any video with "POV: You're a Victorian orphan that just ate Doritos for the first time!" that is a front-facing video showing a Victorian orphan eating Doritos for the first time has completely misunderstood what POV means

exclusively referring to former Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart as "the other KStew"

Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa

Choosing who you want on your Tomodachi Life island is the same as choosing what Snatch Game character you would be on Drag Race

signs that despite almost nine years in Canada I am still British: much as it is "maths" (not "math"), I keep wanting to call the national statistics agency StatsCan (not StatCan)

I don't think I'm patient enough to get Angine de Poitrine

Having a wedding to fly to in six months' time is crazy because the flight tracker prices are just all over the place. Is buying a $300 price for $500 buying the dip when it immediately shoots back up to $700? Who knows!

The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor winning Canada Reads is actually fun and good because it means a lot of people are going to pick up a historical romance that is unabashedly queer and trans and folkloric and weird. I spoke to Paylor about the book last year: www.straight.com/city-culture...

RIP Sisyphus you would have loved Chumbawamba

My boss told me I "don't know how to use semi-colons properly" because I sometimes put them in lists like this and he always takes them out... But I still think I'm right.

SOURCE CALLOUT 🏳️‍⚧️ ✨ (Please share!) I'm working on a large print feature for later this year that asks a big question: What does it look like when we let trans people thrive? I'm looking to talk to a few everyday trans people from across Canada about what that idea means to them. (Thread...)

I didn't really like Hong Kong when I visited in 2013, but that was mostly due to summer humidity + bad air quality + my friend immediately losing her camera, and there were lots of positive parts besides.

Can all food be divided into the trinary of salad, sandwich, soup?

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Last night I saw Rise Against at the PNE Forum and then got a taxi across town in time for Man Up's indie sleaze night. There are two wolves inside me and they both love live performance so much.

Before I got top surgery I was a 34H, I guess I was God's favourite non-binary atheist 😇

A statement on the IOC's decision to reintroduce mandatory sex testing for women. Please share widely. Alt text follows in the following posts.

I have had "how did GDQ go from Zelda runs being too transphobic to watch to actively championing trans rights?" on my list of things to write for several years, and now I'm very glad I don't have to write it

This is especially alarming for everyone currently having their PR application processed (like me 🫠)

The frequency at which I lose Loop earplugs is the exact reason why I shouldn't have AirPods

Every year people ask us why XYZ was not a finalist for the Golden Plates Awards, and every year the answer is that not enough people nominated it. Sometimes, nobody did! If you have a beloved restaurant in Vancouver you want to highlight, now is the time for your write-in voting campaign⤵️

You can tell the Anerican tourism economy is struggling because, out of nowhere, we have had three press trip pitches to visit three different major American cities in the past week. (We are declining the offers.)