They never tell you that the dishes are made of stardust, too.

Oh my god

This is peak oboe (complimentary)

*quietly singing* youtu.be/EPp2vLVZ9wc?...

the "add more gear" guy is a very specific kind of guy

Just in case any cervix-bearing Canadians without a family doc need to know: even if a walk-in clinic does not offer pap tests, you can go in and ask for a referral to a local gyno. Go! Get your test!

Phil Ellis with long hair is weirdly compelling

In 2015, a man commented "looks great!" on a picture of a cake his niece had baked, and that is the last normal thing anyone has said on the internet.

new Annoying Vegan stereotype is the vocal hater of plant-based meat substitutes

some people are just congenitally unable to take flattering photos of other people and I am not good at extending grace for their shortcomings

Everyone wants to JOIN the revolution but nobody wants to START the revolution. It's the classic "everybody's hungry but nobody in the group is brave enough to pick a restaurant" scenario

love a surprise reminder that the worst possible interpretation of something I apparently said once has been living rent-free in someone's head

Ed Gamble namedropping @vipeopleshow.bsky.social in this week's Taskmaster podcast 👀👀👀 (yes it's because PFT was on the show, but STILL)

sure, they needed to train the government, what else could it be for

Me sowing a passing interest in the World Series: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

The baseball torment nexus

everyone talking about liking sports for the athleticism, but I am here for the positively Shakespearean drama

I would not object to some insurance runs.

Trey Yesavage, who famously was pitching to his fellow third graders at recess in Miss Reynolds's class just five months ago, is entering to pitch in Game 7 of the World Series

I’m not saying Springer meant to hit that directly into his shin but I’m not not saying it

Goodness, some catches.

Gausman!

Chatgpt dissolves your mind into sludge the same way being a billionaire does, but the difference is *you* will face consequences for it in a way no billionaire will. Any random billionaire can afford to happily keep rotting their mind into absolute slush in a way you can't.

A world that requires charity is fundamentally unjust

look, I have a whole mess of monthly donations to various charities and I still seethe at every article and post about how we have to step up as individuals to cover cuts to social programs

baseball stats be like "he's the first shortstop to hit a double in the third inning while wearing red sneakers since 2005! Only 8 shortstops have done that in the history of the game"

They're a dime a dozen. By which I mean they are an incredible deal the likes of which we have not seen for decades.

Varland kinda has a Norman Rockwell painting vibe

Tonight’s baseball opinion is you shouldn’t take out players who are cooking.

Alberta *already* has a teacher shortage

I read a lot! In my teens and early twenties I was very dedicated to reading literary books and classics; now I mostly look for entertainment rather than edification. BUT the writing has to be solid for me to not get fed up and DNF, so that literary history still has an insidious impact 🙄

Empathy, imagination, and critical thinking are muscles; reading exercises them all.

I think Knives Out will be a classic film and Kate Beaton's Ducks will be on *many* Canadian high school reading lists

In my old age I look for clean writing, a plot that grabs me, interesting world building, and a sense of the author's foundations.

Calvin O'Keefe from the first couple Wrinkle in Time books was my first crush

Look, characters who are full of wrath but try really hard to make the world a better place will always, always get me. Ummm Brains over brawn? Competence porn?

Lyrics live in a different place in my brain than literary masterworks. Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan write extremely beautiful and complex literary lyrics (Ring Them Bells! Closing Time!), but they aren't more effective than simple folk songs like Goodbye Old Paint youtu.be/fIEowa9PsiY?...

I'm in the middle of Black Water Sister right now, just finished This Is How You Lose the Time War

Ada Limón

Many UKL books (Dispossessed, Earthsea, essay collections), the later Witches books (Discworld), Temeraire and Scholomance, Kate Daniels, The Locked Tomb, the Broken Earth trilogy, The View from Saturday, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

Solarpunk Voyageurs in a post-apocalyptic Canada

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I usually have a book on the go. 3-5 times per week?

Getting to know people and experience new things (but safely and in comfort)

Time Enough for Love, which I made myself get through for a guy (#regrets)

The Scholomance trilogy changed my brain chemistry

Too many adjectives

Ursula LeGuin, Terry Pratchett, Naomi Novik, Ilona Andrews

Horror