Hell yeah, just got that Bread (settlement money from the class-action lawsuit) 🍞

the reason you hear about trans sports is because, after failing to create a culture war about bathrooms, GOP strategists all got together and figured out they could exploit the fact that every single adult spends an insane amount of money on their kid playing sports to attack trans people

People like Elon Musk are actively spreading misinformation about the San Diego shooters allegedly being trans (they were not). This alarmingly happens after every tragedy like this. And I am once again tired of having to reshare this piece of mine from last year. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

People like Elon Musk are actively spreading misinformation about the San Diego shooters allegedly being trans (they were not). This alarmingly happens after every tragedy like this. And I am once again tired of having to reshare this piece of mine from last year. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

The Rebel-adjacent Independent Press Gallery is doing their own journalism awards this year. The ceremony is at a conference organized by The Democracy Fund, who you may know as the group paying Tamara Lich's legal fees and the fees for a guy arrested protesting a drag queen story time in Calgary.

The Rebel-adjacent Independent Press Gallery is doing their own journalism awards this year. The ceremony is at a conference organized by The Democracy Fund, who you may know as the group paying Tamara Lich's legal fees and the fees for a guy arrested protesting a drag queen story time in Calgary.

Had a really nice offline weekend where we went to the Vancouver Art Book Fair and ate Japadog and $10 Budgies Burritos and good donuts. We hung out with friends and watched Obsession (pretty good!) and met my old roommates' kids and walked a lot in the sun. And now I return here, to The Horrors

The normalization of far-right ideas continues as Curtis Yarvin and Lauren Southern are invited to a glitzy tech conference in Vancouver - which several Canadian politicians also attended. Full story here, no paywall: thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

Once again, the Alberta government's statement for International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia certainly rings a touch hollow amidst ... everything.

The most rigorous, precise, brilliant piece I have read on Albertan separatism. www.readtheline.ca/p/clarke-rie...

Caught an early screening of I Love Boosters last night … unsurprisingly loved it. Does it all work? Maybe not. But it doesn’t have to when you’re having this much fun.

@desmog.com had a reporter inside last week’s Christian Leadership Summit, from which I was deregistered without explanation. I’m glad someone got in, because this is wild. www.desmog.com/2026/05/13/o...

Fresh off seeing Lucy Dacus live once again, I am again here to say that “Night Shift” is one of the Top 10 songs of the 2010s. A singular masterpiece!!!

Excited to cry with all the Vancouver queers at Lucy Dacus tonight 😌

I'm downtown at Web Summit this week, which means this week's video was recorded from the Vancouver waterfront instead of my living room ... possibly the most scenic TikTok video made about counterterrorism ever? www.tiktok.com/@xtramagazin...

I'm at this event this week -- hoping to catch some interesting panels on queers in tech and new media, and avoid most of .... this 🫠 (But I fear avoidance will be impossible!)

The supplement store by my apartment is advertising "Dirty Soda", a "blended mix featuring Pepsi Zero and Mug Root Beer Zero mixed with our Sugar Free Dessert Mix and Vanilla Isolate for a protein packed, one of a kind treat!" Big protein is making us stray further from god's light every day.

I had a concussion in late 2023 and I remember my doctor being like "the two worst things you could do are screens and thinking hard" and I was like BUT THAT'S MY WHOLE LIFE! (Anyways, concussions suck, I think there are a still bits of how my brain works that are different than before it)

I know this has probably been said before, but they did not have to make the unicorn in The Last Unicorn (1982) this cuntissimo ... and yet!!! Diva is slaying!!

Caught up with an old friend this weekend who is leaving journalism to become an air traffic controller. A fascinating pivot! I'm always so curious about the career paths (beyond obvious communications roles or teaching etc.) that folks take out of the industry.

"I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobs politician, who encouraged leopards to keep eating faces and hold province-wide vote on face-eating

Caught Hobgoblin with maybe the best blep I’ve ever seen!!!!

To add to the "NYT Canada bureau chief used a fake AI quote thing" ... the fact that this blunder came doing the most basic of journalism tasks (quoting a public speech) is a direct example of the very dangerous de-skilling that these AI tools present.

To add to the "NYT Canada bureau chief used a fake AI quote thing" ... the fact that this blunder came doing the most basic of journalism tasks (quoting a public speech) is a direct example of the very dangerous de-skilling that these AI tools present.

Broadly speaking, many many journalists have raised alarm bells about this industry-wide rush to "embrace" AI ... maybe it takes the New York Times (!!) fucking up this badly to actually get some of the powers that be (in Canada at least) to listen.

Group chat is census posting

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.

So much of my job is done remotely from my little desk in my little apartment, but I get to go do an interview IN PERSON tomorrow for the first time in maybe years?? Like, a “meet a source for chat at a coffee shop” kind of interview … And I’m weirdly excited about it??

Jealous of all you cool cats who got the longform census 😔

For @xtramagazine.com I wrote about the media’s problem(s) covering women’s sports! “Coverage was often so focused on giving these athletes a platform that it became overwhelmingly positive; any critical question becomes a ‘hit piece’ & players form a distrust of the media.”

I spoke with @philofwrite.bsky.social to make sense of several high-profile examples of white supremacist ideas showing up in the B.C. legislature and a national newspaper. “It is very significant - it is giving validation to these ideas.” thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

NO to trans kids taking puberty blockers, a medication explicitly meant for use by young people and rigorously tested YES TO ROASTING THE CHILDREN LIKE A GROCERY STORE ROTISSERIE CHICKEN

I've been working on a big comics project for work (coming beginning of June 👀) and having so many big comics feelings. This Lynda Barry piece is such a great encapsulation of how comics rule, and what makes them so special. Comics! Comics! Comics!

This is great!!!

Kits Pool is reopening this summer ... HUGE news for my mental health 😌 dailyhive.com/vancouver/va...

A question about sexual orientation is appearing in Canada’s census for the first time. @eksbainbridge.bsky.social unpacks why it matters

This is embarrassing

I think the fact that I've been sick for almost a month and unable to go to the gym in that time—and the impact that has had on my brain—means that unfortunately I can confirm I am a jock now 😔

Also fun fact: this is at the same venue as my high school convocation lmao

The Alberta Christian Leadership Summit is today, with Danielle Smith giving a keynote. Other speakers include Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides and MLA Jennifer Johnson, who y'all may remember as the one who compared trans kids to poop in cookies!! albertachristianleadershipsummit.com

10 pm on a Saturday night: you’re at the club. 10 pm on a Saturday night: I’m at home listening to my future wife explain yuri manga to me. We are not the same!

The vibe of my Friday 9:30 p.m. showing of Devil Wears Prada 2 at the adults only theatre last night was ... wacky. Full theatre, and at one point a drunk girlie stood up, spilled her cocktail on her friend as she was trying to walk out, and yelled "never date an Australian!!"

Edmonton, Red Deer, Calgary

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There are a lot of positives to the current era of creator-led online writing (anyone can have a Substack and make money from it! Be your own boss!) but the deterioration of more traditional outlets and losing that guidance and mentorship piece is a huge loss for longterm quality and creativity.

A must read. Serious questions raised about the competency of Elections Alberta. They were warned, in detail, a month before they acted. Meanwhile, the private information of millions of Albertans was wide open. Incredible. This may be the biggest privacy breach in Canadian history.

Working on a section of writing that doesn’t necessarily need a ton of research, so I decided to work from the cool coffee shop that doesn’t have wifi this afternoon … and it’s amazing how much you get done when you can’t aimlessly scroll social media in another tab!!!

Yay, @xtramagazine.com has been nominated not once but twice for the National Magazine Awards in the investigative journalism category—no small feat for indie media! Congrats to @arvinjoaquin.bsky.social, Rob Csernyik, @tmziniuk.bsky.social, Angela Mullins and everyone who touched these stories!

I've been sick for two and a half weeks, and had really put off going to the doctor (it's probably just a cold! I don't need to!) Finally went yesterday, and glad I did because she listened to my lungs and said "oh dear" out loud 😬