Sometimes I get very vexed when people whine about uses of the passive voice that aren’t uses of the passive voice. This is a use of the passive voice.

Today in breaking stuff accidentally while cleaning: the oven‘s light bulb. 0/10 would not recommend.

I wanted to see if muffin batter would pancake. Results: - yes but the thicker, higher-sugar batter makes them more prone to sticking - I ate two not-very-large pancakes & oh man I don’t feel so great, that was too much pancake

i do feel like the boomers who are most irritated with the presence of children running around in places like city parks are also the boomers who complain most about kids being glued to screens

what's really rude is that I still understand french from france better than french from quebec

I’m glad it’s a long weekend because I spent five (necessary) hours cleaning my house today

I accidentally took a double dose of both my lamotrigine and my loratadine this morning & then I fell asleep on the ferry

I just screamed at a surprise snake in my yard and it sounded *very* Homer Simpson

I know Vancouver's Websummit as a pretty corporate affair featuring big-name tech speakers. But this year they put Canadian far-right YouTuber Lauren Southern on a panel... along with the guy who promoted ivermectin for COVID. Earlier this week federal AI minister Evan Solomon spoke.

🥁🥁🥁 We’re hiring! The Narwhal is looking for a senior B.C. reporter and a senior national reporter to pursue ambitious journalism about the natural world in B.C. and Canada. More details threaded 🧶: thenarwhal.ca/work-with-us/

Join Tyeesters for a Reality Check live event next week in Van! thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

The one day i decide to take the bus to the vet the bus is late as hell

Reminder that @rachelgilmore.bsky.social is coming to Vancouver next week and will be in conversation with me, @vancolour.bsky.social and @harrisonmooney.bsky.social at this ticketed event. Details: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

Free speech culture means shut up with your criticisms or disagreements with other people’s speech. Free speech culture means students should accept, passively, without dissent, whoever the school chooses to honor with a speaker gig.

i think everyone* who speaks english as a first language should have to learn a second language like i think everyone* should be conscripted into working a food service or retail job for one (1) year. * obviously there are exceptions pls take this in good faith

bilingual in that I can hold a conversation in my non-native language if I am comfortable with someone but NOT BILINGUAL in that i go completely blank if not

update i have been throwing budgetary caution to the wind & making a third daily cappuccino

I complained about leaving the sauna to escape racist political commentary the other day & realized this is the type of situation where a boomer thinks a millennial is too easily offended. But the idea of offence being the problem offers a nice cover for being tiresome & entirely predictable.

new from me, at @thewalrus.ca: it is, in fact, a big deal! thewalrus.ca/the-new-york...

I was going to say something nice about meeting one of my canlit idols for the first time (several years ago now) but then I remembered all the times I was reminded to never, never have any canlit idols

We won the long-form census lottery. It is my hope to once again contribute to my location having one of the highest per-capita trans populations in Canada

If you thought "I bet Ken Sim is all in on AI", you would be correct

I don’t know why I’m thinking about this today and TMI for anyone who dislikes body talk but: I had immediate regret when I woke up from breast reduction surgery bc I realized it wasn’t going to be enough.* It‘s common enough, actually, for millennials + up to have a reduction & then top surgery.

Something big just happened on Haida Gwaii. For the first time in B.C., a utility-scale solar project is now taking a meaningful bite out of a diesel-fuelled remote grid. It's a product of years of work from the Haida Nation, and it could signal a tipping point. (photos: Katherine Cheng) 🧵

Tom Clark is a zany character. The self-dubbed nursing-home owner turned coal magnate bought his mines for cheap and then bankrupted them under various corporate banners. In 2019, Campbell River’s last operating coal mine, Quinsam, became one of them. 🧵

Are you all in the mood for more ostriches? No? WELL TOO BAD thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

Fucking yikes!

Not to be rude but sometimes cognitive behavioural therapy felt like this is what I was supposed to be learning.

A small town mayor sued a critic and said he was suffering anxiety because of his claims, and the judge said “you could be suffering anxiety for all sorts of reasons, like the fact Justin McElroy came to your town and said things sucked”

Literally at no point have I ever mind of mattered a moment of illness but boy have I tried

DOXA's recent closing night gala celebrated the winners of its 2026 documentary competition. The winner of the Vancouver Film Studios Award for Best BC Director is Evan Adams and Eileen Francis for təm kʷaθ nan (Namesake). 🥇🎞️ @akkabah.bsky.social’s coverage for The Tyee:

Lived up to my "no helmet laws but harass everyone I know who doesn't wear one" mantra yesterday when I ran into my friend [redacted] on his touring bike wearing a jaunty life aquatic–style tuque

Supporters are holding a rally this Wednesday in Vancouver for Francisco Barahona, who had temporary provincial health care through an employer, but lost it when he got sick with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer: thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

Happy okay let’s survive another one to everyone whose mom(s) did more damage than anything redeeming

On Getting Older/Wiser? Letterinth for May 10, 2026 🕒 02:40 🔮 0 hints letterinth.com

Wanted to spend five minutes in the sauna after my swim but it turns out my tolerance for racist, facile political commentary is far lower than that. (I should have said something but by the time I left it would have just been swearing.)

Somewhere in the neighbourhood there is a bell or wind chime ringing incessantly & somehow it’s still driving me nuts even though my baseline is moderate to severe tinnitus

I am making a cherry frangipane tart and it is going a bit disastrously but thankfully even a potentially disastrous tart is still just a tart. (Cherries from freezer, much longer bake time, may [?] still work out.)

I wonder if there were any young earth creationists who followed the paleo diet fad

Now that I’ve gotten a pull-up I would like to learn how to do a handstand, a cartwheel, and the monkey bars, none of which I have ever done in my life. (These things didn’t come naturally to me like they did other kids & it was too mortifying.)

Did u know that as a motorist you can give a preemptive thank you wave and turn left through a crosswalk with no care for the pedestrian who has the right of way?? Loophole!

I realize this is boring, but I did one chin-up, one neutral grip, and one pull-up today. Would not have dreamt of that this time last year.

for me the most distasteful Americanism is butt > bum. I am sorry.

At a certain point this morning a mom mouthed "I'M SORRY" as our rough school drop-off week continues & now it is time to go pick up that same child, oh man, oh dear

So far this week I have seen the crows pick fights with: other birds; a squirrel; two squirrels; my cat, who was, until she was dive-bombed, sunning herself on a leash on the deck.

I can deadlift 235lbs, swim 6km, and do a pull-up. Guess what my squat is? Guess! Guess! ... the bar! Just the bar.

Many cis women don’t want a possible ban of trans women from single-sex spaces, and fear wider consequences of judging on appearance | Sophie Molly

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...

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

NEW: What I learned spending Monday outside the closed-door Alberta Christian Leadership Summit, formerly known as the Premier’s Christian Summit. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...