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B.C. is (finally) adopting permanent daylight saving time The clocks change for the last time.

huge news for clock fans and people who hate changing them www.straight.com/city-culture...

It's a three-pronged attack: subliminal, liminal, and super-liminal

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

A huge victory for progressive politics in the UK, as well as the Greens' first byelection win!

concept: urbanist EDM producer called PassiveHaus

Dropout Improv takes silliness very seriously From small live shows to indie streaming success to huge live shows.

Dropout Improv is happening at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver tonight, so it's the perfect time to reread my interviews with the cast (from last year) here: www.straight.com/arts/dropout...

Birthy happday!

As most of my followers probably aren't British, UK student loans are a bit different -- they are held by the government, and are wiped 30 years after you graduate. The debt does not count against your personal finances for getting a loan, etc. But, it's still crazy that I owe the government 55K

A screenshot of my student loans account, which tracks my direct repayments from the last year (£442) and the amount of interest added (£2,079.27)

oh yeah baby I love student loans, I love throwing money into a hole that only ever gets deeper and then lighting it on fire for good measure

The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence

NEW from me today:

Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.

xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

pretty bleak that the women's Olympic hockey is presented by Ozempic

The amount of work we do -- digital, newsletters, print -- is enormous. You would be shocked to learn how low our budget is and how small our team is that does all of this work. People say they want small media and historically significant things to survive, but they don't survive without money.

The Georgia Straight is free, and it remains free.

But if you'd like to give us money, we have a program called Straight Insiders. For $10/month, you can support our work covering Vancouver's arts and culture scene. Sometimes you can enter draws for free events.

www.straight.com/news/were-la...

ICE is afraid of children protesting “Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

maybe we are entering the gastrocene. between ozempic and protein coffee and intermittent fasting and IBS and keto, who doesn't have a constant tummyache?

Let buses be fun!!

V has short blond hair pushed back and is wearing a black turtle neck, green raincoat, and chunky chain. Their face has cosmic purple and blue eyeshadow with a blue Virgo sign and white stars dotted around.

The problem with doing fun makeup before getting on the bus is a lot of people do not know how to respond to fun makeup on the bus

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2026 refuses to have a normal one

today's discovery: the original drummer for The Offspring went on to become a gynecologic oncologist, got sued for medical malpractice, and then saved the life of a potential juror who went into cardiac arrest at jury selection

just sent off my application for permanent residency, time to wait seven months to find out if I fucked up the paperwork

Grok probably: "You want to invade Canada? That's based bro! You're so sigma, just like Elon, and you're emotionally ready for such a big commitment because you're the alpha. Remember that Canada is really cold, so you'd better wear lots of clothes--unlike those teenage girls you sent me photos of!"

Kafka’s metamorphosis but with Pokémon

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself transformed into an enormous Bug-type.

I'm excited to catch up on Awful Block tomorrow, always the best part of the week

The Thames is full of wonderful things, like sewage, eels, and cocaine

i just don't think you get to say "America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. But these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never, that will never ever happen" in your election speech and then say stuff like this

Rachael pronounced like Michael, Michael pronounced like Rachael

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

We Are The Union (ska punk), Rainer Maria (old school emo), Speedy Ortiz (indie rock), Backxwash (industrial/hip hop) and Mannequin Pussy (punk rock) are some options with fairly deep discographies and badass trans musicians