Beck Andoff

Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Stop saying "during Covid" or "post-pandemic!"

It's presented as 'look at these poor old gay dears who have had their nice bars taken over by crazy blue haired kids'... and it's patronising rubbish, whipped up by non-queer agitators, that is intentionally causing generational mistrust within our own community.

Hate it. Hate it. Hate it.

Something I'd like to address. There's this idea that TQ+ folk are all 21 year-old art students... and all the 'normal' old school folk are LGB and entirely left behind and confused by 'pronouns'...

Every talk I give, know who the most outspoken trans allies are? Queer folk in their 70s!!

I applied to be on the local climate action plan committee. There were seven people for six seats. By just showing up, I kept a conservative conspiracy theorist from getting on.

18mo ago, I noticed she & cronies were against a new elementary school. I joined up with the pro-school voices. We won.

Small brown dog on a leash.

"My dog is friendly.”
“My dog listens to me.”
“My dog doesn’t like leashes”

We’ve heard these excuses from dog owners after a dog attack.
Just keep your dog on a leash to keep everyone safe.

Be a responsible dog owner. Learn the rules: toronto.ca/LeashYourDog

Now I wish you could cover The Silent Partner! There's so much to hash out between the Plummer queer-coding and Torontonian Gould-- a one-off Podcast Like It's 1978 could work...

2 top climate advisers quit saying Carney government is ignoring its experts | CBC News Two members of the federal government’s Net-Zero Advisory Body have resigned, saying its work is being ignored by Ottawa as it moves away from previous climate commitments and toward new oil and gas p...

2 top climate advisers quit saying Carney government is ignoring its experts www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Also an opportunity for my new favourite joke: every time Christopher Plummer shows up in something, happily exclaim "Hey it's Amanda Plummer's dad!"

This is a graduation from my old favourite bit of exclaiming "hey it's Adam Arkin's dad!" with Alan Arkin.

That movie is wild-- extremely queer-coded predatory sadist Christopher Plummer, hot Elliott Gould as a Torontonian bank teller in the Eaton Centre, actually quite brutal thriller!

I was so surprised to hear @podcastlikeits.bsky.social talk about The Silent Partner (1978) as obscure, because so many people I follow have also seen it... then I remembered that I follow mostly Torontonians, and we have a disease that makes us SO LOUD about the rare times Toronto plays itself.

I GASPED. Pushing Daisies was the most devastated I've ever been about a show cancelation... do I dare dream?

It was an honor to have so many conversations w Leslie Lee on his podcast & mine. His being out about his LC status on every platform was extremely brave. There’s a social cost to being out about chronic illness & “salting the vibe”. Whether talking TV or pandemic, he was incisive & a truth teller

I had to rage-pause the two-part Nudge eps every few minutes and do something else. That was probably the hardest one to get through despite being great episodes!

Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.

Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.

Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?

Big business opportunity just kinda hanging out and waiting for anybody willing to make "Etsy, but no AI allowed."

I've posted about this before but one of the most memorable lessons I learned in grad school was about how IQ tests are not a very good indicator of overall intelligence because you can just train for the test - we did this by taking weekly IQ tests and getting better at it over time

It was pretty iconic. There was a great quote from Baruchel years ago on (I think?) Larry King where he talked about how filming that movie was an unhealthy experience of mining real-life conflict for comedy.

Thank you for acknowledging that we're still going through covid! Scary times for those of us who believe in science and know vaccines are essentially miraculous in the scope of human history.

7-Year-Old Boy Who Lost Legs After Complications from the Flu Urges Everyone to Get the Flu Vaccine Kaden Stevenson contracted the life-changing case of the flu in December 2022. Within days, the 7-year-old boy developed toxic shock syndrome, and the infection went into his bloodstream, causing his ...

Kaden went into toxic shock syndrome after getting the flu & strep throat. He had heart, liver and kidney failure, resulting in his legs having to be amputated

Listen to the kids. Many of them take infectious disease more seriously than adults 💔

people.com/7-year-old-b...

Wearing an N95 or KN95 (not a baggy surgical mask) is incredibly effective-- protecting yourself and even moreso protecting others when you're sick. And who can afford to be knocked out with covid/flu for 3 weeks?

Masks on public transit and in public spaces like grocery stores save lives!

I will keep banging on this drum: if we want to fight fascism, we're going to have to normalize masking because no one is coming to save us

At long last we have created the Gattaca from classic sci-fi film Don’t Do the Gattaca Thing

A friend with a new baby asked guests to mask in order to hold her baby. A relative refused to mask & broke down in tears about her "restrictions"

As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed

Fatigue in children and young people up to 24 months after infection with SARS-CoV-2 - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Fatigue in children and young people up to 24 months after infection with SARS-CoV-2

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠

Tell me again that Cövid doesn't effect children 🤬‼️

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEURODIVERGENTS: [Watching Ths Good Doctor's autistic surgeon character] I'm going to be ill, I'm going to puke

NEURODIVERGENTS: [Watching the lamp in the Brave Little Toaster] yes, finally, representation

Bleak.

A long time ago, I gave the analogy that the immune system is not like a muscle. It’s more like a cleansing fire. And here we see that fuel spent, and misdirected.

I said “don’t keep burning down your house”.

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

Making the pluribus tell me who had crushes on me and what I did to make them change their mind

Image of a MisterAndoff.com sticker over a digital background of cartoony pink guts. Sticker is round red prohibited symbol, but the diagonal bar runs right through a cartoony severed robot head on a yellow background. Blocky black and white text reads "fuck A.I. art".

My A.I. art -detecting skills are really being put to use in the Ink Master subreddit lately