Zoe Whittall

Two orange cats stare under a dishwasher after hearing mouse sounds.

Don’t love this time of year.

Sure funnier and more accurate if it’s 25 emails a day??:)

its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made

I joined the NDP again bc I do want to vote for Avi but also I’m single so it would be nice to have someone text and email six times a day.

Is that you, Harold?

Ie someone talk to me about the chair company

There needs to be a word for a comedy that you know is brilliant, cutting edge, written and performed by geniuses at the top of their game and yet, you do not have the patience to cringe through the watch/enjoy it.

Bari Weiss’s Big Secret Is That She’s Boring The “contrarian” journalist’s new vision for CBS News appears to just mean reinventing Crossfire.

I wrote about Bari Weiss newrepublic.com/article/2037...

I know enough dykes in the county now that I’m part of the group date to see Carol at the rep theatre. Goals!

"I'm canceled," he says in the sleek profile they gave to him in the New Yorker while his latest special & his new novel is coming out. A lot of people wish they were that canceled.

As @rjjago.bsky.social points out in this excellent editorial, this is not a victimless crime. And King has profited greatly from ethnic fraud: he has made an entire career from speaking for (and not just writing about) Indigenous peoples.

This is probably the most important point though:

Alberta UCP to consider policy proposal banning Pride flags on public property | Xtra Magazine Danielle Smith’s party will also consider changes to DEI in schools and the disclosure of students’ participation in gay-straight alliances at their annual convention

Danielle Smith’s party will also consider changes to DEI in schools and the disclosure of students’ participation in gay-straight alliances at their annual convention

And if you made it to the end it just … doesn’t have an ending? I was in a theatre that was packed with kids dressed up and that was fun but man, it was hard to sit through.

The thing about Wicked that I can’t wrap my head around is that it is … bad? I feel a bit insane that everyone is so excited about the new one.

As somebody situated in that exact cultural space at that time, this is *mind blowingly accurate.* The landscape is SO different, it feels like remembering a parallel universe.

I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been

Honouring the trans women and fems slain by violence used to feel like invoking a lineage of fierce and fabulous ghosts. Right now, it feels hollow, writes @razorfemme.bsky.social

This is a life changing tip!!!

TDOR is a day I've had complicated feelings on for many years, and this year it feels especially hollow. To have people only celebrate our names on the day we remember the dead. There has been little to silence of any of our triumphs and joys, and many feel all too eager to lay flags in memorial.

I want to know your most shameful ADHD habit. Mine is that every Nov I buy a humidifier and promise myself I will disinfect it weekly then I rarely do. By spring I put it away after cleaning it but it’s still gross enough that I think the germs will make me sick. Then I buy another one.

No one is more surprised than me that the Morning Show finale was excellent? Billy Crudup deserves an Emmy.

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman.

Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Every time Hinge shows me the “perfect match” they’ve chosen for me I feel less like AI is gonna ruin us.

It's not as though I haven't been paying attention to politics it's just that I keep paying too much attention to the U.S. monster.

Are we for Avi Lewis? Someone tell me who has been paying more attention. I am saying yes right now because of a flawed reason I am very familiar with. (Has a cool wife.)

Best TV Shows You Might Have Missed Do you need a new show that's not full of murders?

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The Value of Not Pretending What if writers were honest about the highs and lows of this life

open.substack.com/pub/zoewhitt...

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

As I sometimes like to mention, s the only reason you know who Jeffrey Epstein is (that is, if you weren't one of his friends/clients/beneficiaries) is because Ms Brown, below, broke the story of his sweetheart deal to get out of the 2008 trafficking charges.

this is my literal nightmare.