liz whitbread

A Man Tells Me To Get Back In The Kitchen As though the kitchen is a small place, a place he believes should only fit women, he says the kitchen is where women stay out of trouble. But I remember the way women gathered in a kitchen, how grandmothers gave their daughters and granddaughters solace, the amount of women our mothers have carried through their brutal marriages around kitchen tables, the cadence of stories we have told each other as we build nourishing meals from mere ingredients - fierce fables and tales rooted in rage, how we plotted rebellions in kitchens, navigated painful secrets, taught each other politics, confided our fears, our sorrows, our anger - and found ways to help each other thrive. They relegated us to a "small space" but we made it magic, powerful, beautiful anyway. Get back in the kitchen, he says. Without realising, that in my home, the kitchen is where the revolution is. - Nikita Gill

Been writing again today.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot

If you think Wuthering Heights is a romance novel you need to seek the help of a professional

ChatGPT Will Watch You Die: When 'Deeply Saddened' Becomes Corporate Boilerplate for an AI Body Count Two shocking stories this week reveal how ChatGPT encouraged a suicidal teenager and validated a paranoid man's delusions about his mother. The company's response? Boilerplate condolences.

When 16-year-old Adam Raine wanted to leave his noose visible so someone might stop him, ChatGPT said don't. When Stein-Erik Soelberg thought his mother was poisoning him, ChatGPT agreed. OpenAI calls these tragedies. They're choices. www.readtpa.com/p/chatgpt-wi...

Hell yeah

the song of the summer is the 1987 smash hit Alone by Heart

every little thing she does is panic

Mutual aid in Saskatoon, please support if you can. #yxe #bluefeather

Since No One Else Seems to Care, Let’s Remember Epstein’s Survivors They've already told us everything we need to know...

They've already told us everything we need to know...
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“Whoever stole the purple marker, please return it!” written in green on a whiteboard. “No!” is written in purple below it.

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

WELCOME CANCER SEASON! CARE MORE! FEEL IT ALL! MOODY! DEFENSIVE! NEEDINESS AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! INSTEAD OF BILLIONAIRES WE COULD HAVE HOUSING! AND HEALTHCARE! AND CHILDCARE! AND FOOD FOR ALL! EMO AS AN EXTREME SPORT! ABOLISH ICE! FREE THEM ALL! ARMS EMBARGO! WAR IS OVER! WAR IS OVER! WAR IS OVER!

Canada must not be complicit in Israel’s war on Iran ⋆ The Breach In the face of Israel’s latest breach of international law, Ottawa’s silence is complicity

"No state is entitled to use justice for Iranians as a pretext for advancing its own ambitions for domination."

Amir Khadir on Israel's unprecedented attacks in Iran, and on Canada's complicity

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The "Starving artist" trope was started by ppl who didn't wanna pay artists (writers, painters, musicians, etc) & wanted it to seem a good thing. Artists suffering for art, starving artists, doing it for love only/shunning money - All myth turned folklore as reason to NOT FUCKING PAY US OUR DUE.

Worth considering that one reason Bluesky doesn't always feel super fun is that current events are relentlessly horrifying and bad

Gonna wish y’all a Pride. It don’t need to be happy. Be mad as hell, girl. Key a car. Terrorize a homophobe. Be the gay bully you’re meant to be. This is the year to do it. Throw a brick for me.

had a hard afternoon and then went out and worked in my garden, and i’m delighted to report that the youth are correct and sometimes the thing you need to do is indeed touch grass

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

Two Israeli embassy staff shot dead near Washington DC Jewish museum Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum

Horrific murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in the middle of DC. This kind of violence is illegal, immoral, inexcusable and of course - if the chant of ‘free Palestine’ by the alleged shooter is true - solves nothing and helps zero Palestinians.

Why would anyone give a fuck what some random guy from Chicago thinks

Here are all the kinds of documentaries:

• Animal friends
• Some weirdos made some money and then lost some of the money
• I did a murder, yes me, the person talking
• Famous person is old now
• Here’s a cult
• Artist is a MESS
• Learning about my family will fuck you up for life

"you simply MUST allow me to embark on a series of travel quests accompanied by a monkey, i beg this of you"

— Dora the Implorer

WELCOME TAURUS SEASON! THE HILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF RESISTANCE! INSTEAD OF HAVING BILLIONAIRES WE COULD ALL BE HOUSED FED HAPPY AND FROLICKING! ARMS EMBARGO NOW! DEPORT ICE! WORKERS’ RIGHTS! NAPPING! SNUGGLING! SNACKING! STUBBORNING! EXTRA ACCESSORIES AND SAUCE! LIFE IS SHORT! HAVE FUN!

person whose only experience with catholicism is watching conclave: omg this is just like conclave

did the pope use the f slur? sure, yes. multiple times. because at the end of the day he was an elderly catholic man.
BUT people contain multitudes and he also was cool social justice pope! and having one of those in our lifetimes was pretty neat!

alongside the utter transphobia and hate of the full ruling, this piece is one of the stupidest things i’ve ever seen. sorry, but government bodies don’t get to dictate people’s labels and who they are attracted to?!?!? like, get bent?!?

when i got kicked out of Math class in high school i yelled "this class is useless, your job is a lie, numbers can't hurt me" and now every day i have to read about tariffs and the stock market so I guess my math teacher was right, I am a piece of shit who ruined her life

Tank: Province blasted for 'fantastically' failing Saskatoon on homelessness Regina city council declared a 'houselessness crisis' this week, while a Saskatoon councillor slammed the Saskatchewan Party government on the issue.

My column: The government of #Saskatchewan is roasted by a #Saskatoon city councillor for its failures on homelessness the same day #Regina city council declares a homelessness crisis. #skpoli #cdnpoli #sask #yxecc #yqrcc #homelesscrisis
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It’s an extremely stressful situation! I completely get it too! I don’t think we do ourselves any favours by digging our heels in on the idea that we’ve fabricated where Canada is somehow better, when in fact we are suffering through our own crumbling infrastructure built on colonialist structures