Andrea Zanin

#manicure #extremityfetish I did a one-polish job this week: Velociraptor by Mooncat. It's an older formula that goes on thin and I don't love how the tips show through, but the teal has a juicy translucent finish that reads as candy-like to me, and I love a matte finish on glitter flakies!

Look, if cranberries can be weird and bitter and still liked by roughly half the people at Thanksgiving dinner, then so can you!

LOL I sorta do too? But that could be wishful thinking! And I understand that he hits certain notes, especially height and physique, that fit mainstream notions of "the dom."

NYFF Review: 'Pillion' is a Prince Albert Piercing Through the Heart Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling are a Sub-Dom Dream

Another delightful review!
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The view from the Via train: a ghostly low-hanging waxing gibbous moon against a blush sunset, suspended over reddening trees. Quietly glorious.

YouTube video by A24 Pillion | Official Teaser HD | A24

Srsly counting the days til this film comes out! 😍
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It felt very... mid-century wartime vibes. I don't know how to explain it. Like an echo of a past century was in the hall alongside the music. A kind of swelling patriotism I associate with... well, times exactly like now, I suppose, except that right there is fuckin weird.
What a time to be alive.

I have mixed feelings! As always, not a flag-waver, and highly suspicious of anything that smells like nationalism. But also, it was quite stirring? I've never heard the national anthem done by a full orchestra before. To say nothing of a whole Roy Thompson Hall audience standing and singing.

I've become the Spare Date for a few friends who call upon me when they suddenly have a free theatre or symphony ticket. As such, I saw a TSO program tonight, and learned that since the whole "51st state" business began, they have a new tradition of playing Oh Canada at the top of each program (!).

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark by Cecilia Watson

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I would love to see that happen.

Refer back to my thread from the other day. TL;DR: The cruelty is the point, again, again, again. And while the Pope holds a lot more authority than many, especially among the religious set, I don't think even he carries enough weight with the mouth-frothing evangelicals.

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Welp. I see that even the Pope has fallen into the "being correct" trap. See what I mean? Like, of course, this makes perfect sense. But the people who are against abortion but love the death penalty and want to oust all immigrants are not people for whom "making sense" matters in the slightest.

Thousands of charges against drivers withdrawn in Ontario as critics decry system in ‘shambles’ Hundreds of thousands of charges against drivers, including careless driving, speeding, dooring and failing to stop, are being withdrawn before trial as one judge says Ontario’s provincial offences co...

The numbers in here are mind-boggling. Just for example, in the course of a year, 19,000 charges were withdrawn for people driving without a permit. Holy shit, how many people are driving with no license if this is just how many were charged and then had it withdrawn??
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Walmer Road Legacy Space - TAS The Walmer Road Legacy Space is a dedicated space in front of the Walmer Road Baptist Church where conversations about Indigenous history and our collective journey towards reconciliation are encourag...

I came across this outdoor space yesterday while on a walk. The pics don't show it well, but it features a beautiful art installation depicting the 13 moons of the Indigenous calendar. Grateful for this and other opportunities to learn. #TruthAndReconciliation 🧡
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... I had recently come out of the emergency room because my stomach acid had gotten so out of control I was in ulcer-land, and every joint in my body felt bruised. Wild.

I also just realized that it's now been ten years since I finished radiation treatment. How amazing to be able to post about this much physical movement and strength today, when at this time in 2015 I could barely get up a flight of stairs from radiation sickness...

But... I also have new muscles. I am starting to be able to really see them, particularly about the shoulders. Overwork is not the way, I think the timing is purely coincidental. Just something to make me grin through the tired and achy! 💪😁

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

See, this is why I call the right wing a death cult. Billionaires are propping up an industry that's inexorably on the way out because better, cleaner, less planet-killing options are available and less expensive. "The Chardonnay set," good lord, how out of touch with reality can you get.

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

This is some bullshit, @ualberta.bsky.social. If a public figure is free to express hatred of LGBTQ people, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a scholar pointing this out on social media. Get your priorities in order and apologize.
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The end result isn't any different, of course, I'm just leery of getting too deep into conspiracy-land when it comes to the causal chain of influence. Either way, billionaires should not exist, Big Oil needs to die, and the far-right death cult is killing all of us, including themselves.

Troubling as hell, but also, I'm guessing it's more like transphobia is wrapped up in the general hatefulness of right-wing think tanks which Big Oil supports because they're so committed to capitalism, rather than that billionaires are directly trying to fuck with trans people (Elon excepted).

Yoga yesterday afternoon. Lifting last night. Yoga today, then an hour-long walk, plus two short bike rides. Note to self: that's actually too much. I'm really tired and my body is grumpy at me.

Every time I hear the song "Hotel California," I can't help but remember a low pink stucco building in Oaxaca that was called Hotel California. It had metal bars on the windows and an utter lack of irony. I did not go in to see if there were mirrors on the ceiling or pink champagne on ice.

The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration by Sarah Everts

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Utterly unhinged.

🤣 I don't know what genre of advice guy this is, but I like it!

Dear all of publishing: i need you to put the translator's name on the cover as well because I do not trust, at this point, that it wasn't google.

Yep. That's exactly why I call them a death cult. Nobody wins in the end with this kind of approach - including themselves. Vaccination, climate change, immigration... every bad thing they do to hurt others has a rebound effect on them. It's addiction-type behaviour, hyper-short-term thinking only.