Oh, honey, what you’re going through sounds so awful. You have all my sympathies, as a fellow depressive. It is a terrible place to be. I’m really glad your you reaching out online and to your doctor, though. It may be hard, but you’re taking care of yourself in small and meaningful ways. Good for you.

London is a blatantly racist garbage place, like much of southern Ontario. The city stands out in my mind because of how it treated an actor in a production of The Mountaintop a couple years ago: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/actor-playing-martin-luther-king-jr-on-ontario-stage-twice-hit-with-racial-slurs-1.34…

I have experienced this as well. I spent years in a male dominated industry before switching disciplines. I was second-wave: the only women in the business were barely a decade older than me. I was the first woman in my field at an international firm. And a lot of the women older than me were awful! I figured they didn…

White people, especially white men, are so used to being the default, which that commenter totally nailed (accidentally). FFS, the actual default is human, with everyone existing as a collection of intersecting identifiers. Until these blindly privileged asses get that, they’re gonna be whining and attacking and pushin…

Banksy’s not getting a cent from this exhibition. It’s all stuff of theirs that’s been collected by a culture vulture. That’s the guy making the money - the promoter.

I’vegot coriander here. There was no stopping that, unfortunately.

Just ate the first cherry tomato yesterday. And a salad of purple and green kale.

...and most white Canadians like to double down by saying that the real racists are in Quebec.

Excellent points. I’m disappointed but not surprised by the DNC types, same as I am by the mealy mouthed left-wing politicians here in Canada. Take a stand, already!

But Ivanka found a way ghostwriter to write a whole book about it, which is peak Becky.

Rufus on the Waverider would be so many levels of excellence!

Exactly my second thought.

As a white person and vegetarian, I completely applaud, support, and praise this piece. Every rude thought I’ve had about those ridiculous PETA pod-people is so well stated here.

The horrors of near-water aside, the name is accidentally hilarious:

I applaud your choices. Echobelly is one of my top three British bands for their cheerfully violent, brash, blunt lyrics. Goldie is awesome, such an influence on so many artists to come.

The exchange of

Have you been introduced to the marvelous P.K. Suban? He’s charming, smart, funny, and a damn fine hockey player. Oh, and easy on the eyes and incredibly generous to his communities. Superstar, for sure.

The phrase “manly chainsaw carving sculptor” is the best thing to happen all day. I truly learn something new every time I go online.

In Canada, the largest Protestant church (the United Church of Canada) is that liberal christian community you’re asking about. My parents are active members, so I know all about the head of the church (female, lesbian), the great debate over allowing athiest ministers, and the other progressive stuff going on. Then I…

I agree that this is something the trumpistas might do, were it not for the fact that there are wildly differing levels of grammar, punctuation, and tone in the tweets. I don’t read them all (I like my blood pressure where it is) but what I’ve seen supports the idea of a random rage tweeter (el trumpo) and an…