Andrea Zanin
@andreazanin.bsky.social
Enby Leatherqueer (they). Author, Post-Nonmonogamy & Beyond; co-author, More Than Two, 2nd ed. Translator & editor. Cyclist 🚲 Taster 🫖🍫🧀🍷 Night 🦇. Lapsed spoonie & PhD student. Tkaronto/Toronto. sexgeek.wordpress.com. 💚: 📚👠💅📽 🧠
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Andrea Zanin
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Andrea Zanin
Andrea Zanin, MA, is a white, nonbinary, middle-aged queer writer who lives in Tkaronto (Toronto, Ontario), on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa...
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Today at the river house. Such a perfect snowfall.
December 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Today at the river house. Such a perfect snowfall.
Didn't his cousin or sister speak out against him publicly not long ago too? Yikes. With more than one family member calling him out for being a monster, I wonder if any of it is reaching him. Is he even reachable? Is there a soul in there somewhere?
Stephen Miller Would Kill His Parents Before He Was Born
"If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out."
Beset by violent anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia, Miller's ancestors migrated to America in 1903.
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"If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out."
Beset by violent anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia, Miller's ancestors migrated to America in 1903.
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Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
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November 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Didn't his cousin or sister speak out against him publicly not long ago too? Yikes. With more than one family member calling him out for being a monster, I wonder if any of it is reaching him. Is he even reachable? Is there a soul in there somewhere?
"A looming crisis of competence" sounds about right.
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
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> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
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AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
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November 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"A looming crisis of competence" sounds about right.
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
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November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
This is fantastic. Ford says no new bike lanes that remove traffic lanes, so the City says, OK, fine, we won't remove lanes, we'll just narrow them. So brilliant. I hope they find more ways to maliciously comply. We love a workaround!
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Toronto proposes over 20 km of new bike lanes, bypassing provincial veto
The city plans to skirt the Ford government’s bike lane ban by narrowing the width of roads to squeeze in bike lanes, rather than removing car lanes
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November 30, 2025 at 6:14 AM
This is fantastic. Ford says no new bike lanes that remove traffic lanes, so the City says, OK, fine, we won't remove lanes, we'll just narrow them. So brilliant. I hope they find more ways to maliciously comply. We love a workaround!
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Hi everybody,
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November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Yes. The colonizers are cruel to their own as well. It's not the same, of course, but a cruelty-based mindset is always going to be aimed at the people lower on the hierarchy even within the colonizer ranks. Queers, poors, kids, disabled folks, women.
There is still part of me that has a hard time understanding how governments deliberately starve their own people. My people have been starved, many times, but always by colonizers — growing up, I naïvely assumed this benefited colonizers. But no, they take their cruelty home and do it to their own.
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Yes. The colonizers are cruel to their own as well. It's not the same, of course, but a cruelty-based mindset is always going to be aimed at the people lower on the hierarchy even within the colonizer ranks. Queers, poors, kids, disabled folks, women.
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Meanwhile Canada's tourism sector made a record-breaking C$59bn from May to August of 2025, up 6% from the same period last year, mostly because of people choosing to travel domestically, according to Destination Canada, a national tourism organisation. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Canadian boycott of US travel shows no sign of slowing
October marked the 10th month of decreased Canadian travel to the US, with many staying away over political and trade tensions.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Meanwhile Canada's tourism sector made a record-breaking C$59bn from May to August of 2025, up 6% from the same period last year, mostly because of people choosing to travel domestically, according to Destination Canada, a national tourism organisation. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The US is facing a significant loss in international tourism in 2025, with the World Travel & Tourism Council(WTTC) projecting a $12.5 billion drop in international visitor spending.
This makes the US the only country out of 184 studied to be projected to see a decline, driven
This makes the US the only country out of 184 studied to be projected to see a decline, driven
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The US is facing a significant loss in international tourism in 2025, with the World Travel & Tourism Council(WTTC) projecting a $12.5 billion drop in international visitor spending.
This makes the US the only country out of 184 studied to be projected to see a decline, driven
This makes the US the only country out of 184 studied to be projected to see a decline, driven
Listen, 30 cents a box is a helluva price. I can't get through that much KD in a reasonable time frame but that's why they invented the notion of splitting a large purchase among a group. Maybe you're poor. Maybe you're a polycule. Maybe you're a large family. I see many use cases.
Man this is the perfect gift for someone who has given up
Kraft Original Mac & Cheese Mac Friday 65" Box, 65 Count of 7.5 oz Boxes goes up on Walmart exclusive in 60 minutes (9 PM PT - $19.37) buff.ly/zdUIMSg #ad
-65" TV-sized box
-65 boxes of Mac n Cheese
-4K Noodles
-65" TV-sized box
-65 boxes of Mac n Cheese
-4K Noodles
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Listen, 30 cents a box is a helluva price. I can't get through that much KD in a reasonable time frame but that's why they invented the notion of splitting a large purchase among a group. Maybe you're poor. Maybe you're a polycule. Maybe you're a large family. I see many use cases.
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I usually speed when I’m driving but that’s because all the speed limit signs around here are just normal-sized signs and I don’t think they’re serious signs but once Doug Ford spends millions putting up bigger speed limit signs I will definitely not be speeding anymore because then it’s serious.
a man with a mustache wearing a blue suit and tie is making a funny face .
ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a blue suit and tie is making a funny face .
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November 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I usually speed when I’m driving but that’s because all the speed limit signs around here are just normal-sized signs and I don’t think they’re serious signs but once Doug Ford spends millions putting up bigger speed limit signs I will definitely not be speeding anymore because then it’s serious.
I went looking for this video, having seen it years ago, and it was surprisingly hard to find. So now that I've found it, I share it! A live crow shows up around the 2-minute mark to dance with the performer. It is *amazing* to watch them interact.
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La confidence des oiseaux • Numeridanse
The choreographer, Luc Petton, is fascinated about birds. In 2004, he embarked on a fabulous project that conjugated dancers and living birds. And so began…
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November 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I went looking for this video, having seen it years ago, and it was surprisingly hard to find. So now that I've found it, I share it! A live crow shows up around the 2-minute mark to dance with the performer. It is *amazing* to watch them interact.
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Also, even if you have tested positive for HPV, this vaccine protects against multiple strains of HPV and you probably only have one and it is still safe for you to get it, so FUCKING GET IT so you don't get any other strains
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Also, even if you have tested positive for HPV, this vaccine protects against multiple strains of HPV and you probably only have one and it is still safe for you to get it, so FUCKING GET IT so you don't get any other strains
This is why we need cycling infrastructure. The intensity and range of bad driving has gotten absolutely bananas in the last few years, and the only thing that helps curb it in a meaningful way is to create physical barriers to the fuckery. Still won't stop all of it, but nothing else comes close.
I'm all for road safety but you could have every cyclist in the land wearing a full suit of Christmas lights and drivers fucking around on their phones will still knock them down
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This is why we need cycling infrastructure. The intensity and range of bad driving has gotten absolutely bananas in the last few years, and the only thing that helps curb it in a meaningful way is to create physical barriers to the fuckery. Still won't stop all of it, but nothing else comes close.
ICYMI, you might be iron-deficient! A *huge* percentage of people are, particularly AFAB folks who menstruate or have given birth. I was for a decade without knowing it! Headaches, low energy, shortness of breath. And it's relatively easy to fix. Get yer ferritin checked!
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Ontario's new iron deficiency guidelines a 'life changer' for patients, doctors say | CBC News
A years-in-the-making change to how iron deficiency is measured in Ontario lab results will be a game changer for patients across the province, according to doctors who worked to make it happen.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
ICYMI, you might be iron-deficient! A *huge* percentage of people are, particularly AFAB folks who menstruate or have given birth. I was for a decade without knowing it! Headaches, low energy, shortness of breath. And it's relatively easy to fix. Get yer ferritin checked!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I applied and was chosen to be a taster for the #TeaTastersBoxTO, which is a competition run by the Toronto Tea Festival to pick the best teas in each category ahead of the festival in early February. I got in as an oolongs judge. Yay! Picked up my samples today... but where are oolongs # 9–12??
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I applied and was chosen to be a taster for the #TeaTastersBoxTO, which is a competition run by the Toronto Tea Festival to pick the best teas in each category ahead of the festival in early February. I got in as an oolongs judge. Yay! Picked up my samples today... but where are oolongs # 9–12??
Currently very grateful to Past Me for making and freezing a ton of chicken & vegetable soup. It is so nice to have a healthy, homemade hot meal available within minutes anytime I want it.
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Currently very grateful to Past Me for making and freezing a ton of chicken & vegetable soup. It is so nice to have a healthy, homemade hot meal available within minutes anytime I want it.
Someone needs to start a tally of all the kids who've died from vaccine-preventable illnesses. (Now THERE'S a use for content-scraping AI!) This makes me so viscerally angry. Parents out there letting their kids die because of conspiracy theories.
PERTUSSIS?!? PERTUSSIS
Babies are dying of things I only read about in Little House on The Prarie
Babies are dying of things I only read about in Little House on The Prarie
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Someone needs to start a tally of all the kids who've died from vaccine-preventable illnesses. (Now THERE'S a use for content-scraping AI!) This makes me so viscerally angry. Parents out there letting their kids die because of conspiracy theories.
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You’re cutting funding for Women and Gender Equality Canada by 51% over 3 years.
Today marks the beginning of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.
Every Canadian deserves to be free from violence. This is not just a moral imperative — it is key to building a safer and more equitable Canada for everyone.
Every Canadian deserves to be free from violence. This is not just a moral imperative — it is key to building a safer and more equitable Canada for everyone.
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
You’re cutting funding for Women and Gender Equality Canada by 51% over 3 years.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
Sure, but also, people should be able to make a living in the arts.
Kurt Vonnegut said “The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow.”
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November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Sure, but also, people should be able to make a living in the arts.
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dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
I'm not much of a drinker, but a mimosa with brunch this past weekend was exactly right. Also, a bowl of plain yogurt, but done crème brûlée style? Genius! And what better way to top it off than with a good independent bookstore browse. Such a sweet time in Montreal with one of my besties. 🥰
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I'm not much of a drinker, but a mimosa with brunch this past weekend was exactly right. Also, a bowl of plain yogurt, but done crème brûlée style? Genius! And what better way to top it off than with a good independent bookstore browse. Such a sweet time in Montreal with one of my besties. 🥰
Me: I'm thirsty.
Brain: 🎵 [Melissa Etheridge] Somebody bring me some water!
Me: Man, this train ride sure is jerky.
Brain: 🎵 [Cher] And after all these starts and stops...
Me: Ugh, so many deadlines
Brain: 🎵 [Dolly Parton] Workin' 9 to 5!
WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS BRAIN
Brain: 🎵 [Melissa Etheridge] Somebody bring me some water!
Me: Man, this train ride sure is jerky.
Brain: 🎵 [Cher] And after all these starts and stops...
Me: Ugh, so many deadlines
Brain: 🎵 [Dolly Parton] Workin' 9 to 5!
WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS BRAIN
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Me: I'm thirsty.
Brain: 🎵 [Melissa Etheridge] Somebody bring me some water!
Me: Man, this train ride sure is jerky.
Brain: 🎵 [Cher] And after all these starts and stops...
Me: Ugh, so many deadlines
Brain: 🎵 [Dolly Parton] Workin' 9 to 5!
WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS BRAIN
Brain: 🎵 [Melissa Etheridge] Somebody bring me some water!
Me: Man, this train ride sure is jerky.
Brain: 🎵 [Cher] And after all these starts and stops...
Me: Ugh, so many deadlines
Brain: 🎵 [Dolly Parton] Workin' 9 to 5!
WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS BRAIN
If you're seeking creative inspiration, @naylandblake.bsky.social has you covered! I might have to try some of these. Among other things, just reading it helped me realize that my "ideal body" is an octopus, so. 🐙💚
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100 Assignments From Nayland Blake
While these assignments will not turn someone else into me, they will provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
If you're seeking creative inspiration, @naylandblake.bsky.social has you covered! I might have to try some of these. Among other things, just reading it helped me realize that my "ideal body" is an octopus, so. 🐙💚
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