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Andrea Zanin

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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 @andreazanin.bsky.social · Nov 11

Oh lookie, we can pin posts now! Here's where you can find my books. :)
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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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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 2h

Editor rant: DO NOT "FIX" MY FUCKING HYPHENS, I AM A PROFESSIONAL AND I KNOW HOW TO USE THEM. /end rant #freelancerlife

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3h

I dont know what stage of capitalism this is, but I am exhausted

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 7h

That headline is a banger, wow. Professors have never been simply a source of knowledge. Their purpose is to help students learn how to *think*. How to judge, plan, connect ideas, research, create. AI wants to do all that thinking *for* students. They're entirely at cross-purposes.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

In the near future economy, I bet the skill of “can type a prompt into ChatGPT and repeat whatever it says” will be less in demand than “understands things enough to catch when ChatGPT makes an error or hallucinates.”

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 7h

Okay, now do a story on people with good taste who drive normal cars and don’t give their money to Nazis. I’ll wait.

WIRED @wired.com · 13h

“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.

Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck

“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 8h

It most certainly is! 😋

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 16h

Microplastics give me the willies. I'm a looseleaf lover and so I rarely drink bag tea, but it's great to know that the brand I buy for some herbals, Pukka, uses no plastic at all in their bags. Check this out if you wanna know about yours.
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Plastic Free Tea Bags: Which Brands Are Really Microplastic Free in 2025?

Your cup of tea might contain 11 billion nanoparticles of plastics. Find out which tea bags are plastic free (2025 update).

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 18h

"You show your love real weird" - trans kid in response to Alberta premier's statement that her government loves trans children. These kids, and their parents, are so damn brave to be challenging that awful, cruel government. I'm so angry they have to.
montreal.citynews.ca/2025/10/13/w...

'We'll be moving': Alberta transgender children, families brace for legal changes

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is expected to invoke the notwithstanding clause to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 18h

1 never read it, good to know!
2 THANK YOU OMG
3 also never read it, but maybe I'd give this one a chance?

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, good to know! I've never actually read his work. I'm hearing maybe I shouldn't bother?

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 18h

I'm sure you're right! I just found the tone so overwhelmingly smarmy and self-satisfied that I gave up in disgust after a few pages and actually returned it to the bookstore for a refund. This was when it first came out, back in *mumblemumble.* I find that tone off-putting anytime I encounter it.

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 20h

Coconut tastes metallic and much too sweet. In the coconut with pumpkin spice, the spice is surprisingly well done, so it's a yucky thing with a really nice thing at the same time and I found it confusing. 😂

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 20h

Pumpkin pie from the farmers' market. Perfect. Not too sweet, richly spiced. On a side note, I had the opportunity recently to do a comparative tasting of four different canned whipped creams. Regular and light are slightly different in texture but otherwise indistinguishable.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 22h

Season's first honeynut squash, plus more komatsuna and chicken. Yeah, that's a tiny sprinkling of gold leaf on the squash. More on that shortly, but suffice to say it's not a habit of mine 😂

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 23h

Maggie Helwig's ENCAMPMENT has won the Toronto Book Awards!

The city has also just given notice that the encampment beside her church (St. Stephen-in-the-Fields) is to be cleared TOMORROW MORNING (Thurs., Oct. 16). If you're in Toronto, support the encampment and its residents at 103 Bellevue Ave.!

A photograph of Maggie Helwig alongside friends, encampment residents, and readers.

A photograph of the notice given to clear the encampment with less than 24 hours notice.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 1d

Re: point 1, YES this also VERY applies to self-publishing, holy cow, SO MUCH.
But I'm sure some will disagree with all these things. Perhaps to them, my opinions are unhinged. Perhaps hinging itself is a matter of opinion.

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 1d

Thing is, I think my literary opinions are all quite hinged. Such as: every published writer needs an editor, and publishers that skimp on this should be pilloried. And: some classics just need to die already (I'm looking at you, Catcher in the Rye). Also: Hitchhiker's Guide sucks.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 2d

A moment to commemorate in these difficult times.

Queerazon.com @queerazon.bsky.social · 2d

On this day in queer history: Oct 14, 1977

During a live TV appearance in Iowa, anti-gay activist Anita Bryant was hit with a pie in protest of her “Save Our Children” campaign. A sweet moment of queer resistance.

#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #AnitaBryant

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 2d

Oh do enjoy! It's a fun ride!

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 2d

I mean he's almost enough to make ME want to move there, so yeah. Powerful stuff.

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 3d

The Cha Yi website says it's got lilac and hyacinth notes, and I suppose I can detect them in the faraway garden mix, but I wouldn't say they're pronounced—maybe the hyacinth more so, definitely not lilac. Anyway it's lovely, perfect for this in-between weather.

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 3d

It gives scents of poached pear, fresh rain, buttered toast and faraway garden. All that stays true when sipped.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 3d

Tea tasting! (More tasting notes to come, I am waaaay behind.) It's officially oolong season in my personal tea calendar, and I have tons of oolongs I haven't tried yet. Whee! Today it's Si Ji Chun, a short (lightly oxidized) tea from northern Taiwan.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 3d

(If you have that kind of money to throw away, please just send me a fucking etransfer)

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you so much!!

Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 3d

All I can think is how ludicrous it is that people have sunk this much real money into imaginary electronic money in the first place. Everything about it has screamed "scam" from jump, that hasn't ever changed, and wild shit like this predictably keeps happening. $500B, good lord, people, WHY.

Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 3d

$500 BILLION price wipeout in one day in crypto markets. So I’ll reminds everyone once again that crypto is a Ponzi scheme.

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Serious BlackRock ETF Warning Issued After ‘Extreme’ $500 Billion Bitcoin And Crypto Price ‘Flash Crash’

Traders are bracing for further declines as the bitcoin price crash suddenly accelerates amid uncertainty over U.S. president Donald Trump’s fresh China tariffs...

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