andrea bennett (they/them)
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andrea bennett (they/them)
@akkabah.bsky.social
Senior editor at The Tyee. Author of the essay collections Hearty: On Cooking, Eating and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence (ECW Press) & Like a Boy but Not a Boy (Arsenal Pulp). Co-editor of the BC bestselling Points of Interest.
i honestly need to take a break from paying any attention to U.S. news. i cannot currently handle fascism + justification of epstein overlap. i wish you all all the best.
November 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Thank you. This child has me second-guessing myself. (Mostly she corrects my pronunciation, but I’ve been trying to get her to understand accents are actually just fine and normal.)
November 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
(I didn‘t copy edit my french above, for verisimilitude, so don’t @ me about any fautes 😭)
November 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Two is great! I can’t do a full ROM push-up. I do incline pushups 🙃😬
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I do banded but I’ve been stuck at the skinny little band that gives 7-11 kgs of assistance since…. August lol
November 15, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Ahh okay! There is one of those at the community gym but I’ve never really used it. I might try, to see how far away I am from getting a pull-up.
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
They are too hard. It’s rude. (I’m googling gravity assisted pull-up machines now!)
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I don’t really mind between the two, but free weights tend to be better overall for my goals. (Though I honestly don’t hate the leg press.)
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 AM
i hate the brand. i hate the ads. i am very attached to drinking one Diet Coke per day. 😵‍💫
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I tend to do upper body at home so it’s dumbbell chest press on the floor for me. Which is… fine. I do enjoy the muscle it has developed. 😂 (more vanity!)
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Thanks! (And: a-ha! The mornay-ish approach!)

My child loves bacon; I'm indifferent but I think I could start the veg or the mornay off in bacon fat instead of butter & then toss the bacon back in at the end. (Substituting ham for... ham.)
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM