@akkabah
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.
The Tyee is proud to have published this important investigation by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. We condemn this egregious harassment of a journalist for doing her job, and have offered support as she deals with this disturbing situation.
(no one who is immunocompromised is a monster for isolating from their family or having their family isolate from them when there's illness circulating, to be clear! this is just how i am feeling as a non-immunocompromised person!)
my poor child has been sick and i've been giving her air hugs and kisses like a monster because i have a 100% attendance class at the pool & i cannot, cannot get sick
my swim volume is burning a lot of calories but no fear, i am easily making those up with my current probably totally unrelated reese's peanut butter cup habit
I truly, truly hate it when a software update completely upends some shit the software itself has conditioned me to do in particular way + intuitively. WHY. why.
I mean I guess on one hand one does perhaps follow from the other, so
Swam 2500m underslept & deeply underhydrated this morning & am drinking water today like my life depends on it
A certain niche of wellness is right now very obsessed with raw milk, but also very obsessed with parasite cleanses. 🤨
A Vancouver councillor wrongly accused of distributing illegal drugs by Mayor Ken Sim says he is considering a complaint to the city’s integrity commissioner and a possible defamation lawsuit.
thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...
In my experience the serious lifters are just mostly so nice!
I tend to assume that my rec centre gym is a pretty welcoming space (there's pink shirt fridays, i am not the only visibly queer person, lots of younger folks from the nation come) but a regular walked in wearing a Make Canada Great Again shirt the other day
Fitness, wellness, and lifting are such... interesting spaces right now. On one hand, there are white nationalist active clubs. On the other hand, there's definitely been a leftist uptick in heavy weightlifting practice.
my most toxic trait is sizing up some terrible whiny manosphere dude and thinking, "yeah, i could take that one in a fight."
no! it would *not* be silly.
I have a nice little thrifted vest collection & it is being threatened by the growth of my shoulders and lats.
For @thetyee.ca, @rachelgilmore.bsky.social unmasks a former Olympian training with the white nationalist group Frontenac Active Club in a Montreal gym: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
It's my favourite. Oddly enough, I only really train neutral & pronated. I only do chin-ups when I do bar pulls. I don't find them terribly comfortable, wrist-wise.
I think I'll try a neutral grip a little later. I usually switch to band-assisted & drills throughout the day after a successful (or non-successful) rep, but it might be time to start scaling up!
Chin-up #11, & a nice clean rep.
It’s so odd, hey? This thing I do like 3x or 4x a week!
Week 9 of 28 of swim marathon training. Need to swim 3.3km tonight. Am all nerves, as if I have never swum before.
What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.
"Gender non-conforming children continue to get the strong impression… that they’d be better off being something other than what they are.”
Like: yes! True. It's impressed upon them over & over again they should better conform to their gender assigned at birth. With social consequences!
i refuse to tally up how much this household (me, it's me) is spending weekly on siggi's vanilla skyr and grapes.
Packing a lunch regularly for my child has really helped me pack lunches when needed for myself. I am… much kinder to the child.
If I make a pun & I don't get an "oh my GOD" my work here is *not* done
It's aggressively bad and dull and I wish it a speedy death.
I can't read more than a few lines of AI-generated writing or LinkedIn-speak without my brain going absolutely & completely offline.
personally i'm stoked BC is killing daylight savings in favour of more sunlight at the end of the day in winter. it will be helpful for my* seasonal depression.
* my as in my own as in you might be different as in i have not looked up journal articles or made any kind of objective assessment
update: caught her wearing roller blades indoors and i am stress eating a fistful of marshmallows
