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.
my brain will see someone smoking a cigarette & the picture is illustrating a story that's like, "cigarettes produce formaldehyde and will kill you dead" & be like, "mmm you know what i could really, really go for right now? a delicious cigarette"
November 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
my brain will see someone smoking a cigarette & the picture is illustrating a story that's like, "cigarettes produce formaldehyde and will kill you dead" & be like, "mmm you know what i could really, really go for right now? a delicious cigarette"
"Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts" is a painfully bad title, I am sorry. But actually I am not sorry. It's honestly so bland I was going to say it sounds AI-generated but I think AI would come up with something two clicks better.
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
"Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts" is a painfully bad title, I am sorry. But actually I am not sorry. It's honestly so bland I was going to say it sounds AI-generated but I think AI would come up with something two clicks better.
i feel more grateful for my chronic forgetfulness when it means the doubled-over-in-stomach-pain days float off into the ether until i have another one & remember for the 100th time that it happens
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
i feel more grateful for my chronic forgetfulness when it means the doubled-over-in-stomach-pain days float off into the ether until i have another one & remember for the 100th time that it happens
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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Beyond ready to write a second year-English level essay about how Charlotte Lucas of Pride and Prejudice is an example of asexual representation in literature
November 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Beyond ready to write a second year-English level essay about how Charlotte Lucas of Pride and Prejudice is an example of asexual representation in literature
Anyone who’s been witnessing what’s happening in the US & can look around & say with a straight face, like, yeah, trans people & their overreaches are the problem, is not a serious person and you do not need to pay them any heed
November 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Anyone who’s been witnessing what’s happening in the US & can look around & say with a straight face, like, yeah, trans people & their overreaches are the problem, is not a serious person and you do not need to pay them any heed
There is a lot of intense stuff i understand how to take in stride, and then, like, this morning for example, i was internally very very annoyed with my yogurt for tasting too tangy.
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
There is a lot of intense stuff i understand how to take in stride, and then, like, this morning for example, i was internally very very annoyed with my yogurt for tasting too tangy.
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Many services on Salt Spring Island are experiencing a labor shortage, driven by a lack of housing workers can afford.
It's pushed businesses around the island to offer housing for workers in order to improve recruitment — including illegal trailers.
My latest:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It's pushed businesses around the island to offer housing for workers in order to improve recruitment — including illegal trailers.
My latest:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Illegal housing essential to keep Salt Spring Island businesses open, employers say | CBC News
Many services on Salt Spring Island are experiencing a labour shortage, driven by a lack of housing workers can afford.
It’s pushed businesses around the island to offer housing for workers in order t...
www.cbc.ca
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Many services on Salt Spring Island are experiencing a labor shortage, driven by a lack of housing workers can afford.
It's pushed businesses around the island to offer housing for workers in order to improve recruitment — including illegal trailers.
My latest:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It's pushed businesses around the island to offer housing for workers in order to improve recruitment — including illegal trailers.
My latest:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@kehyslop.bsky.social first requested the names and public school assignments for Vancouver's school liaison officers in Dec. 2023. This fall, after an FOI battle, the VPD finally quietly updated its website to include this information. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Vancouver Police Finally Reveal Names of School Liaison Officers | The Tyee
After telling The Tyee publishing this information would harm police, names and school assignments are out.
thetyee.ca
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
@kehyslop.bsky.social first requested the names and public school assignments for Vancouver's school liaison officers in Dec. 2023. This fall, after an FOI battle, the VPD finally quietly updated its website to include this information. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
“An FOI request is not really a request ... It’s a legal mechanism.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Vancouver police ignore FOI requests for chief's communications
For nearly a year, the Vancouver Police Department has failed to fulfill two freedom of information requests seeking records from Chief Adam Palmer and other high-ranking officials – a situation trans...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“An FOI request is not really a request ... It’s a legal mechanism.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
my body apparently can’t tell the difference between, like, a near-miss collision involving a vehicle & getting weighed at the surgeon. like buddy why are we vibrating with adrenaline right now
November 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
my body apparently can’t tell the difference between, like, a near-miss collision involving a vehicle & getting weighed at the surgeon. like buddy why are we vibrating with adrenaline right now
every time I flex my lats I picture the Dilophosaurus from Jurassic park
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM
every time I flex my lats I picture the Dilophosaurus from Jurassic park
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Health Canada convened an independent expert advisory group in 2020 to provide guidance on safer supply. Health Canada heavily redacted its final report, but unredacted version obtained by CBC shows the expert group said drug crisis is driven by prohibition and recommended expansion of safer supply
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Health Canada convened an independent expert advisory group in 2020 to provide guidance on safer supply. Health Canada heavily redacted its final report, but unredacted version obtained by CBC shows the expert group said drug crisis is driven by prohibition and recommended expansion of safer supply
how do you even go through life having no principles, no scruples, no values but obedience and obeisance
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
how do you even go through life having no principles, no scruples, no values but obedience and obeisance
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last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before
November 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before
Me: Sinclair, est-ce que c’est fatiguant pour toi de parler français toute la journée?
Sinclair: non, mais c’est fatiguant d’entendre les *fautes* [pointing in my direction] toute la journée.
Well fuck me, lol, geez
Sinclair: non, mais c’est fatiguant d’entendre les *fautes* [pointing in my direction] toute la journée.
Well fuck me, lol, geez
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Me: Sinclair, est-ce que c’est fatiguant pour toi de parler français toute la journée?
Sinclair: non, mais c’est fatiguant d’entendre les *fautes* [pointing in my direction] toute la journée.
Well fuck me, lol, geez
Sinclair: non, mais c’est fatiguant d’entendre les *fautes* [pointing in my direction] toute la journée.
Well fuck me, lol, geez
similar to how everyone [who’s able to] should work a service job for at least a year, I believe everyone who speaks English as a first language [who’s able to] should learn a second language & then be occasionally forced to communicate for a day solely in that second language
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 AM
similar to how everyone [who’s able to] should work a service job for at least a year, I believe everyone who speaks English as a first language [who’s able to] should learn a second language & then be occasionally forced to communicate for a day solely in that second language
edge of my seat here
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I am so mad about my lack of pull-up progress that for lunch I just ate a plain tin of tuna with crackers for the protein
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I am so mad about my lack of pull-up progress that for lunch I just ate a plain tin of tuna with crackers for the protein
One thing about aiming for 1.25x bodyweight with my deadlift is that BW was never an issue for grip strength bc of my pull-up practice. Over body weight, grip strength is now back in play. (Sorry this is boring!)
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
One thing about aiming for 1.25x bodyweight with my deadlift is that BW was never an issue for grip strength bc of my pull-up practice. Over body weight, grip strength is now back in play. (Sorry this is boring!)
Newb gains continue: 215# on my deadlift today. 95# on bb back squat (that one I am purposely going very very slowly).
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Newb gains continue: 215# on my deadlift today. 95# on bb back squat (that one I am purposely going very very slowly).
Asked the child what christmas dessert she wanted and she said tarte au citron
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Asked the child what christmas dessert she wanted and she said tarte au citron
I thought I would eventually come to like lifting weights but: no. I do enjoy deadlifting. Mainly for vanity.
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I thought I would eventually come to like lifting weights but: no. I do enjoy deadlifting. Mainly for vanity.
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Bren Simmers wins the $60,000 #LatnerGriffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, supported by The Albert and Temmy Latner Family Foundation and Scott Griffin. Congratulations! #WTAwards #canlit
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Yes!! Yes. Nice.
A couple years ago we built a gingerbread house to look like our house & I was doing so much math to figure out a couple intersecting roof angles; Will took my plans, cut the rest out in cardboard, then figured out the roof by shaving bits off until it came together properly.
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A couple years ago we built a gingerbread house to look like our house & I was doing so much math to figure out a couple intersecting roof angles; Will took my plans, cut the rest out in cardboard, then figured out the roof by shaving bits off until it came together properly.