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.
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
Something quite exciting happened Monday: Hearty won Gold at the Taste Canada Awards in the Culinary Narratives category. 🍴🥳
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Something quite exciting happened Monday: Hearty won Gold at the Taste Canada Awards in the Culinary Narratives category. 🍴🥳
For Remembrance Day: a postcard my great great grandfather embroidered on the Western Front during WWI to send home to my great great grandmother & their four kids. (He was a communist; detested the government for what he came to view as senseless death.)
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
For Remembrance Day: a postcard my great great grandfather embroidered on the Western Front during WWI to send home to my great great grandmother & their four kids. (He was a communist; detested the government for what he came to view as senseless death.)
After seeing the destruction one of the local bears has wrought around the neighborhood this fall, I have realized that the main thing keeping him out of our house is that he has chosen not to enter.
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 AM
After seeing the destruction one of the local bears has wrought around the neighborhood this fall, I have realized that the main thing keeping him out of our house is that he has chosen not to enter.
What are the conservatives defending? What ideal of Workplace has gone by the wayside? What are we yearning for, here, exactly.
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
What are the conservatives defending? What ideal of Workplace has gone by the wayside? What are we yearning for, here, exactly.
Today in i'll share this with you all because this is the place i empty my brain, i thought Kelly Macdonald (pictured) played Vera Claythorne in the 2015 adaptation of And Then There Were None. She absolutely does not. But I submit: she could. And well!
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Today in i'll share this with you all because this is the place i empty my brain, i thought Kelly Macdonald (pictured) played Vera Claythorne in the 2015 adaptation of And Then There Were None. She absolutely does not. But I submit: she could. And well!
Today in pedantry: no it isn’t!! the *recipe* for it might be
November 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Today in pedantry: no it isn’t!! the *recipe* for it might be
petition to stop calling stuff an "experience" when it sucks and is boring
November 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
petition to stop calling stuff an "experience" when it sucks and is boring
“It might be really cool to see a world cu— okay alright never mind.”
November 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“It might be really cool to see a world cu— okay alright never mind.”
People should be able to participate in sports! And not that it matters—I could be slow as hell, and should still be able to find a wetsuit—but I'd reasonably be considered "athletic" in my sport.
October 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
People should be able to participate in sports! And not that it matters—I could be slow as hell, and should still be able to find a wetsuit—but I'd reasonably be considered "athletic" in my sport.
Everybody loves to talk about Ilona Maher but nobody wants to talk about how the sizing standards for women's athletic gear are nonsense. Example: swimming wetsuits. Left: 2XU. Right: Orca. 8 months of weight training & my shoulders are too large for any women's wetsuit to fit comfortably.
October 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Everybody loves to talk about Ilona Maher but nobody wants to talk about how the sizing standards for women's athletic gear are nonsense. Example: swimming wetsuits. Left: 2XU. Right: Orca. 8 months of weight training & my shoulders are too large for any women's wetsuit to fit comfortably.
very normal things happening in the world of generative AI assets
October 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
very normal things happening in the world of generative AI assets
These are so far my best offerings in chin up grip and whatever the other one is called.
October 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
These are so far my best offerings in chin up grip and whatever the other one is called.
it's morbidly amusing when they make it so explicit. No diversity! No equity! No inclusion! (Yes homogeneity! Yes isms! Yes exclusion!)
October 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
it's morbidly amusing when they make it so explicit. No diversity! No equity! No inclusion! (Yes homogeneity! Yes isms! Yes exclusion!)
Third time I’ve forgotten my water bottle at the rec centre; third time I have found it back there. Which is great because I am very partial to the stickers.
October 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Third time I’ve forgotten my water bottle at the rec centre; third time I have found it back there. Which is great because I am very partial to the stickers.
Go on, book your flu & COVID shot today, they said. It'll be great, they said.
October 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Go on, book your flu & COVID shot today, they said. It'll be great, they said.
David Lebovitz’s pumpkin ice cream, with an added caramel ribbon.
October 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
David Lebovitz’s pumpkin ice cream, with an added caramel ribbon.
Today is cider day. We bash the apples with a 2x4 & then use Will’s DIY cider press to juice ’em.
October 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Today is cider day. We bash the apples with a 2x4 & then use Will’s DIY cider press to juice ’em.
Pumpkin spice cookie cake 👍
October 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Pumpkin spice cookie cake 👍
No one loves the 5* minute rest between saturday cleaning tasks more than mackerel
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October 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
No one loves the 5* minute rest between saturday cleaning tasks more than mackerel
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the grammar is janky because I was trying to not make it [redacted]’s issue that I am seething
![Dear [redacted],
My honorific is Mx. as I am non-binary and one of the exact people for whom B.C. Cancer’s messaging is meant to include.
Best,
andrea](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u5llvgrv2uolle2ufteeuepg/bafkreifof6xxmeplismtob5rtibydg7hp73mpemosgu5ys3syyqcnnez2a@jpeg)
October 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
the grammar is janky because I was trying to not make it [redacted]’s issue that I am seething
Left: normal. Right: today.
October 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Left: normal. Right: today.
Went outside to catch a ride to lake swimming; discovered a bear had visited; heard a BIG RUSTLING. Eventful!
October 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Went outside to catch a ride to lake swimming; discovered a bear had visited; heard a BIG RUSTLING. Eventful!