I mis-clicked on one of my 150 open tabs and it happened to be a tab that's been open since 2019 with a paper that has a solution to the exact research problem I've been puzzling over today. This is the moment I've been waiting for and I've decided to never close any tabs again
With #CancelCanadaDay fast approaching, I realized that some of you with young kids may be trying to teach them about residential schools. I also know that some of you may be having a tough time trying to figure out how.
Let your Kindergarten teacher friend help.
A moment of silence for the 215 indigenous children followed by an anthem with the line “God keep our land,” knowing full well the role the government and the church played is yet another example of why this country isn’t yet the country it pretends to be.
A chain bookstore closed a location in my city and the location had to destroy quite a few books. I'd really like it if it was common knowledge that book destruction was a publisher requirement. Bookstores don't like doing it.
Hi Twitter —a useful term for you: "the glass escalator." The opposite of the glass ceiling; it describes the way that men (specifically white men) in majority - women fields get fast-tracked for promotions, raises, and other opportunities.
Reminder/news to readers using libraries as the pandemic rages on:
Absolutely positively literally EVERY. SINGLE. THING. you hate about restrictions on ebook checkouts, every shitty interface or search function on Epic or Scribd, is the fault of capitalism. NOT YOUR LIBRARY.
Some years back my wife and I got into the habit of asking each other
‘do you want comfort or solutions’ when the other was having a bad time. That one sentence can save us from an argument 9/10 times.
My post-op velcro brace scratched up our fitted sheets. I didn't know because my partner has been silently putting the rough section on his side of the bed--for two years
"I didn't want it to bother your leg"💛
I don't use a brace anymore, we could've just bought new sheets
Don Cherry was fired for a long history of "questionable" comments, ending his career with a racist, xenophobic rant. But sure, Conservatives, let's promote him for the new Governor General