Love the replies to this. Most people living in Vancouver understand living in a big city means living with other people, including children.
If you want a quiet suburban home, by all means, move to the suburbs! (but beware, I've heard rumours of kids existing there too. 😱)
@janecoaston@JoelWBerry This is my favourite tweet of all time. 😂🤣😂 I reviewed Sideways when it came out. I thought it was atrocious, but no one agreed with me! I still have the promotional corkscrew and every time I use it I shudder thinking about the entitlement of mediocre men.
@nickwritesit@MoiraDonegan "Not that long ago..." no, today, now. Women who have worked on women's issues like abuse, coercive control and sexual exploitation will tell you these things are not getting better and the idea of 'natural progress' needs to be challenged every time it comes up.
Hello hello 👋 #IWD2023 is nearly here, and so are companies' cut-and-paste platitudes. And once again we're bringing you the data to see whose support for #InternationalWomensDay is genuine, and who's still got work to do.
Here's a reminder of how it works ⬇️ (1/8)
@Womans_Place_UK@UCLwomenslib I took a uni course on the Philosophy of Love and Sex without a single woman on the reading list! I wrote a paper on Beauvoir, and the professor was furious as she wasn't a 'real philosopher.' Ah, the good old days. 🙄
NEW: podcast companies are buying millions of listens through auto-playing episodes populated in free mobile games. iHeart, the top podcast publisher on Podtrac, has bought around 6 million unique downloads per month since 2018 https://t.co/5P4xldUvdI
TikTok may face fines of $29 million for failing to protect children’s privacy on the popular video-sharing app, British regulators said on Monday. https://t.co/BChPuvolrW
Happy Labor Day! In this piece from 2020, our staff investigates bossware– tech that bosses use to surveil and control their workers, and how to protect yourself. https://t.co/jq2VRePhZP
Barbara Ehrenreich’s book “Nickel and Dimed,” an undercover account of the indignities of being a low-wage worker in the United States, is considered a classic in social justice literature. She has died at 81. https://t.co/hzsXrPHiFV
'The generation now reaching young adulthood is the first to have grown up with near ubiquitous access to smartphones and tablets.'
@pwhitakerwriter explains the impacts of long-term smartphone use.
https://t.co/o4SSg47H1m
“women are not inherently risk-averse; they operate within systems that reward men for risk-taking, but punish women for the same behaviour” 🔥🔥🔥
https://t.co/GjC7SfCKC3