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• Post #4455334

  My partner bought a box of multi-coloured fruity popsicles and then took them out of the box, to sit loosely in the top basket of the chest freezer (a sensible decision: the box would not have fit neatly). I did not, however, take a moment to read the box before it went out with the recycling. So now I am here staring at the rainbow of colours and wondering whether a green one will be lime (my favourite), or melon (yuck), or green apple (meh). I might just make the safe decision and choose or...

• Post #4277831

  Can anyone from #Britain #UK please explain to me why every single beverage needs to have artificial sweeteners in it? I mean, I understand the impulse with sodas. I'd still rather have a real-sugar soda & just have them less frequently as a way of cutting down sugar, but I can understand that there's a "we need to find a way to get kids eating less sugar" issue, and kids don't have the impulse control and foresight to choose other things. But WHY in juice? Instant...

• Post #4087809

  One of my work-friends strongly recommended going to the charity shops while I'm in London on vacation (they are, indeed, very different from thrift shops in Canada!) and I found an absolute TREASURE: 4 balls of genuine wool/alpaca yarn for £10 altogether (they were marked at £3/ball but the boys at the counter insisted on only taking a ten since I was getting 4 of them). No cute new dresses or the like (I did try a few things on but nothing seemed like I'd get real wear out of it), bu...

• Post #4066917

  The British Museum treats so many of their ancient artifacts like a dog treats a chunk of human-food they swiped off the table when no one was looking. The descriptions on the wall don't even say what the item is, half the time, but they're REAL insistent that "WE HAD PERMISSION TO TAKE THIS, IT'S OURS, WE'RE KEEPING IT". Long-winded descriptions of how Lord-Such-And-Such took it WITH PERMISSION, and not even a listing of, say, which goddess this is a carving of. Col...

• Post #4000527

  It's starting to get mildly unsettling, how it never rains when I'm on vacation. Last year I spent over a week in Vancouver (raincouver!) and it didn't rain at all. Now I'm in London, England and there's a drought. Not any rain at all, in a place where umbrellas are sold on every street corner. My last 4 or 5 summer vacations, I haven't had a single day's plans get rained out on me. I'm getting a bit creeped out by it, to be honest. I even have a whole list...

• Post #3775284

  Sure, sure, sure, autism is definitely some sort of "new" thing that didn't exist a couple hundred years ago. Sure. So how do YOU explain all of the incredibly-specific Victorian social rules and table manners? You're telling me that you think a NEUROTYPICAL came up with all that?

• Post #3558535

  My job is the MOST fun, sometimes! Spending the entire weekend at #TOFringe Festival and getting paid to do the easiest job imaginable (they need an extra body to sit beside a camera & babysit it during some of the archival recordings). Getting paid to watch 4 shows, and buying tickets to 4 others in-between while I'm there anyway. Yay summer! #Toronto #theatre

• Post #3483258

  A perfect ending to #Pride this year: watching a screening of #hedwigandtheangryinch at the Danforth music hall with friends, and then hearing John Cameron Mitchell (and others, because of course many of them live in Toronto; it was filmed here) speak about the film, tell anecdotes, and sing songs. Midnight Radio with the whole audience singing the final chorus, arms raised, made the world feel better for a moment.

• Post #3013305

  Program 350-ish cues in 6 hours for 4 back-to-back kids' musical theatre presentations? That I've never gotten to see a rehearsal for, and have to program at full-tempo during their one and only dress run-through?Hell yeah; let's gooooo! Helps that I know all 4 of these musicals pretty much by heart already because that's the 20 years experience you're paying for 😜

• Post #2930806

  So much love to the Tim Hortons employee who jammed 15 timbits into the box intended for only 10 of them and absolutely made my morning 😸. Sometimes it is the little things, like extra sugary snacks on an early-morning start when it's rainy.

• Post #2930805

  I used to work with a guy who was very obviously dealing with some unmanaged (possibly undiagnosed) neurodivergence. He eventually got fired for ticking off other people we worked with/for, but I always personally had a pleasant working relationship with him. In the year or so since he was fired, we've chatted a few times about work-related things and his new job (same field, slightly different role, different company), and it sounds like he's figuring some of that mental healt...

• Post #2930804

  Do I know anyone in #LondonUK or the nearby areas? I'm looking at a little #WestEnd #theatre getaway as my summer #vacation this July, and would love recommendations of activities and hidden gems. In particular, any must-try restaurants or great dayhike destinations? Fun museums and galleries beyond the obvious ones? And any queer (especially sapphic but not exclusively) spots not-to-be-missed?

• Post #2930803

  @Binder - I can only assume that the cat's response to this was something along the lines of "the cheese said that I could eat it" 😸

• Post #2930802

  #tattoo artists: I really, truly cannot stress this enough. Put. Your. Location. In. Your. Bio!!!!! Front and center. Make it searchable. Use hashtags! Do NOT make me click a link to go to some outside site that I then have to search through in order to find the "about" page where your address is listed. I'm not fucking doing that, and neither is anyone else. There are SO many good artists out there, and I'm not doing a runaround on every single one...

• Post #2930801

  I have recently taken to referring to crochet as my "socially acceptable fidget toy" because a) it's true, but also because b) other neurodivergent people seem to be DELIGHTED by this description. #crochet #fibreart #neurodivergent #keepitweird

• Post #2930800

  The kitty committee have voted to spend today out on the balcony in the sunshine, because spring seems to have finally arrived in Toronto! #cats #catsofmastodon #toronto

• Post #2930799

  I love recital season ❤️ I try to work as many little dance shows, choir recitals, and end-of-school-year plays as I can during May & June, and it always brings me joy to watch kids discovering the joy of the stage. It heals something in my soul. Today I get to watch 3 groups of choir kids do their final performances, and I couldn't be happier #theatre #dance #choir

• Post #2930798

  "Write the stories you want to read".... I mean okay, but AO3 is already filled with that stuff and most of those authors didn't get agents or publishing deals that way ....

• Post #1534359

  I sincerely hope this absolutely moronic promoter is charged the full cost for this. I happened to be working nearby both yesterday & today, and this "sculpture" (read: messy pile with no inherent design concept) was drawing unsafe crowds to the narrow sidewalks around this lot, with no crowd control or traffic control whatsoever, & large groups spilling dangerously out into the street. Someone could have been killed just because they had a "bright idea" and zero ev...

• Post #778468

  "Don't you ever feel lonely and jealous when your partner's out on a date and you're not?" Haha, oh, my sweet summer child. You underestimate what a treat it is to spend a night by myself, eating pizza bagels & watching Studio Ghibli, with absolutely no need to entertain anyone else. Don't get me wrong -- I love my partners! But I love them a heck of a lot more when I get to be away from them sometimes. Society expects us to live in...