With Elon in charge of Twitter, a lot of changes have happened in the last week. He decided that anyone who wanted to be verified could pay $8 a month, defeating the purpose of verification. Elon fired employees who are responsible for things like accessiblity. He fired the ethics team, who had focused on the…
Logan Mailloux: The Same Story, on Repeat
The Montreal Canadiens announced that they’re offering Logan Mailloux an entry level three year contract. I can’t tell you what it’s worth, because my brain was already launching into Mrs. White’s infamous monologue from Clue. “It’s like flames. Flames… from the side of my face.” Because it’s yet another instance of hockey culture missing the…
What to do: Speak up? Sweep it under the rug?
I spend a lot of my time on TikTok, and I’ve found myself on the outskirts of BookTok. Mostly because I was looking for more books with Latine characters. My FYP (For You Page, for the uninitiated) has been taken up with discussion about romance author Kate Stewart, and criticism after it was discovered that…
Collateral Damage: the verbal kind
Every so often, I feel like I have to step forward to talk about the concept of collateral damage. Because there are a lot of people who proudly describe themselves as progressives, leftists… or just not being conservatives – that seem to have zero concept of what collateral damages are. I remember people I thought…
Back Up Your Facebook & Instagram media
Today, Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp were unavailable for most of the work day. You were likely wondering if you were going to lose all those photos and videos you’ve made over the years. Now that it’s back up – it’s time to back up your media on both Facebook and Instagram. Thankfully Facebook makes it easy. You can…
A Child of the Desert and the Sea
I was born in the desert. Well, in a hospital in the desert. My mother jokes that the Sonoran Desert is in my veins, so much more than anyone else in her family. I never cried when the clasp of my seat belt touched my skin when they buckled me in, even though it was…
In The Heights: Latinidad y Sueños
It’s been awhile, my lovelies. We’ve watched In the Heights. Twice, actually. I have a feeling I’ll be watching it a lot more through this month. The musical has always been a comfort to me, even though it wasn’t specifically my culture. My story. If you aren’t Latinx, you’re probably confused. I mean, we aren’t…
Hockey Culture: Silence, Team First Mentality
I’ve talked at length on Twitter about just how toxic hockey culture can be. But one of the aspects I haven’t really discussed are player interviews. Hockey fans have a joke about interviews. That you just take a few tired phrases, mix them up, remove most personality. Bam! You have the perfect hockey interview. And…
Insurrection in DC leads to a lot of familiar discourse
I’ve seen a lot of strange takes following the Insurrection in DC of the Capitol building, aka Trump’s coup attempt. There is of course the conservative contingent who are desperately backpedaling to save their careers. There’s also the conservatives (big overlap in the two groups) who think that the repercussions for Trump using the Internet…
Wonder Woman 84: Not all Nostalgia is Welcome
Like many people, I saw Wonder Woman 84 over the holidays. And, I’ve been trying to figure out how to broach the biggest issue I saw with the movie. Not the CG, not loopholes in the timeline – those are part and parcel with any superhero movie (or story on paper, anyways). But it was…