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I have been invited to a "Dank Meme Viewing Party" this weekend at which guests are expected to share their favorite dank memes. I am deeply uncool and don't even know what to do. Please send me yours so I am a Party Success.

#help

Most important Med diet study has been retracted. https://qz.com/1305718/the-science-behind-the-mediterranean-diet-might-be-flawed-thanks-to-a-retraction-of-a-major-study/

I'm surprised about the retraction, given the general terrible state of nutrition research, but not surprised the research doesn't hold up after seeing this study last year on how money, not diet matters https://qz.com/1045037/the-mediterranean-diet-works-for-the-wealthy-and-well-educated/

I'm beginning to think my gramma knew what was up - everything in moderation and always leave a bite on your plate. And eat plenty of chocolate.

"Victory in spite of all terror. Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.”

Climate change is a problem with the scope and urgency of World War II, and while it will unfold more slowly and less predictably than the war, it demands a response on the same scale.

https://qz.com/1306707/uncovering-the-mental-health-crisis-of-climate-change/

This is a war worth fighting.

Climate change is hard to deal with, personally https://qz.com/1306707/uncovering-the-mental-health-crisis-of-climate-change/

Ok I'm going to try to ride my tricycle to campus and work there tomorrow. Fingers crossed I wake up feeling well!

Wow there is a lot of water from the sky

Oh! I is a perfect day! A deep mist, rain pattering against the windows, cool air snaking through cracked windows.

This time of year is often referred to by locals in despairing tones as the June Gloom.

I adore it.

In the first heat wates of late spring, I begin to dread the harsh light and oppressive heat of the endless days of highish-latitude summer. June Gloom is a relief, a reprieve, a promise that autumn will come again, eventually.

(I hate summer so much.)

#weather #vancouver

Also if you live in Vancouver and want a hardly used vileda bee mop that you can replace the sponge on for ~$7 (at Canadian Tire) or ~$10 (at London Drugs), let me know.

I'm selling it for $1 on Craigslist but it's free to masto-friens!

I'm really glad I didn't ignore them. I'm really glad I can save them $12/year or whatever.

I really really hate that we live in a world where that amount of money matters to so many people.

So I am getting rid of a mop on Craigslist that has a replaceable sponge that costs $7-10. In my listing, I include that information. I got a message asking where you can find the sponges for $7. My first reaction was annoyance - do your own darn research. But my second was that not everyone is as good at internet research as me. So I messaged them back and told them the local stores that have it cheapest. I got a thank you note saying that they'd been paying $10 and were glad to find it cheaper

This is a very lovely essay.

Between the Coats: A Sensitivity Read Changed my Life - an Essay by Sarah Gailey | https://www.thebooksmugglers.com/2018/06/between-the-coats-a-sensitivity-read-changed-my-life-an-essay-by-sarah-gailey.html

"Boyhood, as it is popularly imagined, is so narrow and confining that to press against its boundaries is to end up in a different identity altogether."

Imagining a Better Boyhood - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/imagining-a-better-boyhood/562232/

I'd heard the Netherlands was really racist and hanging on to their colonial attitudes with both hands, but reading about the history of Chinese people in Amsterdam really nailed it down for me. There's been Chinese immigration to the city for 400 years and the vast majority of Chinese workers are in the restaurant industry today.

How's that for integration and mobility?

I rode my tricycle today and it was great.