@lisstless

💜: dogs, pickles, salad, queer canon, ‘90s detritus. Editor/writer. Now: @MaRSDD. (Prev.: AGO, CBC, The Grid, Chatelaine.) Army of Lovers (Coach House Books)

 Toronto
Joined December 2009
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When I was a 4th grader at arts school, glimpsing @realsarahpolley in the basement lunchroom was more thrilling than buying a Tahiti Treat from the soda machine. Getting to write about her (a true mensch!) and her extraordinary book? Even better. thewalrus.ca/who-is-sarah-po


Who Does Sarah Polley Think She Is? | The Walrus

She first gained fame as a child actor. The writer and director has been confronting the traumas of these early experiences ever since

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Toronto Life
@torontolifeApr 6
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe: gays, straights, Jews, gentiles... Out and about with comedy’s equal-opportunity assassin torontolife.com/deep-dives/r


Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin - Toronto...

Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is...

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The Walrus
@thewalrus13 Aug 2025
Head lice, or Pediculus humanus capitis, have become an almost inevitable rite of passage for many children. Writer @lisstless explores how professional lice removers are cashing in on parents’ desperate quest for relief: thewalrus.ca/super-lice-are-


Super Lice Are Coming to a Scalp Near You | The Walrus

Removal has become a booming business, catering to harried, itchy parents who are willing to pay for relief

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rfk jr feels like a character from a robert and michelle king show that somehow escaped into real life
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Hi @SnoopDogg, me C. double O K.I.E!
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Imagine being against gay marriage when it’s actually just this
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clare@sadderlizards2 May 2024
i’m on my way!
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Saitama City’s sewer mascots, Kumamushi-kun (a tardigrade) and Kumanyanko-chan (a tardigrade with cat ears) appear on new jars of fertilizer made from the ash of combusted sewage sludge.
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A moment of reverential silence, @awomanskwarned.
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@DiscussingFilm26 Dec 2023
Feathers McGraw, the greatest villain in cinema, was introduced 30 years ago today.
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Bonchiinu, the food education mascot of Hadano City, looks like a slice of toast but is, in fact, a dog in the shape of the local natural basin, with a chef’s hat representing the clouds above the city’s mountains.
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“The more of us there are, the more of us there are” Spoke with Nan Goldin for @nplusonemag about protesting Zionist institutions and disrupting business as usual on the cultural front (ft. her own photos from a recent Writers Bloc protest) nplusonemag.com/online-only/

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Cookie Monster
@MeCookieMonster4 Dec 2023
Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Cookies Happy #NationalCookieDay!
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I love when SVU recycles actors years later as if I won’t know this is the same woman who put a child in an igloo cooler and set it sail on the Hudson in 1999
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"I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased!”
George Santos screams at a pack of reporters

ALT George Santos screams at a pack of reporters

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whalefact
@awhalefact30 Nov 2023
spotify wrapped really got me this year
a screenshot of a spotify wrapped 2023 screen. it says @awhalefact’s music taste is similar to other people in the “middle of the fucking ocean” and that “ people there are far more likely to be fans of krill, swimming, and going ooaooooOOOoo”

ALT a screenshot of a spotify wrapped 2023 screen. it says @awhalefact’s music taste is similar to other people in the “middle of the fucking ocean” and that “ people there are far more likely to be fans of krill, swimming, and going ooaooooOOOoo”

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LGBT actually stands for Let’s Go to Burlington Together
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All journalists will understand this.
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The “Lance from the Other Two” energy is off the charts
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Meech@MediumSizeMeech8 Oct 2023
Also does anyone remember David Beckham’s December 2005 cover of Details Magazine. Like every headline on this cover is INSANE. I miss this mag so much
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Imogura, a mix of a mole and a sweet potato, is a mascot from Kawagoe, Japan.
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Happy Octo-bert!
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