Hungary apparently has an incredibly innovative way to combat speeding on one of its highways. If you drive at the correct speed, your tires make music! I imagine this also does wonders for driver fatigue. (Sorry for the insta link.) www.instagram.com/reel/DNYN1jP...

Ok, on tonight’s menu - Top Gun: Maverick.

For the one-and-a-half people who've been enjoying my never-ending thread of writing resources, here's another one! A great approach to thinking about general meetings. #tvwriting #writingresrouces

Watching the original Top Gun for the first time. The makeup department was very liberal with that glycerine spray bottle, wow. Everyone is SO sweaty, all the time.

Is it the outbreak that's bubbling or the measles? 🤢

You know what to do.

The new waterfront project is amazing, a for-real GOOD THING in this hideous timeline. And this story makes it almost magical. Have a read, it will kick your weekend off right. Something to be thankful for, indeed.

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

Hey Canada! If you have never seen When Night is Falling by Patricia Rozema, it's currently streaming on Crave. Highly recommend. It's my absolute favourite in the subgenre of Canadian lesbian movies from the 90s. And possibly my favourite (still) Don McKellar performance.

I wrote an episode of television in 18 hours, taking into consideration actor availability, daylight shooting hours, standing sets, turnaround times, unit moves, weather cover, budget shortfalls, oh and block shooting with another episode which had already started prep. GenAI can gargle my balls.

Happy vacuum-the-radiators day to all who celebrate. It feels late this year - I never realized it was on the lunar calendar! 😂

PETITION ALERT! We need to stop #Conservative Premiers who are privatizing our healthcare! #cdnpoli #canpoli #bcpoli #abpoli #onpoli #polqc #nspoli #nbpoli #skpoli #mbpoli #nlpoli #nwt #ytpoli #nunavut #peipoli #CPC #IDUPlaybook #UCP #MeidasCanada #AHS #DougFord #DanielleSmith #ABHealth #CanadaSky

I'm working with the cards today, so you get a #writingprompt to start the week. Pick any combination of the words on the cards, in any order that works for you! Cards are from The Story Engine deck by @storyenginedeck.bsky.social.

wake up, hosers new petition just dropped e-6818 is calling to strengthen the Canada Health Act to stop provinces from privatizing health care and to force provinces to account for how and where they used health transfer money

TIL “abracadabra” was once used by Romans as an amulet against disease. It went on to be used by cunning folk in the UK for centuries to ward against witchcraft. I am becoming obsessed with bits and pieces of culture that have been handed down for WAY longer than we realize.

I’m sitting on the patio of a cafe with a book and a pastry. But given the repeated cheering from the sports bar down the block, I take it the Jays are doing well?

Introducing our new game, Reunion! Make words to reunite the fox and the hedgehog ❤️ www.merriam-webster.com/games/reunion

Update: he accepted cuddles, but it was all, in fact, a ploy to get crunchies.

A certain orange someone is making the tiniest, saddest whimpers while I’m trying to work. Apparently I am required to go and sit in the chair with him?

Don’t mind me, I’m just going to go be a witch in the woods in Quebec somewhere…

I don't think my shelves are fancy enough for this, but it's kind of cool...

I'm playing chicken with dirtbag ticket resellers over a concert that starts in an hour and a half. Will they cave and offer a reasonable price? Probably not...

“I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.” That, and “I’m somewhere where I don’t know where I am.”

The sunny patch went away, and his fuzzy orange highness would like to have a word with the management.

Ooh! If you haven't read these yet, give them a try. They're flintlock fantasy and combine adventure, fantasy politics, solid mysteries, and some wonderfully written female characters. I loved the series beginning to end.

I need a procrastination project, so you’re getting a #TVwriting resources thread! Podcast episodes, articles, blog posts (mostly podcast episodes), organized by subject, for as long as I can maintain it. Off we go... 1/?

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail." Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

I support the postal workers. "Unsustainable losses"? The post office is a public service. It shouldn't have to turn a profit to justify its existence.

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Absolutely! Bakka is a gem for SFF lovers! 🥳📚 Their selection is fantastic, and the staff is super knowledgeable! Definitely a must-visit! #BookstoreLove #SFF 🌟

I thought I was going to have to bite the bullet and give Amazon money for two separate purchases. But I've found a work-around for both of them! One even involves buying directly from a Canadian company in a way I didn't realize was possible. I am feeling very smug right now. 😂

I just scored a copy of the Canadian Oxford dictionary for A DOLLAR!!! One single solitary dollar!! 🍾🥳🎉 Definitely worth stopping by the library’s used book store.

Poor Marlowe had a hard day. Two smoke alarms (just my oven being an oven), the dreaded vacuum cleaner, and now OTHER HUMANS IN HIS HOUSE. I have so much sucking up to do…

Ok, im about to make challah and I don’t know how old my yeast is. Pray for me…

When I went to see Jane Goodall at Meridian Hall, on the way home we got stuck at Rosedale Station with a medical emergency on the train I was on. I’m on my way home from Sarah Millican at Meridian Hall. We are stuck at Dundas with a medical emergency on the train I’m on. This new superpower sucks.

I am out doing a culture! Sarah Millican is here on tour. She’s a British comedian I’ve been watching on QI for literal decades now. (Folks might know her from Taskmaster, where she kicked ass.) My biggest accomplishment of the weekend is NOT forgetting I had this Sunday night show on the books. 😂

Rosh Hashona phase two: cooking has begun! I put the brisket in to marinate last night, and this morning it goes in the oven. Brisket requires advance planning, but is otherwise ridiculously easy. Mostly it’s “move from appliance A to appliance B and walk away.” 😂

I seem to have one of the Exciting New Migraines that come with light sensitivity and vertigo but no pain. So fucking weird. Am applying gummies and music therapy because 🤷🏻‍♀️🤪 Tonight’s adventure - can I make it through my bedtime routine without falling and/or barfing? Place your bets…

Rosh Hashona phase one: grocery shopping has been achieved! (Also, oof, I thought brisket was supposed to be a cheap cut of meat…) This has also somewhat forced the issue of cleaning out the fridge, which I have been avoiding for… way too long, clearly. Lettuce isn’t meant to be liquid. 🤢

SUVs have gotten so ridiculous. There's one parked outside my house - I looked out the window, and I STG I thought it was a hearse.

Today included: 0.5 hours packing 2 hours of driving 5 hours of garden work 1 hour of house cleaning 3.5 more hours of driving 0.5 hours unpacking Tomorrow will be spent entirely on the couch. Largely, I suspect, because my body will be on strike…

There’s no need to get personal like that…

Used book sale!! Help Bakka empty some shelves, everyone...

Carnivale Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles A League of Their Own The Residence

This is part of a job application I was looking at. * ABILITY TO STAY CALM IN HIGH-PRESSURE, FAST-PACED ENVIRONMENTS BE TA STAY GAEVENINGS AND SERENES PARO ONE Did the HR person have a stroke halfway through? Maybe a wellness check is in order…?

I have come to see a lady about a chimp!

Two hours playing with yarn is a wonderful way to spend the morning. I also made it out without acquiring seven new hobbies. New projects, however… oops?

It’s 8:45 on a Saturday morning and I am up, dressed and about to hit the road. Why? The Fibre Spirit Festival in Barrie! Woo!