Genuinely the first time in a while I've managed to get through a puzzle without forgetting at least once whether I meant to click 'criminal' or 'innocent'. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 9th 2025) in less than 7 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

All Is Bright, my Christmassy F/F romance novella set in a little village in Wales, is out TODAY! You can get it in these places and more: Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... AZ: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FS4G5PKX

For what it’s worth: Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.

22.600 of my followers have not followed our shop's account yet...Garfield is side-eyeing you

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is? It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Autocorrect, I promise I never want to write ‘piste’ instead of ‘pisstake’.

New season of The Great Canadian Baking Show 😍🇨🇦

They are called writers

Politics as normal everywhere, I see

I am amazed I can't actually hear the Jays fans screaming in the streets.

Vancouver’s film and TV industry is facing one of its ‘toughest slowdowns’ ever. Animators and visual effects workers are unionizing to take back control: “It’s time to level the playing field for the workers ... so they can have more of a say, more control and a democratization of their workplace”

"We’ve also found that when social democratic parties propose strongly reducing immigration numbers, this leads to less support for social democratic parties at the ballot box. When progressive parties imitate the right, they weaken their own electoral prospects."

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

I feel like this is an unintentional commentary on the state of tv today

Eagerly awaiting this on this side of the pond: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

A brilliant chance to hear from one of the finest UK TV writers in a very lovely setting. Book now, the tickets are going quick.

I've just noticed Sanjeev Bhaskar wearing Uni of Sussex merch in at least the last couple eps of #Taskmaster and now I'm really hoping he shows up in the doctoral gown at some point, for the sheer comedy value.

#BeWithZee #PreschoolAnimation Series Gets Greenlight: co-production brings together Vérité Films, Oddly Quiet Ltd., and Media Tech Productions with Television New Zealand (TVNZ), Canada’s TVOKids, TFO, and Knowledge Network. bit.ly/48cyY2g #Animation #AnimationWorld

I wrote a few eps of this and am looking forward to seeing them on the small screen! (No questions will be entertained re my qualifications to write about mindfulness, thank u)

My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too

Only 14 of the 94 Calls to Action have been implemented. Criminalizing residential school denialism is the only way forward. Canada cannot continue to speak out of both sides of its mouth. #Opinion

It is @kellysue.bsky.social's fault that I'm obsessed with this site now I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 30th 2025) in 04:59 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

We're live with hosts Dennis Ward in Winnipeg and Creeson Agecoutay in Ottawa, ahead of the Remembering the Children multilingual commemoration. Watch here: www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/r...

For those who missed it, Kneecap...wasn't banned. MP Gasparro, Parliamentary Secretary for Combatting Crime, just said it on Twitter—which is worrying on many levels, incl that this is a big Privacy Act red flag. (Govt officials DO NOT comment on immig apps in Canada!) www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Creepin’ on @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social as we sound check for Jeremy and Jazzy Live at the Word on the Street festival 😅

Let that sink in "Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."

Good to see there's at least a sprinkling of Canadians in the stands for the rugby! 🇨🇦

A woman with a very tiny Yorkie got on the lift with me earlier. I asked the dog's name. "D. O. G." Me: "Oh, the Notorious?" Shocked the hell out of the woman. "How did you know?" *shrug* "She looked it."

nope!

"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.

Between this and the postal service I guess it's an evening of emailing my elected representatives again!

“TV is in a “depressing circle . . . We need to find ways to break out of it. That requires the commissioners to think differently, and it requires us — the makers — to find different ways around the economics.” That is, to make risky shows more cheaply.” www.ft.com/content/fcb5...

I had not previously heard of The Savant but I am now reading this article, the story that the show was built on, and I am dying to watch it www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a28...

What the eh

Homophobic! Single lesbian has no girlfriend to watch Lilith Fair documentary with

Next time I discover a gaggle of uniformed men toting guns around the corner from me, I will HAVE to remember how much filming happens in this neighbourhood.

PAKIGE (I unironically love this stuff but I am looking for a Canadian alternative, if anyone has one)

My cosy Welsh Christmas F/F romance novella, All Is Bright, is out on October 9 and available to preorder right now! It's got one chapter per day from December 1-25, so you can read advent calendar-style, or just inhale it all at once. books2read.com/u/b6E0y0

Oh my god it's real

New gym is DIRE on a weekday afternoon. I didn't even stick it out for my accessories. Might give it one more try and go a bit later tomorrow night but eurgh. (Also it's only been two days and I only rowed a few km each day and I have finger blisters 😮‍💨)

Hmm, I could try those pre-workout samples I got the other day… *remembers how much coffee I’ve had today* …or I could NOT do that!

Eleventh time's the charm?

The #Ontario #covid19 and #flu vaccine pharmacy locations page has been updated: www.ontario.ca/vaccine-loca... - High-risk groups: COVID-19 vax (starting today) and Sept 29 flu vax - General public: Oct 27 Not much availability yet, I expect Shoppers to be earliest to show appts. #covid19on 1/2

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

I'm just watching with fascination at this point

I have a one-week free trial to a new gym near me and I might switch entirely because they have benches low enough that I don't need plates under my feet when I bench press. (I'm not short! But all my height is in my torso! And leg drive is important while picking up extra plates is annoying!)

Tiniest of steps forward

y i k e s

The first time an Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause, public outrage forced a reversal in less than 24 hours. I wish to God Albertans would show the same moral fury now, when school children are outed & bullied by the government that is supposed to protect them. #ableg #abpoli