SCRATCH is back and sorely needed.
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I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
They’re taking over Canada too! Visiting my parents’ backyard deck in Ottawa.
What's the most important piece in a query submission package? Do agents really read the sample pages first? How important is a synopsis?
Darling Axe editor Michelle Barker tackles these questions and more:
writershelpingwriters.net/2026/02/subm...
“She’s not even a master vampire. No, the master vampires are the ones who built this plagiarism machine. She’s just a ghoulish neonate, a feral bloodsucker down in the sewers happy to feed on the blood-soaked fatberg formed in the tunnels by the elder lords.”
A song from Toronto for the brave and free people of Minneapolis, who are singing in the streets, in solidarity with their neighbours in fear of arrest and deportation.
Pink hand-knitted mittens.
I finished these mittens I had begun five years ago, my last knitting project. A chapter is turning…
Found these cuties in our recycling bin a few years back.
What does human-centred design look like in dementia care? OCAD U students teamed up with Baycrest to work directly with older adults, designing products to enhance daily experiences through real-world research.
Read more: www.ocadu.ca/news/industr...
Short fiction writers, finish out 2025 by polishing up your book manuscript, because TOMORROW we open for short story and flash fiction book submissions!
All righty -- this year's writerly resolution is live, should you care to read it. The tl;dr is it's actually quite an optimistic read, so hopefully it'll give you some juice to kick open the new year and put words to stories that need to be told.
Def no… but I had an early interest until he followed his bud jo ro to Austin.
My snowman sees me.
Fallowfield Train Station, Ottawa
Borden Brook Falls just a trickle, with severe drought conditions in Nova Scotia.
Blomidon Provincial Park
Smelling fire smoke today in the Annapolis Valley… keeping the windows closed.
Sorting beach treasures.
Rissers Beach, NS with my bestie and her bestie.
Blue Jays Grateful Dead hat on at the south shore today in NS… wow, what a game tonight!💙⚾️🎉
Ghost Barn
I’m determined to get my licence but what I have to say is after a three-hour, two-ferry drive practice out to Brier Island NS, I never want to take another downtown Toronto lesson.
Puzzle buddy Starling
Finding peace in beautiful Nova Scotia
This 1970s black-and-white photo features Ernie Coombs as Mr. Dressup, smiling with crossed arms in a colorful patchwork jacket, plaid bow tie, and striped pants. Beside him, on a wooden treehouse set with a blue door and yellow banners, are the puppets Casey (a red-haired child in brown) and Finnegan (a gray dog with a red collar), from the Canadian children's show *Mr. Dressup*.
Ernie Coombs was, and still is, a beloved symbol for generations of Canadians.
As Mr. Dressup, he was a fixture of Canadian television for decades. Even 24 years after his death he is remembered fondly.
This is his story.
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This not elderly Kathryn Grody’s show The Unexpected 3rd starts tomorrow! Link to tkts at peopleslight.org or in our bio. Playing in Malvern PA @peopleslight theater right outside Philly directed by the glorious Timothy Near!
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We've got THE @bcdreyer.social (of Dreyer's English) teaching an unlimited-enrollment online class for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social on everything that make prose good...
