emily

New cryptid just dropped

Straight from the source

Since I’m no longer a journalist, I have no roundup of stories I wrote in 2025 so here’s your annual post of all the puzzles I did this year

I miss being funny on the internet

Mumford and Sons was always a great band, lots of people just couldn’t/can’t handle how earnest their music was in a sea of irony

The only I thing have to add to the “stomp-and-holler” music discourse is that as a kid who grew up around fiddles and banjos and mandolins and trad music, it was really cool to hear those sounds played on mainstream radio and have people listen

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”

Remember that robots still haven’t figured out how to crochet

nobody wants ai

“La boo-boo” is how kids in French immersion kindergarten let you know they need a bandaid

A female adult Canadian goose eats a piece of lettuce while her five baby goslings look on

Lettuce learn how to eat with mama

Jazz Wolf (sorry I haven’t posted here in a while I forgot both my password and which email I used for this account)

Small mystery uncovered: three identical misspelled “slow watch for CHIDREN” signs spotted in Saskatchewan!

The first is near my parents’ house and has been there for years. The other 2 are also from SK but different areas. What’s the story!?

What’s a book you love but didn’t actually enjoy reading? Mine’s The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Love is a petty bourgeois emotion,
But I’ll make an exception for you

Get ready for my Archie/Lord of the Rings crossover series “Rivendale”

A screenshot of a text post that reads “last night the bartender told me I didn’t need to be carded because I had a death cab for cutie shirt on”

@calculizer.bsky.social did u see this

Gingerbread cat or moth man?

Jigsaw puzzles

Forgive for being skeptical of AI but we haven’t even figured out how to teach a machine to crochet

A Facebook marketplace ad featuring two orange cars on a couch, one close and one far away. Texts reads “1 bedroom for rent ina 3 br apt”

A Facebook marketplace ad featuring an orange cat standing on a dresser in front of a mirror with his reflection. Text reads “make up vanity”

A Facebook marketplace ad featuring an orange cat laying beside a PlayStation 4 game console and controllers. Text reads “PS4 + 2 used controllers (cat not included)”

Facebook marketplace ad featuring a black and white tuxedo cat sitting in a dog bed next to a pet toy. Text reads “quality dog bed”

A Facebook marketplace ad featuring a calico and white cat sitting in front of a big screen tv. Ad text reads “treadmill. I could not go downstairs for a picture”.

A Facebook marketplace ad featuring three small kittens, two grey and one black. Text reads “autonomous mouse traps”

A Facebook marketplace ad featuring a tortoiseshell cat biting a small ceramic figurine of a red bird. Text reads “bird ornament”

A Facebook marketplace ad featuring a tabby cat sitting next to several tiny rocking chairs. Text reads “miniature rocking chairs”

Some of my favourite Facebook marketplace cats

Today I had to go to school in a snowstorm and played volleyball against my will while wearing flared yoga pants. Is it my 29th birthday or my 14th birthday

Ah yes, the four levels of government: municipal, woke, provincial, and federal

Sometimes I really miss being a journalist but then there’s an election and the feeling passes

I love seeing all the library support, but here's some realistic ways to help, from a former public librarian:
- Circulate materials. Budget is often based on circ not only overall, but genre/category as well
- Volunteer as a shelver if that's something they do
- Don't "donate" your old crappy books