Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Maleficent Baker

@melle.ca

3K followers 1.4K following 8.1K posts

Reader, writer, editor, baker, sock zoologist, universal aunt, wayward. Tell your dog I said hi. (she/they) 🐾🖋🍪🇨🇦🏴‍☠️ | melle most places | linktr.ee/melledotca

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 1d

Happy BackToSchoolGivingWeenMas!

1 6

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 2d

Nothing is ruining media for me more than the shift to second-screen plots and dialogue. 🤬

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 2d

Not sure how spending Thanksgiving weekend putting Epsom salt compresses on my dog's facial abscesses is supposed to bolster my gratitude. Hmph. 🦃

1 3

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 2d

I was shocked to learn that friends who used to play that chicken into November have already caved. We’re getting old… Granted, it went from 28C to -1 in 48 hours.

Reposted by Maleficent Baker

Photography by Douglas 🍁 @darkwaterphotos.bsky.social · 2d

"Ottawa photographer Dennis Jackson had never expected to see such a rare creature, despite a lifetime spent capturing images of wildlife."

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Rare white beaver wows Ottawa-area wildlife watchers | CBC News

Ottawa wildlife photographers have captured stunning images of a rare leucistic beaver.

www.cbc.ca

5 33

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 2d

One of the city’s landscaping vehicles is a wee one and it’s adorable. 🙂

Reposted by Maleficent Baker

June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 13d

sorry you do have to write to be a writer. if the noun is mostly a verb, you have to do the verb to be the noun

5 19 160

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 3d

Two days ago it was 28C. This morning it was 2C.

I wore Roots sweatpants, waffle knit, and fleece. None more cozy! ✊

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 3d

Weber

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

1 8

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 4d

There’s a bit of a Paul Blart vibe, too.

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 4d

I want to see it and kind of hate that I do. 😂

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 4d

#Romancelandia: Henley sighting. And what a sight it is, indeed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n9y...

PLAYDATE Trailer (2025) Alan Ritchson, Kevin James

YouTube video by ONE Media

www.youtube.com

1 5

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 5d

I can't tell if this is an improvement over the high school Fuzzy Navel faze or not...

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 6d

In case you need a mid-afternoon wake-up, slamming several of your toes into the edge of a filing cabinet does a great job.

I can’t recommend it for enjoyability, but A+ effectiveness.

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 6d

If you need graphics to emphasize your message, I have photos of an actual bag of dicks. Costco sells them. 👍

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 6d

I will now be borrowing this description for over the top anger.

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 7d

Now I’m picturing Fitzgerald writing category romance. 🙂

1 2

Reposted by Maleficent Baker

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

52 920 1.1K

Reposted by Maleficent Baker

Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 10d

that raccoon in the crab apple tree is one of the cutest things I have EVER seen

Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 11d

Happy #RaccoonAwarnessDay! I know they're often referred to as trash pandas, but I get to experience them in their more 'natural' habitat where I live. I love them. They are intelligent, curious and best appreciated from a safe distance. #mammals 🌿

A young raccoon perches in an ornamental crab apple tree surrounded by leaves and orange apples.

A sleepy raccoon keeps an eye on the photographer from its perch high in a poplar tree.

A raccoon balances on a rock on the water's edge and looks over its shoulder at the photographer.

2 5 22

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 10d

Europeans excepted. Both cohorts of said yoots there friggin’ LOVE karaoke. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 11d

They had some last year, too. Don’t remember before that. They’ve had Christmas merch foreeeeever, though.

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 11d

I've been well beyond saturation for some time. I have an overflowing cupboard, and I live alone. But then! The drop-in cafe nearby said they were running low on mugs, so I took them a whole box, and now my brain has reset itself to "open for (mug) business."

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 11d

Statler had that same look. Then I told her we had to go home and get back to work, and it changed to this. 🤷‍♀️

A brown brindle and white dog is shown from the shoulders up. She is standing on grass scattered with crunchy orange and brown oak leaves. She is wearing a red/black Buffalo plaid harness. Her face is a bit grizzled, her eyebrows are drawn, her lower lids are drooping, and she looks like you just broke up with her.

1 4

Maleficent Baker @melle.ca · 11d

My weakness for Tim's merch continues. In my defence, though, I will be using this with my Halloween costume. (And I have never gotten over missing out on the adorable ghost last year.)

A 20oz mug in the shape of a black cat with green eyes who's smizing. It has tiny pointy ears that probably won't stab me in the eyes. Appears to be holding a Tim Hortons beverage with a straw between its front paws. That apparently changes colour when there's a hot beverage in the mug.

2 5

Reposted by Maleficent Baker

Deanna Raybourn @deannaraybourn.bsky.social · 11d

IT IS TIME.

a man with a pumpkin on his head is standing in a cemetery .

Alt: a man with a pumpkin on his head is standing in a cemetery .

media.tenor.com

4 28 85