Melanie Baker
@melle.ca
Reader, writer, editor, baker, sock zoologist, universal aunt, wayward. Tell your dog I said hi. (she/they) 🐾🖋🍪🇨🇦🏴☠️ | melle most places | linktr.ee/melledotca
In addition to being able to detach quote posts, you need to be able to excise ill-advised fuckery and seal it off in some abandoned salt mine somewhere.
January 12, 2026 at 10:13 PM
In addition to being able to detach quote posts, you need to be able to excise ill-advised fuckery and seal it off in some abandoned salt mine somewhere.
I have sent this to many first-time dog owners. 🤦🏻♀️
January 11, 2026 at 2:14 PM
I have sent this to many first-time dog owners. 🤦🏻♀️
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Synopsis: Everyone's favorite hockey players are back! Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander continue the romance that began with viral sensation Heated Rivalry—now streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the US—
January 10, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Synopsis: Everyone's favorite hockey players are back! Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander continue the romance that began with viral sensation Heated Rivalry—now streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the US—
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This is lovely, doesn’t matter if you’ve been reading romance for decades or since you discovered Heated Rivalry. It’s a genre that is delighted by your feelings, and happy to make you feel more of them.
i wrote about dissociation, reading as comfort, vice and self obliteration during times of horror, and also about reading exclusively about gay love for like. a year
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
My Own Inner Elba
Let me start by saying that the news is incredibly awful. I’m very aware of this, in the way you’re aware of, say, a ninety-seven degree day with one hundred...
buttondown.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:15 PM
This is lovely, doesn’t matter if you’ve been reading romance for decades or since you discovered Heated Rivalry. It’s a genre that is delighted by your feelings, and happy to make you feel more of them.
The tech support can be challenging, but then there are good days when Mom asks how to turn off the new AI crap in Gmail. 💙
January 9, 2026 at 5:04 PM
The tech support can be challenging, but then there are good days when Mom asks how to turn off the new AI crap in Gmail. 💙
I used to work with a guy who was from Moscow, Of an age to also grow up in the Soviet era. He was gay (and autistic) and needless to say he and his partner weren't *together* (and then married) until they moved to Canada. The stuff he said sometimes was chilling.
this hit me like a fucking freight train, but it’s important and I am so glad to have read it. Good for him. Fuck.
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I used to work with a guy who was from Moscow, Of an age to also grow up in the Soviet era. He was gay (and autistic) and needless to say he and his partner weren't *together* (and then married) until they moved to Canada. The stuff he said sometimes was chilling.
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CBC Canada Reads longlist announced #CanLit www.cbc.ca/books/canada...
The Canada Reads 2026 longlist is here! | CBC Books
This year, the great Canadian book debate is looking for one book to build bridges. The panellists and the books they choose to champion will be revealed on Jan. 22.
www.cbc.ca
January 8, 2026 at 12:20 PM
CBC Canada Reads longlist announced #CanLit www.cbc.ca/books/canada...
Ooh, personalized pun service. Thank you. 😊
January 8, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Ooh, personalized pun service. Thank you. 😊
Bah, clearly we Canadians have to do everything ourselves... 🦞🦞
January 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Bah, clearly we Canadians have to do everything ourselves... 🦞🦞
Where's your "Will you come to my cottage this summer?" video featuring lobsters?
January 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Where's your "Will you come to my cottage this summer?" video featuring lobsters?
Don't make me get out my real accent, young man...
January 8, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Don't make me get out my real accent, young man...
A show about two gay Canadian meteorologists, Sleeted Rivalry.
A show about two gay computer hackers from the 90s, “1337ed Rivalry”
A show about two gay clay-pigeon shooters, Skeeted Rivalry
January 8, 2026 at 2:23 PM
A show about two gay Canadian meteorologists, Sleeted Rivalry.
Zynim Inc.: "Empowering your team to deliver transformative Software as a Service (SaaS) and connecting you to emerging-market outsourcing from Vietnam."
Indeed.
(Gander Social is in the works, too, and they're pretty transparent.)
Indeed.
(Gander Social is in the works, too, and they're pretty transparent.)
January 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Zynim Inc.: "Empowering your team to deliver transformative Software as a Service (SaaS) and connecting you to emerging-market outsourcing from Vietnam."
Indeed.
(Gander Social is in the works, too, and they're pretty transparent.)
Indeed.
(Gander Social is in the works, too, and they're pretty transparent.)
Last place I would have expected to find a good HR take. This is excellent. #HeatedRivalry
www.linkedin.com/pulse/heated...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/heated...
Heated Rivalry and the Rejection of Romanticised Harm
Why audiences are craving intensity without entitlement and what that shift reveals about masculinity, safety, and control I didn’t expect a hockey romance to get under my skin. I certainly didn’t exp...
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January 6, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Last place I would have expected to find a good HR take. This is excellent. #HeatedRivalry
www.linkedin.com/pulse/heated...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/heated...
Broke my ankle walking the dog. Sliced my face open getting a plastic tote bin out of the closet.
January 5, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Broke my ankle walking the dog. Sliced my face open getting a plastic tote bin out of the closet.
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Adriana Anders's WHITE OUT is the rare book to both make our Best-Of list and get a deep dive episode. It's $2 today.
KOBO mf.fatedmates.net/aawo
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APPLE books.apple.com/us/book/whiteout/id6753874735
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APPLE books.apple.com/us/book/whiteout/id6753874735
AMZ amzn.to/3YpaAV2
January 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Adriana Anders's WHITE OUT is the rare book to both make our Best-Of list and get a deep dive episode. It's $2 today.
KOBO mf.fatedmates.net/aawo
B&N www.barnesandnoble.com/w/whiteout-adriana-anders/1129678146?ean=9781492698715
APPLE books.apple.com/us/book/whiteout/id6753874735
AMZ amzn.to/3YpaAV2
KOBO mf.fatedmates.net/aawo
B&N www.barnesandnoble.com/w/whiteout-adriana-anders/1129678146?ean=9781492698715
APPLE books.apple.com/us/book/whiteout/id6753874735
AMZ amzn.to/3YpaAV2
On the right, wearing a red harness.
January 4, 2026 at 7:23 PM
On the right, wearing a red harness.
My dog is nature’s perfect winter ambush predator. 😂
January 4, 2026 at 6:36 PM
My dog is nature’s perfect winter ambush predator. 😂
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January 3, 2026 at 5:21 PM
The horrors persist, but so do cats.
January 3, 2026 at 4:36 PM
The horrors persist, but so do cats.
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Finland stuns USA in OT at the World Junior Hockey Championships
It’s a 4-3 Finnish victory in Minnesota to send the Americans home.
And now over to Canada vs Slovakia in the last quarterfinal.
It’s a 4-3 Finnish victory in Minnesota to send the Americans home.
And now over to Canada vs Slovakia in the last quarterfinal.
January 3, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Finland stuns USA in OT at the World Junior Hockey Championships
It’s a 4-3 Finnish victory in Minnesota to send the Americans home.
And now over to Canada vs Slovakia in the last quarterfinal.
It’s a 4-3 Finnish victory in Minnesota to send the Americans home.
And now over to Canada vs Slovakia in the last quarterfinal.