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What people think goes on in a copy editor’s brain all day: “I love the Oxford comma and hate splitting infinitives!”
What is actually happening in my brain all day: *endlessly overthinking prepositions*
If you’re ditching Twitter for Blue Sky, look me up! I’ve been hanging out there since last summer. bsky.app/profile/copycurmudg…
OK #ACES2024, I’m late but I’m here! If you see me, come say hi!
ALT A white lady with curly hair in a dusty pink/purple shirt and a black skirt with raised back polka dots.
As of today, you no longer need an invite code to use BlueSky! I’ve been hanging out over there and I enjoy it; it’s a lot like 10-years-ago Twitter. Check it out! bsky.social/about/
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My landlord, a Somerville native who rents out his old house, just offhandedly provided the most chef’s-kiss example of Boston-area parochialism I have ever encountered: “[A Somerville alderman] grew up here, went to Harvard and then came back.”
Any mutuals want to check out a social media site with buttons on the posts and headlines on the link cards? I have a couple codes.
The best time to be in northern New England is obviously late September/early October, but the second-best time is in August right after a rainstorm.
ALT A glass of an amber beer with a Von Trapp brewing logo. Behind the glass are trees and a bright blue sky.
Hey hive mind, what are your best recs for things to do, see and eat in Montreal and Burlington, Vermont?
Getting kicked out of my family vacation for bellowing, “Do not cite the deep lore to me, witch,” when my 5-year-old niece told me I had to watch the Mario movie to know about the characters, like how Peach comes from the Mushroom Kingdom and Bowser wants to marry her.
New Twitter logo, old Twitter problems.
ALT A screengrab of the X logo above an error message: “Tweets aren’t loading right now.”
For about the 200,000th time, I fixed a typo in a source’s name to make it match what’s on their workplace’s website. For the first time, it turned out the reporter was right and the website was wrong. Can I … bill the source? #AmEditing
Even my coffee is making the Monday face.
ALT A glass mug full of iced coffee, where the ice cubes have created two dots above a straight line, forming roughly the shape of an unamused emoticon face.
The prophecy has been fulfilled: The drawer of miscellaneous computer stuff had a cable that I needed and couldn’t find anywhere else in the house.
Colleen Barry retweeted
Copyeditors at the New Yorker be like “In my in-box there’s an e-mail from a teen-ager who won’t coöperate in the reëlection, instead focussing on his début Web site”
