EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of the pandemic, the Ford government set the target of one proactive inspection a year at every long-term care home. But our analysis of thousands of inspection reports reveals less than 40% of LTC homes received a proactive inspection in 2025. thelocal.to/ontario-long...

Ha! Caught a quotation that had smart closing quotes but dumb opening ones. (Guess they learned something from the start of the quotation to the end?) #AmEditing

Am incandescent with rage on behalf of the delightful Lingthusiasm hosts and of me (who FAR prefers to read than to listen to most info) and of FREAKING EVERYONE WHO IS TRYING TO ACCESS GOOD STUFF ON WHAT USED TO BE THE INTERNET BEFORE AI DICKHEADS TRIED TO STEAL THE WHOLE DAMN THING.

Leo the Grey

Yes! I've read all the Annes but never knew this existed until I heard about it here on Bluesky last year and devoured it. So delightful! Thank you, @gretchenmcculloch.com for spreading the word.

Oh my goodness, congratulations, Letitia! How well deserved. I knew Karen Virag--she would definitely approved of your "Short Is Hard" mantra! 😀

Turn off AI overview in your searches. The most useful information you'll come across today!

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Fingrove -> Firgrove #AmEditing #CopyEditingIncludesFactCheckingProperNouns

WORDINISTAS

This six paragraph story is the only article about “one of the most single corrupt acts in American history” that I can find on the New York Times home page this morning. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

The kicker is the part where the government claims that it has failed to provide clean water for so many years that it should no longer be under any obligation to do so. Fuck Carney.

If this were conducted using the traditional Judean method, each particle would have to return to the place of its birth to register, thus bringing about the Big Crunch www.xkcd.com/3247/

Not that it's OK for ICE to treat anyone this way, but this woman is a green card holder. She's a legal immigrant who did everything legally and she's been kidnapped by ICE.

Sure, sex is great, but have you tried adding a missing suspended hyphen to a text you're copy editing? #AmEditing

an (imperfect but) functioning media ecosystem

Slightly increase a band, Canadian edition Ginormous Sea

It's Saturday! 📺 Post a cartoon TV series you love.

In the 90s I saw, w/ my 8yo nephew, a crap movie about a monster alligator. (We had a blast.) Only thing I remember about it is a moment where ANOTHER monster alligator appears out of nowhere. One guy exclaims "There are TWO!!" The other snaps, "I can COUNT!" I take any chance to snap "I can COUNT!"

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Two different eras of my consumer youth commemorated here...

Important research! I totally missed the "tough" era. (Quarter?) Since my niblings aged out I'm having trouble keeping up with the reading.

Many of my clients for both editing and communications workshops are Canadian government groups and honestly, they are some of the most hard-working, competent, involved people I have worked with in a long career.

“Since Lester B. Pearson’s generation, Canadians have understood a middle power earns its standing by showing up, convening other nations and matching its words to its budget. That standing is not heritable: it has to be re-earned. And it is being lost in real time.” Lloyd Axworthy nailing it.

Nature channel on our side porch!

In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI. The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”

I'm not surprised by RFK wanting to restrict antidepressants, but I think it's only fair that we get to take away whatever the fuck is keeping him alive

Oh, joy--those indents beginning every paragraph of this 14,000-word paper ARE in fact all tabs. 🤦

My husband submits: The Grapes of Annoyance

Skirmish and Peace

Three species sharing an ottoman.

Unfocused Clementine

Wow. Really brings how. how many of the publishing companies around when I started my career have become imprints of the big five (if there is any trace of them at all).

Lazy halloumi (non) kebabs

Wait, what?

This is not a "wealth" fund. Wealth funds, like those in Norway and Alaska, come from taxes and royalties on resources or other actual "wealth". They don't come from selling assets. It's like you sold all your possessions and then claimed you were somehow richer. It's a shell game.

No. It won't drop prices. As an economist he should know better

I've been to a wedding at the Central Reference Library in Toronto--it was a delight. 💕

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Quotes have been approved on two new projects with a favourite client! One starts very soon, filling a schedule gap left by something that I recently found out won't happen until much later than I'd thought. Sometimes freelance life is a scheduling nightmare, but sometimes it works! Woo hoo!🥳

A book about transformative change in the health care system had four sections, each about one major area of change. Title: "Four Strong Winds," w/ many references to "four strong winds of change" blowing in. I pointed out that the famous folk song it referred to was about things that DON'T change.

Carney is giving Canadians with money the opportunity to invest in this new fund. The $$$ should be flowing the other way. There should be a Permanent Fund Dividend paid to every citizen. That’s how the Alaska Permanent Fund works. It could work here, too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_...

It's not really the first. The CPPIB is effectively a sovereign wealth fund.

I teach middle school. Even when we do active shooter drills—and yes we have to do active shooter drills like we do fire drills—even my most unruly students are dead silent, a look of fear in their eyes. Every time, the door unbarricaded, I apologize to them that we let the world be this way.

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

This is a dance off. If you see this, repost a dance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE1P...

Happy Indie Bookstore Day! Feeling so appreciative that my town of 5,000 people has such a store. (Pushkin is the store cat. He loves a stroller!)

If they do, I'm glad I'm sitting this conference out so I can weep in peace on my couch. 😎

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

Ontario government being just a little on the nose with its siezing of Toronto lands to expand the island airport.