Just learned—due to googling something I #amediting —that baby's breath is an invasive species in my home province of British Columbia. Which I find so ticklishly delightful. Baby's breath, that old delicate yet life-ruining fiend.

I can tell life is really wearing me down, because I use at least 40% fewer exclamation points in my comments and emails then I did two years ago. An exclamation point? In this economy?? etc. #amediting

You know you're in editor mode when you google your own name to check its spelling in the acks 😆 #amediting

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I hate Google Docs. That is all. #amediting #enshittification

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

the rabbits outside my office window have achieved a near perfect roundness

If you say so, @merriam-webster.com 🤷‍♀️ #amediting

You should prepare yourself immediately for some mole-related weirdness across five planes of existence. Plus a sky infant Welcome, @iangoodale.bsky.social to Diachro ☁️👶 diachroneitybooks.com/News

This is your 💥last chance💥 to submit to our verse novel call. If your poetry has yet to find a home, we might be it! The window closes on Sunday. Deets here: diachroneitybooks.com/Submit

Fellow Canadians who probably at *some point* bought bread at a Loblaws establishment between 2001 and 2021: Don't forget to get your bread crime money, by Dec 12! Don't need $50 and it seems not wroth the trouble? Get it and donate to your local food bank. www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca

"Goad" has got to have one of the best synonym lists of all time: spur, prick, needle, beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, egg on, encourage, harass, harry, hassle, incite, jab, molest, plague, prod, provoke, stab *Chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy*!! And ... stab?? #amediting

This is exploitative model is largely the fault of Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell.

#amediting a text about a 1689 Mexican play that's like "Hmmm you think we're weird for sacrificing humans, yet in your religion you eat Christ's flesh and drink his blood? OK then." People have always been critical and clever about religion (and colonialism), we just reaaally don't learn about it

Sending out the corrected proofs of my new novel to my publishers, by raven...

Can tell I don't spend much time on LinkedIn, because I popped on just now and it's advertising me Hermes 👀😵‍💫

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Nothing more productive than running a spellcheck on an English manuscript heavy with German, French, and Italian quotes and cites. Lettre, lettere, lettore, letter—they're all correct!! #amproofing

Preorders are now available for Imperfect Creatures by @writelikeashark.bsky.social ! If you like your cosmic entities riddled with death anxiety, your worlds all snowy and slightly off, and the text to be all over the place, then look no further! The second book from @diachroneity.bsky.social!

Proofing save of the day: "...had already began." >> "had already begun." 😅 #amediting

Changing my sole proprietorship address upon moving home is proving so difficult (I'm about 18 logins/authentications/portals deep at this point) I'm just going to wait to update it with taxes next year. God I love government websites ❤️ #freelancelife #bureaucracy

A client shared the following with me. Not sure what it comes from, but definitely captures one of the best parts of being an #editor 🤓 #amediting #edibuddies

Make like Homer and write us a verse narrative! Diachro is now open for submissions of *verse novels* from authors looking to join our stable of weirdo books. Window closes Nov 30. Deets on the deets page: diachroneitybooks.com/Submit #writing #amwriting #booksky #poetry #publishing

Little Ghosts Books is open for Submissions! From now until Nov. 1st, submit your horror novellas for consideration to our small press and kick off spooky season! More details about the call and our publishing house are available on the website: www.littleghostsbooks.com/novellasubmi... 🖤👻📚

Come, join us in Harrow. Meet the House. Seeking Advanced Readers for Joe Butler's forthcoming mind-melting horror *Imperfect Creatures* (Nov 2025) Sign up: forms.gle/mPRirtP2gEv3...

🤘We'll be opening for submissions very soon🤘 From Sep 1 to Nov 30, we're looking for: 📖 Verse novels 🫀 Novel-length narratives told through poetry 💥 Free verse or formal verse 🛹 Minimum of c. 40,000 words More information here: diachroneitybooks.com/Submit

👻🏘️ Book announcement 🏘️👻 Our next release will be Imperfect Creatures by @writelikeashark.bsky.social diachroneitybooks.com/Imperfect-Cr...

Save of the week: seashore --> seahorse #spellcheckwillnotsaveyou #amediting

#edibuddies please help my little experimental publishing project choose the cover for our next book:

Googling Chris Hadfield because I #amediting, and love that the first returned image is of this li'l stink eye

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Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do. So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.

There's actually an extremely large scholarly literature about this. With some regularity, dictators order their troops to shoot protestors, the troops are like "wtf no," and then the dictator falls. I'll dig ho and dump some cites below in a second

It's been nigh a decade, but I still miss the Microsoft Word feature that told you where in the total word count your cursor was (e.g. 2500/10500 words) Memories ... Misty water-colored memories ... 😔 #amediting

Looking up Pazuzu from something I #amediting, and that's also the name of the demon in The Exorcist, whose appearance in the search results STRAIGHT UP JOLTED ME. Me, a horror fan. This 1970s makeup somehow is legit still terrifying?! Kudos, John Boorman. go on, google it you know you wanna

Just read the phrase “croc of shit” (instead of “crock”). An update for the modern age, I guess! #amreading

Proofing save of the day 😅 decedents --> descendants #amediting #spellcheckwillnotsaveyou

Perhaps it would be best practice to suggest replacing "bears" with another verb here, but—nope. It's too magical. I'm all for keeping moments like this (esp. in the art space I work in). "The face of XX’s shark bears a likeness to ..." #amediting

Is there a specific ad block for Tony Robbins orrrrr I can assure you, sir, I am not your target market. You are wasting your ad dollars anyways. Please, set me free.

Oh just got an email informing my Microsoft 365 subscription is going from $88 to $115 a year. Only a 30 PERCENT increase. Why? No doubt AI. Absolutely no doubt AI. Which—say it with me—none of us even asked for. Make it a separate subscription. #amediting ever more reluctantly

Having finally relented and updated to the latest Microsoft Word has really increased the number of times per hour I tell my computer to fuck off—over the most basic of tasks. Like the "find" function! Once perfected in 1996, now ruined in 2025. Enshittification, yay!! #amediting, reluctantly

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More telling is that the CPC crowd boo'd Carney but not Trump.

One thing that I was thought was revealing about the divisions within Canada: When Carney acknowledged Poilievre's hard work on his campaign in his victory speed, the crowd of Liberals cheered. When Poilievre mentioned Carney in his concession speech, there was loud booing.

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Happy Canadian Independent Bookstore Day, pals! One half of Diachro is Canadian, so here are Jaclyn's indie bookshop faves: @pfbvan.bsky.social @bookwarehouse.bsky.social @massybooks.bsky.social Iron Dog People's Co-op 🍁Show them some love today🍁 #CIBD2025 #IndieBookStoresCA

A reminder to Canadian authors: registration for the Public Lending Right Program (PLR) closes May 1. #CanLit publiclendingright.ca

We did it! My experimental literary press side project has (finally) put out our first title! Literal 100s of hours of work now available in book form!!! Get a free story from Jonathon Kane's debut at the link—or go on and order the whole devastatingly beautiful book, why don't you.

Just learned that ancient times literally also had #cancelculture: damnatio memoriae – the exclusion of a person from official accounts. Or as we might call it when we do it to Elon Musk, "Roman cancel culture" ;) smarthistory.org/damnatio-mem... #amediting