An enthusiastic new director of our kids' school told parents to contact the school at a new email account called parentliason@<schoolname>.org 🤦‍♀️ (And I have no idea how it's different from the existing and easy-to-understand parentrelations@<schoolname>.org) #AmNotEditing

Katina Rae Stapleton pointed out on LinkedIn that it's easier to access the site this way: web.archive.org/web/20250926...

Kudos to those who've archived the great content at PlainLanguage.gov. #PlainLanguage #LegalWriting

#Edibuddies I've made a new feed that loosely attempts to capture posts by editors & proofreaders for editors & proofreaders. If you follow the old one, please switch to this new feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...

TIL: In Word, you can convert "live" citations and bibliography inserted with Zotero to *plain text* by selecting all content, then pressing Ctrl+Shift+F9 (Cmd+Shift+F9 on Mac) to "unlink" or remove all field codes from the document. You're welcome! #AmEditing #AcademicEditing #edibuddies

Today all day: Inclusive Design 24 24 hours of live talks about anything and everything accessibility! inclusivedesign24.org/2025/ #ID24 #WebAccessibility #DigitalInclusion #a11y #WebDev #UX

In contributing to family duties (i.e. temporarily housekeeping for an elderly parent), one does rather hope for better karmic vibes than relentless drilling all day at the construction site across the alley 🙄 #AmEditing (or trying to)

Join us for a weekly online academic writing group! It's free and you don't have to be affiliated with an academic institution. Next round starts 7 October. (Reposting in the "right" time zone?? 😆 Please spread the word!) #AcWri #AcademicSky

Shocking statistics from @newhumanitarian.bsky.social on people killed while seeking aid in #Gaza.

For those of you following the Editors are editing feed, I'm sorry but it seems it's not picking up any posts due to new limits on the free plan of Bluesky Feed Creator. I will be exploring other options. bsky.app/profile/thec...

Started knitting my 4th pair of socks (ever) and am having fun trying a new texture. After so many false starts and froggings (cursed yarn??), I'm hopeful again 😆 Amazing what combining k and p can create. 🧶 #SockKnitting

Why is making an accessible PDF so difficult? Why do we seem to only have Adobe to do this, and we have to pay for even that? Ugh. I give up—will share it as a Word doc, which is better anyway. #accessibility

Video: Plain language is a term that many use, but few understand completely. At its core, plain language is about understanding your audience and giving them writing that is clear, concise and well-organized. Watch to continue learning: youtu.be/C_8RzU6JGQ0 #PlainLanguage

#edibuddies webinar alert! I took a course with Hester Higton and she's incredibly knowledgeable and helpful.

How to make complex data accessible for users with disabilities - Pope Tech Blog blog.pope.tech/2025/09/08/h... ---

Knitting cast-on gods were not with me today: tail was too short for long-tailed cast-on (3 times! 🤦🏻‍♀️) , forgot to bring my 2nd ball to cast on socks 2AAT, and managed somehow to get the working yarn caught between the cable and the magic loop divide (how??). Am giving up for the day 😂 🧶

Great Monday morning so far: 45 min. troubleshooting mouse, 30 min. reading backlog of school messages that I didn't get and spouse had ignored 🙄, now joining parents' orientation that I learned about an hour ago because it was announced in an email spouse ignored. When can I get to work 😭

Apparently, I'm not the only one who can't bear to watch the news lately... 😑 www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

The next ISO standard has been published! The standard for legal communication provides a clear understanding of what plain language legal communication is and how you can achieve it. Get your copy of ISO 24495-2: Plain language — Part 2: Legal Communication today. bit.ly/3HTq12X #PlainLanguage

An interview about contracts and #PlainLanguage. It's on LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/posts/france...

My presentation on scientific editing (with lots of resources!) starts at 21:06! #PlainLanguage #AmEditing #STEM #PhD #AcademicLife #Plants #PlantBiology Sign up for my writing group for researchers and grad students/postdocs! www.ellenkuwana.com/wag

Because not everyone clicks through to the bonus panel…

I love this crochet moss stitch with variegated yarn 😍 I wish I had many more colors to mix it up even more... 🧶 (Counting this as #StetWalk, as I worked on this while on my step machine. Crocheting is a great way to take my mind off boring exercise.) How to: thecrochetcrowd.com/crochet-vari...

SEPTEMBER CARTOON: ivacheung.com/2025/09/witc...

Oh god oh god oh god. Laughed till tears poured down my face.

Had an exquisite slice of sourdough bread with French butter 😍 I can't eat yeast anymore because it aggravates my eczema but this was sooooo delicious 😭 #TinyJoys #ILoveBread

AI can create convincing text, but it lacks the true writing process. In The Writing Resource, Sean Brenner discusses identifying the differences between human writing and GenAI output. zurl.co/W41U3 #GenAI #Writing #Style #Tone #Business #Editing #CopyEditing #RightTouchEditing

Provide meaningful headings. Indeed, some users rely on them for skimming and navigation. It's like scanning a web page by jumping from one title to another to find the part we want to read. #accessibility #a11y

Feeling chilly outdoors in Bangkok! Had to put on my windbreaker 😍 #TinyJoys

A generous friend gave us a beautiful, upscale bag. And I discovered it's a perfect size to hold my knitting and crochet yarns 😅🧶 (I *will* use it to go out! I swear!)

Arrgh the most annoying bass line is booming from somewhere in the neighborhood and making it hard for me to focus 💀 #AmEditing

Here’s a list of independent training opportunities for editors, organized by fellow editors. Please support them by participating or sharing this information! zurl.co/sKWn1 #AmEditing #FreelanceEditing #Editing #CopyEditing #WritingTips

Where are my #MuslimWomen editing friends at? Ash P has created a Discord community just for you! Details are below. #AmEditing #AmWriting

Spent the last 1 hour troubleshooting Word - some keyboard shortcuts (involving J, N, and the up/down arrows) stopped working. Finally identified a link with a PerfectIt update 😭 Contacted the PerfectIt people; am hoping they can resolve it! (Any #Edibuddies experienced this?) #AmNotEditing

Excited that the PLAIN Matters newsletter for Plain Language Association International members is almost ready to go out! I'm enjoying my new role as newsletter editor ⭐ #PlainLanguage #AmEditing

I've made a laminated sign for the back of my work laptop, to be visible to people on the desks opposite me.

Think of generative AI as "a bag of words," not a person 💡 Our brain likes to see humans in even inanimate things, but thinking of LLMs as human gives us the wrong expectations. Better think of them as a bag of words that pulls out the most relevant ones it can find. #FoodForThought #GenAI

#AcademicSky - If you wanted to write in plain language (or write in plainer language) but wasn't sure where to start, what would be a helpful resource? (I will develop something free but am trying to get ideas.) #AcWri #AcademicWriting

Highly amused that my teen's friend comes over to hang out (not an easy feat in this city), just takes a nap, and goes home. Both kids happy 😂 #WhyNot

For every nine times you want to italicize a word for emphasis, consider not doing it seven times. #copyediting

Yay won yarn chicken! Used up some leftover cotton yarn to make a little tote (to hold a crochet/knitting project of course). #crochet 🧶

Watched a local LLM get stuck in a literal loop because I told it to use British spelling but with "z" for words like "organization" (see Oxford English Dictionaries) and it couldn't figure out how those two instructions could be true at the same time 🤦‍♀️ #Edibuddies #AmNotEditing

If you find creating style sheets time-consuming or tedious, take a look at my new QuickStyle template. It contains options for almost 150 major editorial style points and is fully customizable to your projects and clients. #copyediting #proofreading www.wordstitcheditorial.com/quickstyle-c...

Phew, managed to get both socks back on one set of circular needles 🤩 Not sure why my needles were facing a different way when I started the pair though. They seem all right now 🤔 My uneven tension is irritating. #SockKnitting 🧶 #KnittingBeginner

Are you an aspiring a11y (disability ally) like me? There are a lot of amazing resources out there to learn about accessibility, but that can be overwhelming too. Here's a collection of my favorite resources to get you started. theclarityeditor.com/2023/06/05/r... #Accessibility #FreeResources

Trying to get the org's portfolio pages updated over 1 yr. Finally got the (now old 🙄) content cleared by the program people only for to get feedback from the boss that shows they don't understand the structure that they signed off on months ago 🤦‍♀️ It's discouraging. Sigh. #AmEditing #WebUpdate

"Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground" final lithograph of Käthe Kollwitz, 1942. The death of her son in battle in 1914 profoundly affected the artist, who expressed her grief by creating many prints on the theme of mothers protecting their children from the horrors of war #WomensArt

New free checklist of what to tell your (prospective) editor. Also: baffling signage at the "most confusing train station in Japan" and recommended reads on plain language and justice, Word spellcheck, email accessibility, and how we see the world. sh1.sendinblue.com/aif8axw70lpf... #PlainLanguage

AUGUST CARTOON: ivacheung.com/2025/08/unso... #AmEditing