Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

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Just turned in my 58th manuscript for the year, and that's a wrap! Thank you to all the lovely writers who have used McKenzie Editing Services this year! I hope you have a pleasant break and get some writing done.

Aww, I just got my first fake book club invitation. Now I know I’m a real author 😂 But seriously, folks, if anyone wants money to feature your book in their book club, it’s a scam.

My first novel is out, just in time for Christmas! If you like fantasy, found families, hopeless quests, and an occasional undead farm animal, you might enjoy Small Magics for the Traveling Wizard. www.amazon.com/Small-Magics...

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Editing projects for November: a history book about the Battle of the Somme, a cozy mystery, a thriller, historical mysteries, and polar exploration. Bookings are open for December and January, if your book is ready for a copy edit 📝📚

Fun fact: New Zealand's first homegrown rock 'n' roll song was 'Pie Cart Rock 'n' Roll' (1957). It goes deep.

By the way, it's National Editor Appreciation Day. Nobody ever reads a great article and thinks, "Dang, that was some tight editing." But editing is a big part of how it got to be great. So writers, if you've ever worked with a good editor, shout 'em out.

I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them. I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.

Looking forward to this!

every company in 2025

yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing

When my cartoons become reality. #chicago

fifty years to the day since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down and was immortalized in song forever "Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?" is an all time banger of a lyric

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

I’ve been laid off from my main editing job, so if you’d like to get your manuscript copy edited before Christmas, hit me up. My specialty is keeping track of murder weapons and making sure characters don’t grow an extra arm during sex scenes.

The book spam I'm getting has taken a strange turn

They're playing Christmas music at the supermarket. Time to go find a rock I can crawl under.

Had a busy month as far as editing goes: 3 contemporary romances, 1 mystery, 4 self-help books, 2 fun historical facts books, and a manuscript assessment. Starting work for a new publisher in November so hopefully it will be fewer (and better paid) jobs.

me: a guy here was arrested for assaulting a woman while he was cosplaying as a nazi officer Dad: what is cosplay me: *explains* Dad: sounds like a nazi who stopped "cosplaying" as a normal person This man's ability to randomly say insightful thing while also putting cosplay in quotes is a trip

Not to be THAT dictionary, but… It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’ It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’ It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’ It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’ It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

There were at least 300,000 people at No Kings in NYC. Three Hundred Thousand.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Hmm, shall I try it?

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

They've lost the 9yos

I have to assume this means he keeps everything hidden behind fabric and just thrusts wildly as she runs past.

It’s local body elections time again in NZ, and while I am not a medical professional, I’d estimate that around 30% of mayoral candidates appear to be suffering from an untreated mental illness based on their bios.

NZNO nurses are quite literally turning their back on a speech from Health Minister Simeon Brown at their AGM

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling. I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

For those worried about Kirk's death increasing the right's call for violence, here's some other things that have caused them to call for violence: - cheese logo changing - male cheerleaders - M&M character giving them a boner - women

The new statue of the Madonna at Santa Teresa di Gallura is an "abstract of Mary's form" 👀

Five years ago all this stuff about Trump's serial abuse came up. Women who had been minors at the time told their stories. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

It's spring here and the traffic cones are forming breeding colonies. Can't wait to see the chicks!

Surprised to find out people don’t want to pay 2 grand to ne detained in an ICE detention center run by psycho men

I vaguely knew what a strigil was, but I had never seen one til today. Also spotted my first Roman phallus amulet.

We should have a Bluesky main character of the day that everyone is nice to, just pick someone and shower them with appreciation.

Today is one of my favorite days in North Amherst, when someone has to slowly walk around my friends’ yard, carefully collecting all the baby snapping turtles so the crows don’t eat them.

UK badgers: Oh hello, so lovely to meet you! I think I have some tea and biscuits...one moment! US badgers: Oh yeah that's right Imma F you up I'm related to f-in WOLVERINES c'mere you son of a--

This is absolutely batshit and amazing. I didn’t even know that some ant species have to mate with a different species to produce workers (!!!) but they are literally mating with another species, ripping out their own DNA, and producing a clone of the male they mates with. That is NUTS

"The Long Walk" screening will kick out viewers who can't keep up with the characters. Lionsgate is hosting a treadmill-equipped screening where dipping below the mandated minimum walking speed from the story will get you ejected. boingboing.net/2025/09/03/t...

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.

Gotta remember this.

i know it's bad form to talk about negative reviews, but i am losing my mind at a reader who DNFed & one starred moonflow because "there's an animal death content warning and the book introduces a cat and how dare you kill a cat" and it's like, i didn't. the cat doesn't die. the cat is fine :|

I told my brother werewolf sex pays for my groceries and he thought that was hilarious. His job is sniffing wine and having opinions about it. We never would have believed this is where we’d end up when we were kids.