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Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon. She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
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1000 years ago my fellow copy editors & I were asked to defend our jobs. The poorly trained sub McKinsey wannabes were flummoxed by our response: ‘If we’ve done a good job, no one would ever know we’d been there.’ All jobs do not display visible results.

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Is the result of the election in Germany great? No. But we are still a functioning democracy. And even though both Putin and Trump wanted fascists to win, we can still say: not today, losers.

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Congratulations, America. How the world sees you. youtube.com/watch?v=gHPo...

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I googled. He's real. In certain special cases, I feel a new pope should forgo taking a new papal name and stick with his own, most excellent, one.

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The USA is just making friends everywhere. On a Canadian website, something I've never seen before:

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I just received an email from the FBI, beginning 'Greeting!!!' And frankly, that treble exclamation point is *exactly* the way I imagine the FBI approaches people.

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When Hollywood poster design meets a classicist.

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Apparently the entire New York Times editorial policy is laid down by this journalist.

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Hi @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social Do feel free to tell your London correspondent that Keir Starmer’s name is pronounced, er, *checks notes* why yes, it’s pronounced ’Starmer’, not ‘Stolmer’. Just, y’know, a detail since she’s based in London and all… podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

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Gotta love Montreal. Two blizzards of 40cm each in 3 days, & the city warns: ‘Make sure you put out your garbage for collection carefully, so it doesn’t get lost in the snow.’ www.ledevoir.com/societe/8448...

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How about the crowd 'respects the anthems' of other countries when that specific other country respects the rest of the world.

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🇺🇦 Join Ukraine support events on Feb 24. Find your city here 👇 https://uaworldmap.ukrainianworldcongress.org/en?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabOa-CUAGE-exrv2ccnFskuD3QCAqQBPY10Qsn7E3gPuzHRX6RG_f_pIbc_aem_pEUqKLeVLtmIfrhap3Qbwg

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You have to hand it to the techies at @theguardian.com. Their old app was buggy and unstable, so they got to work, and now the new app is — virtually unusable. Badly designed, prone to skipping about, almost impossible to use. I’d ask what they were thinking, but it’s clear they weren’t.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Good to know non-capitalist vibes survive…

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C’mon, easy mistake to make. Who among us has not confused the two?

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