Today's unexpected #copyediting need: Citing the Google Play Store.

I have never wanted to be besties with @iwriteok.bsky.social and the general Behind the Bastards crew more than this last week—I feel like Robert would have a truck full of resources. #DipshitBattleOfStalingrad

ATEEZ(에이티즈) - ‘THE BLACK CAT NERO’ Halloween Performance Video YouTube video by ATEEZ

No Halloween can be celebrated without this #Ateez gem

#dailyateez

youtu.be/VBZA_15mGGU

Blessed #Samhain!! Think of your ancestors and lost loved ones today

[Exit King.]

YouTube may have blocked my ad blocker but it can’t stop me from muting their ads in petty retaliation.

Has anyone done the math on how much money #HelloFresh could save if they stopped sending scallions with every meal?

I’d be willing to work at the #MagnusArchives simply for the job security in the capitalist hellscape we all live in. @rustyquill.com giving me unrealistic career expectations

Marketing should never have last say in capitalization, spelling, and punctuation. There, I said it.

My low-tier wish for society is that everyone gets to experience Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery the same way I did—knowing absolutely nothing about it.

The level of soul crushing I just experienced with #JackAndJoker though

I don’t know coding, but I am willing to learn just so the #iqiyi platform remembers WHAT EPISODE I’M ON. This is the most basic of requirements for a streaming platform.

I’m sorry but my whole personality is about to be #GDragon in roughly two hours (or ten, if I go to bed soon).

Not sure whose responsibility it was to tell me about the #Boyfriend reunion, but you didn’t do it and I found out 11 days late

Me, afraid of things that are Too Big
Also me, watching videos of things that are Too Big

Pro-tip: you don’t remove punctuation because they look like an error if they belong there. You’re just wrong. (Marketers make me want to scream)

TIL lubricity is a word. In learning lubricity is a word, I also learned lubricious is a word.

Does everybody send out of context @ologies.bsky.social quotes to their friends or is that just me? Allie is my favorite parasocial relationship, but in a fully noncreepy way.

If a word is hyphenated as an adjective in Merriam-Webster, what do you do with it if it doesn’t show up in front of a noun? (Bad example, maybe, but brand-new car vs the car is brand(-?) new)

Our captain loves us 😭

I am emotionally compromised by #Hongjoong and his Beat It cover/inspo. Plz send help I’m sitting in my office with my hand over my mouth

We would purge the land of these drones, that rob the bee of her honey.

Today’s #copyediting check that I know I’ve looked up a thousand times: if straightforward was one word.

Alack, thou dost usurp authority.

Close up photo of a small red squid peeking out of the soft sediment, the eyes take up a large part of the head and have a slight silvery sheen to them

Close up photo of a small red squid on shell-gravel seafloor, the squid is facing the viewer with its large eyes that have a silvery sheen to them.

What better way to start the week than with a cute little bobtail squid (unsure if Sepietta oweniana or Sepiola atlantica) for #MolluscMonday?
These cuties are present all year round, but prefer to be out after dark, which is hard in summer here
Taken 2023-11-04 on Divers Night in Lysekil
🤿🦑

The way I am DEFEATED by the word setup/set up would be funny if I didn’t spend half my day dealing with people writing “sentences” in such a way that it’s unclear if this is meant to be a noun or a verb.

A certain viewing of Squid Game does lead you to believe in unions, if one advocate between s1 and s2 led to better gaming conditions for the players.

TIL “check mark” is two words. This is nearly as shocking as the moment I found out Dumpster was trademarked #copyediting

Same, Shakespeare. Same

Today I invoked @bcdreyer.social at work when managers weren’t happy we weren’t catching errors when we weren’t told edits were even made: “I would love to be so good at my job that I can sense when things are wrong without my eyes seeing them, but I don’t think even Benjamin Dreyer is that good.”