Thanks. It’s wild looking back on it now.

This!

Is it wrong of me that this illustration looks like when my two kittens are playing? I just want to give the one on the ground some belly rubs and tell him he’s a good boy.

I was quickly spending much of my time trying to figure out if I could jump out the window and survive if they didn’t let me leave the flat. Eventually, let me go after agreeing we’d meet up at a particular tube stop. I spent the next day on the other side of London.

I neglected to ask such details. He and his friend spent a lot of time telling me how great it would be to live in a city like New Dehli.

As in making small talk.

He really was an exiled royal! I looked him up afterwards.

What’s a moment from your life, out of context, that’s straight from a movie?

Escaping the rain at a pavillion in Hyde Park. Start chatting with 2 gentlemen. Back at their flat, drinking a £500 bottle of wine, and getting an offer to abandon my PhD and become a kept woman for this exiled royal.

Karen Yin's The Conscious Style Guide isn't a phrasebook; it's a framework for thinking about equitable language as it evolves.

Here's my review of why it matters for writers and editors.

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To clarify: there was a link to something on Wayback and on Archive. Neither worked.

Even that link failed!

Editing notes for a book and there is so much link rot. Over half the citations are to websites (close to 2/3 are) and of those, easily 1/3 of the links no longer work.

Making everything digital is not the way.

#edibuddies #AmEditing

Thanks very much to @indexerscanada.bsky.social for an excellent conference over the weekend. I'm now itching to try indexing in LaTeX and it was great to hear about @asindexing.bsky.social's research in to AI and indexing (it doesn't do a good job) from Elizabeth Bartmess #IndexSky

Enjoying my first day of @indexerscanada.bsky.social online conference. I loved the brilliant keynote by @dannybate.bsky.social on ‘Who Ordered the Alphabet’. Surely several more copies of his ‘Why Q Needs U’ book now sold, including to the UK @indexers.bsky.social and me. #IndexSky

My brain went through the same contortions.

Ooh! Very nice.

…and ordered!

Awesome!!!

Ah, that nerve-racking time before a party (or in this case, conference) when you have everything ready but no one has shown up yet.

Love this metaphor. Earned a follow.

Getting really excited about the upcoming indexing conference from ISC/SCI. Can’t believe it’s starting tomorrow. Great line-up of speakers, including a keynote by @dannybate.bsky.social !

Conference.indexers.ca

#IndexSky

It’s my fault. They cancelled the parties after I won them all. Sorry ‘bout that.

Very cool! Congrats!

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Despite (or because of?) current events, history is more relevant than ever. Thanks so much to @historyextra.bsky.social for the opportunity to share a different kind of history of disease
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Yes, please.

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Sounds really interesting!

Tempting.