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Davis S. Pumpkinspice

@lloyddavis.ca

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Freelance copyeditor/proofreader of many Canadian best-sellers & award-winners, and 3 (count ’em!) NYT best-sellers. Member of SABR & SIHR. WWOZ Guardian of the Groove. I’ve got a lot of patience, baby, and that’s a lot of patience to lose.

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 8h

Not to forget the 1985 ALCS — Jays won two, split the next two, then dropped games 5 through 7.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 11h

That murderclown keeps finding ways to make Ontario miserable.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 11h

Looks like he left early to beat the traffic. Some superfan.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 11h

We got 'em right where we want 'em

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 13h

Try as hard as you want, Shiny Green/Blue Jacket Guy (and with the aviators and the cheesehead, you're clearly trying harder than ever), but you're never going to be Home Plate Lady.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 17h

He’s been on my no fly list ever since. (Fortunately, after 30 years there are only three names on it, and none of them seem to be writing books anymore.)

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 17h

I think you’ve misinterpreted the point being made.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 18h

Who’s making that suggestion?

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 18h

Um… your reply has nothing to do with the point being made.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 18h

Nobody was suggesting it does.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 18h

I live in a neighborhood with countless Greek restaurants, and they all serve it — it’s called beef souvlaki.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 18h

Including spelling & factual errors i had marked for correction. On further examination I found he’d done some rewriting with change-tracking turned off. Time, effort, and the publisher’s money were wasted as we did another round of the author reviewing and me doing a final cleanup.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 18h

I had an author do this once at an earlier stage. He reviewed the copyedited manuscript, and it came back to me to be cleaned up before typesetting. I noticed a run of several pages with no markup—turned out, instead of putting “stet” in the margin, he’d simply rejected any edits he disagreed with.

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 19h

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams

As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

www.commondreams.org

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 1d

At the rate you’re going, we’ll be celebrating it on the last Thursday in November before very long.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 1d

To Carney, "Elbows up" means buying American jets, building a pipeline to sell our oil to the US, joining a US missile defence system, opening our markets to more American dairy, and kissing the American president's ass at every opportunity.

This is what you voted for, is it?

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

Bastards

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

Because they’re all bastards

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Imbroglior @dkfoster.bsky.social · 2d

I hope on the other side of this, those liberals and radical centrists who pooh-poohed and sniffed at Defund the Police will be humbled enough to say, I was wrong.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 2d

masked federal agents have been on a tear through chicago neighborhoods today—enabled in no small part by the state + local cops now running security for ice in broadview.

at least 2 people abducted in cicero, 2 in humboldt park/hermosa, 3 in garfield ridge. sightings in schaumburg + hanover park.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

More vehicles with masked Border Patrol agents inside departing. It's a busy, busy morning for the secret police.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

This game should never have been played. UEFA failed. FIFA failed. Norway failed.

3–0 for Norway. There’d be absolutely no difference if Israel were kicked out of international football, they make no impact anyway. Just do it FIFA.

The only difference is seeing soldiers who’ve committed war crimes — or are complicit in apartheid — playing on a football pitch. Absolutely bizarre.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 3d

G’night everybody. I look forward to not seeing the box score in tomorrow’s paper.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 3d

Don’t sign him up.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 3d

Here’s an idea for MLB:

Play extra innings 3-on-3.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 3d

Good, because Friday’s was awful

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 3d

Me: Machado is quite awful.

The guy from the “Yet you participate in society” meme: So you’d rather it went to Donald J Trump—curious!