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Amy Brown

@amyrhodabrown.ca

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she / her Academic and non-fiction copyeditor Into: cities (esp. Toronto), libraries, walking, urban nature, public washrooms, community, music, books Banner image: #downtowncritters

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Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · 3d

I'm curious too - sometime I'll stop into the bookstore and see if they're all like that. (Although it's likely at least a few of them are, I guess. )

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · 18d

Right??

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · 18d

Yes I came here to say this, none of my group chats would understand.

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · 18d

I'm taking a university course. I paid $130 for a textbook which is published by Oxford University Press.

The page numbers are in the gutter and the even-numbered pages are on the right.

MY $130 OUP TEXTBOOK IS BOUND WRONG.

I'm losing my mind. This is the last straw. I'm done.

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Jan 29

I haven't been here because I was off socials for a few days and enjoyed the head-empty feeling so much I didn't want it to end. If you want to be in touch, email works. I also have a monthly newsletter with book reviews and other fun stuff.

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 13

IU is built different

Raphael Rashid @koryodynasty.bsky.social · Dec 13

By (in)directly funding something that is related to an anti-government protest, IU breaks one of K-pop's strongest unwritten rules. The move is extraordinary in an entertainment industry where stars face intense pressure to remain politically neutral.

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 13

No way! That's unheard-of. Apparently the US postal service is simply not accepting things for Canada.

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 13

Ooh, a compelling possibility!

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 13

How curious! I wonder if it is a new / weird / cheap binding.

I got a POD book with a flimsy cover recently, but as you say, some of them are solid quality.

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 13

Happy birthday! 💐🧋

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 13

'Tis the season to glaze pfeffernusse at 10:00 pm because I just realized they need to be ready on Saturday morning for the choir bake sale.

The pfeffernusse glazing process: in the foreground, a glass bowl with several light brown nut-shaped cookies in a puddle of white glaze flecked with anise seeds, and a pair of shiny salad tongs that I use to toss the cookies in the glaze. In the background, glazed cookies set on a parchment-lined baking tray.

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 13

Your Xmas pud is still happily marinating in your package, ready to be mailed when they finally get sorted. (I hope they get a good contract!)

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 13

Omg I can't believe it bounced! I thought it would just sit somewhere. Although now that I think about it, it's not like they have infinite warehouse space.

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 13

Apparently lately some publishers are using print-on-demand technology which produces shitty-feeling books with cheap covers. Could that be what's happened?

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · Dec 12

Wikipedia editing courses launched by Zionist groups

Two Israeli groups set up training courses in Wikipedia editing with aims to 'show the other side' over borders and culture

www.theguardian.com

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 12

"I support K-pop, but I also support democracy." Girl, me too

Raphael Rashid @koryodynasty.bsky.social · Dec 12

My latest for the Guardian, on how South Koreans are reinventing protest culture with K-pop light sticks and satirical Christmas carols as demonstrations continue over President Yoon's martial law attempt. A surprisingly festive mood amid political crisis. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

South Korea deploys K-pop light sticks and dance in protests against president

Christmas carols, K-pop merchandise and food trucks create positive atmosphere as protesters seek to oust President Yoon over his martial law attempt

www.theguardian.com

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 12

This book had me crying behind the couch. I was so scared

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 12

I'm torn between "cheese should be affordable because cheese is delicious" and "cheese should be expensive because it's so carbon-intensive". But bad cheese shouldn't exist at any price.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · Dec 10

Please welcome @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social to Bluesky!

I am translating a gigantic fantasy tetralogy for them titled THE BIRD THAT DRINKS TEARS by Lee Young-do, with a game from Montreal’s Krafton to be released around the same time. www.kbook-eng.or.kr/sub/trend.ph...

Illustration courtesy of Krafton. Four travelers in a jungle, one of them is a gigantic bipedal rooster. He is not the bird that drinks tears in question.

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 12

Thank you; I do I know a bunch of things — which makes the things I don't know all the more annoying!

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 11

TIL a prepositional phrase is not the same as a phrasal preposition. 😭 I definitely should have taken the grammar class at TMU.

Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · Dec 11

Well, close! "Aside from" is a phrasal preposition. That is, a pair of words that *together* function as a preposition. Usually the 2d one is a preposition; the 1st is most often an adverb. As a combo, they have their own meaning (in this case, "except"), different from either individual meaning.

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 11

My friend Elizabeth explained it, and I will study her explanation, but it feels like I'll need the corkboard and red string to really understand it!

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · Dec 11

Let it be known that we were all correct in our pronunciation of the mutual nose-touching behavior description "Boops boops boops Boops boops," as proposed by fish research biologist Kate Richerson

Screenshot of a social media post by Kate Richerson (@kate_richerson) dated June 9 showing a photo of a yellow Post-It pad with an ink sketch of two fish booping noses, reading "Boops boops boops Boops boops." Text in the post reads: "I just learned there's a fish with the Latin name Boops boops, so 'Boops boops boops Boops boops' could conceivably be a sentence right?"

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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · Nov 28

I suppose all those people following me from some geo starter pack might appreciate my "Hemisphere" map hat.

A knitted beanie hat in blue and green wool with the outline of the americas, africa, and W europe. a white edge represents antarctica

a knitted beanie hat in blue for the ocean and green for the land, showin australia, new zealand, and eastern asia, with a white edge for antarctica.

Amy Brown @amyrhodabrown.ca · Dec 11

I looked it up while I was doing an assignment: It smells like a preposition ("anywhere a cat can go") but when I looked it up to confirm, M-W says it's an adverb (modifying, e.g., "set").

Maybe "aside from" is a prepositional phrase? @elizdanjou.bsky.social, help! 😅