Liz Ottosson
@lizottosson.bsky.social
Eclectic reader, writer and book tragic; stories and songs make my heart go round. NE England via south coast, Sweden, Australia and London. She/her. Need a proofreader or editor? https://betterworldwords.com/
Love this - it's beautiful artwork, but also, what a great way of spreading awareness!
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Love this - it's beautiful artwork, but also, what a great way of spreading awareness!
What a fabulous idea. Thank you!
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What a fabulous idea. Thank you!
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My friends, I am ashamed to ask you for help for my children. We in Gaza are going through extremely difficult times.😭💔
This campaign is our only source of income.
If you see us and feel our pain, please donate through GFM to provide warmth and food for my children.🙏🥹🍉
gofund.me/ccddafd4
This campaign is our only source of income.
If you see us and feel our pain, please donate through GFM to provide warmth and food for my children.🙏🥹🍉
gofund.me/ccddafd4
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
My friends, I am ashamed to ask you for help for my children. We in Gaza are going through extremely difficult times.😭💔
This campaign is our only source of income.
If you see us and feel our pain, please donate through GFM to provide warmth and food for my children.🙏🥹🍉
gofund.me/ccddafd4
This campaign is our only source of income.
If you see us and feel our pain, please donate through GFM to provide warmth and food for my children.🙏🥹🍉
gofund.me/ccddafd4
Fabulous! Best of luck getting to the finish line.
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Fabulous! Best of luck getting to the finish line.
Thank you. I'm grateful that my pivot to English editing is gathering a bit of pace! But it's grim to see all those project managers suddenly popping up on LinkedIn and trying not to look panicked.
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Thank you. I'm grateful that my pivot to English editing is gathering a bit of pace! But it's grim to see all those project managers suddenly popping up on LinkedIn and trying not to look panicked.
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Only less than 1600 so i can rent a safe place!
My mental state is difficult, and I can’t be around much.:(((((((
My mental state is difficult, and I can’t be around much.:(((((((
My dearest friend set up the weekly and monthly donation options so that we can stay alive after a tent was destroyed just 100 meters away from us last night. The sand covered our faces while we were still alive.
I’m deeply depressed and can’t keep begging one by one for help anymore.
I’m deeply depressed and can’t keep begging one by one for help anymore.
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Only less than 1600 so i can rent a safe place!
My mental state is difficult, and I can’t be around much.:(((((((
My mental state is difficult, and I can’t be around much.:(((((((
I'm so sorry. I've been lucky in a way - I started out in 2000 and got lucky with a few decent project managers who sent me nice work. Over the past five years, my work has slowly evaporated and all those PMs have been laid off. It's not a profession I'd recommend to anyone now.
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I'm so sorry. I've been lucky in a way - I started out in 2000 and got lucky with a few decent project managers who sent me nice work. Over the past five years, my work has slowly evaporated and all those PMs have been laid off. It's not a profession I'd recommend to anyone now.
Just found the source, and oh blimey. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Just found the source, and oh blimey. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
Thank you (again!).
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Thank you (again!).
Do you have a link to this, please? (I get the gist, but would like the context.)
November 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Do you have a link to this, please? (I get the gist, but would like the context.)
As a professional translator and copyeditor who is now more or less an ex-translator due to "initiatives" like this, I thank you.
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
As a professional translator and copyeditor who is now more or less an ex-translator due to "initiatives" like this, I thank you.
Ooh, what a dream! Take a look to see if you're eligible.
The Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT genuinely changed my life. I learned a ton, witnessed how science is done firsthand, and took my writing career in a new direction. If you write about science/tech, you should apply!! ksj.mit.edu/fellowships/...
The bookshelf in our beautiful seminar room @ksjatmit.bsky.social is filled with books by former fellows. Want to be next? Applications to our fellowship are open and on our website. @annaleen.bsky.social @ferrisjabr.bsky.social @tomzellerjr.com @s-r-m.bsky.social and Melanie Kaplan. Please share.
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Ooh, what a dream! Take a look to see if you're eligible.
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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
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LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I see on goodreads it's labelled as Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesbø, which is just so lazy! Erdrich is a great comparison, yes. King of gory Norwegian crime? Not so much.
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I see on goodreads it's labelled as Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesbø, which is just so lazy! Erdrich is a great comparison, yes. King of gory Norwegian crime? Not so much.
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This Wednesday 19 November 2025, you're invited: ernestopriego.com/2025/11/17/g... h/t @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social #ComicsStudies #GraphicRefuge
Graphic Refuge: Panel Discussion on Comics and Migration
I’m participating in the Graphic Refuge book panel event with Dr Dominic Davies and Dr Candida Rifkind on 19th of November, at 5pm [UK time], at City St. George’s University of London.
ernestopriego.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This Wednesday 19 November 2025, you're invited: ernestopriego.com/2025/11/17/g... h/t @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social #ComicsStudies #GraphicRefuge
I just read Ann-Helén Laestadius's Stolen and it was brilliant. It's kind of marketed as crime/noir but it isn't: it's about Elsa, daughter of Sámi reindeer herders, about growing up in that culture in the modern world, and tensions between and within the various cultures. Seriously good.
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I just read Ann-Helén Laestadius's Stolen and it was brilliant. It's kind of marketed as crime/noir but it isn't: it's about Elsa, daughter of Sámi reindeer herders, about growing up in that culture in the modern world, and tensions between and within the various cultures. Seriously good.
Glad we all know where we stand now. Seriously, WTF, unnamed "Guardian view"?
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Glad we all know where we stand now. Seriously, WTF, unnamed "Guardian view"?
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North American readers, I adore you & am very grateful you want to read my books. Sadly I have no NA deal 😫
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
North American readers, I adore you & am very grateful you want to read my books. Sadly I have no NA deal 😫
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
I also have some low-key but very nice writing stuff going on, so yay!
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I also have some low-key but very nice writing stuff going on, so yay!
Why? Because this is due to me putting myself out there. Cold emails. Chatting (tentatively!) with colleagues. A (tiny!) bit of marketing. A few returning clients. Meaningful work. And a newfound sense of my own self-worth, for which I'm hugely grateful. (4/4) #BetterWorldWords #editor #editing
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Why? Because this is due to me putting myself out there. Cold emails. Chatting (tentatively!) with colleagues. A (tiny!) bit of marketing. A few returning clients. Meaningful work. And a newfound sense of my own self-worth, for which I'm hugely grateful. (4/4) #BetterWorldWords #editor #editing
Last week I completed a full copyedit for a major non-fiction publisher. This week, when I didn't have capacity for work, I was able to recommend two other editors for the writer to approach. Maybe it doesn't sound like much, but to me, as a shy introvert, it's huge. (3/4) #AmEditing #freelance
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Last week I completed a full copyedit for a major non-fiction publisher. This week, when I didn't have capacity for work, I was able to recommend two other editors for the writer to approach. Maybe it doesn't sound like much, but to me, as a shy introvert, it's huge. (3/4) #AmEditing #freelance
I set up betterworldwords.com, trained with the Publishing Training Centre, joined @the-ciep.bsky.social and am committed to my professional development. I don't want to just get by financially (although that's nice!); I know I'm good at this, and I want to help people as best I can. (2/4)
Better World Words
Proofreading, Editing and Scandinavian to English Translation Services
betterworldwords.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I set up betterworldwords.com, trained with the Publishing Training Centre, joined @the-ciep.bsky.social and am committed to my professional development. I don't want to just get by financially (although that's nice!); I know I'm good at this, and I want to help people as best I can. (2/4)