Shecky
@shecky.bsky.social
Geek. SF/F copyeditor (450+ works edited, rehomes feral commas, hot-glues dangling participles, etc.). Quantum comma mechanic. He/him. (Avatar by Howard Tayler) sffcopyediting.com
May this be the first of MANY.
Marge Greene announces she is resigning from Congress, that she doesn’t want to go through a brutal primary against a Trump backed opponent, and says Trump has treated her like a battered wife and has been hateful to her and is trying to destroy her.
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
May this be the first of MANY.
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If you have a problem with trans women, trans men, or trans people of any make or gender, then you got a problem with me and I suggest you let that marinate
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
If you have a problem with trans women, trans men, or trans people of any make or gender, then you got a problem with me and I suggest you let that marinate
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
I can't find explicit confirmation of this. Anyone have a definitive source?
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I can't find explicit confirmation of this. Anyone have a definitive source?
You *promise*?
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
You *promise*?
AUX FRANCOPHONES qui lisent la science-fiction : comment traduit-on "spacer" (qqn qui vit/travaille en espace) le plus souvent dans la science-fiction française ? (Question supplémentaire : traduction de "space marine" ou simplement "marine" en contexte science-fictionnel ?)
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
AUX FRANCOPHONES qui lisent la science-fiction : comment traduit-on "spacer" (qqn qui vit/travaille en espace) le plus souvent dans la science-fiction française ? (Question supplémentaire : traduction de "space marine" ou simplement "marine" en contexte science-fictionnel ?)
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periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
www.brailleinstitute.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
President Billsucker and Vice-President Couchfucker.
The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
President Billsucker and Vice-President Couchfucker.
Language is now banned.
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Language is now banned.
Makes me wonder just how many Drs. Pepper and Messrs. Pibb there have been.
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Makes me wonder just how many Drs. Pepper and Messrs. Pibb there have been.
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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only on this app will you have someone admonish another person over their exclusionary attitude and end it by calling them a plebian, cannot believe we get this for free
Because criticizing grammar is ableist bullshit most likely. You ARE an arrogant SOB.
Doubly so, given not a single part of your post follows traditional Western grammar rules.
Plebeian.
Doubly so, given not a single part of your post follows traditional Western grammar rules.
Plebeian.
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
only on this app will you have someone admonish another person over their exclusionary attitude and end it by calling them a plebian, cannot believe we get this for free
"But her [the Gray Lady's] emails!"
"But the NYT's _emails_!"
turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
November 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"But her [the Gray Lady's] emails!"
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The funny thing is, I bet these guys can't function a single day without uppers and downers. I bet they're on more meds than some of my patients, and they want to sit on their high horse and say drugs like tylenol and ibuprofen are bad lol
Not a single person in this administration would be qualified to give medical advice to a shoe
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 AM
The funny thing is, I bet these guys can't function a single day without uppers and downers. I bet they're on more meds than some of my patients, and they want to sit on their high horse and say drugs like tylenol and ibuprofen are bad lol
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November 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Clearly on a mission from Gahd. Give the man some dry white toast.
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Clearly on a mission from Gahd. Give the man some dry white toast.
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"The purpose is not to learn words," he said. "The purpose is to make sense."
I don't understand how you get to the latter without the former.
I wonder if teachers in HS and college are aware of this and if it accounts for the difficulties their students have reading longer & more complex texts.
I don't understand how you get to the latter without the former.
I wonder if teachers in HS and college are aware of this and if it accounts for the difficulties their students have reading longer & more complex texts.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"The purpose is not to learn words," he said. "The purpose is to make sense."
I don't understand how you get to the latter without the former.
I wonder if teachers in HS and college are aware of this and if it accounts for the difficulties their students have reading longer & more complex texts.
I don't understand how you get to the latter without the former.
I wonder if teachers in HS and college are aware of this and if it accounts for the difficulties their students have reading longer & more complex texts.
I'll take it one step further: I do not want a smart TV. I do not want a TV with native apps. I do not want a TV that does ANYTHING but display video fed into it. I essentially just want a giant monitor.
I've been vaguely thinking of getting a new TV, but I'm not doing because what I want is... a new TV. Something that I can plug my Blu-Ray player and streaming dongle into and which will display the video from those sources.
Samsung brings a generative AI-powered Bixby to its TVs
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I'll take it one step further: I do not want a smart TV. I do not want a TV with native apps. I do not want a TV that does ANYTHING but display video fed into it. I essentially just want a giant monitor.
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Or just have him start the next film alive and well and then at some point have someone be like "Bond! I thought you got blown up!" And then have him quip "you know better than to listen to rumors," or "what can I say? That was no time to die" and then absolutely refuse to explain further
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Or just have him start the next film alive and well and then at some point have someone be like "Bond! I thought you got blown up!" And then have him quip "you know better than to listen to rumors," or "what can I say? That was no time to die" and then absolutely refuse to explain further
I honor the dad joke here, but also: sorcerer.
What word, even when spelled without any mistakes, is still spelled incorrectly?
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I honor the dad joke here, but also: sorcerer.
@effinbirds.com says it best in this sticker I have on the back of my e-reader. Gotcher performative finger right fucking here.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
@effinbirds.com says it best in this sticker I have on the back of my e-reader. Gotcher performative finger right fucking here.
I've always read everywhere. Only reason I don't read in public anymore (except for the laundromat, which is inevitable) is that I'm not IN public anymore 'cause I have trust issues and y'all nasty.
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I've always read everywhere. Only reason I don't read in public anymore (except for the laundromat, which is inevitable) is that I'm not IN public anymore 'cause I have trust issues and y'all nasty.
Mamdani is going to implement Sharona law. NYC will now be forced to muh-muh-muh-my Sharona.
Mamdani is going to implement Shandalar law. NYC will now be forced to drift throughout the Multiverse.
Mamdani is going to implement Sharona law. All Monk episodes with Natalie Teeger will be banned.
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Mamdani is going to implement Sharona law. NYC will now be forced to muh-muh-muh-my Sharona.