Eugenie Todd
@eugeniesediting.bsky.social
Freelance copyeditor for Penguin Random House and Canongate. Wife, mother, dog-wrangler and forgetful gardener, Fife.
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you can just go ask crows stuff instead of asking chatgpt
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
you can just go ask crows stuff instead of asking chatgpt
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Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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🥁✨🎉 **My Top Image of the Year · #1 of 10**
The jaw-dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire.
Sir John Betjeman said it was “worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see.”
🤔 He was right.
The jaw-dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire.
Sir John Betjeman said it was “worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see.”
🤔 He was right.
December 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🥁✨🎉 **My Top Image of the Year · #1 of 10**
The jaw-dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire.
Sir John Betjeman said it was “worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see.”
🤔 He was right.
The jaw-dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire.
Sir John Betjeman said it was “worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see.”
🤔 He was right.
😬 Bearing this in mind forever more when checking endnotes …
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
😬 Bearing this in mind forever more when checking endnotes …
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Meanwhile the person responsible for this just scored a $1 TRILLION pay package. The world is broken.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Meanwhile the person responsible for this just scored a $1 TRILLION pay package. The world is broken.
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Gorbals, 1948, and Bert Hardy has his lens trained on these young lads turning the old Gorbals Burying Ground into an unlikely playground.
📷 Bert Hardy
#Glasgow #Halloween
📷 Bert Hardy
#Glasgow #Halloween
October 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Gorbals, 1948, and Bert Hardy has his lens trained on these young lads turning the old Gorbals Burying Ground into an unlikely playground.
📷 Bert Hardy
#Glasgow #Halloween
📷 Bert Hardy
#Glasgow #Halloween
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Stephen is so consistently funny, but this is especially strong 👇😆
![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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October 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Stephen is so consistently funny, but this is especially strong 👇😆
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✨The literacy of light — through colour and form. In Norwich Cathedral’s north aisle, John McLean’s Trinity windows unfold like a line of visual prose. Unseen but powerfully present..
October 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM
✨The literacy of light — through colour and form. In Norwich Cathedral’s north aisle, John McLean’s Trinity windows unfold like a line of visual prose. Unseen but powerfully present..
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🏛️ Beautiful mosaic floor of the Roman baths at the Sanctuary of Poseidon, Isthmia, Greece. The baths were built ca 150 CE and were used by the athletes who performed in the Isthmian Games. The mosaic depicts Triton and sea creatures. Video filmed a couple of days ago.
September 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🏛️ Beautiful mosaic floor of the Roman baths at the Sanctuary of Poseidon, Isthmia, Greece. The baths were built ca 150 CE and were used by the athletes who performed in the Isthmian Games. The mosaic depicts Triton and sea creatures. Video filmed a couple of days ago.
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The Anthropic settlement list is up. Authors, check here to see if your books are included: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
ANT Homepage | ANT
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The Anthropic settlement list is up. Authors, check here to see if your books are included: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
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The fact that Fish Finger Bhorta is #RecipeOfTheDay makes me feel the week’s got off to a good start!https://www.nigella.com/recipes/fish-finger-bhorta
Fish Finger Bhorta
If you’d asked me any time up until recently whether I’d ever thought I’d bring out a book with a fish finger recipe in it, I’d have been fairly certain the answer would be no. Thank goodness we live ...
www.nigella.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The fact that Fish Finger Bhorta is #RecipeOfTheDay makes me feel the week’s got off to a good start!https://www.nigella.com/recipes/fish-finger-bhorta
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Timeline cleanser 🐈
September 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Timeline cleanser 🐈
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LONDON! We are recruiting an Assistant to our Publisher & Commercial Director, looking for the keenest reader with great organisational skills who wants to discover how multiple departments within a publisher work. Salary & great benefits in the ad, apply by Sept 23rd: canongate.co.uk/about/jobs/
Jobs at Canongate
Current vacancies at Canongate – the award-winning independent book publisher based in Edinburgh and London.
canongate.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
LONDON! We are recruiting an Assistant to our Publisher & Commercial Director, looking for the keenest reader with great organisational skills who wants to discover how multiple departments within a publisher work. Salary & great benefits in the ad, apply by Sept 23rd: canongate.co.uk/about/jobs/
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Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky
September 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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a reminder that you can still sign up for the settlement if they stole your work www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact
September 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
a reminder that you can still sign up for the settlement if they stole your work www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact
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This is amazing
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This is amazing
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The Chinese have figured out a way to keep the sun up 24/7, probably through the dastardly power of communism.
July 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Chinese have figured out a way to keep the sun up 24/7, probably through the dastardly power of communism.
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I’m heartbroken, but Tom Lehrer was a genius who lived a long, fruitful and remarkable life. Along with Mad magazine and Allan Sherman, he fed and shaped my sense of humor. I didn’t understand all of it at first — but I learned.
My God, he was smart.
My God, he was smart.
Tom Lehrer Full Copenhagen Performance
YouTube video by Tom Lehrer
youtu.be
July 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I’m heartbroken, but Tom Lehrer was a genius who lived a long, fruitful and remarkable life. Along with Mad magazine and Allan Sherman, he fed and shaped my sense of humor. I didn’t understand all of it at first — but I learned.
My God, he was smart.
My God, he was smart.
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Very sorry to hear about the death of Tom Lehrer at age 97. The cleverest, funniest singer/songwriter of all time, even if he lost interest in the whole business pretty quickly? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...
Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week
www.youtube.com
July 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Very sorry to hear about the death of Tom Lehrer at age 97. The cleverest, funniest singer/songwriter of all time, even if he lost interest in the whole business pretty quickly? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...
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This is appalling. Rachel is one of my dear friends and a good egg who just wants to do her funny show. This is just naked antisemitism. It’s not even pretending to be anything else.
Jewish comedy gigs at Fringe cancelled ‘over safety concerns’
Acts allegedly cancelled as venue bar staff express fears of ‘feeling unsafe’
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is appalling. Rachel is one of my dear friends and a good egg who just wants to do her funny show. This is just naked antisemitism. It’s not even pretending to be anything else.
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Saint Eudocia, a Greek poet and wife of 5th century Roman Emperor Theodosius II, appears here in this luminous mosaic at Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, in Sofia, Bulgaria
July 22, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Saint Eudocia, a Greek poet and wife of 5th century Roman Emperor Theodosius II, appears here in this luminous mosaic at Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, in Sofia, Bulgaria
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Most breakable still life ever. By Sebastian Stosskopff, who was born OTD in 1597.
July 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Most breakable still life ever. By Sebastian Stosskopff, who was born OTD in 1597.