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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've got one of my dog standing on my Chicago Manual of Style--would that count?

Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've mostly really enjoyed my work as an editor, but now the majority of my jobs involve un-AI-ifying AI slop, and it's so disheartening and boring.

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, yes. My friend retired from caring for toddlers at about 67, and she said it was just in time because she could no longer carry those 2-year-olds around.

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That's exactly how I'm feeling. That's how much longer I have before I retire.

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Leave No Trace by Debra Granik is wonderful

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A7: I tell them I don't do that but that I can refer them to someone who does, if they'd like.

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I would want to add "aesthetically repugnant"

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And now I see the part where I was supposed to introduce myself. Is it okay to do it here? I live in Spokane, WA, and I've been editing for 30 years, for museums, the federal government, publishers, academics, hospitals, businesses--anything nonfiction.

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I would tell the publishers and cite the examples. #StetChat

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"ethical AI use" is a contradiction in terms #AmEditing

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sometimes the client doesn't want me to eliminate the field. (Is that the same as flatten? I'm not familiar with that term.) As when it's a dissertation proposal. Yup.

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Rudy, I find they often screw up too much and just make my job more difficult. And when they're quite good, sometimes they lull me into a false sense of complacency. I also find dealing with the fields annoying.

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I just edited a book for Harvard Education Press and they specified that they don't want the locations in there.

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I just did these exact same tasks! But perhaps because I charge by the hour, I don't mind it; and I still prefer that people not use citation managers.

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But now that I think about it, I think they pronounced it soft.

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And sometimes after a vowel. When I lived in England, people pronounced my last name "Eppinger."

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

LLMs need instruction in Plain Language. #AmEditing

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm from northern Minnesota; I got a 6. I too have not had poutine.

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Working as the mate on a hand troller in Alaska. Or else playing Gretel for a department store marketing gig. Now I really enjoy one of my jobs: proofreading the historical markers for the state of Wisconsin.

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futuredadOfTwo🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 06/09/2026

one must imagine sisyphus happy but the other numbers are free to imagine whatever they want

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm an editor. Working on LLM-generated material takes about a third longer. People might be saving time, but it's not my time.

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks for this! I did and it was very cool.

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I used to storm around saying "I don't know how people can stand him!" and then I had a dream that I was in his presence and I felt the charisma. Still don't like him, but it was undeniable, and now I get it.

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Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For me, it's mostly about the water.

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