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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 10h

Bear snuggling the longest tail in Picton (it's official! Henry has a ribbon from the fair!) while Snug looks on.

Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sorenson --> Sørenson #AmEditing #NonAngloNameSolidarity This one was on me; authors of the paper I'm editing had this correct in a footnote citation--but the item was missing from their bibliography. I had typed it in carelessly when adding it the other day. Just noticed when doing a check of URLs.

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is distinctly my species lately. We tend to make our dens cozy and be hesitant to leave them too often or for too long. We often share them with four-legged species in a symbiotic fashion.

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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Put another way, Ford wants to spend more on removing bike lanes in Toronto ($48M) than he's spent protecting all of Ontario's businesses from an international trade war. Ontario deserves serious leadership, that follows through on promises, and actually puts people before profits.

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Iva Cheung @ivacheung.com · 01/10/2026

OCTOBER CARTOON: ivacheung.com/2026/10/read... #AmEditing

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Read 'em and reap - Iva Cheung

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yikes--I so was caught up in the "A" in "De-Amalgamation" in this title, double checking my memory that CMOS had changed its advice to capping it, that I ALMOST missed the lowercase i in "is"! Whew. (It's rare to find two glitches in one entry in this bibliography; authors done good!) #AmEditing

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Trust Amid Insularity" -> "Trust amid Insularity" [in a bibliography, CMOS style] New in 18 ed, CMOS now lcs prepositions of five or more letters, but this one is four. (Yes, I am quite the hero. 😅)

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 25/09/2026

Would love to see this account delete this post as it’s the one I keep seeing reposted, proliferating the link to London Daily, the AI scraper that strips the original story & photos of attribution. The Guardian article it plagiarizes is readily available. www.theguardian.com/world/2020/a...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The authors of the paper I'm copy editing have used "indices" as the plural of "index" and I just want to say I love them. 🥰 #AmEditing #AmAnUnapologeticNerd

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And look at that! My style sheet has "sub-national," so I'm gonna go with "sub-municipal" here. Man, past me was *on fire*. 😎

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

inter-jurisdictional --> interjurisdictional I'd be lying if I said I loved it, but we're using intergovernmental & intermunicipal (as well as intramunicipal), all of which turn up regularly in this subject matter. I think the likely readers can take it & the consistency is useful. #EditorThoughts

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

these people will happily whitewash and paraphrase unhinged Trump rants to make them seem grammatically coherent and authoritative, but if a young woman says “like” we must keep it in there to make sure you know she’s a bimbo infuriating actually

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

citywide --> city-wide Thank you, past me, for the clear style sheet entry you made for this when editing the previous paper in this set! 🥰

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The stretch of time after the invention of the answering machine but before the introduction of call waiting (maybe 20 years?) was golden. Talking to actual people regularly was freaking awesome.

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Does anyone know if the Copyeditor's Handbook and Workbook are going to have new editions incorporating Chicago 18? Or have a contact @ U of California Press editorial (or know Marilyn Schwartz) & could put me in touch? I'm organizing to update my course at TMU & it'd be good to know. Thx!

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 17/09/2026

The strongest point Lewis makes here is that Carney is “out on a limb here” No one asked voters if they wanted to privatize airports. No one was talking about this. It’s unclear Liberal MPs are even on board with this It feels like a random pet issue Carney is pushing on his own out of the blue

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just a bunch of Toronto cops (allegedly) dealing drugs to each other, accessing the police database to help set up hits and selling police uniforms and no one is talking about it. Are we to take it that all the mayoral candidates are not shocked enough to mention it? Or are they too scared?

thestar.com

Explosive corruption allegations within the Toronto Police Service detailed in newly unsealed court records

A thwarted assassination attempt of a jail official helped break open one of the biggest police corruption scandals in the city’s history.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026

"I wrote the piece and Claude found the links relevant to my claims" is, even without the AI, such an admission of poor thinking and argumentation. your claims should emerge from the evidence!

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact that he views public assets as belonging to the government is the problem. They don't belong to the government. They belong to the public. They belong to us. Not the Liberals, not Parliament, not him. Us. He's a caretaker, not an owner.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15/09/2026

Okay rich friends employed with companies that do employer matching: Please help me raise $7k to support @scarleteen.com's fall fundraiser. We're expecting 7 million visitors this year (up from 5 million!) in a climate where access to good sex ed, esp. for LGBTQIA+ young people, is dwindling.

pro.gofundme.com

Scarleteen's Raising $7,000 to Celebrate 7 Million Visitors in 2026!

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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This started as a sports story and is huge on sports feeds on Twitter. A racist tweet about a UT football game is giving Texas Rs and leaners a permission structure to vote Dem. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/14/b...

texastribune.org

Karl Rove will vote for Democrat over Bo French

Rove, a former adviser to President George W. Bush and longtime Texas GOP political consultant, made the comments at a private lunch in Austin, according to attendees.

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"I've seen PLAYS that are more exciting than this. Honest to God, PLAYS!" [I'm a theatre lover, natch] www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hnk...

youtube.com

Simpsons - Plays more exciting

YouTube video by Gordon Mancuso

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11/09/2026

Why is 'lb' the abbreviation for 'pound'?

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In all the years (25, somehow?) and all the stories about 9/11, you may not have heard about the Korean Air scare that prompted an evacuation of downtown Whitehorse. I wrote about it for @cangeo.bsky.social:

canadiangeographic.ca

9/11 in the North: how terror touched Whitehorse and Yellowknife

In the Yukon and NWT, unexpected arrivals and a major hijacking scare brought the terror attacks closer to home

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

provide additional food security support to --> improve food security for ("Food security" would be more jargon-y than I'd leave for some audiences, but this document is mostly for experts in urban issues for whom it's a common and useful term.)

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Rachel Gluckstern @rgluckst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026

Perspective.

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Patio breakfast overlooking Lake Ontario. Feels like a perfect (and even patriotic!) morning to me. Henry, however, is unimpressed.

Henry the wolfhound sprawls almost flat on a flagstone patio that nearly matches his colouring.

Beyond the patio railing is a stand of trees, with - gasp - a few areas of orange leaf. The lake is visible in the small gaps between the branches and the bit of sky is perfect: bright blue with a few fluffy clouds.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from

A flow chart I have created with multiple questions and the answers determine where you're from.

Question 1 is do you call it a hydro bill (which then branches down to ON, QC, BC, MB) or an electric bill (which then branches down to SK, AB, NS, NB, PEI, NL)

Question 2 is do you call it a cabin (BC, MB, AB, SK) cottage (ON and atlantic) camp (northern Ontario) chalet (QC) or bungalow (Cape Breton)

To delineate BC from MB: do you call it dinner or supper

To delineate southern Ontario rural or big city: have you heard of a stag & doe

To delineate SK from AB: do you call a hoodie a bunnyhug

And finally to delineate NL from the other atlantic provinces: whaddayat? (Correct answer: dis is it b'y)

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Woo hoo! Met my #StetSprint goal with a minute to spare. (Only two small issues I had to leave flagged to follow up on.) That went so well I bet I can finish the next one in the next hour! Hope everyone had some satisfaction.

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A #StetSprint where the timing works for me! My current MS if for my favourite client, a think tank on urban issues. It's a bunch of profiles of recent projects that successfully improved something in a Canadian city. My goal is to do a copy & stylistic edit on the next profile w/in the hour.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/09/2026

Update: the dialect map quiz thing going around is a cheap knockoff of the good one, which is here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

nytimes.com

How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (Published 2024)

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A favourite thing to show American visitors is a standard map of Ontario, fully unfolded. They're amazed at how close all the built-up areas are to the border - how nearly empty the upper 80% of the map looks. Then I turn the map over and show them the other side, with actual *Northern* Ontario.

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Henry and I celebrating making it to Friday with a coffee break at the Royal Hotel.

Henry the Wolfhound (grey brindle giant rough-coated dog) lazes on his side in front of a large marble hearth that almost makes him look normal sized. My straw hat and coffee are on a little table in front of a armchair beside him.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the more interesting thing about this article, which was written by a lobbyist for Google, Amazon, and Meta, among others, is that it was written by a lobbyist for Google, Amazon, and Meta, among others.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/09/2026

Yesterday Doug Ford did three things that will make congestion around Toronto much, much worse. First, Ford has made made massive cuts to GO Train service on the Lakeshore West, Lakeshore East, Barrie and Stouffville lines. In some cases, GO Train frequency will drop from 15 trains a day to 4 ->

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Saw Coyote vs. ACME at the drive-in on Saturday night. So, Gen X nostalgia on overdrive. 🥰 One week left in the Drive-In season and the movies finally start (just!) early enough for us to manage-- a short one, anyway (so, we will not be seeing Spider-Man there this weekend 😀).

From inside our car through our windshield you see the back of the main drive-in screen, very old-school, with "Mustang" in red script mostly worn away but "DRIVE-IN" in black still clear. A marquee sign shows that Coyote vs. ACME is on screen 1 and Spider-Man on screen 2. (The blank front of which is visible in the distance in the left.)

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is so true. I've been on the receiving end of acts of kindness, large and small, that have stayed with me for decades. I think about the kindness of the ICU nurse and respiratory tech who looked after my Dad--and me--the night he died in 2007 probably every week.

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Peach scone & peach slices. ALMOST enough peach in my breakfast, but I really should have made peach smoothie, too.

On a blue tray is a very rustic (aka messy) scone with a few bites out of it propped beside a ramekin with a few very ripe peach slices.

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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

A row of docked Toronto city bikes, black with orange fenders

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