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James M. Fraleigh

@jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social
2.1K followers 983 following 4.8K posts

Deadlines are my lifeline! Solo copyeditor (academic, scholarly, textbooks, trade/narrative nonfiction) and proofreader (any genre!). 🍩 appreciator. Enthusiastic New Jerseyan 🤌🏻 user. Trivial Democratic apparatchik. He/him.

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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 7h
a thanos' gauntlet shaped bong so you can get infinity stoned
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Aranet Home @aranethome.bsky.social · 18h
Barely warm take: if you feel an itch in your throat before a flight, wearing a mask shouldn't be optional. Otherwise you're being an ass to everyone on the flight.
Aranet4 showing 2180 ppm of CO2 during a flight
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21h
this guy was one of the dopes who thought They Really Had Something There with the fake talarico story and this tweet will live in meme’dom like a dril tweet forever
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Never lied, I just doubled down on wrong information.
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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 11h
Primanti provides prizefighters prompt provisions
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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 16h
one time my girlfriend was waiting for a bus in Pittsburgh and looking at a martial arts advertisement and a guy in a public works truck rolled down his window and told her “don’t go to that dojo, I challenged the master and he was weak as fuck”
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jordan! @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay · 16h
Pittsburgh dojo war
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 13h
this is how you have to treat these guys. with genuine contempt. your genuine contempt makes their smarmy fake contempt look weak and inauthentic. it immediately exposes their game. these guys are just losers who have sworn revenge for every humiliation. humiliate them again
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Sarah Birnbaum ❌👑 @sarahvb.bsky.social · 12h
That's why it's so amazing what Ossoff is doing. "You are disgusting and I despise you" feels like cleansing fire after the last decade of having to acknowledge that They Are Real Americans and We Are Not
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11h
yeah the reason all fascists are cornball losers who are deeply uncool is because they got stuck in their wounded egos, and all a wounded ego knows is ME ME ME CONTROL CONTROL CONTROL. walking narcissistic injuries
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Frankendarling @futurehasbeen.bsky.social · 11h
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia for Tax Purposes
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 13h
how does ohio boy vance keep walking right into the buzzsaw of one of the midwest's most Ancient Tribal Hatreds. dog no one in michigan cares what your OSU ass has to say
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16h
DOJ a prime target for investigations imo. Let's find out who exactly covered up the president's sex crimes, who tried to hang a felony on a random guy because the president was mad about the reflecting pool. This latest outrage. Why should they be allowed to walk away to law firm jobs
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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 17h
Does she mean Vance, that last bit? 🙃
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 17h
Who Framed Rodger Rabbit for Tax Purposes?
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17h
Your occasional reminder that polls don't mean shit, you have to show up and vote, preferably early and in person if you can
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19h
A loud monkey that yells at all the other monkeys is a Harangutan
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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 19h
“All You Need Is Cash”
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 15/10/2026
So this is an illegal fishing expedition to find a pretext to deport a sitting member of Congress. Everyone should be up in fucking arms about this.
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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Oh, totally get this; there's a diner within walking distance of the local labs; nothing chases a fasting cholesterol test like eggs, French toast or Belgian waffles, and a half-acre of hash!
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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
LOL, and it's a cholesterol test! Seconding that hope; thanks!
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
["the ents are going to war" voice] the tree guy is coming to my house
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Again, we have done upwards of 300 focus groups since outset of 2021 & in ones where we asked folks open ended what's wrong with Dems zero times has anyone volunteered anything about trans people. It's possible, yes, to lead them there but it's not top of mind.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/10/2026
Oh, nothing, just me in the New York Times today talking about cool science fictional monster stories from the 19th Century through literally this year: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/b...
nytimes.com
Best Sci-Fi Books With Monsters and Other Creature Features (Gift Article)
The best-selling author John Scalzi recommends his favorite alien thrillers, mad scientist tales and an intergalactic spin on “Moby Dick.”
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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Blood draw done, repast secured!
A bacon, egg and cheese sandwich, cut in half, showing a hefty serving of crispy bacon, some American cheese, and the egg, with traces of ketchup. 
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Anoosh, organizer @anoosh100.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Fuck yeah. Time to double-down on trans rights while talking about affordability, government corruption, and the widening inequality gap.
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 15/10/2026
This is a great job that would require a life change, but maybe you're the right person. The Provincetown Independent is seeking a senior editor. It comes with a competitive salary, benefits and housing assistance. cdn.provincetownindependent.org/2026/09/Prov...
cdn.provincetownindependent.org
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
When I voted for Joe Biden in 2020 I told everyone who would listen that the Democrats had failed to make the primary about finding someone who could beat back the growing fascist threat. I said that while I was willing to vote to kick the can down the road a few years, that was all we were doing.
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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Fasting blood draw in a couple of hours. I have been fantasizing about the post-lab bacon, egg, & cheese and cawfee since the weekend.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It's not "calling for mass violence" to say that an appropriate response to "I'm going to kill you and your loved ones" is "you can try, fucker."
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
An ESPN producer minces no words when asked why she quit following the network’s incursions into sports betting. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
My grandfather, my father, and one of my brothers were pretty much destroyed by sports gambling addiction. I grew up in Ventura, California, and multiple times, we suddenly had to move because of extreme financial ups and downs. I mean, I grew up in a sportsbook. We didn’t go to museums and typical places kids go to. We were dragged to Las Vegas in the eighties and hanging out in the Hilton and Caesars sportsbooks, when kids weren’t supposed to be around there. I remember going to the horse track, going to the dog track. 
My brother died thirteen years ago on the sidewalk in downtown Las Vegas. It’s a stark reality, but it illustrates the tragic arc of being brought there as kids so our dad could gamble at sportsbooks, to then surviving on the streets there as a homeless person and dying at thirty-six.
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I say this a lot but the Four Seasons Conference remains one of the funniest things that has ever happened in human history. Some of us have been gaslit into being told it was "cringe" or "resist lib" and it wasn't. It just hands down a fantastic, roaringly hilarious thing from start to finish.
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Ellen Kuwana, MS (#SciComm at #SciWri26) @ellenkuwana.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Congratulations to @latimes.com culture editor Anh Do, the 2026 recipient of the Henry Fuhrmann Mentor Award from ACES: The Society for Editing @acesediting.bsky.social & the Asian American Journalists Association-LA @aajaofficial.bsky.social. #Editing #Mentor #AAJA aceseditors.org/2026/10/07/a...
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Anh Do honored with 2026 Henry Fuhrmann Mentorship Award
The Asian American Journalists Association, Los Angeles chapter, and ACES: The Society for Editing have named the winner of the fourth annual Henry Fuhrmann Mentor Award, which comes with a certificat...
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 14/10/2026
What I would give to sleep like a little cat who cannot even fit the concept of university administration in her head
A little tabby cat curled up asleep on a rumpled knit blanket
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Sporks Pantalones @sporks.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Happy Pie Day, everyone! (ALT: four stills: Bryant smiles into the camera; Bryant gets pied; a man stands with arms raised (perpetrator--piepetrator?); Bryant covers her pied face with her hands)
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
BRETT KAVANAUGH: "Can you explain exactly how the consent would work?" Just saying... if *I* were Brett Kavanaugh, *I* WOULDN'T ASK A QUESTION SHOWING THAT I WAS CONFUSED HOW CONSENT WORKS! But maybe that's just me.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
vibe in the Oval Office has to be like the fuhrerbunker in late 1944 like four days out of every week by now lmao
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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
When NYC banned indoor smoking in 2003, I used to take the bus in and out for work. The air outside a bar I’d pass in the 41st St terminal changed OVERNIGHT from a putrid smoke plume to a whiff of beer alone. Same at my parents’ house when my mom finally switched to nicotine lozenges from darts.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 14/10/2026
"Your parents in the 70s stretched every penny and paid cash for everything!" Lady, my parents had 18 credit cards 😆 I do love our nostalgic look back at "how things were better" now includes the 70s. Gas crisis, smog, burning rivers, legal financial discrimination based on sex, Vietnam, Iran, etc
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Shaqsquatch @shaqsquatch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
he's just a Florida boy calling places West Detroit
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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
What if Cheeto dust buried in a basement couch came to life?
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 14/10/2026
slowly, laws and regulations have eventually whittled hotel floorplans incredibly homogenous across this country. however, plastering every inch of the naked room in reflections wasn't laws and regulations, it was just convergent evolution because hotel architects are fucking hateful freaks
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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“Ahoy, polloi! What, did you just come from a Scotch ad?”
From Caddyshack, a young man in a white captain’s cap, ascot, and double-breasted navy blazer with brass buttons is interrogated by a shlubbish teen in a  white bucket hat and blue tank top.
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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Attn: @avosnyder.bsky.social!
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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
KOKO: Koko ambassadorship. Practical Koko ambassadorship STATE DEPT HANDLER: No, Koko. You can't have a lush island ambassadorship. KOKO: Good ambassador good Koko give beautiful deserve gorilla HANDLER: Koko, we simply can't afford it. It is an unjustifiable diplomatic risk. KOKO: jealousy diplomat
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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Not many people know that AA Milne had a much smaller brother called AAA Milne
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WARNING: Moose will try to diagnose what is wrong with your broken vehicle.
Road sign of smashed car and moose
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
look, i said i’m awake, that doesn’t mean i’m conscious though
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Cranbergo Sauce
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Paul Atreides: may thy knife chimp and shatter

Feyd-Rautha: this mfer said chimp

Stilgar: [changes name of Sietch Tabr to
Chimp and Shatter]
April 1, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ford Probe
From The Empire Strikes Back, Harrison Ford as Han Solo, strapped down on a tilted rack, winces in pain as he is lowered over a glowing, heated torture grid. Darth Vader and a stormtrooper watch impassively.
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