Heather E. Saunders

Goal is 7 pages over here!

<logs back into bluesky>
<peers around the corners>
ahh, this is nice

Finally watched it last night and it was just glorious.

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

AP pope says the trinity is three persons with one comma

sister site -> companion site
#AmEditing #GenderNeutralLanguage

YouTube video by Pique Publishing, Inc. Episode 29: STEM/Medical Editing (Double Feature Episode) | The Editor's Half Hour Podcast

The latest episode is out! I had the opportunity to interview @acesediting.bsky.social president @h-e-saunders.bsky.social and Robinson Prize winner @jamaaldpittman.bsky.social. Check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JKF...

Success! 🙌 Thanks for the sprint, all!

Perfection

Today's the day, #edibuddies! 🌟Catch my convo with the fabulous @nadiageageapupa.bsky.social of The Editor's Half Hour at #ACES205.

Jumping in late, but ready to be productive! #EditorSprint

#ACESChat with @editrix-rachel.bsky.social is TOMORROW!! So excited! #amediting #freelanceeditor

Alt Text: What to Write Images are decorative, functional, or informative. Skip alt text for decorative. Describe the action for functional. Convey the message for informative.

Did you know that you should end your alt text with a period?

"End alt text with a period, even if it isn’t a full sentence. The period ensures that the screen reader pauses after reading the alt text."

This was a new tip for me. Glad to learn something new!

www.nngroup.com/articles/wri...

Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award - NYU Journalism Matthew Power was an award-winning journalist who reported empathetically on the human […]

An early reminder to apply for the Matthew Power award, which provides $12,500 to support a longform journalism project. Deadline is February 19: journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awa...

Cartoon. Dead Egyptian to Anubis: “Last Christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it a weigh.”

It is Egyptologists’ favourite time of the year again.

Grammarly is more likely to add errors than to detect them. See the analysis in my latest addition to the Editor Vs AI series: scieditor.ca/2024/11/edit...

<opens link immediately>

Ooh! I've been very tempted to get one! How are you liking it?

I feel like I should be able to mark this as currently reading on my Storygraph

How many Bluesky scrolls equals a reading page, you think? Nine?

Looks we've arrived at the time of night when I think about opening my Libby app to read a book but instead scroll Bluesky for 45 minutes.

Cambridge Dictionary reveals Word of the Year 2024 The global wellness trend of "manifesting" saw a spike in people searching for the word on the web.

And so it begins ... Cambridge Dictionary has picked "manifest" as its 2024 word of the year.

Apparently, the word is big on TikTok — where people like Dua Lipa and Simone Biles talk about manifesting success.

#WOTY2024

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Note to self don't try to type etymology at 1:30 in the morning

I love that "moxie" kicked off a memorable entomology deep dive!

Moxie! It's from the beverage.

ACESChat

Psst… @acesediting.bsky.social is bringing #ACESchat to Bluesky, and I’m the first guest on deck! Join me at 3 p.m. Central/4 p.m. Eastern on November 6 for a text-based Q&A about copyediting and proofreading comics. #AmEditing

Past Me was very wise for scheduling my Covid and flu shots after Halloween. Yes, I'll have an aching arm, but I will have so many Snickers and Smarties that I might not even mind.

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

YouTube video by Alien Ant Farm - Topic Summer

Day 13: Winter
#LyricsPrompt
#LyricsPrompt2024

"Tried to give you summer, but I'm winter
Wish I could make you spring, but I fall so hard"

Alien Ant Farm
Summer
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ItP2...

I wanted to like a post about moving forward, but it used "motherfucker" and I just couldn't. And I know it seems like such a small thing. But language is powerful. The words we use have impact. One small act of activism can be putting that gendered insult aside. "Muckerfucker" works just as well.