Notices by Lew Perin (wrenpile@mastodon.social), page 16

@mattskala Ah, right, thanks for explaining.

I’m not happy about making it hard to quote toots, either. I wonder if the lack of a means to reply to one’s own boost is deliberate, too. If you’d had that at your disposal, I wouldn’t have been confused just now.

@mattskala If you’re replying to something, I don’t see what.

Dept. of There’ll Always Be A _New Yorker_: So they italicize “P.M.”? Is that to tell you they know it’s borrowed from a foreign language?

#copyediting #housestyle
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Can this cab be saved? An auto body shop on Coney Island Ave., #Brooklyn thinks so.
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@aparrish If I had to choose one, it would definitely be “creepeth”.🙃

@kensanata Ok, stipulating that it’s useful to know which of your follows have been posting, wouldn’t it be better to have this information displayed by the Mastodon client? Maybe by optionally ordering follows by posting volume?

@kensanata Let me guess: in place of one big sql query yielding the answer you want, you end up with a bunch of small queries stitched together with many many imperative statements.

@enkiv2 Any idea what the fee for the sfx work would be? Combined with the video shoot, would it be an obstacle for a decently funded political actor in the USA today?

@wion @demonkind @mpjgregoire Good morning, and thanks for reminding me so tactfully that I’d missed some important context.

No, I didn’t know who Dean was, and maybe more importantly, the house style angle escaped me. House style is a bit like the a building’s interior design: you don’t expect different decor in each room.

Note to self: before replying to someone else’s boosted toot, read the whole thread!

@wion Regrettable? So dashes are the same as hyphens? Not in my book!

https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-battles-between-good-and-evil

It’s just me, of course, but I prefer to take my ailments to a doctor who can spell their names.
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@bmt @tindall 就是说，回族每次回来吗？

Looming out of the Church Avenue darkness, an illuminated bus shelter sign tells #Brooklyn #Bangladeshis they can enjoy Chinese delicacies while staying within Muslim dietary restrictions.
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When the “Allies” of the “Great War” called Germans “Huns”, what did Hungarians think?

@HerraBRE Not only that, and I’ve said this before, we really need to encourage AIs to get on social networks of their own. Once they do this, maybe they’ll lose interest in us, and humans can flourish once again.