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⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜

@jambalayaval.bsky.social

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⚜ Pro-Roe, LGBTQIA+ ally ⚜ Retired professor, current Resister ⚜ Avid reader, freelance editor, occasional writer ⚜ Louisiana native from bayou Cajun country ⚜ Saints fan (WhoDat) ⚜ 8647, 2547 #Read #Rebel #Resist #RaiseHell

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Shannon 🦇💩🤪 GOOD TROUBLE 💙💙💙 @shannonmaebreen.bsky.social · 5h

Wow! These kiddie diddlers just keep coming out of the woodwork!

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⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 4h

I hope the Nobel committee never gives anything but the middle finger to TFG. Should they fall so far as to give him a medal, I hope every living Nobel winner returns their medals and says they refuse to be affiliated with any organization that acknowledges TFG as anything other than a fascist.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h

I see that this small-minded puritanical pixie is laser-focused on getting the government reopened and the troops paid.

⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 4h

Tell us, Steve. Exactly HOW is YOUR family struggling due to this shutdown?

Fact: It isn't.
You're just posturing here.
You're part of the problem.

Democrats didn't shut down the government. The party in control of all three branches of government did. So quit lying. STFU and STFD.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Scalise: "Chuck Schumer is throwing a temper tantrum here at home just to appease the most radical elements of his base so that on the 18th when they have the Hate America Rally that everybody knows is coming ... "

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 14h

It’s a mental illness

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midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · 4h

Mary, please run
I want to see more indigenous representation in our causus

Anyone but more Rs

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⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 5h

Never liked Roger Moore as Bond. In fact, I'd put George Lazenby over him in the order of best Bonds, and poor George only got one stab at it.

⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 5h

I'll see your "just" and raise you a "that."
I edit out more uses of "that" than any other word. Honestly, everyone needs a teacher like Lisa Martin to remind them to stop using "that" unnecessary word.

⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 5h

Favorite for me is comic books. Honorable mention is memoirs. Glorious stories of real people's lives.

(Worst? Newspaper articles.)

⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 5h

My philosophy is and always has been:
Once you go Mac, you never go back.

On those rare occasions when I have to use a PC, I feel like I've gone back to the early 1800s and am having to drive a wagon across the West to California.

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⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 5h

Timber

⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 5h

I love it when, years after they graduate, they send me a message along the lines of:
"I quoted you at work today!"

⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 5h

The reality is:
There IS no difference. They're all the same people.

🦋🇺🇸 The Baracky 🇺🇸🦋 @thebaracky.bsky.social · 1d

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⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 5h

I'm imagining his hell being a giant pool of lemon juice into which he is dipped daily after being knicked with thousands of Xacto knives.

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⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 5h

On the contrary. He's massive gaping asshole.

⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 5h

If his lips are moving, he's lying.

⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 17h

Has anyone heard from the perpetually-out-of-session Speaker of the House today?

Hey, hey! Mikey J:
What kind of bullshit
did you spew today?

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⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 17h

I'd be happy if all the cretins who crawled out from under their rocks to vote for TFG went back to wherever they were hiding from polite society in 1999.

⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 19h

I'm not particularly a vampire movie fan, but this was so much more than that! I think I've seen it 10 times. The music is amazing, and the clever lines (like the one cited above) are hilarious.

⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 19h

I love the idea of this series. but PP3 was a hot mess. The USO tie-in was great; otherwise, the plot was lame. The music selections weren't the best, even though that George Michael number was FLAWLESS.

PP1 was FABULOUS. PP2 was less so, but the competition with Das Sound Machine rocked.

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⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 19h

And that episode may have been written a year ago and filmed six months ago. And maybe the name is a dedication. Unless you're in the writers' room, you just don't know.

⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 20h

A writer claimed two real streets in a real city intersected; they were, in fact, parallel. Writer claimed to be very familiar with the city but apparently didn't know this. I pointed out the error.

THEN the writer claimed I hadn't done any work on their manuscript.

WHATEVER.

⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 20h

In my career as a professor, I said every single one of those things.

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⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 20h

To avoid this happening, I do not let the author make any changes in the proofreading stage. The manuscript is mine, and I don't want 20 sets of hands on it at one time. When I'm done, I'll give it back and THEN they can make whatever changes. (I learned this the hard way.)

⚜ Jambalaya Val ⚜ @jambalayaval.bsky.social · 20h

I came across "Cape Code" in a manuscript recently. As I was correcting it, I thought, "You know, there's a whole novel there. 'Cape Code'....Someone needs to write that!"

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Carly Hayward @fromcarly.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone has typos. We sure do, all the time. You need a copyeditor to catch them, no matter how good you are at doing it yourself. It's about getting a fresh set of eyes on the manuscript.

#WritingCommunity #WritersLife #AuthorServices #AuthorCommunity #Editor #BookLightEditorial #BookCommunity

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