James M. Fraleigh
@jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social
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.
COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE
"are you wearing-"
"the ultra-dark lab safety goggles? yes, yes I am"
"the ultra-dark lab safety goggles? yes, yes I am"
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE
1. I find it heartening that The Yutes have been using Mozart's "Lacrimosa"—this scene's score, for which he penned his final notes—in TikToks for reasons sincere and ironic for years.
2. Always dug the mix of "Rock Me Amadeus" that had a rundown of Mozart's biography.
2. Always dug the mix of "Rock Me Amadeus" that had a rundown of Mozart's biography.
Dec 5th - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Portrayed by Tom Hulce) died.
📽️📅 Amadeus (1984)
📽️📅 Amadeus (1984)
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
1. I find it heartening that The Yutes have been using Mozart's "Lacrimosa"—this scene's score, for which he penned his final notes—in TikToks for reasons sincere and ironic for years.
2. Always dug the mix of "Rock Me Amadeus" that had a rundown of Mozart's biography.
2. Always dug the mix of "Rock Me Amadeus" that had a rundown of Mozart's biography.
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ROADS COST THE TAX PAYERS BILLIONS AND MAKE NO MONEY!!!!
They need to be torn up.
They need to be torn up.
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
ROADS COST THE TAX PAYERS BILLIONS AND MAKE NO MONEY!!!!
They need to be torn up.
They need to be torn up.
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It’s time for the annual eligibility post! I hope you enjoyed the poetry I made this year. Truly, I feel lucky and proud and joyful. In any case, that’s always a win.
These are eligible to be nominated for the Rhysling, Nebulas, AND Hugo awards. Links to follow!
These are eligible to be nominated for the Rhysling, Nebulas, AND Hugo awards. Links to follow!
December 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It’s time for the annual eligibility post! I hope you enjoyed the poetry I made this year. Truly, I feel lucky and proud and joyful. In any case, that’s always a win.
These are eligible to be nominated for the Rhysling, Nebulas, AND Hugo awards. Links to follow!
These are eligible to be nominated for the Rhysling, Nebulas, AND Hugo awards. Links to follow!
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So much of the money that once went to newspapers now gets siphoned away to fund doomed endeavors like this:
".. It looks like an admission of defeat in ..Zuckerberg's bet on virtual worlds. The cost has been $77 billion in operating losses in the Reality Labs division since 2020. Perhaps that's why investors cheered the reported move that Meta's cutting the department's budget .."
- @barrons.com
- @barrons.com
Remember the Metaverse?
December 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
So much of the money that once went to newspapers now gets siphoned away to fund doomed endeavors like this:
To this copy editor who includes academic lit among his leisure reads, university and social science press catalogs are like the old Sears Wish Book to my 8-year-old self.
We're excited to reveal our Spring 2026 catalog, featuring books being published between January and June 2026. Many of them are available for pre-order on our website. Download your copy now!
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bit.ly/48Ltv25
December 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
To this copy editor who includes academic lit among his leisure reads, university and social science press catalogs are like the old Sears Wish Book to my 8-year-old self.
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Hey it's *Bandcamp Friday* again. The best day to go find that artist who was top of your Spotify unwrapped and actually buy their music, because all the proceeds go to them today. And by god do musicians need it.
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Hey it's *Bandcamp Friday* again. The best day to go find that artist who was top of your Spotify unwrapped and actually buy their music, because all the proceeds go to them today. And by god do musicians need it.
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Today #RFKjr is walking back life saving vaccines. We used to understand what that meant. My article, below.
When Paul woke, he couldn’t move. A tent surrounded him, too foggy to see through. The humidity was supposed to help, but in the damp darkness he felt only fear. In a scene that predates the Matrix by 50 years, he was one kid in a sea of many, each in a metal pod and plugged in to machinery. #Polio
American Ingenuity Beat the Polio Outbreak—So Why Risk Letting It Return?
We should, none of us, consent to going back to the past…
medium.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Today #RFKjr is walking back life saving vaccines. We used to understand what that meant. My article, below.
When your nutrition doc says you should up your protein a bit and you remember after a gym trip that you made turkey–black bean tacos for dinner that week and you can bloody well scramble an egg and have 2 breakfast tacos with a mug of Bustelo strong enough to make Superman blink:
December 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
When your nutrition doc says you should up your protein a bit and you remember after a gym trip that you made turkey–black bean tacos for dinner that week and you can bloody well scramble an egg and have 2 breakfast tacos with a mug of Bustelo strong enough to make Superman blink:
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I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences
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tapping the sign
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
tapping the sign
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If they ever let me teach a semantics class again, this is definitely going into the lecture about prototypes.
December 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
If they ever let me teach a semantics class again, this is definitely going into the lecture about prototypes.
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THIS
"Are you prepared to make decisions that will cost children their lives?" one of the commenters asks of the committee. #ACIP
December 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
THIS
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Cookie Monster’s date: Can we talk about something else
October 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Cookie Monster’s date: Can we talk about something else
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This - and it's not just a ~ bad four years~. What they're doing now is inherently changing our political infrastructure, and a lot of it's going to be locked in for a decade or more.
The default posture of the Democrats to the GOP is the “fever will break.” That’s been their stance for over 40 years, meanwhile the fucking patient (America) is almost dead.
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM
This - and it's not just a ~ bad four years~. What they're doing now is inherently changing our political infrastructure, and a lot of it's going to be locked in for a decade or more.
THIS:
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
THIS:
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
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Red Lobster never released a commercial with a jingle that went “Shrimply having a wonderful Fishmastime.” That’s why they went bankrupt.
December 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Red Lobster never released a commercial with a jingle that went “Shrimply having a wonderful Fishmastime.” That’s why they went bankrupt.
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"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
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early on when liam and I were dating, I was at his apartment and noticed something high up on the wall and said aloud "what is that? oh, a thumbtack." this man SPRINTED into the room with a manic grin and said "don't call it a thumbtack, it's been there for years!"
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
early on when liam and I were dating, I was at his apartment and noticed something high up on the wall and said aloud "what is that? oh, a thumbtack." this man SPRINTED into the room with a manic grin and said "don't call it a thumbtack, it's been there for years!"
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Big day to amplify @sbworkersunited.org and not buy Starbucks
BREAKING: 12 strikers were just arrested by the NYPD while peacefully protesting outside the Empire State Building.
Allies are beginning to speak to the crowd about what just happened.
Allies are beginning to speak to the crowd about what just happened.
Today, baristas are bringing their ULP strike to Starbucks' NYC corporate office, housed inside the Empire State Building.
Workers and allies are demanding the company resolve 100s of unfair labor practices, end the union-busting, & finalize fair union contracts. Let's go! #NoContractNoCoffee
Workers and allies are demanding the company resolve 100s of unfair labor practices, end the union-busting, & finalize fair union contracts. Let's go! #NoContractNoCoffee
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Big day to amplify @sbworkersunited.org and not buy Starbucks
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I demand Star Trek Golden Girls
sexy teen soap set at starfleet academy? why not! they should make every type of show star trek. moody scandinavian police procedural star trek. half-hour family sitcom starring worf. vulcan columbo
🚨 BREAKING - New Star Trek: #StarfleetAcademy Poster!
The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+
🖖 Will YOU be watching?
The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+
🖖 Will YOU be watching?
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I demand Star Trek Golden Girls