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Davis S. Pumpkinspice

@lloyddavis.ca

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Freelance copyeditor/proofreader of many Canadian best-sellers & award-winners, and 3 (count ’em!) NYT best-sellers. Member of SABR & SIHR. WWOZ Guardian of the Groove. I’ve got a lot of patience, baby, and that’s a lot of patience to lose.

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 43m

Nationalize it.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 49m

I just hope it doesn’t come to light that Reagan shoplifted from a hardware store in 1938.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 4h

What a massive project. Meanwhile, for Queen’s Park, the premier is just shaking his security detail before breakfast, driving to Home Depot and picking up a pressure washer and leaf blower (gas powered, of course)—and laying a vigilante whupping on people he thinks are shoplifting.

FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 5h

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Why Canada is Digging a Giant Pit Under its Parliament

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 10h

"Safe Parkside" filed a Freedom of Information request to get top speeds from the ill-fated & much abused Parkside camera. The speed limit is 40km/h.

Killers, all of them, with the ear & heart of Premier Doug Ford.

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 1d

I think I’m going to register “Stunt Driving Ministers” as the name of my yet-to-be-formed alt-country band.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 1d

You got the Big Dumper. We got a big pile of something somebody dumped.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 1d

That would only happen if you were on the provincial police’s private plane, though.

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 1d

Indeed, beyond just one’s name, all aspects of one’s identity were subject to the whims of the in-group—what will seem acceptable to those in power?

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 1d

One branch of my family switched between being from Bohemia and Austria, depending on which was more acceptable at the time. The Catholic Scots told census takers they were Presbyterian. The Irish ones claimed to be from Scotland. So there were absolutely systemic biases.

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 1d

Not to forget the 1985 ALCS — Jays won two, split the next two, then dropped games 5 through 7.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 1d

That murderclown keeps finding ways to make Ontario miserable.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 1d

Looks like he left early to beat the traffic. Some superfan.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 1d

We got 'em right where we want 'em

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

Try as hard as you want, Shiny Green/Blue Jacket Guy (and with the aviators and the cheesehead, you're clearly trying harder than ever), but you're never going to be Home Plate Lady.

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

He’s been on my no fly list ever since. (Fortunately, after 30 years there are only three names on it, and none of them seem to be writing books anymore.)

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

I think you’ve misinterpreted the point being made.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

Who’s making that suggestion?

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

Um… your reply has nothing to do with the point being made.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

Nobody was suggesting it does.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

I live in a neighborhood with countless Greek restaurants, and they all serve it — it’s called beef souvlaki.

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

Including spelling & factual errors i had marked for correction. On further examination I found he’d done some rewriting with change-tracking turned off. Time, effort, and the publisher’s money were wasted as we did another round of the author reviewing and me doing a final cleanup.

Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 2d

I had an author do this once at an earlier stage. He reviewed the copyedited manuscript, and it came back to me to be cleaned up before typesetting. I noticed a run of several pages with no markup—turned out, instead of putting “stet” in the margin, he’d simply rejected any edits he disagreed with.

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 2d

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams

As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

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Davis S. Pumpkinspice @lloyddavis.ca · 3d

At the rate you’re going, we’ll be celebrating it on the last Thursday in November before very long.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 3d

To Carney, "Elbows up" means buying American jets, building a pipeline to sell our oil to the US, joining a US missile defence system, opening our markets to more American dairy, and kissing the American president's ass at every opportunity.

This is what you voted for, is it?

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