Mastodawn

Ryan Niman Feb 22, 2023

Abandoned America Feb 21, 2023

The remains of the abandoned Presidents Park

Gallery: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-president-heads

Virginia's Eerie Abandoned President Heads

A field in Croaker, Virginia holds a strange secret: 20-foot tall busts of the heads of US Presidents, now crumbling away

Ryan Niman Feb 22, 2023

Jon Dubovsky Aug 4, 2018

Please consider writing your hashtags in upper camelcase so screen readers have a chance at figuring them out.

#whyistayonmastodon sounds like an giant undecipherable mess of sounds.

#WhyIStayOnMastodon reads out "Why I Stay On Mastodon" 😄

(Reason #44 I stay here: my previous requests like this have been generally well-received, proving that most people are awesome.)

Ryan Niman Feb 22, 2023

Maria Bustillos Feb 21, 2023

On the bowdlerization of Roald Dahl

https://popula.com/2023/02/20/leave-roald-dahl-be-for-inclusions-sake/

#bookstodon #literature #fiction #publishing #books #censorship #bowdlerization #culture

Leave Roald Dahl Alone (??)

Sensitivity reading, yes, but not for old books

Popula

Ryan Niman Feb 22, 2023

rands Feb 21, 2023

Pretty sure this is how you get zombies: https://kottke.org/23/02/new-synthetic-antibiotic-cures-superbugs-without-bacterial-resistance

New Synthetic Antibiotic “Cures Superbugs Without Bacterial Resistance”

Well, this is potentially a huge deal: In a potential game changer for the treatment of superbugs, a new class of antibiotics was

kottke.org

Ryan Niman Feb 22, 2023

Ryan Cordell Feb 21, 2023

I love when some random commenter tells an artist to "stick to music" when they put out a political song or statement

Like, maybe you should stick to assistant regional managing, Tom—did you think of that?

Ryan Niman Feb 10, 2023

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Manivanna Raja Feb 10, 2023

@stroughtonsmith recently launched an update to my app Kattam-The Box. I made this app with my 7yo when I found most kids games infested with too many ads. Think Wordle meets Tetris but with zero ads, tracking or upselling. Just words coming at you like wilderbeasts. #showcase

You get hammer time to blast away stuck words, and you can tune the word/puzzle recipe to your preference - https://apps.apple.com/app/id1605984718?platform=iphone

‎Kattam - The Box

‎THE STAGE - A box. Words popping out with missing letters. Ominous looking tendrils peeking out from the top. THE GOAL - Keep your words from flying off the top. YOUR MOVES - A moving buffet of random letters to choose from. HAMMER TIME - To help you squash those marooned words. That's it! No ad…

App Store

Ryan Niman Feb 10, 2023

Karen Yin Feb 7, 2023

I love talking about why I created #ConsciousStyleGuide for writers and editors and how I use #consciousLanguage as a tool for equity. Here's my Q&A with #TheObjective, a publication devoted to improving the practice of #journalism.

Read: https://objectivejournalism.org/2023/02/karen-yin/

@edibuddies #Journalists #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Interview #Editor #Editors #Editing #EditorsOfColor #MediaDiversity #Diversity #Equity

Q&A: Karen Yin

Using “conscious language” to improve accuracy and support equity.

The Objective

Ryan Niman Feb 8, 2023

John Gruber Feb 8, 2023

Proposed feature for Safari: Markup.

Highlights and notes, with Pencil support, as an overlay atop the original page. Personal, not public, but synced via iCloud. I’d use this every day.

Ryan Niman Feb 7, 2023

Rookwood Editing Feb 7, 2023

LitHub recently published an essay claiming that copyediting is stodgy, stuck in the past, and based in white supremacy. While this may have been true for a certain era of copyediting and English education, modern copyediting is so much more than that.

I was given the opportunity to write for the Editorial Arts Academy about the relevance and importance of modern copyediting, and I am honoured to defend my profession in this article.

#editing #copyediting #writing

https://editorialartsacademy.com/2023/02/03/no-copyediting-is-not-stuck-in-the-past/