Christy Karras
@christykarras.bsky.social
Writer, editor, teacher, traveler. Loves the arts, the interesting stuff people do, and the weirdness of words. Dream life: getting paid to know things. She/her.
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This Poynter ACES: Discover Macros for Word course on macros looks good! Macros are so intimidating but SO WORTH IT!
www.poynter.org/shop/writing... #amediting #copyediting #macros #copyeditor #copyedit @poynterinstitute.bsky.social @acesediting.bsky.social #freelanceeditor
www.poynter.org/shop/writing... #amediting #copyediting #macros #copyeditor #copyedit @poynterinstitute.bsky.social @acesediting.bsky.social #freelanceeditor
Poynter ACES: Discover Macros for Word - Poynter
This self-paced course unlocks automation for editors, providing immediately applicable training in creating custom keyboard shortcuts. Through video instruction and hands-on exercises, you'll…
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September 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This Poynter ACES: Discover Macros for Word course on macros looks good! Macros are so intimidating but SO WORTH IT!
www.poynter.org/shop/writing... #amediting #copyediting #macros #copyeditor #copyedit @poynterinstitute.bsky.social @acesediting.bsky.social #freelanceeditor
www.poynter.org/shop/writing... #amediting #copyediting #macros #copyeditor #copyedit @poynterinstitute.bsky.social @acesediting.bsky.social #freelanceeditor
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I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)
August 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)
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I’m raising $ for The Trevor Project, an org serving LGBTQ+ youth.
For every copy of my new book ordered by release day (August 5), I’m giving $1.
Can you help me get to 1000 by ordering now (or putting in a request at your local/uni library)? 🙏
bookshop.org/a/8521/97806...
For every copy of my new book ordered by release day (August 5), I’m giving $1.
Can you help me get to 1000 by ordering now (or putting in a request at your local/uni library)? 🙏
bookshop.org/a/8521/97806...
Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers
A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers
bookshop.org
August 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I’m raising $ for The Trevor Project, an org serving LGBTQ+ youth.
For every copy of my new book ordered by release day (August 5), I’m giving $1.
Can you help me get to 1000 by ordering now (or putting in a request at your local/uni library)? 🙏
bookshop.org/a/8521/97806...
For every copy of my new book ordered by release day (August 5), I’m giving $1.
Can you help me get to 1000 by ordering now (or putting in a request at your local/uni library)? 🙏
bookshop.org/a/8521/97806...
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I couldn't NOT do this.
June 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I couldn't NOT do this.
The students who've sent me kind end-of-year notes have boosted me more than they could possibly know. This goes beyond education, of course. If you appreciate someone, let them know!
It’s the end of the school year and, yes, you’re exhausted but I guarantee your kids’ teachers are even more exhausted.
If you have someone you want to thank, shoot them a quick note. I did it for several of ours and they appreciated it even more than I’d hoped.
If you have someone you want to thank, shoot them a quick note. I did it for several of ours and they appreciated it even more than I’d hoped.
June 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The students who've sent me kind end-of-year notes have boosted me more than they could possibly know. This goes beyond education, of course. If you appreciate someone, let them know!
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So many of our loudest First Amendment enthusiasts have no idea that freedom of assembly is right there in it, on equal footing with freedom of the press or freedom of religion
June 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
So many of our loudest First Amendment enthusiasts have no idea that freedom of assembly is right there in it, on equal footing with freedom of the press or freedom of religion
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Tiny wildlife crossings can have big results.
These 5-feet tall, 5-feet wide tunnels have reduced salamander and toad deaths by up to 94%.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
These 5-feet tall, 5-feet wide tunnels have reduced salamander and toad deaths by up to 94%.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
Two Wildlife Tunnels Are Saving Thousands of Amphibians From Being Crushed by Cars in Vermont
New research finds a pair of underpasses installed under a road that crosses a migration corridor have led to an 80.2 percent reduction in amphibian deaths
www.smithsonianmag.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Tiny wildlife crossings can have big results.
These 5-feet tall, 5-feet wide tunnels have reduced salamander and toad deaths by up to 94%.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
These 5-feet tall, 5-feet wide tunnels have reduced salamander and toad deaths by up to 94%.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
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I mean, there’s the death of expertise, and then there’s whatever the fuck this is
NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
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June 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I mean, there’s the death of expertise, and then there’s whatever the fuck this is
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"I have nothing to hide! I don't need digital privacy!" Well...
- AI companies are scraping your data
- Scammers are using AI to get better at their schemes
- And yeah, a new era of government surveillance...
A starter guide to protecting you online life:
- AI companies are scraping your data
- Scammers are using AI to get better at their schemes
- And yeah, a new era of government surveillance...
A starter guide to protecting you online life:
A Starter Guide to Protecting Your Data From Hackers and Corporations
Hackers. AI data scrapes. Government surveillance. Yeah, thinking about where to start when it comes to protecting your online privacy can be overwhelming. Here’s a simple guide for you—and anyone who...
www.wired.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"I have nothing to hide! I don't need digital privacy!" Well...
- AI companies are scraping your data
- Scammers are using AI to get better at their schemes
- And yeah, a new era of government surveillance...
A starter guide to protecting you online life:
- AI companies are scraping your data
- Scammers are using AI to get better at their schemes
- And yeah, a new era of government surveillance...
A starter guide to protecting you online life:
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PIN Number
ATM Machine
UPC Code
LCD Display
We regret to inform you that his phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome.
Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome.
ATM Machine
UPC Code
LCD Display
We regret to inform you that his phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome.
Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome.
May 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
PIN Number
ATM Machine
UPC Code
LCD Display
We regret to inform you that his phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome.
Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome.
ATM Machine
UPC Code
LCD Display
We regret to inform you that his phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome.
Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome.
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From fall 2001, now a classic
A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again
theonion.com/a-shatt...
theonion.com/a-shatt...
May 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
From fall 2001, now a classic
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President Declines Gift (1925)
May 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
President Declines Gift (1925)
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🥰🥰🥰
April 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I'm not saying the news wire photographers kept intentionally lining Trump's head up with the Easter Bunny's ears, but they were absolutely doing that
April 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I'm not saying the news wire photographers kept intentionally lining Trump's head up with the Easter Bunny's ears, but they were absolutely doing that
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Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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Bonus, it's weirdly satisfying to suggest your library system purchase a book and then see it appear in the catalog (and then in your hands).
Five things that help authors and cost $0:
- requesting their books at your local library
- raving about your fave on social media or to friends
- sharing info about a sale or freebie or new release
- subscribing to their newsletter
- posting your love for a book on a review site
- requesting their books at your local library
- raving about your fave on social media or to friends
- sharing info about a sale or freebie or new release
- subscribing to their newsletter
- posting your love for a book on a review site
April 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Bonus, it's weirdly satisfying to suggest your library system purchase a book and then see it appear in the catalog (and then in your hands).
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just observed an author crowing about driving their publisher crazy because they just kept making changes in pass after pass all the way to the printer deadline and I'm thinking not in my g.d. house on my g.d. watch you didn't
April 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM
just observed an author crowing about driving their publisher crazy because they just kept making changes in pass after pass all the way to the printer deadline and I'm thinking not in my g.d. house on my g.d. watch you didn't
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It's outrageous that they gave Trump the powers trusted to them in the Constitution, even if just on an "emergency wink-wink basis"
It's unconscionable that they're now proposing a way to block themselves from taking their rightful powers back.
It's unconscionable that they're now proposing a way to block themselves from taking their rightful powers back.
This is big: House Republicans tucked language into the budget res “rule” that bans the House from voting to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration used to impose tariffs. TL;DR lawmakers who vote for this are officially giving up their power to revoke his tariffs until October.
April 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It's outrageous that they gave Trump the powers trusted to them in the Constitution, even if just on an "emergency wink-wink basis"
It's unconscionable that they're now proposing a way to block themselves from taking their rightful powers back.
It's unconscionable that they're now proposing a way to block themselves from taking their rightful powers back.
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Just a reminder that anyone can nominate books for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize! Only a week left to do so -- nominations close at midnight Pacific on March 31.
Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
www.ursulakleguin.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Just a reminder that anyone can nominate books for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize! Only a week left to do so -- nominations close at midnight Pacific on March 31.
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Sickening. How small-minded and unimaginative to think that accomplishments by people who are not white males cannot be true accomplishments and need to be reviewed.
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Anger, then relief after Pentagon restores Navajo code talker webpages
Navajo Nation leaders and families of code talkers had pushed back against the removals.
wapo.st
March 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Sickening. How small-minded and unimaginative to think that accomplishments by people who are not white males cannot be true accomplishments and need to be reviewed.
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wapo.st/4iv3aIe
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Why hyphens matter. As written, this means the dog trainers sniff out disease. Should read "disease-sniffing-dog trainers."
A woman I met published a poem called "On the Importance of Hyphens." It goes
Pink
skinned
baby.
A woman I met published a poem called "On the Importance of Hyphens." It goes
Pink
skinned
baby.
Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.
DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread
Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.
wrd.cm
March 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Why hyphens matter. As written, this means the dog trainers sniff out disease. Should read "disease-sniffing-dog trainers."
A woman I met published a poem called "On the Importance of Hyphens." It goes
Pink
skinned
baby.
A woman I met published a poem called "On the Importance of Hyphens." It goes
Pink
skinned
baby.
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5pm ET, hearing on Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act and the defiance of court order.
The public can listen by telephone. Let the number of callers show we are paying attention.
The public can listen by telephone. Let the number of callers show we are paying attention.
It's open both in person and through a telephone audio line:
"The hearing will proceed by videoconference for the parties and by telephone for members of the public. Toll free number: 833-990-9400. Meeting ID: 049550816."
"The hearing will proceed by videoconference for the parties and by telephone for members of the public. Toll free number: 833-990-9400. Meeting ID: 049550816."
March 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
5pm ET, hearing on Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act and the defiance of court order.
The public can listen by telephone. Let the number of callers show we are paying attention.
The public can listen by telephone. Let the number of callers show we are paying attention.
"I only hurt people from a distance. How does that make me a bad person?" 🙄
being the richest person in the world and the president of the united states can’t even stop this guy from continuing to crash out
March 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"I only hurt people from a distance. How does that make me a bad person?" 🙄
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Last time I checked there are exactly zero measles vaccine-related hospitalizations or deaths in 2025, but there are 223 of measles cases, 29 hospitalizations, and 2 deaths in Texas alone
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
March 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Last time I checked there are exactly zero measles vaccine-related hospitalizations or deaths in 2025, but there are 223 of measles cases, 29 hospitalizations, and 2 deaths in Texas alone
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...