commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant)
@commamonger.bsky.social
Dilettante at 56°N.
Writer, copy-editor, proofreader, TV subtitler, molecular biologist, one-time fashion model, two-time star* of STV's Take The High Road. Fiction, history of science and medicine.
* corridor nurse, woman on the loch shore
Writer, copy-editor, proofreader, TV subtitler, molecular biologist, one-time fashion model, two-time star* of STV's Take The High Road. Fiction, history of science and medicine.
* corridor nurse, woman on the loch shore
He really is not.
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
He really is not.
*sigh* Better leave the bottle
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
*sigh* Better leave the bottle
Vote for me for DG and I will personally recommission Let Them Eat Cake.
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Vote for me for DG and I will personally recommission Let Them Eat Cake.
In front of this audience.
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
In front of this audience.
Mood.
November 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Mood.
October 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Next year, babyface will be all the rage.
October 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Next year, babyface will be all the rage.
The axis of evil has a new recruit, eh?
October 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The axis of evil has a new recruit, eh?
Winter patrolling has begun.
October 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Winter patrolling has begun.
just saying
October 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
just saying
START THE PRESSES!!
October 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
START THE PRESSES!!
I've discovered some of my favourite authors purely from picking up a lovely-looking cover in the bookshop. Case in point, I'd never heard of José Saramago before finding this simple but alluring cover on a shelf, and ended up reading just about everything he wrote.
October 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I've discovered some of my favourite authors purely from picking up a lovely-looking cover in the bookshop. Case in point, I'd never heard of José Saramago before finding this simple but alluring cover on a shelf, and ended up reading just about everything he wrote.
Book appreciation post. Finally finished this today, and like many of the Cambridge Companions it made reading Herodotus for the first time so much easier and informed for this non-historian. Only 20 pages of Herodotus to go... 🤞
October 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Book appreciation post. Finally finished this today, and like many of the Cambridge Companions it made reading Herodotus for the first time so much easier and informed for this non-historian. Only 20 pages of Herodotus to go... 🤞
"Just look into the light... The war you witnessed was not a genocide. The only victims were the Israeli people. Netanyahu is a national hero."
October 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
"Just look into the light... The war you witnessed was not a genocide. The only victims were the Israeli people. Netanyahu is a national hero."
This is what I see on my phone app (Galaxy), so three ginges. Holding the emoji comes up with different skin tone options.
October 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
This is what I see on my phone app (Galaxy), so three ginges. Holding the emoji comes up with different skin tone options.
Old men were more reliably terminal in those days. I'm reminded of Pope John Paul I, and my sister taking a look at the telly and saying well he's not got long. Which has now led me to this strange detail from his Wiki page: there was a Cardinal Sin!
![Luciani was elected on the fourth ballot of the August 1978 papal conclave. Luciani had previously said to his secretary, Father Diego Lorenzi, and Father Prospero Grech (later a cardinal himself), that he would decline the papacy if elected, and that he intended to vote for Aloísio Lorscheider, whom he met in Brazil.[4] Cardinal Sin of the Philippines told him: "You will be the new pope."[16]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a5q5ol4jz5h3dhpvzaqmr24b/bafkreifu2wygurgytxsdoj57hct5ssflzir6wb62zyoszcnrqoupew5tfq@jpeg)
October 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Old men were more reliably terminal in those days. I'm reminded of Pope John Paul I, and my sister taking a look at the telly and saying well he's not got long. Which has now led me to this strange detail from his Wiki page: there was a Cardinal Sin!
well...
October 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
well...
